Viroqua Bowling Alley Owner Held After Fatal Shooting
Lyle Gordon about 40, owner of Sunset Bowl in Viroqua, arrested around 10 45 p m Thursday for the murder of Martin Everson 43 also of Viroqua inside the bar at the bowling alley Gordon jailed Friday morning awaiting initial court appearance. Everson was shot three times in the stomach with a .44 magnum and died at Vernon Memorial Hospital.
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Viroqua
Wis
Lyle Gordon
Martin Everson
Gordon
Vernon County
Everson
The
Vernon Memorial Hospital
Milwaukee Man Held for Killing Two Policemen
Ben Sanders Jr., 26, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Patrolmen Charles Smith and Gerald Hempe during a traffic investigation in Milwaukee. Bail set at $200,000. preliminary hearing scheduled for February 14. Police recovered two pistols. a manhunt followed in a predominantly Negro neighborhood.
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Milwaukee
Ben Sanders Jr
Circuit Court
Christ Seraphim
Seraphim
Charles Smith
Gerald Hempe
Peacekeeping talks pace with troop pulls and prisoner exchanges
United States and Vietnam delegates plus Viet Cong met on a peacekeeping commission agenda to finalize American troop withdrawals and prisoner exchanges. They planned security for International Commission teams and to set up seven regional headquarters with observers from Canada, Poland, Hungary and Indonesia.
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Saigon
United States
North
South Vietnam
U.S
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Canada
Poland
Hungary
Indonesia
Hue
da Nang
Pleiku
Phan Thiet
Bien Hoa
My Tho
Can Tho
Loc Ninh
Joint Military Commission
International Commission
Keith MacGregor
le Trung Hien
Hien
Tran van Tra
Gilbert H. Woodward
Ngo Dzu
le Quang Hoa
North Vietnam
Weekend Weather Outlook With Light Snow Flurries
Cloudy and colder Friday night with a chance of a few snow flurries and a low near 22. Saturday stays partly cloudy with little temperature change and a high near 35. Northwesterly winds Friday night 12 to 20 mph, then west 5 to 10 mph Saturday. Precipitation chance up to 10 percent. Sunday mainly cloudy and slightly warmer with a low near 25.
Lucey seeks greater health service control in budget plan
Gov. Patrick Lucey urged expanding governor powers over the Department of Health and Social Services and state takeover of county welfare programs in his biennial budget. The move aims to sharpen oversight and streamline welfare administration amid state fiscal concerns.
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Patrick Lucey
Department of Health and Social Services
Space veteran Deke Slayton to fly at 51 on new Apollo Soyuz flight
Apollo astronaut Deke Slayton, 51 at launch, will join Brig. Gen. Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand on a 1975 U.S.-Soviet space mission. Slayton, once grounded by a heart murmur, returns to flight as the oldest prospective space traveler in a historic linkup with a Soyuz vehicle.
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Slayton
Life In Prison Taboo. POW Escorts At Clark Base
About 400 specially chosen military escorts at Clark Air Base prepare to welcome nearly 400 returning American POWs. They will avoid asking POWs about life in captivity, focusing on reassurance and aiding readjustment to freedom.
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Peter Arnett
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Air Force
Joel S. Hetland
West Bend
Wis
Clark
Hetland
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
States
Parke
Fred Thompson
North Vietnam
U.S
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Chicago
Edward Gavin
James Helme
Milwaukeean
Jerome Dudzik
Milwaukee Professional Policemen’s Protective Association
William Coffey
Coffey
Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minn
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Minneapolis
Duluth
St. Paul
Vietnam
U. S
Hanoi
Central Matmen
Central High School
Logan’s Rangers
Big Rivers
Wisconsin
John Wyngaard
Deke
Donald K, Slayton
Cmdr
Elman J. Parke
Orange, Tex
Maj
Emmett R. Conrow
Bisbee, Ariz
Conran
Raymond Wheeler
Buffalo
N.Y
Bisbee
Ariz
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