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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1965
Page
3
Mrs. E. R. Schultz of 3525 Lake Shore Drive is recovering after heart surgery performed Tuesday at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston Texas.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller argues Wisconsin should follow New York in a state aided local pollution program. He spoke at Wisconsin's Water Resource Management Conference as 500 attendees heard about debt limits, local funding, tax exemptions, and coordinated water management across ground water and surface water.
The School Librarians Association of Western Wisconsin gathers at West Salem High School on Saturday October 16 with sessions 8 30 a m to 2 p m. Guest speaker is August Derleth and a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction official will also speak. About 275 student librarians teachers advisers and librarians from 32 western Wisconsin schools are expected.
Four star General William Westmoreland saluted the Hello Dolly cast in a combat zone curtain speech. Mary Martin cried as Westmoreland praised the troupe for morale boosting shows in Bien Hoa Nha Trang Tan Son Nhut Saigon and thanked them for their service to U.S. troops.
The Navy has restored a policy allowing sole surviving sons to be kept out of combat. Eligible personnel must request noncombat assignments and may be released once enlistment terms end. The policy, canceled over three years ago, covers families depleted by service incidents since 1940. Navy also pledges favorable handling for Viet Nam tours and discourages second assignments within three years unless volunteered or approved.
Carl A. Johnson 31 pleaded guilty to third degree murder and assault in a Mankato district court for the shootings that killed Judith Brown and Perne Silvernale and wounded Vernon Pesciges. Judge Barbeau imposed concurrent 25 year terms, with a five year term for the wounding, after medical and psychiatric evidence showed lack of premeditation.
Soviet author Mikhail Sholokhov, famed for Quiet Flows the Don, won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy praised his epic depiction of Russian history and the dignity of the Soviet people, noting his distance from ideological commentary.
William C. Morgan, credited with inventing the ice cream bar in 1908 in Bellingham Washington, died of a stroke in a Glendale California hospital at age ninety. A family spokesman said he patented the treat and later sold the patent to Good Humor Co.
James P Richardson of St Paul, 43, was appointed by Gov. Karl Rolvaag as the governor's news secretary. A University of Minnesota journalism graduate, he has 14 years in media and six years as copy chief of Fischbein Advertising in Minneapolis. He replaces Joe Scislowicz. Richardson and his wife Joan have nine children.
A fire nine miles northeast of Prairie du Chien destroyed a log and frame farm home leaving Pat Nagle and 12 of his 13 children homeless. The youngest is 2 1/2 and the oldest serves in the armed forces. Mrs Nagle died two years ago. Firefighters saved other farm buildings. Cause undetermined. Donations sought at Hazen Hardware Wauzeka and Spring Brook Cheese rural Wauzeka for clothing bedding and food.
In Crawford County Wisconsin a two car collision on State Highway 60 near Boscobel at 9 30 p m left Howard Withee 56 Gays Mills with chest and leg injuries and Mrs Marcella Yahn 47 Boscobel with face elbow and abdominal injuries Both were hospitalized and Mrs Yahn s 14 year old son riding with her was uninjured The Yahn car struck the Withee car which had been stopped in the right lane A heavy fog was reported in the area Trade note follows unrelated to the crash.
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