1842 Mile Waterski Down Mississippi Starts Tuesday
Dennis Francis of Lake City plans a 1842 mile waterski trip from above Minneapolis to the Gulf of Mexico aboard an 18 foot boat with a 245 horsepower engine. The voyage aims to reach Southwest Pass in about 12 days, facing wakes, debris, fuel limits, and locks. Francis, 26, will be guided by a three man crew with one skier filling in if needed.
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Dennis Francis
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Gulf of Mexico
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Noah
St. Louis
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Lake City Nurseries, Inc
Iraqi Defense Chief Slain as Coup Crushed in Baghdad
Iraq reports the assassination of Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Hammad Shihab during an abortive coup led by Nazim Kazzar. The 95,000 strong army was placed on alert as tanks surrounded Baghdad. Shihab and Interior Minister Saadam Ghaydan were killed. Bakr returned from abroad as Iran-Iraq tensions fuelled regional unease.
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Ghaydan
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La Crosse Concert Band Plans Riverside Park Cruise
The 43 member La Crosse Concert Band performs a 9 15 pm cruising concert from the La Crosse Queen in Riverside Park with Star Spangled Banner finale and a fireworks show at 10 15 pm. Conductor Alex Waver leads a program of Sousa classics and patriotic pieces.
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la Crosse
Don Krause
Alex Waver
Caledonia, Minn
City to consider bulkhead project and 1974 capital plan
City continues from page one with plans for a Riverside Park bulkhead. The 1974 capital budget may defer several major water and municipal projects including 62500 engineering fees for a South Side reservoir 823000 other water utility work 750000 a city service building for heavy equipment and 285000 to buy develop and equip a new landfill. The Isle la Plume dump is expected to be filled in about three years.
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Workman Charged in Seven Palos Hills Murders
CHICAGO AP William Workman 43 faces seven murder counts in Palos Hills shootings after ballistic tests tied a .22 rifle to all victims. He had earlier been charged for killing his parents and two neighbors. Clesson family victims bring total to seven. He is under 24 hour guard awaiting psychiatric evaluation and Monday arraignment.
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William Workman
Palos Hills
Cook County
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God
Raymond
Dina
Henrietta Cliff
Kimberly
Paul Clesson
Clesson
Neta
Paul
Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Weather Summary
Partly cloudy and cool conditions across Wisconsin with variable cloudiness and showers in the southeast turning cooler. Minnesota shows scattered light showers in the extreme north with fair to mostly fair skies elsewhere and cooler overnight. Iowa sees clearing and cooler conditions Monday night with fair weather Tuesday.
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Iowa
Wilton Co-Op Burglary Leaves $135 Missing
Monroe County Sheriff's investigators probe a Wilton Cooperative Exchange burglary tied to an early Saturday theft of $135 from a desk and file cabinet in the office. Entry came via a window break before 7 am. Deputy note also reviews an attempted break at Ronald Hauser’s 10th Inning Tavern in Cashton with a removed basement-screen but no entry.
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Sparta
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Monroe County Sheriff's Department
Wilton Cooperative Exchange
Ray Harris
Kenneth Baldwin
Curt Brieske
Ronald Hauser
Cashton
World’s deadliest sea wasp stalks northern Australia
A five inch jellyfish known as the sea wasp drifts offshore northern Australia. Swimmers brushing its trailing tentacles face cobra like venom and typically die within five minutes.
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Australia
Six Women Enlist In Hodag Platoon Highlights 1970s Volunteer Trend
In Rhinelander Wisconsin Brig Gen William Mundie notes Hodag platoon includes six women and 54 men about the size of the 1972 Hodag unit. Volunteers head to Ft Carson for swearing in while women train at Ft McClellan and others to Ft Jackson. A horse cavalry unit performed at the ceremony.
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Rhinelander
Wis
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William L. Mundie
Ft. Carson, Colo
Pentagon
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Hodag
Ft. McClellan
Ala
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Horse
Interns and Residents Graduate at Gundersen Clinic Lutheran
Twenty five interns and residents at the Gundersen Clinic Lutheran Hospital graduated last week. Eleven stay for residencies. others begin internal medicine, oral surgery, pediatrics, orthopaedics, general surgery and urology residencies across several institutions and services.
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Gundersen Clinic
Lutheran Hospital
William Borer
Philip Dahlberg
David Norenberg
Thomas Dashiell
William Manor
James Gerstner
Gordon Johnson
James Williams
William Agger
University of Illinois
James Munn
University of Wisconsin- Madison
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New York Infirmary Hospital
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St. Louis
Thomas Schueppert
Navy
Peter Freedman
Albuquerque
N.M
John Grevre
Moorhead
Minn
Michael
William Goodman
Pittsburgh
William Nissen
University of Iowa
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Thomas Webster
Peoria
Ill
University of Wisconsin
Terrence Boland
Paul Nemovitz
George Goris
University of Michigan
Philip Hooper
University of Tennessee
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Gary Oftedahl
Michael Fulton
Lynn Koob
Donald Regerson
Kenneth Ubben
University of St. Louis
John Fuhrman
Loyola University
Charles Pauly
Adolf Gundersen Medical Foundation
Midwest Storm Toll Rises Across Three States
Severe storms and tornadoes swept Minnesota Nebraska and South Dakota with at least two deaths and many injuries. Ninteen tornado reports accompanied outages floods and high winds across the upper Midwest while other areas faced scattered showers and a potential tropical system east of Cape Kennedy.
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Black Mayor Bradley Sworn In as Los Angeles Leader
Tom Bradley takes office as Los Angeles first black mayor. He vows to tackle transit, urban blight, rapid growth and pollution, praising decency and fairness. Earl Warren administers oath before about 10,000. Bradley, 55, is a former LAPD lieutenant and longtime city councilman who defeated incumbent Sam Yorty in May.
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Tom Bradley
Earl Warren
Bradley
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Sam Yorty
Yorty
Bishop-Elect Installed in Milwaukee Ecclesiastical Ceremony
The Very Rev. Charles Thomas Gaskell, bishop coadjutor elect, was installed in Milwaukee to succeed Bishop Donal d H W Hallock who plans retirement. The service drew three Catholic bishops and leaders from Lutheran United Methodist Baptist Polish National Catholic and United Church of Christ. The diocese serves about 25 000 members in southern Wisconsin. Also noted is a United States wine production fact with 441 bonded wineries bottling 270 128 000 gallons in 1969 70.
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Milwaukee Episcopal
Charles Thomas Gaskell
Donald H.W. Hallock
Hallock
Gaskell
St. Luke’s Cathedral
Orlando
Fla
United States
Five Drownings Reported in Wisconsin Waters
At least five people drowned in Wisconsin over the weekend. David Buber 13 from South Milwaukee died in Papoose Lake near Presque Isle while on an inner tube. Ronald Eastein 20 from Brandon drowned in Green Lake near Kingston while swimming to a raft. Richard Hendricks 32 of Milwaukee died when his boat capsized on the Oconto River during a family outing. Robert Abbs 11 of Baraboo drowned in the Wisconsin River at Portage while swimming with an inner tube. Debra Lynn McCumber 8 of Janesville drowned in Mill Pond Delavan.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
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Milwaukee
Papoose Lake
Presque Isle
Ronald Eastein
Route 1
Brandon
Green Lake
Kingston
Richard Hendricks
Oconto
Robert Abbs
Baraboo
Portage
Debra Lynn McCumber
Janesville
Mill Pond
Delavan
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