McCoy Builds Training Force At Camp McCoy Summer
Camp McCoy Wisconsin readies to train 42 235 National Guardsmen and reservists with 256 enlisted men and 30 officers already on site. Maj Jack Preston named HQ commandant as Maj Alfred Maloney and Lt Col Gordon Bishop are among key postings. New arrivals will fill training posts as augmentation officers arrive.
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Camp Mccoy, Wis
Camp McCoy
Aelred Maloney
Gordon Bishop
Viroqua
Michael Davis
Salvio Scarpelli
Philip T. Fox
Samuel Schneider
William Fee‘ley
Richard D. Haskell
James E. Floesch
Gregory Schoofs
Robert W. Collard
Dale Richardson
Michael A. Green
Heffrey C. Bond
Harold C. Needham
James Mahill
Donald K. Davies
William R. Snell
George Zoller
Walter F. Bourne
Donald J. Giesregene
Optimism at Oakdale-Wyeville Development Meeting
Oakdale Wisconsin group reports progress on inter change at Oakdale off I 90 94 due for completion by July 4 with fall dedication. New service station motel restaurant complex and Central Wisconsin Building Supply center eyed plus sewer water project Clifton Lake recreation site and Holiday Lodge golf course nearing completion. Officers elected Merlin White president Kenneth Rutlin vice president Lloyd McCaskey secretary Oscar Tralmer treasurer.
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Oakdale
Wis
Oakdale-Wyeville Development Association
Central Wisconsin Building Supply Co
Clifton Lake
Col Fowler Begins Duty As McCoy Logistics Officer
Lt Col Robert E. Fowler, a 28 year veteran, becomes logistics and supply officer at Camp McCoy Wisconsin. The base is designated a dispersal center for 5th Army Area operations across 13 states. Fowler, from Pennsylvania, served in the 77th Division in the Pacific, Korea, and Germany, and now relocates with his wife Betty and daughter Belinda Lou. Camp McCoy hosts regional offices in Minneapolis Des Moines Chicago and St Louis with 18 area offices and about 10 officers and 120 civilians at the new complex.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Robert E. Fowler
5Th Army
Col. Fowler
Pennsylvania
Pacific
77Th
Korea
Germany
Wausau
Betty
Belinda Lou
McCoy
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago
St. Louis
Students and Teachers Plan Capitol Trip
Spring Grove sixth grade students and their teachers will visit St Paul on Friday May 10. They will tour the State Capitol and other points of interest. Long's Peak in the Colorado Rockies was first climbed in August 1960.
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Spring Grove
Minn
St. Paul
State Capitol
Long’s Peak
Colorado Rockies
King Olav V Visit Ends Decorah Planes Safe Landing
Decorah wrapped a tense two day effort around the visit of King Olav V of Norway. Security teams from the Norwegian consulate and state and federal agencies oversaw a tightly run 22 hour stay with parades tours and demonstrations by Luther College students while the city restored normal life after the royal visit.
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Marion Nelson
Luther
Mare Ae
Valders
la Crosse Tribune
Decorah
Iowa
Olav V
Norway
Minneapolis
Olav
Harald
State Criminal Bureau of Investigation
Ames
FBI
King Olav
Harold Hughes
B. B. Anundsen
Luther College
Dave Norris
Ernie Simonson
Winneshiek County
Museum
Clara Erickson
Lud Torgerson
Houston
A. J. Lien
Hans Aschim
Halvor Lanswerk
Whalan
Minn
Victor Hoeg
E. D. Farwell
William Walker
Chamber
Hardangar
Hallingdal
Gulbrandsdal
Six Area Students Given Scholarships to Winona State College
Six area students were awarded scholarships for 1968-69 at Winona State College. Recipients include Angela Boettcher Dakota Steven Duane Johnson Caledonia Keith Myhre Eitzen Steven P Johnson Trempealeau Trixie Delaney and James Nearing Trempealeau. Recipients must rank in the upper quarter of their high school class.
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Winona
Winona State College
Angela Boettcher
Dakota
Steven Duane Johnson
Caledonia
Keith Myhre
Eitzen
Steven P. Johnson
Trixie Delaney
James Nearing
Trempealeau
Viola Horse Show Sets Annual Meet
Viola Wisconsin says the Viola Horse and Colt Show, Inc. will hold its annual meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday May 9 in the Melvin Building. Officers will be elected and plans for the 1968 show set. All interested are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola, Wis
Viola Horse and Colt Show, Inc
Melvin
Driver improvement clinics serve 1400 plus youths in Minnesota
More than 1,400 juvenile offenders in Hennepin County and statewide attend state approved driver improvement clinics. Joint effort by the Hennepin County Juvenile Court and the Metropolitan Area Safety Council describes clinics run by certified instructors with police and judges support.
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ST. Paul
Hennepin County
Minnesota
Commissioner of Highways
Mankato
Bible Camp Accepts Two Conferences And Expands
The Viroqua Lutheran Conference and the Sugar Creek Valley Bible Camp Association voted to admit La Crosse and Dodgeville conferences into the association. A 27 member board was elected with Rev. Andrew Hegre, Rev. Kenneth Knutson, Kenneth Ofstedahl, Rev. William White, Philip Skalet, Rev. Ernest Nelson and Donald Christenson named to leadership. More than 50 congregations attended. They plan work camps on a 530 acre farm east of Highway near Ferryville and will develop recreation facilities. The group authorized borrowing up to 7500 for improvements.
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Mount Sterling
Wis
Viroqua Lutheran Conference
Sugar Creek Valley Bible Camp Association
la Crosse
Dodgeville
Andrew Heg‘re
Kenneth Knutson
Viroqua
Kenneth Ofstedahl
William White
Hollandale
Philip Skalet
Black Earth
Ernest Nelson
Donald Christenson
Ferryville
Old Mother Hubbard Nursery Rhyme Authorship Noted
Mrs Sarah Martin of Plymouth England is linked to the 1804 creation of a widely known nursery rhyme about Old Mother Hubbard, according to historical notes.
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Sarah Martin
Plympton
England
Old Mother Hubbard
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