La Follette Praises Water Law but Sees Funding Gaps
Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson C. La Follette praised the state water resources law as among the finest but warned that funding for pollution control is insufficient. Speaking at the Wisconsin Conservation Congress in La Crosse, he urged more state aid to local governments to meet the program's needs.
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Bronson C. la Follette
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Conservation Congress
la Crosse
Jack Olson
Olson
ORAP
Delegates vote down contract gill netting proposal
Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegates vote 64 to 1 to kill a contract gill net fishing plan on the Mississippi River citing misrepresentation in a 1968 questionnaire. Debate centered on data gathering versus restrictions across boundary waters and concerns about personnel and oversight. See WATER, Page 8
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Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Mississippi River
T |Lloyd
Conservation
Pierce County
Wisconsin. Minnesota
Wisconsin- Iowa
Viroqua District OKs Bond Issue for New Junior High
Viroqua Wis electors approved a 1 835 000 bond issue by a 910 to 756 vote to build a new junior high and remodel the senior high. District clerk Henry Hendrickson said plans will be set by Hackner Schroeder and Associates of La Crosse with work possibly starting late 1968 or early 1969.
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Viroqua
Wis
Viroqua Area
Henry Hendrickson
Hackner, Schroeder and Associates
la Crosse
Viet Cong seize homes near Saigon bridge as allied counterattack opens
Viet Cong guerrillas seized houses around Binh Lai Bridge on Saigon's northeast fringe as an allied counteroffensive with tanks rockets and helicopters began. Hundreds of civilians fled into Saigon. reports said Viet Cong units infiltrated northern suburbs while a 24 hour curfew was imposed.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Paris
Binh Lai
John T. Wheeler
South Vietnam
Tan Son Nhut
Goldwater libel win settles $75,000 verdict
Barry Goldwater won a libel suit against Fact magazine and its publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Warren Boroson, with a jury awarding $75,000 including $50,000 punitive damages. The case centered on a 1964 article claiming he was psychologically unfit to be president. The judge instructed standards of actual malice for public officials.
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New York
Barry Goldwater
Fact Magazine
Ralph Ginzburg
Warren Boroson
Harold R. Tyler Jr
Goldwater
Ginzburg
Boroson
Newsmen
Harris Steinberg
Arizona
Fact
Johnson
Tyler
Paris Turmoil: Pompidou Promises Immediate Crackdown
Premier Georges Pompidou blamed an overnight violence surge on an effort to spark civil war and ordered relentless dispersal of all assemblies. Two people were killed and hundreds injured as clashes spread from Paris to other areas during the crisis that has shadowed de Gaulle's referendum push.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
France
Charles de Gaulle
Pompidou
Rene Lacroix
Lyon
de Gaulle
Absentee Foes Loom in Oregon Presidential Primaries
Absentee opponents shape Oregon primaries as labor groups back Johnson and Humphrey in Democratic race while Reagan is a potent unseen GOP factor. Nixon projected to win with 55 percent, Reagan around 25, Rockefeller a distant third or write-ins.
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Associated Press
Oregon
Hubert H.humphrey
Johnson
Afl-Cio
Humphrey
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Georgia
South Carolina
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Ex Island Man Dies in Las Crosse Traffic Crash
James D. Pfingsten 22 of Crystal Minnesota died after his northbound car swung wide and hit a tree at 4th Street and South Avenue. He was trapped, treated at Lutheran Hospital, and died about 4 15 a m. His death raises La Crosse County 1968 traffic fatalities to 10. Funeral arrangements by Sletten-McKee Funeral Home.
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Lyon
Strasbourg
Pompidou
Law and Order
Las Crosse
James D. Pfingston
Crystal
Minn
Minneapolis
South Avenue
4Th Street
Pfingston
4Th
Norman H. Nordrum
S. 4Th St
Pfingsten
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse County
Vaudeville Star James Burke Dies at 82
LA CANADA Calif AP James Burke 82 a veteran vaudeville star who appeared in numerous motion pictures and television shows died Friday He and his wife Eleanor were well known in vaudeville as the Burke and Durkin team with enduring impact on stage and screen.
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LA Canada
Calif
James Burke
Eleanor
Burke and
Durkin
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Conservation Division
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Viroqua District OK
George Esper
Patricia Cavallo
Chicago
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Gateway Area Council
Goose Island
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