Hopes For School Standards Snag In Bureaucracy
Wisconsin schools face slow progress enforcing 13 minimum standards from 1973 covering remedial reading guidance counseling library facilities physical education and tax limits. DPI surveys show 69 percent of 435 districts noncompliant in part. 29 percent miss five or more standards. Officials discuss enforcement, district consolidation, and rule amendments to improve compliance without harming budgets.
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Gary Johnson
D-Beloit
DPI
Lowrey
Farmers Honor Fathers Who Tilled Soil On I 43 Protest
DaCrosse Tribune reports on a protest picnic by farmers opposing Interstate 43 between Sheboygan and Green Bay. Ed Klessig of Cleveland blasts Gov Lucey while leaders from the Interstate Alternatives Association recount farm losses and environmental impact cited during demonstrations at the I 43 site and Capitol sit ins with cattle.
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Francis Creek
Wis
Patrick J. Lucey
Sheboygan
Green Bay
Ed Ktessig
Cleveland
Ludey
hay _Klessig
Interstate Alternatives Association
I-43
Klessig
State Capitol
Suess
Francis Koerber
Eric Scharping
County Group Holds Band and Chorus Tryouts
Whitehall Wisconsin band and chorus tryouts for Trempealeau County will be today and Tuesday from 7 30 to 9 pm. Monday at Galesville Elementary School and Tuesday at Trempealeau County Courthouse. directed by George Amoth Ettrick, seek Bicentennial concert July 29 at Trempealeau County Fair Galesville Manitowoc and Brown Counties.
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Whitehall
Wis
Men Outnumber Women In Count Of Ex-Smokers
Five times more men than women have stopped smoking in the past decade as overall adult smoking declines. The national survey by the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health with the National Cancer Institute notes stronger anti smoking attitudes and more smokers switching to low tar cigarettes.
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Atlanta
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
Center For Disease Control
Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation
The
National Cancer Institute
Guidelines For School Standards Milwaukee AP
Milwaukee AP reports summary of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction guidelines for 13 minimum education standards. Requirements include certified staff, minimum salaries, sick leave, in service training, remedial reading through third grade, mandatory kindergarten, handicapped student schooling, guidance programs, 180 teaching days, emergency nurse facilities, certified librarians, building health and safety codes, required health PE art and music, and tax levies of at least three mills for K8 and five mills for K12 districts.
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Milwaukee
Jane
State Department of Public Instruction
DPI
Department of Public Instruction
500 Stangel Descendants Gather For Family Reunion
George Stangel buried with wife at Tisch Mills cemetery as 500 descendants from across the United States gather for a day of polka songs in Czech and Bohemian, a family tree with over 400 names, meals of 800 hamburgers and 500 hotdogs, and speeches by parish priests who are also family members. Leonard Stangel of Two Rivers calls it a one time event.
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George Stangel
Tisch Mills
Czechoslovakia
Bette Stangel
Alabama
Texas
California
New Jersey
Leonard Stangel
Two Rivers
Century Farm Families Reminisce in Decorah Gathering
David Ludeking roasted an 80 pound porker at a Decorah farm gathering. Attendees enjoyed thickly sliced home cured hams, home baked bread and butter and ice cream as part of a reminiscence event.
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Albina Foegen
Decorah
Iowa
David Ludeking
Porker
Century Farms honored in Decorah Lancaster area event
Five local farm owners receive Century Family farm certificates and farmstead markers at Decorah Lutheran Church after a Bicentennial observance. The Grinna Ludeking and Hanson families recount a century of land, homes, and dairying with crops looking strong and ample rain.
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Decorah
Grant Grinna Farm
Century Farms
Grinna
Glengate
Jessice Ludeking
Grinnas
Ludekings
Herman Hanson
Hattie Pagin
Waukon
Iowa
John Jackson
Ellen Ludeking Maloney
Grant Grinna
Herman
Hattie) Hanson
Eleanor Maloney
Ludeking
Hanson
Cyrus Pagin
Joe Pagin
Ohio
Illinois
Burr Oak
America
Lansing
Dairy Days Delight Highlights Crawford County Event
Soldiers Grove Lions Club hosted Crawford County Dairy Days with a two day program including an auction archery parade tractor pull and games. Sunday featured a 55 unit parade and Dairy Queen pageant with Ann Kvigne crowned queen and Pine Grove Nursing Home winning best commercial float. Weather was favorable and the auction raised nearly $4000.
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Soldiers Grove
Wis
Lions Club
Crawford County
Crawford County Dairy Queen
la Crosse Warriors
North Clayton Cardinals
North Clayton
Homemakers
Pine Grove
Ann Kvigne
Stephen Evigne
Ferryville
North Crawford High School
Rita McCullick
Kickapoo Valley
la Crosse
Richland Center
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Evan Lowrey
la Crosse Area
la Crosse Medical Society
Legislative Education Committees
State Wallace Commission
Johnson
Sauk Prairie School
Jerry Jones
Eau Claire
Marvin Lansing
van Raalte
Wayne A. Stamm
Stamm
Barbara Thompson
Thompson
DaCrosse Tribune
Manitowoc
Brown
Douglas la Follette
Lucey
Leo Suess
Carl XVI Gustaf
Silvia
Stockholm
Stangel
Amy Hansen
National Guard
West Salem
John Hansen
Bangor
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