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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
5
A Martian operative ZY125X reports Earth culture shifts from festive gifting to rudeness and chaos. He describes posing as Santa at a department store, forming relationships, and facing cold treatment as he descries humans as obsessed with haste and vanity. Mars decides humans should grow up first.
The Associated Press editors name Minnesota's withholding income tax plan as the top news story of 1961, noting its enactment last spring, implementation October, and effects on legislative districts. The runner ups include sports triumphs by the Twins and Vikings, plus political and criminal cases.
Benjamin Fairless, 71, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute and former U S Steel board chair, was granted a divorce in Westmoreland County. He charged indignities in a suit filed last September against Hazel Hatfield Fairless, who did not contest the case. The couple married October 14 1944 in Huntington West Virginia.
Washington AP The Commerce Department barred 18 firms and individuals from U S export dealings for 90 days over alleged illegal shipments of aircraft, automotive and other equipment to Cuba via Mexico. Shipments valued over 300000 with more than 45000 intercepted or returned.
Washington reports U S helicopter crews entering guerrilla areas in South Vietnam will return fire if attacked. Forty helicopters and four hundred men have been dispatched to transport supplies and Vietnamese troops to isolated zones for joint combat with Viet Cong forces.
William Edwards Stevenson former Oberlin College president was sworn as U S ambassador to the Philippines. He will depart for Manila early February. Kennedy announced Stevenson 61 to replace retiring John D Hickerson. Stevenson’s daughter is married to New Jersey Governor Robert B Meyner.
Government officials opened bids for a Minuteman missile facility at Minot Air Force Base North Dakota with a project cost over 50 million dollars. The plan includes 165 underground silos 150 for launching and 15 for launch control centers and a peak workforce around 1500 during a two year build. Col C C Noble headed the bid opening and traveled from Los Angeles for the ceremony at Stem Hall St Paul.
Madison AP reports Gov. Gaylord Nelson proposed to let the Conservation Commission zone inland lakes for swimming fishing boating and water skiing with motor boat restrictions. The Assembly defeated the bill 56 to 32. Assemblyman Paul Alfonsi argued local authorities already control lake zoning and urged waiting for a statewide lake classification program due in two years.
The Logan Junior High School band directed by Gordon Peterson performed Jingle Bells Rhapsody The Christmas Song and The Christmas Party. The seventh grade chorus and the eighth and ninth grade chorus directed by Mrs Ma tilda Ellingson presented eight numbers. A clarinet quartet and various soloists provided additional performances.
Canadian children again flood the U S with plea notes attached to Christmas trees prompting aid from MacDill Air Force Base. A New Brunswick priest says only two families need help and denounces the fundraising as excessive while noting the town’s generosity.
The parish has a population of more than 4,000 and their savings accounts total about $2.5 million.
In Kenosha, the county board approved a $250 payment for an air conditioner ordered by County Judge Harold M. Bode for his chambers in August 1960 during a heat wave. The board initially refused but the bill was sent to them and approved after the dispute. The item was long a subject of heated controversy. The article notes deer as favorites of American hunters.
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