Obituaries for Julia Hanson and Melvin Mullen
Mrs Julia Hanson 86 of Sparta formerly of 409 N Chester St dies Thursday Oct 28 in a Black River Falls nursing home Services Monday at Lanham Kann Funeral Home with Rev Phillip Kearns Mueller officiating Burial in Fish Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery Friends may call Sunday after 4 pm and Monday until time of services She was born Jan 29 1890 in Hickson ND married Albert Hanson Nov 22 1912 in Monroe Co They farmed in Hickson then moved to Sparta 1969 Survivors include four sons Arthur Floyd Walter Herbert and three daughters Ovidia Joyce Erickson Florence and three grandchildren She died Thursday Oct 28 in a Black River Falls nursing home Melvin H Mullen 66 of 1902 Green Bay St retired Wisconsin Bell employee died Wednesday Oct 27 in a La Crosse hospital He did not work for La Crosse Telephone Co nor have a great grandchild per the Thursday Tribune correction.
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Julia Hanson
Sparta
Wis
N. Chester St
Lanham-Kann
Phillip Kearns Mueller
Fish Creek Lutheran Church
Hickson
N.D
Andrew Haugstad
Albert Hanson
Monroe Co
Melvin H. Mullen
Green Bay St
Wisconsin Bell Telephone Co
la Crosse Telephone Co
the Tribune
la Crosse
Offner Denies Charge Of Being Antiveteran
Paul Offner denied a Veterans Education Committee official's claim that he is antiveteran and questioned the author’s credibility. In a letter to about 3,000 American Legion members Emanuel alleged Offner was anti veteran and attacked his voting record on veterans issues. Offner said the charge is a smear and noted Assembly Bill 788 never reached the floor.
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Paul Offner
Veterans Education Committee
VEC
Antiveteran
Offner
W.H. Emanuel
American Legion
la Crosse
Vernon
Crawford
Emanuel
Assembly
Veterans Committee
Rep
Michael Early
Patrick Lucey
Veterans Home
State Senate
John Moses
Tary
Cambria
Douglas Farmer
Relocation Permitted For Drecktrah Creek
Five Barre property owners along Drecktrah Creek have DNR approval to move 270 feet of the stream and replace it with a 240 foot artificial channel. Upstream sections with riprap will recreate trout habitat to fit a replacement culvert at County Highway 6A. DNR notes the change will raise land value, not affect flood flow, nor harm public rights.
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Barre
Dredtrah Coulee Creek
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Lauren
Jean Klos
Cornelius
Mary Klos
Stanley Dwyer
Correction on Vander Schaaf Sentence
The Tribune clarifies that Clarence A. Vander Schaaf, 21, of 1608 Charles Street, was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison. Previously reported as four years, he was convicted on three counts of burglary and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Clarence A. Vander Schaaf
Charles St
the Tribune
Vernon and Vernon County Agree on AFL-CIO Contract
Vernon County and the AFL-CIO reached a one year contract retroactive to January 1976. Full time employees receive $30 monthly increases for ten months plus $10 starting November 1. Part time staff gain 25 cents hourly on a base $2.75. Overall average raise about 6.5 percent for 31 workers. The board denied a $2,500 raise for Unified Board Director Chris Hendrickson, approved hiring an alcohol and drug abuse coordinator at $10,000 annually, an outreach worker at $7,200, a part time secretary, and a part time home trainer for disabled persons. Re-elected highway commissioner Ernest Urban. Arthur Theige named county home trustee. Jean Griffin elected county abstractor. reappointments to Unified Board. safety commission term for Walter Block. Planning committee to study county library needs and move Extension offices to a one stop agriculture center. 1977 budget to be presented Nov 16.
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Viroqua
Wis
Vernon County
American Federation of States
Afl-Cio
Unified Board
Chris Hendrickson
Ernest Urban
Arthur Theige
Calvin Marx
Jean Griffin
Berna Monson
Chester Lee
Charles Dahl
al Zabolio
Unified
Vernon
Walter S. Block
Safety Commission
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Second Phase Flu Shots Begin In County Monday
La Crosse County Health Nursing Service reports second phase flu clinics with bivalent vaccine end today in La Crosse County. Monovalent vaccine clinics start Monday with listed sites in Onalaska Holmen Bangor West Salem Mindoro Holmen Holy Cross Seminary Summit French Island and Dec 6-9 La Crosse area follow ups. Houston County clinics lack bivalent supply delaying a countywide plan to Dec 5-10 with La Crescent Elementary gym schedule and area residents urged to seek near home locations. Health office notes head lice outbreaks in the county and provides guidance on treatment and transmission precautions.
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la Crosse County
Onalaska
Holmen
Bangor
West Salem
Hintgen
Mindoro
Holmen High
Holy Cross Seminary
Summit School
French Island
Houston County
Public Health Nursing
la Houston
la Crescent
George Baldwin
City of
la Crosse
Hospital Volunteers Honored for 1 000 Hours and More
Luther an Hospital recognized fifteen volunteers for 1 000 hours or more, led by Elaine Bakken with 4 000 hours. Others at 3 000, 2 000, 1 000 hours include Bernice Bruhnke, Shirley Daugherty, Vivian Drake, Helen Helbling, Ellen Hoff, Gladys Jehlen, Florence Lamke, Dorothy Mader, Irene Tietz, and more. Awards also given for 500, 200, and 100 hours to multiple named helpers. Schwein and Merilyn McElligott presented the honors.
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Lutheran Hospital
Jack Schwein
Elaine Bakken
Donna Blakeley
Dorothy Cooper
Elsie Lorenz
Margie Spildie
Hazel Kolcinski
Bernice Bruhnke
Shirley Daugherty
Vivian Drake
Helen He
Helen Eckart
Mary Guttormsson
Ethel Haag
Arlyce Hamilton
Manfred Hanson
Oscar Harebo
Florence Hazelhurst
Milt Hoglund
Mary Jansky
Joseph Keller
Phyllis Motylinski
Odette Peterson
Verna Peterson
Anne Poehling
Claira Schulz
Esther Sholes
Raymond Violette
Schwein
Merilyn McElligott
County Finance Committee Cuts Budgets in Budget Session
The Finance Committee trimmed Unified Board disability services by 17000 and reviewed social worker salaries due to calculation errors. It also cut library funds and the landfill budget, heard a push to preserve a bad checks program, and considered delaying salary decisions until November 4 while addressing Lakeview Health Center cost increases.
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County Department of Social Services
Finance Committee
Dist. Atty
Edmund A. Nix
Nix
Lakeview Health Center
West Salem
Crawford County approves 1.53 million budget for 1977
Crawford County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a 1.53 million dollar budget, up from 1.38 million. The tax levy rises to 1,006,000 while the tax rate falls 34 cents per thousand due to higher equalized valuation, with a total equalized value over 208 million. Budget outlines costs for general government, public safety, health, leisure, conservation, and highways, plus courthouse and Satter County Building operating costs and planned jail remodeling discussions.
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Satter County
Satter
Prairie du Chien City
Wisconsin farmers warned against Ford Dole ticket
VIROQUA Wis Lt Gov Martin J Schreiber told a Vernon County Democratic fund raiser that if the Gerald Ford Robert Dole ticket wins on Nov 2 Wisconsin farmers would face four years of disaster in national farm policy He noted Doles 1974 vote against an oil conservation bill and said Ford era saw a 26 percent drop in farm income He contrasted with Jimmy Carters farming background and said Carter understands farmers needs
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Viroqua
Wis
Martin J. Schreiber
Gerald Ford
Robert Dole
Wisconsin
Vernon County
American Legion Hall
Schreiber
Ford
Dole
Farmers Home Administration
Jimmy Carter
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Drecktrah Creek
D.E. Woodworth
Judges School
Judge Woodworth
David Yeiter
Larch, la Crescent
Minn
Lisa LaFleur
Tim Doody
Lisa
the Perkins
School For the Blind
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Boston
John Medinger
95Th Assembly
Democrat Medinger
Medinger
Assembly Comm
Tom Weise
Treas
Paul Zei
Lakeview
Zei
Thor Sundberg
Developmental Disabilities Services
Juvenile Services
Peter Dwyer
la Crosse Area
Jackson
Trempealeau
Monroe
Charles Pierce
25Th Dist
Prairie DU Chien
Crawford County Board of Supervisors
Hlitton EN
TV & Appliance, Inc
Gael E
la Crosse P.D
Walter M. Gardner
Lawrence L. Gonske
South St
Mark A
Smick
Gerald E. Niedfeldt
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