Sourdoughs Recall Alaska’s Gold Rush Spirit at 36th Reunion
San Diego AP reports Alaska’s enduring lure as 400 sourdoughs gather for the 36th reunion. Heinie Snider of Wasilla, born during the 1909 gold rush era, recalls tent life near Anchorage and a 320 acre homestead bought for 500 dollars. He cites land, water, gas and oil as enduring opportunities. About 100 are gold rush pioneers. others are descendants or longtime residents.
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Guard Help With Traffic Questioned
MADISON AP The advantages of National Guard help for highway patrol during holidays were questioned at the Council on Traffic Law Enforcement final session. Racine County officer Paul V Booth urged spending funds on county off duty patrols rather than state guard aid.
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Robert Sorenson
Racine
National Safety Council
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Booth
State
U Thant Urges Four Power Summit to Ease East West Tensions
United Nations Secretary General U Thant calls for a summit of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France to lower nuclear war risk. He offers a ministerial meeting in the General Assembly as a step toward heads of state talks and urges a broader detente amid Czechoslovakia and Dominican Republic crises.
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U Thant
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Soviet Union
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France
Thant
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Assembly
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Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Michael Stewart
Michel Debre
Enemy Mowed Down In Personal Crisis Attacks
U S and South Vietnamese forces repelled coordinated assaults near Tay Ninh and along the Cambodian border. Enemy losses reached about 600 in five attacks on Katum Thien Ngon and Phuoc Tan camps, while defenders suffered dozens of killed and wounded including four Green Berets.
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Thien Ngon
Phuoc Tan
Tay Ninh
Katum
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South Vietnam
U.S. Americal Division
Quang Tin
Counties in Wisconsin Boost Spending by 7.7 Percent in 1967
The 72 Wisconsin counties spent 472.02 million dollars in 1967, up 7.7 percent from 1966's 438.18 million, according to the Public Expenditure Survey. Madison AP reports the rise reflects greater local government costs and services.
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Wisconsin
Inductees Voice Mixed Feelings as Anti-Draft Protests Roil Milwaukee
Milwaukee inductees awaiting flight to Fort Campbell Ky express little sympathy for anti draft demonstrators who burned records at a Milwaukee Selective Service office. Students like Michael Williams 19 and Robert Robbins Jr 18 defend service while others propose stricter draft rules.
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Vernon County
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Ft. Campbell
Robert Robbins Jr
Whitewater
Richard L. Breuer
Cassville
Growth in area booms boosting La Crosse County valuation
Taxable property in La Crosse County rises to 465 million in 1968, a 7 percent gain over 1967 led by Medary Onalaska Campbell and Holmen suburban growth. City of La Crosse up 5.7 percent to 333.966 million. Shelby county ties 13.7 percent rise restoring value after annexations.
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Holmen
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Rockland
Greenfield
St. Joseph Ridge
Wiggins Named U N Ambassador as Ball Resigns
President Johnson selects Washington Post editor J R Wiggins to fill the U N post for four months until a new president appoints a successor. George Ball quits to join Hubert Humphrey’s campaign, Ball cites domestic politics, Wiggins known as Vietnam War ally joins after retirement from The Washington Post.
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U.S
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George W. Ball
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Ball
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Arthur Goldberg
Vietnam
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National Citizens Committee
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Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Resignation of Ball Sparks Chicanery Charges
Washington AP Senator Gordon Allott called Ambassador George W Ball resignation to join Hubert Humphreys campaign a shocking piece of political chicanery He warned desertion of the administration while Senator Mike Mansfield expressed surprise at the sudden move and praised J Russell Wiggins named to replace Ball at the UN delegation
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Gordon Allott
R-Colo
George W. Ball
Hubert H. Humphrey
Allott
Senate
Ball
U.S
U.N. General Assembly
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Mont
Montanan
J. Russell Wiggins
U.N. Post
Wisconsin high school careers conference set for Madison
The third annual careers conference for Wisconsin high school youths will be held at the College of Agriculture in Madison on October 10. Students with interest in biology physics and social sciences may talk with UW scientists and teachers. More than 500 participants are expected.
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Madison
Wisconsin
College of Agriculture
Skull of 500 Pound Giant Beaver Found in Wisconsin
The skull of a 500 pound beaver, possibly the largest rodent ever, was unearthed at a farm pond near Cottage Grove south east of Madison by Orville Fuerdenburg while digging a fish pond on the Fred Witte farm. Zoologist John E. Dallman notes it may be Wisconsin’s first giant beaver find. no other bones were found.
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Cottage Grove
Orville Fuerdenburg
Fred Witte
North America
John E. Dallman
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Ohio
Dallman
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