Summ Wins Jaycee Speak-up Contest
Gene Summ of 622 15th Ave was first place in the Jaycee Region III Speak-Up contest held April 4 at Quality Courts Motel Madison. Nine competitors spoke from Creed on four and a half to seven and a half minutes. Summ will advance to the state Speak-Up in Milwaukee in May.
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Gene Summ
15Th Ave
Quality Courts
Madison
Summ
God
Monroe
Paul Schoenicke
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Badger
Monroe Jaycees
Twining Park
Lori Summ
Diana Neuenschwander
Virgil Neuenschwander
6Th St
Cilman August Burgi
Leonard J. Haney
Moore’s Business Forms, Inc
Brooklyn
N.Y
Haney
Niagara University
United Fund
Plattville State University
Schultz Walgreen Agency
Monroe Adult Vocational District Fire School
Niederberger
Judith
21St St
Robert E. Tschudy
Herman L. Schindler
Tschudy
Tschudy Specialty Service
Janet
Lake Drive
Seventh Ward
Jerry I. Coplien
Coplien
Park Board
Coplien Insurance Agency
19Th Ave
Monroe Mayoral Race Leads Spring Election Contest
Monroe voters face a mayoral choice between Clifford Reasa John Upmann and Victor Schiller with Ekum not seeking reelection. Several alderman seats appear unopposed while other candidates bring long municipal résumés and local ties.
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Monroe
Walter E. Ekum
Clifford Reasa
John Upmann
Victor Schiller
Upmann
Illinois
Rush Township
Daviess County
Ill
Warren and
Stockton
Lugano Cheese Co
Adeline
Art
Plattville State University
14Th St
Schiller
Where to Go for Monroe Voting This Tuesday
Monroe voters head to City Hall for municipal and county elections with 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. polling. City Clerk Freda Bray reports 165 new registrants since January 1, and total registrations are nine fewer than in 1969. The eighth ward adds 43 registrants while the fourth ward drops 23.
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Monroe
Freda Bray
City Hall
Miss Bray
Ray Kundert
Joshua Hoesly
C. S. Pierce
Orville Evans
Joe Viney
Pauline Raney
Sylvanus Strommen
Herman Durtschi
Harold Babler
Ray Beckman
Harvey Elmer
Ben Cleveland
Chester Pinnow
Woodrow Pryce
Tom Smith
Walter Bober
Ralph McGuire
James Flanagan
Ed Kaderly
Willis Riemer
Ray Grady
Jack Marty
Clarence Slotten
J. Marion Lewis
Stanley Knight
Karl Jensen
Sheldon Yarwood
Lloyd Iverson
Leland Jordan
Leo Eells
Jim Volkert
Ted Schmiedlin
Naomi Barnard
Ernest Zentner
John Wilkinson
Wisconsin State Elections Feature Local Referendums and Uncontested Supreme Court Seat
Wisconsin spring elections center on local referendums and municipal races. Justice Connor Hansen runs unopposed for a 10 year Supreme Court term. Voters face school construction bonds in Milwaukee and new schools in Oshkosh Ashland Marinette and Kenosha among other items. Polls open 7 or 9 am and close 8 pm statewide.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Connor T. Hansen
St. Croix
Shawano
Menominee
Dane County
Waukesha
Sheboygan
Portage
Sawyer
Douglas
Milwaukee
LaCrosse
Manitowoc
Monroe
Vernon
Walworth
Clark
Platteville
Kenosha
Brillion
Wausau
Stevens Point
Oshkosh
Ashland
Marinette
Door County
Richland Center
Britain warns private abortion clinics over foreign patients
London AP reports Health Minister Richard Crossman ordered 54 licensed abortion clinics to stop soliciting foreign patients. He demanded guarantees of thorough medical exams and postoperation care for all patients after last year’s 20,686 legal abortions.
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London
Britain
Richard Crossman
Crucial Carswell Vote Nears in Senate
The Senate prepares a key vote on sending the G Harrold Carswell nomination back to the Judiciary Committee. A pre meeting AP poll showed 49 votes against recommittal, 39 for, with 10 uncommitted, risking a tie-breaking decision by Vice President Agnew if the motion fails.
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Washington
Senate
G. Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court
Mike Mansfield
Judiciary Committee
Carswell
Associated Press
Spiro T. Agnew
Birch Bayh
U. S. 5Th Court of Appeals
Abe Fortas
Nixon
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Thomas J. Dodd
Percy
Dodd
Four CHP officers shot in Saugus during traffic stop
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed late Sunday night when they checked a car of two men suspected of pointing guns at motorists. Deputies later surrounded a house five hours later and engaged in a gun battle with those inside.
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Saugus
Calif
California
West Germany to Recall Embassy Staff from Guatemala
Foreign Minister Walter Scheel announced Bonn will withdraw embassy staff in response to the kidnap and murder of Count Carl Von Sprell and Guatemala to be asked to expel its envoy. Scheel cited Guatemala’s failure to guarantee safety for West German representatives.
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Bonn
Germany
Walter Scheel
West Germany
Guatemala
Carl von Sprell
Scheel
Nixon plan to raise postal stamp price doomed
Senate Leader Mike Mansfield says President Nixon’s proposal to raise the mail stamp to ten cents to fund wage boosts for mailmen and federal workers has no chance. The 10-cent stamp is not expected to pass.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Kirk takes custodial control of Manatee schools
Gov. Claude Kirk directed teachers and students to ignore the Supreme Court desegregation transfer and personally assumed custodial supervision of the Manatee County public schools. He said the action serves the best interest of the children and moved to take control just before the plan would begin.
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Bradenton
Fla
Claude Kirk
U. S. Supreme Court
Manatee County
Kirk
Manatee
Gulf of Mexico
Tampa
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Jaycee
Floyd Coplien
Gene Dawson
Leon Fernstaedt
Ernest Gebhart
David Ambler
Gene Lumm
Lenwood Potts
Jaycees
Orville R. Evans
Ekum
Clifford R. Reasa
Reasa
Eighth Ward
T. Roy Evenson
Olin E. Flisram
Dorothy
Harold Snively
Coun
Aldermen
THE
Montana
Tallahassee, Fla
AP News
Cape Kennedy
Space Agency
Mansfield
Sam Shepard
Columbus, Ohio
Cleveland
Colleen
Carl McIntire
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington Monument
Jerry V. Wilson
Federal Park
McIntire
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