Assess with Greater Care Hatch Urges Fair Property Valuation
A. E. Hatch of the State Department of Taxation urged 1947 Green County assessors to base values on actual cash value rather than roll copying. He stressed personal visits, uniform standards, and noting exemptions, with highway land impacts and postwar remodeling shaping assessments. Keenan of the tax commission outlined tools and cautioned on highway relocations affecting adjoining property values.
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Green County
District Court Room
A. E. Hatch
State Department of Taxation
Hatch
New Glarus
Dane County
Madison
Boards of Review
A. R. Keenan
State Tax Commission
Monroe
Albany
Keenan
Attorney General
Philadelphia chosen to host 1948 GOP convention
The Republican National Committee selected Philadelphia for the 1948 nominating convention during a 2 day meeting. Philadelphia beat Chicago 72 to 26 in the vote, with city leaders offering hotel space for 8,000 guests and a $200,000 certified check. Rep Charles A Halleck criticized President Truman over tax cut timing as campaign leverage.
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Kansas City
Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Herbert Brownell
New York
Werner W. Schroeder
Ilinois
Bernard Samuel
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
House
Truman
County Judge to rule on Highway 59 relocation case
A decision by County Judge Harold J. Lamboley on the condemnation proceedings for relocating Highway 59 between Monroe and Albany is expected tomorrow morning. Testimony from five respondents was heard last Monday and Tuesday as attorneys prepared oral arguments on Wednesday.
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Harold J. Lamboley
Monroe
Albany
Lamboley
Madison police close in on dynamite cap disappearance
Police report a 9 year old girl found 100 dynamite caps in a sandbox at the University of Wisconsin Hill farms. The university warns Madison children may be playing with dynamite and calls for intensified search for the remaining caps.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin Hill Farms
Chris Bartleson
University
Norman Chandler Named to AP Board of Directors
Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times was elected director of the Associated Press to fill the vacancy left by Frank B. Noyes. Alongside Chandler, five other directors were re elected for three year terms and 15 associate members gained regular status. existing directors include Robert McLean George F Booth Paul Patterson E H Butler and Josh L Horne.
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New York
Norman Chandler
Los Angeles Times
Associated Press
Frank B. Noyes
Washington Evening Star
Robert McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
George F. Booth
Worcester
Mass
Telegram
Paul Patterson
Baltimore Sun
Bowles Proposes Voluntary Price Board to Cut Prices
Washington veteran administrator Chester Bowles urged President Truman to appoint a voluntary board of business leaders to push for broad price reductions. He backed Truman’s New York AP luncheon speech as essential to prevent an economic collapse and called it thoughtful and complete.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
President Truman
Associated Press
New York
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Newburyport Retailers Launch 10 Percent Price Cut Campaign
In Newburyport Massachusetts more than 90 percent of retailers cut prices by a flat ten percent for ten days to boost consumer buying. Merchants and shoppers join a coordinated effort with banners and pledges, targeting goods from food to clothing while auto prices stay fixed by regulation. Mayor John M. Kelleher calls it a refund to the consumer to correct an imbalanced economy.
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Newburyport
Mass
NERA
Blue Eagle
John M. Kelleher
U S Steel CIO Wage Pact May Set Price Pattern
Taft convened the senate house committee on the economic report to issue a statement on price studies. The committee chair said the U S Steel CIO wage agreement could establish a pattern for future raises that may block price declines.
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U. S. Steel
Taft
Senate-House Committee On the
Public urged to pressure Wisconsin Telephone Co in strike
Arthur B. LeFevre president of the Telephone Guild of Wisconsin calls subscribers to write or wire the public service commission in Madison demanding immediate restoration of service. He says a flood of messages would force the company to negotiate. The company cites 108 workers back today, 1,408 since the strike began 16 days ago.
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Arthur B. LeFevre
Telephone Guild of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Public Service Commission
Madison
LeFevre
Fire rekindles at Texas City niter plant amid wreckage
In Texas City, the Southwest Sugar and Molasses Co warehouse storing ammonium nitrate burst into flames seven days after the Grandcamp disaster. Deputy Mayor John Hill warned another explosion could occur as investigators and survivors prepare to testify. Rescue crews report rising smoke above the ruined Gulf port, with known dead at least 426 and a final toll not less than 575.
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Texas City
Tex
Southwest Sugar and Molasses Co
John Hill
Houston Chronicle
Grandcamp
Coast Guard
Gulf Port
Roy Wade
Department of Public Safety
Monsanto Chemical Corp
Hearing on Zoning Change for Industrial Use
The Wisconsin Power and Light company and Charles O Grigsby Jr petition to rezone property in railroad addition No 2 from residential to heavy industrial will be heard at a public hearing at 7 30 Tuesday evening June 3 in the council chambers City Hall.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Company
Charles O. Grigsby Jr
Pessimism Clouds Farm Outlook
The article warns of looming shortages in meat poultry and eggs next autumn while noting bright spots in some agricultural areas. It cites smaller pig litters, high feed costs, and cautious farmer betting against large scale marketing this spring. It also mentions late spring delays, frozen ice, pastures lagging, and dairy market shifts complicating optimistic forecasts.
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Green County
Plymouth
Canning Company Fined for Substandard Product
Federal Judge F. Ryan Duffy fined River View Canning Corp of Markesan and its president Wallace W. Evans of Fall River a total of 350 for violations of the pure food and drug act. A representative testified the firm canned substandard product.
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Milwaukee
F. Ryan Duffy
River View Canning Corp
Markesan
Wallace W. Evans
Fall River
Pure Food and Drug Administration
Evans
Sk Nena
Vote Rejection to Both Molstad and Riegel Selections
The Wisconsin senate agriculture and conservation committee recommended rejecting the appointments of Dr. Jacob A. Riegel and Arthur Molstad to the conservation commission and returning them to Acting Governor Rennebohm. The vote was 3-2 to return. debate on the matter and another controversial public utilities strike bill continued.
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Madison
Agriculture and Conservation Committee
Wisconsin Senate
Goodland
Jacob A. Riegel
St. Croix Falls
Arthur Molstead
Milwaukee
Conservation Commission
Rennebohm
Knowles
New Richmond
Olson
South Wayne
Downing
Amberg
Brown
Oshkosh
Dempsey
Hartland
Leverich
Sparta
Senate
Old Fishing Licenses Expire April 30 New Ones on Sale
The 1946 47 fishing licenses expire at midnight April 30 and Green County offices sell current $1 licenses. They are available at multiple county stations and local businesses including banks hardware stores and service stations in Monroe Albany Brodhead Belleville Juda New Glarus Monticello and surrounding areas.
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Clarence W. Lengacher
Green County
Court House
Monroe
Martin’s
Lanz Hardware
Kundert’s Hardware
Kingdon’s
Crandall Oil Company
Albany—Bank of Albany
M. L. Barton
Brodhead-Brodhead Hardware
Bank of Brodhead
Green County Bank
Brooklyn
Brooklyn State Bank
Wayne Ellis’ Hardware
Belleville -Belleville State Bank
Citizens State Bank
Browntown
B. E. Maddrell
Juda
Bank of Juda
New Glarus
New Glarus Hardware
Dish Hardware
Bank of New Glarus
Milk Price System Fixed for Milwaukee Market
Milwaukee market milk payments will use the blend price system for March. Charles Dineen secretary of the Milwaukee Co operative Milk Producers said a pricing agreement was reached after a meeting with producers and dairy distributors. Prices set are 4.30 dollars per hundredweight for standard test fluid and bottle milk 3.79 for milk used for cream sales and 3.54 for milk used for manufacture of dairy products.
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Milwaukee
Charles Dineen
Milwaukee Co-operative
Dineen
Driver of Stolen Tractor Identified in Freeport
Calvin Jesse Schoch, 26, Rock City Illinois, was identified by two Brodhead farmers as the driver who took a stolen tractor from Durand Illinois to Brodhead where it was found abandoned. He is jailed in Stephenson County on a stolen car charge, according to Sheriff Evan Chambers.
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Calvin Jesse Schoch
Rock City
Freeport
Brodhead
Carl Brandenburg
Jim Brace
Durand
Ill
Schoch
Stephenson County
Evan Chambers
Monroe
Senate to Vote On Greek Turkish Aid Debate Heats Up
Washington news wires report Senate pressure builds on Truman Greece Turkey aid package as Vandenberg defends policy while Johnson opposes and considers amendments. The chamber edges toward a late afternoon vote on the 400 million dollar program with mixed support from lawmakers.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Russia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Coele
Colorado
United States
Senate
Dcolo
Middle East
Johnson
Congress of the United States
Moscow
Marshall
Taft
Uncle Sam
Europe
Pepper
D-Fla
Secretary Krug Declines to Assign Fault for Centralia Mine Blast
Secretary Krug told a House labor subcommittee there was an almost total lack of cooperation by United Mine Workers leadership in the mine safety program. He said he is not at war with John L. Lewis or anyone else. The March 25 Centralia explosion remains without a definite blame.
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Washington
Krug
John L. Lewis
Centralia
Lil
House
United Mine Workers
May Goes on Trial in Government Conspiracy Case
Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky faces trial with three co defendants including Henry M. Garsson and Murray Garsson and Joseph F. Freeman on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government. The case is in U S District Court before Judge Henry Schweinhaut with jury selection likely to begin. May denies any profit from the Garssons deals.
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Washington
Andrew Jackson May
Kentucky
Henry M. Garsson
Murray Garsson
Joseph F. Freeman
U. S
Henry Schweinhaut
Garssons
May
House
U S and Britain Move to Block Palestine Independence Request
The United States and Great Britain plan to block a United Nations move by Arab states seeking immediate independence for Palestine. Egypt proposed at a special UN session that Britain end its 25 year mandate and declare Palestine independent.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
Great Britain
United Nations
Palestine
Egypt
United Nations Assembly
Britain
Holy Land
78 Year Old Farm Hand Inherits Large Fortune
Colfax Wisconsin reports 78 year old George Knutson, longtime farm hand, named sole heir to a $44,000 stash found in his sister Carrie Murphy’s trunk after her death. The money, stored in tin cans and a pasteboard box with about $2,000 in gold, was discovered on the family farm where Knutson has lived since 1920 and was designated to him as executor in Murphy’s will. The funds were moved to local banks for safekeeping. The source of the money remains unexplained and Murphy’s husband Daniel had died five years prior. Surviving relatives include a brother, Martin Knutson.
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Colfax
Wis
George Knutson
Knutson
Carrie Murphy
John Higbie
Wisconsin
Murphy
Dunn County
Higbie
Marine Corps Chief Warns on Unification Risks
Gen. A A Vandegrift warned that without explicit mission limits in pending armed services unification legislation the Marine Corps could be reduced to a mere military impotence. He testified before the state armed services committee that duties must be spelled out or depend on the secretary of national defense. The bill would create a defense secretary with cabinet status overseeing separate service secretaries.
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Washington
A. A. Vandegrift
Marine Corps
Armed Services
Marine
State Armed Services Committee
Secretary of National Defense
Vandergrift
Army
Navy
Air Corps
Defense
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David J. McDonald
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United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
CIO
Steelworkers
Smile
Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
Monroe High School
R. Witt
Allan F. Barnard
Robert Maurer
Karl Mueller
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Calico
D. Andrew Howey
Joanne Solomon
Linda Howard
Kay Jones
Kay
Linda
Billy Drake
Robert Crandall
Budge Doolittle
Fred Kundert
Algernon Higgins
Henry Wieman
JoAnne Elmer
Sally Ransdell
Mary Catherine Share
Royce Z
Canning Company
Molstad and
Riegel
Bulletins
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
Uaw-Cio
Congressman May
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