Amish religion at risk from Wisconsin school law
The Supreme Court heard that Wisconsin compulsory school attendance law threatens Amish religious freedom. New Glarus parents, aided by Atty. William Ball, had convictions reversed, while state official Calhoun warned overturning the law could disrupt schools. In Baraboo an explosion at Badger ordnance works killed Elmer G. Johnson and injured three. John Mitchell 58 died, marking the plant's second fatality this year.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Glarus
Wis
Atty. William Ball
Harrisburg
Wisconsin Supreme Court
John W. Calhoun
High Court
Baraboo. Wis
Army
Badger Ordnance Works
Elmer G. Johnson
Johnson
John Mitchell
Wisconsin Dells
Richard B. Hardy
Reedsburg
LeRoy Graves
Mazomanie
Dennis Pecham
Blue River
Avery Hartley
Gillingham
Milwaukee labor group protests Proxmire support for Rehnquist
The Milwaukee County Labor Council AFL-CIO sent a telegram to Sen. William Proxmire urging him to reconsider and vote against confirming William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court. Proxmire, the first northern Democrat to back the nomination, faced a sharp admonition from the 100,000-member group. Women snow shovelers gain access to city jobs as Milwaukee’s sanitation bureau ends its ban on female snow shovelers pending hiring rules.
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Milwaukee
William Proxmire
Rehnquist
Proxmire
Bureau of Sanitation
Howard Thompson
Plan expands First Capitol State Park in Lafayette County
Madison Wisconsin AP reports approval of expanding First Capitol State Park between Belmont and Platteville. The plan adds a flood control tract along the Pecatonica river and 4 acres of flowage for recreation to reach about 197 acres surrounding the site of the state's first capital.
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Madison, Wis
First Capitol State Park
Belmont
Platteville
Natural Resources
Star Palm
UW to get mini arboretum on vacant campus lot
A campus planning panel approved creating a 19 000 square foot arboretum on a vacant lot instead of building a parking lot. Residents urged green space for relief from congestion and multiple voices supported the plan. Regents approval would be required.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Susan A. Wiesmer
Manitowoc
Regents
Wisconsin Snowmobile Rules Set to Track Backwoods Accidents
Wisconsin lawmakers hear that compiling accident statistics is needed before driver certification rules can be outlined. Representative Alberts sponsors a bill requiring snowmobile operators to report crashes over 100 dollars or with injuries. The Department of Rural Resources plans a certification program in Eagle River similar to firearms training, potentially certifying about 500 drivers this season.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Alberts
Neomatic
Adidant
Department of Rural Resources
Eagle River
Hettrick
Senate
Transportation Committee
Religious order plans asset sale to satisfy creditors
The Society of Our Divine Savior filed a bankruptcy plan to sell nearly all assets to pay creditors, aiming to avoid disbanding. It would keep the school and farm at St. Nazianz, Salvatorian Center at New Holstein, and a provincial residence at High Mount, with other assets in eight states and D.C. to be sold. No total value was estimated.
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Society of Our Divine Savior
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Salvatorian
New Holstein
High Mount
Wisconsin
Alabama
Iowa
Louisiana
Illinois
Maryland
New Jersey
Oregon
District of Columbia
Indians claim near Dacca push and evacuee needs
Indian forces press toward Dacca within 25 miles as thousands of Pakistani troops retreat across the Ganges. Indian and Mukti Bahini units report advances in East Pakistan while bombing pauses enable evacuations from Dacca and Karachi.
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India
Dacca
Ganges River
Meghna
Jagjit Singh Aurora
Calcutta
Chittagong
Ganges
Aurora
Karachi
Associated Press
Peter O'Loughlin
Jagjivan Ram
Mukti Bahini
Ram
East Pakistan
Hilli
Foreign aid, taxes, and court nominees drive Washington action
AP News in Brief covers a stop gap extension for foreign aid facing House Senate deadlock, a $15.8 billion tax cut moving toward final action, and the Army dismissing charges against Brig. John W. Donaldson. Also, UN delegates urge peace talks while Rehnquist confirmation faces a Senate vote and a bomb strike hits a Dacca orphanage with casualties.
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Washington
House
Senate
Nixon
Democratic Congress
House votes pending tax bill with campaign finance plan
Nixon opposes the campaign-financing provision but a conference panel delays action beyond the election. The bill would cut tax for low income and families while a $1 tax-checkoff funds campaigns. Byrnes says Nixon may sign the bill but oppose the financing section.
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Senate House
Nixon
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Byrnes
Nobel laureate Ralph Bunche dies in New York
Ralph Johnson Bunche, 67, top United Nations official and 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner for mediating the 1949 Palestine War, dies in New York Hospital after months of illness. He helped shape UN actions in Congo 1960 and Palestine, and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.
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Ralph J. Bunche
New York
Ralph Johnson Bunche
United Nations
Palestine
New York Hospital
Bunche
U.N
Congo
Folke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Rhodes
Mohamed Ibrahim Seif Eddine
Egypt
Walter Eyton
Lving
Martin Luther King Jr
Selma
Montgomery
Ala
County Council hears package tour plans for Wisconsin
The Green County Tourism Council heard Chicago wholesaler Steven Tsalikis outline a pilot program of 40 to 50 package tours, wholesale to about 670 Chicago-area agencies, with state support to expand year round and boost May and June promotions. Accompanying officials discussed snowmobiling trails and county bicycle routes.
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Steve Tsalikis
Chicago
Robbie Schneider
New Glarus
Burton Loken
DNA Tourism and Information Dept
Tom Smith
Monroe
Board of Supervisors
Gene Roark
Jim Glessner
Green County Tourism Council
Wisconsin
Green County
Steven Tsalikis
Greater
Tsalikis
Tourism and Information Service
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Eugene M. Roark
Paredo Ur
Traver Loken
Larry Lindgren
Times
Jim Speth
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Gunnar Jarring
Israel
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Richmond
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Delay
Jacob Bruni
Sports Society
Council
Loken
Roark
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