Reds Fire On Tanker Near Saigon In Canal Ambush
Viet Cong ambushed an oil tanker near Saigon killing at least 11 Vietnamese police. Three government workers were found executed in a Saigon outskirts lot. A grenade attack wounded three bar girls while U S forces reported multiple aircraft losses and Vietnamese casualties amid ongoing fighting.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
US S
North Viet Nam
South
7Th Fleet
Ranger
Quang Ngai
Quang Tri City
Shell Oil Co
Nha Be
Firemen search Mississippi River for missing Otto Vaaler
La Crosse firefighters dragged the Mississippi River at Pearl Street seeking Otto Vaaler 69 missing since Monday morning. A 1966 Chevrolet Impala wagon found in Riverside Park led police to bloodhound searches and a river edge trail amid ice and open water conditions. Vaaler was last seen at his Spring Grove farm. authorities offered no definite trace after investigations in Minnesota.
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la Crosse
Mississippi River
Pearl Street
Otto Vaaler
23Rd St
Vaaler
Riverside Park
Donald Schoenfeld
George Brooks
Brooks
Pearl
Waaler
Spring Grove
Minn
Houston County
Barn Fire Destroys 3 Heifers and Hay at Ade ll Farm
A barn fire on the David Stange farm near Ade ll, Wis, destroyed three heifers, 600 bales of straw, 1 200 bales of hay, a farm wagon and hand tools. Firemen from Batavia fought the blaze. cause and total loss were not yet determined.
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Adell
Wis
David Stange
Sheboygan County
Batavia
Association To Meet In La Crosse Clubrooms
The La Crosse Association for Retarded Children will meet at 8 p.m. Friday in the American Legion Clubrooms. A slate of officers will be presented by the nominating committee. Election will be at the April 1 meeting. The meeting is open to the public.
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la Crosse Association For Retarded Children
American Legion
Stolen rings returned to police with apology
La Crosse police recovered five rings and an apology note mailed from a March 1 postmark. The rings, worth 427.50, were taken during a February 25 break in at Bud Jewelers, and a sixth ring was found on a sidewalk. Police speculate the sender, a man, acted while intoxicated. the burglary marked the shop’s second within 18 months.
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la Crosse
Bud Jewelers
Main St
Stock Quotations From Shearson Hammill Co
Inter dealer quotations as of 9 a.m. from The Marshall Co and NASD show prices for Central Tele, Clark Oil, La Crosse, Norplex, Pyroil, Tausche Bonds, and mutual funds including Boston, Chemical, Fidelity, Massachusetts and Wisconsin funds with bid and ask ranges and markup adjustments described.
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Marshall Co
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Central
Clark Oil & Ref
Wis
la Crosse Cooler
la Crosse Tele
Norplex Corp
Pyroil Co. Inc
Tausche Bonds
Mutual
Boston Fund
Chemical Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal
Western Province and Northern Wisconsin appoints sisters and councils
Sister Mary Michael leads St. Francis High School Provo with four councilors to assist in the Western Province covering Idaho to Nevada. Sister Dorothy Mulheron heads Northern Wisconsin Province with four councilors, overseeing seven hospitals and multiple nursing and medical programs across several states and dioceses.
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Mary of the Angels
Spokane
iWash
Mary Michael
Aquinas
St. Francis High School
Provo
Utah
Janine
St. Mary Academy
Prairie du Chien
Sheila Marie
Serra High School
Salem
Ore
Irmina
St. Francis School
Octavia
St.Mary Academy
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
California
Alaska
Arizona
Hawaii
Nevada
Dorothy Mulheron
Wisconsin
Wausau
Dorothy
St. Pius X School
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Rosanne
Cathedral High School
Juan‘he
Holy Rosary High School
Bozeman
Mont
Magdelle
St. Xavier School
Wash
Immaculate Conception Parish
Lansing
Georgette
Chippewa, Clark, Dunn
Eau Claire
Marathon
Pierce
la Crosse
Green Bay
Superior
Milwaukee
Connecticut
Delaware
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Vermont
District of Columbia
Marie Therese
Armella
Villa St. Joseph
Mechtilde
Sacred Heart Hospital
Idaho Falls
St. Charles Parish
Genoa
Gertrude
St. Francis Hospital
Georgia
St. Joseph Parish
New Albin
Nkrumah Declared Leader of Both Guinea Ghana
Abdullaye Diallo, Guinea’s roving ambassador, says Kwame Nkrumah now leads both Guinea and Ghana after Sekou Toure stepped down. Nkrumah’s dual presidency takes effect immediately amid regional tensions and Guinea’s refuge offer.
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Guinea
Ghana
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Abdullaye Diallo
Kwame Nkrumah
Sekou Toure
Diallo
Toure
Africa
Peo
Ple
Organization of African Unity
Tanzania
Mali
Weather and Wind Forecast for Lacrosse and Nearby Areas
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with possible snow flurries tonight and Friday. Wisconsin shows showers turning to snow flurries in west and north, cloudy and colder Friday with snow flurries in extreme north. Minnesota under Blizzard and heavy snow warnings in extreme north, lighter snow through Friday with high winds, colder statewide. Iowa partly cloudy and colder tonight and Friday, diminishing winds late tonight. Sunrise Friday 6 37 am, sunset 5 57 pm, full moon March 6, and historic temperature records noted for March 3 years 1894 and 1875 with degree days tallied.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Upper Great Lakes region formed to foster economic growth
Washington AP reports 119 counties in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan are grouped into the Upper Great Lakes Economic Development Region. Secretary of Commerce John T Connor announced the designation as part of a 1965 act deliberate to spur regional prosperity with federal funding and a regional commission.
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Upper Great Lakes Counties
Washington
Upper Great Lakes
Minnesota
Wiscons
Michigan
John T. Connor
Ozark
Karl F. Rolvaag
States
New England
Warren P. Knowles Knowles
Wisconsin
George Romward
Devel‘ney
Connor
Knowles
Congress
Conner
America
Eugene P. Foley
Pig Club Financing Plan OKd by La Crosse Chamber
Rural Affairs Committee approves a new flexible system for collecting returns on Pig Club investments in gifts for county boys. The rate ties to 500 pounds of pork value as of September 1966 with a 10 percent limit either way. New method starts in 1967, with a Pig Club tour planned for May 14 and a junior livestock sale at the La Crosse Inter-State Fair slated again this year.
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Rural Affairs Committee
Greater la Crosse
Pig Club
la Crosse
Snowstorm Swamps Minnesota Towns With Heavy Snow
Snow and freezing drizzle hit northern Minnesota towns with six to eight inches in Bemidji and Crookston while Fergus Falls kept main roads open and rural roads closed. Vehicles skidded on I-10 and Highway 52 near Lawndale, with several trucks off road and buses not running in Fergus Falls.
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Bemidji
Crookston
Fergus Falls
Greyhound
Highway 52
Lawndale
Perham
New York Mills
Brainerd
Duluth
Minnesota Highway Department
Elk River
Minn
Dakotas
Jamestown
Valley City
Dakota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
International Falls
Scorpion Uses Poison Stinger To Hunt And Defend
The scorpion kills prey with a venomous sting from its tail and uses the same weapon to defend itself.
La Crosse Tribune Publisher and Editors Info
The La Crosse Tribune lists W. T. Burgess as publisher and Sanford Goltz as editor. It notes the paper is a Lee Enterprises publication and an Associated Press member with AP content rights.
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W. T. Burgess
Sanford Goltz
la Crosse Tribune
4Th
Cass Sts
la Crosse
Wis
Lee Enterprises, Inc
Associated Press
Wisconsin
McNamara Defense Stance on Vietnam War Escalation
McNamara testifies the United States can keep its Vietnam objectives limited without an open ended land war. He says manpower could rise to 350000 if needed and notes 300000 troops are already in Southeast Asia. Humphrey argues Johnson pursues a middle course between quitting Vietnam and massive escalation.
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Viet Nam
McNamara
South Viet Nam
Asia
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Southeast Asia
Johnson
William C. Westmoreland
Humphrey
American Legion
South
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Hanoi
Fox Named To State Rural Roads Advisory Group
Glenn Fox of the La Crosse County Board town Medary was elected to the state rural roads advisory group by the highway advisory committee of the state legislative council. He is one of four highway committee members chosen and will help consider legislation affecting highways. Fox has served seven of his 13 years on the county board highway committee and chaired it for six years.
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la Crosse
Glenn Fox
Medary
State Legislative Council
Fox
Central High 11 Students in Final MAA Contest
Central High School has 11 semifinalists for the final MAA contest at La Crosse State University on March 26. Winners include Eric Anderson Lee Anderson R J Stoddard Gary Kastner Eli Levenstein Mark Levinger William Liegois Paul Phillips Richard Schreiber James Stenzel and Jayn Webb, top five percent of 19 652 Wisconsin entrants.
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Central High School
Mathematical Association of America
la Crosse State University
Central
Eric Anderson
Lyle W. Anderson
S.30th St
Lee Anderson
Albert B. Anderson
R. J, Stoddard
Gary Kastner
Ken ‘Neth L. Kastner
S. 22Nd St
Eli Levenstein
David B. Levenstein
Winnebago St
Mark Levinger
William F. Levinger
Main St
William Liegois
Fredric W. Liegois
S. 31St St
Paul Phillips
Paul W. Phillips
N. 24Th St
Richard Schreiber
Robert E. Schreiber
James Stenzel
Vivian Stentzel
S. 17Th St
Jayn Webb
Willard W. Webb
Wisconsin
Fire Department face rash of false alarms in La Crosse
La Crosse firemen report six false alarms since February 13, most recently at 16th and Denton Streets at 8 55 p m. Fire Chief Fred Genz cites $1 750 ladder replacement after a car struck staff at Central Fire Station. Fine up to 200 for false alarms. another call came at 457 S 19th St for a broken radiator hose.
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la Crosse
16Th
Denton
Fred Genz
4Th
Main Streets
Central Fire Station
Genz
15Th
State Streets
23Rd Street
Campbell Road
State
10Th
la Crosse Streets
S. 19Th St
George Horn
FCC Bans Wireless Eavesdropping Microphones
The Federal Communications Commission prohibits wireless microphones and similar devices from recording private conversations after April 8, with violators facing a $500 fine per day. Enforcement aims to protect privacy while allowing normal broadcasting practices for public interest events.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Radio Highlights Thursday Listings
Vox Pop guests on WLCX at seven p.m. Youth Council representatives appear. WKTY broadcasts basketball at 7 50 p.m. Minnesota District I games Canton versus Preston at Spring Valley and Houston versus Spring Grove at Mabel.
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WLCX
Youth Council
WKTY
Minnesota
Rare cancer patients meet for pioneering bone marrow exchange
Robert F. Allen and Harry T. Griffith, two men with osteogenic sarcoma, arrived with their wives at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo to undergo an experimental transplant. If compatible, tumor samples will be exchanged to trigger anti cancer resistance within 10 to 12 days.
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Buffalo, N.Y
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Robert F. Allen
Tucson
Ariz
Allen
University of Illinois
Harry T. Griffith
Flourtown
Birth notices from La Crosse area hospitals
Births listed from Grandview Lutheran and St. Francis hospitals with multiple newborns and parent addresses across Wisconsin and Texas. Notable entries include a March 1 son to Walter and Mrs Rifenberg in Galesville and a March 2 daughter to William Everson in Madison area, plus other infants named at St Elizabeth in Appleton and in San Antonio.
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Grandview Hospital
Walter Rifenberg
Galesville
Faye Trocinski
St. Francis Hospital
Joseph J. Wakeen Jr
S. 26Th St
Mary K. Ferguson
Richard W. Sanders
Minsboro
Marilyn J. Krajewski
Howard G. Melby
Blair
Jo Ann J. Johnson
Thomas A. Melde
Liberty St
Carol L. Schultz
William J. Everson
S. 20Th St
Janet J. Wasson
Appleton, Wis
John Christopher
John i Fasinski
S. Joseph St
Appleton
Ruth Wells
la Crosse
San Antonio, Tex
Kenneth J. Schmidt
Dumont Drive
San Antonio
Rose Heck
Schmidt
Barre Mills
River readings show flood stage and forecast update
River readings list flood stage at La Crosse with 24 hour changes and Mississippi forecast upcoming days. The advisory urges protection of perishables within a 150 mile radius of La Crosse for minimum temperatures expected through 6 p.m. North and West 20 degrees East and South 25 degrees.
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LA Crosse
Mississippi River
Sat
Sun
A Crosse
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