LCU Student, 19 Crowned 70 Fest Queen
Rita Deniger a 19 year old La Crosse State University junior majoring in physical education was crowned 1970 Miss Oktoberfest Miss La Crosse before 3000 spectators in the Mary E Sawyer Auditorium. She won over 16 competitors and earns the right to enter next June's Miss Wisconsin pageant. Kay Froehlich was first runner up with other finalists listed. The pageant included evening gown talent and Oktoberfest costume segments with a swimsuit session for judges earlier. Delta Zeta sisters sponsored Deniger and cheered as she received a standing ovation.
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la Crosse Tribune
Rita Deniger
la Crosse State University
Ithe
Miss Deniger
Ronald Harvey
Milwaukee
John Swickard
Delta Zeta Sorority
Patrolman Shot Dead in Atlantic City Standoff
Patrolman John Burke age 27 was killed by a shotgun blast when he stopped two men for questioning in Atlantic City. Burke, a two year veteran and K 9 unit member, died of a neck wound as a suspect fled. a warrant was issued for Clarence D Holmes 22. Thor the police dog remained tied in the wagon.
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Atlantic City
N.J
John Burke
Burke
Thor
Clarence D. Holmes
White
Greene County
Kansas City
Burt C. Hurn
U.S
Springfield
Nasser Laid To Rest As Arabs Mourn Leader
In Cairo Gamal Abdel Nasser was buried after a moral and emotional funeral. Crowds along a 13 mile route wept as Anwar Sadat and Arab leaders Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Yasir Arafat watched the coffin draped in red white and black Egypt colors pass. Thousands filled streets near the Nile Hilton with slogans Nasser you cannot die and pictures of the fallen hero.
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Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
Egypt
Sheik
Mohammed Fahhan
al Zahan
Manshiet el Bakry Mosque
Nile
Anwar Sadat
Gamal
Tahia
Nile Bank
Jordan
Hussein
Muammar Kadafi
Sudan
Jaafar el Numairi
Alexei N. Kosygin
Haine Selassie
Ethiopia
Yasir Arafat
Nile Hilton
Old Central Repair Proposals Outlined
La Crosse area school board reviewed three renovation options for Old Central High School to become a junior high. Short term costs about 1.2 million for 900 students with 5 to 10 years of life. long term estimated at 2.3 million for 900 students with 20 to 25 years.
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse Area
Schroeder
Longfellow Junior High
Lincoln and
Longfellow
Lincoln Junior High School
Nixon and Tito greet in Kumrovec in heavy rain
In Kumrovec Yugoslavia President Nixon and Tito greeted by almost all villagers after two hours of talks in Belgrade and a rain soaked arrival. Their wives and aides traveled from Zagreb by car as bad weather blocked a planned helicopter trip. The visit focused on Middle East peace non aligned with both sides and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Indochina amid Nasser's death. Nixon also met Serbia's Dragoslav Markovic and received a bronze sculpture for the White House collection before heading to Belgrade.
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Kumrovec
Yugoslavia
Nixon
Tito
Belgrade
Zagreb
Tanjug
Middle East
Palestine
Nasser
Indochina
U.S
Dragoslav Markovic
Serbia
Serbian Council
Markovic
White House
Federal Executive Council
Springfield dynamite blast killer case hits court
Two men and a woman were charged with second degree murder in the gunfire linked explosion that killed truck driver John Galt and blasted a 21 ton dynamite load on Interstate 44 west of Springfield. Bond set at 100000 each. preliminary hearing October 21.
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Springfield
E. A. Barbour
Greene County Court
Bobby Lee Shuler
Gerald Lee Bowden
U.S. Grand Jury
Kansas City
John Galt
Oklahoma City
Interstate 44
Tri-State Motors, Inc
Joplin
Teamsters Union
R. E. Perkins
Shuler and Bowden
Teamsters Local 823
Missouri
Perkins
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Marie Beaman
Kay Froehlich
Nola Jo Starling
Miss Beaman
Patricia Hicks
Jacqueline Flach
Tribune
Steve Noffke
LCU
Anthony Deniger
Cop
By Nick Luddington
By Robin Thompson
Nixons
Galt
Tennessee
Highway Patrol
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