Rising hospital costs and reforms amid 1960s trends
Sylvia Porter surveys escalating hospital charges driven by wage hikes and new tech, with U.S. health spend near 50 billion and potential to near 100 billion by 1975. She cites nurse strikes, equipment costs, staff multipliers per patient, and construction inflation. Proposes group practice, outside pre‑op testing, alternative reimbursement, and efficiency drives as needed reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Porter
U.S
Des Moines
Iowa
Health Insurance Institute
Social Security Administration
Local business news brief from Wisconsin and Minnesota
Weekly La Crosse Tribune advertising roundup lists promotions for American Homes and a range of brands. Local owners Don Kiefer acquire Holbrau Tavern in Tomah. Up-Town Motel sold in Waukon. Wilton IGA building bought. Thunderbird Museum season opens May 30 in Hatfield. North Central Airlines posts April record. Doughboy Industries reports first-quarter profit growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomah, Wis
Don Kiefer
Holbrau Tavern
Harry Gilner
Minneapolis
Minn
North Central Airlines
David E. Moran
North Central
Poor People Picket Mills Home In Washington Demonstration
About 100 protesters gathered outside Rep. Wilbur Mills home in Washington to press for welfare reform. Dr George Wiley led the chant accusing Mills of harming hungry people as others planned further action targeting Sec. Orville Freeman and other officials. The movement foreshadowed large demonstrations in June led by Ralph Abernathy and Bayard Rustin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Miller
Washington
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
George Wiley
Wiley
National Welfare Rights Organization
Department of Agriculture
Jesse Jackson
Freeman
Jackson
Resurrection City
Ralph David Abernathy
Congress
Abernathy
New York
Bayard Rustin
Rustin
AEC Sets Hearings On Nuclear Plants
The Atomic Energy Commission will hold hearings in Wisconsin next month on permit applications for new nuclear plants. A June 25 hearing at Manitowoc covers Wisconsin Electric Power and Wisconsin Michigan Power for a second plant near Manitowoc. A June 27 hearing at Kewaunee covers Wisconsin Public Service, Wisconsin Power and Light, and Madison Gas and Electric for a plant near Kewaunee.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Wisconsin
Manitowoc
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Wisconsin Michigan Power Co
Kewaunee
Wisconsin Public Service Corp
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Madison Gas and Electric Co
Voluntary Settlements Target Major Firms Over Bias Claims
The Labor Department seeks hearings on possible contract cancellations against Bethlehem Steel Timken Roller Bearing Allen Bradley B and P Motor Express and Pullman Inc over alleged racial discrimination in hiring. The department warned of ineligibility for future contracts and termination of current ones if no hearing requests are filed within 10 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Bethlehem, Pa
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton, Ohio
Allen Bradley
Milwaukee
Wis
B & P Motor Express
Pittsburgh
Pullman Inc
Bessemer
Ala
Edward C. Sylvester Jr
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Sylvester
Bethlehem
Timken
Ohio
Allen
Horicon Boy Drowns While Fishing on Rock River
A Horicon boy aged 7 named Daniel Zuelsdorf drowned Friday night after falling from a dock into the Rock River while fishing with his sister. He was pulled from the water ten minutes later by a nearby youth following an unsuccessful search by his father.
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Horicon
Rock
Daniel Zuelsdorf
Robert Zuelsdorf
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Schneider
St. Prene
Edward J. Quillin
Council
SONY
Main St
la Crosse, Wis
Diat
Che la Crosse
Trine Weekly
la Crosse Tribune
American Homes, Inc
Apple-Tru
Barclay’s Brandy Bolens
Lawn & Garden Equipment
Canadian Club Capp Homes
Chevrolet Corby’s Reserve Chart Coffee Service
Planne
Creamettes
Dairyland Power Cooperative de Witt’s Pills Fasteeth
First Wisconsin Charge and
Hills Bros. Coffee
Hiram Walker Brandy
Hiram Walker Imperial
Hiram Walker Special Canadian Home Insurance Co
King Confection Co
The
Marshall Company
New York Stock Exchange
Northern Natural Gas Co
Piper Aircraft
Waukon
Arthur O’brien
Roger Stephens
Utica
Mich
O’briens
Wilton
Omar Geier
IGA
Kermit Bartz
Geiers
William Heilman
Bartz
Badger Ordnance
Hatfield
Violet Teeples
Douglas Shefelbine
Holmen
Vigortone Products Inc
Kabetogama
Ray, Minn
Chicago
Culver J. Kennedy
Midwestern Territory
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Sears
Kennedy
Northwestern University
Far West
Navy
Hollywood, Calif
Long Beach
Markee Water Conditioning& Manufacturing, Inc
Janesville
la Crosse
Minnesota
Illinois
Karl Schams
Markee Water Conditioning of
Roadshouse
New Richmond
Doughboy Industries, Inc
James H. Buell
Portland Cement
Milwaukee Clipper Sunray DX Oil Co
Volkswagen
Wisconsin Physicians Service
Wisconsin School of Electronics
Wisconsin School of Real Estate
Zero B. C. Ziegler & Co
Wilbur Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Connecticut Avenue
Lincoln Memorial
AEC
Cory Coffee Service Plan
Cory Corporation
Jim Smith
East Excelsior Blvd
Hopkins
Norman Peterson
Congress of Racial Equality
Sparrows Point
CORE
Paul Johnson
A&c Johnson
Johnson’s
G. I. Bill
Sherman Ave
Madison
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