Committee Votes For Constitutional Change On School Bus Rides
The Wisconsin Senate Judiciary Committee, by a 4-2 vote, urged a constitutional change to permit state aid for transporting parochial and private school students by bus, following Assembly approval 73-21. The 1961 aid law was struck down by the Supreme Court over church-state separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Assembly
State Supreme Court
Adrian Manders
Milwaukee
Frank Kuemmel
Sun. Prairie
Citizens For Educational Freedom
Our Society
Robert S. Childs
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church of Madison
Childs
Robert J. Mueller
Detective slain as partner wounded in Racine shooting
Acting Detective James Hantschel, 38, was killed during a struggle with suspect Thomas C. Morris, 26, in Racine. His partner Acting Detective Lawrence Albro, 38, was wounded. Morris, captured with the dead officer's gun, was to be charged with first degree murder as investigators described a violent confrontation en route to police headquarters.
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Racine
Albro
James Hantschel
Lawrence Albro
Jfantsoner
Aim
Peyton
Morris
Hantschel
Pierce Woods
Hanttschel
Ward's shows interest in La Crosse Courthouse Square sale
La Crosse County negotiates with Montgomery Ward and Co on buying Courthouse Square and adjoining land for a new Ward's store. City and county leaders discuss parking plans with Northern Engraving property providing offstreet spaces. Price listed around 250000 to 280000 with two thirds votes needed to proceed.
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la Crosse
Thomas
Ward's
Courthouse Square
Mueller
Davis Don
Realnelly
D-Eau Claire
Sater
James W
Jake) Hoeschler
Hoeschler
Market Square
la Crosse County
4Th
6Th
Badger
Pine
Civic Center
Northern Engraving
Smyth
Knutson
Chicago
Cooper Nearing Pacific Splashdown After 16th Orbit
Gordon Cooper, aboard Faith 7, continued a 22 orbit Mercury mission toward an afternoon splashdown in the Pacific. Ground controllers reported excellent condition and fuel use, with a 6:02 p.m. descent and 6:23 p.m. Midway Time touchdown planned 80 miles southeast of Midway Island.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Pacific Ocean
Mercury Control Center
Cooper
Shanghai
China
Pacific
Midway Island
Midway
Kearsarge
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Faith
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
Australia
Roger
Muchea
Eastern Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
Control Center
Air Force
John A. Powers
Mercury
U.S
Faith 7
Powers
Orbit-By- Orbit Log of Flight
The log records Gordon Cooper’s space flight from blastoff at 8:04 a.m. EST. through Orbit 11 with notes on televised pictures, comments to Grissom, observations of the earth and beacon, flight plan alerts, rest periods, and fuel telemetry as the mission progresses over oceans, islands, and continents.
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Cooper
Indian Ocean
Virgil Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
MIT
Cape Canaveral, Fla
Gordon Cooper
Earth
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Perth
Australia
California
Mercury Control
Hawaii
Mrs Cooper Plans Hawaii Visit After Cooper Space Flight
Mrs Gordon Cooper prepared to fly to Honolulu with her two daughters to meet her husband after his 22 orbit Faith 7 flight. The Houston family watched the launch and hosted wives of astronauts at their home as Cooper embarked on the full 22 orbit mission.
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
Cooper
Trudy
Houston
Tex
Cape Canaveral
Schirra
Mercury Control
Trudy Cooper
Houston, Tex
Gordon Cooper
Hawaii
Honolulu
Coopers
Manned Spacecraft Center
Australia
Pacific
Camala
Janita
Fla
Cooper Home
Wisconsin man charged in two Phoenix bank robberies
Joseph Paul Scott 45 of Racine Wisconsin faces charges for the February $1520 Valley National Bank and the April $4000 First National Bank of Arizona robberies in Phoenix. He used multiple names Bill Edwards William F Porter and was arrested near Superior Arizona after a call to Phoenix. A woman Martha Ivy Porter 29 tied to the case is also sought by authorities in Florida for jewelry store theft and a Dyer Act violation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Wisconsin
Joseph Paul Scott
Racine
Wis
Valley National Bank
First National Bank of Arizona
Scott
Superior
Bill Edwards
William F. Porter
Bill Jones
Ed Boyle
FBI
Martha Ivy Porter
Florida
Fuel Oil Fire Damages Milwaukee Plant Building
A fire fueled by 150 gallons of fuel oil destroyed part of the Metal Forms Corp building in Milwaukee. Firemen brought it under control with no injuries reported, though a 20 foot roof section collapsed narrowly missing five firefighters.
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Milwaukee
Metal Forms Corp
Duvalier Vows to Stay in Office Amid Haitian Turmoil
Haiti's Fran cois Duvalier declared he would remain in power despite rumors he might flee. He announced a six year extension after a rigged ballot and outlined plans for an May 22 inauguration while resisting foreign interference and facing armed opposition at home.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Papa Doc
Clement Barbot
United States
Soviet Snooper Trador Near U.S. Monitoring Vessel
A Soviet electronic snooping trawler was sighted in international waters near the U.S. monitoring ship Coastal Sentry during Gordon Cooper's 22 orbit space flight. The trawler's mission remains undetermined as a U.S. destroyer tracked it in Yokosuka Japan area.
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Yokosuka
Japan
U.S
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
Knowles calls veto depraved ranting in Wisconsin Senate
Gov. John W. Reynolds vetoed a Republican sales tax bill. Senate floor leader Robert Knowles denounced the veto as depraved ranting insulting every senator. Republicans say tax talks hinge on Reynolds concede services and welfare funds proceed. The welfare package totals about 45 million for 1963 68 with 21.5 million for old age aid and 14.4 million for dependent children.
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Madison
John W. Reynolds
Senate
Robert Knowles
New
Richmond
Fred Risser
Reynolds
Risser
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Walter Schirra
Donald Slayton
NASA
UPI
Alan Shepard
Albert W. Kauffman
Baraboo
Southwest Association of the United Church of Christ
Kauffman
John Peyton
Thomas C. Morris
Ward
Wilbur Smith
Sand Creek
Dunn County
Goldblatt Department
William Byron
Byron
Thomas Koetting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grissom
Grand Central Station
New York
Zanzibar
Africa
Rose Knot Victor
Chilean
Coasta Sentry
Canton Island
Mrs. Cooper
UPI Telephoto
Knowles
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
Joint Finance Committee
Hollander
Frank Panzer
Brownsville
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