University of Wisconsin Platteville - Pioneer Yearbook (Platteville, WI)

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Driving inTo PIaTTeviIIe on Wisconsin 80, you mighT hove noTiced The new sToplighTs CT The inTersecTion of 80 and US. 454. The second in Gram CounTy and a new addiTion To PToTTe- vine. PIoTTeviIle has made several changes recenle. The mosT noTicobTe is The renovafion of Main STreeT, which was compleTed in 4980. Busin- esses such as K-Mch and Happy Joe's have moved inTo PIaTTeviIle giving consumers a greater vcrieTy of places To shop 0nd 901. The PIoTTeville Cable CorporoTion, in conjuncTion wiTh The PlaTTeviTie Telephone CorporaTion, al- lows Television viewers a greoTer selecTion of Television sTaTions. BuT despTTe These and oTher improvemenTs, PloTTevilTe is a rather inerT Town. The populoTion growTh in The posT Ten years has been very slighT and according To Dave Holmes, direcTor of public works, PlcTTevme has enough buiIding IoTs available wiThin The ciTy limiTs To losT for 23 years. The UniversiTy is PTOTTeviIIe's major indus- Try. John Deeres Dubuque locoTion, and The Dubuque Packing CorporoTion also employ a large number of PloTTevme residents. The CiTy of PloTTeville is home To many sTudenTs for four years or more. and HS improvemenTs offecT us. Even Though we will soon be gone, PlaTTeville's changes wil! conTinue To offecT The sTudenTs of UW-P. Above: PToTTevme Cable Corporation al. lows viewers-To onCh shows n01 avail- able on regular TV. For above: PIaTTeville offers rurol seTTings and 0 CW onosphere To in residenTs. PLATTEVTLLE 19

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A Decade Of Mixed Feelings 1971 The 'IOOTh session of peace Taiks be- Tween The UniTed STaTes and NorTh VieTnam occured in Paris. Charles Manson and Three of his followers were convicTed on a firsT degree murder charge in California in January. The 26Th AmendmenT To The ConsTiTuTion, which esTablished '18 years as The minimum voTing age was raTified on June 29Th and cerTified in July. 1972 PresidenT Nixon arrived in Peking in Febru- ary for Talks wiTh Chinese leaders including Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En lai. He became The firsT U.S. PresidenT To visiT China while in office. On April 4, major league players began a sTrike againsT baseball club owners in a pension dis- puTe. This sTrike was The firsT in 402 years of organized baseball. The DemocraTic naTionaI headquarTers was The siTe of The WaTergaTe break-in which occurred on June 47. On Sep- Tember 5, 47 persons, among Them 44 mem- bers of The israeli Olympic Team, were shoT To deaTh by Arab TerrorisTs. J. Edgar Hoover, The firsT and only direcTor of The Federal Bureau of InvesTigaTion TFBD in HS 48 year hisTory, died on May 2. On May '15, Governor George C. Wal- lace of Alabama was shoT and seriously wounded while campaigning for The demo- craTic nominaTion for PresidenT in Laurel, Mary- land. In May, PresidenT Nixon Traveled To Mos- cow where he and Russian parTy leader, Leo- nid Brezhnev, signed agreemenTs ThaT puT lim- iTs on sTraTigic weapons. In November, Richard Nixon won The PresidenTiaI elecTion for The sec- ond Time; he carried 49 of 50 sTaTes. Spiro Agnew conTinued as Vice-PresidenT. Florida became The firsT sTaTe To reinsTiTuTe The deaTh penalTy in December. ExecuTions had pre- viously been halTed as a resulT of a ruling by The US. Supreme CourT. 1973 In January, PresidenT Richard M. Nixon was inauguraTed for his second Term, and ex- PresidenT Lyndon B. Johnson died of a hearT aTTack. AbouT 200 armed supporTers of The American Indian MovemenT seized The hamieT of Wounded Knee on The Oglaia Souix Reser- vaTion in SouTh DakoTa and resisTed efforTs To evicT Them. This happened on February 27. AT The end of April, PresidenT Nixon announced The resignaTion of four Top officials in The con- Troversy of The WaTergaTe affair. They are HR. Haldeman, Chief of STaff; John D. Ehrlichman, assisTanT for domesTic affairs; ATTorney Gener- ai Richard D. RleindiensT; and John Dean III, Nix- on's counsei. On May '14, Skylab was launched from Cape Kennedy. Skylab '1 was The firsT orbiTing space sTaTion. in OcTober, PresidenT Nixon ordered special WaTergaTe prosecuTor Archibaid COX discharged, and Attorney Gen- Above: iiGive peace a chance was ofTen heard in The 1970's. eral EiiioT L. Richardson resigned. In December, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as Vice-PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes. 20 DECADE