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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1968
Page
2
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller remains upbeat about winning the Republican presidential nomination. In private talks he even hints at a Rockefeller Nixon ticket as he challenges a tough uphill race in the nominating contest.
Governor Rockefeller discusses a potential Nixon Rockefeller ticket and an approach to the 1968 convention. He notes a constitutional snag if both leaders hail from New York and suggests one move, likely Nixon, to resolve it. Rockefeller travels 50,000 miles across 42 states, courting delegates and voters while signaling he could be the alternative in a multi-ballot convention strategy.
Congress rushes toward a possible Aug 3 adjournment with gun control bills and a $115 billion appropriations push. Leaders, incl Mansfield and Albert, warn success hinges on a productive week of votes and approvals across foreign aid, higher education, defense requests, and funding measures.
Bobby Rogers, 31, a Negro charged with killing three Puerto Ricans, was held without bail on a homicide charge in Bronx Criminal Court. A hearing was set for Aug. 5 before Judge Samuel Ohringer as Rogers, an Army veteran, sat motionless during arraignment after surrendering in North Carolina with his brother Henry.
ST. PAUL AP Services will be held in St Paul Monday for Daniel Gearhart 67 former member of the State Board of Education who died Thursday here. Gearhart served on the board 1961 to 1967 and chaired the Minnesota Junior College Action Committee. He was ordained a Methodist minister in 1929 and served parishes in Beltrami Akeley Columbia Heights and three Wisconsin parishes before retiring in 1948. For 20 years he ran funeral homes in Minnesota including Fergus Falls Battle Lake Ashby Evansville and St Paul.
In Genesee a 34 year old man shot his estranged wife 32 near a tavern in a parking lot then killed himself at her Mukwonago home. The four children were with a neighbor during the incident.
In Paris, May to June style clashes erupt across the capital with barricade clearing. The national tricolor appears widely as riots spread Saturday night. about twenty people are hurt including seven police officers.
Deaths continued from Page 1 include a driver struck on Interstate 94 near Milwaukee while standing beside a disabled car. Gary Glassbrenner, 31, of rural Waureka, died when his car hit a utility pole in Grant County. Melchor Gomez, 60, a migrant worker from San Antonio, was killed at an Ozaukee County intersection. Gary Olson, 20, of Chippewa Falls, a Marine on leave, died when his car left Highway 178 and hit a tree north of Jim Falls. he was alone.
Tampa sanitation workers walked off the job today demanding a 50 cent hourly raise. Mayor Greco pledged positive pay increases by October 1 for all city employees. About 400 collectors exist, but exact striking numbers were not released. Previously St Petersburg fired 211 workers on May 7 for similar demands.
WLCX at 6 30 p.m. features Crisis in the Cities with Rev Charles R Houdek First Presbyterian Church and Hosea Perry discussing Why Did the Disorders Occur. WKTY at 7 p.m. carries Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates baseball.
A French Island youth, David L. LeFebre, 19, pleaded guilty in La Crosse County Court to contributing to the girl’s delinquency by providing her with beer. He was fined $407 with 90 days to pay or serve jail time, after prosecutors noted the girl was reluctant to testify.
President Johnson urged the Senate to ratify the mutual assistance and return pact with the Soviet Union for spaceflight emergencies. The agreement, signed April 22, links ratification by the US, USSR, and UK plus two others and aims to rescue astronauts and promptly return them and their vehicles.
Madison AP Attorney General Bronson C La Follette a Democratic gubernatorial candidate warned that the federal tax increase could trigger a major push by public utilities to raise consumer rates He urged scrutiny by the State Public Service Commission and said taxpayers should not bear the tax burden via automatic rate hikes in telephone gas and electric bills The Civil War note about mints in Charlotte and Dahlonega is mentioned as historical context.
The 70 year old No 4 Homestead Works furnace shuts down as 125 workers are laid off amid slowing production. United Steelworkers and 11 major steel companies resume talks for a new labor contract before Aug 1 with a Friday deadline day of reckoning.
USDA reporting cattle and hog markets shows mod erate activity with steers and heifers mostly steady to down. Slaughter cows and bulls hold near last week’s levels as hogs trade moderately active with varied weights and sows and feeder pigs in limited supply. Chicago markets list butter and eggs with minor price shifts amid wholesale buyers.
Quotations show a mix of individual stocks with mixed fractions and percentages from Ryder Systems to Wis. Pow. & Light, with Dow Jones Industrials and NYSE indices cited. July wheat and soybeans prices appear alongside inter dealer notes from The Marshall Co and La Crosse listings, with fund prices and bids from mutual funds.
U S sources report some enemy units near Saigon have pulled back with no immediate major threat. Officials note the situation could change. intelligence had indicated possible major attacks from the west and along the Cambodian border. Clifford visits Saigon and pledges faster M16 deliveries as U S forces reassess odds of a larger offensive.
Tanzanian interview with Robert Williams, fugitive from a North Carolina kidnapping case, outlines plans to found a Black Republic named New Africa across Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. Williams advocates a one party state with collective ownership and hints at urban guerrilla war if resisted. He predicts widespread support among Blacks for independence over integration.
A public hearing will be held July 29 in Indianapolis by the USDA to consider amendments to the Indianapolis Fort Wayne and Chicago milk orders. Six dairy farmer associations requested the hearing, seeking merger of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne areas, eight Chicago counties from Northwestern Indiana, and ten unregulated Indiana counties into revised regional orders.
The Civil Aeronautics Board reaffirms its May 10 grant to North Central Airlines for a Sioux Falls South Dakota to Rochester Minnesota to Chicago route. The order authorizes nonstop Sioux Falls to Pierre South Dakota and denies Ozark Air Lines Sioux Falls to Rochester to Chicago. Ozark’s reconsideration petition is denied.
Northern States Power Co. was inadvertently omitted from the list of purchasers of hogs at the junior livestock show during the La Crosse Interstate Fair.
Variable cloudiness and warm humid air linger tonight with a near 70 degree low. Tuesday brings heat and humidity with lower 90s and a chance of showers. Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa show scattered showers, thunder showers, and hot conditions. five day outlook near normal temperatures with about 0.12 inch of precipitation likely.
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