Train derails near Oshkosh after car breaks loose
Seventeen Soo Line freight cars derailed north of Oshkosh after a southbound car jumped the track and struck a waiting engine. There were no immediate reports of injury. In Madison the Wisconsin Supreme Court weighs original jurisdiction in an abortion case as prosecutors seek clarity on abortion statutes.
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Soo Line
Stevens Point
Chicago
State High Court
McCann
Milwaukee
Supreme Court
Wisconsin 1972 traffic toll rises to 54 with two deaths
The Associated Press reports Wisconsin’s 1972 traffic fatalities reached 54 after a fatal early morning crash in Waukesha County. Racine youths Robert McCloy and Theodore Mastos were involved in a I 94 crash. Carrie Schroeder, 11, died Friday in Racine County after being struck near a school bus stop.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Waukesha County
Robert McCloy
Racine
Delafield
Theodore Mastos
Wisconsin Senate advances inheritance tax exemptions bill
The bill to raise state inheritance tax exemptions cleared the Wisconsin Senate and moves to the Assembly. It would lift widow exemptions to 50 000 and also raise widower children siblings and other relative exemptions, despite critics calling it a probate reform smoke screen by attorneys.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
Assembly
Ronald Parys
Milwaukee
Bar Association
Farmers urge Lucey meeting over high taxes squeezing farms
Wisconsin farmers from Dane to Walworth counties press Gov. Lucey for a meeting to protest rising property taxes they say tax land on development potential rather than farm use. They met Lt. Gov. Schreiber and Sen. McKenna to discuss the issue.
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McKenna
Madison
Patrick J. Lucey
Dane
Sauk
Iowa
Columbia
Rock
Walworth
Martin Schreiber
Dale McKenna
Jefferson
Wisconsin begins new air standards April 1
Gov. Patrick Lucey announced Wisconsin will start implementing new air quality standards April 1 while awaiting full compliance with the 1970 Clean Air Act. He asked EPA Director Ruckelshaus for guidance on possible financial aid for low income families to convert coal furnaces to cleaner heating systems.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick J. Lucey
William D. Ruckelshaus
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Lucey
Ruckelshaus
Wisconsin vegetable growers push pact against coercive canning contracts
Vegetable growers told the Assembly Agriculture Committee that state canners coercively pressure growers into unfavorable contracts. They support a bill to bar firms producing at least 10 percent of their own crops from paying farmers below production costs. Alton Rosenkranz of Brownsville cited similar bills in about 20 states.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly Agriculture Committee
Alton Rosenkranz
Brownsville
Clean room joint replacement at St. Clare Hospital
St. Clare Hospital introduces an ultra clean Laminar Air Flow unit to perform total hip joint replacements and other major prosthetic surgeries with minimal infection risk. The second such area in Wisconsin supports transplant and aortic graft procedures within a newly opened surgical department of an $8.5 million addition.
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St. Clare Hospital
Wisconsin
Surgical Department
Arthur Hensgen
Burlington
Linda Burich
Hensgen
Monroe
Hijacker demands Dallas prisoner be released
A hijacker seized a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 from Los Angeles, landing at Kennedy Airport after demanding the Dallas prisoner’s release. The plane carried 94 passengers and seven crew. FBI and airport police secured the scene while negotiators sought the inmate’s release and possible destination.
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New York
Dallas
Trans World Airlines
Los Angeles
Kennedy Airport
Miami
TWA
Illinois
FBI
Stuart Markus
Markus
Kennedy
Irving case tangle over Hughes autobiography funds
Clifford Irving's lawyer says 650000 dollars from McGraw-Hill meant for Howard Hughes was deposited in a Swiss account by Irving's wife Edith and is now held in trust for the billionaire. Hughes denies receiving any money or authorizing the book. publishers delay plans as investigations continue.
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Clifford Irving
McGraw-Hill Book Co
Howard R. Hughes
Irving
Maury Nessen
Hughes
Nessen
Edith Irving
Helga R. Hughes
Swiss Credit Bank
Zurich
Manhattan
McGraw-Hill
Time, Inc
Life Magazine
Nixon plan for welfare reform appears doomed
AP reports Sen. Abraham Ribicoff will not back President Nixon’s family welfare reform. He now favors a pilot project for this session. The move signals a weakened bid amid Senate Finance Committee hearings.
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Washington
Nixon
Abraham Ribicoff
Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Snowmobile bill heads for public hearing Monday in Wisconsin
A bipartisan group of 13 senators sponsors a snowmobile bill raising three year license fees from 6 to 9 and barring operation on freeways. The measure also directs the department to study laws and safety while riders under 12 need a guardian or a certified older rider.
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Madison
Wis
Senate Natural Resources Committee
Department of Natural Resources
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