Governor praises La Crosse as All America City
The governor salutes La Crosse residents for earning All America City honors. He highlights community leadership, industry, downtown renewal, new industries like Continental Can and Trane, a growing university, and economic growth shaping a thriving metropolitan area.
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Lovely
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Continental Can Company
Trane Company
Ward
la Crosse State University
All America Banquet Officially Sold Out
Tuesday night’s All America City recognition banquet sold out with 1000 tickets at 10 dollars. The event in Mary E Sawyer Auditorium featured Ray Ping as MC and Gov. Warren P Knowles among speakers, a 350 pound 65 by 100 foot flag loaned by Wisconsin Republicans, and music from Victory Ensemble and Coulee Chordsmen. General balcony tickets were 1 dollar with doors opening at 7 30 p m.
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Carl Schneider
Robert Abbott
Mary E. Sawyer
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Schneider
Ray Ping
Greater la Crosse Chamber of Commerce
Warren P. Knowles
All America City
Look Magazine
Paul Harvey
Frank Italiano
Coulee Chordsmen
Heileman Strike Stalls On Wage Dispute In La Crosse
On Tuesday about 270 members of the La Crosse brewery workers local at G. Heileman Brewing Co. kept striking after failing to reach a new contract. Local president Thomas Pretasky said matters were at a standstill as the walkout entered its second day. The company offered wage increases from $3.00 to $3.29 an hour over three years, while management cited the wage issue as central to the dispute.
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la Crosse
G. Heileman Brewing Co
Thomas Pretasky
Heileman Pres
Roy Kumm
Kathryn Forbes McLean, author of Mama's Bank Account, dies
Kathryn Forbes McLean, 57, best selling author of Mama's Bank Account, which became a hit play, movie, and TV series, died Sunday after a long illness in Burlingame California AP reports.
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Burlingame
Calif
Kathryn Forbes McLean
Mama
Wisconsin Senate OKs School Aid Boost to 11.2 Million
The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill increasing school aid by 11.2 million dollars annually starting September. The vote was 28 to 2 with Republican dissenters Jerris Leonard and William Draheim. Governor Knowles urged passage, noting a 28.7 million surplus and advising a 11.4 million treasury cushion for downturns.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
Assembly
Jerris Leonard
Milwaukee
William Draheim
Neenah
Warren P. Knowles
Knowles
Gemini Flight Postponed Bird Falls In Atlantic
U S air cavalrymen reinforced to battle North Vietnamese forces near An Khe as 28 Communist dead were counted early in the action. The fight left American casualties moderate and monsoon rain curtailed air operations over North Vietnam.
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Bird
Atlantic
U.S
Saigon
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Guam
Binh Long Province
Gemini 9 mission ruined by Atlas Agena crash
Atlas rocket carrying the Agena satellite veered out of control and crashed into the Atlantic after launch, delaying the Gemini 9 rendezvous and space walk. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan, awaiting orbital maneuvers, faced a weeks long wait for another launch opportunity.
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AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
Stafford
Cernan
Houston
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
George E. Mueller
Agena
Atlas
Atlantic Ocean
Mission Control At
Mission Control
Earth
Atlantic
Minnesota Traffic Kills Seventeenth In Four Days
A Wayzata woman, Helen Henrietta Martin, 60, died early on Highway 12 when her car halted and was struck by a semi. Police say her husband stepped into the road and a truck driver Kenneth Asplund, 52, Robbinsdale, reported the stop caused by the incident. The toll reached 224 for Minnesota highways.
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Associated Press
Wayzata
Minnesota
Helen Henrietta Martin
Highway 12
Long Lake
Kenneth Asplund
Robbinsdale
Martin
Ky Mobilizes Elite Units in Saigon Clash
In Saigon Premier Ky orders the army’s 1st Corps to stand by as Buddhist protests escalate. Two battalions move from the south amid hunger strikes and threats of self immolation as government troops clash with dissidents. A Hue incident leaves one soldier dead. Da Nang sees tense standoffs.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
da Nang
Dean Rusk
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
South Viet Nam
U.S
Washington
Saigon
Andrew Borowiec
Politi- Nguyen
Weenep
Hue
Huynh van Cao
Viet Nam
Jonas M.platt
1St Army
Thien Minh
Thich Tri Quang
Ngo Dinh Diem
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Washington, D.C
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse, Wisconsin
City of
Citizens For All America
All America
Heileman
Rasy Revenue News
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USS
Central Highlands
An Khe
1St Air Cavalry Division
U.S. 1St Infantry
Qui Nhon
Lodge
S. Viet Nam
Space
Grand Bahama Island
Titan
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson
Honolulu
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
Rusk
Fulbright
National Press Club
South
Neil A. Armstrong
David R. Scott
Western
Pacific
Austin
Cloquet
Detroit Lakes
Vicki
Alton Jr
Alton Jensen
Mapleview
U.S. 218
Jensen
Lewis W. Walt
Minh
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