Wisconsin approves landmark consumer credit bill
Gov. Patrick Lucey hails final passage as a 1972 session landmark. The bill limits garnishment, requires disclosures, allows cancellation of some sales contracts, and raises revolving account interest on the first 500 dollars. It faces signature and possible changes for 1973. Local GOP lawmakers oppose, describing the bill as radical and burdensome.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick Lucey
Lucey
Senate
Assembly
Nixon acts to thwart air plots
President Nixon ordered immediate stricter airline security to block hijackings and extortion threats. He mobilized federal forces and required new ground cockpit and crew communications amid a wave of bomb threats and airline disruptions.
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Washington
Secretary of Transportation
John Volpe
Federal Aviation Administration
Air Force
Benjamin O. Davis
Sky Marshals
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Capitol Hill
Congress
Butz to Hold Dairy Price Line Amid Farm Pressure
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz will not raise dairy price supports, keeping the manufacturing-grade milk price at 4.93 per hundredweight for the new marketing year. Dairy groups led by the National Milk Producers Federation vow to press Congress to raise the level to 5.28, arguing costs have risen and the current support lags parity.
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Washington (Ap
Earl L. Butz
Congress
Butz
National Milk Producers Federation
Patrick B. Healy
Federation
Healy
Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Nixon
Snowmobile code passes with revisions and concerns
Madison A P report notes a compromise snowmobile regulation package cleared despite criticisms over racing safety noise and trail funding. Key changes curb Natural Resources oversight, set noise limits, age rules, and allocate license revenue to counties and a recreation council, with future revisions anticipated.
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Madison
Clifford W. Krueger
R-Merrill
Senate
Assembly
Patrick J. Lucey
Natural Resources Department
Wisconsin 23 road upgrade headed to governor
The Wisconsin Assembly approved the road improvement bill for Wisconsin 23 from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac on an eight to twenty nine vote. Rep. Carl Otte criticized it as logrolling aimed at a re‑electing senator Ernest Keppler, while supporters said it directs the DOT to proceed swiftly.
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Tatives
Wisconsin
Donald Helgeson
Manitowoc
John Shabaz
New Berlin
Assembly sends bills on juvenile offenders and sewage districts
Madison AP reports the Assembly returns to the Senate bills to create a juvenile offender program and to remove legal barriers to municipal sewage districts. The chamber votes 76 to 19 to send a binding arbitration bill for city police and fire contracts and 97 to 1 on a major reworking of state issues.
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Fox Lake
Assembly
Senate
Norman Anderson
Madison
Legislative Council
Milwaukee
Patrick J. Lucey
Wisconsin Assembly Delays Final Vote On Mental Health Bill
Madison AP The Wisconsin Assembly postpones final action on a bill recodifying mental health laws and adding due process for voluntary commitment. The substitute measure, approved 63-35 by the Assembly, would fund community clinics with 45 percent state aid for towns over 50,000, with small communities needing department approval.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly
Senate
Department of Health and Social Services
Wisconsin Assembly Moves to Curb Regional Planning Commissions
The Assembly sent to Gov. Lucey a bill restricting future regional planning commissions to under three uniform state districts. It orders dissolution by 1972 of any commission spanning more than three districts. Eight districts exist. the Northeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission would be abolished and replaced by a smaller agency.
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Northeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Sharp rise in wholesale food and industrial prices
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports February wholesale prices climbed nine-tenths of one percent, the sharpest rise in a year. Farm products and processed foods led with 1.9 percent, while industrial materials and manufactured goods rose 0.5 percent, with seasonal adjustments showing an overall seven-tenths rise.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nixon
Wisconsin Woman Killed by Train at Crossing
A 21 year old Oshkosh woman Betty Bergin was killed when her car was struck by a freight train at a crossing west of Oconomowoc. Wisconsin highway fatalities for 1972 reached 135 with this incident, compared to 113 the prior year on this date.
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Wisconsin
Betty J. Bergin
Oshkosh
Oconomowoc
Postal Bulk Rates Rise To Five Cents Per Piece
The Postal Service raises third class bulk rates from 4.2 to 5 cents per piece effective midnight March 11 after a court reversal. The change, delayed by a court ruling, affects advertisers and newspapers that run shopping circulars. Nonprofits’ rates stay the same.
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Postal Service
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Direct Mail Advertising Association
Monroe Evening Times
DNR Issues Twenty Water Pollution Abatement Orders
The Department of Natural Resources announced twenty water pollution abatement orders for a 1000 square mile drainage basin covering Grant Lafayette and Iowa Counties in Southwestern Wisconsin. Municipalities including Bageley Bloomington Cuba City Dickeyville Fennimore Lancaster Livingston Patch Grove Platteville Shullsburg face sewage treatment upgrades. Also named are breweries dairies creameries and the Grant County Hospital and Home along with Potosi Brewing Co and St. Clara Convent in Sinsinawa.
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Grant and Platte Rivers
Department of Natural Resources
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Wisconsin
Grant, Lafayette
Iowa Counties
Bageley
Bloomington
Cuba _ City
Dickeyville
Fennimore
Lancaster
Livingston
Patch
Potosi
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