Massachusetts public workers strike enters third day
Massachusetts state employees 20 000 strong defy a court order as a statewide strike continues. Union leaders vow no full return while some skeleton crews resume essential work at sewage plants to prevent raw sewage spills, with mediation ordered to start today.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Metropolitan District Commission
Boston Harbor
Harbor
Nashua
Howard V. Doyle
Union Coalition
Thomas E. Morse
Alliance
Prairie du Chien Fire Chief resigns. Bonney to lead temporarily
Fire Chief Larry Yeomans resigns effective June 30 as Prairie du Chien City Council picks Assistant Chief Rod Bonney as temporary chief until Sept. 1. The council discussed merging fire chief and fire inspector duties into one full-time job but took no action. The Jaycees petitioned to stop burning and dumping near the Mississippi River Bridge citing Dutch Elm disease and waste concerns. The Corps of Engineers warned of daily fines without a burning permit. A $169000 bid from La Crosse Concrete Co. was accepted for a city storm sewer project. Tennis players petitioned for lights at the high school courts. Strike action continued with the state offering a three-year contract and pay raise averaging $2175 versus unions seeking $3600 over two years. current average wage is $9360.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Larry Yeomans
Yeomans
Rod Bonney
Council Protection and Health Committee
Prairie du Chien Jaycees
Mississippi River
Jaycees
Jack McPhee
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
la Crosse Concrete Co
Parks Commission
Prairie du Chien High School
Milk Producers' Former Lawyer Dies At 59
Stuart H. Russell former Associated Milk Producers Inc lawyer died at 59 after collapsing at his downtown Oklahoma City offices. He faced disbarment action while awaiting a Oklahoma Supreme Court hearing. Russell was convict ed in Texas on three counts of funneling campaign contributions to Nixon and Muskie campaigns. He is survived by his wife a daughter and a brother.
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Oklahoma City
Stuart H. Russell
Associated Milk Producers, Inc
Russell
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Oklahoma Bar Association
Baptist Medical Center
San Antonio
Tex
Nixon
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court
New Orleans
University of Oklahoma
George Washington University Law School
Washington
Chickasha
Okla
Instructional Chief James Ticknor resigns from Sparta schools
Sparta Wisconsin board accepted the resignation of Director of Instructional Services James Ticknor effective August 1 to become superintendent in the Rio School District. He served five years after teaching in Beloit and Janesville and serving as junior high principal in Evansville. The board raised substitute pay to 27.50 daily for 40 substitutes and delayed phasing out an orchestral program for a year.
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Sparta
Wis
James Ticknor
Ticknor
Rio
Beloit
Janesville
Evansville
Keith Martin
Obituary for Anna Rosenow of Sparta Wisconsin
Anna Rosenow 87 formerly of the Tomah area died Monday June 21 in Rolling Hills Nursing Home where she had lived for 10 years. Born September 24 1888 in Town of Adrian Monroe County she later moved to Chippewa Falls area and worked at Clark County Hospital. Survived by nieces and nephews she was preceded in death by three brothers and two stepsisters. Services 2:30 p m Thursday at Ninneman Funeral Home Tomah Rev George G Robertson officiating burial Mount Vernon Cemetery friends may call from 10 a m Thursday until services.
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Anna Rosenow
Sparta
Wis
Tomah
Rolling Hills
Adrian
Monroe County
William
Ottilie Rosenow
Chippewa Falls
Clark County Hospital
Ninneman Funeral Home
George G. Robertson
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Elmer Daulton
Galesville
la Crosse
Smith Mortuary
Obed Swanson
Pine Cliff
Daulton
Emma A. Muenster
Cass St
Redfield
S.D
Glenview
Ill
Robert
Warrenton
Wesley United Methodist Church
Edmond White
Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodruff Funeral Home
City Boy Drowns Near Pettibone Boat Club
A 13 year old La Crosse boy Victor S Verrette drowned while swimming with relatives near the Pettibone Boat Club Lagoon Slough He dove under a boathouse and did not resurface His body was recovered by the La Crosse Fire Department Funeral plans were to be announced by Woodruff Funeral Home Also in the notice Elmer Daulton 80 of Galesville died Tuesday at a La Crosse hospital Emma A Muenster 91 of La Crosse died Tuesday at a local hospital Twenty five La Crosse County 4 H delegates attended the 56th annual state 4 H Club Congress in Madison Cox Berg and Jandt from Barre Badgers and Robbie Tenner from the ABC club participated in activities respectively.
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la Crosse
Pettibone Boat Club
Victor S. Verrette
S. 6Th St
Jacques Verrette Sr
la Crosse County
Mark Seinfelder
Lagoon Slough
Pettibone
Ft. Ord
Calif
Lincoln
Diana
Michelle
Jacques Jr
Dover, N.H
Rudolf Laschinski
West Berlin
Germany
Woodruff Funeral Home
Madison
Kermit W. Graf
Cindy Berg
David Jandt
Barre Badgers
Robbie Tenner
ABC Club
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Warrens
Lincoln Town Hall
Carl Calloway
Forrester
Woodmen Lodge
MDC
John F. Snedeker
Eric Schmertz
New York City
Morse
Prairie
Kenneth Weddle
Bloomfield
Ind
Weddle
Walter Peterson
Martin
John Alexander
Wisconsin Child Center
Alexander
Indianhead Technical School
New Richmond
Richmond
ARMY
ROTC
City Boy
Lagoon
Sears
Pho
Pawnis
Alo
Qupon
wceuPe
Tos Mus
Procter & Gamble
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