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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1961
Page
3
Economist Sylvia Porter argues that a true inflation surge is unlikely this year and next. She notes rising living costs are persistent but not explosive, cites ample materials and labor, and sees no deficit-driven money flood or imminent monetary constraints.
The speaker rejects inflation alarm and calls for price and service competition with foreign markets. He warns against overreacting and suggests publicity could weaponize fear, asserting confidence in the economic system and control.
Four people die when a small motorboat capsizes in the rapids above Niagara Falls and plunges 162 feet over the edge. Victims are George Stewart 49 druggist Ridgeway Ontario his wife Jean 44 and Stanley Tessman and his wife Gladys of Buffalo New York. One man was sucked into a power plant intake. Crowds watched as the boat drifted through a gate of the Ontario hydrocontrol dam two miles upstream. Only one survivor is known in Falls history, a boy last year.
Chicago AP reports Charles H. Percy 41, industrialist and Republican leader, will not challenge Sen. Everett M. Dirksen in the Illinois Republican primary next spring. Percy chairs the 1960 Republican Platform Committee and says he does not want to cause a party rupture. Dirksen, 65, has not officially declared but is widely expected to seek re election after eight terms in the House and a 1950 Senate win.
The article notes that producing a ton of newsprint consumes an amount of electricity capable of powering about 10,000 households. This comparison highlights the energy intensity of papermaking.
A New York Museum of Primitive Art show surveys Africa's nascent nations with about 100 objects from 20 countries including Upper Volta Mali Chad Madagascar Congo Ivory Coast Liberia and Nigeria. The display spans ancient and ceremonial works from masks to ancestor figures and utilitarian items.
Two Winona contractors outbid locals for four public works projects while a La Crosse firm won a fifth contract. Mathy Construction Co. received 5 107 25 for parking lot island work, with Hector Construction bidding 5 339 75. Other bids ranged up to 25 424. Work dates run through Sept. and August.
A Wisconsin health alert urges routine chest X rays to detect early tuberculosis and other conditions. Mobile X‑ray units visit communities regularly and hospital exams offer access without charge, aiming to reduce TB deaths and uncover silent illnesses.
LA CRESCENT Minn The Gittens Leidel Unit 595 American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 8 p m Tuesday in the Legion club rooms. New officers will be installed.
Dallas Texas AP Joe C Thompson 60 board chairman of Southland Corp credited with launching the nations first drive in food stores Thompson led a multimillion dollar firm with more than 300 Texas stores and 105 on the East Coast.
Leaders of the Wisconsin bar favor a plan to depoliticize judicial selection. A nonpartisan judicial commission would provide a panel from which governors choose. judges would run unopposed to retain office, with vacancies filled from the panel if rejected.
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