Wisconsin Tax Deduction Bill Signed into Law
Gov Reynolds signs a measure allowing Wisconsin residents to deduct excise taxes on beer liquor and cigarettes from future federal income taxes. The act specifies these fees as consumer taxes and lists rates for beer wine and cigarettes. Reynolds also signs bills on jury duty exemption and name changes as well as a plan for prison chapel funding and maximum security site continuity.
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Madison
Wisconsin
John W. Reynolds
Wisconsin approves 48000 for La Crosse State science building
Madison Wisconsin The Wisconsin Building Commission approved 48000 for final plans of a 22 million science building at La Crosse State College President Rexford Mitchell said bids could be taken in September and the building might be ready for occupancy by September 1965 The structure will sit east of 17th Street and north of the site for the proposed physical education building in the Memorial Field area The phyed building is slated for completion by September 1964
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Phyed
Flames Claim Boy In Bedroom Fire At Wisconsin Tavern
An 11 year old boy died when flames trapped him in his bedroom as a tavern operated by his parents burned near Fifield Price County Wisconsin. The parents escaped from a second floor bedroom and were hospitalized after the blaze leveled the Spring Inn on Highway 13. A passing motorist alerted locals but phone service failed and responders had to drive four miles to report the fire. Fire departments from Fifield and Phillips battled the blaze. cause remains undetermined with losses estimated at 30000.
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Fifield
Wis
James Czajkowski
Julius Czajkowski
Spring Inn
Highway 13
Price County
Czajkowski
Park Falls
Zorka Eder
Joe Janos
Janos
Phillips
Czajkowski Bay
Robert Symonik
Assembly Lays Over Controversial Bills In Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Assembly closed a week with a 2.5 hour session laying over several controversial measures. It debated a public transport for parochial and public school children and a state debt for public buildings. A separate bill would study high school and vocational training to meet modern industry needs and another would regulate painting contractors. The chamber also killed a proposal to pay out-of-state tuition for Wisconsin residents in certain fields, voted to reconsider a veto on a constitutional change for bingo, and approved bills restricting narcotics sales and allowing three unit trucks on highways.
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Madison
State Assembly
Assembly
Legislative Council
Wisconsin
William Steiger
R-oshkosh
Frank Nikolay
D-Abbotsford
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Senate
U S Chiefs of Pacific and Southeast Asia Meet in Bangkok
Adm. Harry D. Felt and Gen. Paul D. Harkins, top U S commanders in Asia, met in Bangkok amid Laos crisis. Harkins flew from Saigon, Felt from Honolulu as speculation swirled about a new American military buildup. officials said no decisions yet.
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Bangkok
Thailand
United States
Asia
Laos
Adm
Harry D. Felt
U.S. Pacific
Paul D. Harkins
South Viet Nam
Harkins
Saigon
Honolulu
U.S
U S Fleet Moves to Warn Reds Over Laos Crisis
The 7th Fleet, about 125 ships with 60 000 sailors and Marines, shifts into position near the Gulf of Siam as a precautionary warning to Communist threats in Laos. The move aims to reassure Southeast Asian allies while keeping forces ready for potential orders.
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U.S
Washington
Laos
Gulf of Siam
Southeast Asia
Gulf
Adm
Thomas H. Moorer
North Pacific
South China Sea
Siberia
Formosa
Okinawa
7Th Fleet
Thailand
United States
Rightist Leader Threatens To Send In Troops
Laos confronts renewed civil conflict as Gen. Phoumi Nosavan threatens immediate intervention if the Pathet Lao seals the Plaine des Jarres. The situation tightens as Kong Le neutralists resist, ICC monitors move toward Kong Le, and U.S. and allied forces consider naval and troop options.
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Vietiane
Laos
Phoumi Nosavan
Pathet Lao
Plaine Des Jarres
Kong le
Phoumi
Harriman
U.S
Souvanna Phouma
Plaine
Muong Phan
Souphanouvong
International Control Commission
ICC
Khang Khay
Commission
India
Canada
Poland
Revenue rise eyed from sales tax bill in Wisconsin
The Republican tax bill before the Legislative Joint Finance Committee is projected to raise 155.4 million dollars in new revenue, about 25 million more than initial estimates. Assemblyman Glen Pommerening noted the figure nears the needs of the governor’s budget and said Republicans intend to pass the bill by June 1 whether or not Reynolds signs it, with a recall-like recess possible.
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Pommerening
Reynolds
Tax Department
Proxmire reimburses treasury. Campenni off payroll
Senator William Proxmire said he reimbursed $9,007 to the federal treasury for salary paid to Frank Campenni while a University of Wisconsin student. Campenni remains off the staff payroll through April 1, with the senator to pay his salary from personal funds until June when Campenni completes his doctorate and joins the staff in Washington.
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Robert C. Gehl
la Crosse Tribune
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Federal Treasury
Frank Campenni
Campenni
University of Wisconsin
Proxmire
Washington, D.C
Sanford Goltz
The
Washington
U.S. Treasury
Treasury
Goltz
Senate
Madison
Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Journal
State Department of Resource Development
Milwaukee
Henry Maier
Cuban Saboteurs Traded For Release Of 21 Yanks
New York AP report: four Cuban saboteurs and a pro Castro killer exchanged for 21 Americans held in Cuban prisons. The Cubans boarded Cubana Air Lines at Boca Chica after a U.S. escort, with James B. Donovan pivotal in arranging the swap as Attorney General Kennedy announced. prison releases followed amid related charges dropped against Cuban nationals.
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NEW York
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Key West
Fla
Cubana Air Lines
U.S
Boca Chica
Cubana
T 7
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Cuba
James B. Donovan
Donovan
Florida
Justice Department
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Idlewild
Cubana Airlines
Kennedy
Rockefeller
Roberto Santiesteban Casanova
United Nations
Antonio Sueiro
Jose Casnova Garcia Orellana
Garcia
Manhattan
New Jersey
Agai
Tornado Outbreak Rips Illinois Indiana
A storm system spawned tornadoes across east central Illinois from Springfield to the Indiana line injuring over 30 and damaging hundreds of structures. Indiana reports nine injuries and four homes demolished in Indianapolis as a wider area endures heavy rain and snow across the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley.
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Illinois
Indiana
Central Appalachians
District of Columbia
New England
Atlantic Coast
Springfield
Indiana State Line
Tuscola
West
Lafayette
Indianapolis
Frisco
Tex
Iowa
Great Lakes
Missis
Sippi Valley
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Wausau
Wis
Rockies
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Lander
Wyo
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Harry Larsson
Bliss Road
Grandad Bluff
Larsson
Sweden
la Crosse
State Building Commission
Waupun
Wilburt Schmidt
State
Department of Public Welfare
Schmidt
LSC
By Antoine Yared
Vientiane
W. Averell Harriman
Paris
Maurice Louve de Murville
Viet Nam
Thevne Thee Ee Eenee
Rafael del Pino
Mele
Miami
Ride
Francisco Molina del Rio
Molina
Sen. Proxmire
Congressional
Wise Consin
Lee Campenni
Sueiro
UPI
Telephotos Orellana
Associated Press
Illopolis
Ill
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