12 Feb 1973
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1973
Page
1
Wisconsin motorists died in eight weekend fatalities and one today raising the 1973 toll to 92, with victims including Joseph Kennedy of Edgerton and Steven Webster of Cuba City. Snowmobile deaths bring winter total to 26.
A returning batch of 143 prisoners of war arrives at Clark Air Base Philippines aboard three U S Air Force hospital planes after long bouts in North and South Vietnamese captivity. Navy Captain Jeremiah Denton leads the first to step off with "God Bless America" as doctors begin exams and crowds cheer.
Global markets were mostly closed as officials consider a new schedule of exchange rates for non Communist currencies. Basel central bankers hinted at a Paris conference this week to discuss a Smithsonian style plan.
Peggy Haas, 16, telephones from Givania Brazil to her Monroe High School family after arriving as an AFS student for the year. Her sister Maria Emily, in Crystal Lake, Illinois, prepares to travel to Washington and Disney World before returning home around Feb 26.
Kevin M. Conroy announces three South Wayne area seniors from Black Hawk High School named Outstanding Teenagers of America for 1973 LuAnn Seffrood JoAnne Bixby and Georgette Goonan. The national program rewards academic and community service excellence with potential state and national scholarships totaling $7 000 including 1 000 for one boy and one girl.
Wisconsin had two soldiers among 143 POWs freed from Hanoi and flown to Clark Air Base Philippines. Air Force Lt. Col. Daniel J. Doughty of Ladysmith and Army Maj. Raymond C. Schrump Jr. of Tomahawk were released from a jungle north of Saigon.
Iowa County Sheriff William Whitford claims to have solved a 1972 case in which two men were shot and bodies burned in an abandoned farm shed near Edmund. He cites circumstantial evidence and ongoing doubts from the district attorney and attorney general about warrants and the suspect’s exact time of presence in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin legislators push five proposed amendments from 1971 toward voter referendum on April 3. Action deadline March 1 imposes all out push with bingo for nonprofits nearest ballot chance. Remaining items include farmland tax value, sex discrimination ban, pension boosts for retirees, and lieutenant governor succession.
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