John Parkyn Named State's Top DeMolay
John D Parkyn 19 of 1221 South Ave La Crosse has been named Wisconsin's top DeMolay by the International Supreme Council. He will receive a Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding service to home school church community and DeMolay. Parkyn is a past master councilor of Joseph Miller DeMolay Chapter and Wisconsin state DeMolay chaplain for 1962 63.
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John D. Parkyn
South Ave
Wisconsin
International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay
Parkyn
Joseph Miller
la Crosse
Carl R. Miller
YMCA
John Parkyn
Walter 0. Helwig
DeMolay
Air Force Academy
Minnesota Christian Youth
Fire destroys site where Biernat body found
Kenosha AP report says a fire of undetermined origin destroyed the vacant farmhouse at the Bong Air Force Base burial site of Anthony Biernat. Investigator Gerald Sonquist noted the blaze does not affect the still unsolved abduction murder case begun when the 46 year old was found in the basement January 27 after being taken from a Kenosha rail station weeks earlier. Two teen girls reported the fire and a car with Illinois plates seen nearby with about five boys aboard.
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Kenosha
Anthony Biernat
Gerald Sonquist
Kenosha County
Sonquist
Illinois
Youth Joins Marines Enlistment for Four Years
William G. Humphreys of Bedford Heights Ohio enlisted for four years in the Marine Corps. He joined July 15 with orders sent to San Diego California per the La Crosse Marine Recruiting Sub station. Lt Gen John P Daley 53 commander of the Armys Combat Developments Command at Ft Belvoir died of a heart attack in Albany New York.
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Marine Corps
William G. Humphreys
Marion R. Skoles
R. J. Hixton
Bedford Heights
Ohio
Young Humphreys
San Diego
Calif
Marine
la Crosse
Washington
John P. Daley
Army
Ft. Belvoir
Albany
N.Y
Crossword Clue Word Chart of Historical Pairs
A compact listing of crossword style clues with numbered hints and short answer prompts across multiple entries including Greek letters places names and common terms. The items include a mix of culinary terms geographic hints with several entries referencing historical or cultural terms and generic descriptors.
Car Still Missing One Recovered in La Crosse Area
A missing green two door car owned by Joseph J. Fuchsteiner of 208 S. Zard St was reported stolen July 18 after being taken July 17 from behind Bicha Furs at 113 N. 3rd St. A separate vehicle, owned by Robert Butterfield of 1426 Caledonia St, was stolen Sunday night and found hours later on Highway 21 near Camp McCoy after the keys were left in the car.
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Rea
la Crosse
Lcense
Joseph J. Fuchsteiner
S. Zard St
Bicha Furs
N. 3Rd St
Camp McCoy
Robert Butterfield
Caledonia St
Woman Hospitalized With Stab Wound in La Crosse
A 48 year old La Crosse woman, Helen Miller, was hospitalized at St Francis with a stab wound to the side. She was wounded at her son Richard Miller's home on Winnesheik Road around 6 30 a m Sunday. Her condition Monday morning was listed as good. Police were notified by Miller's wife and had not determined how the wound was made.
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la Crosse
St. Francis Hospital
Helen Miller
Richard Miller
Winnesheik Road
Miller
Cardinal Valeri Dies at 79 in Vatican Palace
Cardinal Valeri, prefect of the Vatican Congregation of Religious, dies at dawn in his Palace of the Holy Office apartment. The 79-year-old Italian cardinal, struck by a grave throat infection earlier this month, reduces the College of Cardinals to 80 members as Pope Paul VI prayed in his private chapel.
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Valerio
Valeri
Vatican Congregation of Religious
Palace of the Holy Office
Paul VI
College of Cardinals
Weekend Wisconsin crashes claim eight lives
Eight people died in Wisconsin weekend highway crashes raising the state total to 432 for the year. Victims include David Klauda, 71, of Gleason and Gerald R. Lemke, 19, of Rhinelander in a early Sunday fatal crash near Tomahawk. five other youths in the vehicle hospitalized. Additional deaths include Melford Streeter, 54, his wife Dorothy, 50, their son Orville, 28, and Richard Miller, 21, near Friendship. Kenneth L. Elliott, 35, of Milwaukee near Reedsville. Joyce M. Faber, 37, Milwaukee, in a motorcycle crash near Kenosha. Theodore Libersky, 22, rural New Auburn, in Dunn County. and a pedestrian identified as Robert Awiz, 42, of Jackson, Mich., found in Elm Grove.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
David Klauda
Gleason
Gerald R. Lemke
Rhinelander
Highway 51
Tomahawk
Friendship
Adams County
Melford Streeter
Nekoosa
Dorothy
Orville
Richard Miller
Fond du Lac
Kenneth L. Elliott
Milwaukee
Highway 32
Reedsville
Joyce M. Faber
Kenosha
Theodore Libersky
New Auburn
Dunn County
San Creek
Waukesha County
Robert Awiz
Jackson
Mich
Milwaukee Rescue Mission
Awiz
Blue Mound Rd
Elm Grove
Allamakee Man Dies by Own Action in Waukon
A 22 year old Allamakee County man, Robert Scheffert, died Sunday morning from a self inflicted gunshot wound at the Allan Aiken farm home where he worked. He shot himself in the stomach with a 20 gauge shotgun after bidding two companions goodbye. The body rests at Monone Funeral Home. He survived his parents Mr and Mrs Earl Scheffert and three brothers and sisters.
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Waukon
Iowa
Allamakee County
Allan Aiken
Robert Scheffert
Alden Wiley
Theodore Rumph
Monone Funeral Home
Earl Scheffert
Radio Highlights and Winona Livestock Market Update
Monday radio lineup includes Vox Pop on WLCX at 7 p.m. and WKTY at 7:45 p.m. Exhibition baseball Twins vs Braves in Milwaukee at 9:05 p.m. Patterson Liston championship fight follow up. Winona Swift & Company reports open livestock prices with detailed hog cattle beef market figures and price ranges for various weights. Chicago produce and poultry markets show current USDA and Mercantile Exchange price standings.
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WKTY
Twins
Braves
Milwaukee
Patterson Liston
Child 3 Lashed to Bow In Lake Pontchartrain Rescue
In a Lake Pontchartrain incident near New Orleans a 3 year old girl Christy Martine was lashed to the bow of a swamped 18-foot boat for nine hours and rescued with a priest, Rev Anatole Baillergeon, 40, after a Coast Guard helicopter sighted them. Father Sauvageau swam seven miles to shore towing Lana Fagot, 14, and Mrs Martine swam five miles to safety. The group had been returning from a church picnic when sudden squall capsized the boat. Baillergeon stayed with Christy while others found help.
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Christy Martine
Lake Pontchartrain
Anatole Baillergeon
C.M.I
Oblate Seminary
Natick
Mass
Coast Guard
John Sauvageau
O.M.I
Father Sauvageau
Lana Fagot
Jean Martine
Christy
Father Baillergeon
Mafia's grip on Sicily and beyond fuels calls for action
A Sicilian deputy cites 153 killings in 20 years by the Mafia as parliament considers urgent measures to eradicate the organization. Proposals include immediate Mafia hunts and long term programs to curb poverty and ignorance via widespread aid while noting the Mafia’s presence in the United States. Italian police say 500 deportees sent back to Sicily show no link to international drug crime.
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Palermo
Sicily
United States
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Two-Car Collision Injures Three In La Crosse
La Crosse police and ambulance officers rushed three people to La Crosse Hospital after a Sunday night two vehicle crash at Onalaska Avenue and Campbell Street. Oscar J. Jacobson, 38, and passenger Michael Jacobson, 9, both from 1926 Wood Street, and Lois Jacobson, 33, of the same address, were injured. Jacobson's car flipped after traveling about 60 feet from impact, with Jacobson and two passengers sustaining injuries including back, and hand and neck injuries.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Hospital
Onalaska Avenue
Campbell Street
Oscar J. Jacobson
Wood St
Paul E. Theisen
Charles St
Jacobson
Michael Jacobson
Lois Jacobson
Records Fire Department La Crosse July incidents
July 21 at 3 15 p m a car belonging to Carl Pierety of Evanston Illinois was brought to number one station with the back rest burning. At 8 22 p m a woman was locked out of a house at 117 North eighth street. At 8 45 p m the La Crosse unit responded to flush gasoline at the intersection of Onalaska Avenue and Campbell Street.
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Carl Pierety
Evanston
Ill
N. 8Th. St
Onalaska Avenue
Campbell Street
ZIP Aid Available in La Crosse ZIP Code Directory
La Crosse residents unsure of their ZIP numbers can obtain a free directory from the La Crosse Post Office. The list covers 54601 54602 and 54603 by major offices buildings shopping centers colleges hospitals firms and street names and numbers. Postmaster George M Hebertington said there is no charge.
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la Crosse
George M.hetherington
Weather Record: Fair, Warm Conditions Across Regions
Weather records show fair and warm conditions across Lacrosse and vicinity tonight and Tuesday with mid 60s tonight and highs around 90 Tuesday. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa follow suit with continued fair and warm weather, while Iowa expects variable clouds and widely scattered thunderstorms mainly in the west and south central portions tonight and Tuesday.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi River forecast and readings update
Flood stage readings and dam stage changes across several stations including Winona La Crosse and Prairie du Chien show little overall change. A five day forecast calls for temperatures 2-3 degrees above normal and scattered thundershowers with 0.4-2 inches rainfall potential midweek and Saturday.
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T.W
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Vey Lacrosse
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Dodge
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Galesville
la Crosse
W. Sal
Root
Houston
Stops Attacks in Minutes Asthma Formula Goes OTC
Asthma sufferers can obtain the physician prescribed formula without a prescription after tests show it stops attacks in minutes and provides hours of relief from spasms. The formula is marketed as safe when used as directed and now widely sold without prescription in most states.
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New York
N. Y
Kennedy weighs rail work rules amid looming carrier strike
Kennedy met with railroad carriers and five unions after a Wirtz breakfast conference and drafted a congressional message. About 60,000 jobs would be cut as work rules take effect in a week, prompting a potential strike if no agreement is reached. Kennedy planned to brief congressional leaders as preparation for possible legislation.
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Wolfe
Congress
W. Willard Wirtz
Cape Cod
Capital
Theodore C. Sorensen
White House
Pierre Sal
Mrs Fryslie of Whitehall Dies at 100
Mrs Ber nie Fryslie of Whitehall died at her farm home near Whitehall on Thursday evening July 18, just after her 100th birthday. Born in Norway January 29, 1863, she came to America at age three and lived in Trempealeau County. She married Fryslie in 1888 and was preceded in death by her husband in 1944. Services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church with burial in Old Whitehall Cemetery. Visitation at Johnson Funeral Chapel Monday and at the church Tuesday prior to services.
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Wis
Bernie Fryslie
Here
America
la Crosse Valley
Trempealeau County
Lyle Witt
Maule Coulee
Fryslie
Jimmy Witt
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Rev. C. G. Birkeland
Old Whitehall
Johnson Funeral Chapel
Spencer Tracy Hospitalized With Lung Congestion
Hollywood AP reports actor Spencer Tracy, 63, was taken by ambulance to St. Vincent Hospital after collapsing with a congestive lung condition near Katharine Hepburn’s Malibu Beach home. Doctors corrected initial heart attack rumors. Tracy is described as improving.
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Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Tracy
Miss Hepburn
Malibu
St. Vincent Hospital
Karl Lewis
Ida Davidson of Viroqua Dies at 91
Ida Marie Davidson 91 died Sunday July 21 in Viroqua Wisconsin. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Viroqua Lutheran Church with Rev B A Lund officiating. Burial will follow in Viroqua Cemetery. Visitation is set for Tuesday evening at Jacobson Vance Funeral Home. She married Martin Davidson in 1891. he died in 1921. Surviving are four sons Ernest Genoa Philip Maurice Dean, one daughter Lenore Clarke, 19 grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren.
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Viroqua
Wis
Ida Marie Davidson
Viroqua Lutheran Church
B. A. Lund
Viroqua Cemetery
Jacobson-Vance Funeral Home
Martin Davidson
Ernest
Genoa
Philip
Maurice
Walford
N.D
Dean
Chicago
James
Lenore) Clarke
Crystal Lake
Governors clash over civil rights near conference stalemate
The governors committee debated civil rights with Vidal rotting differences between parties. Southern leaders led by Mississippi's Ross Barnett warned of filibusters and walkouts while Alabama's George Wallace insisted civil rights proposals had no place on the agenda. Republicans from Arizona and Oklahoma criticized New York's Rockefeller stance. Rosellini proposed a special session to allow debate, but action remained doubtful.
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Ross R. Barnett
Mississippi
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Rockefeller
Paul Fannin
Arizona
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Barry Goldwater
Fannin
New York
Rosellini
East German defect slips into West Berlin
A 21 year old East German soldier slipped through Communist built barbed wire and concrete barricades into West Berlin on Sunday, according to West Berlin police.
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Mandy) Rice-Davies
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