Wisconsin Weekly Papers Dominate State Awards
The Menomonee Falls News Park Falls Herald Cadett Sentinel and Sharon Reporter led the Wisconsin Better Newspaper Contests from the Wisconsin Press Association at the La Crosse convention. Awards totaled 98 across 19 categories with Amery Free Press earning eight prizes including best local column.
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Menomonee Falls News
Park Falls Herald
Cadett Sentinel
Sharon Reporter
Wisconsin Press Association
Don MacGregor
la Crosse
Sun Prairie Star Countryman
Hartford Times- Press
Burlington Standard-Press
Phillips Bee
Princeton Times-Republic
Grafton-Cedarburg
Amery Free Press
Palmer Sondreal
Wisconsin Press Association picks Knowles on safety push
Robert G Gauger of the Whitehall Times is elected president of the Wisconsin Press Association at its 113th convention. A. L. Petermann and Ralph Goldsmith are named top vice presidents, with Kenneth Keenan as third vice president. Gov Warren P Knowles urges weekly papers to promote highway safety and to push for a blood alcohol content testing law.
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Park Falls Herald
Oak Creek Pictorial
Wisconsin Press Association
la Crosse
Robert Munk
Wisconsin
American Automobile Association
Warren P. Knowles
Donald MacGregor
Park Falls
Robert Gauger
Whitehall Times
New Association
Tribune
Robert G. Gauger
Don D. MacGregor
A. L. Petermann
Delavan Enterprise
Ralph Goldsmith
Boscobel Dial
Kenneth Keenan
Tomahawk Leader
Max Ninman
Reedsburg Times-Press
Robert Shellman
Oconto Falls Times-Herald
Bruce Brown
Oconomowoc Enterprise
Robert Wright
Montello Marquette County Tribune
William Ender
Durand Courier- Wedge
Daniel Markham
Brodhead Independent Register
Knowles
Second Patient Dies After Partial Artificial Heart Implant
Walt er L. McCans aged 61 died at 8 a.m. three days after a partial artificial heart implant at Methodist Hospital Houston. Doctors cited a persistent chest bleeding condition and hemorrhagic diathesis as the cause, with earlier bulletin naming pulmonary insufficiency. The pump was removed 27 hours post surgery as the heart chamber showed signs of repair.
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Houston
Tex
Walter L. McCans
Methodist Hospital
McCans
Congress weighs overhaul of the draft system
Congressional critics demand a full review of the U S draft amid claims of inequities and outdated practices. Sen Gaylord Nelson and Rep Donald Fraser push for commissions and special committees while Defense Secretary McNamara resists substituting Peace Corps service for military duty.
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Washington
House
Senate
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Pentagon
Robert 5S
McNamara
Peace Corps
Montreal
United States
Congress
Dallas
Tex
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Texas
Nelson
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Javits
Viet Nam
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Donald Fraser
D-Minn
Rain Dance Precipitates Sun Dance in Yakima Valley Battle
Prosser faces Granger in a playful drought contest with a rain dance to aid wheat. Granger plans a sun dance for its cherry festival while a crowd drums and two Granger dancers oppose Prosser’s rain show.
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Prosser
Wash
Yakima
Washington
Granger
Marion Emrick
Minnesota Man Dies From Car Crash Injuries
Orville Clare a 49 year old Lake City man died at St Marys Hospital in Rochester from chest injuries after his car swerved on a Lake City street and struck a house. A separate hit at a north Minneapolis intersection left a woman about 70 fatally injured with identity not yet established. Police named the driver as John T Schneider 20 of Columbia Heights. Minnesota traffic toll for the year rose to 228, 21 more than 1964 pace.
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Lake City
Minn
Rochester
Orville Clare
St. Mary’s Hospital
Minneapolis
John T. Schneider
Columbia Heights
Minnesota
Gambling in Port Washington High School Darkroom Scandal
Port Washington AP reports a gambling operation in a high school darkroom led to suspensions of many students. Principal John Zie cites a large number, possibly 40 to 50, with cards a toy roulette wheel seven empty beer bottles and three small beer bottles found. The school board says violations spanned under four hours and that the matter is considered closed.
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Port Washington
Port Washington High School
John Zie
La Crosse County Boards Slashes Committees In Half
The La Crosse County Board reduced its committees from 23 to 11 amid reapportionment and a push to streamline. The plan, approved 24 to 10, moves the county traffic police and civil defense under a new law enforcement committee, prompting fears of sheriff’s office control.
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la Crosse
Highway Committee
Sheriff Department
Civil Defense
Law Enforcement Committee
Merritt Gibson
Gibson
Highway Department
Jerome Klos
Klos
Anti American Slogans Flung In Saigon Riot
Buddhists escalate anti American protests in Saigon as monks press US Marines to intervene in Da Nang where rebel and loyal forces clash again. Ky vows to stay in power while Buddhists urge civilian rule and threaten action if Marines do not withdraw 2500 troops. Clashes continue in Da Nang market and park amid pleas for civilian government.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Buddhist Institute
Lewis W. Walt
Walt
Senators push Europe troop pullout plan gains votes
Senators Symington and McIntyre endorsed Mansfield’s proposal to reduce U S troops in Europe arguing allies must share defense costs. They criticized NATO partners and urged shifting focus to South Vietnam with U S forces ready as needed.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States
Europe
Stuart Symington
D.o
Thomas J. McIntyre
D-N.h
Senate Armed Services Committee
America
South Viet Nam
McIntyre
Symington
France
Germany
NATO
Mansfield
Montana
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard
Malcolm W. Hoag
Rand Corp
State
Defense Departments
Senate Subcommittee On National Security
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State Press Association
Chamber of Commerce
Cedarburg
la Crosse Area
Juneau County
Mauston
Pearl Swiggum
Gays Mills
Crawford County Independent
Juneau County Publishers
Manston
Whitehall
William E. Minshall
Rohio
L. Mendel Rivers
D.S.C
Armed Services Committee
Rivers
Warren Knowles
Gamble-Robinson Co
Wally Walter
Gamble-Robinson
David Nudd
Gateway Foods
Don Gamble Jr
Harvey B. Buchholz
North Western Railway
Orval Nelson
Peter Nelson and Son
Gateway Industrial Park
The
Associated Press
Administration
Sup
West Germany
Red China
Ll Daily
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