Partisan petulance delays study on Wisconsin criminal justice
In Madison a three member La Crosse and Vernon County delegation shows discord over a Legislative Council inquiry into the Wisconsin criminal justice system. Rep. Lewison pushes the study with signed support while Rep. Roberts and Rep. Offner were not asked to sign, amid broader concerns of interagency miscommunication after Jerold Hammill case.
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Madison
Legislative Council
la Crosse County
Virgil Roberts
Paul Offner
Vernon County
Bernard Lewison
Lewison
Offner
Roberts
Council
Jerold Hammill
la Crosse
Wisconsin Assembly
U.S
Treasury Department
R.M. Schlabach
Schlabach, Sehlabach and Steele
Nixon China trip sparks debate on cost and status
Critics question Nixon's private citizen status after returning from China while the Ford Administration says he was debriefed. An estimated 250000 for security staff and advance teams draws fire as taxpayers seek disclosure of the trip’s true cost and legality.
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Richard Nixon
China
Ford Administration
Nixon
Secret Service
Eisenhower slate and Wisconsin primary clash
President Eisenhower approves a slate of 30 delegates to balance his views with Kefauver in Wisconsin's April 3 primary. Democrats label him a part time president as campaigning heats up and reactions ripple through La Crosse and state politics.
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Isenhower
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
University of Alabama
la Crosse Breweries Inc
Britain Faces Bankruptcy and Capital Policy Debates
Denis Healey declares Britain bankrupt urging social service cuts and wage restraint while warning against further tax hikes. The piece links postwar socialism to nationalized industries and laments U S policy, decolonization, and oil revenue splits as factors in Britain’s economic decline.
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Denis Healey
Labor Party
Healey
Churchill
Britain
United States
Army union talk sparks satirical tale on shipboard sabotage
Art Buchwald lampoons military unionization by imagining a World War II battleship where chaplains, gunners, and sailors are blocked from actions by various labor locals. The spoof shows chaos as job classifications halt essential actions while sailors fight a sinking ship and a Bastogne defense unfolds with a machine gunner.
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Washington
Navy
Readers react to Muskie speech and postal service debate
Letters hail or challenge statements from Senator Muskie on unemployment costs and wage rules. Readers defend the USPS and argue against privatization while discussing wartime action and a mock Medal of Honor scene.
Post Office Department shifts to nonprofit postal model
The text notes that Congress created a system to establish post offices and roads under Article I. It then explains the Post Office Department became a nonprofit postal corporation, no longer directly answerable to Congress, due to unspecified changes in recent years.
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U.S
Department of Commerce
Agriculture Department
Army
Navy
Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service
United States Postal Services
Marion Michaels
Rt. 4
Black River Falls
Wis
Congress
Post Office Department
Minnesota lawmakers propose costly liquor warning sticker law
A guest editorial mocks Minnesota legislators for a February 5 announcement requiring liquor bottles to bear a warning sticker about excess consumption. The piece jokes about tax hikes and expanded enforcement, then notes the bill was likely dead after committee review and amendments.
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Minnesota
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Robert S. Gallagher
Sanford Goltz
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University of Wisconsin
Six Companies Inc
Boulder Dam
Hawaii
House Territories
Louis J. Prucha
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Argentina
Falkland Islands
Art Buchwald
Boatswain's Union
Padre
General Quarters
Barney McNeil
Bastogne
McNeil
Roy Bender
Barney
Muskie
Senator Muskie
Senate
Democrat Party
GOP
Robert W. Luehr Jr
Main Street
Elroy, Wis
Bender
Union Board
Sgt. Bender
Sarge
Corpsmen’s Union
John T. Gittens
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Gittens
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