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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1966
Page
3
Surveyor 1 has entered two weeks of lunar night after sending over 10 000 high quality photos. Engineers warn the spacecraft faces permanent loss of power if its battery freezes in temperatures near 260 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The final images show stark ridges and long shadows with a possible lunar atmosphere glow.
An Air Force Titan 3 rocket will place seven communications satellites and an engineering payload into orbit to create a world spanning linked network. The satellites will be deployed from 9 to 11 a.m. CDT and aim to improve military message reliability between Washington, Vietnam, and distant bases.
A sequence of birth announcements from Grandview and Lutheran Hospitals in Wisconsin and Mercy Hospital in Sacramento. Names include Richard Walter, Harvey Pinske, Lewis Ross, Fred Michaels, Howard Jacobson, LaVerne Dobbs, Jerome Espe, Terry Peterson, Loren Tryggestad, Thomas Melvin, and others with dates in June.
Local rummage event features men women and children's clothing plus drapes household items and a parakeet with cage at 1008 South Oak La Crescent and a second sale at 715 South 7th Thursday. Also an additional sale at 1510 South 14th with reasonable prices and a beauty shop offering cold wave savings this week.
John J. Gerrish of 224 North 7th Street and Louise Mislivecek of 318 North 7th Street are to be married June 18 in La Crosse. A stray line notes that ants lack ears but sense vibrations through the ground.
Juan Pablo Vega Romero, an 18 year old bantamweight wrestler who sought asylum in the United States, says over 30 Cuban trainers at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico are secret police. He escaped the Olympic Village in San Juan and plans to live in Chicago with his brother in law Bernardo Cortes. A Colombian priest connected him with U.S. immigration officials.
Free birth control pills will be provided to many medically needy persons under 65 starting July 1 under an expanded medical aid program. The State Advisory Council on Medical Assistance has endorsed family planning within the program.
Five people including two children and a motorcyclist died in Minnesota traffic crashes on Tuesday. The toll lifted the 1966 state death total to 305 with four accidents in a four hour span. Victims included Duluth teen Donald E. Kresky 17 and 7 year old Sharon Koch of Brooklyn Center.
Multiple death notices from La Crosse Wisconsin to Viroqua and Waukon Iowa detail survivors, funeral home arrangements, and burial plans. The deceased include Theodore E Norby 60 of Stoddard, Elon C Marshall 90 of La Crosse, Arthur John Peterson 53 of La Crosse area, Hazel Muller 75, Harriet Hancock 83, Joseph Blaken 67, and Vernon County official Sherman Sherry 68, with services set in churches and crematories, and survivors listed.
Milwaukee AP report states 20 year old George Erich Marquardt of Waukesha was indicted on charges of masquerading as an Atomic Energy Commission employee after giving four physics lectures on the Alverno College campus. He is serving up to four years for probation violation related to a prior UW equipment theft.
Mrs Charles Neilson formerly Emma Oleson died Monday June 13 after a long illness in a Tomah hospital. Born September 4 1884 in Camp Douglas she married Charles Neilson in 1903 and lived in Merrillan 55 years. Survivors include son Harvey three sisters a brother four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services set for 1 30 p m Thursday at White Funeral Home Tomah with Rev Thomas Jarrel. graveside at Oakwood Cemetery Merrillan at 2 30 p m.
Seattle Library Board rejected a request by the Central Area Action Committee to remove the children's book Little Black Sambo from city libraries. Wayne Booth said the tale of a boy in India outwitting tigers has no racial overtones and that the demand amount to censoring books. Keve Bray, executive director of the group, called the story derogatory of Negroes.
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