Senate tax redistribution panel faces impasse from both parties
Madison Democrats and Republicans expect the Senate conference committee appointees to fail to reach a compromise with Assembly members over the tax redistribution plan. Key GOP picks Knutson Lotte and Steinhilber oppose shared reform, while Democrats pushed to replace Knutson with Devitt. The panel aims to allocate about 300 million in state revenue to localities, with no district guaranteed gains or losses.
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Madison, Wis
Senate Conference Committee
Assembly
Milo Knutson
la Crosse
Myron Lotte
Green Bay
Jack Steinhilber
Oshkosh
Hell
Dale McKenna
D-Jefferson
Gerald Lorge
R-Bear Creek
Knutson
Lotte
Steinhilber
Raymond Tobiasz
Milwaukee
Carl Otte
Sheboygan
Ernest
Korpella
Washburn
James Devitt
Greenfield
Senate
Patrick Lucey
Conference Committee
Wisconsin Assembly moves to end liquor tax stamps
MALDINON Wisconsin AP The Assembly voted 54 to 4 to scrap liquor tax stamps clearing the way for a stampless system. Opponents warn of rum running and tax leakage as distillers stockpiles and local revenue could suffer. The bill removes the monthly reporting setup and lets the revenue secretary design an alternative system. The Senate already passed the measure. governor’s action pending.
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Maldinon
Wis
Wisconsin
State Assembly
Illinois
Harvey Dueholm
D-Luck
Secretary of Revenue
Senate
Assembly
Lucey pledges minority hiring push in state agencies
Governor Patrick Lucey said Wisconsin will more vigorously pursue hiring of disadvantaged and minority workers. He told the Wisconsin Equal Opportunity Association that state agencies have a long way to go and must lead by example in equal employment. He stressed training and employment of the disadvantaged as a top priority.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick Lucey
Lucey
Wisconsin Equal Opportunity Association
Seventy seven named in Sheboygan drug warrants
Seventy seven persons were named in warrants Thursday charging the sale of marijuana amphetamines habiturates LSD MDA STP and cocaine. Dist Atty Lance Jones said a nine month investigation sparked by a meeting between Sheboygan County authorities and public officials led to the charges and the probe would continue.
Wisconsin Supreme Court backing on private school busing appealed
Racine attorney Garth Seehawer for 14 private schools says a court ruling upholding a section of Wisconsin's school busing law is unconstitutional. He argues attendance areas for schools of the same denomination must not overlap for public busing, violating the First and Fourth Amendments due to religious classification.
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Racine
Wis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin
U.S. Supreme Court
Garth Seehawer
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
First Autumn Frost Hits Wisconsin Wide
The first full day of autumn brought frost across Wisconsin with heavy frost in low-lying Madison area and scattered frost elsewhere. Fog lingered in places as temperatures fell to 29 degrees at Eagle River during the night.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Eagle River
AMC to test exhaust emissions with IBM System/7
Exhaust emissions from Kenosha produced AMC cars are tested using an IBM System-7 counter. Vehicles are random sampled from the line, placed on rollers, subjected to brake, acceleration and varied speeds, and wind simulation to mimic real driving. Pollutants are measured and fed to the computer to compare with standards and flag abnormal results.
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Mewuchia
Wis
American Motors
Kenosha
International Business Machines
John McGuigan
AMC
Information Systems
Regents plan meeting as merger clouds UW future
Madison Wisconsin AP Regents still plan a meeting on the Madison Campus if the board exists on Oct 2. The gathering had been set for Hayward in Sawyer County and hinges on the uncertain future amid a probable merger of the UW and state university system by the legislature.
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Madison, Wis
University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
Madison
Hayward
Sawyer County
Thepoara
State Universities
British order Soviet staff to quit Britain in major expulsion
The Foreign Office ordered 105 Soviet employees of the London embassy trade delegation Moscow Bank Aeroflot and others to leave within two weeks amid a sweeping diplomatic expulsion. A Soviet defector supplied documents on espionage networks linking the embassy and affiliated bodies. The move, the widest since relations cooled, follows protests over Soviet conduct and a scandal involving a KGB officer. Space scientist Anatoly Fedoseyev defected at the Paris Air Show and sought asylum in Britain.
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Foreign Office
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United States
Alex Douglas-Home
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Anatoly Fedoseyev
Nixon vows wage price restraints cover whole economy hope
AP notes Nixon in Detroit meeting says wage price controls after the freeze could span the entire economy and depend on interest trends for consumer credit. Other briefs cover Rogers-Gromyko Berlin talks, military pay raise politics, NI peace hopes, Harris 1972 bid, Medina My Lai job rumor, and a Green County farewell for William T. McGreane with local officials attending.
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Nixon
United Fund seeks $33925 for Monroe drive in 1971
Sieth Seward president of the United Fund of Monroe Inc announces a $33,925 goal for the 1971 community campaign. Robert Collins is named chair as the drive begins with business solicitations October 4 and house to house canvassing two weeks later. Monthly giving options include United Fund-Matic and payroll deductions. The effort emphasizes local impact and lending direct value to Monroe residents.
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Sieth Seward
United Fund of Monroe, Inc
United Giving
Seward
Monroe
United Fund of Monroe
Collins
United Fund
Nixon hints at Poff appointment to Supreme Court seat
President Nixon signals he may nominate Rep. Richard H. Poff of Virginia for one of two Supreme Court openings. He discussed candidates with the Economic Club of Detroit and noted judges with experience on House and Senate Judiciary Committees could fit.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Burger
Blackmun
Haynsworth and Carswell
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