Advertising News Highlights From The La Crosse Tribune Weekly
January 20 1968 itemized notes of national ads and agents promoting products. It lists Ralph Hutzenbuhler of Sunray D X Oil Co as one of 20 agents earning a four day Chicago trip for high sales, plus multiple Wisconsin business moves and executive appointments across firms in Milwaukee Racine and St. Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse Tribune
Black River Falls
Wis
Ralph Hutzenbuhler
Sunray D-X Oil Co
Chicago
Hutzenbuhler
Taylor
Melrose
Tomah
Whitehall
Youth Convicted Of Killing Parents In Stevens Point
In Stevens Point Wisconsin a 19 year old defendant Mark LeRoux was found guilty by a Circuit Court jury of two counts of first degree murder in the slayings of Mr and Mrs Eugene LeRoux and the arson of their Amherst home He received two consecutive life terms The judge called the crime one of the most terrible in his years and the defense motion for a new trial was not acted on A ballistics expert linked bullets to a pistol found in LeRoux apartment and the youth denied malice toward the jury
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens Point
Mark LeRoux
LeRoux
Waupun
Herbert Bunde
Wisconsin Rapids
Eugene LeRoux
Amherst
Bunde
le Roux
Mark
Don’s restaurant seeks 105 million ICBM burger contract
A LaCrosse eatery owner impractically proposes a 105 million dollar Intercontinental Burger Mission to the Pentagon to deliver 300 million burgers across the Iron Curtain. The plan claims burgers will instantly make Russians happy and end the Cold War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Don’s
la Crosse
Pentagon
Don
Iron Curtain
Russia
Don's
Two Tomah youths charged with vandalism in Wisconsin
In Sparta Wisconsin two Tomah youths aged 16 and 17 appeared before Monroe County Judge James W. Rice on vandalism charges. The 16-year-old was ordered to pay $23 restitution for a beer bottle smashed through a Tomah High School garage glass. The 17-year-old, driving the car, faced charges for throwing a beer bottle that broke a Gloria Dei Lutheran Church bulletin board and for driving across the school lawn.
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Sparta
Wis
Tomah
Monroe
James W. Rice
Tomah High School
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Counties May Get More Welfare Aid Under State Ruling
Wisconsin faces a potential $3 to $4 million boost in county welfare funds after Atty. Gen. Bronson La Follette ruled that general relief costs were improperly included in state aid calculations. The opinion, based on 1965 law and 1966 67 expenditure data, could lift Milwaukee County’s share by over $2 million if implemented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Madison
Wisconsin
Bronson C. la Follette
la Follette
Lawrence R. Nash
Wood County Corporation
State Department of Health and Social Services
George Keith
Public Assistance Division
Keith
Milwaukee County
Clifford: Wise Prudent Counselor to Many Presidents
Washington ap article profiles Clark Clifford, longtime lawyer and adviser to Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. It notes his defense diplomacy work, Vietnam mission, and role in unification studies and the 1947 National Security Act. Clifford led a large Washington law practice and lives in Rockville Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Connecticut Avenue
White House
Clark McAdams Clifford
Johnson
Defense
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Clifford
Vietnam
General Electric
Naval Reserve
Truman
Defense Department
Kennedy
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
End of ABC ITT Merger Plans Reflected in Home Screen
After ITT scrapped its merger with ABC the network cut news budgets, replaced costly shows, and will skip gavel to gavel coverage of the presidential conventions. ABC News president Elmer W. Lower says savings exceed 3 million and the fall lineup will bring fresh, lower cost productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Broadcasting Companies Inc
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
ITT
ABC
Elmer W. Lower
ABC News
ABC Radio
NBC
Lower
Four Youths Overcome In Parked Car In Janesville
Four youths were found unconscious in a parked fume filled automobile in Janesville and were treated in fair condition at a local hospital. A relative waking up alerted authorities and likely prevented a fatal outcome.
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Janesville
Sun Oil and Sunray DX Plan Merger to Form $2 Billion Firm
Sun Oil Co of Philadelphia and Sunray DX Oil Co of Tulsa announce a merger forming a $2 billion petroleum firm if approved by directors stockholders and the federal government. The plan trades one share of new preferred for each Sunray DX common share with conversion and redemption terms set, including a $60 minimum redemption starting June 1 1975.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Sun Oil Co
Sunray DX Oil Co
Tulsa
Okla
Robert G. Dunlop
Sun
Paul E. Taliaferro
Sunray DX
New York Stock Exchange
Sun Common
Viet Cong attack and helicopter crash in Vietnam battle report
Viet Cong battalion fired 600 rockets and mortars at South Vietnamese Marines in the Mekong Delta, killing 20 Marines and injuring 62. U S air and helicopter gunships responded. Nearby, a CH53 helicopter crash killed 41 aboard, the worst disaster. Marines and allied forces launched counter offensives around Gio Linh and Dinh Tuong Province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Mekong
Demilitarized Zone
Dinh Tuong
U.S
Dmz
Gio Linh
Leathernecks
Nuclear Test Blast Felt Over Wide Area
The underground nuclear explosion at Hot Creek Valley Nevada registered 6.25 on the Richter scale and was felt as far as Salt Lake City Los Angeles and Mobile 1700 miles away. Officials said ground motion could extend 75 to 100 miles from the detonation with minor damage possible near sites and reports of cracked windows and pavement observed along the area.
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Hot Creek Valley
Nev
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Spring Hill College
Mobile
Ala
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Moore's
Ground Zero
Ely High School
Old Brown
Eureka
U.S. 6
Labor Party Expels 25 For Not Voting
London AP report says Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor Party expelled at least 25 members who abstained in a crucial vote of confidence. Rebels include Reginald Paget and Michael Foot. Expulsion aims to reassert Wilson’s authority. most may be restored after assurances. House split 304 to 9 as Conservatives abstained.
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Arthur L. Gavshon
London
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
House of Commons
Reginald Paget
Wilson
Michael Foot
John Silkin
Willson
Labor
Blaiberg Reaches 19th Day With New Heart
In Cape Town Philip Blaiberg nears three weeks after a heart transplant becoming the longest surviving recipient. Doctors report no signs of rejection or infection and the transplant followed the death of Clive Haupt whose heart was used to replace Blaiberg’s diseased organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaiberg
Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Louis Washkansky
Christiaan Barnard
Groote Schuur Hospital
Mike Kasperak
Stanford University Medical Center
California
Washkansky
Denise Darvall
Clive Haupt
U S Likely Withholds Highway Funds to Fight Inflation
Administration sources indicate a possible holdback of 600 million dollars from federal highway funds to curb inflation. Officials have not officially confirmed the plan, with governors and lawmakers voicing strong opposition to any curtailment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Washington
Alan S. Boyd
Congress
Boyd
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
National Governors Conference
Johnson
Volpe
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the la Crone Tribune Weekly
Associated Hospital Service
Cystex Ick Bube de Witt’s Pills
Capp Homes
Dean’s Pills
Carter's Little Pills
Fasteeth Chevrolet Ford Christian Brothers Brandy
Frank’s Kraut Chrysier
Hiram Walker
Cinerama
Hiram Walker Creamettes
Mann Theater
Milwaukee
John M. Wermuth
Wehr Corp
Beloit AP
Ernest B. Koelliker
Fairbanks-Morse Division
Colt Industries
Robert J. Smith
Milprint Inc
J. C. Penney Co
Brookfield Square
Racine (Ap
Twin Disc Inc
The
Mentholatum Co
Oldsmobile
Winona
Brandy
Wisconsin School of Real Imperial Estate
B. C. Ziegler & Co
Hoerner
Iowa Fiber Box Co
Keokuk
Iowa
Iowa Fiber and Associated Companies
Hoerner Corp
Hoerner Boxes, Inc
Hoerner Boxes
Hoerner Waldorf Corp
Myers
Ill
IGA
Wilbur L. Pinney
Independent Grocers’ Alliance
Pinney
Gateway Foods, Inc
Minneapolis
Minn
North Central Airlines
Hal N. Carr
Carr
North Central
Francis Mat] Jr
S. 7Th St
Matt
le Roy Wells
St. Paul St
Tribune
Clark Clifford
Wise
Fidel Castro
Manila
Rockville
Washington University
St. Louis
Rent Atool CO
DIAL
Lacrosse ST
Sun Oil, Sunray
DX Plan Petroleum Firm
Sletten Furniture
Caledonia ST
George Esper
Nevada
Las Vegas
Schneider
Citizens Loan
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