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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1977
Page
4
The LaCrosse Tribune announces Kenneth C. Blanchard as publisher and Sanders Hook as general manager with Robert S. Gallagher as editor and Sanford Goltz as opinion page editor in the longstanding Wisconsin paper founded in 1904.
Medary Town Board signals renewed interest in joining the La Crosse Area Plan Committee after a three year lapse. Voters will decide next week on a sewerage system, while a meeting will discuss amending the area plan to include the Dayton Hudson shopping center. Cooperation prospects grow brighter.
President Carter pivots from defending his energy plan to accusing special interests, notably the oil and gas lobby, as Congress resists price controls and the fuel tax. He argues decontrol could unlock more natural gas and oil, contrasting expert projections with current prices and political pressure.
Twenty years ago in 1957 the Soviet Union proposed a moratorium of two or three years on nuclear tests with international inspectors at key points to prevent cheating. Communist China released two American Jesuit missionaries after four years of imprisonment and house arrest. A canvas-covered Army truck crashed off a bridge into a rocky creek bed at Ft. Campbell Kentucky, killing 14 paratroopers and injuring nine others.
Wisconsin politics shows a rare reversal as both major parties move away from endorsing statewide candidates at conventions. Republicans retain a long standing convention rule while Democrats at their state convention again reject pre primary endorsements, reflecting tension with open primaries and factional divides.
Column argues for convention influence in selecting nominees on both sides, noting La Follette era control and current bipartisan shifts toward delegate endorsements. It contends party apparatus exists to recruit and present aspirants for high office and warns that lack of guidance can yield weak nominees.
White House officials condemn a House bill adding 53 planning projects for water schemes with potential long term costs exceeding 5 billion dollars. Carter opposes 12 new starts and 17 ongoing projects, while environmentalists warn about due process gaps and environmental impact, notably McKinney Bayou Arkansas.
GENE McCARTHY criticizes media censorship and the press as a sovereign force. He argues the Washington Post and others tamper with justice while defending reporters First Amendment privileges in the Watergate era.
A reader protests strikebreaking and union disputes at the La Crosse Common Council while criticizing long-tenured city officials and local policy, urging new blood in the city attorney and park director posts and railing at high prices blamed on unions. The letter condemns strikes, praises nonunion sentiment, and cites biblical and ethical arguments amid broader frustration with local politics.
A speaker denounces vandalism by youths activists and strikers at La Crosse Telephone Co. urging accountability and NLRB or court action. They fear retribution and refuse to identify themselves as police are said to overlook threats to the author’s home.
A BYU professor's study of 8000 people over five years asserts marriage stability rises with wealth. The narrator recalls his mother’s witty line that it’s as easy to love a rich girl as a poor one and recounts dating an heiress from an exclusive girls’ school.
Jim Fiebig shares a rainy movie ending and a flirtation gone awry. He jokes about 26 cents in his pocket while a date with a well-dressed partner opts to pay for a taxi, leaving him standing alone in the rain at the theater. The anecdote closes with a tongue in cheek reflection on dating in the rain and the idea of wives.
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