County To Take Closer Look At Library Funding
The County Board debated future funding for the four county La Crosse Area Library System. Supervisors voted to place the county’s funding in a separate budget for closer scrutiny next year. La Crosse Monroe Trempealeau and Juneau counties share the library system with headquarters at La Crosse City Library. County funding would rise sharply for La Crosse, from 14188 to 26903, raising concerns of higher taxes. City officials oppose broadening the tax base, while the system director seeks stable funding and potential state support to ease costs.
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la Crosse Area
Area Library System
la Crosse
Monroe
Trempealeau
Juneau
City of la Crosse
la Crosse County
Area
Maynard Stratman
32Nd Dist
James White
White
Cide
Stratman
Dracula Opens UW La Crosse Season With Halloween mood
The University of Wisconsin La Crosse Toland Theatre staged Dracula as the season opener. Maidens circle a coffin as wolves, owls, and bat sounds set a eerie mood before a hand emerges from the coffin, delivering a pre Halloween frightful experience.
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Bella Lugosi
Boris Karloff
Marie Park Toland Theatre
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Development Body Malls Parking Bid Comes Under Scrutiny
The La Crosse Redevelopment Authority deferred a decision to lease or sell a 1/4 block at 2nd and State Streets. The city and its parking utility planned 1000 spaces for a department store, but Harborview Plaza Associates contract was terminated. Authorities cite a condemnation case blocking action and note large public land tracts in Harborview Plaza. Public meetings on a proposed north south expressway via Front Street and Cass Street are planned for next month. A UW La Crosse Health Club clinic offers free blood pressure screening at First National Bank.
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Front Street
Cass Street
Mississippi River
Isle la Plume
Coleman Slough
Lutheran Hospital
State Office
Harborview Plaza
Vine Street
2Nd
3Rd Streets
King Street
The
Health Club of
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
First National Bank
5Th and King Sts
Dole Remarks Spark Campaign Barbs and Local Incident
The text notes Dole’s sharp quips about Carter’s plans and Playboy interview, plus weather jests and a draft remark. It covers a motorcade traffic incident in La Crosse involving a semitrailer, and a correction about personalized license plates in Wisconsin versus Minnesota.
Prairie du Chien driver freed after truck overturns
David Heisz, 19, of Prairie du Chien escaped with minor injuries after being pinned for an hour and a half in an overturned truck on a gravel road between McGregor and Guttenberg, Iowa. Clayton County authorities freed him and he was treated at a Guttenberg hospital. the truck was a total loss.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
David Heisz
Iowa
al Schaefer
Heisz
McGregor
Guttenberg
Clayton County
Peace and Quiet Returns to Beirut Amid Cease-Fire
Moslem and Christian spokesmen report a 70 percent drop in Beirut fighting within 24 hours of the new cease-fire. No casualties in the capital, while shells hit a village market near the Israeli border. Observers credit President Elias Sarkis and Gen. Ali Shah for enforcing the truce, though fears of violations persist.
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Lebanon
Palestinian Rejection Front
Yasir Arafat
Arafat
Elias Sarkis
Saudi Arabia
Ali Shah
Hafez Assad
Damascus
No Man’s Land
Shah
Riyadh
Onalaska Residents Urge Theater, Industry and Parks
Bonsack reports survey shows demand for a movie theater in Onalaska, more shops and a fast food outlet, plus an indoor pool and east end gas station. Residents want annual Sunfish Days and a community center. Jaycees to push Quincy Street park, Sunfish Days planning, and bike safety clinics promotion. The committee will stop accepting questionnaires after today.
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Bonsack
Holmen
Onalaska
City Receives 77000 For Park Improvements
The city has received 77000 in federal funds for park improvements and a playground mobile. Two HUD community development grants fund bathrooms and shelters at Hood and Houska parks and the playground mobile, which may serve as a band shelter and be towable by a Jeep or small truck. The board also authorized officials to attend the state parks conference in Eau Claire and voted against UW-La Crosse club hockey practice at Copeland Park ice rink.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Eugene Fry
City Parks and Recreation
City Park Board
Hood and
Houska Parks
Fry
Bob Berg
Garland Amunson
State Conference of Parks and Recreation Directors
Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Copeland Park
Helgerson 78 long time custodian dies in La Crosse
Correction Oliver O Helgerson 78 of 950 Cass St was a custodian at La Crosse Trust Co for 25 years He died Wednesday Oct 20 in a La Crosse nursing home He was survived by wife Julia a sister and three brothers Services will be held at 130 PM Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery
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Oliver O. Helgerson
Cass St
la Crosse Trust Co
la Crosse
Julia
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Woodlawn
Whitehall Board and Teachers OK Tentative Pact
Whitehall Wis a tentative 1976 77 contract reached by Whitehall School Board and Whitehall Teachers Association. Base salary 8800 with 1975 76 base 8400 and range to 13344. Increments 352 360 368 376 by degree. Two year contract language to be settled. ratification pending Monday night.
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Wis
Whitehall School Board
Whitehall Teachers Association
WTA
Duck Hunter, 16, Rescued After Swim To Island
A 16 year old duck hunter from La Crescent swam to an island after his boat tipped in the Mississippi River. Michael Willford said he shed his clothes and shouted for about 30 minutes before Wayne Siegel rescued him at the Isle la Plume area and brought him to the La Crosse Municipal Dock. He was then taken to his home by the Houston County Sheriff’s department.
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Michael Willford
la Crosse
Wayne Siegel
Farnam St
la Crosse Municipal Dock
Isle la Plume
Siegel
Willford
West Channel Bridge
Houston County Sheriff's Department
Minnesota
Pre-Christmas Rush Sales Training Offered
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute offers two 12 hour pre-Christmas rush training sessions for part time retail sales jobs. Cash Register Operation covers checkout procedures and customer relations. Pre-Holiday Sales covers employment, merchandise handling, sales techniques, customer relations and shoplifting. Sessions run Mondays and Tuesdays 7 to 10 pm in rm 103, Business Education building. Fee is 4.25 dollars paid at first class.
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Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
WWTI
Rm. 103
Business Education
7Th and Prie Sts
What Going On in the Coulee Region
Ecumenical Charismatic prayer meeting at St. Francis Hospital Marycrest Auditorium at 7 p.m. Round dancing with Norman Indvik at Christ Episcopal Undercroft from 8 to 10 p.m. Alumni Theater night with wine bar and snacks in Toland Theater lobby at 7 p.m. University Theater box office for reserved tickets. Venereal Disease Education Workshop 3:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Viroqua Middle School. 11th Northern Great Plains History Conference at UW-L Cartwright Center Valhalla with dinner $4 and preregistration by Oct. 19.
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Marycrest
Norman Indvick
Christ Episcopal Undercroft
Toland
University Theater
Viroqua Middle School
Informa
Gary Gilmore
Uw-L
Northern Great Plains
Valhalla
Gingham Squares Cancel Dance and Workshop Schedule
The Gingham Squares cancelled their 8 p.m. dance at the Harry Olson Multipurpose Center 1607 North St Workshop. A daylong workshop runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Vi roqua Middle School with more information from UW-L.
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Harry Olson
North St
Viroqua Middle School
Gary Gilmore
Uw-L
Cold Temperatures Across North Forecast Friday
National Weather Service data show cold air stretching from the northern Plains to the Atlantic coast Friday, with seasonable temps elsewhere. Snow and rain mix possible in the northern Plains, showers from the western gulf to the southern Plains and in the Southwest, plus unsettled conditions across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa with varying cloudiness and rain chances. Mississippi River forecasts for Saturday to Monday show flow around 6,500 cfs at Dresbach and ongoing barge activity, one towboat upriver with 11 barges and four towboats downriver with 30 barges.
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Atlantic Coast
National Weather Service
Western Gulf
Dresbach Lock & Dam
Mississippi River
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