Stowaway Cruise Aboard Pendennis Castle Captures World News
Passengers aboard the RMS Pendennis Castle near Southampton report a crowded stowaway scene after Cape Town departure. Families and individuals, including James White and Christina Shea, describe desperate motives and bold boarding efforts seeking an adventurous escape. The ship’s captain would not disclose total stowaways. one noted case involved a tattooed man nicknamed Skipper who evaded capture for nine days.
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Nixon To Be Elected Today
The Electoral College meets to formally cast ballots for president and vice president with Nixon expected to win about 521 votes to McGovern’s 17. Electors meet in state capitals and DC. Agnew will open votes Jan 6 before Congress. Calls to abolish the system persist yet remain unresolved.
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Weather outlook for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa
Wisconsin sees mostly cloudy skies with a chance of light snow and freezing rain in the north while the south stays partly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday. Minnesota faces considerable cloudiness with scattered light snow in the north and mixed sleet or freezing precipitation in the south with little temperature change. Iowa clears Monday night then stays partly cloudy and mild Tuesday.
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Two Injured When Auto Tips On South Avenue
A car tipped onto its side in the 1900 block of South Avenue injuring two people. Driver Larry Burkum 20 of 757 N 23rd St received a bruised elbow and was hospitalized at Lutheran Hospital. Passenger Patricia Nelson 16 of 633 N 23rd St refused medical care for a bloody nose. Burkum was charged with inattentive driving. Earlier Sunday Harold Gole 62 of Oak Lawn Ill skinned his left knee after his car was rear ended by Evan Erickson 24 of 729 Copeland Ave and pushed into Neal Gross 46 of 2121 S 16th St on Rose Street south of Wall Street. Golo treated at local hospital.
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Harold Gole
Oak Lawn
Ill
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Copeland Ave
Neal Gross
S. 16Th St
Rose Street
Wall Street
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Spurlin
Rudolph Olson
Larimore
N.D
David Munger
Route 2
Osseo
Munger
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Olson
Olson Daughters. Mrs. Olson Was Hospitalized In Little Falls
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Staples
Minn
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Sheila Olson
Frazee
Little Falls
Robert Wagner
Swanville
Wagner
Donna
St. Paul
Raymond A. la Platen
Superior
Wis
la Plante
Duluth
Northfield
Farmington
Carl S. Sydness
Christiane Uhl
St. Paul Ramsey Hospital
Johanne Nordgren
Weekend Toll Is 6 On State Highways
The Associated Press reports Wisconsin 1972 traffic fatalities reached 1,119 after six weekend deaths. Victims include Pearl Thorson 51 White Bear Lake Minn in a Wisconsin 34 crash west of Somerset. Thomas Doubner 20 Cornucopia in a single vehicle crash on Wisconsin 13 Ashland County. Wayne Zastrow 26 Wausau in a two semitrailer collision on Wisconsin 78 north of Portage.
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White Bear Lake
Minn
Somerset
Thomas Doubner
Cornucopia
Ashland County
Wayne Zastrow
Wausau
Portage
Lester Volkman
Black Creek
Appleton
Robert C. Svitak
Milwaukee
Edward Voss
Cleveland
Howards Grove
Sheboygan County
Edward Freeman
Superior
William McGuire
Monticello
Monroe
Harold Flandrick
New Richmond
St. Paul
Staley Re-Elected President of NFC
Oren Lee Staley was re elected president of the National Farmers Organization for his 18th year. The Rea Missouri farmer defeated Bill Struckmeyer of Ar buckle California at the NFC convention. Staley planned visits to North Dakota California Texas and Kansas to discuss members problems. The official results showed 2624 votes for Staley and 1872 for Struckmeyer.
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Oren Lee Staley
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Northwest
Missouri
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Prisoner protest ties to AMF plant events and arrests
Police linked a protest action involving five suspects at an AMF cement plant to a message protesting government policy. Officers said a surveillance team observed the pumping of concrete into a railroad switch and found a plastic wrapped note addressed to “Dear Friends.” The scene echoed past demonstrations connected to the Harrisburg trial of Philip Berrigan and others.
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New Brunswick
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Princeton
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Princeton Theological Diary
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Indochina
York
AMF
Harrisburg
Philip Berrigan
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington
Berrigan
Peron Aide Nominated Amid Peron Refusal
In Buenos Aires the Peronist party named Dr. Hector J Campea as its presidential candidate after Juan Peron himself declined the nomination. Flood stage data for La Crosse shows 24 hour stage today with a minor change.
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Juan Peron
Today
Hector J. Campora
Peron
LA Crosse
Three Vehicle Crash in Minnesota Kills Four
Four people died and four were injured in a three vehicle crash on U.S. 10 about 17 miles north of Little Falls Minnesota. The Brainerd State Patrol identified the victims including Donnie Dale Spurlin, 31, Hopkins, the driver of one of the vehicles.
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U.S. 10
Little Falls
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Brainerd
State Highway Patrol
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Hopkins
Nixon picks Anne Armstrong for counselor post
Anne L. Armstrong, 44, longtime Republican activist and cochair of the RNC, is reported as President Nixon's choice for a cabinet rank presidential counselor. Sen. Robert Dole said she would become the highest ranking woman in Nixon's second term, with broad but undefined duties. Armstrong, a New Orleans native and Foxcroft educated mother of five, has deep Texas GOP ties and national prominence since 1972.
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Florida
Alaska
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Robert Dole
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Dole
New Orleans
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Texas
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Miami
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Foxcroft
Virginia
MU Dean Named To State Communications Board
George Reedy former presidential press secretary and dean of the Marquette College of Journalism was named to the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board by Gov. Patrick J. Lucey. The 17 member board oversees educational radio and TV in the state and currently supervises nine radio stations and one TV station with more planned.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
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Reedy
Lyndon Johnson
College of Journalism
Marquette
Robert McCarthy
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Wausau
Eau Claire
la Crosse
Peter Peshek
Thomas K. Mackesey
Mackesey
Rock County
Janesville
Beloit
Milwaukee tailor shop owner shot dead behind counter
Police investigate the shooting death of 73 year old Melvin Roberts found behind the counter at Wigwan Tailors and Cleaners on the North Side. A delivery man saw the scene with the cash register half open as authorities review the case.
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Wigwan Tailors and Cleaners
Montana student among 32 awarded Rhodes Scholarships
Mark S. Peppler of Whitefish Bay, a University of Montana student, was named a Rhodes Scholar among 32 U.S. college recipients. The award covers two years of study at Oxford University in England.
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Mark S. Peppler
Whitefish Bay
University of Montana
U.S
Oxford University
England
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