Badger State Delegates Named In Area
Wisconsin girls and boys state delegates announced from multiple high schools. Sue Iliff of Black River Falls will attend Girls State at the University of Wisconsin Madison, June 13 to 20. Badger Boys State attendees include Dean Oliver James Moe and Clair Jacobson with sponsors from local American Legion posts and clubs. Other students from Viola De Soto Viroqua Sparta Stoddard and Genoa areas are named, with alternates and sponsoring organizations.
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Badger
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Black River Falls High School
Sue Iliff
Gile Iliff
Ripon College
Dean Oliver
Virgil Oliver
James Moe
Alvin Moe
Clair Jacobson
Haldor Jacobson
Taylor
Hixton-Taylor American Legion Post
Oliver
Moe
Black River Falls Legion Post
Rotary Club
Marsha Barney
Gerald Barney
Robert Schoville
Harrison Schoville
Viola High School
de Soto High School
Robert Weinberg
Vernon Weinberg
Stoddard American Legion
Robert Seymour
Duane Seymour
Genoa Legion Post
Kathryn Strasser
Nicholas Strasser
The
Stoddard Legion Auxiliary
Viroqua High School
Craig Fortney
Dick Stevens
Gary Johnson
Marty Berg
Marguerite Ender
Larry Oppert
Eugenie Kreinz
American Legion and Auxiliary
VFW Post
Kiwanis Club
Badger Boy
Sparta High School
Trygve Pederson
Howard Pederson
James Runde
0. H. Runde
James Jefferson
Earl Jefferson
Ellen Raimer
Ray Raimer
Baptist women set chicken supper in Ontario hall
Ontario Wisconsin Baptist Church women will serve a chicken supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday May 5 at the Ontario Community Hall. Gifts fancy work and homemade candy will be sold.
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Ontario
Wis
Baptist Church
Tomah Dentist Heads East for Orient Clinics and Tours
Dr. E. D. Cunningham of Tomah is among 40 U S dentists selected for clinics in Tokyo Kyoto Osaka and Bangkok starting May 1 with return June 1. His partner Dr. J. W. Chitwood backs the project from Switzerland while other Tomah travelers launch a square dance tour of the Far East and Europe.
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Tomah
Wis
E. D. Cunningham
United States
Orient
Cunningham
California
Japan
Tokyo
Tyoto
Osaka
Bangkok
Thailand
J. W. Chitwood
Switzerland
Hugo Miller
Eight BRF teachers fail to renew contracts
Black River Falls district will replace eight junior high teachers after eight senior high staff returned contracts. Retirements include Miss Phillipa Hurd and Mrs Elizabeth Staf fon. Others, including Miss Janet Higgins and her sister Miss Laurel Higgins, plan further study. Several staff did not sign, with interviews held but no replacements signed.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Melvin Schmallenberg
Phillipa Hurd
Elizabeth Staffon
Janet Higgins
Laurel Higgins
Betty Burkhart
Lee Paul
Black River Band To Give Concert
The Black River Falls Senior High School band directed by Gavin Upton will present a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday May 6 in the high school auditorium. Lunch will be served by the Band Mothers Club. A free will offering will be taken.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Gavin Upton
Band Mothers Club
Pair To Attend IFYE Conference
Kendall Wisconsin reports Mr and Mrs Lyle Baltz will attend a Madison conference for parents hosting International Farm Youth Exchange students. The Baltz family will host one IFYE student this summer, selection pending.
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IFYE
Kendall
Wis
Lyle Baltz
Madison
International Farm
Baltz
Galeville volunteers tidy High Cliff Park after cleanup mission
More than 100 volunteers from Galeville community including Boy Scouts and Business Club members cleared debris and burned weeds at High Cliff Park. John Spittler led the effort, assigning sections, with help from Clarence Brown, Millard Johnson and others. A second cleanup is planned for May 7 with a park potluck supper.
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Gale
High Cliff Park
John Spittler
Business Club
Beaver Creek
la Crosse Tribune
Galesville
Wis
Spittler
Frank Dahlgren
Millard Johnson
Clarence Brown
Brookes Smith
Spring Grove offers 75,000 feet of factory space in town
Spring Grove Area Development Association promotes 75,000 square feet of single floor factory space and a 350 man and 450 woman mixed labor force. Buildings on State Highway 44 will be vacated in June as Argus, Inc. relocates to Columbia, South Carolina.
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Spring Grove
Minn
Milwaukee Railroad
Argus
Quandahl
Mabel Nursing Home Names New Administrator
MABEL Minn Roland Torgerson age 42 of Rochester has been hired by the Mabel Village Council as the new administrator of Green Sea Manor Nursing Home. He succeeds Sverre Ulvestad who will move to State Island New York to lead Egner Nursing Home. Ulvestad has served since the facility opened in 1962.
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Mabel
Minn
Roland Torgerson
Rochester
Mabel Village
Green Sea Manor
Sverre Ulvestad
State Island
N. Y
Egner
Torgerson
Luther College
Decorah
Iowa
Samaritan
Ulvestad
Recreation Group to Meet in Gays Mills May 6
GAYS MILLS Wis Stockholders of Recreation Unlimited Inc will meet Wednesday night May 6 in Crawford Electric Cooperative offices Discussions will cover construction and maintenance of an observation tower in the apple orchards and a vote to increase the board to five directors Officers listed include Robert Carter president Art Amundson vicepresident Robert Irlbeck secretary and William Carroll treasurer The group has built a ski tow near the village since organizing last fall
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Gays Mills
Wis
Recreation Unlimited, Inc
Crawford Electric Cooperative
Robert Carter
Art Amundson
Robert Irlbeck
William Carroll
Development Corporation
Norwalk Scouts To Collect Paper
Norwalk Wisconsin Boy Scouts plan a waste paper drive on Tuesday May 5. Collections start at 5 PM with residents asked to place bundled paper at the curb for pickup.
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Norwalk
Wis
Boy Scouts
Adrive
Electors Protest Proposed Rural School Closures
Electors from Cook and Pleasant Ridge Rural School districts gathered in Viroqua Wisconsin to protest the planned closure next year. Paul Zube spoke for the group while the Board of Education adjourned without action as it weighs shifting students to nearby schools by bus.
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Viroqua
Wis
Cook
Pleasant Ridge
Viroqua Board of Education
Paul Zube
Chamber Members Tour Tomah Veterans Hospital May 6
The Tomah Veterans Hospital staff led by Dr. Herman Wilkinson will host Greater Tomah Area Chamber of Commerce members at a noon luncheon and tour on Wednesday May 6. The hospital celebrated National Hospital Day with a large turnout. The Wednesday visit is for Chamber members only.
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Tomah
Wis
Tomah Veterans Hospital
Herman Wilkinson
Greater Tomah Area
Blair Lions Club elects new leaders in Blair Wisconsin
E. L. Friede is named president with Omer Moen John Kuykendall and Arthur Galstad as vice presidents Howard Turk as secretary and Ray Stenemnagel as treasurer La Verne Sonsalla will serve as tailtwister and Don Huibregtse and Donald Erickson are directors.
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Blair, Wis
Blair Lions Club
E. L. Friede
Omer Moen
John Kuykendall
Arthur Galstad
Howard Turk
Ray Stenemnagel
la Verne Sonsalla
Tailtwister
Don Huibregtse
Donald Erickson
Memorial Award Scholarship Winner Named
James Prindle of Alma Center is selected by Lincoln High School faculty to receive the Robert Laufenberg Memorial Award at the May 29 awards night. The winner’s name will be engraved on a plaque funded by students, teachers, and class funds in memory of Robert Laufenberg who was killed deer hunting in 1963.
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Alma Center
Wis
James Prindle
Howard Prindle
Lincoln High School
Robert Laufenberg
Robert
Ray Laufenberg
New Postmaster Installed At Elroy
Elroy Wisconsin John Kaczmarek was installed as postmaster in a ceremony at city hall. Born and raised in Milwaukee he lived in Elroy eight years doing business. He served in the maritime services and spent a year with Capp's Distributing of Tomah. His wife JoAnn Robinson of Hillsboro and the couple have three children.
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Elroy
Wis
John Kaczmarek
Milwaukee
Kaczmarek
Maritime Services
Capp’s Distributing
Tomah
JoAnn Robinson
Hillsboro
May Establish Burial Mound Park In Area
EASTMAN Wis A Wisconsin study considers creating a public park to protect ancient mound remains found along the Mississippi in Crawford County. Mounds likely part of ceremonial sites with multiple uses. Unauthorized digging is illegal and a study group is needed to authorize exploration.
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Burial Mound
Eastman
Wis
Crawford County
Gulf of Mexico
Wisconsin
Kansas
New York
Wisconsin Department of Resource Development
Mississippi River
Art Show at Westby High School Precedes Play
Westby Wis. students display art from 7 to 8 p.m. on May 6 and May 8 ahead of the school play You Can’t Take It With You. Open to the public with art instructor Mrs. Verda Lund coordinating the exhibit.
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Westby HS
Westby
Wis
Westby High School
Verda Lund
West Grant High To Present Boarding House Beach
Patch Grove Wisconsin reports the West Grant High senior class will stage its annual comedy Boarding House Beach in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. on Wednesday May 6 directed by Mrs. Marjorie Miller.
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Patch Grove
Wis
West Grant High School
Marjorie Miller
Richard Herried to Tour Britain with Saltfleet High Band
Richard Herried 17 son of Mr and Mrs Warren Herried Whitehall will tour Britain this summer as a member of Saltfleet High School Band of Stoney Creek Ontario Canada He was selected in 1963 at a University of Wisconsin music clinic A trombonist in the group American band members meet in Toronto June 20 for two and a half weeks of rehearsals They will play eight cities in Britain and three in Scotland tea with Prime Minister Hume tour Oxford University and see a Shakespeare play Herried graduates Whitehall High School in 1965.
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Britain
Richard Herried
Warren Herried
Whitehall
British Isles
Saltfleet High School
Stoney Creek
Ontario
Canada
University of Wisconsin
Richard
Toronto
Scotland
Hume
Oxford University
Herried
Whitehall High School
Black River Falls im munization clinic and band concert
Community calendar lists events across the region including an immunization clinic at Gebhardt School and a senior high band concert in Black River Falls. Other activities include a school play in Westby and a Red Cross Blood mobile in Galesville, with various gatherings around Humbird Viroqua Hatfield West Salem Viola and more.
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Black River Falls
Gebhardt School
Westby
Knutson
Galesville
Red Cross
St. Mary’s Catholic
Legion Hall
Viroqua
Hatfield
The
Inwood
Mass Grave Found in Wyalusing State Park
A mass grave with at least nine skeletal remains was unearthed by park workers in Wyalusing State Park near Prairie du Chien during culvert work. Anthropologists and UW students aided the excavation, and researchers believe the bones belong to the Effigy Mound Builders who lived about 1,500 years ago.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Wyalusing State Park
Madison
Harvard Peterson
Joan Freeman
State Historical Society
Ralf Halvorsen
Conservation Department
James Alsworth
University of Wisconsin
Jane Isaacs
Lynn Berry
UW Anthropology
John Lund
University Photographic Laboratory
Miss Freeman
Wisconsin
Card Party Planned by Humbird American Legion
Humbird Wisconsin hosts a card party sponsored by the American Legion at the Humbird Legion Hall Wednesday May 6 with games starting at 8 p.m.
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Humbird, Wis
American Legion
Humbird Legion, Hall
Houston Women Named To Posts
In Caledonia Houston County American Legion Auxiliary Council elected two Houston women to offices at its meeting. Mrs. Harold Poppe was named second vice president and Mrs. Adolph Olson historian. Other officers include Mrs. B. A. Qualy president Mrs. Oren Lanswerk first vice president Mrs. Lester Lange chaplain and Mrs. Winston Reider sergeant at arms. Installation is planned for August in Caledonia.
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Houston, Minn
Houston
Houston County American Legion Auxiliary Council
Caledonia
Harold Poppe
Adolph Olson
B. A. Qualy
Oren Lanswerk
Spring Grove
Lester Lange
Hokah
Winston Reider
la Crescent
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Los Angeles
Singapore
Hong Kong
Philippines
Hawaii
Millers
Europe
Joyce Herness
Thomas McCaul
Ireland
France
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Austria
Italy
Purdue University Glee Club
Irvin Herness
Joyce
Glee Club
Henrik Herness
Katherine McCaul
Rosella Linnehan
Chris Stefferud
Curtis
Curtis Stefferud
Paris
Air Force
Norway
Luminall Paints
Bob
Paint and Supply
Copeland Ave
George J. Kastner
Campbell
Black River Band
Accu
Tillman Johnson
Jake Jacobson
Swinging Foot Bridge
Larry Smith
John Williamson Sr
Garden of Eden Club
Mabel Nursing Home
Recreation Group
Sletten Furniture
Caledonia ST
Mindoro High School
Gale-Ettrick
Mindoro
Mary Kastenschmidt
Elmer Kastenschmidt
David Pfaff
Donovan Pfaff
Gale-Ettrick High School
Dorothy Engelsen
Carl Engelsen
Ettrick
Betty Thompson
Lawrence
Lena) Thompson
Diane Kopp
Russell Kopp
College Education
North
Western Mutual
James R. Burns
Peter Groves
Dale Harkness
Leslie Erickson C.L.A. Ronald Ping
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
211 Exchange
Lonnie Wright
Lynxville
Great River Road
Burlington Railroad
West Grant High
Flamingos
Hornets
Doerre
Pearl St. la Crosse
Coulee
West Salem
Presbyterian Church
Viola
Charles Brown
State Historical Society Museum
James Horn
Thomas Sletten
Charles Hanson
Sletten McKee
Seventh and
King Streets
la Crosse
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