Central High Celebrates Homecoming Queen Crowned
Central High crowned Cathy Carlsson queen of the 1970 homecoming at a pep assembly. Court members include Amy Cordova Elsa Cremer Kathy Noel and Teresa Silberschmidt. The Ugly Man Award went to James McDowell. A 7:30 p.m. football game with Eau Claire North at Memorial Field follows a 6:30 p.m. parade and a dance in the gym after the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathy Carlsson
E. S. Carlsson
N. 16Th St
Central High School
Amy Cordova
Daniel Cordova
Terrace Drive
Elsa Cremer
G. William Cremer
Cedar Road
Kathy Noel
Marilyn Noel
Farnam St
Teresa Silberschmidt
Robert Silberschmidt
Hoeschler
Clifford Venne
Central High
Walter
Babe) Weigent
James McDowell
Lettermen
Central
Eau Claire North
Memorial Field
County Awards Pact For Highway Salt
La Crosse County awards a one year road salt contract to Diamond Crystal Salt Co. after bids from four firms. Lowest bids were for county pickup at Diamond Crystal and Cargill, but Diamond Crystal was chosen because pickup is in La Crosse, saving about one dollar per ton versus last year. Orrin Young notes the Diamond price is roughly one dollar lower than the previous year.
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la Crosse County
la Crosse
Cargill
Winona
Minn
Diamond Crystal
Highway Committee
Orrin Young
27Th Dist
County Eyes Changes In Civil Defense Post
La Crosse County boards discuss making civil defense coordinator post full time with a $600 monthly salary and renaming civil defense to emergency government in ordinance changes. Other measures include staffing flexibility for the guidance clinic, clerk-stenographer addition, juror pay increases, surveyor office rules, and a disability retirement for traffic officer Jack Haack. Jury awards total $16,741.84 to Hokah man in a separate civil suit.
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la Crosse County
Law Enforcement Committee
Merritt Gibson
4Th Dist
Fred Lehmeier
Gibson
Civil Defense Organization
Civil Defense
Hokah, Minn
Uni
Neglieannan Damarnasi
Arthur McBain
Dist
Jack L. Haack
Jerome Klos
Redevelopment Authority to buy Ross Furniture lot in Harborview plan
The La Crosse Redevelopment Authority voted to purchase the Ross Furniture Co. parking lot and warehouse at State and Front Streets for 68400. The authority pays 24000 for real estate and 43500 as severance pay for loss of business operations. A city relocation plan contract was approved, with up to 6000 paid over two years, and a required plan will be prepared through a contracted entity.
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la Crosse
Common Council
Kentucky governors number counted at fifty by Frankfort
Governor Frankfort reports that fifty men have held the office of governor in Kentucky. The detail appears in a brief AP dispatch noting the long line of leaders in the state.
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Frankfort, Ky
Kentucky
State Prison Escapee Held In Canada
La Crosse man John Eno 1714 Lakeshore Drive captured in Vancouver British Columbia on robbery assault auto theft and kidnapping charges. He escaped Oregon Prison Farm July 27 after wounding Police Officer Lowell Rank August 26 1969 and was arrested with two companions. Canadian case may affect extradition. Rank injured when Eno struck him and left before officers resecured him.
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la Crosse
Vancouver
British Columbia
Ray Lichtie
John Eno
Lakeshore Drive
Lichtie
Eno
Oregon
Lowell Rank
Winnebago St
Rank
Front Street
Wisconsin
Ieek
Board approves rezoning for factory in Onalaska
La Crosse County Board approved Clark Knudtson to rezone about two acres along County Highway 7N west of Midway in Onalaska from agricultural to industrial to aid a weight reducing equipment factory expansion by Douglas Dale. The board denied Florence Endres rezoning for a six unit residential building on Bainbridge Street citing inadequate side yard and vague size details.
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la Crosse
Onalaska
Campbell
Clark Knudtson
Midway
Maynard Stratman
Knudtson
Douglas Dale
Holmen
Florence Endres
Bainbridge Street
Stratman
Zoning Adjustment Board
Short Stresses Law and Order by Optimists Candidate
Ray Short, Democratic candidate for Congress from the 3rd District, told the La Crosse Optimist Club in Stoddard Hotel that no society survives without responsible law and order. He argued that without order only criminals have freedom and pledged to push for secret yet just laws and strict enforcement while protecting both the law-abiding and the accused.
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Ray Short
Congress
3Rd
la Crosse Optimist Club
Stoddard Hotel
Short
Lab relocation studied for fish control chemicals
La Crosse representatives and Rep Vernon Thomson met at Cartwright Center to discuss moving the U S Fish Control Laboratory and the joint role La Crosse State College will play. Officials stressed the need for safe, rigorous chemical testing for fish culture and river ecology, noting the FAO study and ongoing industry withdrawal of harmful chemicals.
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U.S. Fish Control Laboratory
Riverside Park
Robert E. Lennon
Vernon Thomson
Roy Heath
Madison
State University Board of Regents
Raymond Johnson
Washington
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
James H. Erickson
la Crosse State University
T Tribune
Vernon ‘Thomson
R-Richland Center
Cartwright Center
la Crosse State
LCU
Wisconsin Building Commission
French Island
Direcor
la Crosse Laboratory
Joseph Hunn
Richard Schoettger
Youth Guilty Of Burglary Sentenced To Reformatory
A La Crosse youth pled guilty to burglary and was sentenced by County Judge Leonard Roraff to four years in the Green Bay Reformatory with a recommendation for job training. Robert R. Shaffer, 20, and two others admitted to the Aug. 29 burglary of Schlicht's Select Sausage. Shaffer received a four year term after a probation report conflicted, while the other two youths, David Sack and Bruce E. Syverson, were placed on two years probation.
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la Crosse
Leonard Roraff
Green Bay Reformatory
Burleigh Randolph
Robert R. Shaffer
Liberty St
Randolph
Shaffer
Schlicht
Gillette St
Edward Orman
Alastair Burnett
Patrick Doyle
Doyle
Charles Cooke
David Sack
Island St
Bruce E. Syverson
Palace St
County Policy On Ambulances Reaffirmed
La Crosse County Board reaffirmed equipping patrol squad cars as ambulances, with 24 hour readiness and officer first aid training. Merritt Gibson led the resolution amid opposition from James Grenisen who wondered about sending ambulances out of the county.
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la Crosse
Gibson
James Grenisen
18Th Dist
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Luther Royalty
Kathy Carlsson
la Crosse Central High School
Bers
Cathy Noel
Onalaska Luther High School
Brenda Blaske
Denton St
Kathryn Roraff
Losey Blvd. S
Margie Cox
Tomah
Julie Ford
Madison St
Karen Schlicht
Sue Schreiber
S. 22Nd St
Luther Seneca High
Tribune
Hokah
Ene
Guidance Clinic
Guidance Committee
Robert Frederick
34Th Dist
Frederick
BruCe Auaillage
James Rice
Sparta
Bernard Witt
Hilger P. Martell
H. P. Martell and Sons, General Contractors
Witt
5Th and
Market Sts
Martell
Swanson Heavy Moving Co
Carl Schnick
Catherine Bustle
Starlite Drive
Irene Dansberry
Weston St
Dorothy J. Evans
S. 28Th St
Rose L. Haas
Cameron Ave
Gregory B. Hegenbarth
5Th Ave. S
Helen M. Kline
Hyde Ave
Eva Maier
Diagonal Road
Verna Marlow
West Ave. S
William Schams Sr
Evelyn M. Strehl
Janice ‘E. Wiegand
Kane St
Harry C. Wittenberg
Loomis St
Authority
Sletten Furniture
Caledonia Street
Danny
Che la Crosse Tribune
Canada
Mormon Coulee Road
Holy Cross Seminary
Kenneth G. Brown
la Crosse Tribune
World Food and Agricultural Organization
FAO
United Nations
Lennon
Europe
Rome
LCU Graduate School
Fish Control Laboratory
Thomas Claflin
LCU Biology Department
Mississippi River
The
Jim Klobuchar
Richard Condon
China
G. Bernard Hughes
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