New La Crosse Post Office project moves forward
Opinion piece notes a $7 million Postal Service approval for a new downtown La Crosse Post Office and a 4th and State building. Construction at the old city hall site will take about two years, linking civic center renewal with downtown, spurring activity and potential further downtown improvements.
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LA Crosse
Postal Service
General Services Administration
Civic Center
4Th and State
Government Center
Harborview
Plumber Wages Stir Debate Over Value Of Work
The piece recalls a joke about high plumber pay and notes four San Francisco Water Department plumbers earned more than the $35,000 manager's pay in 1972 due to overtime. It argues for fair compensation while praising excellence in craft and philosophy, questioning princely wages for plumbers.
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San Francisco
HEW
John Gardner
Kearney Festival Reenacts Century Old Bank Robbery
The town of Kearney in Clay County plans a festival featuring a reenactment of a 19th century bank robbery. An organizer notes admiration for a figure famed for faithfulness despite his violent acts.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri
Jesse James
Kearney
Clay County
Kansas City Times
Jesse
Attorney Hale named to Library Board in 1953
Tribune recalls Quincy Hale’s 18 years in city service before being elected Library Board president for an open ended term. Trinity Lutheran dedicates a new edifice with final services at the old church this week. Allied Sabre Jet pilots shoot down three MiGs over Korea. Col Royal Baker, ace, removed from combat duties. Cornerstone ceremonies held at Harry Spence School. D J Byers named campaign director for this year’s drive.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Old Church
Korea
Col
Royal Baker
New Harry Spence School
22Nd
Bennett Streets
D. J. Byers
Standard Oil Co
Community Chest
W. Leo Murphy
Joe E Nusbaum the de facto boss of Wisconsin state government
John Wyngaard profiles Joe E Nusbaum, head of the Wisconsin Department of Administration, describing him as the de facto boss of the Lucey era. The piece portrays Nusbaum as a powerful, quiet reformer who reshaped budget and policy, centralizing control over finance, supply, and personnel.
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Joe E. Nusbaum
John Wyngaard
Madison
Jen
Martin Schreiber
Nusbaum
Lucey
State Department of Administration
Statehouse
Gaylord Nelson
Letters to the Tribune raise labor, education and ERA views
Readers critique WIZM discussions on Gov Lucey and the Norplex strike urging Knutson to mind his own business. A letter warns against door to door candy fund raising for Hintgen School and laments public education funding. Others defend Onalaska High School and discuss ERA and draft rights with references to Wisconsin law and 1965 privacy rulings.
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Dick Record
Dyer
Gov. Lucey
UAW
Sen. Knutson
la Crosse
Knutson
Mr. Knutson
Norplex
Arthur J. Melby
Island Park Rd
Watertown
Tribune
Wisconsin
Tribune Women
Jan McLain
Congress
Supreme Court
Kennedy mulls Wallace appearance on Spirit of America Day
Washington reports Sen. Edward Kennedy seriously considers joining Gov. George Wallace at Decatur Alabama on July 4 for Spirit of America Day. The plan would pair a Kennedy invitation via Wallace staffer Billy Joe Camp with Wallace’s national bid drive, signaling party realignment amid McGovern backlash and ERA debates.
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Washington
Sen
Edward Kennedy
Decatur
Ala
George C. Wallace
Gov. Wallace
Sen. Kennedy
Billy Joe Camp
Wallace
Kennedy
George McGovern
Michigan
South
Sydney Harris on society and self government
Sydney Harris argues that drunken driving causes more deaths than crime yet laws to revoke alcoholics’ licenses are absent. He criticizes reliance on experience, urges power through kindness, laments literacy gaps, questions free enterprise, and notes paradoxes in a New York judge’s speech lapses.
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Kennedy
Nixon
Senate
Capitol Hill
Gov. Wallace
Organized Labor
Sydney J. Harris
U.S
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