50 Year Legion Members Honored for Anniversary
The Zilmer- Riley American Legion post celebrated its 50th anniversary with a banquet at Idle Hour Mansion. About 300 guests attended as charter and 50-year members were honored, and aging veterans urged World War II Korea and Vietnam veterans to carry on. A flag honoring Glen Zilmer and a phone conversation with John J. Burkhard highlighted the evening.
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Zilmer - Riley American Legion Post
Idle Hour
Korea
Vietnam
Jerome Host
Wisconsin
Glen Zilmer
Monroe
Zilmer
Chateau Thierry
State Department Legion
John J. Burkhard
California
John Schild
Burkhard Pnal
Monroe Evening Times
WEKZ
American Legion
Zilmer - Riley Post No
Department of Wisconsin
Larry Lindgren
William Eberhardt
Joseph Urban
Warren Gerhardt
Ed Niffenegger
Zilmer - Riley
Legion
Lyndon Johnson
Russell West
Fred L. Kohli
Arizona
Fred
Charles Kohli
H. C. Schulz
Nathan F. Twining
Samuel H. Pickett
Fred Flick
Floyd Pyle
George D. Grant
Burkhard
Paul J. Lochner
Lindsay
Gordon W. Roseletp
Bonfire Injury Baffles 80-Year-Old Ray Hawkins
Ray Hawkins, 80, of Brodhead, was severely burned when his clothing caught fire at a bonfire on Saturday April 12. He was taken by ambulance to St. Clare Hospital and later transferred to Milwaukee Burn Center in critical condition. Mixed stock market moves narrowly in moderate New York trading as investors sit on the sidelines.
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Ray Hawkins
Brodhead
St. Clare Hospital
Milwaukee
New York
Cattle Herd Lost in Albany Farm Blaze
A rural Albany dairy farm, Houlberg's, suffered a devastating fire last night destroying a large dairy barn and attached barn, killing twenty five cows including all show and milking cattle while one sick cow in a garage survived. Firefighters from Albany with tanker help from Evansville and Monticello battled the blaze as wind aided the flames. The Houlberg family, long noted for Holsteins, lost several top animals including a cow pictured with Dean Houlberg at last year’s county fair.
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Green County
Houlberg
Albany
Dean Houlberg
Norman
Art Houlberg
Dean
Norm
Evansville
Monticello
Oak Corners 4-H Club
Wayne
Glenn
Platteville State University
University of Wisconsin
Despite Injured Beulah Returns Show In Monroe
The Modern Minstrel Show proceeds despite actor Archie Myers injury and a runaway cow. Tickets urged for performances Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday April 20 at 2 p.m. at Monroe Junior High Auditorium. Naomi Barnard, director, says Beulah will perform, possibly in a cast. Duke Etter paid the bull shipper to recover the cow, played by his wife Katy and Dr. John Usher.
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Monroe
Archie Myers
Naomi Barnard
Monroe Lions Club
Monroe City Band
Herman Schmitz
Bovine
Duke Etter
Duke
Katy
John
Five Injured In Weekend County Road Accidents
Green County sheriff's deputies report five people were injured in weekend traffic mishaps. Gladys Hill, motorist Cindy Helland, Kathy Marchant and others sustained facial cuts head injuries bruises and braces after two car crashes near Brodhead Monroe Twin Grove and Brooklyn. Vehicles sustained extensive front end bumper and fender damage. One driver, John Yaun, 18, of Blanchardville, hit a ditch on Turn to No. 5 Back Page.
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Green County Sneritt’s
Gladys Hill
Route 2
Monroe
Brodhead
Mt. Hope Road
Gerald L. Zimmerman
Cindy K. Helland
Zimmerman
Kathy A. Marchant
Twin Grove
Brooklyn
Walter Walters
Brookfield
Wis
Ella Wolters
Bernice Kanable
Hans P. Baron
Milwaukee
Bernice B. Kanable
John C. Yaun
Route 1
Blanchardville
New Glarus
Burgy Chosen Fair President at Green County Fair
Ted T Burgy of Monticello named president of the Green County Fair succeeding Doug Hare who resigned Ernest Hayes named vice president Burgy a former president The 1969 Green County Fair runs July 30 to August 3 spanning four days with events scheduled across the period
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Ted T
Ted) Burgy
Monticello
Green County Fair
O. R
Doug) Hare
Ernest Hayes
Burgy Place
Burgy
Three Honored For Conservation
Rep. Robert Kastenmeier praised Green County for its conservation efforts at the Green County Conservation League spring directors dinner in Max Voelkh Hall. He noted public concern about pollution and conservation, citing a constituent survey and ranking conservation highest among federal spending priorities after the Vietnam War ended.
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Dist. Atty. L. A
Green County
Robert Kastenmeier
Green County Conservation League
Max Voelkh
VFW
Kastenmeier
House Interior Committee
Wisconsin
Vietnam
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Godfrey Zuercher
Amos H. Mahlkuck
Howard 0. Schulz
William Haren
Sam Pickett
Frank M. Haren
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Albert D. Geigel
Ralph A. Lindsay
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Oscar
Rosalind Russell
Frank Sinatra
Burt Lancaster
Ingrid Bergman
Walter Matthau
Natalie Wood
Warren Beatty
Jane Fonda
Diahann Carroll
Sidney Poitier
Walter Ekum
Fred Heinle
Lucille Heinle
Walter DeWeese
Jan Pulvermacher
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William E. Haren
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Jerome Schwaiger
Frank Maurer
Delbert Cook
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Fran Thorpe
Edward Zwicker
Bud Schillinger
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Perry Power
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Henry Tschudy
Harold Snively
Robert Goetz
Robert Buehler
Charles Mathias
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Robert Smith
J. T. Etter
Charles Figi
Walter Babula
Josef Benkert
William Hawthorne
Bill Spoerry
Herb
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