Grads urged to meet challenge at WWTI ceremony
About 445 graduates of Western Wisconsin Technical Institute heard John E. TePoorten reflect on change and challenge in a Mary E Sawyer Auditorium address. He urged graduates and families to excel, warning average is dangerous and stating the past is secure while the future is ours to shape.
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la Crosse Tribune
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
Wisconsin
Mary E. Sawyer
John E. TePoorten
Manitowoc
Wisconsin Schools of Vocational, Technical and
TePoorten
Robert Ringdahl
Western Wisconsin Vocational Technical and Adult Education Dist. 2
WWTI
Women Work In Teams To Help Crippled Boy
In Waseca Minnesota more than 60 friends from Sacred Heart Church and family members assist 12 year old Denny Anderson with a rehabilitation program. Women rotate four at a time to exercise his arms legs and head while his parents and siblings pitch in. Denny suffered brain damage after an early illness and now learns through muscular therapy sessions three times daily and additional weekend help. He now speaks a few words can stand and take a few steps with support. Mothers also rub his gums to aid speech and engage him in color and number recognition. Doctors at the Chicago center say he has a long way to go but shows spunk and progress.
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Waseca, Minn
Denny Anderson
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Denny
Edward
Waseca
Lorrain
Rick
Debbie
Anderson
Gary
Chicago Center For Achievement of Human Potential
Kennedy Center opens with high society preview
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors with a fundraising preview attended by 3,500 guests at $40 or $100 a ticket. Proceeds benefit accessibility for the young, old, and poor, starting with the Sept. 8 Bernstein premiere. Attendees included Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Rose Kennedy, Pat Lawford, Jean Smith, Mamie Eisenhower, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Kennedy Center
Leonard Bernstein
Rose Kennedy
Pat Lawford
Jean Smith
Mamie Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy Center For Performing Arts
Felony charge tied to Hillsboro youth's death
Hillsboro Wisconsin Rebecca Rohn about 25 of La Farge to be arraigned on contributing to the delinquency of a minor in the death of James Withrow 17 after inquest. Alcohol levels ranged 0.397 to 0.449 percent. Witnesses say he drank beer and liquor after leaving school and earlier.
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Hillsboro
Wis
Rebecca Rohn
la Farge
James Withrow
Vernon County Dist
James Schipper
Withrow
Winifred Ofte
Schipper
Rohn
Beaver Dam
State Crime Laboratory
David Alderman
Lynetta Fanta
Lynetta
Rodney
Alderman
Wayne Myhre
Henry Peterson
Andy Peterson
William Withrow
T. E. Boston
Budget advances in Wisconsin Legislature proposes modest tax relief
The Joint Finance Committee approved a 1971-73 state budget slightly larger than Gov Luceys 1.9 billion plan and sent it to the Senate and Assembly. Key cuts include 27 public relations jobs a 15 percent cut in state printing and 6.17 million from the building program. Additional funds go to local school aids school psychologists and undergraduate education while faculty pay is trimmed by 3.1 million. Debate set for June 8 with expected near unchanged approval in the Assembly.
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Madison
Wis
Joint
Senate and
Assembly
Patrick J. Lucey
Carl Otte
Sheboygan
Robert Huber
West Allis
Lucey
Otte
Joint Finance Committee
Rail Crash Wreckage Wrecks Wuppertal Track
Tangled wreckage litters the track in Wuppertal West Germany after a railway bus collided with a freight train. Forty five people, mostly junior high school students, were killed in the disaster. AP Wirephoto.
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Wuppertal
West Germany
Germany
West German Train Crash Kills 40 Children and 5 Adults
A head on collision between a passenger train and a freight near Wuppertal kills forty schoolchildren aged 15 and 16, two teachers, a chaperone, and two railroad workers. At least 24 others are seriously injured as officials probe signals at a Dahlerau station master and rescue efforts begin.
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Wuppertal
Oberbarmen
Radevormwald
Radevormwalder
Bremen
Dahlerau
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Ed Huebner
Mary Campbell
National Cultural Center
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New York
Victor Borge
Den
Mark
United States
Potomac River
Opera House
Eisenhower Theater
Eunice Shriver
Potomac
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