State Tax Bill Draft Prepared For Gov Nelson
A Republican backed plan proposes a 3 percent sales levy with an income tax withholding, targeting Oct 1 as the start date. The measure, debated for weeks, would raise an estimated $192 million yearly, with $73 million for eliminating personal property taxes on inventories and stocks, and $67 million for real property tax relief. It includes credits and exemptions, and would tax tangible personal property while outlining specific exclusions such as real estate, housing rents, fuel for highways, and farm inputs.
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State Tax Department
Warren Fair schedule features parades and pageants
Tonight at 8 30 p m the Civil War pageant Say Goodbye to Amzy at the amphitheater. At 1 30 p m the American Legion parade with marching units moves from the business district to the fairgrounds. Sunday includes tractor pulls, a ladies rodeo, livestock trophies, and the Miss Warren Fair crown at 8 p m with Homer and Jethro.
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Amzy
American Legion
Fairgrounds
Homer
Jethro
Convicts Yield In Prison Battle At Tennessee Penitentiary
Eight inmates surrendered after an eight hour revolt at the Tennessee state penitentiary in Nashville. They held guards clerks and prisoners hostage as a M48 Patton tank approached. Convicts complained of harsh conditions and lack of facilities while officials stated no concessions were made. Leaders Farra and Rivera previously led a 1960 uprising with similar hostages and outcomes.
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Nashville
Tenn
Keith Hampton
Hampton
Raymond Farra
Robert Rivera
Farra
Rivera
West Virginia
Texas
Nash Hearing On 1960 Red Charges Aired In Senate
Senate interior committee closed door session heard testimony about 1960 Wisconsin campaign circulars alleging Philleo Nash, Kennedy nominee for commissioner of Indian affairs, had Communist connections. Witness Nicholas Burczyk said he had no personal knowledge of the accusations. the charges originated with the late Sen. McCarthy.
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Washington
Senate Interior Committee
Wisconsin
Philleo Nash
Kennedy
Nash
Wisconsin Rapids
Evangelical Synod Ends Ties With Missouri Synod
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod voted 124 to 49 to suspend fellowship with the Missouri Synod over differing views on biblical infallibility. Delegates from 18 states approved the measure, ending an 89 year relationship and urging Missouri to reunite with the Wisconsin group.
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Evangelical Synod
Missouri
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Missouri Synod
Synod of Wisconsin
Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference
Wisconsin Synod
Hay Chopper Mishap Fatal to Cato Farmer
A 47-year-old Cato area farmer, George Shimon, was killed Thursday when he fell from a tractor into a hay chopper after stopping to inspect a mechanical trouble. County authorities reported the accident occurred as he tried to remount the tractor.
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Cato
Cato Area
Manitowoc County
George Shimon
Brodhead Man Dies in Flaming Truck Near Beloit
Everett S. Grant a 75 year old Brodhead resident died from third degree burns after a head on crash near Beloit on Highway 15 just before 6 p.m. Driver of the other vehicle Dennis McClellan 17 of rural Beloit escaped with injuries. Grant’s truck burst into flames and the body was recovered 15 minutes after the crash. Coroner Richard McCaul said Grant had been returning from Delavan with produce for Hendrickson. He was married to Eunice Stout and survived by a wife a daughter and several relatives. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery Brodhead with services tomorrow.
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Everett S. Grant
Beloit
Grant
Richard McCaul
Rock County
Brodhead
Rock Ares
Highway 15
Dennis McClellan
C. E. Hendrickson
Emil Millette
Muscoda
Millette
McClellan
McCaul
Dean Phelps
Turtle Township
Danville, Ill
Charles and
Miranda Miller Grant
Delavan
Hendrickson
Dubuque
Eunice Stout
Elmer Wingler
Janesville
Elvie Mooday
Decatur
Gordie Moseley
St. Louis
Harry
Champaign
Ill
Eddie
Marshall
Newcomer Funeral Home
Floyd Falgren
The
Methodist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Stock Prices Slip After Early Gains In Quiet Trade
In New York the stock market eased from early advances in a quiet session. The day featured irregular prices with small gains and losses around fractions to about a point on key issues.
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New York
Cheddar Mart Quiet on Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
In Green Bay there were no sales offers or bids today on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange. No trading activity occurred as prices remained unchanged and participants offered no transactions.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Three Jockeys Hurt In Warren Fair Race
In the 101st Warren Fair race three riders were injured when horses piled up after a slip on a wet track. Nathan Koonce from Henderson Kentucky and Dan Lindee from Peoria are hospitalized with pelvic injury and left wrist fracture respectively. a third rider was not hospitalized. Only one horse finished the race won by J L Beard of Martinville.
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Nathan Koonce
Henderson
Dan Lindee
Peoria
St. Francis Hospital
Freeport
Koonce
Lindee
J. L. Beard
Martinville
Indicted Wonder Drug Makers Face Monopoly Charges
Three major drug firms Pfizer Cyanamid and Bristol-Myers and their executives are indicted on price rigging and monopoly counts. The government says they controlled about 70 percent of antibiotics aureomycin tetramycin and tetracycline and used patent tactics to lock out rivals. Co conspirators Olin Mathieson and Upjohn named but not defendants.
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New York
Chas. Pfizer and Co., Inc
John E. McKeen
American Cyanamid Co
Wile G. Malcolm
Bristol Yers Co
Frederic N. Schwartz
U.S. Patent Office
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
E. R. Squibb and Sons
Upjohn Co
Kalamazoo
Pfizer
Cyanamid
Bristol- Myers
Kelly District To Join Albany School Annexation Decided
Kelly School District in Brooklyn Township will join Albany School District effective Sept. 20 after a public hearing and joint County School Committee sessions. Two farms not in the annexation remain in Belleville high school district. Esther Hegel of Monroe will teach in Albany village school staff.
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Kelly
Brooklyn Township
Albany
Belleville
Green
Rock
Dane
Esther Hegel
Monroe
Albany Village
Aquacade Postponed At Pool to August 27
The annual aquacade and water carnival called Neptune Takes a Holiday has been postponed to Sunday August 27 at 8 p.m. at Recreation Park pool. Rehearsal moved to Saturday night August 26. Attendance reached 51,100 with 439 yesterday. final day tentatively set for Labor Day unless heat extends season.
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Recreation Park
Thomas Norager
Neptune
Red Cross
Norager
Mary Morris Mor ris 92 obituary from Wisconsin nursing home
Mrs. Mary Wickersham Morris aged 92 died at 7 15 p m yesterday at Wagner’s nursing home where she had lived three years. Born in Green County March 3 1869 she married John William Morris May 30 1894 in Monroe. They lived near Monroe Orangeville South Wayne and later moved to Medford Oregon and had 26 grandchildren and 64 great grandchildren. Burial will be in Iliff cemetery with services Monday at Shriner Neushwander funeral home conducted by Rev Donald Storck.
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Mary Wickersham Morris
Wagner
William Glenn
James R
Monroe
Gordon C
Medford
Ore
Fred
Lara) Williams
Leslie
Irene) Schwitz
Reuben
Edrie) Pagel
Lela Hammer
Chicago
Manuel
Hulda) Pagel
South Wayne
Shriner- Neushwander
Donald Storck
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Iliff
Fueral
Nasser fires editor of Mussawar magazine
President Gamal Abdel Nasser dismissed the editor of Mussawar magazine for an article proposing Israel be included in a broader Arab union. The Middle East News Agency reported the move.
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Nasser
Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mussawar
Israel
Middle East
Ruling Blocks Newburgh Plan in Welfare Case
Newburgh sought to limit relief to three months per year for able bodied recipients and deny aid to mothers of illegitimate children. Supreme Court Justice John P. Donohoe granted a temporary injunction stopping the plan and ordered a formal order to end the program, with an appeal planned by City Manager Joseph Mitchell.
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Newburgh, N.Y
Supreme Court
John P. Donohoe
Newburgh
Joseph Mitchell
Donohoe
New York
New York State
Mitchell
Navy expands fleet with 42 more ships
The Navy announced a fleet expansion that adds 42 combat and support ships, boosting the active fleet to 861 ships. The increase includes 383 warships and 478 noncombat vessels as part of a general buildup to handle potential emergencies worldwide.
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Washington
Navy
U.S
Walling East Berlin: New Brick Barrier Tightens Refugee Exits
East Germany builds a brick wall inside East Berlin to halt refugees crossing to the West. West Berlin reports a heavy truck rammed through wire by three escapees, reaching the West unharmed. Chancellor Adenauer pledges increased NATO readiness as talks with the USSR loom. Brandt denounces the move as a violation of human rights.
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Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
West Germany
Adenauer
Willy Brandt
London
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Germany
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy
People’s Police
Brandt
China
United Nations
Duck Season Opens Oct 14 in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Conservation Commission set a 30 day duck season starting Oct 14 with two birds daily and four in possession and a 60 day goose season opening Oct 7. The duck season runs from noon Oct 14 to pheasant closing Nov 12, with shooting hours from sunrise to sunset minus one hour.
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Rice Lake
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Gonstead to Race in Indianapolis Formula Junior Championship
Curt Gonstead a Monroe based racing chiropractor will compete in the Indianapolis Raceway Formula Junior National Championship events tomorrow and Sunday. He will drive an Osca Isis for Jim Scott of Libertyville the same car used in the Vanderbilt Cup race. Gonstead will race against many of the same season rivals.
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Curt Gonstead
Monroe
Gonstead
Jim Scott
Libertyville
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