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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1975
Page
4
President Ford vetoed the common situs bill that would treat an entire building site as one contract to deter nonunion bids. Unions opposed it hoping to pressure general contractors. Critics say Ford acted for political reasons, risking labor secretary Dunlop’s fate.
After a year of pressure from a Democrat controlled Congress, President Ford signs a revised energy bill that rolls back crude oil prices immediately, maintains some controls through 1979, and grants powers to ration fuel, order conservation, and set efficiency standards. The piece argues real progress requires a free market and true costs.
The Natural Resources Board agreed to ease out DNR Secretary Lester Voigt with a reduced pay civil service post until retirement. The Legislature refused a new high paid post, but the Finance Committee created one anyway at about 36000 dollars. The plan uses taxpayer funds and reads as fraud according to critics.
Twenty years ago in 1955 state and national traffic tolls climb with Wisconsin’s annual death toll reaching 904. Albert L. Klein Jr. 26, of 728 S 29th St., is appointed city sealer by Mayor Knutson. the full time post pays 310 dollars monthly.
Riesel profiles how Kennedy aides and associates pursued aggressive surveillance and press monitoring. It notes John Doar urged spying in ghettos, later connected to a 10 000 name interdepartmental computer list, and recalls Bobby Kennedy and FBI actions against newsmen in 1962.
In Wisconsin since the 1940s segregation of motor vehicle taxes from general funds shaped road funding. Gov. Lucey’s highway trust fund proposal faced decisive legislative rejection, despite support from allies, reflecting a shift away from postwar earmarking. The highway fund idea dates to post WW II and earlier road-promoting campaigns.
A reader asks the Sun editor if Santa exists and gets Francis P Church’s famous assurance that belief persists beyond sight. The piece then traces midcentury Wisconsin debates on highway funds and the shift toward broader transportation funding under governors including Lucey.
Art Buchwald reports that American Indians are divided over joining next year’s Bicentennial celebrations. Some tribes see potential benefits for their jewelry trade while others boycott, arguing the United States’ history harmed their people. The chief cites lost land, broken promises, and the need for honoring treaties as key questions.
Dr. Charles Aprahamian argues counties around La Crosse should provide standard emergency health services with properly equipped ambulances. He splits calls into 50 percent nonemergency or advice cases and 50 percent emergency transfers needing ambulance regulations, urging mixed system usage.
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