Winnebago land settlement faces long distribution wait
The Winnebago tribe may wait a year or more to receive a $4.6 million federal land acquisition settlement. R.C. Miller of the Bureau of Indian Affairs says an outline detailing fund distribution and management is required. A referendum of about 4,500 Winnebago favored the settlement. eligibility rules differ between Wisconsin and Nebraska branches, with Wisconsin requiring one-fourth Winnebago ancestry and Nebraska at 50 percent.
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Black River Falls
Wis
R.C. Miller
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Great Lakes
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Wisconsin Territory
Miller
Circus World faces White Elephant as Baraboo dam sits unused
Circus World Museum in Baraboo Wisconsin grapples with the Island Woolen Hill Dam on the Baraboo River. After holes were punched in the spillway the reservoir drained to allow engineers to estimate removal costs. Boaters and snowmobile enthusiasts lament loss of the lake and mud flats remain. Residents urge action while museum officials say they cannot afford upkeep and prefer demolition.
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Circus World
Dam
Baraboo, Wis
Circus World Museum
Woolen Hill
Baraboo
State Historical Society
Museum
Oldest Winnebago to be 98 in Wisconsin
John Thompson believed to be the oldest living Winnebago in Wisconsin plans to mark his 98th birthday Wednesday at his rural Clark County home. He was born near Toman and hunted and trapped along western Wisconsin rivers, later working for a railroad in Iowa and on Mississippi River fishing vessels out of La Crosse. Thompson has descendants in Neillsville Fairchild and St Paul Minnesota.
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Neillsville
Wis
John Thompson
Wisconsin
Clark County
Toman
Iowa
la Crosse
Thompson
Fairchild
St. Paul
Minn
Siren Woman Held on First Murder Charge in Fatal Stabbing
Angeline Sutton, 38, of Siren is jailed on a first murder charge after her husband Jim Sutton, 42, was fatally stabbed at their home in Burnett County Wisconsin. Philip Taylor, 49, faces obstruction of justice charges related to the case. Sutton reportedly stabbed in the chest with a hunting knife.
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Siren
Murde Grantsburg
Wis
Lloyd Erickson
Angeline Sutton
Jim
Burnett County
Philip Taylor
Erickson
Sutton
Ashland teachers largely stay out as strike enters week
About 30 of 133 Ashland Public School teachers returned today, mainly members of the Ashland Education Association, not the striking Ashland Federation of Teachers. No students were in class as five of six schools remained closed and a small Madeline Island school stayed open. A temporary injunction had forced a return to work, but only a few complied. Negotiations with a state mediator continued.
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Ashland
Wis
Ashland Public
Ashland Education Association
Ashland Federation of Teachers
Federation of Teachers
The
Education Association
Madeline Island
Lewis Charles
Teachers Federation
Wisconsin Braces for Storms Across Central Regions
Thunderstorms develop Sunday and spread over most of the south and central portions of Wisconsin. Light showers linger in Green Bay with Superior seeing drizzle. Fog reduced visibility early today and heaviest rain in the prior 24 hours fell at Madison with just over four tenths of an inch.
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Wisconsin
Green Bay
Superior
Madison
Nixon and Hirohito meet in historic Anchorage visit
President Nixon and Emperor Hirohito met in Anchorage for a formal, hourlong encounter marking postwar alliance progress. Hirohito, en route to Europe, expressed gratitude for American aid after the war. no communique was issued. The meeting was ceremonial with military and protocol displays.
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Elmendorf Air Force Base
Tokyo
Washington D.C
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Europe
Aleutian Islands
America
Army
Marine Corps
Washington
Army “Herald
Heavy Viet attacks escalate along Cambodian border
North Vietnamese forces pressed heavy assaults along the South Vietnam Cambodia frontier for a second day. U S aircraft were shot down, five Americans wounded, and South Vietnamese losses include at least 20 killed and about 100 wounded with tanks and artillery pieces destroyed. Viet Cong sappers attacked Tan Son Nhut depot and blew a train near Qui Nhon Tuy Hoa, killing one civilian and wounding six.
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
USS
U.S
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Qui Nhon
Tuy Hoa
Nixon to attend Mamie Eisenhower 75th birthday banquet
President and Mrs. Nixon are expected to attend tonight’s gala reunion for former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower marking her 75th birthday. In San Francisco longshoremen resume West Coast dock strike negotiations after Nixon's intervention aiming to reach an agreement by week’s end.
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Washington
Nixon
Mamie Eisenhower
San Francisco
West Coast
Weather balloon instrument package lands near Monroe
Photos show a large instrument package from a weather balloon experiment that landed north of Monroe on the Edwin Haldiman and Donald Eckerman farms after a Friday Midwest-wide sighting caused by sun reflections off the balloon. Deputies inspect the split outer shell as winds misaligned the drop.
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Monroe
Midwest
Wisconsin
Illinois
Warren
Donald Eckerman
Edwin Haldiman
LeRoy Engebretson
Green County
IMF Heads Urge U S to Remove 10 Percent Surcharge
IMF managing director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer pressed the United States to drop its 10 percent import surcharge and urged major economies to seek currency realignment. He called for swift agreement on surcharge removal and exchange-rate actions to resolve the monetary deadlock at the IMF meeting.
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Washington
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
International Monetary Fund
United States
Schweitzer
U.S
Wavenmummer
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Nixon
Tax revision bill boosts cash flow for economy
Congress passes a refashioned tax revision aiming to lift consumer spending over business investment. The House committee shifts emphasis to faster depreciation and investment credits, lowering 1971 and 1972 individual taxes while boosting business cash flow for upcoming years.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
House
Ways and Means
Wisconsin Revenue Sharing Panel Faces Slow Start
Republican and Democratic lawmakers clash over reform of Wisconsin's 1911 tax revenue sharing formula. The six member conference committee, split evenly between Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans, delayed early action as leaders expect weeks before any settlement. Governor Lucey demands budgetary reform including tax changes.
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Wis
Ernest Korpela
Washburn
Yanick J. Lucey
Senate
Assembly
Conference Committee
Assembly Democrats
Korpela
Jack Steinhilber
Oshkosh
Steinhilber
Wisconsin
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