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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1968
Page
2
Market page notes New York stock sales totals with figures for the day week and year. Total approximate final day and week numbers appear, with year to date totals for 1967 and 1966. The page lists prior year comparisons and overall market totals including large aggregate sums.
New York reports a weekly loss as the Dow Jones Industrial Average slips to 912.91 after peaking at 919.90 earlier in the week. The AP 60 stock average hits 331.3 midweek, closing the week with 908 advances and 619 declines among 672 issues traded. volume dips to 63,791,310 shares, with Jones & Laughlin up 27.34 to 77, and Commercial Credit leading the week’s active stocks.
Wall Street closed with higher American and Midwest shares while London markets fell. Cotton and grains moved, hog and sheep futures rose and Dow Jones indicators edged up. NYSE totals showed 11.7 million shares traded with mixed advances and declines.
Gateway Transportation Co. opens a massive Chicago Ridge terminal near I 294, with four buildings on 55 acres. The 69 miles of wiring and 112 phones support a 1000 trailer daily capacity across three shifts, powered by dragline loops and automated dock systems.
The Red Cross bloodmobile collected 760 pints during its visit, with 169 pints on Friday, reaching the quota. Six special donors were sent directly to La Crosse hospitals, bringing total to 760 as it moved from Onalaska to the Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium Tuesday through Friday.
The La Crosse Common Council on Thursday night awarded to Clarence Schmitt the tavern license at 500 Copeland Ave former holder Jack Wineski and Dick Wineski. Schmitt and Paul Loomis had applied jointly but Loomis withdrew.
Chicago grain futures closed Friday with corn and soybeans mixed, oats and rye weaker, and wheat fractionally lower. Traders covered shorts while near soybeans gained on light demand for new crop offerings as corn, oats, and rye showed little action.
A La Crosse TV sales and service partnership is featured in the April issue of Electronic Technician Dealer. Badger TV at 400 Cass St run by Charles L. Peterson and Arlin Sorenson of rural La Crescent is highlighted as proof that two experienced technicians can make good business men. The article notes their front cover color photo at the firm’s new quarters at the southeast corner of 4th and Cass Streets and recounts that Peterson and Sorenson, with 12 years of La Crosse experience each, bought Badger TV in June 1962.
Roger D. Roslansky re joins Hackner Schroeder Associates as vice president in charge of design and becomes partner. Effective June 1 the firm will be Hackner Schroeder Roslansky Associates Architects Engineers Planners. Roslansky, 34, former La Crosse Public Library designer, is a Fairmont Minnesota native and Iowa State University B Arch 1961 graduate.
Four choral groups and instrumentalists join in a hymn festival at St Pauls Lutheran Church West Ave and Division St at 4 p m Sunday The St Rose Convent choir St Thomas More mens choir and the senior and chapel choirs of St Pauls Lutheran Church perform The event sponsored by the American Guild of Organists is open to the public.
Champion Laboratories Inc West Salem Illinois, a Pyroil Co subsidiary in La Crosse, announced two patents issued to its staff. One patent went to W Herbert Hultgren and the late Robert A MacGregor. The other to Hultgren and Robert L Hall, both engineers.
Treasury data through May 7 shows withdrawals 185.5 billion dollars this year versus 628.4 billion last year, deposits 135.1 million this year with 92 fiscal-year cash balance at 7.82 billion, public debt 350.46 billion, and May 7 internal revenue corrections totaling 1.18 billion.
Howard and Mrs. Peart of La Crescent purchased the DeJarlais Supper Club and renamed it the Towne House Supper Club and Broiler. The broiler will operate daily from 6 am to midnight with dining and bar hours 11 am to 1 am and a private banquet room available. The opening Sunday is Mother’s Day May 12.
At the Onalaska Methodist Church annual meeting and a quarterly conference led by Rev. Herbert Thompson district superintendent, a slate of new leaders was elected. The list includes Ralph Allen Ellsworth Collins Gordon Bjork LeRoy Reuter Mr and Mrs Robert Woggon Allan Rusch Sanford Dennison Hazen Hougom Tom Poukey Arnold LeFebre Walter Nesler Lyle Carlson Harold Johnson Delmar Miller Beverly Stuhr John Stuhr Milton Stuart David Holthaus Stanley Helms Clarence Stokes Reuben Ingalls Charles Howley Donald Lacy Mrs Stanley Borchert Mrs Wallace Tolvstad Ronald Adams Mr and Mrs Reuben Ingalls Merle Lee Howard Westerhouse Mrs Laurence Curran Mrs Harry Nieber Mrs Abe Whitehead Walter Holthaus Mr and Mrs Donald Huggett Mr and Mrs Ralph Angier Mr and Mrs Lloyd Lambert Neil Hoppens Mrs Roger Hutchens Mr and Mrs Earl Niewald William Monsoor Donald Snowberry Ed Carpenter William Kessler Clifford Newman
A 14 member confirmation class will join Onalaska Methodist Church at a 7 30 p m service Sunday led by Rev Roger D Gustafson. A reception follows in Fellowship Hall. Class members include Brian Stephan Rodney Rich ars Gary Schmitt Randy Allen Janet Spreiter Cheryl Jones Sally Page Debra Marcum Clifton White head Charles Ziel Steven Staats Kenneth Rhodes Richard Hohmann and Dale Anderson.
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