Four Weekend Crashes In La Crosse County Cause Minor Injuries
Five people sustained minor injuries in four La Crosse County crashes over the weekend. Three single car incidents involved Curt G Wenzel and Henry Luck with cuts from impacts, while Richard L Ihle was treated for leg injuries after a rollover. A two car crash on Highway 108 near Hamilton injured Milo Ness and his wife Reiko Ness, while Dennis Olson cited loss of control before colliding with Ness.
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la Crosse
Curtis G. Wenzel
R. 2
Holmen
Midway
Onalaska
Wenzel
Acci
Dent
Henry Luck
S. 21St St
W. Wedgewood Drive
Shelby
Luck
Richard L
Lhle
Coon Valley
Lutheran Hospital
Highway 14
Dennis M. Olson
R. J
Milo D. Ness
Harmony St
West Salem
Snday
Hamilton
Ness
Reiko
Olson
Perry dies. former Wisconsin Chamber leader and banker
Andre J. Perry, 53, prominent banker and Republican leader, died at St. Agnes Hospital Fond du Lac after two months of hospitalization. He served as president of the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce in 1957 and led First National Bank of Fond du Lac. held multiple posts including director at General Telephone Wiscon sin and vice president at First Wisconsin Bank Shares Corp. Services set for Wednesday at St Pauls Episcopal Cathedral Fond du Lac.
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Fond DU Lac
Andre J. Perry
Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce
St. Agnes Hospital
Perry
First National Bank of
First Wisconsin Bank Shares Corp
General Telephone Co. of Wisconsin
Episcopal Diocese of
Ripon College
Nashota House Seminary
Andre J. Jr
Recife
Brazil
Katherine
Susan
St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
Stolen Car Recovered Near Camp McCoy
A car stolen April 24 near Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. was found Saturday night in a Camp McCoy parking lot. Sparta police located the vehicle for its owner Bernard Wiatt of Hokah Minnesota.
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Camp McCoy
la Crosse
Bernard Wiatt
Hokah
Colonaip Stool Aid Promises Overnight Relief
A dated medical ad touts Colonaip tablets with a colonic nerve stimulant and bulking action to relieve constipation overnight. It claims gentle restoration of bowel function and urges readers to try an introductory size for 43 cents.
Yank Only Survivor In 54 Death Crash
An American diplomatic courier, Joseph P. Capozzi of Elmira New York, was the sole survivor of a four engine Air Afrique plane crash on Mt Cameroon near the Nigerian border. Thirty four others and twenty more died in the crash on a Douala to Lagos corridor. A British courier was also aboard.
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Douala
Cameroon
Joseph P. Capozzi
Elmira
N.Y
Lagos
Nigeria
Air-Afrique
Mt. Cameroon
Bjorge Addresses Foreign Teachers in Racine
Superintendent John Bjorge and Mrs Bjorge hosted foreign exchange teachers in Wisconsin. Bjorge spoke at a noon luncheon by the Wisconsin Education Association International Relations Committee. A Racine tour ended with an assembly at Wingspread by the Johnson Foundation center.
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John Bjorge
Bjjorge
Racine
Wisconsin
Bjorge
International Relations Committee
Wisconsin Education Association
Johnson Foundation Center
Wingspread
Ames Elected Legion Post Commander at Ames Meeting
Dallas Ames was elected commander of Gittens Leidel Post 595 American Legion at the meeting. New officers include Donald Buchan and Thomas Moore as first and second vice commanders, Jerome Carelius as third vice commander, Charles Gavin as finance officer, Warren Weidman as chaplain, Bert Ohmann as sergeant at arms, George Kelly as historian, and Loren Dickrager as adjutant. Delegates to the district convention at Austin June 12 are Ames Dickrager Curran Reisdorf and Darelius.
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Austin
Ames
Dickrager
Terry Curran
Ray Reisdorf
Darelius
Post
Junior Legion
Robert Boehm
Archie Shea
Reisdorf, Curran
Wayne Lottes
Robert Kies
Houston County
Sidewalk Tiles Stolen From La Crosse Yard
Mrs. Burton Cook of 121 South Ninth Street reported to La Crosse police that 15 concrete sidewalk tiles were taken from her yard on Saturday afternoon.
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Burton Cook
S. 9Th St
la Crosse
District Library Conference To Be Here
The West Central District Library Conference will be held Wednesday from 9 a.m. at South Branch Library in Omaha style streets. Mrs. Ernest Picha of Hillsboro is conference chairman with Mrs. Lelia Showers of La Crosse as hostess. The morning panel will discuss The Library in the Governmental Process with S Janice Kee Gertrude R Thurow and a Wisconsin Library Association member on legislature. John Cleveland of La Crosse State College will talk on reading as a key to achievement. The final panel, The Library Image, will be led by Jean Solberg with Rev. Floyd Harbold Mrs Vivian Stenzel Alta Larrabee and John A Feroe as panelists. Conference business will follow and librarians from Pepin Trempealeau Jackson Monroe La Crosse and Vernon Counties will attend.
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West Central District
South Branch
17Th
Farnam Sts
Ernest Picha
Hillsboro
Lelia Showers
la Crosse County
S. Janice Kee
Wisconsin Free Library Commission
Madison
Gertrude R. Thurow
la Cross
Jean Solberg
la Crosse
Wisconsin Library Association
Floyd Harbold
First Baptist Church
Vivian G. Stenzel
Alta Larrabee
Permit Sought for Gas Pipeline Under Mississippi River
Northern Natural Gas Co seeks an Army Corps permit to lay a 16 inch pipeline under the Mississippi and Black Rivers at La Crosse to supply natural gas to West Salem Sparta Tomah and nearby areas. Public objections due May 24 in St Paul. The project runs from the station west of West Channel bridge crosses La Crosse and under river about 1.05 miles upstream.
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Mississippi
Black Rivers
la Crosse
West Salem
Sparta
Tomah
Northern Natural Gas Co
Omaha
Neb
Army Corps of Engineers
St. Paul
L. A. Hauser Jr
West Channel
la’ Crosse
Carol Burnett Weds Man With Eight Children in Juarez
Comedienne Carol Burnett marries television producer Joseph Hamilton in Juarez Mexico after Hamilton’s divorce from prior marriage. The ceremony was witnessed by Burnett’s sister Christine and followed by a honeymoon in Honolulu. Hamilton, 36, is father of eight. Burnett, 28, had later divorced Don Saroyan in Las Vegas.
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Honolulu
Carol Burnett
Joseph Hamilton
Juarez
Mexico
New York
el Paso
Tex
Hamilton
Miss Burnett
Don Saroyan
Las Vegas
Nev
Christine
Hamiilton
Garry Moore
Logan Senior Wins Engineer Scholarship
Logan High School senior Steven Rebhan will receive a $100 scholarship from La Crosse Chapter 96 of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers. Rebhan, 15th in class of 197, plans to pursue mechanical engineering at GM Institute or La Crosse State College and attended Badger Boys State in 1962. The award rotates among local high schools, with last year’s winner from Central High and next year’s from Aquinas. A Do-All Company productivity show will be at the chapter meeting June 1.
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Steven Rebhan
Logan
la Crosse
American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers
Donald Hopkins
Rebhan
General Motors Institute
Flint
Mich
la Crosse State College
Badger Boys State
Central High School
Aquinas
Trane Co. Engineering
Mayor Attends Funeral of Mother-In-Law in Sioux Falls and Iowa
Mayor Milo G. Knutson traveled to Sioux Falls on Monday for the funeral of his mother in law Mrs. O. L. N. Wigdahl mother of Mrs. Beatrice Knutson. Services were held Monday in Sioux Falls with burial in Iowa and the mayor was expected to return to La Crosse on Tuesday.
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Milo G. Knutson
Sioux Falls
D.D
Iowa
O. L. N. Wigdahl
Beatrice Knutson
la Crosse
Our Town to Play thrice at La Crosse State College
Thorn ton Wilder’s Our Town will have three performances May 12 to 14 in the Campus School Little Theater. Directed by Marie Toland, the cast features Terry Morehouse as George Gibbs and Patricia Vollmar as Emily Webb with David Olson and Juli Fletcher as the Gibbs couple and Robert Ward and Sharon McAuliffe as the Webbs. Reservations are available by calling the college at 48030.
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Thornton Wilder
Our Town
la Crosse State College Players
Little Theater
Marie Toland
Terry Morehouse
George Gibbs
Patricia Vollmar
Emily Webb
David Olson
Juli Fletcher
Dean Marin
Sam Craig
Thomas Hancock
Wally
Mark Kennedy
Joe Crowell
James Walz
Tom Hogan
Dickman
Bethanie Beaster
Mary Poukey
Wilmer Pearson
Farmer Macarthy
Sandra Merigold
Kay Seamonson
Elaine Hoeft
Lorna Mulcahy
Sharon Wilchelt
Julie Halverson
Ruthann Schulstrom
Jean Holtz
Sandra Johnson
Linda Neve
Charlyene Olsen
Melva Jensen
Hogan
Burnett
Walz
Kennedy
Marin
Pearson
Ackert
Misses Beaster
Synoground
Ponkey
Tom Dickman
Two Seek Re election to LA Crescent School Board
Mrs Virginia A Strauss and Irving Yeiter filed for re election to Independent School District 300 board serving Houston and Winona Counties. Election set for May 21 with two three year terms open and filing deadline May 9. no other candidates have filed.
Cat Mothers Rabbit in Ona laska Home Tale
Ann Hubert's cat Dotty nursed a baby rabbit for two weeks at 1030 Wilson St Ona laska. The rabbit died Sunday morning causing distress in the Hubert home as Dotty mourned and a Girl Scout session followed to discuss rabbits and a mother's love.
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Dotty
Ann Hubert
Archie Hubert
Wilson St
Onalaska
Huberts
Ann
David
Harold
Mrs. Hubert
Girl Scout
Tribune
Racio Highlights WEBH 9:55 P.M. Baseball Showdown
Racio presents WEBH coverage of a late night baseball matchup between the Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles team, detailing key plays and game context.
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Twins
Los Angeles
Re-Election of Irna Rideout Leads Wisconsin English Council Meeting
Longfellow Junior High English teacher Irna Rideout was re-elected director of the Southwest District of the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English at the annual Wausau meeting. About 600 teachers heard Prof Howard Mumford Jones and Dr James Squire of the National Council of English.
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Irna Rideout
Longfellow Junior High
Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English
Wausau
Howard Mumford Jones
National Council of the Teachers of English
James Squire
Sinners Respond To Special Invitation at Chicopee Church
In Chicopee Massachusetts the Federated Protestant Church held a sinners only service at 10 45 am. Rev C W Kirkpatrick announced last week the service would be for sinners and urged saintly persons to stay home. About 135 attended surpassing the usual 105 to 115.
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Chicopee
Mass
Federated Protestant Church
C. W. Kirkpatrick
Myrick Cabin and Hixon House to be Marked in La Crosse
La Crosse Rotary Club funds marking of two historic sites in La Crosse near Nathan Myrick cabin and the Hixon House on 7th Street. Marker near Riverside Park for Myrick. other sites marked as funds allow. A museum study group is forming and May 24 open house plans set by the Society.
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la Crosse
Nathan Myrick
Hixon
7Th Street
Southside Businessmen’s Association
James Brindley
Louis Robinson Jr
James Polk
Eleanor Sanford
Geneva Ragland
Hixon House
Minnesota road toll hits two hundred after weekend crashes
Four killed in Minnesota over the weekend including Fritz Johnson, 72, of Minneapolis, and Sandra Kepler, 16, of Slayton. Two elderly pedestrians and two teenagers died in separate crashes raising the total to 200, up from 165 a year earlier.
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Minnesota
Fritz Johnson
Minneapolis
Sandra K. Kepler
Slayton
Minn
Lake Wilson
Murray County
Miss Kepler
Wayne van Lerberghe
Marshall
Highway Patrol
Highway 30
Thomas Hanse
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William W. Horstick
Eau Claire Episcopal Diocese
Winter Hall
Christ Episcopal Church
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Robert D. Winter
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Steve Rebhan
TRANE
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L. Peter Groves
L. S. Griffin
Leslie Erickson CL
Ronald Ping
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
211 Exchange
CAT Mothers Rabbit
Racio
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Myrick Cabin
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Associated Press
Joseph Foeller
Washington
Afton
Dennis Kraemer
Nancy Richele
Kraemer
W. W. Reynolds
Wadena
William Chapman
MR. Horn
MR. Sletten
MR. Hanson
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