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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1965
Page
2
At the Vatican Ecumenical Council the conservative bloc failed to block the declaration on non Christians. The assembly approved the section on Jews with the rest of the non Christian sections by a wide margin, while critics urged stronger language including the word deicide which the latest draft omits.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk opposed seating Red China at the United Nations, arguing it would encourage Beijing's strategy of violence and threaten peace in Southeast Asia. He cited North Vietnamese aggression and U.S. need to act for freedom, amid campus protests and debate over U.N. seating.
The program expands Wisconsin based units including 24 National Guard detachments totaling 4 288 men and 11 reserve outfits totaling 1 721 men The bulk comes from the 32nd Infantry Division Wisconsin National Guard with four 20 company elements and four companies from the 173rd Engineer Battalion Atalaska The plan increases drills from about 48 per year to four hour sessions and prioritizes new equipment plus state employers are urged to ease training hardships by Governor Warren Knowles who recalls the Berlin Crisis of 1961 62 as a contrast
The State Board of Public Welfare will hold hearings October 27 and 28 in Eau Claire and Wausau for 25 northern Wisconsin counties seeking the state’s third school for delinquent boys. Forty eight proposed sites across the counties are in contention.
The state water pollution committee ordered cities and villages in Columbia Juneau Mondoe Vernon Sauk counties to stop polluting the Wisconsin Baraboo and Lemonweir rivers and tributaries. Deadlines for 1967 and 1968 require submitting improvement plans or installing treatment facilities. Named places include Wisconsin Dells Tomah New Lisbon Manston Elroy Reedsburg Baraboo Hillsboro and several villages and facilities.
Carl A. Johnson a 31 year old Mankato attorney pleaded guilty to two counts of third degree murder for the March 8 double slaying of Judith Brown and Perne Silvernale. He received maximum 25 year terms on each murder count to run concurrently and five years on an assault charge.
At the Wisconsin Water Management Conference two governors and a former conservation commissioner urged a massive coordinated effort to protect water resources. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller gave the keynote on Water Resource Planning and Wisconsin Governor Warren Knowles opened with remarks on shared responsibility and cooperative pollution control.
Washington reports the Defense Department designated National Guard and Reserve units to a combat readiness level. Minnesota lists units such as the 47th Infantry Division and various detachments at Fort Snelling Faribault Duluth and Willmar with totals. South Dakota units include Engr Bn and Transp Co at Rapid City Brookings and Sioux Falls. North Dakota and Iowa units are named with cities and detachments totaling about 1 080 officers and soldiers.
The Tomah Common Council authorized Eau Claire attorney Edwin Larkin to appeal Monroe County Court's ruling voiding a gasoline delivery ordinance. The city will pay 237 for transcript fees and 200 for other costs, plus a refund of 876.95 from First National Bank of Milwaukee for interest paid in error on a 220000 bond issue.
Prime Minister Jan Smith postponed a declaration of independence for Rhodesia after a Cabinet meeting. He said further discussion was needed and avoided pledging a break with Britain while noting room for negotiations could mislead the country. Smith welcomed Sir Robert Menzies’ invitation and stressed caution toward other Commonwealth leaders.
A University of Washington spokesman says a few students may participate but no campus action is expected. The University of Colorado chapter of the Student Peace Union plans a demonstration Friday and a picket of the Army ROTC drill with peace signs. A counter demonstration with speakers urging victory is also reported.
A reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Atlantic to assess Elena the fifth tropical storm of the season. Elena had winds of 35 to 50 mph in squalls near its center and was located about 750 miles east northeast of San Juan Puerto Rico and 1,600 miles east southeast of Miami.
Tiny tablet diet product offered without prescription promises rapid fat loss and longer life. Priced at $3.00 with a full money back guarantee if unsatisfied. Sold by Spell's Drug Stores at 501 Main and 1128 Gillette with mail orders available.
In Wisconsin Rapids area, an oil incident at the Nekoosa Edwards Paper Co. mill left one man dead and four hospitalized after inhaling sewer gas. Deputy coroner Dr. L R Pfeiffer said the source of the gas was not immediately determined and the four survivors were reported as doing well. The deceased's name was not released pending kin notification.
Green Bay AP report says Felix Rangel and Leland Stebbins, first escapees from the Wisconsin State Reformatory in nine years, were tracked to a field seven miles from the prison. Rangel, 30, Dallas Texas, and Stebbins, 34, Pardeeville, faced serious injuries after a fall and had hidden near a cave. Rangel was serving 15 years for attempted murder. Stebbins four years for burglary and theft.
President Johnson, describing his Bethesda Naval Hospital stay, says the surgery was necessary in a brief remark relayed by White House press secretary Bill Moyers. The comment came when reporters asked for the president's own description of his experience.
Partly cloudy with little temperature change tonight and Friday. Lows in the 40s, highs in the mid 60s, with a mild Saturday outlook. Wisconsin shows fair conditions in the west and possible showers in the east, Minnesota mostly fair then increasing clouds and a few showers, and Iowa partly cloudy with thunderstorms in the east and south.
Central Telephone 4614-47 Clark Oil Ref 33-34 First Bank Stock 40-407s Frantz Mfg 15-16. Ember listings show Shearson Hammill & Co quotations and market pricing across multiple securities.
AP dispatch summarizes midweek cattle hog and sheep quotes from Milwaukee and South St. Paul venues. It lists price ranges for steers heifers cows bulls calves veal hogs and lambs with regional notes and broadcasting hours from Swift & Company Winona Minnesota and USDA reports.
Foreigners in Leopoldville expressed dismay at the replacement of Premier Moise Tshombe by Evariste Kimba. Congolese reactions varied from alarm to relief as President Kasavubu dismissed Tshombe after 15 months and asked Kimba to form a new government amid recent political instability.
Madison AP reports twenty five inmates from the Green Bay reformatory will work as apple pickers for two weeks starting Monday. Sanger Powers says the plan lets state inmates aid Door County growers after heavy rains delayed harvests and schoolers were unavailable. Inmates will be paid the prevailing wage and earnings held until release.
Chicago Chicago AP reports no wheat or oats sales. Corn No 2 yellow 1.26, No 3 yellow 1.24,4-24%4. soybeans No 3 yellow 2.40 and soybean oil 11.55.
Three French professors Francois Jacob Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod share the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine at Stockholm. The Pasteur Institute Paris researchers receive 282 000 crowns for discoveries on the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis and the coordination of genetics microbiology and biochemistry.
A box of checks stolen during a Sept 16 or 17 break in at Ziebell's IGA Foodliner was found near the Mississippi River West Channel bridge in La Crosse. Harold D. Joyce, 21, a former Duluth man, confessed to multiple break ins and was questioned in Albert Lea, Minn. A detainer requests holding Joyce for La Crosse police after disposal of an Owatonna burglary charge.
Madison Democrat David Carley will depart Friday to join a U S team at a conservation resource conference in Argentina. The White House asked him to serve on the Udall led group studying renewable resources in the Western Hemisphere. Carley, former Wisconsin Resource Development director, is viewed as a potential 1966 Democratic governor candidate.
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