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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1972
Page
1
Wisconsin will get an extra 1.45 million in Rural Environmental Assistance Program funds this year. The Agriculture Department said REAP allocations rose from 55.5 million to 195.5 million nationwide.
A gubernatorial task force in Madison endorses a universal voter registration system shifting duty from citizens to government officials. The panel supports allowing college students to register and vote where they reside if they meet age requirements, aims to report to Gov. Lucey by January 21.
Waukesha County District Attorney Richard McConnell pressed to preview a Brookfield church sex education course, labeling it fact gathering. Rev. Robert Moore said McConnell may act as a censor before vowing not to prosecute, prompting a trustees meeting to decide on the preview.
Wisconsin State Patrol says main roads and interstates are in good winter condition. Slippery spots found in Manitowoc and Sheboygan Counties and in Douglas County along with secondary roads statewide.
Sen George McGovern says Nixon Phase 2 plan fails citing unemployment topping six percent. He argues government figures show the jobless rate back to pre policy levels as evidence.
Shawano Mayor Arvin Schrank and two residents filed a federal suit claiming the county board’s redistricting plan creates unequal representation and is unconstitutional ahead of the spring election.
Lee Dreyfus chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point sailed Friday to South Vietnam with U S Army Secretary Robert Froehlke Stevens Point native. The trip aims to study converting military bases into educational centers and expanding academic ties in the region.
No foul play is suspected in the deaths of Clifford Waumack 50 Marie 54 and Elmer 27 found Friday in rural Holmen Wisconsin by a relative after no contact since Wednesday. Death attributed to asphyxiation from fumes leaking space heater.
The Pay Board cannot implement roughly 1.5 billion dollars in back pay owed under wage price rules until President Nixon orders the Cost of Living Council to enforce Congress action of December 14. Union leader Paul Jennings criticizes the delay as depriving workers, including many teachers, of earned raises from 1971 contracts.
A Madison area elementary school moved fourth grader Vikki Howe to a different class after her parents complained that teacher Pat Jimmerson stressed women’s liberation. The class reportedly discussed renaming a women’s section to a family section and writing to newspapers.
Police and federal agencies traced a string of low power hazardous devices found in safe deposit boxes across Bank of America in San Francisco Chicago and New York City. A Chicago man identified as Christopher Mohr was named as a renter of many boxes though officials question the name. The devices were described as prototype explosive timers used to threaten release of political prisoners.
Madison AP reports Sen. Gordon Roseleip will chair a 2 p.m. Thursday hearing in room 319 on proposed bills to redraw Wisconsin’s 100 Assembly and 33 Senate districts under the one man one vote standard from 1970 census figures. The session signals a major reapportionment issue as session reopens Jan. 18 with party control at stake.
President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato concluded talks in San Clemente with a plan to return Okinawa to Japan by May 15 and remove all nuclear chemical and biological weapons from U S bases there. They also agreed to establish a Washington Tokyo hot line to prevent future shocks and discussed base realignments, while noting no economic breakthroughs at that time. The meeting emphasized growing U S Japan interdependence as Nixon marked his 59th birthday.
Nyland seeks injunction to stop the 1972 spring election and to force constitutionally valid county supervisory districts. The petition asks for district reconfiguration or an at large election, with a hearing scheduled January 17 in Madison.
Chippewa and non Indian volunteers from L Anse Michigan plus DNR and MSU scientists wrapped up a tranquilizer gun buffalo roundup in the Upper Peninsula. Three calves were captured and one escaped waning effort to secure a herd for tribal meat and a future restaurant complex.
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