Marines Launch DMZ Sweep Against Enemy Weapons Stores
About 2,000 U.S. Marines moved through the DMZ toward central terrain near Tay Ninh and Phuoc Tan after a nighttime assault. They aimed to destroy stockpiled weapons and disrupt infiltration speed trails while reporting multiple enemy kills and limited contact in jungle terrain.
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Tay Ninh
Phuoc Tan
Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnam
Dmz
Leathernecks
North Vietnam
Wonderful Wisconsin tour highlights Galesville firms
Galesville residents toured local manufacturers during Wonderful Wisconsin Week. Lt. Gov. Jack Olson spoke at a dinner for industrialists. The bus tour showcased Gale Products Co. and Galeville Manufacturing Co. among others, illustrating the town’s varied industrial output.
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Galesville
Wis
Garden of Eden
Galesville Business Association
Gale-Ettrick
Jack Olson
Wason’s
Arthur Zenke
Tim Twesme
Dick Longwell
High Cliff Park
Swinging Bridge
Beaver Builders
Clarence Brown and Son
City Garage
Galesville Curling Club
Gale Products Co
Gale
Liberal Leaders Seek To Show Czech Unity
Liberal leaders tour the Czech provinces drawing cheers from crowds in Ostrava and Brno as they seek to project national unity ahead of Moscow talks. Dubcek and Cernik pledge reforms, while polls show strong support for Dubcek leadership and troop withdrawal. A Polish shooting incident in Jicin and Ceausescu’s East West cooperation plea are noted.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Kremlin
Cernik
Alexander Vubcek
Communist Party
Ostrava
Prague Radio
Czech Silesia
Brno
Ludvik Svoboda
Alexander Dubcek
Oldrich Cernik
National Assembly
Joseph Smrkovsky
Gustav Husak
Dubcek
Moscow
Usti
Bohemia
Dubecek
Svoboda
Warsaw
Jicin
Restia
Nicolae Ceausescu
Europe
Rural School Closing Draws PTA Protest
About 30 Freeman School parents protested the North Crawford Board of Education decision to close the rural Freeman School in Gays Mills Wisconsin. They argued Mt Sterling School lacks facilities for the 27 transferred students and noted late notice and Democratic process concerns. The board defended the move as recommended by the State Department of Public Instruction and discussed a new bus route as the change likely takes effect Monday.
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Gays Mills
Wis
Freeman School
North Crawford Board of Education
Mt. Sterling School
Freeman
Tilman Brudos
PTA
Donald Larson
State Department of Public Instruction
Larson
John Schick
Czech Reforms Meet Moscow Demands for Speedy Troop Exit
Moscow presses intensify criticism as Prague reforms lag behind Russian expectations. Tass cites anti socialist sentiment while Dubcek and Husak signal cautious post January policy, indicating only partial reversal before troop withdrawal.
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Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Tass
Husak
Slovakia
Wisconsin population grows 6.6 percent since 1960
The U S Census Bureau estimates Wisconsin’s population at 4 213 000, up 6.6 percent since 1960. The report notes seven states rising 20 percent or more and lists Minnesota up 6.8 percent and Iowa down 0.4 percent.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Census Bureau
Minnesota
Iowa
Wauwatosa Man Dies As Car Strikes Tree
Lloyd Greenwood, 49, of Wauwatosa, was fatally injured Friday night when his car left a Waukesha County road near New Berlin and struck a tree. The death raises Wisconsin 1968 highway fatalities to 826, up from 777 a year earlier.
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Wauwatosa
Wisconsin
Lloyd Greenwood
New Berlin
Waukesha
Judge Refuses To Remove Self From Williams Case
Trempealeau County Judge Albert L. Twesme refused the defense bid to disqualify himself from a La Crosse Circuit Court criminal case. He kept Williams on track for a jury trial Oct. 2 on marijuana possession charges, rejecting claims of prejudice and noting delay tactics.
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Jerome R. Rosso
la Crosse Tribune
Trempealeau County
Albert L. Twesme
la Crosse
Twesme
David C. Williams
Neenah
Williams
Patrick Doyle
Doyle
Philip G. Arneson
Twelme
Atty
Burleigh Randolph
Lincoln Neprud
Twesmer
Randolph
Zond 5 Nearing Earth From Moon Flight
Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank reported Zond 5 sending very strong signals as it nears Earth at high speed. Tass contacted observatory about the probe, with Lovell estimating 25 000 mph descent and noting a possible live moon surface film if recovered.
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Jodrell Bank
England
Earth
Bernard Lovell
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Lovell
Tass
Sir Bernard
Moon
Zond 5
Moscow
Tractor Tragedy Claims Viroqua Youth
Kevin OConnor, 17, of Viroqua, was killed when a tractor overturned on a town road south of the city while helping Lyder Johnson pull a car from a ditch. Funeral services are set for Monday at First Methodist Church with burial in Viroqua Cemetery.
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Viroqua
Wis
Kevin O’connor
James O'Connor
O’connor
Vernon County
O'Connor
Lyder Johnson
Roger Torgerson
Johnson
First Methodist
Richard Pilgrim
Beier
Jane
Timothy
Forest O'Connor
Sylvan Weber
Daniel
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Charles Miller
The
la Crosse Lodge
Leo T. McDermott
Grand North Moose
Clayton J. Crooks
Jerome Gonnering
Tribune
Robert Hammond
Gene Kramer
Hubert Humphrey
Nashville
Russians
Moscow Radio
State
Associated Press
Arneson
Mooncraft
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