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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1963
Page
6
The essay urges wide mindedness for rapid change and strong core values. It critiques soft flexibility, calls for renewed schools with individual potential, better civic groups, wiser prisons, and less distractions. It cautions modern society to nurture responsible citizens and practical reform.
Editors condemn the town hick as a new nuisance from mobile society. They blame littering beer cans broken fences and neglected gates on visitors to farms and roadsides. They urge courtesy and care to protect country beauty and safety.
Recap of 1943 events including U S seizure of railroads and steel walkout end, troop readiness, and key appointments. Notes losses and honors such as an American destroyer at Cape Gloucester and Sir Arthur Tedder joining Eisenhower’s staff. Obituaries mark William Tscharner and Homer Hart, with various local notices and cross-year highlights.
Roark cites a Trenton Evening Times poll where 30 people failed to identify Johnson and De Gaulle in a photo. Only 11 named both, four named neither, and five guessed incorrectly or offered odd identifications. He laments rising illiteracy and TV fixation, arguing for a return to reading and critical thinking.
The piece notes Wisconsin winters bring mostly black and white birds with few color accents. Chickadees appear hopeful as they flit around for peanut butter and suet, undeterred by woodpeckers or nuthatches. Only bluejays and cardinals add color amid brown and beige tones.
An old proverb aside, climate and altitude do not cure bronchitis asthma or arthritis. Moving to another state often fails to help as indoor pollution and humidity matter. A doctor warns against hasty relocations and notes many cures come from appropriate tests and medical care.
Wisconsin tax policy moves to broaden the base by adding sales taxes linked to the income tax scheme. Officials say growing state costs outpace income growth, making broader taxation likely inevitable and more burdensome on lower earners. Public spending projections through 1973 warn of a tripling state budget from 1961 levels, intensifying calls to widen the tax base.
A columnist recalls a Peace Corps volunteer in an African jungle teaching counting and arithmetic to natives. The teacher helps villagers tally copra sacks, secure fair pay, and even organize a tractor versus water faucet election, illustrating how democracy spreads through ordinary acts by Americans abroad.
North opens with one club. South aims for six notrump after Blackwood. In play Johnny Crawford’s deceptive defense misleads South, who finesses into dummy’s diamond queen and later falls four tricks short, despite a slam try.
The La Crosse Tribune describes publishing schedule and location in La Crosse Wisconsin as well as subscription and mailing terms. It lists delivery options for local areas Onalaska and La Crescent with varied annual and monthly rates and notes AP news rights and circulation contacts.
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