Iowa deaths raise Wisconsin highway toll to 884
Three Iowa youngsters Joanne Mooney 16 Tammy Ellenholdt 10 and Dawn Reeves 10 from Lansing killed when their car swerved to avoid a tractor and hit an oncoming vehicle on U.S. 18. The crash occurred as a caravan of four-H Club members traveled to a Spring Green area tourist site. The toll update contrasts with 885 a year earlier.
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Nixon plans low profile campaign approach before vote
Nixon aims for a restrained campaign with a potential intensification a week before the November 7 election. Spokesmen say no change in strategy as of now, with Surrogates handling most road work while Nixon stays near the White House.
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Kissinger Extends Paris Peace Talks On Third Day
Kissinger enters an unprecedented third day of Paris talks with North Vietnamese envoys and meets French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann with Arthur Watson. Reports say no major shifts in positions. White House cites ongoing discussions, not substance, as rumors of nearing peace persist. Kissinger plans return to Washington as McGovern outlines war ending plan.
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German works in county with international farm program
German student Gerhard Geissler, 21, from Munich participates in the Work Experience Abroad Program at the Ernest and John Wegmueller farm on Rt. 2. He arrived Aug. 2 and will farm until May, helping with crops and cow milking. The Geissler family runs a 300 acre operation near Munich and grows wheat, barley, beets, rape, and beans with beef cattle. He earned an Agricultural Engineering degree near Munich in 1972 and speaks English well after studying and two five month trips to England. He is touring Kansas City with Monroe FFA to attend the National FFA Convention, where Fred Hassler of Monroe FFA also participates on a Swiss farm near Bern.
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Farmers dispute dairy ad funding at Chicago order meeting
MADISON AP Wisconsin farmers object to dairy advertising funds as the Chicago Federal Milk Marketing Order allocates money to groups while contending only 25 percent of Wisconsin requests are met. Withdrawals from the voluntary program total 8,430 filings, with 4 percent of area farmers pulling out.
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White House aide admits fabricating letter hurting Muskie campaign
AP dispatch reports Ken W. Clawson acknowledged fabricating a letter that damaged Democratic Sen. Edmund Muskie’s presidential bid, later denying the statement. In Washington, Senate leaders push to curb busing in desegregation, while Vietnam war fronts report battering, and a Belfast gunman fatally shoots an unarmed Catholic sergeant amid Northern Ireland strife.
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