Airport Officials Fight 869 Foot TV Tower Plan
La Crosse Airport officials oppose an 869 foot Channel 31 tower proposed southwest of the airport by the Wisconsin ECB. The FAA allowed the height but concerns about aviation safety persist as the Aviation Board seeks an injunction and the city weighs compromise. Ralph Whiting notes local schools will receive Channel 31 by fall.
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Donald W.affolter
Tribune
Feelings Thursday
la Crosse
Minnesota
Wisconsin Education Communications Board
ECB
James Cote
Albert Lea
Aviation Board
Common Council Judiciary Committee
Harry Wiggert
Cote
William Woods
W. Peter Gilbertson
Woods
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Anthony Moe
Wisconsin
Whla-Fm
West Salem
Wiggert
Moe
Green Bay
Wausau
Wheeler
Ralph Whiting
Cooperative Education Service Agency
Channel 31
Gilbertson
Manpower Programs Defended at Wisconsin Public Hearing
Public hearing in La Crosse defended federal manpower training programs including Operation Mainstream and Neighborhood Youth Corps. Budget cuts were debated as impact on a seven-county area with over 204000 residents, while planners ranked job development and training as top priorities.
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Operation Mainstream
Neighborhood Youth Corps
la Crosse
Western Wisconsin Area Manpower Planning Board
Thomas Ritter
Madison
State Manpower Planning Council
Laar House
Leonard Anderson
University of Wisconsin Extension
Monroe County
Employment Service
Black River Falls
North Vietnam
Warner Reed
First Baptist Church
Planning Council
Charles Fenrick
Greater Tomah Area
Area Planning Board
Kavanaugh
Western
Wisconsin
Area Bookmobile Schedule Listed for March
The La Crosse Area Library System releases its March bookmobile routes for La Crosse County with stops at Middle Ridge Store Mindoro Post Office Holmen Post Office Swarthout Park Brice Prairie Court Acres Dutton Street Medary Rockland Post Office Meadowlark Lane Merry Meadows Youngs Grocery Barre Mills St Josephs Ridge Brookview Trailer Court Millstream Addition Pine View Trailer Court Schuh Addition Arrowhead Playground Hiawatha Avenue Wedgewood Terrace Weather forecast shows cloudy conditions with drizzle Friday night and varying showers into Saturday across Wisconsin Minnesota and the region.
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la Crosse Area
la Crosse County
Middle Ridge
Mindoro
Holmen
Swarthout Park
Brice Prairie
Court Acres
Dutton Street
Medary
Rockland
Meadowlark Lane
Merry Meadows
Young’s Grocery
Lakeshore Drive
Barre Mills
St. Joseph’s Ridge
Brookview Trailer Court
Millstream
Pine View
Pine View Trailer Court
Schuh Addition
Arrowhead Playground
Hiawatha Avenue
Glenhaven Drive
Wedgewood Terrace
Ristow Re-Elected WWHPO President
Harold Ristow was re-elected to a one year term as president of the Western Wisconsin Health Planning Organization at the annual meeting. Officers Rohde Anderson Papenfuss were also re-elected. A new health plan for the seven county region was discussed. Dr James P Kimmey spoke supporting area health planning groups. The meeting also reviewed Rolling Hills Monroe County and Jackson County Home facility proposals.
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Harold Ristow
Western Wisconsin Health Planning Organization
WWHPO
la Crosse
Elmer Rohde
Galesville
Lyle Anderson
Batavian National Bank
Francis Papenfuss
Ristow
James P. Kimmey
Wisconsin Health Policy and Program Council
Kimmey
Monroe County
Jackson County
Rolling Hills
Jackson County Home
Jackson County Board
POW Releases Align With Vietnam Withdrawal Pace
Saigon handed U.S. representatives a list of POWs to be freed, flashing names to Washington for family notification after long waits. Notable omissions include Maj. Floyd James Thompson, captured 1964, and Philip Manhard, 52, a top State Department official. Both now reportedly held in North Vietnam.
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Saigon
U.S
Washington
Maj
Floyd James Thompson
Philip Manhard
State Department
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Thompson
Demilitarized Zone
Manhard
Hue
Vietnam
Three La Crescent Men Waive Extradition in Robbery Case
Three La Crescent, Minnesota men Randy Stephens 20 Robert Sheehan 20 and Gerald Johnson 19 waived extradition in Houston County Court Caledonia and were returned to La Crosse Atty Burleigh Randolph hopes for arraignments on robbery and attempted aggravated battery charges Friday The victim David Woods 42 from Shorewood Drive was struck and robbed of seven dollars in Pettibone Park.
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S. 6Th St
Gerald Johnson
Larch St
la Crescent
Village Hall
Houston County
David Woods
Shorewood Drive
Cashton barber Leo Running dead by self-inflicted gunshot
Cashton Wis March 1 44 year old barber Leo Running was found dead at his home in Cashton from a 22 caliber rifle shot authorities said the death was self inflicted His body was found by his son Kevin 10 Running left a wife Alice Kirkeeng and five sons with Navy and Air Force service among his survivors He was born February 19 1929 in Vernon County and married November 22 1950 Services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church with burial in Fish Creek Cemetery
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Cashton
Wis
Leo Running
Monroe County
Jack Brown
Running
Brown
Kevin
Alice Kirkeeng
David
Navy
Europe
Richard
Keesler Afb
Miss
Leigh
Mark
Lisa
Viroqua
Tilmer
Milton
Westby
Lucille Peterson
George Justin
Vernon County
Clinton Running
Trinity Lutheran Church
Bruce Buslaff
Fish Creek
Illinois Man Charged In BAF Case
Donald P. Brooks of Lom bard Illinois is charged in Jackson County Wisconsin Circuit Court with theft by fraud for allegedly defrauding three men of 21 500 last summer. Plaintiffs Burton Sherman Harold Ludeman and Albert Potter helped secure the loan from Jackson County Bank and Brooks has not repaid. Judge Brennan bound Brooks over to Circuit Court after Judge Drecktrah recused.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Donald P. Brooks
Lombard
Ill
Brooks
Jackson County
Burton D. Sherman
Harold Ludeman
South Alma
Albert Potter
Great Bear Lake
Northwest Territories
Arctic Circle
Sherman
Ludeman
Potter
Louis I. Drecktrah
Clark County
Michael Brennan
Brennan
Indian hostage release agreed as Pine Ridge talks proceed
Senators and Indian leaders met at a barricade and later a tepee to negotiate hostages' freedom amid the Wounded Knee area standoff. McGovern said hostages were free to leave but residents may be escorted. Indians pressed for a Senate subcommittee hearing, treaty-violation charges, and an investigation of BIA corruption.
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Great Plains
McGovern
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Pine
Pine Ridge
Senate
Ralph Erickson
U.S
Wounded Knee
Erickson
Abourezk
Snowmobiler Drowns After Plunge Into Lake Pepin
Rene O. Sass of Cochrane Wisconsin drowned Tuesday night when his snowmobile fell through open water near the head of Lake Pepin on the Minnesota side of the lake, authorities said.
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Lake City, Minn
Cochrane
Wis
Lake Pepin
Minnesota
Rene O. Sass
Nixon outlines peace focus and varied policy notes
President Nixon reflected on peace prospects and Congress’ likely stance while outlining positions on amnesty for war resisters, Sudan diplomacy, wage controls, and Watergate. He defended the administration’s stance on black Americans, discussed 1973 wage negotiations, and signaled energy policy efforts through John Connally.
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Nixon
Sudan
United States
Khartoum
John B. Connally
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Gray
Watergate
Democratic National
White House
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Senate
Guerrillas limit demands after embassy siege progress
The group pressed to free Abu Daoud and seek safe passage to Algeria or Libya. The report lists other detainees and demands connected to the Jordan incident. Also noted is the Beloit College dean Charles Curtis who died after a long illness.
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Baader-Meinhof
West Germany
Daoud
Algeria
Libya
Beloit
Wis
Charles Curtis
Beloit College
Curtis
Kansas
Governor’s Council On
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Wisconsin State Employment Service
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State Road
Madison, Wis
University of Wisconsin
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Seattle
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University Hospital
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Holmen Rit Llcr
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SSE Tribune
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O ‘ Hook
Wallace Hutzler
Edward Keefe
Lawrence le Jeune
Fred Ristow
Kenneth Teachout
John Vik
Richard Westerfield
Sanford Goltz
the Tribune
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Sirhan Sirhan
California
Robert F. Kennedy
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