Fans Bid Goodbye to Delta Queen in Farewell Run
Hundreds of La Crosse residents gathered as Americas last overnight Mississippi River steamboat the Delta Queen arrived for its farewell journey. The four deck vessel with a red paddle wheel docked at Riverside Park after a quick run aided by clear skies and empty locks, marking a bittersweet festival and funeral for boating fans.
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Tribune
Edward M. Huebner
Delta Queen
LA Crosse
St. Paul
la Crosse Tribune
America
Mississippi River Bridge
Riverside Park
Ernest Wagner
U.S
Mississippi
Mark Twain
Irving Pertzsch
Onalaska
Ruth Hutchison
Orleans
Greater
Robert E. Lee
Dixie
O Susanna
Roger Johnson
Houston County Historical Society
Caledonia, Minn
Quebec manhunt expands as FLQ raids surge nationwide
Parliament backs War Measures Act revamp while Montreal clamps down and 1,627 raids sweep Quebec. Police recover evidence at a secluded St Hubert hideout linked to FLQ cell in the Laporte case. Suspects including Paul Rose and Marc Carbonneau face charges, amid broader security measures and a major public citywide sweep.
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House of Commons
Ottawa
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Commons
Allen MacEachen
Trudeau
House
New Democratic Party
New Democrats
Quebec Liberation Front
FLQ
Cross and Laporte
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
St. Hubert
Laporte
Albert Lisacek
Chenier
Paul Rose
Marc Carbonneau
Taxi Liberation Movement
U.S
Harrison Burgess
Andre Roy
Francois Lanctot
Slayings At Santa Cruz Home Shock County
Eye surgeon Victor M. Ohta his wife Virginia two sons Derik and Taggart and secretary Dorothy Cadwallader were found shot in the head and submerged in a pool as a fire destroyed the $250,000 Santa Cruz County home. A Saratoga gas station attendant Thomas S. Dececco was later found bound and fatally shot. Sheriff James said investigators doubt a link but searched the hillside area with help from state and local officials.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Saratoga
Thomas S. Dececco
Douglas James
Santa Cruz County
James
Ohtas
Taura
New York
Lark Elizabeth
California
Pittenger
Kenneth Pittenger
Victor M. Ohta
Virginia
Derik
Taggart
Ohta
Dorothy Cadwallader
Monterey Bay
Soquel
San Francisco
California 1
Air Force
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Northwestern University
Prescott girl dies after 80 foot fall near Hastings
A 16 year old from Prescott Wisconsin, Cheryl OBrien, fell about 80 feet from a cliff above the Vermilion River near Hastings. She died Sunday night after losing balance while standing near the Old Mill Park bridge with a companion.
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Hastings, Minn
Prescott
Wis
Vermillion River
Hastings
Cheryl O’brien
Segregation Suits Filed Against HEW
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues the Nixon administration charging willful failure to enforce nondiscrimination in federal education aid. Named are HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and civil rights chief J Stanley Pottinger. The suit covers 25 students in five Southern states and seeks action against districts demoting black principals segregating classrooms and hiring black teachers by race.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S. District Court
Elliot Richardson
HEW
Richardson
Budget gets committee okay for tentative tax rate rise
The La Crosse Common Council finance committee approved a tentative budget with a tax rate of 58.65 mills per $1,000 valuation, up $3.65, while resisting most restoration requests and cutting $1,990 in department funds. Public works warned that without two landfill workers dump operations may not meet state standards, and the plan includes no action on a proposed $9 motor vehicle tax.
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la Crosse
Public Works
Bob D. Schroeder
Jerome Rusch
Lee Foley
Ferdinand Sontag
Tthe Common Council
la Crosse Area
Board of Education
Donald Medinger
18Th Ward
L. Peter Groves
13Th Ward
Auditorium Board
Health Department
Schroeder
Bernard Mullenbach
Mullenbach
Roger Vogt
7Th Ward
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Pierre Laporte
James R. Cross
Ernest E. Wagner
Walter Karnath
Winona
Ohia
Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital
Eureke
Nevada
Oregon
Fall Fron Cliff
Eserenewer
By Donald W. Affolter
la Crosse Transit Co
Council
Western Wisconsin Technical Institution
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