Great Debate Looms as Carter and Ford Clash Tonight
Carter and Ford prepare for a high visibility debate in Philadelphia with an audience that could reach 100 million. US Steel lobbyist Whyte ties Ford to overnight stays and lodging financed by the company, prompting ethics questions.
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Florida
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Philadelphia
Bob Dole
Nebraska
Walter Mondale
Wisconsin
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Company Lodge
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Whyte
House of Representatives
Kansas City
Unified Board asks for 147 percent budget increase
After budget cuts last night the La Crosse County Unified Board seeks about 510 533 for next year up from 205 828 in 1976. The three program areas affected are mental health alcohol and drug abuse and developmental disabilities with administration seeing the smallest cut. Final approval rests with the County Board's Finance and Personnel Committee then the full board in November.
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Murder convict Hammill held for psychiatric review after razor blades found
Jerold Hammill 23 of Patch Grove was transported for court ordered psychiatric evaluation in Eau Claire. A tip alleged he possessed razor blades, which were taken away by deputies. Hammill earlier faced charges including kidnapping and false imprisonment linked to the Hotchkiss case and faces trial in La Crosse on Oct 18.
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Hammill
Patch Grove
Eau Claire
Howly
Waupun
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Debate Scorecard for Carter Ford presidential debate
The AP ballot lists scoring categories Faree Carter Ard Ford with 1 to 5 points per category for Analysis Reasoning Evidence Organization Refutation and Presentation. It asks judges to rate relevance premises logical steps evidence organization refutation and delivery.
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Keep Your Own Score On The Great Debate
Five leading university debate coaches will judge the Ford Carter debate for The Associated Press. Readers can score tonight using the experts’ ballot modeled after the American Forensic Association form prepared by Prof. James J. Unger of Georgetown. Panelists include Barbara O’Connor and others as noted.
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League of Women Voters
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Tom Anderson
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McCarthy
League
Anderson
U.S
Aubrey Robinson
Associated Press
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Ford
Faree
Washington
American Forensic Association
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Tor of Forensics
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Harvard Law School
Barbara O'Connor
Department of Communi
Negotiators $405000 Apart On New School Site
La Crosse Area Public School District and Midwest Foundries are $405,000 apart in talks to buy a 23 acre site north of Swanson Field for a new North Side high school. Balts said the district offered $468,000. counter is $873,000.
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North Side
Swanson Field
Eugene Balts
la Crosse
Balts
Medical Rarity Child Survives With Special Transfusions
Chad Wagner, two, born without an immune system, has endured over a year thanks to blood transfusions developed at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland.
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Children’s Hospital
Cleveland
Council Cooperation Vital in North Side High Site Talks
La Crosse School Board President William Temte warns that a forced reconsolidation would require close council cooperation as negotiations over a Midwest Foundry site for a new high school continue. Foundry owner Sam Trendov and attorney Donald Harman attend as board officials list drawbacks of alternative locations. Potential costs hit about 1 million per four acre block near Logan High and environmental concerns loom for a city owned golf course site near County Trunk B. Trendey seeks to sell. Negotiations to continue with a report due if talks fail. Other sites include Copeland Park and areas around Logan, both facing political unpopularity and restrictive land use.
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L.W. Garrity
Swanson
Thomas Wheeler
Wheeler Co
la Crosse
Helen Kelly
Ferdinand Sontag
Council
William Temte
North Side
Sam Trendov
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Balts
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Logan High School
Department of Natural Resources
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County Trunk B
Copeland Park
Central High School
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Garrity
Roger Roslansky
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