Wisconsin Holiday Crash Toll Reaches 6 Lives
Badger Briefs report six people died in Wisconsin traffic accidents over the holiday weekend with three fatalities since New Year. Charles Myers of Rockford Illinois died in a head on collision near Juda and Joseph Oudenhoven of Appleton was killed while helping a stranded motorist. Also dead were Sandra Rosseter James Falk Walter Seivert Jr and Lenny Nelson bringing 1971 toll to 1126.
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Wisconsin
Charles Myers
Rockford
Ill
Juda
Joseph Oudenhoven
Appleton
Sandra Rosseter
Menomonie
James Falk
Racine
Walter Seivert Jr
Fond du Lac
Lenny Nelson
Mineral Point
Winter road conditions vary across Wisconsin highways
Madison AP reports most main highways in good winter driving condition with scattered slippery spots on secondary roads. Hurley area roads were slippery after receiving another inch of snow.
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Madison
State Patrol
Hurley
Muskie Dial a Speech System Expands to Five States
Senate candidate Muskie’s campaign rolls out a dial a speech service in Milwaukee to provide newsmen with up to date remarks on campaign issues ahead of Wisconsin’s April 4 primary. The system will be based in Milwaukee and accessible by media in Illinois Minnesota Michigan and Iowa.
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Milwaukee
Edmund S. Muskie
Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
Michigan
Iowa
Wisconsin highway map 1972 edition released
The 1972 Wisconsin highway map is available to the public with updates from the 1971 version. It shows recent highway changes and population figures from the 1970 census, issued by the Bureau of Management Services of the state Transportation Department.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Bureau of Management Services
State Transportation Department
Polar Bears plunge into Lake Michigan in Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Polar Bear Club staged its 34th New Year’s Day dip with 14 or 15 members including four women braving water in the low 30s. Club president Joey Sutter noted the water lacked ice and called the 35 degree air a pleasant backdrop as about 300 spectators watched.
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Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Joey Sutter
Sutter
Winnebago Ice Warned Dangerous By DNR Near Oshkosh
Oshkosh AP DNR warns public to stay off Lake Winnebago as ice thins with five to seven inches near shore but only three inches or less farther out. Snow blankets slow freezing and obscure thickness. Snowmobilers receive special alert after two snowmobile rescues this week.
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Oshkosh
Department of Natural Resources
Lake
Winnebago
DNR
Firemen approve three-year pact in Wisconsin
Janesville firefighters ratified a three-year contract with the city, described as Wisconsin’s first three-year public employee pact. The deal starts January 1 with a 5 percent raise, 4.5 percent the second year, and 5 percent the third year, boosting entry pay from 625 to 660 dollars monthly, plus cost of living allowances and better health insurance.
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Janesville
Wisconsin
Pulaski village weighs secession from Brown County
Pulaski Wisconsin leaders plan a January meeting with County Executive Donald Holloway to discuss seceding from Brown County amid a rural urban dispute. Village president Bernard Olejniczak cites favored treatment for the metro area and disputes over immunizations and county lines as factors shaping the push.
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Pulaski
Brown County
Bernard Olejniczak
Donald Holloway
Green Bay
Oconto County
Shawano County
Olejniczak
Coat Thief Snubs Milwaukee Lieutenant’s Claim
Milwaukee Police Lt. John F. Halaska recounted his evening out spoiled when a thief walked off with his new coat at a restaurant. The officer later found the coat on his desk the next night as he booked a suspect, who quipped that the coat was too large to matter.
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Milwaukee
John F. Halaska
Halaska
Moen Baby Is Monroe's New Year’s First Child
Shane Robert Moen was born at 8 17 a m New Year’s Day at St Clare Hospital weighing six pounds two ounces and 19 inches long He is the first baby of 1972 in Monroe and the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Moen of 403 Monroe Estates The Moens also have two daughters Barbara Lynn and Peggy Sue Gifts from local merchants awaited the first baby with more prizes advertised for the first girl of the year The Stricker family welcomed their baby boy born Jan 2 at 2 31 a m at St Clare Hospital with both mothers employed nearby in Monroe
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Monroe Estates
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Monroe
Green County
Monroe Evening Times
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Monroe Evening Times, Commercial and Savings Bank
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Joseph Huber Brewing Company
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Eagles
Wis
Ken Rock
Warren
Belvidere
Ill
Leslie McNeal
David
Betty) Harris
Rockford
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Marilyn) Lynn
Rochelle
Myers
Gerald
Bhutto Moves Toward Unconditional Release of Mujibur Rahman
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced plans for the unconditional release of Sheik Mujibur Rahman after more talks in Pakistan. Mujib, jailed since the March crackdown, has been seen as leader of East Pakistan and head of the Awami League. The move could ease India Pakistan tensions following their recent war.
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Mujib
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Sheik
Karachi
India
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West
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
Yahya
Festge to Visit Monroe Friday at City Hall
The office of Congressman Robert Kastenmeier announced that Home Secretary Otto Festge will meet constituents in Monroe on Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. at city hall, a one day shift from the usual Thursday schedule. People needing Kastenmeier’s services are invited to attend.
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Robert Kastenmeier
Otto Festge
Monroe
Festge
City Hall
Kastenmeier
Petitions filed to place Nixon on New Hampshire ballot
AP dispatch reports petitions were filed in Concord to place President Nixon on the ballot for New Hampshire's Republican presidential preference primary on March 7. The note appears in a round up of AP briefs from across the globe.
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Concord
N.H
Nixon
New Hampshire
Manchester
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Nixon outlines reelection plans and policy hints on CBS interview
President Nixon said he will decide by January 14 whether to seek reelection and may keep Spiro Agnew as running mate. He added no public partisan activity until after the Republican National Convention. He discussed easing Phase 2 controls if inflation falls, trips to Moscow and Peking not politically timed, and continued stepped up bombing in Vietnam with possible troop withdrawals before February 1 depending on prisoner issues.
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Nixon
CBS
White House
Dan Rather
Spiro T. Agnew
San Diego
Moscow
Peking
Rockford Couple Die in Headon Wisconsin Crash
Rockford couple Mr and Mrs Charles Myers were killed in a headon collision near Juda Wisconsin at 2 am Saturday. Thomas E Kelly Jr of Juda was critically injured. Funeral services for the Myerses set for Tuesday at Sundberg Funeral Home Rockford with burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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Headon
Charles Myers
Juda
Thomas E. Kelly, Jr
Myers
Kelly
Green County
Sundberg Funeral Home
Gerald Robey
Brooke Road
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