Nun in Nursing Home Brings Cheer and Miracles
Sister Loretta Menke, activities director at Saint Joseph's Nursing Home, boosts spirits with parties, crafts, and daily Mass. She credits staff and residents for miracles, recalls 10 years at St. Michael's Home and a 1970 move to Saint Joseph's. Her plan aids new residents adjusting to shared life.
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Loretta Menke
Saint Joseph's Nursing Home
Cass St
Order of the
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Loretta
St. Michael's Home
St. Joseph's
Mary Pavloski
Ledia Bissen
Joe Schnedecker
Schnedecker
Mary Menke
Fort Madison
Iowa
Emma Lou Wilder resigns after 35 years of teaching
Tribune notes twenty years ago in 1956 Emma Lou Wilder resigns from La Crosse State College after a 35 year teaching career. Also from that era Soviet Union opens to tourist travel and a planned purge by Stalin looms, while crops face pest pressure and corn borer forecasts.
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Emma Lou Wilder
la Crosse State College
Soviet Union
Stalin
West Side of State
University of Wisconsin
Army Air Force
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Wisconsin-Michigan Division
Kissinger Issue Could Swing Ford GOP Bid in 1976
Ford vows to keep Kissinger in cabinet if nominated as Kissinger questions Soviet aims, challenging Joint Chiefs views on Cuba base and shaping Reagan attacks. The debate over Soviet grand design and U S policy could decide the Republican nomination race in Kansas City.
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Washington, D.C
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Europe
Russia
Moscow
Ford Administration
Cuba
Kremlin
Western Hemisphere
U.S
Spain
Joint Chiefs of Staff
California
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Reagan
Reader asks for details on US Russia nuclear test agreement
A reader requests explicit disclosures about concessions from Russia in the mutual monitoring pact for nuclear tests and what tests Russians can witness. She cites May 27 notes on underground tests and river or mineral impact, asks whether concessions are balanced and if transparency is possible, ending with a plea to publish if information is available.
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U.S
Russia
Washington
Victor Leidel
Oak St
la Crescent, Minn
New US Soviet pact tightens on site inspections of tests
The treaty allows on-site inspections for peaceful nuclear explosions above 150 kilotons, matching the 150 kiloton ceiling of the 1974 underground tests pact. It requires advance notification of test sites and purposes and relies on scientific monitoring. Ratification in the US Senate faces election-year hurdles.
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United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
US Senate
Russia
Open government to be the issue in Wisconsin session
Governor Patrick Lucey adds open government to the June 15 special session, pressing for elimination of secrecy in state affairs. Democratic legislators and press groups praise the move while noting conflicts over caucus openness and secret labor talks, risking undermining democratic accountability.
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Madison
Patrick Lucey
Lucey
Statehouse
Memoirs Claim Lincoln Love Affair In Memoir Spin
A old woman in Washington says she was Lincoln’s mistress, dating through fragments with Frank Sinatra and Sam Giancana. She insists the affair spanned many presidents, aims to expose Lincoln’s true character, and seeks a publisher offer around six figures.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Mary Todd
Frank Sinatra
Chicago
Illinois
Sam Giancana
Giancana
War Department
Congressman Hays
Wayne Hays
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Andrew Johnson
Richard Nixon
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la Crosse
Buffalo
N.Y
W. Stanley Smith
Ford
Free World
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Elmo Zumwalt
U.S. Senate
Virginia
Admiral Zumwalt
Ita
Christian Science Monitor
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Wisconsin
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San Juan Hill
General Grant
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Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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