Badger Briefs Summarize Wisconsin News Mix
Wisconsin traffic fatality toll rises to 80 for 1973, while a utility advertising ban faces constitutional concerns. Cable recommendations defend local franchising with state regulation, and a nuclear hearing on a Lake Michigan plant continues into the weekend. GOP leadership pressure and merger questions at the UW system cited. Soil staff cuts questioned, Santana rock concert attracts arrests and chaos.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Cable Recommendations
Madison
Cable Communications
Lee Dreyfus
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Kewaunee
Lake Michigan
Atomic Energy Commission
Kissinger Airs Peace Hopes En Route to Hanoi
Henry Kissinger arrived in Vientiane Laos for an overnight stop on the way to talks about postwar Indochina. Rumors circulated that a cease fire between Laos government and Pathet Lao rebels could be near and possibly signed next week.
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Vientiane
Laos
Henry Kissinger
Hanoi
Indochina
Kissinger
Pathet Lao
POW release to begin as Hanoi frees 115 prisoners
The Pentagon said North Vietnam will release about 115 U S prisoners Sunday night Hanoi time, with 27 Viet Cong held Americans freed in jungle camps near An Loc. A U S observer team will assist in Hanoi, while ICCS observers attend.
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Washington
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S
Pentagon
Defense Department
Jerry W. Friedheim
Hanoi
Southeast Asia
Laos
Friedheim
International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
Saigon
Quan Loi
An Loc
Paris
Clark Field
Philippines
Wisconsin church tax bill sparks religious groups clash
Legislators and church representatives clashed as ministers opposed a bill to tax church property not used for religion or education. Rep Barbee argued it would boost state revenue and curb church business profits while current law grants tax exemptions for up to 40 acres connected to religious or educational use.
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Madison
Lloyd A. Barbee
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Assembly Taxation Committee
Green County drug arrest list includes Richard H. Rick
Mdson AP report lists 32 suspects from four counties including Green County in a major drug trafficking roundup. Richard H. Rick of Albany is held in Green County Jail on amphetamine sales charges with a $1,500 bond. Indictment details cite heroin opium demerol LSD marijuana and other drugs with 190 officers involved.
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Madison
Green
Green County
Richard H. Rick
Rt. 1
Albany
Rock County
Rick
Daniel Hanley
Atty
Robert Warren
Wisconsin Justice Department
Warren
Rock
Walworth
Jefferson
Four County
Beloit
Skating Opens At Lake Francis And Lincoln Rinks
The Monroe Park and Recreation Dept announces Lake Francis is safe for skating and opens today with regular hours 6 9 p m evenings and 1 4 p m weekends. Lincoln rink also opens with hours 3 5 p m weekdays and 1 4 6 9 p m weekends.
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Monroe Park and Recreation Dept
Lake Francis
Lincoln Rink
Assured market urged as milk production rises in 1970s
Truman F. Graf of the University of Wisconsin Extension warned dairymen at Dodgeville that rising milk production amid lower use of dairy products requires proactive market assurance. He noted 1972 production up 1.5 percent with per cow output up 2.7 percent, and urged selling milk without relying on subsidies while addressing shifting consumption and substitutes.
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Truman F. Graf
U.W. Extension Dept. of Economics
Dodgeville
Graf
U.S
Administration raps any milk price support boost
The Nixon administration urged against a bill to raise milk price supports, arguing it would rigidify programs and provoke consumer backlash. Under Secretary J. Phil Campbell warned boosts could push prices for milk butter and cheese higher and risk a loss of the program.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
J. Phil Campbell
Campbell
House Agriculture Subcommittee
John Butterbrodt
Burnett
Wis
Farmer Associated Milk Producers, Inc
Secretary of Agriculture
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Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League
Paul Hahn
Assembly Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee
Harout Sanasarian
Dmilwaukee
Public Service Commission
William Eich
GOP
Janesville
John Hough
University of Wisconsin
John Weaver
State University System
Weaver
Board of Regents
Regents
Soil Conservation Service
Richard Ackeley
Ackeley
Santana
Dane County Coliseum
AP News
Philadelphia
Penn Central
Montevideo
Uruguay
Juan M. Bordaberry
Custer, S.D
National Guard
Bonn
Germany
Willy Brandt
Frankfurt Exchange
Finance Ministry
John Stennis
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
USA
Paseo
Kansas City
Legislature In
Wisconsin Assembly
John Alberts
R-Oconomowoc
Joanne Duren
D-Cazenovia
Marlin Schneider
Wisconsin Rapids
Schneider
Assembly Highways Committee
State Highway Safety Coordinator
Department of Veterans Affairs
John Moses
Moses
Assembly Committee On Veterans and Military Affairs
Lloyd Barber
John Sheehan
Justice Department
Rock and
Walworth County
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