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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1963
Page
3
Army Special Warfare officers monitor South Viet Nam for signs of a coordinated Viet Cong campaign against U S advisers. Two advisers were killed last Monday in separate incidents, one after a grenade strike inflicted a Jeep crash, the other by a sniper while with South Vietnamese personnel.
The piece blends home economics tips from Bell Discount Center with Maggie Lovewell’s cooking and craft ideas. It also reports Pentagon figures on U S casualties in South Viet Nam, noting 36 killed in hostile action since Jan 1 1961, 49 noncombat deaths, 12 000 troops in country, and officer commentary on Viet Cong tactics and risks.
Twenty-seven persons attend a civil defense class in medical self-help held Thursday evenings at Ettrick Elementary School. Instructor David Mewhorter of Trempealeau High School leads the 16 hour course in six sessions with a final session including exam grading and discussion on May 29. A physician answers questions and enrolled participants include senior Girl Scouts and older Boy Scouts.
The Prospect Hill Cemetery Association will convene at 7 p.m. Monday at the La Crescent cemetery to discuss lots maintenance and markers.
The Coastal Sentry moored in Nagasaki Bay positions 300 miles off Kyushu to monitor Cooper's re entry. If all goes well an encouraging word from the ship will precede the crucial return, but failure could endanger Cooper's space mission and life.
Air Force Major Cooper will lift from Cape Canaveral next Tuesday for a 34 hour 22 orbit flight the longest by an American. John H. Glenn Jr leading a Coastal Sentry team will monitor Cooper from around the world as television relays the mission for the first time. Glenn will guide retro rockets if re entry fails with two space physicians and electronics experts aboard. Hundreds of Nagasaki residents bustle docks to view Coastal Sentry and its crew as Glenn, a famed Marine lieutenant colonel, draws autograph seekers through the city streets.
TECUMSEH Okla AP hat tie Cooper a mother excited for her only son Gordon Cooper 36 as he prepares for a 34 hour 22 orbit trip around the world. She visits family in Oklahoma to ease nerves and keeps photos and a bookcase nearby while the Ma jor undertakes the historic flight.
Ontario Wisconsin Norwalk Ontario Area Schools will host an eighth grade orientation party at Brookwood High School Gymnasium on Tuesday May 14. Eighth graders and parents will attend, then on Thursday May 16 students return for math and science aptitude tests and program familiarization.
Caledonia Minn May 15 Houston County Republican Party holds its regular monthly meeting at 8 p m in the Caledonia offices of Hector Construction Co Plans for a June rally will be discussed.
The Belle of Louisville now has hinged flip-top stacks after a misfit during refurnishing. Pilot C W Stoll explains that higher stacks were installed with mismatched hinges and could not fold back. They have been reversed and the steamboat operates normally again.
The House faces a pivotal week with a bill to raise the national debt ceiling, amid plans for a Senate filibuster on feed grains and continued debate over military pay raises. The debt limit would rise to 307 billion immediately and 309 billion from July 1 to August 31, with the current legal top at 305 billion.
Whitehall Wisconsin Mrs Joseph Tschetter will host a Hospital Auxiliary meeting Tuesday at 2 p.m. The event gathers auxiliary members for discussions and planning in the hospital community.
A 28-foot cabin cruiser without a name caught fire on the Miami River as Elias Fahmie, 28, steered it for demonstration to family and friends. The dashboard panel burst into flames, firemen estimated $1,000 in damage, and Fahmie was hospitalized with burns.
An abandoned residence in Allegany County, used as a practice lab by local volunteer firemen, was destroyed by a Saturday blaze. Embers, likely from a fire set and believed extinguished the prior night, rekindled and flared.
Seven protestors pasted signs reading Peace is Our Only Shelter over city Fallout Shelters signs at City Hall. Ira Sandperl led the effort, coordinating with John Conroy before officials arrested the group for defacing city property.
Two 18 year old Milwaukee women Bonnie Mae Braun and Fay Ringhand won the Milwaukee Alice in Dairyland Regional crowns. Braun is a Marquette nursing student and Ringhand an office secretary. both are daughters of Milwaukee residents and will compete in the state finals in Manitowoc June 13 to 15. They captured the regional titles Saturday night.
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