Wisconsin heart transplant patient doing well in Milwaukee
Wisconsin's second heart transplant patient Mrs Elverna Fillner 37 Union Grove was reported doing very well after a lengthy operation Wednesday The patient's condition is stable and the new heart is working well She is relatively comfortable alert responsive and aware of her surroundings Deborah Ann Steiner 17 Elm Grove Wis placed fifth in the Junior Miss pageant in Mobile Alabama she won the scholastic achievement award and a 1500 scholarship Kathern Stenwall 18 Phoenix was named ideal high school girl with runners up Carol Buckland Farmington Connecticut and Laura Boyette Jackson Mississippi
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Elverna Fillner
Union Grove
Robert J. Flemma
Police hunt former mental patient after hospital rampage
In Danville Illinois police seek Coleman G Gish 45 a former patient who fatally shot three officials and wounded a fourth at the Veterans Administration Hospital after a 20 minute rampage across five buildings. A murder warrant was issued as guards remain on the sprawling 265 acre campus and surrounding area.
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Danville, Ill
Veterans Administration Hospital
Coleman G. Gish
Buda, II
Reform Bill Backed by Senate Panel and Blount
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee and Postmaster General Winton Blount backed reform legislation. Senator Gale W. McGee said final committee action was expected late in the week. The Senate version excludes Congress veto power over postal rate increases, unlike the House bill.
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Washingson
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Winton M. Blount
Gale W. McGee
D-Wyo
Senate
House
Congress
Six Killed in Augusta Riots Reported By Coroner
Coroner Nathan F. Widener stated the six Black victims in Augusta riots were shot in the back, with five having multiple wounds. He noted small caliber slugs about .32, with buckshot unlikely. A shotgun slug killed one man. National Guardsmen patrolled as curfew persisted after the Monday riot.
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Augusta
Nathan F. Widener
Widener
Joe Caldwell
University Hospital
Caldwell
National
Prominent Doctor and Priest Fidelis Collentine Dies at 75
Monroe native Rev. Father Fidelis George Collentine, O.S.B., 75, a Milwaukee physician turned Benedictine priest, died Wednesday morning in Milwaukee after a March heart attack. He served as St Therese Nursing Home chaplain and taught in Catholic schools, with survivors including two sons and a daughter. Funeral services set for May 15 at St Marys Hospital Chapel Milwaukee, with burial at St Johns University in Collegeville Minnesota. Memorial fund established for St Marys Hospital Burn Center.
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Monroe
Fidelis George Collentine
Milwaukee
St Therese Nursing Home
Crystal
Minn
Helen Shafer
Benedictines
George E. Collentine
John T
Ellen Knight Collentine
Monroe High School
University of Wisconsin
Columbia University
Staten Island
N.Y
Milwaukee Electric Co
George Jr
Collentine
Marquette University
Pewaukee
Freeport
Ferdinand Heftys
Fidelis
George E. Jr
John
Russell
Helen Mae) Foss
Miss Mae
Roy
Ralph
Frank
Arthur O
St. Mary's Hospital Chapel
St. John’s University
Collegeville
St Mary's Hospital Burn Center
Lightning Fires House Near Lamont. Six Homeless
A lightning bolt struck the corner of a first floor bedroom in a two story farm house near Lamont causing a blaze that leveled the structure. Mr and Mrs William Hicks and their four children escaped as firemen from Darlington battled the flames until nine in the morning, making six people homeless.
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Lamont
Here
William Hicks
US Casualty Toll Surges in Vietnam Cambodia War Report
Official summaries show 168 Americans killed in the past week in Southeast Asia with 1,001 U.S. wounded. South Vietnamese losses reached among the war's highest totals, while enemy casualties topped 5,898. The reports cover operations across Cambodia and South Vietnam, including Svay Rieng and the Parrot’s Beak regions.
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Saigon
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S
Southeast Asia
Svay Rieng
USS
Fishhook
St Clare Hosts Hospital Week Student Tour at Hospital
One hundred twenty Junior High School boys toured St. Clare Hospital during Hospital Week with seven staff guiding them through stations to view personnel at work. The visit complemented a Health Course project under Charles Ekena, with Sister M Wilfreda and Sister M Edith hosting. Auxiliary members and Fathers attended a related dinner at St Victor's Parish School, while 13 senior students prepare to tour labs and stay departments. The $8 million addition to the hospital, slated for late 1971, is slowed by strikes affecting steel and truck movements.
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St. Clare Hospital
Ray Esber
James Dixon
Thomas Holyoke
James Bosanny
Pat McWilliams
William Holland
Harold Miller
Sisters of St. Agnes
St. Victor's Parish School
Fathers Platt
Kieffer
Fitzgerald
Donald W. Springer
Esber
Bosanny
American Hospital Association
Ohio U campus violence erupts amid antiwar protests
Ohio University students clashed with police after interrupting a campus address by President Claude Sowle. windows were broken, small fires set, eight arrested, an auxiliary officer injured. Nationwide strikes hit Brandeis, Eastern Michigan, Virginia Tech, and Southern Illinois University with dozens of campuses affected.
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Ohio University
Athens
Claude W. Sowle
Kent State University
Sowle
Kent State
Ohio State
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
Ypsilanti
Mich
Eastern Michigan University
William Milliken
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois National Guardsmen
Carbondale
Southern Mlinois University
Swiss Visitors Stop at Monroe During U Ss Tour
Swiss visitors Rev Emil Waeschle aged 69 and his niece Miss Paula Faden RN from Ramsen Schaffhausen Switzerland travel across the United States by bus on a 30 day $99 ticket visiting New York Washington D C Carlsbad Caverns Grand Canyon San Francisco Vancouver and Winnipeg They plan to fly home May 22 with Swiss government funded priest duties and a nurse in private hospital career both expressing dream of returning to Africa and recalling stormy Sager farm thunderstorm witnessed in Monroe and Cape Kennedy Apollo 13 sighting
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America
Gulf
Canada
Monroe
Emil Waeschle
Paula Faden
R.N
Ramsen
Schaffhausen
Switzerland
Father Waeschle
Ted Sager
Miss Faden
New York
Washington, D.C
Carlsbad Caverns
Grand Canyon
Arizona
San Francisco
Vancouver
British Columbia
Winnipeg
Mission City
Mnill
Swissair
Emu
United States
Florida
Cape Kennedy
Sager Farm
Route 4
Sager
Times
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John Wilkinson
Father Fidelis
Homemaker
FHA
New Monroe High School Future Homemakers of America
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Wanda Dodd
Mary Hoover
Donna Colney
Bonnie Nuckles
Lynn Sweetwood
Glenda Lawyer
Marie Roehl
Amy Funk
St. Clare
Ohio U
Hheasouvan
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Nixon
Julie
David Eisenhower
Smith
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