Wisconsin Lawmakers Debate Marijuana Use Across State
In Wisconsin debate over marijuana and other drugs grows after a major La Crosse raid and statewide concern. Key witnesses include an undercover agent. officials say a five state ring extended to Mexico and Vietnam. Figures warn of broader use in small communities and call for education and targeted enforcement.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Green Bay
la Crosse
Rice Lake
Racine
la Crosse County
Mexico
Vietnam
Deymour L. Halleck
University of Wisconsin
Health Service
America
Ira Zarov
Drug Information Center
Lloyd A. Barbee
Milwaukee
Forgotten Men Slain Amid Yuba City Orchard Harvest
In Sutter County, at least 21 transient laborers are found murdered amid peach orchards by the Feather River. Sheriff officials question Juan Corona, a 37-year-old labor contractor, as investigators describe skid row life for itinerant workers who lodge for $1 nightly and toil under hot conditions for $25 to $30 daily. The motive remains unknown while authorities map the brutal scene and the network of contractors hiring the transient workforce.
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Yuba City
Calif
Feather River
Sutter County
Juan Vallejo Corona
Old County
Roy Whiteaker
Skid Row
Marysville
Joe Miguel
State Farm Labor Office
Western Pacific
E Street
Pete
Joe
Miguel
Juan Corona
Oregon
Washington
Oroville
Ex Cop Hijacks Plane Foiled By Pilot In Nassau
Ex New York motorcycle unit officer James Bennett hijacked an Eastern Airlines jet from Miami to New York with $500,000 and three hostages. Pilot John O Neill hurled him from the aircraft near Nassau after Bennett claimed explosives. He was captured, searched, and jailed, as officials weighed jurisdiction. Bennett had ordered the plane to divert to Nassau and asked for an IRA contact.
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James Bennett
New York
Eastern Airlines
Bennett
Nassau
John O’neill
Eastern
Nassau, Bahamas
New York City
Commack
N.Y
U.S
U.S. State Department
Eugene Sullivan
la Guardia
Miami
Joseph Collins
Sullivan
Lorraine
No Pay No Work Angers LEA Over Retroactive Pay
La Crosse area teachers fault La Crosse Area Public School District for omitting a lump sum retroactive payment on May checks. LEA president Carolyn Armagast says pay should reflect January through May raises from the 1971 contract. Superintendent Balts plans a Tuesday meeting to resolve the issue and fix any error.
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la Crosse Area
la Crosse Education Association
LEA
Carolyn Armagast
Balts
James Wais
Armagost
Bolivian Peace Corps expelled volunteers flee to Peru
Nine young Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Lima amid Bolivian claims of spying and other crimes by leftist extremists. U.S. officials deny the charges as the government ends the 1962 Peace Corps program in Bolivia, with over 100 more expected to be expelled.
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Lima
Peru
U.S
Peace Corps
Bolivia
la Paz
Central Intelligence Agency
Susan Shank
Goshen
Ind
George Curfmann
Denver
Colo
No Editions on Monday Memorial Day Observance
The La Crosse Tribune will not publish on Monday May 31 in observance of Memorial Day. No editions will be produced that day as the newspaper observes the holiday.
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la Crosse Tribune
Corn Blight Found in Illinois Counties
Three more cases of Southern corn blight confirmed in Illinois bringing total to seven. Counties named Effingham Clay Jackson Coles plus samples from St. Clair Champaign and Marion. University of Illinois plant pathologist Tom Boyle says early reports show no threat of a repeat of last year’s national blight.
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Champaign, Ill
Illinois
University of Illinois
Effingham
Clay
Jackson
Coles County
St. Clair
Champaign
Marion
Tom Boyle
U. of I
Series Of Motions Denied In Man's Drunk Driving Case
Circuit Judge Peter Pappas denied seven of nine motions in the Lyder Overbee drunken driving homicide case. The judge allowed parts of a statement and kept charges including homicide by drunk driving, negligent homicide, stop sign violations, and speeding. He rejected motions to suppress state crime lab reports and to dismiss multiple charges as duplicative, noting ongoing prosecutions may proceed.
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Peter Pappas
Viroqua Area
Lyder Overbee
Viroqua
Michael K. Pitz
Adams St
Ann E. Jackson
S. 17Th Place
Overboe
Pitz
Miss Jackson
Patrick Doyle
Overbee
Pappas
Doyle
Dist. Atty
Burleigh Randolph
Bious
Randolph
State
Patrol Vehicle Crash In Carson Sends Deputy to Hospital
A sheriff's patrol car skidded on an oily rain slick in Carson, California, and slammed into a power pole. Deputy Daniel W. York, 26, was treated for a dislocated shoulder. The vehicle broke up with its engine and front end separated and the body against a fence. AP Wirephoto.
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Carson
Los Angeles
Daniel W. York
Weekend weather turns warm with showers possible
Variable cloudiness Saturday night and Sunday bring continued warm conditions with low near 50 and high near 80. Partly cloudy Monday stays warm with a chance of showers or thundershowers and a low around 50.
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Robert W. Warren
Warren
Barbee
Zarov
Halleck
By Marty Thompson
Sheriff's Deputies
Koksky
New York Police Department
Martha Mitchell
Shannon
Ireland
Irish Republican Army
William H. Heath
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