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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1976
Page
2
The photograph titled Help Is Coming by Tribune photographer Steve Noffke earned second place in the news section category of the Inland Daily Press Association contest. The story appears on page 1.
A one car crash six miles west of Marquette on Clayton County Road D45 left five teenagers from Monona and Farmersburg hospitalized. Randy Evanson 19, Rochelle Beisker 15, Patrick Burkhart 20, Lonnie Beisker 17, and Scott Knerrster 17 sustained injuries. Evanson and Beisker facial injuries and lacerations. others had minor fractures.
Ontario Wis early Sunday a barn owned by Mr and Mrs Leonard Von Ruden rural Ontario burned after 3 am discovered by Dick Wallace of Norwalk. A bull three heifers hay milking equipment were lost. Von Ruden had been in La Crosse Lutheran Hospital since a September 7 tractor accident and was released after being told of the fire. Cause undetermined but believed from defective wiring according to Ontario fireman Jack Robinson.
A former Black River Falls man Sam Thundercloud 38 of Chicago and Priscilla Cooper 46 of Neillsville died in a Sunday morning crash on State Highway 54 about 12:30 a.m. near Black River Falls. Passenger Frank Snowball 40 of Black River Falls survived with a fractured ankle. Funeral plans are set for Thundercloud in Black River Falls and for Cooper in Neillsville. coroner D L Strandberg says no inquest. Jackson County's third and fourth traffic fatalities of 1976.
Notice provides contact numbers for missed papers and classifieds for LaCrosse Tribune. It lists 782 9710 for missed papers and 782 0060 for classified ads. The paper operates from 401 N 3rd St La Crosse Wisconsin with a two week city carrier price and a yearly mail subscription rate within 75 miles.
Three Americans, Burton Richter of Stanford and Samuel Ting of MIT share the physics prize for discovering a heavy elementary particle. William Lipscomb of Harvard wins the chemistry prize for boranes structure. Awards total 160000 dollars each, with formal ceremony December 10 in Stockholm.
Sen. Gaylord Nelson lauded small business and energy priorities from his 14 years in the U S Senate during a testimonial dinner for State Rep. Virgil Roberts in Holmen Wisconsin. He blasted large corporations for low productivity and praised relief for small firms through tax reform while noting 200 attendees at Golden Place in Holmen Square.
Campbell residents face a 7:30 p.m. meeting at Summit School to vote no on an excess tax levy and to decide on state ordered reassessment of property. Speakers include Fred Lehmeier, former town clerk, and James Moe who calls for an audit and for access to Department of Revenue forms.
The city's swine flu clinic will resume Tuesday at the City Health Department City Hall with hours 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. The same hours apply Friday. Inoculations will be given for two age groups monovalent for ages 18 to 59 and bivalent for those over 60.
Washington AP reports a Pentagon spokesman would not confirm or deny an interview in which Gen George Brown chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is quoted as saying the Israeli army is more a burden than an asset to the United States Officials are reviewing tapes of the interview taken with participant knowledge and will comment after review The interview was conducted April 12 by Ronan Rurie for King Features Syndicate.
Coast Guard officials expressed little hope of locating the 590-foot Sylvia L. Ossa and its 37 crewmen afloat after contact was lost west of Bermuda. The ship, carrying iron ore from Brazil to Philadelphia, was last heard Wednesday amid heavy gale winds. An oil slick, lifeboat, rope coil, and a sign board with OSSA were found near the last reported location.
Jerold Hammill’s kidnapping trial is postponed to December 13 as defense counsel gains time for investigations. Judge Kent Houck granted the delay after court psychiatrists did not yet provide reports to defense attorney Philip Arneson. Hammill, already serving a life term for murder, faces further trials including an Oshkosh armed robbery case.
Eight persons escaped injury when a basement bed room candle started a fire at 119 S Dousman Street in Prairie du Chien early this morning. Firemen responded at 2 15 a m to the Richard Tarr residence as flames and smoke filled the basement. The basement bed room and mattress were burned with smoke damaging the first and second floors.
Community screening titled The Explosive Emotion on aggression is sponsored by La Crosse County Volunteers for Mental Health at the Main Library from 7 to 9 p.m. No charge. A card party benefits the Twin Cities Crippled Children's Hospital runs 1 to 4 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, hosted by the La Crosse Shrine Auxiliary. UW L job UW-L student photography exhibit Photograph Show Six continues through Oct. 22 at UW-L.
In the Coulee region the Fine Arts Building and Gallery host a Tuesday Hobby Show and Bazaar in Onalaska with hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch is served. Basic round dance instruction led by Norman Indvick at Christ Episcopal Church Undercroft from 8 to 10 p.m. A film, Painters and Painting, screens at UWL Main Hall Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. with no charge.
Wisconsin and Minnesota forecasts show snow and rain across regions with varying intensity. River flood stage data for La Crosse Dresbach Winona and other stations noted. Mississippi traffic affected with discharge around 7500 cubic feet per second and towboats upriver.
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