Nelson amendment funds flood control work in Wisconsin
Senate approves a 6.849 million dollar amendment to the rivers and harbors bill for flood protection in the State Road and Ebner Coulee Watershed La Crosse Wisconsin. The federal money plus 510 thousand in other funds will finance three miles of channel work eight new street bridges one new railroad bridge and modifications to another.
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Washington, D.C
Gaylord Nelson
State Road
Ebner Coulee
la Crosse
Senate
Army Corps of Engineers
Nelson
House-Senate
Powers Of Board To Recover Excess Profits Expires
The Renegotiation Board which recovers excess profits on defense and space contracts expired its authority this week though backlogged work keeps it operating for now. If not renewed, profits after June 30 would not be renegotiated, with funds approved for next year through next summer. The House passed a three year renewal, but the Senate Finance Committee delayed action awaiting more information.
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Washington
Senate
Lawrence E. Hartwig
Congress
Hartwig
Henry B. Gonzalez
Dtex
Treasury
Defense Department
Army,Navy
Air Force
Maritime Administration
General Services Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Federal Aviation Agency
House
Senate Finance Committee
Boy Loses Eye After Fire Cracker Mishap in Blue Earth
In Blue Earth Minnesota 10 year old David Mensing lost his right eye after a bottle placed firecracker exploded in his yard. The blast caused eye injury and he underwent removal of the eye at Albert Lea hospital and remained hospitalized.
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Blue Earth, Minn
David Mensing
Blue Earth
Donald Mensing
Albert Lea Hospital
Return On Mercy Plane: Dahls Among 86 Passengers
Eighteen passengers and seven crew members were aboard the hijacked Northwest Orient jet when it landed in Miami aboard a mercy plane. Kenneth V. Dahl, an auto dealer from La Crosse, Wisconsin, and three other Wisconsinites were returning to the United States after a Havana hijack. Cuban authorities refused to allow the 86 passengers to depart on the 727. the pilot disputed the safety claim. The hijacker fled to Cuba, and the passengers remained in Miami for processing.
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Miami
Richard Simonson
Northwest Airlines
Cuba
Barbara Schlosser
Margarite Schmidt
Nancy Lee Stevenson
Margaret Burt
Fla
United States
Freedom
Miami International
Northwest Orient Airlines
Havana
la Crosse
Kenneth V. Dahl
Eleanor
Ocean Reef
Dahls
S. Mth
Wisconsin
Ann Wirkowsky
Spooner
Dale A. Wesenberg
Madison
Simonson
Capt. Simonson
Harold Wood
S. 22Nd Drive
C. M. Simonson
Main St
P. C. Simonson
Richland Center
Wis
University of
Florida
Chicago
Radio
Varadero
Fidel Castro
U.S
Knutson enters race for Wisconsin state senate
Former La Crosse mayor Milo G. Knutson 50 of 804 Cass St. files for state senate 32nd District on the Republican ticket to challenge incumbent Raymond Rice. Knutson plans filing July 8 in Madison with July 9 deadline, after years as WKTY news director and a heart surgery survivor.
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la Crosse
Milo G. Knutson
Cass St
Raymond €. Rice
Knutson
Madison
Warren Knowles
WKTY
Rochester
Mayo Clinic
Philip Dyer
Nixon Rated 15 Percent Assured Of Nomination
Nixon held about 478 pledged convention votes based on public stances, edging toward the three quarters needed for a first ballot nomination. Rockefeller trailed with 192, as Texas remained uncounted pending an individual tally and Tower’s Texas delegation shift was in play.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
John G. Tower
Texas
Sen
Nixon
Associated Press
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Jawbone discovery may push back evolution timeline in India
Yale paleontologist Dr. Elwyn L. Simons and Punjab University’s Dr. S R K Chopra announced a 10 million year old jawbone from Hemachal Pradesh, India. The specimen, a nearly complete mandible of a giant ape related to humans, dates to the Middle Pliocene and suggests humanoid traits. The Chandigarh Yale project, funded by NSF and Smithsonian, finds the fossil near Bilaspur in the Chok Pathan formation, indicating a larger primal form than modern gorillas.
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Atlanta, Ga
International Congress of Primatology
Elwyn L. Simons
Yale University
S. R. K. Chopra
Punjab University
Chandigarh
India
Simons
Old World
Europe
Asia
Bilaspur
Hemachal Pradesh
Simons-Chopra
Grant E. Meyer
Yale
Chok Pathan
Himalayas
National Science Foundation
Smithsonian
Peabody Museum
Soviet Order Release Of Troop Laden U S Plane
The Soviet government ordered release of a DC8 chartered by the U S military after the United States expressed regret a navigational error caused the airliner to violate Soviet air space over the Kurile Islands. The plane carrying 212 servicemen and 17 crew landed after being intercepted by MiG fighters.
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Washington
White House
U.S
Kurile Islands
George Christian
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
Seaboard World Airlines
Vietnam
Japan
Christian
United States
Kuriles
Johnson
Interup Island
Pacific Kurile Chain
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Joseph Tosolini
Pacific
Tokyo International
Pentagon
Tosolini
Chequamegon Forest Site For Navy Tests
Washington AP reports Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin will host a $27.5 million Navy communications test facility. Rep. Alvin O’Konski says construction starts this year with completion planned for 1972.
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Washington
Chequamegon National Forest
Wisconsin
Alvin O’konski
R-Wis
Navy
Urban Development Bank Proposal Aims to Save Cities
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey proposed a national urban development bank to underwrite multibillion dollar loans for city redevelopment funded by private investors. The plan envisions regional banks, nonprofit neighborhood corporations, and loans to small inner city businesses with a steady federal bond-backed financing base. He portrayed it as a Marshall Plan for American cities and linked funding to postwar growth and Vietnam-era tax revenue.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Cleveland
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
City Club
Urban Development Bank
Minneapolis
Merged Railroad System Begins Operation
CHICAGO AP The Chicago and North Western and the Chicago Great Western railways began operation as a merged system Monday. The Great Western, a freight carrier, runs Chicago to Omaha and Minneapolis St. Paul to Kansas City. The North Western extends from Lake Michigan west to Lander Wyoming, north to Duluth Superior and south to St. Louis.
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Chicago
Chicago and North Western
Chicago Great Western Railways
Great Western
Omaha
North Western
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Kansas City
Lake Michigan
Lander
Wyo
Lake ‘Superior
Duluth-Superior
St. Louis
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Mi‘ami
Elwyn I. Simons
Eerretee
NWS
Ospress
Women’s
Chequamegon
Urban Development Bank Proposed
Carl B. Stokes
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