Minstrel Is A Smash Hit In a Lovable Modern Opener
A capacity crowd hailed the 12th Modern Minstrel with the largest opening night audience in the show's history. The production blended wit color and music by the Stage Band as performances by Hugdahl Johnson Kautsky Hawthorne and Siedschlag wowed the audience. Dr Robert Smith and the Kultur Kids delivered standout moments with brass and dance numbers while Archie Myers and Robert Grossman teased with humor and a tuba bit before a hospital mention and a turn to the back page.
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Rowan and
Martin
Robert Smith
Harper Valley
PTA
Hugdahl
Johnson
Kautsky
Hawthorne
Siedschlag
Smith
Archie
Tex) Myers
Yuba
Robert Grossman
Myers
Monroe Junior Prom Post-Event Plans For May 2
Monroe Recreation Department announces post prom activities for the 1969 Junior Prom at Monroe High School gym on Friday May 2. A 7 p.m. pre prom dinner at the Country Club for juniors and dates, prom 9 p.m. to midnight, post prom luncheon 12 a.m. to 3 a.m. at the Country Club, and a Goetz Theatre movie 3:30 to 5:30 a.m. Tickets available Monday at Monroe High School with separate pre prom dinner tickets. Mentions King and Queen Harry McGuire and Ginny Bacon. theme Midnight in Moscow. Goetz Theatre praised by organizers. chaperone parents from Eau Claire band.
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Monroe High School
Ron Barribeau
Monroe Recreation Department
Mothers of
Country Club
Monroe Country Club
Eau Claire
Goetz Theatre
Melvin Gable
Lloyd Holmes
Gable
Holmes
Moscow
Harry McGuire
Ginny Bacon
Wisconsin bill to expand patrol powers defeated in Assembly
A proposal to give the Wisconsin Highway Patrol full police powers was defeated 85 to 10 in the Assembly. Patrolmen now have arrest powers only for traffic offenses. Sponsors praised the measure as progress, while opponents warned it could invite issues like labor disputes and idle dangers on highways.
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William la Fave
R-Peshtigo
George Molinaro
Chenosha
Esther Luckhardt
R-Horicon
Navy plane loss, crews found in Sea of Japan
US officials confirmed bodies of two EC121 crew members recovered by the destroyer Tucker in the Sea of Japan with doubts about any survivors among the 29 remaining crew. Pentagon officials withheld IDs until next of kin notification.
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Washington
U.S. Navy
North Korea
Sea of Japan
Pentagon
Tucker
Reruns Sneak In As U S TV Heads Into Summer
NBC begins warm weather with The Virginian rerun while ABC restarts Here Comes the Brides. CBS shelves The Good Guys Green Acres and Hawaii Five-O for repeats as Laugh-In winds down. CBS plans new light country-Western show from Nashville as summer strategy.
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Cynthia Lowry
NEW York (Ap
NBC
ABC
CBS
Good Guys
Green
Acres
Bob Hope
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Smothers Brothers
Nashville
The
Brothers
Kiwanis Antique Show Brings Towns to Monroe Turner Hall May 2-4
The 14th annual Monroe Kiwanis Club antique show and sale will run May 2 through May 4 at Turner Hall. Co-chairs are William B. Johnston and John McElhaney, with W. R. Schuetze in charge of publicity and Harold Gruenewald as show manager assisted by his wife. New booths include Century Farm Antiques and Brass Eagle Antiques, joining many partners from Wisconsin and Illinois.
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Monroe Kiwanis Club
Turner Hall
William B. Johnston
John McElhaney
W. R. Schuetze
Harold Gruenewald
Elkhorn
Gruenewald
Century Farm Antiques
Route 5
Janesville
Brass Eagle Antiques
Minneapolis
Minn
Yesteryear’s
Argyle
The
Antique Lady
Waterloo
Galson House
Oak Park
Ill
Virgie’s Antiques
Mequon
Charlotte Morgan
Cedar Rapids
Brennan’s Antiques
Newton
the Single Tree
Holland
Mich
Laurette’s
Milwaukee
Ruby Clayton Antiques
Detroit
Eagles Nest Antiques
Rockford
the Loft
Mildred’s
Edgerton
Clevering Antiques
Niles
la Fonda
Bettendorf
Edmonds-Clasen Antiques
Wisconsin Dells
Wauwatosa
Jeanne’s
Platteville
Glasser Slated As Albany Chief
Norman Glasser a 29 year old Milwaukee resident and Kansas native will take duties as Albany police chief on Thursday May 1 He is married with three children and has military police and two police department experience He will visit Albany Saturday to view housing succeeding Arlin Hanson now with the sheriff s department
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Albany
Norman Glasser
Milwaukee
Glasser
Kansas
Glassers
Arlin Hanson
Sheriff’s Department
Recovery Begins After Novel Heart Surgery for Gilmen Anderson
Gilmen Anderson, formerly of rural Albany, underwent a pioneering eight hour heart operation at State University Hospital in Brooklyn on April 7. He has shown satisfactory progress and hopes to return home to Orfordville in about three weeks. A benefit trail ride to aid Anderson is planned for Sunday April 27 starting at the Leon Baumgartner farm near Brodhead, with a lunch stop at the Riemer farm.
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Gilmen Anderson
Albany
State University Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Robert
Priscilla) Bump
Bump
Andersons
Mr. Anderson
Midwest
Anderson
Orfordville
Leon Baumgartner
Brodhead
Ben Riemer
Private Practice Ends Dr Robilette Joins Monroe Clinic Staff
Dr J W Robilette, a Monroe optometrist with 19 years in private practice, will join the Monroe Clinic staff on May 1. Born in Chicago, he is a 1948 graduate of Northern Illinois College of Optometry and served 54 months in the Navy and Marine Corps earning a service medal and presidential unit citation. He taught at NIUOC for 18 months before returning to Monroe with wife Parnis Newell and son Jack, who studies music in Paris.
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J. W. Robilette
Monroe
Monroe Clinic
Chicago
Ill
Northern Illinois College of Oltimetery
Navy
Marine Corps
South Pacific
India
North Africa
Robilette
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
Parnis Newell
Detroit
Mich
Jack
Gas Plan Change Affects Four Communities
North Central Public Service announced it cannot introduce natural gas to four communities Ju ta Browntown South Wayne and Gratiot this year. The AP report notes the stock market remained on higher ground in moderate trading in New York.
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North Central Public Service
Juta
Browntown
South Wayne
Gratiot
New York
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House Public Works Committee
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Viet Cong
da Nang
Prague
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Sen
Robert Kennedy
Ypsilanti, Mich
Ray Bellows
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U.S
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Paris
France
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