GOP Majority Divided Over April Highway Referendum
The Wisconsin State Assembly debated an April public vote on Governor Reynolds 400 million bond plan to build interstates and Milwaukee expressways by 1967 with a 120 million added four lane program. Republicans split with several proposing a penny per gallon gas tax and other referendum options while Democrats urged backing the governors plan.
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Madison
State Assembly
Assembly
Senate
Dane County Court
Robert Haase
Marinette
Paul Alfonsi
Minocqua
Curtis McKay
R-Mequon
State Building Corporation
Robert Huber
West Allis
Milwaukee
Glenn Pommerening
R-Wauwatosa
Harold Froehlich
R-Appleton
Wisconsin Cheese Markets Hold Steady Amid Solid Demand
Madison Wisconsin cheddar cheese market remains steady with demand fair to good and ample supplies. Cheddars range 36 to 38 percent, 40 pound blocks 365 to 39, singles 385 to 39, longhorns 384 to 33, midgets 37 4 to 40 percent. Wisconsin Swiss market steady with good demand and adequate to short supplies. Blocks priced State brand 44 to 45, B 41 to 42, C 38 to 39.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Heavy Snow Warnings Sweep Monroe Area
A heavy snow warning is issued for the Monroe area with forecast accumulations over four inches by Thursday morning. Light snow began this morning, making roads slippery countywide. Highway 69 north is slick in spots, with icing likely as temperatures dip into the 20s tonight.
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Sheriff's Department
County
Highway Department
Wisconsin
Colorado
New Mexico
Nebraska
Kansas
Voegeli Chosen For Senate Youth Program
Paul W Voegeli of Monticello is named one of 200 high school students to join the Senate Youth Program next year. Barbara Hayes of Wausau is the other Wisconsin honoree. The Washington event runs Jan 27 to Feb 1 and is funded by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
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Paul W. Voegeli
Monticello
Senate
Wisconsin
Barbara Hayes
Wausau
Washington
William
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Monroe County Oral Polio Vaccination Clinic Expansion
Children in the Monroe School district receive their second dose of an oral polio vaccine with Type III this week as clinics expand to include Sunday sessions at the Monroe Armory and additional sites in Monticello New Glarus Brodhead Browntown Albany and Juda. The Green County Medical Society urges full participation aiming for 80 percent county vaccination and notes a March makeup clinic for Type I.
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Jenny
William J. Staab
St. Victor’s School
Anne
Theresa
Catherine
Greg
Eddie
Chuck
Staab
Cleveland
Monroe Clinic
Robert G. Rote
14Th Avenue
Times
Monroe
Monroe Armory
Monticello
New Glarus
Brodhead
Bank of Brodhead
Browntown
Albany
Bank of Albany
Armory
Green County Medical Society
Medical Society
County Board Accepts NY Life Hospital Insurance Bid
The Green County board of supervisors approved a 5.77 dollar bid from New York Life Insurance Co. for county employee hospital surgical insurance, granted a five cent per hour raise offsetting the employee share, and discussed railings at the courthouse. They also moved funds between accounts, approved a sheriff’s $100 for jail trips, and adjourned to January 14.
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Green County Board of Supervisors
New York Life Insurance Co
Rolland E. Karlen
New York Life
Myron I. Stair
Naomi Barnard
Ray E. Kundert
State Tax Department
Paul Francois
Belleville
Ray Beckman
The
Conservation League
Beckman
League
Conservation Department
Highway Department
Sheriff's Department
Connally Again Hospital Patient
Gov John B Connally, wounded in the Kennedy assassination, is back in a hospital in Austin Texas for treatment of an inflamed right leg. Doctors say the inflammation in a vein of the right calf where a tube was used for IV feeding is not serious. He was sent to St Davids hospital here from Dallas.
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Austin
Tex
John B. Connally
Kennedy
Dallas
St. David’s Hospital
JFK Half Dollar Proposed With Kennedy Portrait
President Johnson urged Congress to authorize a new 50 cent piece bearing John F. Kennedy. If approved, the Kennedy portrait would replace Benjamin Franklin on the half dollar with the presidential seal on the reverse, and the coin could enter circulation within weeks of authorization.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Treasury Department
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin
Treasury
Philadelphia
White House
Leading Trial Expert Belli Heads Ruby Defense
Melvin Belli a top trial lawyer from California will lead defense for Jack Ruby in the murder trial set for February in Dallas. He says Ruby will plead not guilty by reason of insanity and there is no plan to seek a venue change. Judge Joe Brown reports interest from three networks to televise the trial while Dallas prosecutors pursue the death penalty.
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Jack Ruby
Kennedy
Melvin Belli
Bell-Eve
Los Angeles
San Francisco
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Belli
American Academy of Trial Lawyers
Lee Harvey Oswald
Joe B. Brown
Brown
Oswald
Atty
Henry Wade
College Aid Bill Sent to President in Landmark Action
The Senate approved a $1.2 billion college construction aid package, sending it to President Johnson. The three year measure funds classroom, lab, and library construction at 2100 colleges with priority for enrollment growth, on a matching grants basis.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Congress
Kennedy
More Parking Area Proposed Across From Armory
The city has options on 14 400 square feet of land across from the Armory for extra parking. Options are on parcels at 907 and 910 18th Avenue owned by Mrs Clara Schuetze and Mrs E F Krauss, each 120 by 60 feet, costing 32 000 dollars per parcel. The plan aims to help replace space lost to the new police fire station construction and goes to the Planning Commission for review before next Tuesday's city council meeting. Bids for the proposed building will be opened by the Board of Public Works at 5 p.m. next Monday.
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Lester M. Johnson
Public Property Committee
Clara Schuetze
E. F. Krauss
18Th Avenue
Johnson
Planning Commission
Chandler-Connors
Board of Public Works
Three Scenes Placed in Junior High Play Tonight
Tonight in the junior high auditorium at 7 45 the three scenes of The Perfect Carol will be staged with Christmas selections by the Cadet Band. The play shows events surrounding Silent Night during 1818 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with tableaux of the annunciation Nativity and more.
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Joseph
William Figi
Larry Marty
Scott Haberman
James Clark
Anna Wuethrich
Barbara Hefty
Jan Wittner
Janet Blum
Shannon Burrington
Diane Woods
Robbers in Santa Suits Hit Alpine State Bank
Two men in Santa Claus costumes robbed the Alpine State Bank on the outskirts of Rockford. They ordered 14 staff and customers to lie on the floor, herded them into the vault, and fled in a car with an undetermined amount of money after about 10 minutes when the main vault lock had been left unlocked.
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Rockford
Santa Claus
Alpine State Bank
Frank Hoffman
Pope Paul Ready To See Patriarch
A Vatican official said Pope Paul VI is willing to meet Patriarch Athenagoras I during the Holy Land trip January 4 to 6. The pope informed the Orthodox leader of his plans and would meet him in Palestine if Athenagoras attends.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Paul VI
Athenagoras I
Holy Land
Athenagoras
Palestine
Sinatra Jr Kidnapping Ends as Ransom Paid
Frank Sinatra Jr was freed unharmed after his abduction near Lake Tahoe. The father paid 240000 in small bills to a gang, with FBI oversight but no details released. The singer, 19, was found by a Bel Air patrolman and reunited with his mother Nancy Sinatra.
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Frank Junior
Reno
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Freeway
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Los Angeles
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