Baldus Raises Campaign Funds Amid Labor and Farm Support
In Wisconsin, Rep. Alvin Baldus reports 30,231 raised since the primary with unions contributing nearly 9,000 and two farm groups giving 5,000. Total receipts reach 76,124, while expenditures total 63,128. His GOP challenger Dr Adolf Gundersen shows 158,536 in receipts and 135,426 spent.
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Madison
Wis
Alvin Baldus
Federal Election Commission
State Elections Board
Baldus
Menomonie
Adolf Gundersen
la Crosse
Gundersen
Agricultural and Dairy Education Political Trust
Springfield
Special Political Agricultural Community Education Committee
Louisville
National Education Association
Washington
Communications Workers of America
United Steelworkers of America
Student pilot lands on plane after strike accident
A Cessna 150 piloted by a student touched down on top of a stationary Cessna 120 carrying Dr. and Mrs. Dale Holterman of Kansas City Kansas. The incident involved He Could Stop On A Dime Or A Plane of Eright's Flying Service and occurred during a landing sequence.
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Eright
Dale Holterman
Kansas City
Kan
Quie Plans Campaign Caravan Through three Minnesota counties
U.S. Representative Albert H. Quie seeks reelection and will tour Houston Fillmore and Winona Counties this week. The Oct 19 itinerary includes Houston at 8 p.m Hokah 9 a.m Brownsville 9 45 a.m La Crescent 10 30 a.m lunch and press conference Caledonia 1 15 p.m Eitzen Senior Center 3 p.m Spring Grove 4 30 p.m. Wednesday covers Fillmore County and Thursday Winona County with a dense morning route and a 4 30 p.m. Winona stop followed by a 2 30 p.m. Altura 3 30 p.m. Minnesota City 4 p.m. Goodview and a 4 30 p.m. final stop in Winona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
Houston
Fillmore
Winona
Hokah
Brownsville
la Crescent
Caledonia
Eitzen Senior Citizen Center
Spring Grove
Fillmore County
Winona County
Assembly
West Gate
Homer
Pickwick
Dakota
Nadine
Ridgeway
Wilson
Wyattville
Stockton
Lewiston
Utica
St. Charles
Elba
Altura
Rollingstone
Minnesota City
Goodview
Education Board To Get Report On New High School
The La Crosse Area Public School District Board of Education will hear a progress report on a new North Side high school and a Long Range Planning Committee update at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium. Superintendent Balts will address the Logan High School Steering Committee’s $7.2 million facility plan and potential added costs of $1.25 million for site acquisition, demolition, and fill dirt at the Midwest Foundry site, 1500 Prospect Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Side
Long Range Planning Committee
la Crosse Area
Swanson Field
Senate fund race narrows in Wisconsin district 32 contest
In Wisconsin Senate District 32 the race tightens as Democrat Paul Offner and Republican Douglas Farmer report donations from La Crosse. Farmer lists 13887 in contributions with 8960 net expenditures while Offner has 11895 in contributions and 6424 net expenditures. Ellison trails with 469 raised.
Campaign finance in Wisconsin assembly races update
In the 95th district race Democrat John Medinger and Republican Charles Whaley report $6,000 spent and $10,121 raised to date. Whaley leads with $3,662 in expenses and $6,121 in receipts, Medinger $2,669 spent and $4,197 received. Contributors include state and local party committees, PACs, and individual donors from La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, and beyond, with multiple donors listed for 92nd 96th and 91st district contests.
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Madison
Wis
Paul Offner
John Medinger
Charles Whaley
la Crosse
State Elections Board
Medinger
Whaley
Med
Gerhard Monson
Mike
Sandra Hammes
Onalaska
Randy Larson
Robert Jansky
Jerome and
Bernice Medinger
Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee
Racine
Steelworkers Legislative Fund
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Afl-Cio
Virgil Roberts
D-Holmen
Roberts
Fred Schomberg
West Salem
GOP
the Realtors
Robert Quackenbush
Rsparta
Quackenbush
Kevin Clark
Tomah
Life Underwriters Political Action Committee
Wisconsin Dental
Green Bay
Concerned Business and Industry
Republican Assembly
Neillsville
Juneau County
Republican Party
Wayne Dickinson
Sparta
Clark
Assembly
Democratic Caucus
Democrats
Monroe County
John D. Rice
David Harnisch
State Capitol
Bernard Lewison
R-Viroqua
Lewison
Wisconsin Dental Political Action Committee
Palmer Munson
la Farge
Munson
Vernon County
Democratic Party
Grant County
91St
Steve Gunderson
Rossel
Gunderson
Republican Assembly Campaign Committee
Eau Claire County
Republican Club
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Drury Bagwell
Greenbelt
Hallie Nordhagen
Whitehall
Maynard Clipper
Fred Berns
Pigeon Falls
Roger Swett
Abner Thompson
Reynolds Tomter
Jerome Puchalla
John Mathson
Eugene Krohn
Black River Falls
Shari Gunderson
Osseo
Esther Gunderson
Richard Buckley
Samuel Gratz
Tommy Thompson
Thompson
Wisconsin Dells
Ben and
Shirley Olson
Peter Helland
Robette Helland
William Hutchins
John Anchor
Kenneth and
Lucille Foster
John Dixon
Charles Thompson
Dianne Thompson
Coulee Region apples escape cold snap impact
In La Crescent Minnesota orchards report no damage from the weekend cold spell. Temperatures fell to 29 degrees Saturday and 30 on ridges Sunday and Monday, but cloud cover helped keep temps above danger. Most picking finished or near completion, with several orchards wrapping up and offering later "pick your own" events.
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LA Crescent
Minn. Coulee
Gordon Yates
Fruit Acres Orchard
Fruit Acres
Lautz
North Ridge
Robert ‘ Sacia
Galesvn
Robert Meyer
Kickapoo Orchards
Gays Mills
Gays Mills Ridge
State Civil Servants Measure Up In Pay
The U S Civil Service Commission reports Wisconsin state employees including administrators professionals and technicians earn competitive salaries. In 44 of 102 job categories Wisconsin rankings were among the top ten while nine paid below average. Social workers accountants nurses conservation specialists and safety personnel led in pay. purchasing directors administrative law referees and computer operators trailed. Data reflect information gathered in August.
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Washington
Wisconsin
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Fund Transfer Questioned Over Thomson Committee Funds
Alan C. Cole, treasurer of the dissolved People for Congressman Thomson Committee, asks the FEC to confirm legality of transferring over 7000 to Adolf Gundersen for Congress. The committee, now inactive since 1974, says the funds were donated per policy to Gundersen and other candidates, while questions arise about multicandidate status and proper distribution timing.
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People For Congressman
Thomson Committee
Adolf Gundersen
Congress
Jack Anderson
Alan C. Cole
Cole
Federal Election Commission
FEC
Thomson
Gundersen
U.S
William A. Steiger
Robert W. Kasten Jr
Harold V. Froelich
Wisconsin
Belden Bell
Indiana
David Metzger
Baldus
People For
Metzger
Richard M. Nixon
Vern
Road Plan For Blue Lake Widening Near La Crescent
The Minnesota Highway Department seeks a permit to place 52 500 cubic yards of fill in Blue Lake to widen Highway 61. The plan includes replacing four 11 foot lanes with four 12 foot lanes and a 4 foot raised median with a 16 foot raised median. It also calls for replacing 10 foot aggregate shoulders with 10 foot bituminous shoulders for bicycle use.
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Minnesota Highway Department
Blue Lake
la Crescent
Highway
Army Corps of Engineers
Highway Department
Commercal Road
Corps
St. Paul
Corps of Engineers
Post Office
Custom House
St. Paul, Minn
UW-L Staffer Wins Supplemental Grant
The director of minority studies at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse receives a 28,310 grant supplement to his 90,000 NEH funded project. George Carter will expand research on black abolitionists 1830 to 1860, add three assistants, and extend study to Canada and Great Britain over about five years. The grant comes from NHPRC and NEH.
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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
George Carter
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
National Archives
National Endowment For the Humanities
Carter
Canada
Great Britain
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LaCrosse Tribune
Glenwood City
St. Croix County
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Congress Fund
O'Nell
Massachusetts
Retail Clerks International Association
Active Ballot Club
Citizens
Eleanor Barrett
Eau Claire
Mayor Maior
Engineers Political Education Committee
International Ladies Garment Workers Union Campaign Committee
New York
Maintenance of Way Political League
Detroit
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
Political Education Fund
The
Building and Construction Trades
American Postal Workers Union
Sheet Metal Workers International Association
Transportation Political Education League
Cleveland
John and Francis Furlong
University of Wisconsin-Stout
al Laichmayer
James Sperstad
Lloyd Milavitz
Maldren
Arlen Ebright
Senate
Douglas Farmer
Farmer
Offner
Keith Ellison
American Party
James Wiffler
Tribune
Wiffler
la Crosse County
Republican Voluntary Committee
Republican Party of
Senate Republican Committee
Wisconsin Bankers Political Action Committee
Manawa
Roger Binsfield
Kenneth Cvikota
George de Dakis
Phyllis Hopkins
Ann Johns
Allen Macha
Gerald Ostreng
Frederick Pederson
Don Rundle
Marvin Schirmacher
John Sherman
Larry Tooke
Stanley Peterson
Charles Walter
James Bigley
Viroqua
Rylla Bosshard
Bangor
Russell Hanson
Westby
James Hennen
Edwin Knutson
L. V. Knutson
Calvin Marx
Kenneth Oftedahl
Oliver Smith
Menasha
Leila Slayton
Dennis Wood
Wisconsin Education Association
Wisconsin Physicians Poliicial Action Committee
Milwaukee Professional Firefighters
Donald Stulken
al Lahmayer
George Giley
A. Erik Gundersen
Ron Harmon
Jean Helliesen
Karen Hoel
Alvin Larson
Robert Mulder
Roger Roslansky
Richard Schwarz
Dallas Weekley
Roger LeGrand
William Kisken
Larry Lindesmith
Allen Brailey
Stoddard
Tom Olson
Richard Vines
State
Democratic Party Committee
Ellison
Bill Upham
Bill Riley
Don Clarkin
Elmer Frey
Marshfield
George Frost
Richard Foss
Harold Hoffman
Carol Jensen
Schomberg
Fred Barge
Barge
Macha
H.W. Drecktrah
Adolph Marking
Thomas Sprain
Bernice Walter
James Morzinski
Coulee Region
Michael Solovey
Manston
Renato Baylon
Oxford
Chester Kempley
Montello
William Kempley
Wisconsin Realtors
Vernon Thomson
D-Menomonie
Susan Tifft
Uw-L
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