New Oktoberfest format eyed to curb crowd trouble
The La Crosse Common Council approves a new format for the 1973 Oktoberfest. The festival will start on a Sunday and focus on crowd control and safer enforcement after last year’s incidents. Festivals Inc and city officials hope changes deter outside college crowds from Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Illinois and salvage the event with police cost questions and enforcement plans still under consideration.
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Common Council
Festivals, Inc
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
la Crosse
Hot air solution eyed as future energy maker in New York
EPA funds 1.4 million toward a process promising to turn solid waste into slag blocks and gas for steam and electricity. Tested in upstate New York, the method aims to curb litter and pollution while creating jobs and building materials though critics doubt panaceas.
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Chicago Tribune
Environmental Protection Agency
New York
Washington
Nixon budget trims wetlands fund despite DC lighting grant
The Nixon administration cuts an appropriation from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the U S Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife affecting wetlands habitat programs while Interior approves a 216850 grant from the same fund to DC for lighting at a pool and ballfields. The odd funding split prompts questions as officials push to extend usable pool and field time.
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St. Paul
Land and Water Conservation Fund
U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Bureau
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Board of Education orders swift school building push
In 1953 Tribune items note the Board of Education expediting school construction by hiring an architect, approving a professional staff incentive salary plan, and rejecting a full-time city attorney proposal while a local drug store wins a national distinction.
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Board of Education
Ruud
West Avenue
Jackson Street
Bud Ruud
Brand Names Foundation
Raymond C. Rice
U.S
Germany
Moscow banks profit as dollar collapse widens Soviet windfall
The article reports that following the dollar devaluation, the Soviet bloc could reap at least four billion dollars in net gains from Eurodollar loans and favorable repayment terms. European banks facilitated roughly forty billion dollars in loans to Moscow and Eastern European governments, amid forecasts of ongoing currency weakness and political strains with the US and EU.
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Paul Scott Washington
U.S
Russia
Kremlin
Soviet Bloc
Europe
West
New York
East Bloc
Moscow
U.S. Treasury
Communist Bloc
Japan
Nixon
Henry B. Gonzales
D-Tex
House
Subcommittee On International Finance
Gonzales
Donna Walz
Liberty St
la Crosse
Community letters on charitable support and abortion debate
Letters thank local merchants and school staff for a successful boys club wrestling event. Readers then argue abortion is murder with medical details, praise humanitarian views, complain about an X rated film, and commend local recreation efforts and family faith.
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Sirs
Mothers’ Club
la Crosse
Birnbaum’s
B&s Meats
Farley's
Freddie's
Marking’s
Schlicht’s
Shopko
Super Valu
Vera
IGA
Logan High School
Marilyn Smith
Liberal PSC Hike Sparks Debate Over Utility Rates
Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission, now led by liberal commissioners, approves higher utility rates amid inflation. The order explains wage pressures and costs for electric power, gas, and telephone services, stressing balance between consumer protection and investor needs.
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John Wyngaard
Madison
Wisconsin
State Public Service Commission
William Eich
Richard Cudahy
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
If You're Neil Simon Skip The Philosophy
Sydney J. Harris argues talent and intelligence are distinct and that successful writers like Neil Simon need not be philosophically profound. He cites Shaw and Dickens as contrasts, noting genius can exceed or ignore raw talent and that critics mistake talent for broader insight.
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Neil Simon
Sydney J. Harris
Time Magazine
The
Sunshine Boys
Simon
Noel Coward
Shaw
Prig
Dickens
Dostoyevski
Balzac
Einstein
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