Valdez Survives Boom as Pipeline Expands Town
Valdez Alaska navigated a rapid population surge from 1 100 to about 10 000 after the trans Alaska pipeline project. City leaders feared crime school crowding and inflation but tourism and an oil industry push shaped a new economic balance amid growth and disputes between old and new residents.
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Valdez, Alaska
Herb Lehfeldt
Valdez
Lehfeldt
Emil Wegner
State Highway Department
County Board Rezones Medary For 20 Million Dayton Hudson Center
The La Crosse County Board rezoned a Town of Medary site to allow a $20 million Dayton Hudson shopping center on an 80 acre tract at US Highway 16 and State Highway 157. The 30 to 1 vote moved land from agricultural to commercial while relocating the Medary Garden Center.
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la Crosse
Medary
Dayton Hudson
Dayton Hudson Properties
Minneapolis
Arlen Shopping Centers Co
Chattanooga
Sontag
County Board
Medary Garden Center
Highway 16
Burglars Strike Town As Pipeline Work Nears Finish
Burglars stole more than 2500 in goods in two incidents this week. Terry Johnson reported losses including a 250 turquoise coin collection a 25 portable radio and a 900 AMF receiver after a forced door break in his apartment. At a construction site for the state tourist center $180 skill saw and 600 acetylene torch and tank were taken. Additional thefts include a nine inch TV a radio seven quarts of oil and eight cigarette cartons from the Gas Hut and 70 from a cash register plus 25 from a pop machine at John's Ceramic Inn. Police say burglaries increased with pipeline work but violent crime remained rare.
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Sheriff's Department
Terry Johnson
la Crescent St
Fowler-Hammer, Inc
New State
33Rd Street
State Road
John’s Ceramic Inn
Holmen
John’s Ceramic
Prudhoe Bay
Lehfeldt
University of Alaska
Wegner
Pat Sheehy
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co
Alyeska
Footprints and fingerprints sought in three Girl Scout deaths
Police in Locust Grove Oklahoma seek leads in the brutal deaths of three Girl Scouts found in a tent. Investigators report three clear fingerprints may have been obtained from the victims while two girls were beaten and one strangled. all were sexually molested.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Wise
Camp Scott Girl Scout murders tied to camp site
Officials theorize a burglar entered a counselors tent and a farmhouse near Camp Scott in Oklahoma. A purse was stolen from a counselor, eyeglasses found along a blood stained path, and footprints cast. Autopsies showed sexual molestation but no semen. Names: Lori Farmer, Doris Milner, Michelle Guse.
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Dist. Atty
Sid Wise
Lori Lee Farmer
Tulsa
Doris Denise Milner
Michelle Guse
Broken Arrow
Camp Scott
Magic Empire Girl Scout Council
Cookson Hills
Oklahoma
Immigrant Bishop Neumann to Be Named Saint by Pope
Vatican City AP reports after a 91 year campaign, John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian immigrant and Philadelphia bishop who died in 1860 at 49, will be canonized by Pope Paul VI. The process began under Archbishop Patrick Ryan and included miracles attributed to Neumann.
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Edward Magri
Vatican City
Paul VI
John Nepomucene Neumann
Bohemia
Philadelphia
Neumann
Patrick Ryan
Vatican
Congregation For the Causes of Saints
Paul
Michael Flanigan
West Philadelphia
Ewing
Frances Cabrini
Italy
Elizabeth Seton
Escapee trio from Jackson County jail tightens chase
One of three escapees from the Jackson County jail was captured in Maplewood Minnesota after attempting to use a stolen credit card. The others, David Simplot and Richard Lehmann, remain at large in the Black River Falls area amid a countywide search. A stolen pickup and vandalism spikes followed the breakout. Simplot was jailed on a traffic charge. Solomonson had burglary and theft convictions. Lehmann faced a concealed weapons charge.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Jackson County
Maplewood
Minn
St. Paul
Glen Solomonson
Minneapolis
David Simplot
Richard Lehmann
Lena, Ill
Jackson County Sheriff's Department
Simplot
Lehmann
Solomonson
Senate vote cuts La Farge water project
A Senate subcommittee approved nine of 17 water projects, trimming eight and halving funding for one, to reach a compromise with President Carter. Senator John Stennis said the move aims to avoid a veto while facing full Senate resistance. The La Farge Lake project in Wisconsin was among those cut.
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Senate
la Farge
Washington
Carter
John Stennis
D-Miss
House
la Farge Lake
Wisconsin
Congress
80 Physicians Face Amphetamine Probe in Wisconsin
The State Medical Examining Board investigates about 80 physicians for alleged unprofessional conduct in prescribing or dispensing amphetamines without legitimate purpose. Symposium speaker says 25 doctors were under review previously, while aims to tighten guidelines on dispensing.
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Oshkosh
Wis
State Medical Examining Board
Irving Ansfield
Winnebago
Darold Treffert
Ansfield
Three permits granted by La Crosse appeals board
La Crosse's Board of Appeals granted building permits to Sharon Tsugawa Scott Kellicot and Glen Mass and upheld the inspector's denial for Lee Wilson. The board also granted a occupancy certificate for Luis and Mrs Vasquez with a corrected drainage plan. It extended the Gundersen Clinic addition start date by 90 days to Hackner Schroeder Roslansky and Associates.
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Glen Mass
Mississippi St
Mass
Lee Wilson
S. 8Th St
Wilson
John Flynn
S. 9Th St
Edward Ryan
Flynn
Ryan
Luis Vasquez
Ohlson Court
Vasquez
Lyle Anderson
Anderson
Gundersen Clinic
Hackner, Schroeder, Roslansky and Associates
la Crosse
Stevens Point Man Charged With Forgery In La Crosse County
John Mudgett 26 faces forgery counts for writing two self directed checks on May 11 and May 13, signing Jerry Selbrede, and cashing them at Rich's Fair Way before the bank listed the accounts as closed. Preliminary hearing set for June 27. In separate cases Robert and Dolores Valentine face school attendance charges for Ursula 16 missing 59 percent of Sept 1 to May 6 and 98 percent absence.
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Stevens Point
la Crosse County
John Mudgett
Jerry Selbrede
Rich's Fairway
South Ave
Robert
Dolores Valentine
Hamilton St
Ursula
Logan High School
Onalaskan Man in Serious Condition After One-Car Crash
A 31 year old Onalaska man James P Prudhome is in serious condition in Lutheran Hospital in the intensive care unit after a one car crash on La Crosse Street near 15th Place. Police say the westbound car jumped a curb and struck a tree at about 1 45 a m causing lacerations and other injuries.
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Onalaska
Lutheran Hospital
James P. Prudhome
Prudhome
la Crosse Street
15Th Place
Weather woes and river traffic update across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with showers and thunderstorms across Wisconsin and Minnesota. Friday brings more showers especially northwest. At Dresbach Lock and Dam 7 discharge is 12 800 cubic feet per second, up slightly as river traffic shows seven upstream stowboats and 55 barges upriver and three downstream with 30 barges.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dresbach Lock
Weather Snippet Records Historical Extremes
The data lists last year figures with 6 969 normal 7 409 record high 93 in 1913 record low 45 in 1972 plus tomorrow’s sunrise at .22 a.m. and sunset at 6 50 p.m.
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la Crosse Tribune
Lee Enterprises, Inc
N. 3Rd St
Modern Interiors Inc
Church St
Redemptorist Order
America
Devil's Advocate
Nicola Ferrante
Father Ferrante
Benedict XV
Eva Benassi
J. Kent Lenahan
Villanova
Jackson
Coulee Antique Engines, Inc
SAT. & Sun
Vernon County Fairgrounds Hwy
Viroqua
City Boys
Winona
Donald Koonsman
Lake Winona Park
Koonsman
Dennis Challeen
Dunromin’ Park
Caledonia
Hwy
The
State Medical Society
Appeals Board
Valentine
Onalaskan
National Weather Service
NOAA
Dept of Commence
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Midwest
Upper Midwest
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