Sales Tax Referendum Proposed in Wisconsin Legislature
Wisconsin Senate and Assembly opened the 1961 session with a flurry of bills led by a proposal for a general two percent sales tax via a April advisory referendum. Senators LaFave Dempsey and Krueger introduced park sticker fees and deer permit repeal, with similar measures in the Assembly. Fred Kessler was sworn in at 21, and the House adjourned to honor him.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
Wisconsin
Senate
Assembly
Reuben LaFave
Gaylord Nelson
Department of Administration
Clifford Krueger
R-Merrill
LaFave and
Dempsey
Public Service Commission
Fred Kessler
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Senate Debates One Month DST Extension
The Wisconsin Senate considers a bill to extend daylight saving time to the last Sunday in October to align with neighboring Illinois. Senator James Brennan proposes the change, while Sen. Frank Panzer and Sen. Horace Wilkie push a constitutional amendment to empower temporary judges and allow salary raises for judges during their terms. Additional measures seek to protect road funding, tax state lands for local schools, and adjust public land taxation.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
James Brennan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Illinois
Frank Panzer
Brownsville
Horace Wilkie
D-Madison
Supreme Court
Panzer and
Wilkie
Carl Lauri
D-Superior
Lauri
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
Hoover Appeals For High Morals
Former President Hoover urged Americans to mend morals to keep the nation strong. Addressing a ceremony for the Hoover dikes around Lake Okeechobee, he touched lightly on national affairs and said the Kennedy administration faces a great challenge. He emphasized past crises were overcome in U S history.
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Clewiston
Fla
Hoover
Lake Okeechobee
John F. Kennedy
Burmese Army Attacks Chinese Guerrilla Remnants
Rangoon Burma reports the Burmese army has launched an all-out assault against remnants of the Nationalist Chinese guerrilla force along the borders. The government announced the new offensive today.
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Rangoon
Burma
UPK
Federal judge voids Georgia school funding law
A federal judge voided a Georgia state law that cut funds to integrated schools and continued an injunction to prevent Gov. Ernest Vandiver and other state leaders from closing the University of Georgia. In other news, Soviet Premier Khrushchev accused Ukrainian party chief Podgorny of mismanagement causing crop failures and said he would pay for it.
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Macon
Georgia
Ernest Vandiver
University of Georgia
Moscow
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Ukraiian First Communist Party
Nikolai Podgorny
Soviet demand to oust Belgium from Ruanda Urundi trust
The Soviet Union called for the United Nations to remove Belgium as administrator of the Ruanda Urundi trust territory, located beside the Congo region of Kivu Province, as of today in New York.
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United Nations
N. Y
Soviet Union
Belgium
U.N
Ruanda-Urundi
Congo
Kivu
Kennedy weighs Daniels for head of U S Information Agency
Palm Beach Florida reports President elect John F Kennedy is weighing appointing liberal North Carolina editor and author Jonathan Daniels to lead the U S Information Agency.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
North Carolina
Jonathan Daniels
U. S. Information Agency
Philanthropist William S. Mason Dies at 94
Rancho Santa Fe California report states William Smith Mason a noted philanthropist and early Evanston developer died Wednesday at age 94. He helped shape Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and was active in civic affairs and charitable funding. His death marks the passing of a long-time benefactor of regional philanthropy.
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Rancho Santa Fe
Calif
William Smith Mason
Evanston, Ill
Chicago
Two Negro Students Suspended After Riot
Negro attorneys rush to Macon to contest suspension of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes from the University of Georgia after rioting on campus. Gov. Vandiver had ordered emergency action as police used tear gas, fires were started, and a crowd of about 2,000 gathered near the dormitory.
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Athens
Macon
University of Georgia
Charlayne A. Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes
Ernest Vandiver
Charlayne
University
Vandiver
Dean
Holmes
Ku Klux Klan
The
Rebel
Eisenhower to Deliver Farewell Speech Tuesday Night
President Eisenhower will speak from the White House at 7 30 p m CST next Tuesday January 17 on nationwide television and radio. The address will last 30 minutes and mark his last major address before relinquishing office to John F Kennedy. He will discuss eight years in the White House and thoughts after leaving office on January 20.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
John F. Kennedy
Anne Wheaton
Filibuster Vote Blows Up Liberal Resolve in Senate
The Senate failed to strengthen the antifilibuster rule in a 50 46 party line vote amid liberal and conservative clash. Senator Kennedy’s program faces delay as leadership shifts, with Mansfield and Dirksen split on easing filibusters and reshaping the House Rules Committee to curb coalition power.
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Richard M. Nixon
Senate
Senate Rules Committee
House
House Rules Committee
Sam Rayburn
William M. Colmer
D-Miss
Colmer
Mansfield
John F. Kennedy
Dirksen
Kennedy
Khrushchev Favours Laos Conference Proposal
The Soviet Union says Premier Khrushchev regards favorably Cambodia’s plan for an international conference on the Laotian crisis. The U S State Department says it is giving earnest consideration to a 14 nation conference.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Cambodia
U. S. State Department
Laos Air Raids Open Laotian Civil War With U.S. Planes
Laos pilots armed U.S. trainer planes strafed and bombed pro Communist rebels in the first air strikes of the six year civil war. Western diplomats warned of potential Soviet or Chinese retaliation as tensions rose and the Laos government warned Moscow.
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Vientiane
Laos
Soviet Union
China
United States
Boun Oum
U. S
Long le
No Chance Seen For Chinese Link
Washington 1 Dean Rusk the secretary of state designate said today he sees no prospect now for establishing normal relations with Red China He also commented in an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that we are very much disturbed by the events which have occurred in Cuba but he declined further comment on the Cuban situation beyond saying it is of vital interest to the United States and to the Western Hemisphere as well He noted that the United States has a security treaty with the Nationalist Chinese government on Formosa.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cuba
United States
Formosa
Weather Update Mild Spell Persists in Area
The forecast calls for continued mild weather with a cooling break in northern Wisconsin. Friday temperatures are expected from 38 to 45 degrees, with tonight's low around 20 to 26. Partly cloudy skies are anticipated tonight and tomorrow as readings at American Motors reach 49 at noon, 43 at Southport Park, and 46 downtown. Southport opened the day at 22 with yesterday’s high 41. Sunrise is 7 17 and sunset 4 42.
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Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Prospect
Mercury
American Motors
Southport Park
Downtown
Southport
Truce ends as Katanga resumes military action
Leopoldville Congo reports Katanga President Moise Tshombe announced the end of the UN arranged truce and resumed offensive operations. Katanga planes attacked pro Lumumba troops at Manono 300 miles north of Elisabethville. Col Joseph Mobutu sent about 100 troops to Lissala to block a Lumumbist coup. airlifted troops known in advance by UN officials.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
UPD
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Defense Ministry
United Nations
Elisabethville
Patrice Lumumba
Manono
Joseph Mobutu
Lissala
Equator Province
U.N
Mobutu
Oriental
Equator-Oriental
Greek tanker Kissavos sinks after engine explosion
Willemstad Curacao United Press reports the 23,232-ton Greek tanker Kissavos began slowly sinking in the Caribbean Sea north of Trinidad after an engine room explosion. One crewman was injured in the incident.
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Willemstad
Curacao
N.A
Caribbean Sea
Trinidad
B.W.L
Swiss Ex-Ambassador Jaccard Heads to Havana Mission
New York envoy Gastones Jaccard former Swiss ambassador to Belgium arrived from Zurich en route to Havana to assume supervision of United States interests in Cuba.
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New York
Gastones Jaccard
Belgium
Zurich
Havana
United States
Cuba
Vatican excommunicates Haiti expulsion figures
The Vatican excommunicated all responsible for expelling Haitian churchmen amid the Haiti crisis. The decree, published in Osservatore Romano, targets those who forced Archbishop Francois Poirier and Auxiliary Bishop Remy Jerome Augustin from office, with Duvalier among presumed liable individuals.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Caribbean
Haiti
Sacred Consistorial Congregation
Osservatore Romano
Francois Duvalier
Francois Poirier
Remy Jerome Augustin
Water Main Bursts Near Central Park Halts Subway Line
A water main burst on the edge of Central Park flooded subway tunnels and stopped service on a line for miles. Police and transit personnel directed rush hour commuters to alternative routes as crews worked to restore service.
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New York
Upd
Central Park
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