Work-Savers Gale-Ettrick Dist Hires Teacher Aids
Gale-Ettrick School District adds para professionals to support first through third graders in Ettrick and Galesville elementary schools. Mrs. Larry Collins and Mrs. Orville Danes join to free teachers for instruction, with duties including clerical tasks, library work, and student supervision. The initiative is a Title I project partially funded by federal ESEA money.
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Galesville
Wis
Gale-Ettrick
Larry Collins
Frenchville Area
Orville Danes
Ettrick
Church Raises 9639 To Mission Work In 1967
Our Savior s Lutheran Church in Westby Wisconsin reported 9639.37 donated to missions during 1967. Local expenses totaled 20113.49 and American Lutheran Church Women gave 2500 to missions and local projects. Rev Walter Larson is pastor. Council members named include Milton Leum DuWayne Katz William Terry Clyde Cary and Sig Holden.
Dairy Plant Fieldmen to Convene at Wisconsin Campus
About 300 dairy plant fieldmen from across Wisconsin will meet at the University of Wisconsin February 1–2 for the Dairy Plant Fieldmen Conference. The event features talks by John Schmidt on record automation and farm management research, and R P Niedermeier on dairy production research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Babcock
Food Science and Industries
W. C. Winder
Son of Blair Pair Named Consultant
Blair Wisconsin Merlin Helstad son of Mrs Albert Helstad Blair has been appointed field consultant for the Wisconsin Education Association Helstad who has been a teacher and coach at Greenfield assumed his new duties January 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair
Wis
Merlin Helstad
Albert Helstad
Wisconsin Education Association
Helstad
Greenfield
Coon Valley Club Aids Grade School
The Coon Valley Community Club raised funds in 1967 to donate gym and classroom gear to the local elementary school. The gifts include a 10 by 10 foot projection screen a full size roll away tennis table belt seats for playground swings and gym equipment for lower grades. Funds came from community events such as food and bake sales.
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Coon Valley
Wis
BRF Plans Future Taconite Plant Tourist Draw
Black River Falls chamber of commerce meeting agenda centers on promoting new Inland Steel taconite mine and pelletizing plant as a future tourist draw. Site operations hoped within 20 years with 1969 start for plant, plus two artificial lakes and shoreline plans for housing. Chamber also to publish promotional materials in 1968 and expand downtown beautification and activities through new retail committee.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Inland Steel Corp
Chamber Pres
Darrel Kersting
Chamber
Enuaral Wanare Haseanaht
Inland Steel
Kersting
haveauBie
Tomittee
Actie
Reactivated Whitehall VFW Post Elects Officers
In Whitehall Wisconsin the Moen Hamilton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, recently chartered after the original disbanded 12 years ago, names A E Berg as commander and Vincent Karasch Ed Przybilla as vice commanders. The post will receive its charter at 8 p m Saturday February 17 in city hall with state officers attending.
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Whitehall
Wis
Moen-Hamilton Veterans of Foreign Wars
Moen-Hamilton
A. E. Berg
Vincent Karasch
Ed Przybilla
Goodwin Anderson
Ralph Jacobson
Malcolm Warner
Dominic Sosalila
Henry Jacobson
Peter Misch
Arnold Granlund
Clifford Hanson
Blair High hosts pizza supper for sophomore class
Blair Wis. the Blair High School sophomore class sponsors a pizza supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday Feb. 2 in the school cafeteria. Pop and coffee will be served.
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Blair
Wis
Blair High School
Job Corpsman Grad In Photography
SPARTA Wis To Raymond E Scott 17 Racine the Job Corps is a place where you get out what you put in it Scott left school in Racine after the ninth grade enrolled at the McCoy Center Feb 15 1967 and took a special interest in photography He is now being transferred to the Kilmer Job Corps Center at Edison N J to start a course in printing photography He gained basic knowledge and skills under Dick Fuller McCoy Job Corps photographer and assisted Fuller on photo assignments He set up lighting learned to develop and process film ran a processing camera to make line negatives and worked on enlargements Many hours of his free time were spent in the photographic laboratory At Kilmer Scott will learn offset plate making process camera work and develop special film developing techniques Hell make a good inside photographer because he has so much interest Fuller said While at the center Scott completed his general education high school equivalency test with a good rating Norman Merckler psychologist said Scotts biggest advancement was in mathematics advancing three grade levels in nine months.
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Sparta
Wis
Raymond E. Scott
Racine
Scott
Raccine
McCoy Center
Kilmer
Norman Merckler
UW Band To Play Hillsboro Concert
The University of Wisconsin band directed by Professor Raymond Dvorak will give a concert at Hillsboro High School Gym at 10 45 a m Thursday February 1 open to the public with no admission charge.
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Hillsboro
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Raymond Dvorak
Hillsboro High School
Sheriff Reports 1967 Jail Populations and Activities
Monroe County jail held 367 adults and 144 juveniles in 1967 up from 1966. Sheriff Dewey Reinstra noted 9,374 meals served and 47,813 miles driven with 1,298 law enforcement calls including 86 thefts and 82 breakins. The report covers 38 transports and a rise in breaking and entering cases. A final note mentions the Battle of Crecy where English archers prevailed.
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Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Dewey
Ty Board
Reinstra
Sheriff's Department
40 Years as a Team Norwegian Music Kept Alive in Region
Westby Wisconsin couple Haakon and Mrs Navrestad preserve Norwegian music for decades. They perform piano and piano accordion pieces including Johan Paa Snippen Schottische and Sturmands Waltz. The pair formed bands like Night Hawk Entertainers and Westley Prairie Ramblers and have taught family members music. They remain active at dances and events across Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Westby
Westby, Wis
Norway
Haakon Navrestad
Johan Paa Snippen
Navrestad
Bergen
Oslo
Flekkefjord
Vernon County
Olav
Katherine
Night Hawk Entertainers
Westly Prairie Ramblers
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Jack Martin
Uncle Josh
la Crosse
Kalle P
Coulee
Jensine
Whitehall Fire Chief Names 1968 Officers
Whitehall Wisconsin Fire Chief Louis Boehm appoints 1968 officers including Maynard Christianson and George Fromm as assistant chiefs Elmo Field and Claude Burkart as captains Norman Narva and Ben Bautch as lieutenants Fromm as fire inspector and A E Berg as secretary treasurer Committees include Burkart Ralph Jacobson Don Pearson finance William Gardner Wesley Briggs Martin Mathey Henry Anderson welfare Maurice Scow Ben Mahle and Fromm traffic Harold Arneson Narva Bud Everett Berg St Augustine Florida founded by Menendez in 1545.
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Whitehall
Wis
Louis Boehm
Maynard Christianson
George Fromm
Elmo Field
Claude Burkart
Norman Narva
Ben Bautch
Fromm
A. E. Berg
Burkart
Ralph Jacobson
Don Pearson
William Gardner
Wesley Briggs
Martin Mathey
Henry Anderson
Maurice Scow
Ben Mahle
Harold Arneson
Narva
Bud Everett Berg
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Charlene Blexrud
Spring Grove
Minn
Charles Blexrud
Nancy Woods
Brookwood High
Nathan Woods
R. 1
Ontario
Susan Korn
Cashton High
John Korn
Rockland
Anne Rykken
T. A. Rykken
Gale-Ettrick Dist
Church
Walter Buros
Marlowe Nelson
A. H. Grimsrud
Palmer Hovde
E. J. Storbakken
M. E. Nelson
Randolph Constabe
Clarence Arnodt
Bethel Home
Walter Larson
Pas
Tor
Lloyd Leum
Harold Hanson
Waldo Christianson
Kenneth ‘Solberg
Armin Fruechte
Food and Drug Administration
Coon Valley Club
By Richard Nelson
Nelson Funeral Home
Caledonia St
BRF
Jackson County
VFW
Roger
Titcomb
McCoy Job Corp Center
Kilmer Job Corps
Edison, N.J
Job Corpsman
Rent Atool CO
DIAL
Lacrosse ST
Battle of
Crecy
Dewey Reinstra
Bud’s
Marina
Prench Island
Alva M. Wetterlin
Burlington Railroad
Wetterlin
Ray
Burlington
de Soto
Tribune
Ramblers
Victory Five
Cashton
Tri-State Breeders Cooperative
Earth
Navre‘Stads
UN. Haakon's
St. Augustine, Fla
Menendez
Motorola Dahlberg
Hearing Aid Centers
RIP. Bros
Citgo Service
Jay Streets
RAY Oil, Inc
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