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La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 27, 1966

Page

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Service Station Employee Admits Slaying Three Boys

Authorities said David McCarter Jr., 25, admitted the sex slayings of three teen boys in Alabama. The victims Steve Murphy 13 Vaughn Murphy 15 and Will Binzel 14 were found south of Birmingham. FBI tests were requested and investigators seek links to a recent Mobile case.

Birmingham Ala Mel Bailey Jefferson County C. P. Walker Shelby County David McCarter Jr McCarter Columbiana Steve Murphy Vaughn Will Binzel Murphy Binzel FBI Laboratory Washington Roy Bridges Mobile Baldwin County Taylor Wilkins UPI

Father of Retiring AT&T Chairman Dies

ALBERT LEA Minn AP Fred A Kavve 91 father of the retiring AT and T board chairman died Christmas Day at St John s Lutheran Home where he had lived since August 1963 He was a Red Wing native and long time barber in that southern Minnesota city His son Fred R Kappel has served as AT and T president and board chairman Survivors include three sons Robert Mattison II Donald Madison SD and Richard Neenah Wis

Albert Lea Minn Fred A. Kavve American Telephone & Telegraph St. John’s Lutheran Home Red Wing Kappel Minnesota Fred R. Kappel AT & T Robert of Mattison Donald Madison S.D Richard Neenah, Wis

Holiday toll: twelve dead in Minnesota over holiday weekend

Twelve Minnesotans died in state traffic crashes during the three day Christmas period ending at 12 a.m. Eight deaths occurred Saturday and Christmas Eve with additional fatalities Christmas Day. The toll for the year rose to 953. Survivors include Fred Jenson and others hospitalized after a crash near Detroit Lakes.

Sauk Rapids White Bear Lake Miss Lokken Detroit Lakes

Pentagon says civilian damage in North Vietnam acknowledged

The Pentagon admitted civilian areas in North Vietnam have been damaged by U S air raids while stressing targets are military only. It cited deliberate North Vietnamese placement of defense sites, POL facilities, radar and other targets in populated areas and on government buildings.

Washington Pentagon North Vietnam U.S Defense Department New York Times South Vietnam Hanoi Dodge City Harrison E. Salisbury

Howitzers Stem Onslaught In Crow's Foot Fight

North Vietnamese regulars overran 170 U.S. cavalry near the central coast before dawn, suffering heavy losses as American artillery and air strikes repelled the attack. About 250 enemy troops breached a 60 trooper perimeter, 52 bodies found, 44 fresh graves, and one 105mm howitzer knocked out. Lt. Michael C. Livergood recalled Custer-like defense as B52s and ground fire aided the defense. a nationwide incident also included a Saigon assassination attempt and renewed air raids near Hanoi.

Saigon South Vietnam U.S Crow’s Foot Hanoi 22Nd C Company 12Th Cavalry 1St Cavalry Custer Michael C. Livergood Billings Mont Phan Quang Dan Constituent Assembly

Three Photographers Rescued Before Blizzard At Longs Peak

Three Boulder photographers Gerald Brown 17 John Squires 19 and Bill Prather 19 were rescued from Longs Peak after spending a day and night in sub zero cold. They had gone to photograph two climbers whose ascent was cancelled due to bad weather.

Estes Park Colo Boulder Longs Peak Here Gerald Brown John Squires Bill Prather

MIT Official Four Students Die In St. Croix Crash

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology administrator and four students were killed when their car struck a concrete abutment on Interstate 94 in St. Croix County. The five were en route to a Minneapolis Alpha Phi Omega convention. Inter state 90 94 saw two additional fatalities in a head on collision at the Racine Kenosha line. Several other wrecks across Wisconsin claimed multiple lives over the same period as the high death toll rose past 1 100 for the first time.

Associated Press St. Croix County Wisconsin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Mass Interstate 94 John P. Augustine Phoenix Ariz David B. Arlen Long Meadow Minneapolis Alpha Phi Omega Murphy Highway 63 Baldwin Racine-Kenosha Racine County Ward Jay Rendeker Evanston Ill MacFaddin D

Two Feet Of Snow In Rockies As Storm Heads East

A major winter storm dumped up to two feet of snow in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, moving into the Midwest with heavy snow and near blizzard conditions. States from Missouri to Nebraska and Illinois faced hazardous driving as temperatures dipped across the North and kept some regions in subzero cold.

Midwest Rockies New Mexico Missouri Iowa Oklahoma Nebraska Illinois Indiana Santa Rosa U.S. 66 Weather Bureau Kansas Great Lakes Appalachians Binghamton N.Y North Dakota Canadian Minnesota

Car Train Crash Fatally Injures Prairie Man

Merlin J. Ames 28 of Prairie du Chien died after his car was struck by a Milwaukee Road freight train at a crossing near Marquette Iowa. The crash happened at 5:25 p.m. and his car was pinned briefly before he died at 6:40 p.m. Signals were flashing as two cars crossed before him.

Delbert A. Erickson Junction City Portage County Stevens Point Elsie Blaszyck Spruce Oconto County Lena Duayne M. Reusch Montello Juanita E. Kelly Milwaukee Bertal L. Lewins Green Bay de Pere Prairie DU Chien Wis Merlin J. Ames Milwaukee Road Marquette McGregor Iowa Iowa Highway Patrol Ames Prairie du

Mansfield Urges Re‑Examination of Great Society Programs

Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield calls for a thorough top-to-bottom restudy by the 90th Congress of major Great Society programs and older laws, warning of rough edges and gaps amid Medicare civil rights and farm subsidies. He urged committees to determine which laws need reappraisal and stressed nonwar related, dispassionate oversight.

Mansfield Washington Mike Mansfield Senate of Senate Montanan Congress Vietnam Senate of the United States 90Th Congress

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