Wisconsin 8000 Students Preparing to Enroll This Summer
More than 8,000 high school graduates will enroll at the University of Wisconsin for fall study across Madison Milwaukee and 11 state centers. Registration begins on the Madison campus with about 4,000 new students, Milwaukee about 2,600, and several thousand at centers statewide. The program runs through July 22 at Madison and July 25 to Aug 24 at Milwaukee Kenwood campus, with classes starting Sept 12.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Center
University
Kenwood
Summer Enrollment Up At La Crosse State University
Registrar Robert C. Le Roy reports 1 512 students attend the opening day of the summer session at La Crosse State University. Registration continues through the week. Summer enrollment is 12 percent ahead of last year. The student body breakdown includes 324 freshmen, 265 sophomores, 299 juniors, 316 seniors and 7 postgraduates with 492 re entering students 103 transfers 702 continuing and 208 new students.
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la Crosse State University
Robert C. LeRoy
LeRoy
Senior Citizens Center Elects Officers
The Senior Citizens Center elected Harvey Nicolai as president for a one year term. Hugo Hass was chosen vice president, Harry C. Welch secretary, and Norman Tennison treasurer. Entertainment committee members include John Skoy Christy Ross Andrew Berg Alex Roth and Mrs Olga Thomas. Sick committee members are Sadie Kriewald Carl Knudson and Emma Bratburg.
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Senior Citizens Center
Harvey Nicolai
Hugo Hass
Harry C. Welch
Norman Tennison
John Skoy
Christy Ross
Andrew Berg
Alex Roth
Olga Thomas
Sadie Kriewald
Carl Knudson
Emma Bratburg
Four Badger Girls Named Governor Candidates
Four Southern Wisconsin girls were named as candidates for governor at Badger Girls State elections. Mary Elizabeth Poetschke and Mary Ann Terwigler seek the Nationalist nomination while Bonnie K. Aide and Jean Smiley run for the Federalist nod. A La Crosse boy resident at Kettle Moraine Boys School has been missing since Sunday after a prior arrest for looting meters.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Badger
Mary Elizabeth Poetschke
Racine
Mary Ann Terwilliger
Lancaster
Nationalist Party
Bonnie K
Hazel Green
Jean Smiley
Baraboo
la Crosse
Kettle Moraine Boys School
Plymouth
Paul D. Prast
la Crosse County
Johnson Urges Hospitals to Enforce Medicare Non Discrimination
President Johnson urged hospitals and medical groups to comply with civil rights laws as Medicare rolls out July 1. Officials warn about bed occupancy, custodial care limits, and patient education on deductibles and 60 day limits.
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Johnson
John W. Gardner
Medicare
Daley influence tested as 1962 bond defeat shapes Chicago politics
The 1962 election saw a bond issue fail amid mixed support from groups led by the Chicago Association of Commerce and Roman Catholic leaders while critics warned about tax hikes and neighborhood upheaval. Daley hailed Johnson’s call praising his leadership as the race reflected shifting political strength in Daley’s circle. Dawson and O'Hara faced strong Black and independent challengers in the 1st and 2nd Districts, with Mikva challenging in the 2nd.
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Daley
Chicago Association of Commerce
John Patrick Cody
Charles H. Percy
Property Owners Coordinating Council
Republican Ward
Johnson
Dawson
Fred Hubbard
Ronald L. Williams
O’hara
Abner Mikva
Wreckage Found of Mauston Pilot’s Plane
The Coast Guard located wreckage from a missing F106 interceptor in Lake Huron about six miles north of the Lake Huron lightship near Port Huron. Maj. William Vinopal of Mauston Wisconsin was the pilot. recovery and further search were set to begin at dawn. Radio contact with the pilot was lost Monday after noon over the lake.
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Port Huron
Mich
Coast Guard
Lake Huron
William Vinopal
Mauston
Wis
Selfridge Air Force Base
Student Receives Railroad Scholarship in Milwaukee Road Program
Michael F. Ott of La Crescent Minnesota earned the Gillick scholarship, $600 a year during college, as one of five winners from Milwaukee Road families. Ott, a June La Crescent High School graduate, was a National Merit semifinalist and member of the National Honor Society, planning forestry studies.
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Michael F. Ott
2Nd St. N
la Crescent
Minn
Milwaukee Road
Ott
Gillick
Donald J. Ott
la Crescent High School
National
Honior Society
Frederick H Rick Named Graduation Speaker at MIT 1966
Frederick H Rick has been named the commencement speaker for the Milwaukee Institute of Technology 1966 graduation exercises. The talk will be at 7 45 p m Thursday, with his parents listed as Mr and Mrs Frederick H Rick.
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Frederick H. Rick
Milwaukee Institute of Technology
Herman Rick to Receive Associate Degree at MIT
Herman L. Rick of 919 La Crosse St will attend MIT to receive an associate degree in applied graphic arts and sciences with a major in photography He is a 1961 Central High School graduate and served three years in the Army including 18 months in Japan Rick is a La Crosse Police Department photographer.
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Herman L. Rick
la Crosse St
Frederick
Central High School
Japan
MIT
Rick
Herman Rick
la Crosse
Lee officers attend meeting across states
Lee officers listed include Philip D. Adler Davenport president Walter W. White Lincoln executive vice president Don Anderson Madison vice president Burgess secretary Gottlieb treasurer and general manager John W. Dewey Davenport assistant secretary assistant treasurer All except White attend the meeting.
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Lee
Philip D. Adler
Davenport
Walter W. White
Lincoln
Don Anderson
Madison
Burgess
Gottlieb
John W. Dewey
White
Jobless claims decline in seven-county La Crosse area
May 1966 claims drop to 3,486 from 3,735 in May 1965, per Keith B. Straight of the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Department. Spring declines reflect patterns since 1963 and 1964. statewide claims are 10.5 percent lower than the first 23 weeks of 1965. May breakdown shows Wisconsin 3,086. interstate 162. federal employees 112. former service members 126.
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la Crosse
Keith B. Straight
Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Department
Straight
Wisconsin
Armed Forces
Blood Deliveries and Fires Reported Across Counties
Police and ambulance records show multiple blood deliveries on June 12 14 and 15 to Caledonia Vernon and Skemp clinics and hospitals with patient details. A lawn mower fire at 621 Jackson St caused total loss and junkyard car bodies burned at 310 St Andrew St reported by the fire department.
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Caledonia Hospital
Houston County
Highway 16
Minnesota Highway 26
Vernon County
Viroqua
la Crosse County
Highway 14
Skemp Clinic
John Fontaine
N. 8Th St
St. Francis
Percy Pfaff
Bluffiven Place
Victor Hoverud
Jackson St
Asfoor
St. Andrew St
Resigned Policeman Praised For Ability
Charles Gebhard quit last week as Lac du Flambeau police chief amid a resigning wave. Town chairman Frank Gauthier called him the best officer Lac du Flambeau has seen, while Gebhard blamed miscommunication for criticism and noted many accomplishments.
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Lac DU Flambeau
Wis
Charles Gebhard
Gebhard
Frank Gauthier
Gauthier
Coast Guard Helicopter Clears Sailboat From Rocks
A Coast Guard helicopter used its blades to push a demasted 20 foot Adventurer away from a rocky Pacific shore. The boat, with pilots Jack Lapatra and James Chesney aboard, was blown to sea so a fishing vessel could tow her. The rescuer pilot was not named.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Jack Lapatra
James Chesney
Board Extends Term of Superintendent
The La Crosse Board of Education extended interim superintendent Willard Hanson's term beyond July 1 and set his salary at 1166 dollars per month retroactive to May 9, with pay extending two months past hiring a new superintendent. Hanson was interim after Supt Henry Sehwandt’s May 6 death.
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la Crosse
Spitz Laboratories
New South Side
Nova Laboratories
Nova
National Defense Education Act
International Business
Rowley Office Equipment
la Crosse Typewriter Co
IBM
Apology Over Grenada Registration Mixup
In Grenada Mississippi civil rights leaders freed clerks at the Grenada County courthouse after a failed Negro voter registration effort. King Floyd McKissick and other leaders blamed miscommunication and apologized while planning mass registrations for the next day.
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Don McKee Grenada
Miss
Grenada County
Mississippi
Grenada
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Willie Wilson
Floyd McKissick
More Infantry Units Slated For Viet Nam
The article notes thousands more Army infantrymen are expected to arrive in South Vietnam this summer to boost search and destroy operations. Speculation suggests elements of an additional infantry division may join the 18 000 man reinforcement approved by Defense Secretary McNamara in coming weeks.
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Washington
South Viet Nam
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
Bradford Dye
Suggs Ingram
Charles Snodgrass
Memphis
Tenn
James H. Meredith
Jackson
Meredith
New York
Onalaska OKs Bonds for School Addition
Onalaska Wisconsin city council approves sale of 370000 dollars in bonds to finance construction of a Pertzsch Elementary School addition. The project adds six classrooms a physical education station and a room for individual help with completion expected January 1 1967. Bonds sold to Piper Jaffray and Hopwood of Minneapolis at 4.1828 percent. total interest cost 158737 dollars.
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Onalaska
Wis
Pertzsch
Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood
Minneapolis
Army and Marines Expand Viet Nam War Forces
The Army fields three full divisions and two brigades in Viet Nam with plans for another division and possible brigade. Marines commit two divisions to the conflict as artillery units, including helicopter-hauled systems, gain prominence in jungle warfare. The Ia Drang battle near the Cambodian border last fall showcased artillery effectiveness against Communist forces.
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Viet Nam
Ia Drang
32nd Division Tests in Fake Nuclear Attack Exercise
The 32nd Infantry Division conducted the first of ten simulated nuclear attacks at Camp McCoy as part of Operation Roadrunner. Maj. Gen. John A. Dunlap praised units for high morale and leadership while the 173rd Engineer Battalion detonated a convincing blast to gauge response. The exercise involves 3,800 National Guard members preparing for Army training tests next week.
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Camp Mccoy
Wisconsin
National Guard
John A. Dunlap
Fox Point
Onalaska
Dunlap
Marine Pic. Gerald L. Schaeffer Killed in Vietnam
Marine Pfc Gerald L Schaeffer aged 21 from West Bend Wisconsin was killed in action in South Vietnam the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
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Washington
Gerald L. Schaeffer
West Bend
Wis
South Viet Nam
Defense Department
Weather summary for Lacrosse and vicinity
Chance of showers tonight with little temperature change. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Lows 45 to 50 tonight, highs near 76 Thursday. Showers 20 percent tonight, 10 percent Thursday. Wisconsin shows occasional showers ending tonight with cooler Thursday in southeast. Minnesota: widely scattered showers and storms tonight and Thursday, warmer in northeast and central. Ohio area mostly cloudy cooler tonight with showers eastern area Thursday.
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Lacrosse
Complaint Says AMC Pays Women Less
Milwaukee two women employees allege American Motors Corp and United Auto Workers Local 75 discriminate against female workers. They seek back pay and challenge pay, job restrictions, departmental assignments, and seniority rules under a three year contract now being reviewed for sex discrimination.
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Milwaukee
American Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Local 75
Diane Kuklinski
Virginia Harding
State Industrial Commission
Stock Quotations and Market Rundown
National and local quotations as of about 9 a.m. cover RCA Republic Steel Sears Roebuck Union Oil Dow Jones averages and active commodities. Banks brokers and mutual funds list bids asks and price ranges for stocks bonds and funds with regional listings for La Crosse and Wisconsin investments.
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RCA
Republic Steel
Rexall Drug
Royal Dutch
Sears Roebuck
Sinclair OW
Socony
Sperry Rand
Calif
Standard Oil
N.J
Swift
Texaco
Trane Co
United Airlines
U.S. Rubber
U.S. Steel
Univ. Oil Products
Westinghouse
White Motors
Woolworth
Zenith
Dow Jones
la Crosse Cooler
la Crosse Tele
Norplex Corp
Pyroil Co., Inc
Tausche Bonds
Mutual Funds
Boston Fund
Chemical Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal
Eaton & Howard Stk
Fidelity Fund
Manhattan Fund
Mass. Inv. Tr
Mass. Inv. Gr
National Invest
Puritan Fund
Wisconsin Fund
California wild fire devours San Raphael region
A plane crash last Saturday killed two people and sparked a major fire in the San Raphael Mountains north of Santa Barbara. Firefighters battle difficult terrain as the blaze scorches 60,000 acres with limited access and one bulldozed road, while suppression teams fly in by helicopter.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
California
San Raphel
Pacific
San Raphael
Chippewa Co Death Toll Rises in 1966 Highway Fatalities
Edwin W. Braden Jr. 24 of Cornell dies after his empty tanker truck hits a Soo Line freight train one mile north of Bloomer. James J. Zaborowski 23 of Stevens Point dies in hospital from injuries after a United Parcel Service truck overturned eight miles south of Highway 29 on Clark County Highway 0 near Greenwood.
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Chippewa County
Wisconsin
Edwin W. Braden Jr
Route 2
Cornell
Soo Line
Bloomer
James J. Zaborowski
Stevens Point
Wausau
United Parcel Service
Highway 29
Clark County
Greenwood
Summer Studios In Art Planned At La Crosse State
La Crosse State University art department to sponsor three summer studios led by Daniel Devitt. The two week drawing studio runs June 20 to July 1 for juniors and seniors 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Main Hall 119 with a $15 fee. An adult sketching and drawing studio meets five weeks starting July 6 with sessions daily August 8 to 19.
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la Crosse State University
Daniel Devitt
Biehn
Madihours
Lahours
Crosse Society of Arts
Nine Pacific Nations Form Association
Nine East Asian and Pacific nations agreed to form ASPAC a regional association for economic political and other non-military cooperation. Attending nations include South Korea Japan Nationalist China Philippines South Vietnam Thailand Australia New Zealand and Malaysia with Laos observing. A formal communique expected at conference close may name the body Asian and Pacific Cooperation Council.
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Seoul
South Korea
ASPAC
Japan
China
Philippines
Viet Nam
Viet Nam Khoman
Asian and Pacific Cooperation Council
Council For Asian and Pacific Cooperation
Autopsy Delay Reveals Unclear Court Action
Randolph says he cannot explain the autopsy delay until Tuesday. Dr. Michael J. Watunga, La Crosse County coroner, initially determined the procedure unnecessary. Miss Jewell was struck on the head with a soft drink bottle, glass filling the kitchen floor. funeral set for 2 p.m. Friday in Onalaska.
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Randolph
Michael J. Watunga
la Crosse County
Artist Marion Biehn Wins at Chicago West Burton Art Fair
Marion Biehn of La Crosse received first prize at the West Burton Place art fair in Chicago's old town for a blue ribbon group of paintings. The invitational show included one hundred artists this year.
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Marion Biehn
la Crosse
West Burton Place
Old Town
Chicago
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