Construction Starts Top $7.2 Million In 6 Months
La Crosse builders opened 1968 with six month construction totaling 7.21 million from the inspection department permits. Public projects include Coleman Technical Institute health science building and La Crosse city hall, plus U.S. Fish and Wildlife lab work. Residential activity shifts to apartments as single family sites remain scarce.
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la Crosse
Viterbo College
Trane Co
Coleman Technical Institute
U.S. Fish Control Laboratory
Aquinas High School
Forester Joins Station Staff at Central States Forest
Maurice Dean Knighting 26 formerly of Logan Utah has joined the Central States Forest Experiment Station La Crosse staff project leader Richard Sartz says Knighting earned a BS in forestry from Utah State University last spring and is pursuing a master's degree He was born in Lincoln Nebraska and moved to Bountiful Utah with his parents as a child His wife JoAnn is from Bountiful They have one son Knighting will focus on plant ecology research and likes the Coulee Region
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Maurice Dean Knighting
Logan
Utah
Central States Forest Experiment Station
la Crosse
Richard Sartz
Knighting
Utah State University
Lincoln
Neb
Bountiful
JoAnn
Coulee
Exchanges Closed Friday Trading Pause Amid Heavy Volume
U S security exchanges were closed Friday to curb trading volatility and reduce clerical backlog. They will reopen Monday. The Dow Jones rose 6.67 to 903.51 on Wednesday with 14.39 million shares traded, up from 13.35 million Tuesday.
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United States
Pre holiday fireworks on Wall Street as week ends strong
Market rallied despite short week with Independence Day holidays. AP 60 stock average rose to 345.0, Dow up to 903.51 as 1,642 issues traded on NYSE with 1,000 gainers and 496 decliners. Top movers included Commercial Credit, Hooker Chemical, Sunasco, International Paper and Occidental Petroleum. On the AMEX Cinerama and others advanced.
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New York
Wall Street
Associated Press
New York Stock Exchange
New York Exchange
Commercial Credit
Hooker Chemical
Sunasco
International Paper
Occidental Petroleum
American Stock Exchange
Cinerama
Brazilian Light & Power
Commonwealth United
Reliance Insurance
H&b American
Westmoreland Kin Killed In Copter Crash
Lt Col Frederick Van Deusen, brother in law of General William Westmoreland, was killed when his UH-1 helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta during an infantry sweep. The 37 year old leaves a widow and three children in Fayetteville North Carolina. Three aboard were killed three survived and four were missing presumed dead.
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Saigon
Frederick van Deusen
U.S. Army
William C. Westmoreland
Mekong Delta
van Deusen
Westmoreland
Washington
U.S
Vietnam
Katherine
Fayetteville
N.C
Uhie Command and Control
Delta
Vai Co River
Central Certificate Service Signals End of Paper Messengers
The New York Stock Exchange moves to store most stock certificates in a depository with a computer based book entry system. Street name certificates and over time all certificates will be deposited, reducing manual handling and paperwork though legal changes and secure machine readable ownership proof are needed.
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Wall Street
Central Certificate
New York Stock Exchange
New York
La Follette Says Court Supplants Frisk Law Need
Madison AP report notes Supreme Court rulings remove the need for Wisconsin to pass a stop and frisk law. Atty. Gen. La Follette urges restraint and outlines conditions for detaining suspects to search for weapons. Public hearings on gun control and frisk laws planned statewide.
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Madison
U.S. Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Bronson C. la Follette
la Follette
High Court
Allis-Chalmers May Purchase Henry Manufacturing Of Topeka
In Topeka Kansas Friday Albert Henry Jr president of Henry Manufacturing Co said a preliminary understanding has been reached with Allis-Chalmers Mfg Co Milwaukee for Henry to operate as an Allis-Chalmers subsidiary subject to definitive agreement and Henry stockholder approval The price was not disclosed
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Topeka, Kan
Henry Manufacturing Co
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co
Milwaukee
Albert Henry Jr
Topeka
Henry Company
Allis-Chalmers
Henry
Onalaska Native Dr James Price Named Abbott Vice President
Onalaska native Dr James M Price has been elected vice president of experimental therapy at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago. He will oversee chemistry pharmacology pathology and clinical research for new human drugs with focus on cardiovascular metabolic cancer infectious and mental health areas. Price, 47, previously directed Abbott's experimental therapy and was a Wisconsin Medical School oncology professor before joining Abbott in 1967.
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James M. Price
Onalaska
Abbott Laboratories
Chicago
Ill
Price
Abbott
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Dr. Price
University of Wisconsin
Cincinnati General Hospital
American Cancer Society
Cer
National Institutes of Health
Carl R. Price
R. 2
National Monument marks Wakefield birthplace site
Wakefield in Westmoreland County Virginia is a national monument built on the reconstructed birthplace of George Washington. The original house was destroyed by fire and no description of it exists. A colonial style house stands on the site, but authenticity claims are not made.
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Wakefield
George Washington
Westmoreland County
Advertising NEWS in La Crosse Tribune Weekly
Advertising NEWS issues weekly in the La Crosse Tribune to feature scheduled National Advertising. Distributors and dealers are urged to align promotions with these advertisements.
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la Crosse Tribune
Salesmen shift and new Piggy Packer debut in Midwest
July 6 1968 notes national Travelers Life salesman Donald Krause attending a Lake of the Ozarks convention with family. Delta Import Motors hires Lawrence Bolen from Schappe Pontiac. Reynolds & Reynolds staff complete electronic accounting training. Milwaukee Road pilots Piggy Packer at St Paul to mechanize trailer and container handling boosting capacity by 30 percent with rapid loading.
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Donald D. Krause
Eastl Ave
National Travelers Life Co
Lake of the Ozarks
Osage Beach
Judith
Lisa
Tom
Eversole
Rogers, Inc
4Th
Cass Sts
Reynolds & R. Reynolds
W. B. Knapp
Losey Blvd
Dwight Kemp
S. 19Th St
Dayton
Ohio
Reynolds and Reynolds Co
Reynolds & Reynolds
Chicago
Ill
Minnesota
Milwaukee Road
St. Paul
P. Laurin Cowling
Milwaukee Motor Transportation Co
Cowling
Milwaukee Motor Trans
Trichinosis Risk Tied to Undercooked Pork
The article notes about 21 million of roughly 28 million people worldwide suffer trichinosis annually. It urges thorough cooking as prevention and specifies pork should reach 137 degrees throughout to be safe.
Future of Food Production in 2000 Promises Bold Gains
A Ford MSU study predicts dramatic farm advances by 2000 including 300 bushels of wheat per acre and 1,000 calves per cow lifetime. Milk output could reach 30,000 pounds per cow, while automation and scientists replace many farm workers. Public and private ag research nears 850 million yearly with tens of thousands of projects.
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Sylvia Porter
U.S Agriculture
Ford Motor Co
Michigan State University
U.S. Labor Department
Employment Service Review
U.S
America
Drunk Agrees To Cooperate In Commitment
A La Crosse man Joseph E. Anderson, 53, agreed in County Court to cooperate toward commitment to a state hospital after a sequence of drunkenness arrests post release. His case was continued to Monday as prosecutors pursue a new inebriate charge and he remains jailed unless he posts 200 dollars bond.
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la Crosse
Joseph E. Anderson
YMCA
Anderson
Leonard F. Roraff
N. George DeDakis
DeDakis
Roraff
Nomination Papers Filed By Kastenmeier
U S Rep Robert Kastenmeier filed nomination papers with the secretary of state for a sixth term. The Watertown Democrat has represented Wisconsin 2nd District since 1959. Other filings include John Race for 6th District, Walter C McCullough for 4th District, Myron Lotto for State Senate 2nd District, William Din Dieterich for attorney general primary, Ernest Keppler to seek re election, and Ernest Korpela for the Assembly for Ashland Bayfield Iron counties.
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Green Bay
State Senate
Robert Warren
William H. Dieterich
Hartford
Warren
Dieterich
Supreme Court
William Dieterich
Ernest Keppler
R-Sheboygan
Ernest Korpela
Washburn
Assembly
Ashland
Bayfield
Iron Counties
Canoe Race Highlights Tri-River Day Aug 4
The Tri-River Day includes a two man canoe race down the La Crosse River from Veterans Memorial Park to Pettibone Park Lagoon starting at 2 p.m. with a trophy for the winner. Registration is through the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce. Also featured are log rolling by Howard and Mrs. Sieh and a Huck Finn raft race.
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Veterans Memorial Park
Pettibone Park
la Crosse River
Greater
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Tholos
National Capitol
Henry Clay
Wheeling
W. Va
Clay
John Cunniff
AP Business Analyst
Financial District
A-C
National
Techna
the la Crosse Tribune Weekly
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Larry) Bolen
Delta Import Motors
Volkswagen
Bolen
Schappe Pontiac
Viroqua
Mary
Jennifer
Brad
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Speas Vinegar
Associated Hospital Service, Inc
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P.W. Tabiets
Cadillac
Hiram Walker
Brancy
Tristate Photo
Canadian Club Home Insurance Co
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Loewh & Co., Inc
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Plasti-Liner
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