IRS Takes Interest In Klan Records
House investigators pressed James Robert Jones for tax returns and robe sale details as he refused to answer, citing self incrimination. Chairman Willis warned of possible contempt while Shelton defended the Klan and promised more comment after hearings.
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IRS
Klan Records
Washington
James Robert Jones
Jones
North Carolina
United Klans of America
Internal Revenue Service
Edwin E. Willis
Dla
House Committee On UN - American Activities
Willis
Salisbury
Robert M. Shelton
Charges, Replies Swapped By Fest Board, Petruccelli
Oktoberfest board members accuse Chamber of Commerce manager D J Petruccelli of withholding 1964 financial report copies. Petruccelli replies that a complete 1964 fest audit by Jerry Morrison was prepared and distributed to directors, with year end and calendar year audits filed with the chamber office.
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Fest Board
Petruccelli
Thomas
Dugan
Jerry Morrison
Certified Public Accountant
Morrison
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Board
Oktoberfest Board
Chamber
Oktoberfest Corporation
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest Board of Directors
Bruce Hines
Petrucelli
Brewery official defends Oktoberfest financing and controls
Russell Cleary of G Heileman Brewing Co and Oktoberfest Corp director responds to La Crosse Tribune allegations. He says by laws place management with the festival board, notes active community backing by Heileman, and cites approval of travel expense payments totaling up to 100 dollars monthly for Robert Abbott and other chamber directors. An audit request and expense accounts are discussed, with Petruccelli noting the board and audit timelines.
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Russell Cleary
G. Heileman Brewing Co
Oktoberfest Corporation
la Crosse Tribune
Heileman
Heileman’s
Chamber of Commerce
Industrial Development Council
Boy ‘Scouts
Senior Citizens Board
Petruccelli
Champer of Commerce Executive Committee
Robert Abbott
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Smyth
D. B. Reinhart
Gateway Grocery Co
Alex Skover
Machine Products Inc
Philip Davy
Davy Engineering Co
Donald Hansen
The
la Crosse Telephone Corp
Johnson Gets Green Light to Quit Hospital
President Johnson received full clearance from doctors to leave Bethesda Naval Hospital where he had gall bladder and kidney stone surgery. He planned a visit with wounded Marines and a period of reduced activity at the White House before weeks of recuperation, likely at his Texas ranch.
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Johnson
Washington
Viet Nam
White House
Texas
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Lyndon B. Johnson
Midwest earthquake rattles eight states across region
An earthquake shook at least eight states from Kansas to Kentucky and Tennessee, lingering up to 14 minutes on a St Louis University seismograph. Magnitude 4.5 to 5, centered near the Kansas Missouri border, felt from Chicago to Memphis with minor damage reported.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Midwest
St. Louis University
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Carl Kisslinger
Kisslinger
St. Louis
Kansas-Missouri Border
James Peoples
Chicago
Memphis
Omaha
Unemployment at six year low in Milwaukee area
The State Employment Service reports Milwaukee Waukesha and Ozaukee counties had 2.1 percent unemployment last month the lowest in six years. Jobs climbed to 547 800 an all time high for the three counties.
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Milwaukee
State Employment Service
Waukesha
Ozaukee
Young Husband Who Gave Kidney To Wife Dies
James Hardesty aged 25 of Lead, South Dakota died in Minneapolis after a kidney ailment. Seven months earlier he donated a kidney to his wife Virginia, 21, who remains in satisfactory condition in the same hospital.
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Minneapolis
James Hardesty
Hardesty
Virginia
La Crosse Board Expands North Side Supervisors
La Crosse County Board voted to amend its reapportionment ordinance increasing North Side representation from five to six supervisors while preserving six seats for the area. The Evjen amendment creates a southeast district in the 9th Ward area as part of the reallocation.
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse County
la Crosse
North Side
South Side
Harold Evjen
la Crosse 9Th Ward
Evjen
Evien amendment passes amid ward boundary dispute
Supervisors approve the Evien amendment by 20 to 18 despite objections that it disrupts a La Crosse Common Council plan to create wards with equal population to supervisor districts. Opponents say the North Side districts will have less population than South Side ones, violating state apportionment rules and bypassing city consultation, with Supervisor Robert Frederick Town remarking on being forced to 22 aldermen without discussion. Jerome Kios notes board coverage on page 2.
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Evien
la Crosse
North Side
South Side
Robert Frederick Town
Shelby
Jerome Kios
West Salem
Prairie Man Dies In One Car Crash Near Montfort
Henry M. Wachter 65 a lifetime Prairie du Chien resident died Wednesday in a one car rollover two miles north of Montfort on the Grant Iowa County line. He worked for Ridge Motor Co after retiring from farming. Service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter's Lutheran Prairie du Chien with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. He is survived by Elizabeth his widow two sons William and Donald two sisters Naomi Gallagher and Ruth Wilkinson and six grandchildren.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Henry M. Wachter
Montfort
Grant- Iowa
Wachter
Ridge Motor Co
Dodgeville
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of
W. A. Bodamer
Evergreen Cemetery
Lake-Thornburg
Elizabeth
William
Donald
Naomi Gallagher
Marquette
Iowa
Ruth Wilkinson
Mason City
Wisconsin Toll Tops Eight Hundred As Three Die In Accidents
The Wisconsin 1965 highway toll rose to 804 after three fatal crashes. Virginia Sundstrom, 6, of rural Bristol, was fatally struck by a car on Kenosha County Trunk near 15 miles west of Kenosha. John A. Reamer of Oshkosh died in a collision of his car and a truck on Highway 10 near Amherst in Portage County.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Virginia Sundstrom
Bristol
Kenosha County
Kenosha
John A. Reamer
Oshkosh
Highway 10
Amherst
Portage County
Senate Confirms Reynolds Nomination as Federal Judge
The Senate confirmed President Johnson's nomination of John W. Reynolds of Wisconsin to be a U.S. district judge for Eastern Wisconsin. Senator Gaylord Nelson praised the swift action and Reynolds confidence in enhancing Wisconsin's legal history and federal justice system.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
John W. Reynolds
Wisconsin
U.S
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Nelson
John Reynolds
General Greene attacks antiwar protesters hypocrisy
Marine Corps Commandant Wallace M. Greene Jr. calls draft age youths hypocritical for opposing Vietnam policy and urges them to volunteer for humanitarian programs. He challenges activists to demonstrate Good Samaritan acts before criticizing policy. The same day SDS proposes public service as a draft alternative.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Wallace M. Greene Jr
Greene
Southeast Asia
Defense Supply Association
Students For A Democratic Society
Peace Corps
Paul Booth
Hoffa Used Union Funds for Three Criminal Trials
The Labor Department says Teamsters President James R. Hoffa drew $570,396 from union funds to cover three criminal trials over the past three years. The figure, from Teamster records, spans a 1962 Nashville kickback case, a 1964 Chattanooga jury tampering trial, and a 1964 Chicago pension fund fraud case. Hoffa has appealed both convictions and remains free.
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Labor Dept
Hoffa
Washington
Labor Department
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Union
Treasury
Department
Teamster
Seymour Spelman
Philadelphia
Spelman
Nashville
Tenn
Chattanooga
Chicago
Teamster Pension Fund
Workman Walks Out With Five Mink Coats
Five mink coats valued at 6875 dollars were stolen Tuesday by a thief who posed as a workman and left the H.C. Prange department store in a large cardboard box. Clerks reported seeing a man in work clothes in the fur department around 5 30 p m Tuesday.
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Sheboygan
H.C. Prange
Fur
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