Oshkosh School Board Addresses 1968 Budget Proposals
Oshkosh school board opened its first budget session with a draft showing a potential 1968 budget increase of $618,917 over the current operation, plus salary requests from Oshkosh Education Association and Non-Teaching Employer Association. A wage negotiation counter-proposal to OFA is awaited, with meetings scheduled through September 14. The board also reviewed pupil transportation policies and discussed bus rules, decals for kindergartners, and anticipated staffing needs, including 522 professional staff with 10 intern teachers and four vacancies, ahead of an expected enrollment of 10,603 this fall.
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Oshkosh
Board of Education
William Harvey
Oshkosh Education Association
OFA
Harvey
John Coyle
Coyle
UAW Expected To Reject Auto Industry Offer
DETROIT AP UAW leaders plan to reject a contract proposal from General Motors Ford and Chrysler calling it the highest wage increase ever offered. Three-year deals cover 65 000 workers at the Big Three with midnight Tuesday expirations. Highlights include a 13 cent hourly rise immediate and 28 percent wage growth for 1968 1969 plus a four cent minimum cost of living increase.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
Walter P. Reuther
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Milwaukee Negro Marchers Rescued as Violence Flares
Police used tear gas to separate about 200 marchers led by Rev. James E. Groppi as a white mob gathered along Milwaukee’s South Side. The council’s headquarters were destroyed by fire soon after the protest, with 45 arrests and multiple injuries reported. The incident followed earlier clashes and amid ongoing debate over open housing ordinances.
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Milwaukee
API
Milwaukee Youth Council
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
James E. Groppi
Council
Frank Miller
Miller
Common Council
Freedom House
Milwaukee Naacp Youth Council
Peking retaliates as British diplomats restricted in China
Peking canceled exit visas for British diplomats and barred them from leaving their legation except on 400 yard trips between home and office. Chinese broadcasts accused London of instigating attacks on envoys as clashes outside the Chinese mission in Mayfair left eight Chinese and three police officers hospitalized.
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Tokyo
Red
China
Peking
London
Peking Radio
Legation
Britain
Foreign Office
Mayfair
Scotland Yard
Mao Tse-tung
Hong Kong
Regation
Oshkosh Beauty Returns From Vietnam Tour
Sharon Singstock former Miss Wisconsin returns to Oshkosh at 6 13 AM from a Miss America USO tour to Vietnam. Her brother Lt David Singstock USN chief engineer on USS Gallup greeted her reunion at Camp Ranh Bay. Singstock described nine show USO tour across bases, meeting troops and officers, weather challenges, and praise for morale. She noted plans to appear on the Miss America telecast and upcoming appearances in Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
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Dave
Sharon Singstock
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Vietnam
Sharon
David Singstock
USN
Gallup
Camp Ranh Bay
Miss Singstock
Jane Jayroe
Laikhe
California
China Sea
Winnebago County
Daily Northwestern
Arnold Singstock
Chester Phillips
Mark Sohm
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Rockwell Remains Unburied in Virginia Cemetery Controversy
In Culpeper Virginia the body of killed Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell remained unburied as Army guards barred Nazi followers from entering Culpeper National Cemetery. Army officials rescinded permission for interment at all military cemeteries, citing regulations and ongoing questions about the group’s conduct. The scene drew booing and Nazi salutes, while Arlington funeral officials offered no immediate plan for disposition. The Pentagon reported no new burial requests by Tuesday night.
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Saigon
Red
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
1St Corps
In Quang Ngai
Tam Ky
Quang Ngai
Dalat
U.S
Quang Ngai Province
2Nd Infantry Division
Thua Thien
U.S. Marine
Culpeper
George Lincoln Rockwell
U.S. Army
Rockwell
Fuercher
Culpeper National Cemetery
Army
Cmdr
Hitler
Carl C. Turner
Arlington
Arlington Funeral Home
Turner
Department of the Army
Pentagon
Virginia
Lee
Southern Railway
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Oshkosh School Board
Harold G. Stewart
Stewart
Winnebagoland
Norther
Demilitarized Zone
Con Thien
Dmz
Johnson
Hanoi
Red China
Kep
Air
Dong Hoi
Cal
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