Beloit tests sickle cell carriers in historic program
In Beloit Wisconsin more than 1600 people about half the area’s black population participated in a first of its kind city sickle cell anemia screening. The program screens for abnormal red blood cells and carriers of the defective gene mirroring prior efforts in Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh and Washington DC.
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Oscar Mayer reports record sales and earnings
Madison based Oscar Mayer and Co. posted fiscal year results ending Oct. 30 with 652 million dollars in sales, up 4.7 percent from 1970, and net income of 22 million, up 48 percent. Earnings per share rose to 2.40 from 1.64. The firm runs plants in Madison Chicago Los Angeles Philadelphia Davenport Perry Beardstown Nashville and Caracas and employs over 12 500 people.
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Oscar Mayer and Co
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Wisconsin Warms Up As Springlike Weather Spreads
Warm conditions blanket Wisconsin with forecasts calling for unseasonably high temperatures today. Forecasters expect a cooling trend later this week returning readings to normal. Sunday highs reached mid 40s across southern areas with Beloit at 47 while northwest pockets stayed cooler.
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Beloit
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Land O’ Lakes
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IRS crackdown on price posting for Milwaukee merchants
The IRS announces a campaign starting today to enforce price posting rules under Nixon Phase 2. Walter Stumpf orders compliance and helps merchants, focusing on grocery prices in effect before the price freeze and other top selling items. Merchants have until January 17 to comply.
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Internal Revenue Service
Nixon
IRS
Walter Stumpf
Highway toll climbs as three die in Vernon County crash
Sunday wreck on U S 14 near Coon Valley killed Vernon County judge Lincoln Neprud 73 of Viroqua and Tomah residents George Bacon 56 and his wife. The fatalities on the stretch raised Wisconsin’s 1972 highway toll to 17, compared with 13 a year ago. Also Friday night two cars collided near Oshkosh killing Mr and Mrs Richard Thompson of Princeton and Mrs Judith Weinness of Neenah, while Mavis A Kuehl 45 of rural Menomonie died Saturday after being struck, and Richard M Hipke 32 of rural Gleason died Friday night.
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Wisconsin
Lincoln Neprud
Viroqua
Tomah
George Bacon
U.S. 14
Coon Valley
Neprud
Oshkosh
Richard Thompson
Princeton
Judith Weinness
Neenah
Mavis A. Kuehl
Menomonie
Richard M. Hipke
Gleason
Renting bees aids Wisconsin apple pollination
In Wisconsin orchards rental bees are used to back up local pollinators during apple blossom time. Bill Meyers of Kickapoo Orchards says timing is crucial to avoid scouts leaving early. State bee inspector Elmer White notes rentals also support cucumber and cranberry crops.
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Bill Meyers
Kickapoo
Meyers
Elmer White
Wisconsin
Snow removal mishap near Sheboygan lakefront
City worker Bob Buteyne sank a tractor in five feet of water while unloading snow from a breakwater into Lake Michigan. The snow-disposal method dumps snow into the lake from the breakwater. Two other tractors pulled the stuck machine free as rough waves lashed the harbor.
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Sheboygan
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Bob Buteyne
Buteyne
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Public policy in America called a shambles by Lucey
Gov Patrick J Lucey told midyear commencement at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee that public policy is a shambles in large part because it is left to specialists He urged citizen involvement in antiwar protests pollution abatement and penal reform as needed in democracy.
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Patrick J. Lucey
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Humphrey bids for nomination in Pennsylvania primary
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey formally announced his third bid for the presidency calling for reconciliation and an immediate end to the Indochina war. He filed affidavits for Pennsylvania's April 25 primary and planned campaigns in Florida and other states as rivals also sought entry before deadlines.
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Pat Nixon Returns From Diplomatic Africa Trip
President Nixon praised his wife as a more effective personal representative after Mrs. Nixon completed a nine day 10 100 mile tour of Liberia Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Vice President Agnew predicted more diplomacy for her in an election year. The homecoming drew over 1000 people at Andrews Air Force Base.
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Hughes Breaks 15 Years Silence Denies Autobiography
Howard Hughes voices his denial of a forthcoming autobiography calling it false and a fiction during a Los Angeles news conference. Publishers McGraw Hill and Life magazine defend the book as authentic while experts verify the voice.
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Queen Elizabeth capsizes in Hong Kong harbor
The 83,000 ton former Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth rolled over and died after fires and explosions in Hong Kong harbor while being converted into a cruise ship and floating university. Officials said no deaths but several workmen were injured.
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Cunard Line
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Calif
Delirious homecoming of Bangladesh leader Mujibur Rahman
Sheik Mujibur Rahman arrived in Dacca to a ecstatic crowd after nine months in Pakistani prisons. Police kept back the surge as he spoke at Ramna race course and was greeted by his father and thousands of supporters. He had called for civil disobedience in March and was released by President Bhutto after a London meeting with Heath and Delhi stopover. The arrival drew dignitaries from 20 nations while the United States sent no representative.
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Claridges Hotel
Puss-Cat Fans TV Letter to Channel 3 News
Monroe viewer Mrs. Philip Darling adopted a cat named Puss-Cat who sent a letter to George Santis of TV Channel 3 Eyewitness News. The cat requested uninterrupted weather broadcasts and more wiggle of the pointer stick during forecasts, which Santis read on air.
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Mrs. Darling
George Santis
Eyewitness News
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Darling
Channel 3
Santis
Puss-Cat
Two-Car Crash Leaves Woman in Critical Condition
Miss Karen Gobrecht 21 of 1103 20th St. is in critical condition at St. Clare Hospital after a Sunday 5:50 p.m. crash on Wisll 18 miles west of South Wayne. Robert Raab 40 of Apple River Ill. is in Memorial Hospital Darlington in satisfactory condition with head and facial injuries.
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South Wayne
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Monroe
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