Controversy Over North Side High Site Persists
The Common Council Finance and Purchase Committee approved funding to acquire land and hire architects for a new North Side high school despite objections. Alderman Storck calls for more site debate over possible annexation of Campbell and Medary, and Alderman Kelly urges study of future city growth. The 29 acre site at Onalaska Avenue Gillette Street the Milwaukee Railroad and Swanson Field is defended as meeting district needs not political boundaries, noting redistricting could shift lines before construction.
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North Side
Common Council Finance and Purchase Committee
Curtis Storck
Campbell
Medary
Helen Kelly
Onalaska Avenue
Gillette Street
Milwaukee Railroad
Swanson Field
Eugene Batts
Lease dispute over La Crosse golf course land persists
Two Common Council committees rejected a proposed lease with La Crosse Country Club calling for nearly $1.5 million in rent for city land through 2015. Officials consider selling unlikely and seek a rent linked to land values to resolve the stalemate ahead of next week's meeting.
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la Crosse Country Club
Country Club
la Crosse
New York City Budget Crisis Deepens Amid Payment Delays
City officials face tough choices as New York struggles to meet looming bills. Congress and President Ford backed a 2.3 billion aid package last year but agencies and unions resist further cuts. Treasury Secretary Simon weighs strict collection as July payments approach and fears of city bankruptcy loom.
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New York City
Congress
Ford
Uncle Sam
Beame
Carey
New York
Treasury
William Simon
Board of Education hires Schubert Sorenson for junior high plans
The Board of Education picks architectural firm Schubert Sorenson and Associates to prepare the plans and specifications for a junior high school addition in Logan, marking a major step in district expansion.
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Board of Education
Schubert, Sorenson and Associates
Logan
Eisenhower
Congress
Adlai Stevenson
California
Estes Kefauver
Russian link in Oswald Ruby case surfaces in Mr X files
Senate Intelligence Committee opens new Kennedy assassination inquiry and reviews the Mr X file from the Warren Commission. The file includes a Russian claim Oswald knew Marina and Lee Oswald in the Soviet Union, plus notes linking Oswald to Ruby and the KGB. An embassy interview reportedly occurred in summer 1964.
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Washington, D.C
Mr. X. File
Warren Commission
Senate Intelligence Committee
John Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Mr. X
U.S
Moscow
Dallas
Marina
Soviet Union
National Archives
Oswald
KGB
State Department
FBI
CIA
Senate
Commission
Washington
Mexico City
Gorky
Ruby
Oswalds
Byelorussia
USA
Stop playing wet nurse to Europe U S told
A Scottish MP visiting Wisconsin urged the United States to withdraw its forces from Europe within five years stating Europe must fund its own defense. Alex Fletcher of Edinburgh, a Conservative and MEP, lectured in Beloit Janesville and Madison and discussed European Parliament aims toward a unified Europe. He warned continued U S military presence risks delaying European political union and urged a shift in transatlantic roles.
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Reloit
Wis
United States
Europe
Wisconsin
Alex Fletcher
Edinburgh
Scotland
Fletcher
Beloit
Janesville
Madison
Wisconsin Improvement Program
Beloit College
America
Russia
Hitler
Scotsman
Britain
European Union
Jobt
New chief justice chosen by seniority on Wisconsin Court
Wisconsin Supreme Court elevates Justice Bruce Beilfuss to chief after the death of Horace Wilkie. Beilfuss, 61, was elected to the bench and is the first chief in memory to have earlier won popular election. The succession follows a century old seniority rule, balancing liberal and conservative members while Governor Lucey weighs the next vacancy.
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Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Bruce Beilfuss
Horace Wilkie
Beilfuss
Robert Siebecker
Vinje
Rosenberry
Fritz
Fairchild
Martin
Broadfoot
Brown
Currie, Hallows
Horace
Patrick Lucey
Lucey
Readers defend McKee over discipline at Longfellow
A letter from Richard S. Malinowski praises Longfellow principal McKee for firm discipline, citing calm handling of three student incidents and achievements under his tenure. Another reader complains about post office ballot wording, while a third thanks McKee’s staff for a successful Longfellow choir year.
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Myron McKee
Longfellow
McKee
Central High School
Mardell Allen
Daniel Risgaard
Richard and
Jean Herlitzka
Paul Place
la Crosse
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Sanford Goltz
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Sonny’’ Nelson
Highway 27
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Chicago
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Memcon
Ruby and
Rubenstein
Communist Party of
Aim
Richard Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Sen. Russell
Wilkie
Supreme Court
Mr. McKee
Richard S. Malinowski
Redfield St
Malinowski
Mary Sawyer Auditorium
Post Office
Federal
Terry Kita
Winnebago St
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