Council Grants Reprieve To Mosquitoes
The Madison Common Council voted 11 to 5 against funding a late summer mosquito control program, saying it would be ineffective this season. City parks director Eugene Fry noted work would be wasted by late deployment. The council also approved $500,000 in bonds for Lumbermen's Service, to aid tax exempt financing and lower interest, creating 10 jobs at a new facility in La Crosse.
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Helen Kelly
Harold Swanson
Eugene Fry
Lumbermen’s Service
Lumbermen
Bosshard
Brian Carroll
13Th Dist
Carroll
la Crosse
East Ave. S
Jim Imhoff
Oak and Kramer Streets
la Crosse Interstate Industrial Park
City
Caledonia bar owner and chief broker peace over juvenile beer claim
In Caledonia Minnesota the bar and pizza owner Jack Hauser and Police Chief Robert Richards clashed over alleged promises to drop charges in a juvenile beer case. The city council resolved by hiring two auxiliary officers outside the bar and Hauser hiring one inside. Residents cited noise late hours and traffic, especially on Fridays, with a near riot reported last week.
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Caledonia, Minn
Caledonia
Jack Hauser
Jack's Bar and Pizza
Hauser
Harry Beth
Robert ‘Bud Richards
Richards
Correction: La Crosse Writers Club meets tonight at 7 30
The La Crosse Writers Club will meet tonight at 7 30 p m in the Northern States Power Co building 1500 Green Bay St not Wednesday night as reported in Sundays paper outside the establishment in an effort to cooperate with the Council The Council voted to pay auxiliary policemen hired for duty outside the establishment Councilmen agreed problems arise outside the establishment and not inside City Atty William Von Arx drafted an ordinance to forbid massage parlors in Caledonia Hector Construction Co awarded 22910 for sealcoating 58 city blocks
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la Crosse
William von Arx
Caledonia
Hector Construction Co
Robbery at Lyn don Shell Station by Two Rifle-Wielding Men
MAUSTON Wis Two men wearing wigs and women's hats robbed the Shell Interstate Station at Lyndon Station around 1115 p.m. Monday. They carried 30 30 rifles entered the station and held up the attendant escaping with an undetermined cash sum. One suspect is about six feet tall slim the other five eleven about 165 pounds. They fled in a green late model Chevrolet with a license starting with W.
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Mauston
Wis
Shell Interstate
Lyndon Station
Juneau County
Lenmark Sentenced in Eau Claire Store Killing Case
Martin P. Lenmark 21 of Eau Claire received 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder and attempted armed robbery in the March 21 fatal shooting of Steven Ander son 25 at a grocery store owned by the victim’s father. Circuit Judge Robert Pfiffner imposed 25 years for murder and 10 years for attempted robbery.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Martin P. Lenmark
Steven Anderson
Lenmark
Robert Pfiffner
Twenty Counties Added To Aid List In Minnesota
The Minnesota governor announced twenty more counties qualify for federal drought aid, bringing total to sixty. Farmers may borrow from FHA at five percent and receive transportation subsidies up to twenty dollars per ton for hay shipped from neighboring states or as far as Wyoming or Montana. Counties listed include Brown Meeker Sibley LeSueur Nicollet Blue Earth Watonwan Nobles Rock Jackson Martin Cottonwood Mille Lacs Pine Carlton Aitkin Itasca St. Louis Lake and Cook.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
Wendell Anderson
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Wyoming
Montana
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Brown, Meeker
Sibley
LeSueur
Nicollet
Blue Earth
Watonwan
Nobles
Rock
Jackson
Martin
Cottonwood
Mille Lacs
Pine
Carlton
Aitkin
Itasca
St. Louis
Lake and
Cook
Whitehall School Board OKs 1.74 Million Budget
Whitehall Wisconsin school board adopts a tentative 1.74 million dollar budget for 1976 77 with an 18 mill tax rate 2.72 mill increase to cover expected expenses including an 84 000 contingency The plan notes potential state reimbursement shortfalls and awaits revision before the July 26 district meeting The board also approves 53 000 short term loan bringing total operating loan to 533 000 plus 480 000 from a prior session and endorses an instructional media center at Whitehall High School including 16 500 for renovations and 18 500 for audiovisual equipment and furnishings The personnel change shifts district administrator duties to William Towner with J K Hoyer retaining an advisory role until retirement end of year and Hoyer signals potential planning and cable TV work benefits.
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Whitehall
Wis
Whitehall School Board
J. K. Hoyer
Sunset Memorial Auditorium
Whitehall High School
Peter Bieri
Hoyer
William Towner
Elkhart Lake-Glen Beulah
Towner
Bieri
Ellison Rejects CRUE Secret Interviews for State Senate Race
Wisconsin 32nd District candidates clash over CRUE plan for private interviews to shape endorsements. Ellison opposes secret talks, while others urge openness and public access to interrogations on issues from teacher licensing to VTAE mergers and public school spending limits.
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Keith D. Ellison
Dist
American Party
Coulee
CRUE
Frank Burdick
State Assembly
Senate
Ellison
Wisconsin
James Bertram
Crue Execu
LaCrosse Tribune Classifieds Contact Details
The LaCrosse Tribune lists contact numbers for missed papers and classified ads with office address at 401 N 3rd St La Crosse Wisconsin 54601. It notes circulation pricing and subscription terms including a one year rate of 42 dollars within 75 miles.
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Tribune
N. 3Rd St
la Crosse
Wis
Labor Secretary engages with striking workers in stalled talks
Secretary of Labor W J Usery Jr meets with United Rubber Workers Firestone Tire and Rubber officials and federal mediators amid a 10 week strike. This is his first direct involvement in talks as Taft Hartley Act implications loom over the stalemate.
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Cleveland
W. J. Usery Jr
United Rubber Workers
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Usery
Canadian air traffic to resume after language dispute settlement
Air traffic across Canada is to return to normal Monday after pilots and air traffic controllers agreed to take their airport language dispute to a government appointed commission. The nine day stoppage stemmed from a row over extending use of French in air traffic control at Quebec airports.
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Ottawa
Canada
Quebec
Ramalho Eanes Elected Portugal President by Wide Margin
General Antonio Ramalho Eanes, the army commander who crushed the prior fall’s leftist coup, won the presidency of Portugal by a two to one margin. He pledged that conditions now exist for Portugal to build a democracy in a televised victory address.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Antonio Ramalho Eanes
Wednesday Happy Twirlers Club Picnic at Schmidty’s Barn
The Wednesday Happy Twirlers Club hosts a pot luck picnic at Schmidty's barn on High way 33, 62 miles east of La Crosse, one mile past the Over look View. Doors open 6:30 p.m. dancing begins at 8 p.m.
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Happy Twirlers Club
Schmidty
Highway 33
Crosse
Overlook View
Western storms and warm up across the nation forecast
The National Weather Service maps showers from Oregon to New England with cooler western weather and widespread warmth elsewhere. Wisconsin sees clearing skies with early sun, Minnesota turns mostly clear, and Mississippi River flow rises at Dresbach with 11 300 cubic feet per second as traffic shifts upriver and down.
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Washington
Great Lakes
Midwest
mid-Atlantic
New England
National Weather Service
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dresbach Lock & Dam
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