Probe Ordered Into Slaying Of Panther Members
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell ordered a seven member team of government attorneys and a special federal grand jury in Chicago to investigate the Dec. 4 slayings of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. The probe aims to examine police action during a search warrant attempt and the involvement of six others wounded.
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Washington
John N. Mitchell
Chicago Polce
Mitchell
Chicago
Fred Hampton
Illinois Black Panthers
Mark Clark
Jerris Leonard
Justice Department
James P. Turner
Leonard
K. William O'Connor
Jesse H. Queen
Milton C. Branch
U.S
Colorado
Robert J. Breakstone
Maceo Hubbard
FBI
Hampton and
Clark
Illinois
Charles Chew Jr
Roy Wilkins
Whitney Young Jr
Camille Continues to Test Coast After Camille Storm
The Mississippi coast faces continued disruption as Camille left schools lagging opening by weeks and crowds overcrowded. Insurance disputes persist with homeowners alleging low settlements while one family recalls full coverage after evacuating to a NASA site near Nicholson. Local rebuilding signs emerge with a $100 million Bay St. Louis development as Christmas looms small.
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Page 1
Bay St. Louis
Pass Christian
La Crosse Tribune Publisher and Copyright Notice
La Crosse Tribune details publisher W T Burgess and office addresses at 4th and Cass Streets La Crosse Wisconsin 54601 as a division of Lee Enterprises Inc and Associated Press. It notes AP rights exclusive use for local news and AP dispatches and provides postage and delivery rates.
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la Crosse Tribune
4Th
Cass Sts
la Crosse
Wis
Lee Enterprises, Inc
Associated Press
Ei AP
le Crosse
Wisconsin
Sanitary District Bills County for Hillcrest Drive Sewer
La Crosse County Finance Committee hears a $5400 bill from Shelby No 2 Sanitary District for the county’s share of sewer installation on Hillcrest Drive. County Counsel Ray Sunder and committee members Erving Horman and Lawrence Hauswirth say the county land along Hillcrest Drive is assessable for sewer costs and the bill is legal.
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la Crosse County
Town of Shelby
County Board
Ray Sunder
Hillcrest Drive
Sunder
Property Committee
Erving Horman
Lawrence Hauswirth
Hillview
Sundet
Night power outage hits La Crosse area causing darkness
Lights failed across La Crosse and surrounding areas at 5 p.m. leaving retailers like Bell Discount and Sanitary Supply in darkness while diners and service stations relied on candles and gas torches. Hospitals reported flickering lights but stayed on. false sprinkler alarms sounded at several sites including Stoddard Hotel and La Crosse Garment Co during the outage.
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7Th
King Streets
Country
Henry
Bell Discount Department Store
Causeway Blvd
Sanitary Supply Co
S. 3Rd St
la Crescent
West Channel Bridge
Holiday Inn
la Crosse Municipal
Mary Gregory
St. Francis Hospital
Stanley Sims
Lutheran Hospital
Stoddard Hotel
4Th
State Sts
la Crosse Garment Co
S. 7Th St
Local 14-year-old Nabbed for Car Theft in Onalaska
A 14-year-old boy from La Crosse was arrested after the theft of a car reported by Mrs. Ronald Stone of Onalaska. The vehicle was stolen Thursday evening from the Bell Discount Department Store parking lot and later recovered in the valley behind 302 Caledonia Street.
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la Crosse
Ronald Stone
R. 2
Onalaska
Bell Discount
Caledonia St
Police Ambulance Log Notices at City Plant
Police and ambulance records show multiple Dec 19 transfers to St Francis Hospital. Trane Co Plant 7 driver La Verne Wurzel 39 injured leg. Elmer Evans 82 ill. Brian Andrews 2 ill. Maxine Goerke 68 ill. Each resident listed with addresses.
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Trane Co
la Verne
Walt
Maxine Goerke
S. 3Rd St
St. Francis Hospital
Woman Hit By Car In La Crosse In Fair Condition
A 67 year old La Crosse woman Mildred Utke fractured her pelvis after being struck by a car at 6th and Cass Streets shortly before 5 15 p m Thursday. She was listed in fair condition Friday at Lutheran Hospital. The motorist was Kenneth Boswell 25 of 131 S 9th St. Police say Utke started back to the curb after entering the street.
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la Crosse
6Th
Cass Streets
Mildred Utke
S. 7Th St
Lutheran Hospital
Kenneth Boswell
S. 9Th St
Friday and Saturday Radio Highlights Schedule
Friday at 7 45 p m WCOW FM covers Sparta versus Portage basketball. Saturday at 6 p m WLCX rebroadcasts Central High Christmas concert. WCOW FM airs Wisconsin versus Pittsburgh basketball at 3 45 p m and West Salem High Christmas concert at 8 p m.
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Wcow-Fm
Sparta
Portage
Mining Safety Bill Sent To White House
Washington AP reporting Congress sent a tough coal mine safety bill to the White House despite GOP veto threats. Key aims cover mine explosions and black lung protections with disabled miner benefits at $272 monthly, a disputed cost cited by administrations and Democrats. The measure imposes dust standards of two mg per cubic meter within six years, amid mine disasters like Farmington West Virginia.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Harrison A. Williams Jr
N.J
Farmington
W.va
Congress weighing inflation fight over federal spending
Congress considers a conference on a $1.6 billion military construction bill and a $267 million supplemental. President Nixon objects to a larger HEW rise. Senate leaders seek speedier funding through continuing resolutions while foreign aid faces possible cuts and Taiwan and Korea aid items.
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Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Nixon
Sen
Warren G. Magnuson
Taiwan
Korea
House
White House
La Crescent Girl Shot While Hunting Pigeons
Char lene Cornforth 17 of La Crescent is in satisfactory condition at Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse after a gunshot wound to the stomach at 5 19 Thursday while hunting pigeons in a barn. Details were unavailable at press time.
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LA Crescent
Minn
Charlene Cornforth
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse
Tax bill conferees near completion of reform provisions
Mills warned the conference work would likely stretch beyond today though a compromise version could not be acted on in both houses until Monday. Conferees finished work on nearly all reform provisions aimed at closing tax loopholes.
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Mills
Nekoosa Woman Dies In Wisconsin Rapids Crash
The 21 year old Susan Hildebrandt of Nekoosa died after her car left a street and struck a tree in Wisconsin Rapids. The state traffic toll for 1969 rose to 1 106. A second fatality occurred when 18 year old Allen F Borrud of Cambridge was killed in an overturned car on Highway 12 west of Cambridge. A third death was reported in Washburn County as Mrs Joseph Jaeger 71 of Cable died from injuries after a two car crash in a snowstorm on Highway 77 between Hayward and Minong.
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Associated Press
Wood County
Wisconsin
Susan Hildebrandt
Nekoosa
Wisconsin Rapids
Allen F. Borrud
Cambridge
Highway 12
Dane County
Washburn County
Joseph J. Jaeger
Cable
Hayward
Minong
Plan Okayed On Fox River Watershed
A $120 million plan for Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River watershed was approved by a study committee and forwarded to the SEWRPC executive committee. The plan aims to eliminate flood damage and pollution, regulate land use, preserve agricultural land, and create a public-use corridor from its headwaters to the Illinois line. Major upgrades include improvements to Mukwonago Waterford East Troy Lake Geneva Twin Lakes and Burlington plants, with costs spread over 20 years.
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Fox River
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Kurt W. Bauer
Commission
Sewrpc
Green Bay
Waukesha County
Lake County
Milwaukee
Illinois State Line
Mukwonago
Waterford
East Troy
Lake Geneva
Twin Lakes
State Honors Handicapped UW Professor
James A. Graaskamp, 36, assistant professor of business at the University of Wisconsin, is named the state's handicapped person of the year by the governor's committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Polio left him a quadriplegic in 1950, reliant on an electric wheelchair. He holds a master's in finance from Marquette, taught there until 1960, then joined UW for his PhD in real estate and insurance.
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Marquette University
University of Wisconsin
Potatoes Report See Prices Across Regions
Chicago AP notes USDA potato figures with rivals at 4&, on track 129, total U.S. shipments 329. Minnesota and North Dakota round reds fetch 2.75 to 2.80 per unit as track sales progress.
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Chicago
USDA
U.S
Reds
Out of Prison Out of Debt Civil Rights Gift Plan
A civil rights group ACTION distributes over 5000 Black Christmas posters urging Blacks to avoid debt and make their own gifts. Leader Percy Green defends the plan while workshops teach candles decorations and crafts. The Human Development Corporation board narrowly opposes formal endorsement and Catholic Bishop McNicholas warns it could divide the community. Police say they welcome help to curb crime.
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Roy Malone
ST. Louis
Action
Percy Green
the Human Development Corporation
79-Year-Old Man Shovels Snow for Exercise and Neighbors
International Falls elder Bob Feldkirchner, 79, spends winters shoveling his sidewalks and the entire block, doing it for exercise. He declines a snowblower as costly, and notes city plows often push snow onto his freshly cleared walks.
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International Falls
Minn
R. J. Feldkirchner
Feldkirchner
Bob
Minnesotan Fined 242 On Three Driving Counts
Winton R. Phillippe 45 Minnetonka was fined 107 for resisting an officer 105 for reckless driving and 30 for failing to obey a traffic signal in La Crosse County Court. He did not appear but was found guilty after pleas by his attorney. The incident began when Phillippe, amid grief and drinking, parked at Herbie Adamson’s Holland town driveway and fled authorities in a chase through Holland and Onalaska.
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Minnesota
la Crosse
Winton R. Phillippe
Minnetonka
Leonard F. Roraff
Peter Berg
Phillippe
Holland
Herbie Adamson
Holmen
John Schmidt
Onalaska
Berg
Minneapolis
Adamson
Dist. Atty
Burleigh Randolph
Woman Dies After Explosion In Racine
An explosion at a Racine apartment building killed one of three hospitalized victims. Mrs. Clara Lietz, 75, died while officials assess the cause, noting possible stroke in addition to burns. The blast and fire caused about $47,000 damage to the three story structure.
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Racine
Clara Lietz
Bangor area man dies by self inflicted gunshot
La Crosse County Coroner Dr James Murphy ruled the death of Clarence Nelson 64 R 1 Rockland as a death by own action. Nelson was found dead in the basement of the home he shared with several unmarried brothers and sisters in Bangor town.
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Bangor
la Crosse County
James Murphy
Clarence Nelson
Rockland
Burns Prove Fatal To Hokah Woman
Mrs Alba Glissendorf 86 of Hokah died at Luther Hospital La Crosse from burns after a Wednesday house fire that gutted her single room apartment on Hokah Main Street. Fire started by unknown cause, discovered by Lorna Pernett at 2:30 am. Service set for 2 pm Sunday at United Methodist Church Hokah with burial in Mount Hope Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters, one son, 11 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren.
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Hokah
Minn
Alba Glissendorf
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse
Charles Sauer
Lorna Pernett
Spring Grove
Potter-Haugen
Caledonia
Tom Milligan
Manchester
Iowa
George Glissendorf
Harold Davy
Brownsville
Paul Guenther
Edgar Deters
Eitzen
Dale
November price trends show mild rise and wage grants
The bureau reports a 5.8 percent price rise from a year earlier with 11 months of 1969 up 5.5 percent. Food and clothing costs edged up seven tenths of a percent, housing five tenths, and medical care three tenths. Services tied to home ownership led gains, including mortgage interest, taxes, insurance and gas. About 161,000 workers with cost of living clauses will get wage bumps from one to nine cents per hour based on yearly price changes.
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Bureau
Flying Wood Knocks City Man Unconscious
A La Crosse man, William Best, 40, suffered a concussion when a piece of ply wood flew from a passing truck and struck him on the head Thursday afternoon. He was found unconscious, revived by police, and reported in satisfactory condition the next day.
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la Crosse
William Best
Market St
Lutheran Hospital
Best
South Avenue
Chicago produce and tobacco market prices report
Mercantile Exchange butter wholesale prices quoted at 93 score AA 68 percent 92 A 68 percent and 90 B 68 percent. Eggs wholesale buying prices list grade A whites 62 mediums 60 standards 54. Tobacco market December 18 records 18 451 bales with high 42 low 42 average 42.
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Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
Stock Quotations December 19 1969 Noon Quotations
A dense list of market quotes from Allied Stores to Woolworth with prices and percentages. Includes Dow Jones averages Industrials 792.04 up 8.25 Railroads 171.76 up .72 Utilities 108.83 up 1.40 and NYSE Index 51.12 up .54. Also shows commodities March Wheat 145% March Soybeans 252% and Dec Egos 50.40. Marshalls national interdealer prices and local over the counter bids and asks follow.
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Pyroil
RCA
Raytheon
Sears Roebuck
Sperry Rand
Standard Oil
Calif
Ind
N.J
Swift
Texaco
Trane
TransAmerica
U.S. Steel
Universal Oil
Westinghouse
Elec
Weyerhaeuser
Woolworth
Dow Jones
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Panther
William Barton
Camille
Shirley Carpenter
Marvin
NASA
Nicholson
Miss
Carpenters
Test
Long Beach
Housing and Urban Development Office
Mrs. Carpenter
Gulfport
Biloxi
W. T. Burgess
Sanford Goltz
Sanitary District
Brent Gray
Henrietta
Tex
Joseph Gray
Brent
James A. Graaskamp
Minnesotan
Burns
Flying Wood
City Man
By Shearson, Hammill & CO
New York Stock Exchange
Allied Stores
Allis-Chalmers
Alcoa
American Airlines
American Motors
Amer
Tel
Anchor Coupling
Atlantic Richfield
Burlington
Central
Tel. & Util
Chrysler
Continental Can
Continental Corp
DuPont Eastman Kodak
Ford
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Instruments
General Motors
Great Northern
Gulf Olive G. Heileman Brewing
IBM
Inter
Harvester
Jim Walter Kresge
Marcor
Minnesota Mining
Mobil Oil
Monsanto Chemical
MGIC
Cash Register
Northern Pacific
Northern
THE
Marshall Co
National
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Co. W. Transport
Fabri-Tek, Inc
First Bank Sys
Gateway Trans
Godfrey Co
Gyrodyne
Howell Instruments
McQuay, Inc
Moore's Seafood
Nekoosa Edn
Roanwell
Wallace Business
Warner Elec
Werner Cent
Wis. Power & L
Over the Counter
Lee Enterprises
la Crosse Cooler
Mutual
Boston Fund
Chem. Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal
Eberstadt Fd
Fidelity Fund
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