Sparta AA 30-year lifesaver honors community
Barbara Rice recalls a Sparta Wisconsin celebration marking 30 years of Alcoholics Anonymous in the area. Founders from La Crosse sparked a support network that endured with Sister Blandine of St Agnes guiding Wisconsin's first detox center. The banquet at St Patrick's Hall gathered friends from 30 communities to celebrate humility, sobriety, and fellowship without pomp.
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Sparta
Wis
la Crosse
Alcoholics Anonymous
St. Patrick’s Church Hall
Milwaukee
Beloit
Minnesota
Order of St. Agnes
Blandine
Bill W
Bob
Wisconsin
Monroe
St. Agnes Hospital
Fond du Lac
Court orders new plan for Dayton desegregation
The Supreme Court ruled lower courts overstepped in ordering Dayton Ohio bus desegregation for 18 000 pupils and sent the case back for a limited remedy while keeping the plan in force for another school year. In a separate ruling the court allowed a white employee to sue for racial discrimination, expanding standing under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Dayton
Ohio
High Court
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9Th
Circuit Court of Appeals
California
Carter Administration
Circuit Court
Appeals Court
Laurel Waters
Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
United Winters
United Writers
San
Francisco
Justice Department
La Crosse Tribune Volume 73 Number 42
La Crosse Tribune publishs afternoon and weekend editions from La Crosse Wisconsin. Contact numbers for missed papers and classifieds are listed. Subscription rate stated for within seven miles of La Crosse at one year cost.
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The
Wisconsin Miss Crowned Amid Pageant Comedy Skit
Jen nifer M. Woychik, 19, crowned Miss Wisconsin after delivering a comedy skit based on Carol Burnett routines. She plans to promote honesty, will not chase tennis balls during her Miss America duties in Atlantic City in September, and also shows cattle at county fairs. Woychik studies fashion illustration at the University of Wisconsin Stout and hails from Arcadia, where her family runs a livestock farm. She earned the Heins Good Humor Award and a $350 scholarship.
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Wisconsin
Atlantic City
Carol Burnett
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Arcadia High School
Arcadia
Woychik
Heins
Gladys Heins
Lois Lynne
Mequon
Oconomowoc
Village approves 20 foot frontage variance for co op
Stoddard Wisconsin the village board of appeals granted a zoning variance for a 20 foot frontage to the Chaseburg Farmers Union Cooperative. The co op plans a building about 150 by 44 feet costing around 100000 dollars for bulk fertilizer storage and blending. Bids are being sought. The board also approved a Main Street sign for the Sylvan Glen Supper Club not extending over the sidewalk and to be erected by Collins La Crosse Sign Corp.
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Stoddard, Wis
Stoddard
Main Street
Sylvan Glen Supper Club
Collins-La Crosse Sign Corp
Winona teachers cool toward salary offer
Winona Minnesota district teachers faced a two year 6.9 percent average raise proposal from the school board negotiator Frank Allen. Most teachers would gain about 200 annually for the next two years while 104 of the districts highest paid would get no raise in 1977 78 and 55 would miss the second year. The district proposed about 320000 over two years versus teachers 900000 claim. A further session is planned as teachers prepare a counterproposal.
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Winona
Minn
Frank Allen
Allen
Distrct
Henry Stankiwitz
Baldus presses for changes in USDA cheese rulings
Representative Alvin Baldus calls on the USDA to resume purchases of processed cheese and halt new fiber drum specifications. He urges more total barrel cheese purchases to lift milk prices toward the nine dollar per hundredweight support level, citing Wisconsin losses and market disruption.
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Baldus
USDA
Bob Bergland
Madison
Wealthy Duluth woman and nurse slain at lakeside estate
Police found 83 year old Elisa beth Congdon in her second floor bedroom and her 65 year old nurse Valna Pietila beaten at the base of the staircase. Jewelry cases were scattered suggesting robbery. A search along Lake Superior’s North Shore sought a thin white male with long hair in a blue jean jacket.
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Duluth, Minn
Duluth
Lakeside
Elisabeth Congdon
Lake Superior
State Patrol
Miss Congdon
Chester Congdon
Minnesota
Valna Pietila
Crawford County Plans Housing Rehabilitation Start
Crawford County moves to implement a housing rehabilitation program with 190000 from HUD for low and moderate income homeowners. Eastman town and village receive 55000 for rehabilitative work. Cindy Martin named program coordinator. starts in August with local officials to form housing coordinating committees.
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Crawford County
Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Wayne Vandre
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Vandre
Eastman
Crawford County Housing Authority
Cindy Martin
Burglar Picks Wrong Home in Onalaska Deputy’s Residence
A 25 year old Horseshoe Bend Arkansas woman was arrested after breaking into the La Crosse County sheriff deputy Larry Linhart’s Onalaska home. The raider entered via downspout to a deck and sliding door, drawers were ransacked but nothing stolen. The suspect was to appear in County Court Branch 2 today.
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Horseshoe Bend
Ark
la Crosse County
Larry Linhart
R. 4
Onalaska
Linhart
Sheriff's Department
County Court
New Houston County Agricultural Service Center Opens
Five state and federal offices join to form the Houston County Agricultural Service Center on June 30. The center on Highway 44 near Land O Lakes will house the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Federal Crop Insurance Corp, Soil Conservation Service, Farmers Home Administration and the Minnesota Forestry Service with 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. hours.
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Caledonia
Minn
Houston County Agricultural Service Center
Highway 44
Land O'Lakes, Inc
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Federal Crop Insurance Corp
Soil Conservation Service
Farmers Home Administration
Minnesota Forestry Service
Weather forecast tracks showers across Midwest and Plains
Forecast shows showers Monday from the upper Mississippi Valley to eastern Pennsylvania and in the western Plains and upper Great Lakes. Elsewhere expect sun and warm conditions with cool spells in the upper Great Lakes. Minnesota and Wisconsin expect variable clouds, showers, and possible thunderstorms with cooler, less humid air by Tuesday. Mississippi River notes include discharge around 16,700 cubic feet per second with towboats and barges moving upriver and downriver.
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Mississippi Valley
Pennsylvania
Plains
Upper Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Ova
Dresbach Lock and Dam
42 Die in Fire Shocking Jail Tragedy
Rescuers rushed to a jail after a deadly blaze trapping inmates. A tow truck arrived within ten minutes and was used to punch through a wall to reach those inside. Sledgehammers were also used to break concrete barriers in the effort to free victims.
Hudson hotel fire destroys top floor. no deaths or injuries
Fire swept the Dibbo Hotel in Hudson Wisconsin Friday damaging first and second floors and nearby structures. Two locals, 16 year old Tom Terwilliger and resident William O Conner 22 alerted occupants after discovering the blaze as mutual aid arrived from River Falls Stillwater Bayport and St Paul. Chief Herbert Frye commended the cooperation noting limited equipment.
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Hudson, Wis
Dibbo
Wisconsin
Hudson
Tom Terwilliger
William O'Conner
River Falls
Wis
St. Paul
Stillwater
Bayport
Minn
Herbert Frye
Blue Stars Take Third in Oshkosh Drum Corps Contest
In Oshkosh Wisconsin the La Crosse Blue Stars finished third with a season high 70.70 points. Santa Clara Vanguard won at 76.70 followed by Madison Scouts 72.65 and Fond du Lac Marquis 64.10 with Casper Troopers 56.35. An Eau Claire meetSaturday was canceled and Blue Stars had previously peaked at 69.90 in La Crosse Mississippi Rhapsody with Vanguard second at 75.50.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Blue Stars
la Crosse
Vanguard
Law relaxed to allow motorist assistance
The Minnesota Public Safety Department notes a new law easing roadside aid. Motorists may stop to help a disabled vehicle without getting an illegal parking ticket on streets highways or freeways.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Public Safety Department
Board nears naming new superintendent this Wednesday
La Crosse Area Public School District Board of Education in final negotiations to select a new superintendent. Robert Kuechmann says decision expected by noon Wednesday with announcement at an open board meeting. Balts departs Rice Lake post July 1.
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Eugene Balts
Robert Kuechmann
la Crosse Area
Board of Education
Kuechmann
William Temte
Temte
Evan Lowrey
Illinois
Wisconsin
Balts
Rice Lake
Evening of Poetry at Viterbo College Women in Literature
An event listed as An Evening of Poetry at 7:30 p.m. sponsored by Women in Literature in the Nursing Center Building Lounge at Viterbo College 815 S 9th St. The notice also lists a bloodmobile at the armory 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. and ongoing Strawberry Festival at Alma Center and Winona Steamboat Days. The La Crosse Public Library summer film fest for children shows at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. at the North Branch Library 1552 Kane St with Miss Winona pageant in the evening.
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Nursing Center
Viterbo College
S. 9Th St
Armory
Alma Center
Children’s Department of la
Weather report fragment shows temperatures and totals
The text records yesterday low of 59 and high yesterday and this morning temperatures not fully readable, precipitation not provided, and a total of 7 879. The fragment suggests a meteorological daily summary with missing data keys.
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