Lumber Price Slump Hits Homebuilding Push
Lumber prices have fallen from February highs as tight money and higher mortgage rates dampen housing starts. Private new home starts slid to a 1.5 million annual pace in May, far from the 2.6 million goal, with mills closing due to timber shortages and high raw-material costs. The industry backs a national forest timber bill to stabilize supplies and curb price swings.
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Washington
Hodges
Nixon
National Forest
Olson Approves Grants For Indian Council and Agencies
Acting Gov Jack Olson approved a $673 grant for the Great Lakes intertribal council to fund a year long head start program with a $7043 nonfederal share. Reservations involved include Oneida Lac Du Flambeau Lac Court Oreilles and Odana. Olson also approved a $185000 federal grant to West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency for a seven county parent child center program. A $25000 federal grant funds technical assistance for minority contractors in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Deaths in local area Mrs Schoenfeld and others
Multiple obituaries list Beatrice Schoenfeld 37 of Sunrise Drive died June 25 in a local hospital. Survivors include her husband three daughters a son and extended family. Services set at Blaschke Funeral Home and St Thomas More Church with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Other notices include Emma Jennette Prindle 93 Trempealeau Mark Hewitt Sr. 90 Trempealeau and Magdalene Ruoff 88 AdaMinn with service details and survivors.
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Beatrice) Schoenfeld
Sunrise Drive
Kerry Kathy
Linda
Douglas
Lyman
Luella) Gilbertson
la Crosse
Harry
Rita) Wright
Sun Prairie
Forrest
Mary) Cherry
Donovan Schreier
South Side
Blaschke
St. Thomas More Catholic Church
Edwin ‘Thome
Woodlawn
Emma Jennette
Net
Trempealeau
William C
Bangor
Clarence N
Kenneth G
Appleton
Henry
Angie) Jacobson
Viola
Francis
Bertha) Hamm
William E
Mark R. Hewitt Sr
S. Losey Blvd
Schumacher Funeral Home
Brice Prairie Cemetery
Frontier
Magdalene (Hauser) Ruoff
Ada
Minn
Onalaska
John E. Hauser
la Crosse County
Paul Ruoff
Paul Milton Ruoff
Carperteria
Calif
Dan
Albert
Emil Hauser
R. J. Onalaska
Rose Eberhardt
Neillsville
Fossum Funeral Home
Stefan Guttormsson
Hauser Cemetery
Weather outlook for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa
Wisconsin shows partly cloudy skies with showers and thunderstorms Thursday night into Friday. Minnesota experiences partly cloudy conditions in the south with increasing clouds in the north and cooler rain in the north, cooler elsewhere. Iowa predicts mostly cloudy with thunderstorm chances in the northwest Thursday night and Friday partly cloudy with showers in the far east and south central. Sunrise Friday at 5 24 a m and sunset at 8 51 p m.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Limit On Graduate Courses OK'd
Madison AP report notes the Plans and Policy Committee approved a blueprint limiting graduate studies across state universities and UW branches in Green Bay and Parkside. It proposes restricting doctorates to Madison and Milwaukee, expanding extension graduate programs, and keeping Parkside and Green Bay largely undergraduate for a decade.
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Coordinating Council For ‘Higher Education
Roy Kopp
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Board of
Regents
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Angus Rothwell
Council Direc
Tor
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Oshkosh
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FCC approves WWDA license for Wisconsin Dells station
The Federal Communications Commission approved a license for WWDA, a new radio station planned for Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, announced Wednesday.
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The
Federal Communications Commission
WWDA
Wisconsin Dells
Wis
MSU Students Plan 10000-M mile Dialogue Tour
A group of 25 Michigan State University students and a faculty adviser plan a 10,000 mile cross country tour to highlight constructive campus life. They will work on farms and in cleanup projects to fund the trip and tell small towns that campus agitation is a small part of college activity.
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America
Walter Adams
Michigan State
YMCA
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Dialogue
Clyde Morris
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