Secret Talks Keep Teacher Contract Hidden In La Crosse
La Crosse Area Public School District Board and LEA vote to hold 1972 teacher contract negotiations in closed sessions for the third year. Critics including The Tribune urge open meetings citing public right to know. board members defend closings as more productive and in the public interest.
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la Crosse Area Public School District Board of Education
la Crosse Education Association
LEA
la Crosse Tribune
Wkbt-Tv
Tribune
Atty
Bronson la Follette
Eugene Balts
Krupp
Trane Co
Elizabeth Staley
James Wais
Jerome Rusch
Arthur Christensen
Robert Johns Jr
Staley
Wais
Rusch
The
Burgess
la Crosse
Two Young Sisters Die Crossing Highway 14
Two sisters ages 11 and 7, Katherine and Deborah Bluske of Viroqua, were struck while trying to cross Highway 14 near their home and died. The driver, James H. Gutoski, 23, of Legore’s Motel Trailer Court, said he did not see them as a line of cars passed. County Traffic Police reported he was traveling east and the accident occurred about 7:30 a.m. An investigation continues. the county records mark it as the fourth and fifth traffic fatalities of the year in the county. Arthur Kalk, 51, of Sheboygan Falls, also died when his auto left a road and struck a tree Tuesday night.
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Lutheran
James H. Guto
Legore
Katherine
Deborah Bluske
Mary Bluske
Arlin C. Bluske
Gutoski
Arthur Kalk
Sheboygan Halls
De Soto Board Fails To Rehire School Chief O Neill
In De Soto Wisconsin the Board of Education refused to renew administrator John R. O Neill despite organized public demand. A 10 member citizens committee and about 100 attendees pressed for renewal after a secret session. The board stood 9 0 against renewal and O Neill then resigned. Rev Kenneth Knutson criticized the board in a parish letter. See DE SOTO, Page 2
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la Crosse Tribune
DE Soto
Wis
Board of Education
de Soto Area
John R. O'Neill
O’neill
Citizens’ Committee
O'Neill
Albert Rauschke
Kenneth Knutson
de Soto Lutheran Church
Knutson
Spring Grove
Minn
Paris Cellar Holds Million POW Letters To North Vietnam
A Paris cellar stores over three million uncashed letters and petitions from Americans seeking better treatment for U S prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Merle Bet terton of Iowa sent fifteen dollars for Christmas, but his letter to the National League of Families was never opened. The warehouse, in Pantin, has become the main collection point as appeals pile up for POWs missing in action.
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Paris
Merle E. Betterton
Knoxville
Iowa
North Vietnam
Air Force
Betterton
National League of Families of American Prisoners of War and
League
Decheck
Hanoi
Emile Jean Coustie
Coustie
Pantin
Judge drops retrial in Seale case as impossible
NEW HAVEN Conn AP The judge dismissed mur der conspiracy charges against Black Panthers Bobby G Seale and Ericka Huggins saying an unbiased jury could not be found without superhuman effort which neither side should endure Huggins 23 was freed after ruling Seale 34 remains jailed on other charges Charles Garry Seales chief attorney praised Mulveys decision noting earlier disagreements but respect for him The charges stem from the fatal 1969 shooting of Panther Alex Rackley in New York prosecutors alleged orders came from Seale and Panther leaders
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New Haven, Conn
Black Panthers
Bobby G
Seale
Ericka Huggins
Superior Court
Harold ‘M. Mulvey
Panther National
Huggins
Charles R. Garry
Mulvey
Garry
George Sams Jr
Panther
Sams
Migrant labor contractor in custody amid nine slayings
In Yuba City California sheriff reports nine migrant fruit workers buried in shallow graves after machete or heavy knife attacks. Juan Corona 37 a farm labor contractor was arrested and booked on nine counts of murder. Victims aged 40 to 60 were transient workers killed over five weeks to this week.
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Juan Corona
Sutter County
California
Yuba City
Calif
Ray Whiteaker
Juan V. Corona
Richland Road
Corona
Whiteaker
Frank Cartoscelli
Yuba
Cartoscelli
Bomb Threat Extorts Qantas Flight 755 For $560000
An anonymous caller claimed a barometric bomb aboard Qantas Flight 755 with 116 passengers. The airline paid $560000 in Sydney center. the plane landed safely after circling for over six hours with five minutes fuel. No bomb was found. Police linked the threat to a similar extortion tale tied to Doomsday Flight.
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Sydney
Australia
Qantas
Anchorage
Alaska
Western Airlines
Seattle
Wash
Royal Australian Navy
Botany Bay
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the Tribune
Carolyn Armagast
School Board
William Luedke
John Schultz
Clarence Krupp
Schultz
Gary Greer
Associated Press
de Soto School
U.S
Goro Kagehiro
Sheriff's Office
Kenneth Whiteaker
Alameda, Calif
Bay
San Francisco
Jack Sullivan
Ray Duran
Hong Kong
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