Missing pilot Paul Sullivan offered $500 reward
Milwaukee fiancée Nancy Kruszka and Sullivan’s family post a $500 reward for locating his missing plane, last heard from near Lone Rock while en route from Iowa to Waukesha after Thanksgiving. Civil Air Patrol halted the weeklong search with no leads.
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Milwaukee
Paul Sullivan
Sullivan
Iowa
Waukesha
Lone Rock
Nancy Kruszka
Howes
Civil Air Patrol
Wisconsin merger panel holds first meeting with little progress
The Merger Implementation Study Committee met in Madison for the first time, delaying actions on a statewide university merger plan. It discussed creating task forces to study salaries tenure student and faculty participation and tuition, with a January decision expected on some proposals.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Trenton
Stonver
Sugeonsd
Walter Hollander
Rosendale
Arraignment date set for three plot to bomb towers outside Whitewater
Walworth County Circuit Court Judge Ernest J Watts set December 14 for the arraignment of Edward Starkeson Charles Bagstad and Linda Bumbalek indicted on conspiracy to damage two electrical transmission towers. The trio charged February 2 with planning an explosion to protest disciplinary action against four University of Wisconsin Whitewater professors by the Board of Regents.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Whitewater
Walworth County
Ernest J. Watts
Grand Jury
Edward Starkeson
Charles Bagstad
Linda Bumbalek
Old State University System Board of Regents
University of Wisconsin- Whitewater
Half gallon liquor returns in Wisconsin starting January
Madison Wisconsin AP reports a Revenue Department rule change approved by Secretary Edward Wiegner will allow sale of half gallon liquor containers beginning January 1. The policy endures despite years of unclear rationale and will appear in the December Wisconsin Administrative Code with rates effective the month after publication.
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Madison
Wis
State Revenue Department
Edward Wiegner
Revenue Department
India launches new thrust in East Pakistan war
India says ground and air forces struck East Pakistan and attacked eight West Pakistani airfields 1000 miles away. Pakistan accuses India of starting the war while Delhi reports heavy fighting in East Pakistan and dogfights over the region. Indian air raids target Lahore Karachi and Rawalpindi with claims of grounding several Pakistani planes.
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India
Pakistan
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Lahore
Karachi
Rawalpindi
New Delhi
West
East Pakistan
Dacca
Jessore
Radio Pakistan
United News of India
Yahya
Indira Gandhi
West Pakistan
Islamabad
T. N. Kaul
K. B. Lal
East
Srinagar
Kashmir
Agar
Taj Mahal
Nixon weighs full employment budget plan
President Nixon spends a Florida weekend reviewing the fiscal 1973 budget as unemployment rose to 6 percent in November after a two month drop. White House aides say deficit spending is virtually certain under the full employment approach, with a 4 percent jobless threshold to avoid surpluses. The report notes high employment totals despite the unemployment uptick and other economic moves including a small wholesale price decline and IRS rent guidance.
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Washington
Nixon
Labor Department
White House
Key Biscayne
Fla
Labor
James D. Hodgson
Internal Revenue Service
Monroe tax rate rises to 46.51 per thousand
Monroe's tax rate increases by 1.39 per thousand to 46.51 for 1972 after a state credit lowers the gross 49.97 rate. Breakdown shows Green County 10.77, schools 30.50, vocational school 1.57, city 6.79, and state 0.03. Net last year was 45.12.
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Monroe
Freda Bray
Green County
Suspect Held At Gunpoint In Monroe Bank Case
Police converged on a suspect in a Milwaukee man’s mental health episode after a 2:12 p.m. bank report of repeated lobby visits. Officers pursued, stopped a vehicle near 17th Ave and 11th St, and took the man into custody. He was hospitalized and later sent to a state facility for mental treatment. Chief Dwight Coplien said the incident drew chuckles from onlookers.
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Monroe
17Th Ave
11Th St
12Th Street
IGA
Police Department
Milwaukee
Green County
Dwight Coplien
Government acts to buy corn amid bumper harvest
Washington says strong corn yields of over 5.5 billion bushels prompted the decision to purchase an undetermined amount of corn. Secretary Butz cites blight fears, loans, and Soviet sales as factors giving farmers options to dispose of excess crop. Reaction from growers and associations is mixed as price levels hover around 1.05 to 1.10 per bushel last week.
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IRS
Construction Industry Stabilization Committee
Buidelines
Philadelphia
Delaware
Bank of England
Europe
Chrysler Corp
Washington
Earl L. Butz
Butz
Soviet Union
Jack Miller
Iowa
GOP
Agriculture Committee
Nixon
Town Corn Growers Association
Roscoe Marsden
Gordon Ropp
Illinois Agricultural Association
Dust cloud may halt Mariner 9 map mission on Mars
Dust storm over Mars threatens Mariner 9 mapping of 70 percent of the planet. If the cloud persists for 10 days, the primary mission could fail. project officials say decisions on abandoning the mapping plan may follow. Scientists note possible recent volcanic activity near the equator, inferred from enhanced photos, with calderas suggesting active heat and water beneath the surface.
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Pasadena
Vaur
Mars
Mariner 9
Manner 9
Bradford Smith
New Mexico State University
Dan Schneiderman
South Polar
Cap
Equator
Harold Masursky
U.S. Geological Survey
Flagstaff
Ariz
Masursky
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