Transporting students over two miles in La Crosse
The mayor and the La Crosse Board of Education clash over funding for transporting students living beyond two miles from their schools. The city budget would cover about 30 700 dollars through year end 1973, with the board seeking a grant and the council proposing a loan repaid from 1974 budget. The issue hinges on budget placement and long term city support.
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Common Council
Frank C. Landon
Winona
la Crosse
Homer
Minn
Art Bakkum
David Tosh
State Hospital
Chester
D. G. MacMillan
National Gauge and Iquipment Co
P. M. Gelatt
State Normal Schools
L. H. Pammel
Iowa
Lynxville
de Soto
Alex Skover
Robert Allner
Bast
Norplex
Minnesota Moves Into Home Financing With 30 Million Plan
Minnesota readies a $30 million program of reduced interest loans around 6.5 percent funded by revenue bonds to support housing. The plan, part of a $150 million bonding author ity passed in 1971, targets families of four with incomes up to 12 600 dollars and homes around 31 000 dollars.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Princess Anne engagement to Lt Mark Phillips announced
Britain confirms Princess Anne will marry commoner Lt Mark Phillips of the First Queen's Dragoon Guards. The public greets the royal match with nostalgia for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, hoping Phillips can provide suitably on a modest salary.
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Wisconsin State Journal
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Anne
Mark Phillips
Dragoon Guards
Elizabeth II
Philip Mountbatten
St. Phillips
Tributes, Trials, and Trusses from Tribune Files 1953
Twenty years ago reports from Seoul and Washington cite a possible truce within days as Rhee denounces terms. Arthur Eisenhower criticizes Senator McCarthy in strong terms. Federal Barge Lines purchases Waterways Corp. for 9 million to operate between Chicago and New Orleans.
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Korea
Syngman Rhee
Arthur Eisenhower
McCarthy
R-Wis
America
Federal Barge Lines
Aterways Corp
Chicago
New Orleans
Kent State gunman mystery lingers in FBI probe
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley faces questions from Sen. Birch Bayh about Terrence Norman a part time Kent State student alleged to have fired a pistol. Witnesses say Norman claimed FBI ties, prompting scrutiny of FBI involvement and secrecy around the Kent State shooting investigation.
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FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Kent State
Ohio National Guardsmen
Kelley
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Senate Judiciary Committee
Terrence Norman
Bayh
National
Norman
Senator Bayh
Kent State Campus
Michael Delaney
Ohio National
Delaney
Blanket Hill
National Guard
Fred DeBrine
Ohio
Little Rock
Ark
DeBrine
Tom Kelley
Harold Rice
Atty
Richardon
Nixon
Jackson State
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Kennedy
Judiciary
Richardson
When LBJ wished for a recorder
John P. Roche recalls Nixon's alleged habit of secretly taping calls and meetings, likening it to a pumpkin microfilm hunt. The piece contrasts public distrust in the Nixon White House with Johnson era private briefings and a wish for records, noting the unsettling implications of pervasive surveillance.
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John P. Roche
Richard Nixon
Chambers
Maryland
Alger Hiss
Mr. Nixon
Nixon White House
Dent
Joint Chiefs
Johnson
North Vietnam
Middle East
Readers react to La Crosse mayor over Last Tango in Paris
Letters to The Tribune include Mary Kimmel praising the mayor for stance on movies and urging civic action, Arthur J. Melby arguing for strikebreaker ordinances to cut police risk, and James Roufus accusing Mayor Gilbertson of unfairly deriding residents over Last Tango in Paris.
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Paris
Cinema 1
la Crosse
Tis
Mary Kimmel
S. Isth St
Arthur J. Melby
Island Park Rd
Sirs
Quotable Quote at Archdiocese Cincinnati Installation
Maria Bernardin gives her son Joe guidance before his installation as archbishop. She advises him to walk straight and not show too much pleasure as the ceremony begins.
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Maria Bernardin
Archdiocese of
Cincinnati
Joe
Wisconsin Budget Friction Reveals Lawmakers’ Involvement
John Wyngaard argues that heated protests over the compromise budget miss the point. He says most legislators show little interest in public scrutiny of billions in allocations and urges attendance at Finance Committee hearings to better understand state government operations.
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Conference Committee
Statehouse
Wisconsin
Joint Finance Committee
Dale McKenna
Jefferson
Finance Committee
McKenna
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