Security measures planned for Ray King trial
Tennessee officials announce automated voice and photo tapes for every attendee at the James Earl Ray trial set for late fall. Access will be through a secured underground entry with limited public seating and photo ID badges for reporters. Relief arrangements include strict decorum and no courtroom photography.
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Criminal Courts
London
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Warren Cargill
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Water Utility Study OK'd By Aldermen
The La Crosse Common Council approved a $12,000 study by John A. Strand and Associates to assess current and future needs of the Water Utility. The report will cover plant condition, water quality, demand projections, and storage facilities.
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Common Council
John A. Strand and
Bob D. Schroeder
Weather snapshot for La Crosse and region
Variable clouds with 30 to 40 percent chance of showers and thundershowers Friday night and Saturday. Low Friday night in the upper 60s, high Saturday mid 80s. Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday with mid 60s low. Extended four day period will run about nine degrees above normal with a quarter inch precipitation on Saturday and Wednesday. Sunrise Saturday 5 34 a m Sunset 8 46 p m.
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Minnesota
Owa
la Crosse
Three Adults and a Minor Face Charges in Monroe Court
Three adults Steven Clark 19 Link S Rixie 18 Donald Densmore 18 and a 17 year old juvenile appeared before Monroe County Judge James W Rice on theft and burglary charges. Sheriff testimony prompted warrants for the four, with counts including a burglary at the Tomah Sparta Speedway July 7 and another at Holiday Farms Oasis July 10.
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Monroe County
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Lambert A. Hansen
Steven Clark
Link S. Rixie
Donald Densmore
Tomah
Dewey Reinstra
Hansen
Clark
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Holiday Farms
Orisis
Rixie
Densmore
Head Start grant approved for Whitehall area children
Sen Gaylord Nelson announced that the Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Committee based in Whitehall has received a $22 483 federal grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity. Funds will support a Head Start program for 15 children in the Whitehall area for one year. Alaska time zones note four offsets from Greenwich Mean Time.
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Whitehall
Wis
Gaylord Nelson
Western Dairyland Economic Opportuni
Ty Committee
Office of Economic Opportunity
Onalaska Park Hosts Riverland Girl Scout Day Camp
More than 140 Riverland Girl Scouts from West Salem Holmen Brice Prairie French Island North La Crosse and Onalaska attend a day camp at Onalaska Park this week. A staff of 16 adult scouts supervises. The theme is Fun in the Out of Doors. Directors and unit leaders from Onalaska La Crosse Holmen and surrounding areas oversee hikes crafts and flag ceremonies as Senior Scouts assist.
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Holmen
Brice Prairie
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North la Crosse
Onalaska Park
Ed Carpenter
Delmar Christiansen
Earland Sagen
la Crosse
Sue Bronson
Barbara Jorgenson
Carolyn
Linda Lueck
Bessie Colling
Alice Dettinger
Walter M. Hogue
Wilson St
Frat House Ban Referred Back In La Crosse
Legislation to ban fraternities sororities and private clubs in residential areas was returned to committee. An alternate proposal would permit them in apartment zones. A public hearing is set for Aug 1 with Alder man Storck urging passage. Alderman Greider urged university input.
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la Crosse
John C. Schubert
Harold H. Otto
Gerald A. Greider
la Crosse State University
Curtis J. ‘Storck
Schubert
Spook House Rescue: Newark Girls Survive Overnight
Three Newark girls aged 5 7 and 9 were missing for about 18 hours after wandering from home and seeking shelter in a deserted 14 room Orange mansion. They told police they were playing "operating on Frankenstein" before being found by an aunt an hour from home.
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Orange
N.J
Newark
Frankenstein
Barbara Ann Gatley
Colleen
Lillianna Race
Mary Louise Desens
Grenade Wired To Blow Up Car Of Nassau Official
Nassau County Executive Eugene H. Nickerson and his family were threatened when police found a live fragmentation grenade wired behind a private car’s dashboard heater switch. Detectives removed the device after an anonymous tip. the explode-on-switch device was in a car used by Nickerson’s daughters. no one was harmed and the car had not been used recently.
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N.Y
Roslyn Harbor
N_.Y
Nassau County
Eugene H. Nickerson
Francis Looney
Nickerson
Susan
Arthur Dunn
Cunn
Nickersons
Accused Man Admits Body Found Lead at Farm
An attorney for Chester A. Dombrowski testified that the former Chicago policeman told him a body could be found at the family picnic area on his brother’s farm near Fond du Lac. The body of Herbert L. McKinney was later located at that site, with Washington County officers assisting in the investigation.
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Chicago
C. J. Schloemer
West Bend
Chester A. Dombrowski
Dombrowski
Schloemer
Kauffman
McKinney
Jerold E. Murphy
Herbert L. McKinney
Dist
Robert J. Kauffman
Washington County
Schloemler
William Weiss
Kewaskum
NSP Plans $1 Million Sparta Feeder Line Construction
Northern States Power Co. will invest about $1 million in a new feeder line to the Sparta area. Construction starts this winter and should finish by fall 1970 to support load growth and will connect with a Tomah area line. NSP will exchange an acre of city marshland for NSP marshland to use for the project.
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Northern States Power Co
Sparta
Arthur Christensen
NSP
la Crosse
Tomah
Powell contempt conviction upheld by New York court
The Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court, in a 3 to 2 decision, upheld former Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's 1966 criminal contempt conviction. Powell, long Harlem representative, faced arrest if returning to New York without further appeal and parole. He earlier paid over 56 000 dollars in a defamation judgment to Esther James, whose suit stemmed from a 1960 television program.
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Adam Clayton Powell
State Supreme Court
Henry R. Williams
Court of Appeals
New York State
Powell
Harlem
Bimini
Bahamas
Esther James
James
House of Representatives
House Committee
Congress
Crinoline Days Defined By 1800s Fashion
The passage notes crinoline helped women’s skirts billow in the 1800s, defining the period as the crinoline days. It also corrects a Krome family reunion date to Sunday noon August 4 at Recreation Park in Spring Grove Minnesota, not the coming Sunday.
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Krome
Recreation Park
Spring Grove
Minn
Senators Clash Over Court Appointments In Hearings
Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Abe Fortas for chief justice and Homer Thornberry for associate justice opened amid Republican Sen. Griffin accusing the White House of a power separation breach. Griffin pressed for details on Fortas's White House role and Thornberry’s extended 1963 congressional tenure to secure votes, while Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark defended Warren’s retirement conditions.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
Johnson
Supreme Court
Robert P. Griffin
Reich
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Abe Fortas
Homer Thornberry
Thornberry
Federal Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Judiciary Committee
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Griffin
Earl Warren
White House
Congress
Texas
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
North Carolina Supreme Court
Ramsey Clark
Warren
Ervin
Reunion Planned By Medical Librarians
The first homecoming for alumnae of the St Francis School of Medical Record Science is set for a weekend at St Francis Hospital Sister Ann Petrone confirms the event. Since 1956 the school has produced 45 graduates and the reunion includes a 2 to 4 p.m. reception in Maycrest Auditorium hospital tours a Cerise dinner Mass and Sunday brunch in the hospital cafe.
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St. Francis School of Medical Record Science
Ann Petrone
St. Francis Hospital
Maycrest
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