Cullen, a Democrat, embarks on a long career as a top vote-getter, eventually serving as majority leader of the Wisconsin Senate. A two-car crash on Highway 11 west of Janesville kills three city people and injures two others. Kolberg's father, Richard, will die two days later in the hospital, and her mother, Carol, is hospitalized with serious injuries. Blood tests show that Berndt had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15, the 1970 standard for intoxication. It's Earth Day No. 1, and Janesville residents participate in many ways.
Students clean up school grounds, make cloth litter bags for their homes, perform songs and skits.
They write letters to their parents about pollution, design and pay for newspaper ads, collect DDT containers from their homes for proper disposal and organize biking and hiking outings to point up the problem of auto exhaust pollution. Mississippi Valley Airways begins offering daily flights from Rock County Airport to Chicago's O'Hare Field. Mississippi Valley's service is short-lived. North Central Airlines continues to offer passenger service from the county air field. At the same time, he has hypocritically attacked as anarchism the increasingly militant opposition to that war on the part of the young, the black and the alienated at home.