Delta Queen Captain Defends Riverboat Safety Hope Endures
Captain Ernest Wagner defends the Delta Queen's safety while noting its Coast Guard approved systems. The 44 year old sternwheeler faces a looming November 2 exemption expiry as Congress weighs a broader safety bill. Passengers and crew hope the ship may be saved despite plans to replace with a steel vessel at a potential cost of ten million dollars.
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Karren A. Mills
ST. Paul
Delta House
Senate
Ernest
Sealaw
Delta
Ner
Wagner
Lyndon Johnson
Wichita State officials briefed on leased plane witnesses say
An official from Golden Eagle Aviation testified that WSU athletic officials were fully briefed on leased aircraft responsibilities and FAA regulations. The NTSB probes the Oct 2 Colorado crash that killed 30 people, including 15 players, with contrasting flight paths noted between the two planes.
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Wichita St
Wichita, Kan
Golden Eagle Aviation Inc
Wichita State University
Bruce J. Danielson
Oklahoma City Farm
Wichita State
Danielson
National Transportation Safety Board
Colorado
Russell J. Abbott
Federal Aviation Administration
Golden Eagle
FAA
A.C
Bert” Katzenmeyer
WSU
Robert Kirkpatrick
Katzenmeyer
Kirkpatrick
Ste
Denver
Clear Creek Canyon
Colorado Rockies
Logan
Utah
Rockies
Wichita
Local killings tied to tarot obsessions and materialism
Investigators linked three murders at the Rodeo Gulch home to a man named Frazier amid factors from a neighbor’s move to New York to a friend’s affidavit claiming Frazier foretold “big things” and a hatred of materialism. Bodies dumped in a swimming pool after a house fire exposed the killings.
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Ohta
Frazier
Ohtas
Chang
Douglas James
Cadwallader
New York
Live Oak
Rodeo Gulch
No. Green Bay tavern operator faces license action
The attorney general said license revocation proceedings have begun against a Green Bay tavern operator identified as Clarence Premeau of Premeau's Tavern amid broader drug arrests and expected more arrests. Also listed are Chicago commodity quotes for wheat corn oats soybeans and wholesale butter and egg prices.
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Green Bay
Warren
Clarence Premeau
Premeau
Cash Grain
Chicago
La Crosse Tribune Publisher and staff notice
La Crosse Tribune announces Burgess publishers Sanford Goltz editor and Lee Enterprises affiliation. It lists office location at Le Crosse Tribune Bldg 4th and Cass Streets La Crosse Wisconsin and AP exclusive use rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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T. Burgess
4. E. Burgess
Sanford Goltz
le Crosse Tribune
Cass Sts
la Crosse
Wis
Pleads Innocent To Burglary In La Crosse Court
A 22 year old La Crosse man, James R. Schroeder, pleaded innocent to burglary before Judge Leonard Roraff in La Crosse County Court. The case was continued to 9 30 a m November 9. Schroeder, of 813 Cass Street, was charged after police found him hiding in a sludge pit at Don's Conoco Station during an investigation of a break in at the Cass Street station. He appeared with attorney James E. McArdle who requested time for psychiatric help. The defendant was released on his own recognizance after signing an appearance bond.
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la Crosse
Leonard Roraff
James R. Schroeder
Cass St
Don’s Conoco
6Th
Cass Sts
Schroeder
James E. McArdle
Cothern
Robert Schultz
Minnesota Junior Colleges Post 13 Percent Enrollment Rise
Minnesota state junior colleges report a 13.6 percent fall enrollment increase across 18 schools, totaling 19,949 students. Twin Cities area houses over half, Normandale in Bloomington remains largest with 2,862, Rochester largest out of state with 2,320, Vermilion Ely holds smallest enrollment at 302.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Normandale
Bloomington
Rochester
Vermilion
Ely
Iron Mining Company Closing U P Works
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co will close two Marquette Range facilities in Michigan's Upper Peninsula before year end. The Humboldt Mine in Humboldt Township will shut due to exhausted resources, along with the Eagle Mills pellet plant near Negaunee. About 185 employees will be laid off until early 1971 but recalled to other locations by mid 1971.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co
Marquette Range
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Humboldt
Humboldt Township
Eagle Mills
Negaunee
Radio Highlights Friday and Saturday Football Schedule
Radio highlights list Friday programs on WCOW WKTY and WLCX with football games Sparta at Mauston Logan at Eau Claire North Wisconsin at Indiana Minnesota at Michigan La Crosse State at River Falls Aquinas at Eau Claire Regis. A 8 p.m. Bucks vs. Baltimore basketball and Nixon speech on United Nations urged on air.
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Sparta
Mauston
WKTY
Logan
Eau Claire North
WLCX
Nixon
United Nations
WCOW
Wisconsin
Indiana
Minnesota
Michigan
Milwaukee Bucks
Baltimore
la Crosse State
River Falls
Aquinas
Eau ‘Claire Regis
Century Farm Award For Cleo Fish Of La Crosse County Wis
Cleo Fish of rural La Farge receives a Century Farm Ownership certificate for a 160 acre farm in the Kickapoo Valley. The original land was granted by President Grant in 1869 to his grandfather John Fish. The farm stayed in the family through Cleo’s father Henry and heirs. John Fish, Civil War veteran, chose the land for its springs as Indians traveled the valley. The family holds papers including receipts from the Mississippi steamer Muscatine and an 1882 Montgomery Ward catalog. The Fishs have three sons John Alan and Eddie and a daughter Leneta Johnson.
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LA Farge
Wis
Cleo Fish
John Fish
Ulysses S. Grant
Cleo
Henry
Kickapoo Valley
Mississippi
Muscatine
Montgomery Ward
John
Ontario
Alan
la Crosse State University
Eddie
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
Mel
Leneta) Johnson
Sparta
Knowles Defends Antipollution Record in Wisconsin
Gov. Warren P. Knowles challenged Democrat Patrick Lucey on environmental claims at a Green County Conservation League event. He cited Wisconsin leadership in resource restoration, noting early grant programs, water standards approval by the Interior, and DDT ban legislation, with Superior basin treatment ahead of Minnesota.
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Knowles
U.S. Department of Interior
Lake Superior
Minnesota
Witness Drinks In Court Guilty Verdict Given
In Bradenton a 65 year old witness Arton J. Cothern toasted the judge and drank whiskey while undergoing breath tests. The juried verdict found him guilty as the judge ordered further investigations into his background before sentencing.
Area Youths Earn National FFA American Farmer Degrees
Four Coulee region youths Justin Hall Jr La Crosse Randy L Nigh Viroqua Gary Olerud Westby and Thomas Zastoupil Tomah received the American Farmer Degree at the national Future Farmers of America convention in Kansas City Missouri They were among 471 recipients from across the nation out of more than 430000 FFA members nationwide Eligible candidates must have earned the State Farmer Degree completed three years active FFA membership finished all vocational agriculture instruction in high school been out of high school at least a year and run an outstanding supervised farming or agribusiness occupation program with at least 1000 earned through occupational experience placed in productive bank accounts and show leadership and community involvement with a solid scholarship record.
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Coulee Region
FFA
Auto Crash Kills 2 Students From Eau Claire State
Two Eau Claire State University students Stephen E. Reissner and Kenneth K. Kuehndorf died in a late night crash in Eau Claire County when their car skidded off a road and hit a tree. Two pedestrians also died in separate Wisconsin incidents, Jon E. Wangsness 7 and Thomas R. Iwinski Jr. 2, with several others injured.
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Associated Press
Eau Claire County
Wisconsin
Stephen E. Reissner
Kenneth K. Kuehndorf
Barron
Eau Claire
Reissner
Kuehndorf
Eau Claire State University
Jon E. Wangsness
Waterloo
Portland
Dodge County
Thomas R. Iwinski Jr
Milwaukee
Four La Crosse youths face drug charges in continued case
Four La Crosse youths aged 19, Capper Greathouse Rice and Kersting, appeared with attorney Rudolph Schnurrer as their cases on marijuana possession and one with LSD delivery were continued to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Bond set at 1000 each, ten percent posted. A fifth youth from rural Onalaska pled guilty to marijuana possession and got one year probation.
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la Crosse
la Crosse County
Onalaska
Scott J. Capper
Robert W. Greathouse
John R. Rice
Kim C. Kersting
Caroline St
Leonard Roraff
Rudolph Schnurrer
Capper
Paul Treise
Sheriff Department
Richard Baker
Allan G. Berg
Kersting
Greathouse
Rice
Counterfeiters Arrested With Fortune In Cache
CHICAGO AP Two men, Joseph T. McGrath 46 and Caesar Thomas 35, were arrested by Secret Service agents. A cache of counterfeit twenty dollar bills totaling one million dollars was seized, along with two sets of printing plates. The men allegedly planned to circulate the fake money in Wisconsin and surrounding Midwestern states.
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Chicago
Secret Service
Joseph T. McGrath
Caesar ‘Thomas
McGrath
Boston
South Side
Wisconsin
Railroad Doubts Full Service by Evening Rush Hour
Railroad officials doubted full service could be restored by the evening rush as a strike continued. Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello noted a Jewish holiday and Friday reduced the impact on automobile traffic.
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Timothy W.costello
Kenosha Man Held For Slaying Woman
Jerry Gryniewski, 38, of Kenosha, is jailed on a $50,000 cash bond after being charged with first degree murder in the strangling death of Genevieve Martin, 63. He appeared before Court Commissioner Vincent Lucareli with a hearing set for Oct. 30. Martin's body was found in an alley Tuesday.
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Kenosha
Jerry Gryniewski
Kenosha County
Genevieve Martin
Gryniewski
Wausau
Vincent Lucareli
Critics Jump At Inflation Report
Vice President Spiro Agnew defends inflation control at a Tucson dinner, saying recent CPI wobble proves critics panic. He argues that with Nixon’s leadership inflation is down from high levels, rates falling and purchasing power improving, despite a 0.4 percent September rise.
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Tucson
Ariz
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Nixon
Labor Department
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Iown
Suspect Charged in Slaying of 63-Year-Old Woman
Kenosha prosecutors authorize a first degree murder charge against Jerzy Gryniewski 28 in the strangling of Genevieve Martin 63. The body was found in an unpaved alley after twine like that on the neck was found in his car. Gryniewski was arrested at his home Tuesday night.
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Kenosha
Dist. Atty
Joseph Molinaro
Jerzy Gryniewski
Genevieve Martin
Molinaro
Gryniewski
Wausau
Madison teachers OK $7500 starting pay
Madison public school teachers and the board of education reached a likely agreement Wednesday night setting the starting pay for 1971 at $7,500. Beginning teachers would rise from $7,250 to the new level.
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Madison
Madison Public School
Board of Education
Stock quotations from National Association of Securities Dealers
National inter dealer quotes as of 9:00 a m list prices for firms including C W Transport Fabritek First Bank Syste Gateway Transp Godfrey Co Gyrodyne Howell Instrum La Crosse Cooler McQuay Moore s Seafood N Central Airlines Roanwell Trans Gas Pipe Wallace Bus Warner Elec Werner Cont Wis Power L and funds Boston Fund Chem Fund Eaton Howard Bal Eberstadt Fidelity Manhattan Mass Inv Tr Mass Inv Gr Natl Investors Puritan Union Cap Wisconsin Fund with bid and ask ranges for mutual funds across several categories.
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National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Wis. Power & L
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Boston Fund
Chem. Fund
Eaton & Howard Bal
Eberstadt Fd
Fidelity Fund
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Mass. Inv
Natl. Investors
Puritan Fund
Union Cap. Fund
Wisconsin Fund
GM Runs Low On T1 Model Cars Amid Strike Hit Sales
General Motors reports a mid October to late October sales drop of about 35 percent for the period from Oct 11 to 26 as strike holds reduce output. GM inventories include roughly 230,000 cars of 1970 and 1971 models awaiting dealer delivery, with an estimated 26 selling days of supply at current pace. Chrysler and American Motors show gains. Ford did not report mid October figures.
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Detroit
General Motors
Corporation
Chrysler Corp
American Motors
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
Chrysler
Hog Prices Fall to Three Year Low in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis Indiana hog prices slid to the lowest level in nearly three years with the top price at $18.00 per 100 pounds. The decline is blamed on job losses and a glut of hogs as Indiana’s spring crop expands receipts. A USDA marketing service rep commented anonymously on the market conditions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.S. Agriculture Department
Indiana
3M Posts Record Quarterly Net Income and Sales
ST PAUL AP Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co reports net income of 47.9 million for the quarter ended Sept 30 up from 45.9 million year earlier. Sales rose to 428.2 million from 416.5 million. It was a record income and sales for the period and the nine month period with January to September net income at 138.5 million and sales at 1.26 billion.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co
Doctors for Lucey Committee Formed in Wisconsin
MADISON Dr Merrill T Cina from La Crosse is co chairman of a statewide Doctors for Lucey Committee. Other La Crosse physicians on the panel include Byron L Annis Allen G Brailey Jr Bert M Buchman William B Gallagher Robert M Green Per J Helliesen Kent Keller Bernard J Mansheim Robert E McMahon Paul J Meis Mark T O'Meara Edward Orman Mary B Scheurich Jack Schiebler and Robert E Whiteway.
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Jack Schiebler
Robert E. Whiteway
Police Ambulance Transfer After Bangor Illness
An ambulance responded from Bangor on October 22 at 9 p.m. transporting John Stinzi to Lutheran Hospital due to illness.
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John Stinzi
Bangor
Lutheran
Milwaukee Livestock Market Report
AP notes Thursday's cattle market held steady to lower with steers 24.50 to 29.59 and heifers 25.00 to 28.00, calves 28.00 to 50.00, hogs 12.00 to 19.00, and lambs 18.00 to 26.00. Calves surged 2.00 higher on real calves. hogs fell about 50, lambs steady overall.
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Milwaukee
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