Honor board chief feted at surprise dinner on retirement
Rodney Kittelsen, retiring after 25 years on Monroe school board and 1959 president, was honored at a surprise Idle Hour Mansion dinner attended by about 50 educators, business associates, board members, and friends. Superintendent Lee Olsen presided. remarks praised Kittelsen’s service to district youths. Engraved mugs were presented to him and Mrs. Kittelsen.
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Duane
Mary Jane) Mings
Rodney Kittelsen
Kittelsen
Times
Jim Glessner
Idle Hour
Board of Education
Lee Olsen
Herbert T. Johnson
Derwin Huenink
Johnson
Monroe
Huenink
Olsen
After today its all yours wage tax holiday ends
The Chamber of Commerce notes that by May 10 the average American wage-earner will have paid the equivalent of his salary in federal taxes for the year. Ramrods and powder horns will be used as the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association holds its spring championship May 18-21 at Friendship.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Frontier Times Friendship, Ind
National
Wisconsin antiwar rally and fatal crashes dominate brief
More than 7,000 gathered for Madison antiwar protest near the Capitol as vandalism flared in UW neighborhoods. A deadly Trempealeau County crash raised the 1972 state toll to 313. Other items include murder charges in New Berlin, UW back pay hearing, welfare suit, term paper mill probe, consumer affairs funding debate, and a youth reform school expansion update.
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Madison
State Capitol
Capitol Square
University of Wisconsin
Capitol Steps
Trempealeau County
Wisconsin
Michael E. Johnson
Arcadia
Florence Miller
Boscobel
Paul Defike
Green Bay
Brown County
Robert Warren
Governor's Council On Consumer Affairs
Department of Justice
Warren
State Department
Governor's Coordinating Council For Consumer Affairs
Nixon orders mines seal Haiphong as Soviets shift routes
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird says Soviet ships in Haiphong have lessened convoy activity since mines closed North Vietnam harbors. He confirms troop withdrawal continues and no mine removal will be allowed. U S raids intensify. Abrams expected to meet troop ceiling by July 1. A Wisconsin woman’s tax refund note brings a light moment.
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Washington
North Vietnam
Nixon
Secret of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
USS
Vietnam
Laird
Haiphong
China
United States
Russia
U.S
Creighton Abrams
Hanoi
South
Pentagon
Madison
Wisconsin
Dan Smith
The
Revenue Department
Nixon mining action triggers protests and political backlash
President Nixon ordered mining of North Vietnamese harbors drawing wide protests from Senate Democrats and antiwar activists. Demonstrations erupted in Albuquerque and Frankfurt as clashes with police caused property damage. Agnew escaped injury after protesters struck his convoy in Columbus. Kissinger said effects on the battlefield will appear in weeks and joined talk of Moscow summit plans.
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North Vietnam
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Senate Democrats
House
Kissinger
Nixon
Kremlin
Moscow
Peking
Senate
U.S
Indochina
Vietnam
Albuquerque
N.M
University of New Mexico
Frankfurt
Germany
Spiro T. Agnew
Columbus
Ohio
Agnew
McGovern Advances In Primaries Amid West Virginia Tossup
Sen. George McGovern defeated Hubert Humphrey in Nebraska while Humphrey claimed victory in West Virginia over Gov. George Wallace. McGovern aims to become Humphrey’s chief rival for West Virginia's 35 Democratic National Convention delegates amid lengthy delegate races.
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George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nebraska
Humphrey
George C. Wallace
West Virginia
McGovern
Green County Board weighs hospital trustees and budget changes
The Green County Board moved to replace hospital trustees with a board of supervisors committee to tighten oversight and funds. The meeting also discussed bids for a worn heating unit, a federal revenue sharing bill potential of 310530, and committee reorganization for 1972 73. Weather balloon project at Lincoln School released 360 balloons by 56 children at Monroe Airport.
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Ben Cleveland
Albany
Green County Board
Green County Mental Hospital
Board of Supervisors
Cleveland
Joseph Viney
Green County Ag
Green County
Helen Bratzke
Register of Deeds
Frank Wyss
Helen Myers
Marinette
Wis
Lincoln School
Virgil Leopold
Daniel
Donna) Babler
Monroe Airport
Monroe Machine
Times
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Edwin Harry Frahm Jr
Thomas Blanchette
Alredge Sharlow
Racine
Dennis J. Flynn
Racine County Corporation
State Justice Department
Atty
State Department of Agriculture
Russ
Radio
Saigon
Thailand
Gulf of Tonkin
AP News
Kellogg
Idaho
Sunshine Silver
London
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Northern Ireland
Mobile
Ala
Lexington
Lydia Anne Hodson
Judiciary Committee
Richard G. Kleindienst
Highway Department
Society
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