Alma Center To Conduct 4 Summer School Classes
Alma Center Wis summer school runs June 20 to July 29 in district schools offering modern math reading spelling and writing taught by Mines. Teachers include Olga Waldum Joan Staf fon Helen Hogue and Mary Ann Jensen with more needed. Registration for first graders is June 13 14 at Lincoln High School 8 30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Birth certificate or baptismal record required.
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Alma Center
Wis
Mines
Olga Waldum
Joan Staffon
Helen Hogue
Mary Ann Jensen
Lincoln High School
Jackson County Shares $828 000 Federal Grant
Jackson County is among 10 Wisconsin counties to share an 828000 dollar federal grant under the Economic Opportunity Act. A total of 388 men will be employed in park and recreational development in the 10 county area under the Wisconsin Conservation Department. Many of those employed will be Indians.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Jackson County
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Principal Wins NDEA Institute Grant for Wisconsin Study
Tomah Junior High School principal Martin Mogensen has received a National Defense Education Act Institute grant to pursue advanced study at the University of Wisconsin this summer.
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Tomah, Wis
Martin Mogensen
Tomah Junior High School
University of Wisconsin
Minnesota Receives Road Safety Report
A two year Minnesota traffic safety study yielded 101 recommendations to improve highways and driver skill. The Automotive Safety Foundation presented the 900 page results at the request of the Interim Highway Commission. Implementations would proceed as funds and legislation permit.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Automotive Safety Foundation of
Washington, D.C
Highway Commission
John R. Jamieson
Minnesota Highway Patrol
State Department of Education
Monroe County Sheriff Oss Resigns Post
Monroe County Sheriff Arden Oss submitted his resignation to County Clerk David L. Hering effective June 15. Oss cites construction plans east of Tomah. he would have reached term limits in 1966. Gov. Warren Knowles will appoint a replacement, with Undersheriff David Copperfield serving in the interim. two Republicans seek the sheriff nomination.
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Sparta
Wis
Arden Oss
Monroe County
David L. Hering
Oss
Tomah
Warren Knowles
David Copperfield
Keith Henry
Charles Roeske
Community Action Director Named in Northeast Iowa
Neil Wiedeman of Waukon named director of the Northeast Iowa Community Action program with an office in Decorah. Wiedeman, a retired Air Force major, returned home to Waukon to lead the agency serving Allamakee Winnebago and Howard counties and to study local economic needs with federal funds available.
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Waukon
Iowa
Neil Wiedeman
Northeast
European floral recipes in early modern cookbooks
Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries used edible flowers in dishes. English cookbooks describe rose conserve violet syrup and marigold pie.
Woodenshoe Dutch colony founder laid out Orno village
Old World settler Bonnema founded New Amsterdam in La Crosse County after Gordon first named Orno. The area grew with post offices, a tavern, sawmill, and the church. By 1960 the community housed 40 residents and had diversified beyond its wooden shoe heritage.
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New Amsterdam
Holland
la Crosse County
Gordon
la Crosse Tribune
Wis
Oepke Bonnema
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Bonnema
Orno
Black River
Burr Johnson
Ole O. Black
Ole Hokenson
Sjoerd Tyalsma
John Stienstre
la Crosse
Galesville
Midway
David Neeham
D. M. Deeastre
Emma Miller
Benjamin Miller
Bennema
Henry de Boer
Jewett Chalsma
French Island
Tyalsma
Sjalsma
Chalsma
Ed Greene
Jake Spangler
Jake
Bill Vanderpan
Depke Bonnema
Louise
Harmen
Green Mound
John Hougenhaus
Holmen School
Harris
Lincoln High seniors pace with straight A report card
ALMA CENTER Wis Six Lincoln High School seniors Nancy Passow Sharon Wachholz and Nancy Dimmitt join top peers Kathy Buttke Susan Joos Jo Ann Michels Kathy Printz Nancy Wolfgram Diane Michels and others as the fourth nine week grades place them among the school top ten percent.
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Alma Center
Wis
Lincoln High School
Nancy Passow
Sharon Wachholz
Nancy Dimmitt
Janice Gosch
Janis Putman
Linda Schroeder
Kathy Buttke
Susan Joos
Jo- Ann Michels
Kolene Olson
Kathy Printz
Nancy Wolfgram
Diane Michels
Ralph Green
Bruce Huebner
Cheryl Janke
Charles Risch
Lisa Anderson
Lynette Anderson
Teresa Dittner
Carol Fitzmaurice
Sue Grupe
Marilyn Schulze
James Schmitz
Diane Seguin
Valedictorian Tops Winners At Sparta High School
Barbara Heffling top student and valedictorian at Sparta High School earned the leading scholastic award plus a Wisconsin legislative scholarship and Readers Digest award. Salutatorian Marie Jenkins also won a legislative scholarship, with several other seniors receiving awards and $10 Robert Page gifts to top scholastic students.
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Sparta
Wis
Barbara Heffling
Fred Heffling
Sparta High School
Heffling
Readers Digest
Marie Jenkins
Anita Ewers
Mary Theirl
Jane Eumurian
Antony Spors
John Baudhui
Cynthia Jessie
Anne Nussdorfer
Lynda Loging
Robert Page
Linda Haun
Sparta Education Association
Joyce Goede
Parent-Teacher Association
Janet Gilbertson
Hospital Seeks Housekeeping Aids At Tomah VA
The Tomah Veterans Administration Hospital seeks housekeeping aid at $1.61 hourly. Applications available at post offices or the VA Hospital Tomah Wisconsin from the Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners. Positions restricted to veterans preference by law, but non veterans may apply if no veterans are available.
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Tomah
Wis
Tomah Veterans Administration Hospital
Board of
U.S. Civil Service Examiners
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Tre Handy Man
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SELEC
Tion
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Tribune
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Robert C. Gehl
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Nettleton
Ion
Lincoln High
Austin Healey
Import Motors, Inc
la Crescent
Sparta HS
Joe Atteln
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Throp Finance Co
Rodney Kenyon
Mathematical Sociation of America
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