Senate Buries SST Backers Concede Defeat
Lawrence L. Knutson reports that Congress has killed the SST program after long debate. The Senate voted 92 to 3 to fund termination at 155.8 million while the House eyed 85.3 million. both chambers concede the controversial supersonic jet is dead.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Washington (Ap
George H. Mahon
White House
House
Senate
Mahon
Congress
Ford
John F. Kennedy
Department of Transportation
Democratic
New five acre Oktoberfest grounds west of 2nd Street
La Crosse Festivals Inc announces relocation and expansion of the downtown Oktoberfest grounds to a five acre former Allis-Chalmers site bounded by the river 2nd Street Milwaukee Road tracks and Riverside Park. The site will triple space with new facilities and year round plans. First event on the new site will be a July 3 to 5 celebration with a large fireworks display and parade.
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Oktoberfest
Allis-Chalmers
la Crosse Tribune
Robert Mullally
la Crosse Festivals Inc
Heileman Hall
la Crosse River
2Nd Street
Machine Products
Milwaukee Road
Riverside Park
Mary E. Sawyer
Mullally
W. Peter Gilbertson
Blue Stars
Memorial Field
Grenadiers
Interstate Speedway
West Salem
Hixon
la Crosse
Nixon reveals U.S.-Soviet antiballistic talks
President Nixon announced that the United States and the Soviet Union will work this year toward limits on antiballistic missiles and on limiting offensive nuclear weapons. He called the move a major step toward breaking the nuclear arms stalemate and hinted at compromises to advance the long stalled SALT negotiations now in Vienna.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
Finland
Soviet Communist Party
Leonid Breshnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
White House
Vienna
Lucey Allows Kickapoo River Flood Control Project
Governor Patrick Lucey announced he will permit continuation of the Kickapoo River flood control project at La Farge with safeguards. He asked the Army Corps to plant trees along the shoreline, start immediate geological relics work, and wrote to local citizens outlining his position on the $25 million plan. The project includes a 70 foot dam and a recreation lake over 1,000 acres. work was slated to begin in June after an April review request.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick J. Lucey
Kickapoo
la Farge
Lucey
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
State Historical Society
Vernon County
Three Car Crash Leads To Hit Run And Injury
A three car crash at 6th and Cass Streets shortly before 8 am led to a hit and run. Lyle Vandevere, 18, of 721 N 24th St, stopped for a car when his vehicle was rear ended. His car then struck a third vehicle on State Road 1900 block after he fled with two beer cases. Nancy Smith, 18, a passenger in Sayner's car, was hospitalized with a possible head injury and nose fracture. police found Vandevere's car later.
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6Th
Cass Streets
State Road
Lyle Vandeveer
N. 24Th St
Ritchie Sayner
E. Fairchild St
Peter Gordon
Geneva Lane
Travis Street
Sayner
Nancy Smith
Blackhawk Place
Lutheran Hospital
Tribune
Edward M. Huebner
Nash, Who Rescued His Career From Wastebasket, Dies At 68
Ogden Nash died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at 68 after kidney failure and a May 9 stroke. The master of doggerel rose from discarded lines to a New Yorker editor and a long poetry career beginning with Hard Lines in 1931. He was born in Rye, New York, and moved to Baltimore after marrying Frances Rider Leonard in 1931.
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Baltimore
Ogden Nash
America
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Doubleday & Co
New Yorker
The
Rye
N.Y
Frances Rider Leonard
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