Usurper label upheld in Kenosha district seat dispute
Judge rules Wisconsin Assembly violated the Constitution when seating Russell Olson over Earl H. Elfers in the 2nd District. Elfers entitled to back pay from Olson's seating date. Court cites constitutional safeguards and the Assembly's authority to judge its members cannot override the charter.
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Earl H. Elfers
Racine
John C. Ahlgrimm
Wisconsin Assembly
Russell Olson
Kenosha County
Trevor
Olson
Assembly
Elfers
Scott Thom
Gerald Flynn
Supreme Court
Doctor Reports on Project Hope Work in Peru
La Crosse physician Dr William Gallagher spoke to the La Crosse Business Men’s Club about his two months in 1962 aboard the Hospital Ship Hope. He described medical and education needs in Peru and noted milk supplied by American dairies and medical books donated by U S publishers.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Business Men's Club
Hope
William Gallagher
Peru
U.S
County Employees Seek Extra Holidays When Weekends Fall
La Crosse County employees ask the County Board to grant alternate days off when Memorial Day and Independence Day land on weekends. Supervisor Wilbert Ipsen introduced the measure, noting no holiday off between Jan 1 and Labor Day this year or next. The request was referred to committee. The Board also authorized County Nurse Helen Hanson to attend a national convention in Atlantic City in June after 29 years of service.
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la Crosse County
Wilbert Ipsen
la Crosse 15Th Ward
Ipsen
Helen Hanson
Atlantic City
Miss Hanson
Penitentiary Inmates Submit False Tax Refunds
Six inmates at the South Carolina penitentiary admitted posing as construction workers to obtain income tax refunds mailed to 151 Gist Street in Columbia. Warden R Fuller Goodman said three more prisoners had bogus refunds in processing when the scheme was found. The six face charges for filing false returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia, S.C
Gist St
Columbia
R. Fuller Goodman
Baltimore, Md
Internal Revenue Service
Goodman
Midterm Judge Pay Raise Challenge Reaches Wisconsin Supreme Court
Dane County Judge William Sachtjen sues County Clerk Otto Festge seeking to invalidate midterm pay raises for county judges. The suit argues 66 judges in 24 counties would be affected and cites a constitutional ban on state term pay hikes. Chief Justice Currier scheduled a June 5 hearing to decide if the court has jurisdiction. Festge had withheld parts of Sachtjen's pay after a prior ruling on circuit judges.
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Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
George R. Currie
Dane
William Sachtjen
Otto Festge
Sachtjen
Festge
Sachtsen
Supreme Court
Nelson Pushes For Funds For Scenic Route
Sen Gaylord Nelson urges early passage of a 4 million dollar two year bill to aid the Great River Road project along the Mississippi linking the Gulf to Ontario. Wisconsin has spent 75661 on scenic easements. admin oppose grants until a nationwide study is finished. Witnesses include Harvey Grasse and Ray Eckstein.
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Washington
Mississippi Valley
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Gulf of Mexico
Lake of the Woods
Ontario
Nelson
Senate Public Works
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Wisconsin
Rex M. Whitton
Great River Road
Recreational Advisory Council
Congress
Harvey O. Grasse
Wisconsin State Highway Commission
Ray J. Eckstein
Cassville
Wis
Minnesotans Form Group For Scranton
Minnesota backers of Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton formed a temporary group to back his presidential bid. Warren Sinsheimer led the effort during a Scranton visit, with over 30 at a Capp Towers Hotel private room. John Daniels of Archer Daniels Midland was named chairman, with aides and several Twin City attorneys signing invitations.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Warren J. Sinsheimer
New York
Capp Towers
John Daniels
Archer Daniels Midland Co
Robert Ridder
St. Paul
Judson Bemis
White Bear Lake
Ralph Dilley
Northfield
Twin City
Robert Leach
Arne Shoeller
Reversal Of Findings In Bias Case Sought
Madison AP The Industrial Commission was asked to reverse an examiner’s finding that James B. Marshall a Black former chef at Stevens Point State College was not discharged for discrimination. Marshall’s attorney Assemblyman Frank Nikolay said enforcement of fair employment law amounted to an empty gesture. The case was the first discrimination complaint heard by a commission examiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Commission
Harold T. Roehrbond
Baptists Leave Integration Policy to Individual Churches
Southern Baptists rejected a national endorsement of church integration and left the issue to local congregations. A substitute policy urged peaceful Christian solutions and prayer, while not binding member churches. The split occurred as the American Baptist Convention prepared a pro civil rights stance. The events marked the groups 150th anniversary observance.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Southern Baptists
Southern Baptist Convention
United States
Northern) Baptist Convention
Senate
U.S
Deep South
Southern Convention
Convention
Christian Life Commission
James Middleton
Shreveport
Kenosha Mother 22 Dies In Car Crash
The 1964 Wisconsin highway toll rose to 345 after the death of Jerilyn Schmidt 22 of Kenosha. She was thrown from her car in a collision on the south side of Kenosha. Her three children and a woman and child in the other car escaped with minor injuries.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Kenosha
Jerilyn Schmidt
Scouts to Work for Conservation Merit Badges
About 22 members of Boy Scout Troop 39 La Crosse will earn conservation merit badges Sunday afternoon in the Bohemian Valley Watershed area near the clubhouse. Lyle Molstad, U S Soil Conservation Service work unit conservationist for La Crosse County Soil Conservation District, will explain watershed projects.
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Boy Scout Troop 39
la Crosse
Bohemian Valley
Lyle Molstad
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
la Crosse County
Johnson poised to push civil rights bill to passage
President Johnson is urged to provide the final push as cloture fights the Southern filibuster. Senate leaders Humphrey and Aiken say White House support could win the needed votes while Dirksen coordinates GOP strategy with Kennedy and Mansfield in a bid to seal passage.
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Washington
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
George D. Aiken
Vermont
White House
Aiken
Civ
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Robert F. Kennedy
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Downey's Wife Margaret Downey Dies in New York
Margaret Downey 42 wife of former singing star Morton Downey died Thursday after a cancer operation. Downey, popular radio singer in the 1930s, later shifted to business ventures in his career.
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New York
Margaret Downey
Morton Downey
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UPI Telephoto
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TTC
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