Mutual Trust Guides La Crosse Airport Takeover Talks
The City-County committee seeks countywide control of La Crosse Municipal Airport. Robert Skuldt cites Madison’s six year transfer, newspaper backing, and a city referendum as lessons. Mutual trust remains the essential starting point for negotiations. The airport enhances mail service, air freight, and global passenger access. It is not a large tax drain but could need a broader tax base.
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la Crosse
Madison
Robert Skuldt
Dane County
Skuldt
Mutual Trust
Midwest
Congress Repeals Hatch Act Pressure on Federal Workers
The House passed a bill to weaken Civil Service rules by repealing most Hatch Act provisions. Civil Service Commission FBI IRS comptroller general and Postal Service oppose the repeal. Democrats and a few Republicans pushed the measure amid concerns about clean politics post Watergate.
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Congress
House of Representatives
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
House
US Civil Service Commission
FBI
IRS
Comptroller General
Postal Service
Hull Calls For End To Goon Hockey In Pro Game
Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets urges action against violent play in the World Hockey Association. He boycotted a game to protest on ice aggression, warning that dangerous rough play is spreading to college and amateur levels.
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Bobby Hull
Winnipeg Jets
World Hockey Association
Hull
Eisenhower convenes hospital bed conference with Benson
Twenty years ago in 1955 President Eisenhower arranged a hospital bed conference with Secretary of Agriculture Benson as a bitter political storm swirled around his head. La Crosse lawyer Peter Pappas was elected chairman of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights. La Crosse saw its first snowfall of the year with more snow mixed with rain forecast.
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Pres. Eisenhower
Sec. of Agriculture
Benson
Supreme Court fights for its purse in Wisconsin reorganizing courts
A Wisconsin Court clash unfolds over whether the Supreme Court may reorganize the trial system and create new judicial districts, potentially increasing costs. Justice Horace Wilkie argues inherent superintendence, while lawmakers fear legislative involvement. The dispute hinges on money and which branch controls funding.
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Robert F. Paden
Marquette University
Sanasarian
Wilkie
Patrick Lucey
Justice Wilkie
How universities got into a bind
A critique of American higher education argues that universities once champions of enlightened thought now face financial strain from reduced endowments and rising costs. Inflation, recession, and higher heating bills exacerbate deficits as tuition soars and some schools relied on seed corn funding from the 1960s expansion era.
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Columbia University
William McGill
OPEC
McGill
Strauss builds advisory council but neglects policy voice
In three years as Democratic national chair, Robert Strauss created an Advisory Council of Elected Democratic Officials to give the party an independent policy voice, but the council languished and the party has said little about goals or programs. Critics warn the leftward push without a coherent policy framework risks 1976 nominating trouble and a weak general election stance.
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Washington
Robert S. Strauss
Dallas
John Connally
Texas
Strauss
Lyndon Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Senator Kennedy
National Committee
Policy Council
Democratic Party
George McGovern
Democratic
Democratic Congress
Advisory Council
Congress
John Mitchell
Harvard
Public utilities raise interim电 rate amid hearings
Wisconsin Power and Light Co. informed rate-payers of an interim electric rate increase of 17.26 per cent via a surcharge approved by the Public Service Commission. The move prompts PSC hearings on a permanent rate rise and revised schedules.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
Public Service Com
New Coinage Ideas Stir Debate At Mint And Congress
Mary J. Brooks criticizes plans for a two cent coin and proposes satirical alternatives. The column cites humorous ideas from the public and voices concern over using presidents on coins. It also discusses a nuclear power rate proposal and urging public input and hearings in Wisconsin.
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Mary J. Brooks
USS. Mint
Congress
America
McDonald's
Spiro Agnew
Nelson Rockefeller
White House
Patty Hearst
Wisconsin
Lucey
Rudolph
Madison
Wis
Cornelia Groshek
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Chicago Cardinals
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Bill Petrolle
Joe Janson
Supreme Court
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Milwaukee
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Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Arthur Krim
City University of New York
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Boston
King Feature Syndicate
Richard Nixon
Earl Butz
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Welfare
Hubert Humphrey
Henry Kissinger
Missioner
Clapp
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