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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1968
Page
1
An editor’s note marks the Palm Sunday tornado’s third anniversary with Red Cross safety tips. It explains tornado indicators, watch versus warning, best shelter places, and plant and home preparations for rapid protection during twisters nationwide.
Madison climatologist Hans E. Rosendal projects 19 Wisconsin tornadoes annually based on long term averages. The first this season struck near Eau Claire March 27 injuring a woman. he notes all counties have experienced twisters and April through August are peak months.
Daily verse by Clair R. Munns celebrates pink as feminine grace emblem and color for girls. The lines affirm pink as pure and true and associate it with girlhood.
AP News in Brief reports Santa Monica coverage of the 40th Academy Awards where In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars including best picture and best actor for Rod Steiger. Katharine Hepburn won best actress amid surprises as other contenders included Fay Dunaway for Bonnie and Clyde.
Union Good Friday service at St John’s United Church of Christ Monroe starts at 1 30 p m with Dr Theodore E Matson a Wisconsin Upper Michigan Synod Lutheran official as speaker and a combined choir under John Daane to perform three numbers the hour long service invites all community members.
Defense Secretary Clifford announced the callup of about 24 500 reservists from the Army Navy and Air Force with 30 days notice to report. About 10 000 will go to South Vietnam. The 377th Composite Service Company based in Manitowoc and the 826th Ammunition Company in Madison are among those called active.
The Monroe City Bandshell hosts fourteen summer events from June 10 through September, including eight Monroe City Band concerts under Allen Barnard. Wisconsin Players and University of Wisconsin summer choir and orchestra perform July 24 and August 4. Ouray Dancers present an Indian ceremonial pageant June 14, with Talent Night August 14 and Teen Night July 31 featuring rock groups.
High School students await the arrival of 30 exchange guests from North Adams Massachusetts. They are to land Monday between 4 and 5 p m at the Monroe High School parking lot for a week of activities. Debbie Trumpy chairs the local group with advisors Mrs Lenore Ainsworth and Fred Simpson guiding the program begun in 1959.
Verona Wisconsin NFO spokesman Oliver Hanna says about 400 calves and hogs from Wisconsin were among roughly 1 500 animals shot and buried at a Geneva Illinois demonstration to press for higher meat prices. He foresees spread to Wisconsin next week amid farmer unrest and possible Madison and Columbus actions.
The Spring Egg Hunt, co sponsored by the Park and Recreation Department and the Chamber of Commerce, will be held Saturday April 20 at Twining Park. 75 dozen eggs prepared by Monroe Youth Council members will be hidden for four age groups from two thirty p.m. Boys and girls report to the Bandshell for assignments. About 600 youngsters attended last year.
Police report four suspects, two men aged 19 and 20 and two women aged 18 and 19, were taken into custody in Lexington Ky after an incident on March 20 in Monroe when Carolyn H Kundert was robbed of her handbag at 10 45 p m near 1400 block 13th Street by force. The group was reported as wanted by Monroe authorities and later located by Salina Kansas police.
Monroe students will have no school on Good Friday April 12 as announced by School Superintendent Der win J Huenink. St Victor s School in the Monroe System will also be closed that day and pupils return to class on Monday April 22. Mr Huenink returned Wednesday from Oshkosh after a three day superintendents meeting at the Pioneer Inn. Firemen were called to extinguish a grass fire on County Trunk K east of Monroe near the Daly Sacker farm shortly before noon.
Dr John A Frantz of The Monroe Clinic says his family will start Peace Corps training on July 1 in Colorado and plan to work in Afghanistan after completion. The family includes Margaret 14 Caroline 12 and Winfred 7.
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