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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1976
Page
5
The opinion page features editorials and commentary from Robert S Gallagher and Sanford Goltz outlining views on current events and public affairs. The piece provides analysis and perspective consistent with a historical newspaper opinion section.
The Rev. William A. Morrison and Ruth Morrison spearheaded refugee aid in La Crosse starting last year. They assisted with housing, tutoring, and language learning while organizing ecumenical support and cultural activities. The First Presbyterian Church hosts meetings and provides Vietnamese Bibles, with fund support from the Self-Development of Peoples Fund.
Tribune notes from 1936 to 1926 include Hoover speech at the Republican convention labeled a valedictory to politics. It recalls 1956 flour shortages and a parking ramp referendum to support a bumper wheat crop. Also covered are Nancy Harger’s selection to Badger Girls State, a Ford Foundation grant to Grandview Hospital, and civic actions like razing a dilapidated site and fire safety inspections in La Crosse. The column lists a 1926 Central High School commencement, a Beaver Dam gubernatorial bid, and the Star-Courier sale to Lee Newspapers Syndicate.
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller quietly leads the wooing of uncommitted GOP delegates for President Ford. He and allies control blocs in West Virginia Illinois Mississippi and New York and shifted delegates in Pennsylvania and New York to Ford. The question remains whether Rockefeller will lead a Ford Rockefeller ticket or seek sole recognition.
The Milwaukee convention produced a moderate Republican platform aimed at appealing to the center. Led by Platform Committee chair Clifford Krueger, the plan rejects explicit reforms and instead favors broad goals while criticizing the Lacey Democratic regime as profligate.
This piece discusses de jure and de facto segregation in school districts, noting courts tolerate accidental de facto segregation from private choices but oppose it when state action or inaction creates or permits ghetto boundaries. It uses urban examples to argue that shifting demographics can produce racial imbalance and raised questions about legal remedies and civil rights strategy.
A reader letter from Alderman Brian Carroll and peers criticizes a Tribune editorial and questions repeated Kennedy coverage. The writer argues for less politics and more common sense, noting Senator Proxmire’s perceived strength and a potential retirement pension figure.
Art Buchwald imagines a Bicentennial dinner with Deep Throat in a parking garage on the outskirts of Washington. He riffs on Woodward Nixon and All the President's Men while ordering KFC and beer and plotting a tell all book collaboration.
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