Destructive Threats By Panthers Revealed In Senate Probe
Washington police captain testifies before a Senate subcommittee that Black Panther leaders abroad and in Cuba called for destroying U S industry and banks. He cites statements by George Mason Murray and Joudon Ford and notes about 4 000 members with 2 000 named and 350 arrests, most convicted for violence. Other testimony links SDS to communist efforts to disrupt war production.
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Washington
Senate
John E. Drass
Washington, D.C
Cuba
Drass
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party
United States
George Mason Murray
Party
Joudon Ford
Panther
New York
Huey P. Newton
Black Panther
Oakland
Cal
Clellan
D-Ark
Students For A Democratic Society
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
SDS
Aasee
Daniel C. Myre
Michigan State Police
Judges OK Welfare Aid Hearings in Four Wisconsin Counties
Four Wisconsin counties Milwaukee Dane Rock and Wood win court hearings on welfare aid from the state. Judges Sachtsen Bardwell rule petitions for Milwaukee Wood proceed while Dane awaits Bardwell decision. Counties seek relief amounts of 2901974 172000 55233 and 62268 citing a 1968 La Follette opinion and alleged incorrect state formula.
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Madison
Milwaukee
Dane
Rock and
Wood
William C. Sachtsen
Richard Bardwell
Bardwell
Sachtsen
Attorney General’s Office
Milwaukee County
Dane County
Rock County
Wood County
Bronson C. la Follette
New York City Mayoral Race Shifts After Primary
Bronx President Herman Badillo trailed in citywide voting as Norma Mailer and James Scheuer also lost ground. Procaccino led with 252,283 votes, Wagner 221,605, Badillo 215,381, Mailer 41,136 and Scheuer 38,631. Lindsay warned of reactionary forces before November while Wagner lamented the results and Los Angeles and Minneapolis races were cited. Procaccino, 59, son of an Italian shoemaker, rose from Harlem roots. Marchi, 47, state legislator with civil rights record, had Republican support. Wagner appointed Procaccino as city judge before becoming comptroller in 1965.
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James H. Scheuer
Procaccino
Wagner
Badillo
Mailer
Scheuer
Lindsay
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Sam Yorty
Thomas Bradley
Charles Stenvig
Dan Cohen
Stenvig
GOP
Marchi
New York
Harlem
City College
Fordham Law School
Oil film threatens wildlife along Mississippi near Alma
Everson warns oil film endangers fish and waterfowl with potential ripple effects on life cycles. Deputy Jacobson reports the Mississippi main channel here has cleared and odor faded, but crews stress caution as oil coats surface and may harm young ducks and fish if exposure persists.
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Alma
Everson
Carl Jacobson
Buffalo County
Illinois
Jacobson
Terver
Mocha
Racine County Unit Awarded $315,554 Grant
Gov. Knowles announced approval of a 315,554 grant to Racine County Community Action Program to run the Neighborhood Service Center and Head Start. funds support consumer education for low income residents and antipoverty program planning and administration. The grant includes 234,644 in federal funds.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Racine County Community Action Program Committee
Nixon to Hold TV Radio News Conference Thursday
President Nixon will broadcast a live television radio news conference at 6 p.m. CDT from the White House East Room. The session follows a National Security Council meeting on aspects of planned Soviet arms talks, with no opening statement planned.
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Nixon
Washington
White House
National Security Council
Soviet Union
Ronald L. Ziegler
Knowles signs campus access bill amid UW Madison tensions
Madison AP reports Governor Knowles signed a law letting public university heads designate off limits campus areas to non students, amid post February student strike concerns. Also cattle hog and produce market notes from Chicago and La Crosse areas with livestock prices and a few local incidents in La Crosse and Lorenz Pinski residence.
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Madison
Warren P. Knowles
University of Wisconsin
WLCX
Greater la Crosse
Senate rejects police training degree at UW Milwaukee
The Wisconsin Senate voted 16-13 against an $80 000 appropriation to create a bachelor’s degree program in police training at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Senator Nile Soik questioned opponents’ law and order stance and an amendment to locate the school in Platteville was defeated.
Citizens Against Fluoridation Picnic Honors Barge Clinic Staff
The Action Committee sponsored a picnic at Red Cloud Park to honor the Barge Clinic staff. Fifty people attended the event Tuesday.
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Action Committee of Citizens Against Fluoridation
Red Cloud Park
Barge Clinic
Weather and regional forecast for La Crosse and nearby
Weather outlook shows showers possible tonight and Thursday with highs in the mid and lower 70s in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Central area expects mild and fair conditions tonight and Thursday with a cooler south Thursday and a five day forecast averaging 7 to 10 degrees below normal.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ova
la Crosse
Stock Price Quotes From National Dealers Conference
Marshall Co National and Local and Regional quotations as of 9:00 a.m. show inter dealer prices for stocks such as Gyrodyne Godfrey Co Howells Instruments Lincoln Natl Life Paine Weber funds and various mutual funds with bid and asked ranges. The data note prices exclude retail markup and commissions with adjustments for approximate markup where needed.
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Fabri-Tek, Inc
First Bank
Gateway Trans
Godfrey Co
Howell Instruments
Lincoln Natl. Life
McQuay, Inc
Nekoosa Edw
Roanwell
Wallace Business
Warner Elec. Br
Werner Cont
Wis. Pow. & Lite
Paine, Weber, Jackson and Curtis Lee Enterprises Inc
LC Cooler Co
Pyroil Co., Inc
Mutual
Boston Fund
Chemical Fund
Eaton & Howard Ba
Eberstadt Fund
Fidelity Fund
Manhattan Fund
Mass. Inv. Trust
Mass. Inv. Gr
National Invest
Puritan Fund
Wisconsin Fund
Vietnam War battle tally and B52 anniversary notes
North Vietnamese troops and American forces clashed with heavy losses on both sides. A rubber plantation battle near Saigon left 31 North Vietnamese dead and casualties among South Vietnamese irregulars and Americans. B52 bombers marked four years of operations, flying 10 missions near Laos and Cambodia, with over one million tons of bombs dropped. The cost of sorties and occasional losses are noted amid debates on effectiveness.
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Saigon
Guam
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Okinawa
Thailand
Strategic Air Command
Pacific
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Prison riot at Lansing State Prison ends in partial surrender
State penal director Charles D. McAfee described a Tuesday night disturbance at Lansing prison as the first in some time. About half a truckload of hard contraband including drugs knives and money was seized along with three more truckloads of cell furniture and items. Cellhouses A and C housed 266 and 200 inmates respectively. an arm wound to an inmate occurred from a tower guard. By morning the yard riot had calmed and negotiations were under way for inmates in A to exit with promises of no shooting or tear gas. Helmeted patrols guarded exits and intersections around the prison with about 1 400 inmates inside.
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Lansing
Leavenworth
Charles D. McAfee
Penal Institutions
McAfee
McAtee
Local residents moved to hospital after June incidents
On June 17 at 9:35 a.m. Mrs. Thomas Olson, 69, of 653 N. lg2nd St., was taken to St Francis Hospital in illness. Later that day Albert Evans, 70, of 1612 King St., arrived at Lutheran Hospital after a fall at 5th and King Streets, with injuries to the face and head. William Foeher, 79, of 2114 Mississippi St., was taken to Lutheran Hospital, ill. Huldah Sheiler, 82, of 705 Pine St., also went to Lutheran Hospital in illness. On June 18 at 12:35 a.m. John Copus, 21, of 937 Tyler St., was injured in a fight on S. 3rd Street and transported to Lutheran Hospital.
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Thomas Olson
N. Lg2nd St
St. Francis Hospital
Albert Evans
King St
5Th and
King Streets
Luther‘an
William Foeher
Mississippi St
Lutheran
Huldah Sheiler
Pine St
Lutheran Hospital
John Copus
Tyler St
S. 3Rd Street
Services Set For Victim Of Highway Crash
August R Engans 81 of Holmen died in a West Salem area crash Tuesday morning June 17 when a semi struck his car at Highway 16 and County Highway M. Funeral at Halfway Creek Lutheran Church Friday at 2 pm with burial in the church cemetery. Engans WWI veteran, survivor of four sisters. Orie Kvilhaug of Westbrook Minn the uninjured truck driver. Military graveside rites follow the service.
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R. Engans
R. J. Holmen
West Salem
Halfway Creek Lutheran Church
N. A. Berntson
Mr. Engans
Hamilton
Orie 'Kvilhaug
Westbrook
Minn
la Crosse
Engaas
Highway 16
Kvilhaug
Engans
Morris Snuggerud
American Legion
Holmen
William
Esther) Smith
Onalaska
Andrew
Hilda) Eie
Clara Engaas
Agnes Engaas
Whitehall
Thoresen Plans Return to Teaching at Eau Claire
Walter Thoresen, former La Crosse State University professor and longtime Wisconsin Democrat, resigns as EDA area director. He will join Eau Claire State University as a professor and move with his family from Superior to Eau Claire next fall. The EDA area he led has 67 staff and covers 10 states including Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Walter Thoresen
Area Direct
Duluth
Meeting Set For Creditors In Bankruptcies
A first meeting of creditors for preliminary action against five individuals declared bankrupt will be held in the U S Court room at the La Crosse Post Office building on Thursday June 26 at 9 30 a m. Creditors may attend to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and authorize estate sales. Objections to discharge must be filed by Sept 26 1969.
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U.S
la Crosse
Leonard Bessman
Bessman
Glen M. Solberg
Onalaska
Warrens
Richard A. Ames
Sparta
Woodrow W. Lau
New Lisbon
Gerald A. Malchnski
S. 21St St
Two Onalaska youths fined in county court
Two Onalaska youths age 18 faced county court for offenses involving two juvenile girls. Bellwood P. Lorenz pleaded guilty to battery of a 16 year old on Grandad Bluff and was fined 157 dollars. Robin E. Thompson pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of the other girl by keeping her out after curfew and was fined 57 dollars.
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Onalaska
la Crosse
Bellwood P. Lorenz
Hickory St
Grandad Bluff
Robin E. Thompson
Asst. Dist
Merwin Mellor
Leonard F. Borloff
Lorenz
Thompson
Mellor
Riverside Park
Theft Reported Of $150 Roto-Tiller In Washington Town
Mrs Arnold Hundt of Washington reports to the La Crosse Sheriff Department that a $150 roto tiller was stolen from a field near her home sometime over the weekend.
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Arnold Hundt
Washington
la Crosse
Stolen Outboard Motor and Small Items Reported in La Crosse
Thomas Faudree reported a 35 horse power outboard motor stolen from his boat in Municipal Harbor since Sunday. George Zahrte said a $50 power mower was stolen from his yard. Arthur Melby reported a $35 helmet stolen from his motorcycle in the Norplex parking lot.
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Thomas Faudree
S. 30Th Court
la Crosse
George Zahrte
George Sr
Arthur Melby
S. 17Th St
Norplex
College Chief Condemns Tear Gas Use In Campus Disorder
ANN ARBOR Mich AP The University of Michigan president criticized police for smoke bombs and tear gas used to disperse a campus disorder Tuesday night. Forty five people were arrested with 23 felony charges amid street dancing stunts and barricades on South University Street near the campus.
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Ann Harbor
Mich
University of Michigan Today
Robben W. Fleming
Soldier assigned to Vietnam after Germany tour
Army Spec. 4 Michael C. Main, 25, son of Mr and Mrs John Main of 2527 Harvey St, La Crosse, Wisconsin, is being transferred to Vietnam after seven months in Germany. A 1968 mid year graduate of La Crosse State University with a sociology degree, he was drafted in February after graduation and is a graduate of Logan High School. He works in radio teletype cryptography.
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Germany
Army
Michael C. Main
John §. Main
Harvey St
Vietnam
la Crosse State University
Logan High School
AWOL Marine Arrested After Fleeing Police at Friend’s House
La Crosse police report an AWOL Marine, 17, who fled a friend’s house through a window and was arrested in an alley. He had been absent without leave from Camp Pendleton since June 1 and is held in La Crosse County Jail for shore patrol. A 1903 note mentions Andrew Carnegie’s $1.5 million donation for the Hague Peace Palace.
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la Crosse
Camp Pendleton
Calif
la Crosse County
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Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
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Myre
McClellan
Lawrence I. Kihnel Jr
Jefferson Parish
Kihnel
OK Welfare Aid
Bronx
Herman Badillo
Puerto Rico
Norman Mailer
Xan
Racine County
Knowles
Winona Livestock Swift & Company
Winona
Winona Station
Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Egos
USDA
California
South ST. Paul
Cattie
Fire Department
Lorenz Pinski
16Th St
Roger
Cnemaae
CW Transport
Allied Stores
Allis-Chalmers
Alcoa
American Airlines
American Motors
American Tel & Tel
Anchor Coupling
Atlantic Richfield
Burlington and
Caterpillar Tractor
Central Tel & Util
Chrysler
Consolidated Foods
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DuPont
Kodak
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Goodrich
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Hell
Pepsico
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Ryder System
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Standard Oil
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Swift Texaco
Jose Trane
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Woolwort Dow
Thoresen
C.P
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Prairie du Chien
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Dodge
Galesville
Sat
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Michigan
Harold Olson
Ann Arbor
Robert Harrris
National Conference of Mayors
Pittsburgh
Harris
Awol Marine
Andrew Carnegie
Hague Peace Palace
Netherlands
Joseph W. Frisch
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