City board approves Monroe Ready Mix for garage contract
The Board of Public Works voted to award the city garage project to Monroe Ready Mix with a bid of 28 457 after subtracting 540 for changes and removing a 240 sign and 150 inspection fee. They also discussed street department wages and planned further study before recommendations.
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Board of Public Works
City
Monroe Ready Mix
City Street Department
Frank A. Buehler
Zenno A. Gorder
Sebastian Laeser Jr
Madison
State Industrial Commission
Jack Erb
City Council
Brush Lot
Shotguns Blast In Strike Battle At Royal Cotton Mill
In Wake Forest North Carolina a brutal gunfire exchange followed a dynamite blast at the Royal cotton mill during a seven state CID textile workers strike. Three people were injured as 200 to 600 shots were fired with no police on scene.
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Wake Forest
N. C
Royal Cotton Mill
CID
Dan River
Danville
North Carolina
Loyd Whitman
Opening Day Trout Season Welcomed by Warm Morning
A clear morning opened the trout season running to Sept 7. Daily bag limit 10 with inland waters six inch minimum and seven inches on other waters. Walleye and northern pike season began in April. Weather and high water reduced early catches. licenses sold by hardware stores and county clerk, 66 resident and 1 out of state this month.
Vogeler Freed from Prison Returns to Vienna Family
Robert A. Vogeler, 39, released from 17 months in a Hungarian prison, arrives in Vienna with his wife Lucile and two sons. He says he faced mental and physical coercion before confessing to spying. a U.S. deal with Hungary secured his release. Vogeler, formerly NT&T vice president, was sentenced to 15 years after his Budapest court confession. He speaks haltingly but expresses relief at reuniting with family.
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Vienna
Austria
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
U. S
Vogeler
United States
Lucile
Budapest
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
Tower
Mr. Vogeler
Kefauver Denies Final Report Release Amid Delays
Senate crime committee chairman Estes Kefauver denies circulating a purported final report. He says the actual report is still in revision and will be submitted to the Senate next Tuesday, with changes to avoid libel actions and avoid premature statements. The probe's New York findings are cited as a highlight.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Senate
Senate Crime Committee
New Yorkity
Tattered Mattress Uncovers Hidden Treasure in England
In Windemere an auction of a worn mattress and other odd lots ended with no bid. A porter moved it aside and the mattress released F100 containing about 3,000 pounds in notes and gold sovereigns. Authorities seek the owner of the found treasure.
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Windemere
England
Mercury Climbs to 80 as Spring Returns to Area
Temperatures rose to 80 degrees by 1 p m as a warm southwest wind swept in. After last night s inch of rain farmers plowed and sowed while tractors filled the county and streets emptied for a quiet spring day. The coldest early morning reading was 54 degrees and forecasters predicted more low 80s with a low around 55 tonight.
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Mercury
Highway 69 Detour Planned Next Week
Highway 69 between Monroe and Monticello will be detoured next week via Highway 59 to a point one mile southwest of Albany where the road turns left on Highway 939. Full scale resurfacing by the Ryan firm from Janesville and work on the first new 1.5 mile section from Monroe begin, as skeleton crews of S. J. Groves Co. worked this week.
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Monroe
Monticello
Albany
Ryan
Janesville
S. J. Groves Co
Red Chinese and North Korean Offensive Push Near Seoul
Communist forces seized Uijongbu 11 miles north of Seoul as UN troops fall back along multiple fronts. Allied withdrawals continued with heavy casualties reported by UN sources while Red casualties exceed 41 500. Planes at Kimpo took fire but casualties were unreported.
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Tokyo
Uijongbu
Seoul
U. S. Eighth Army
United Nations
Red
Pyongyang
South Korea
Kimpo
Japan
Yanggu
Kapyong
Chunchon-Seoul
Eighth Army
U. N
Power Failure Hits Monroe District and Lines
A brief power outage affected Monroe and the Clarno Juta and Darlington lines this morning from 9 17 to 9 23. Wisconsin Power and Light Co reported the outage was caused by buss insulators failing in the main sub station.
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Monroe
Clarno
Juta
Darlington
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Democrats Fire Charges at GOP
The piece reports Democratic Senator Hec Farland of Arizona rebutting Republican claims that Truman era policy leads to stalemate or appeasement in Korea. Senator Wherry accuses Democrats of exploiting Truman's MacArthur firing to gain political advantage. Boyle Jr. defends the Democratic line against Republican insinuations of antiwar zeal and calls for restraint.
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Washington
HecFarland
D-Ariz
Truman
Wherry
R-Neb
Republcans
Pacific
Mé¢Farland
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Korea
Acheson
Red
China
McFarland
William M. Boyle Jr
Boyle
MacArthur
Asia
Green County Co op joins South Wisconsin Breeders
The Green County Breeders Association Co op voted 4 to 1 to consolidate services with the South Wisconsin Breeders Co operative effective today. Over 150 members attended the meeting in the courthouse and re elected three directors. Merlin Rufer retires as manager and becomes inseminator for Southern Wisconsin Breeders. Testing of dairy herds continues at the courthouse basement.
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Green County Breeders Association Co-op
South Wisconsin
Edward C. Roth
Green County Breeders Board
Green County
Merlin Rufer
Rufer
Wisconsin
Southern
Wisconsin Breeders Co-op
Court House
43 Years Later He Returns With Powder and Change
Frank O Blanchard, missing 43 years, reappears in Rhode Island with talcum powder and three cents. Then 22, he was sent to a drug store for his sister. now 65 and living in Wauna Oregon he recalls the dime his sister gave him. He and Eva Colwell are grandparents: she forgot the powder brand, he recalls it cost seven cents then and 35 cents now.
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Ore
Eva J. Colwell
January Milk Price Average Drops to 3.46 Per Cwt
The survey of representative factories shows January milk delivered to Swiss cheese factors averaged 3.46 per hundredweight, down 23 cents from December. Earlier figures note December at 3.69 and January 1950 at 3.59, with production stable and farmers’ net income down about 8 percent from December. The January test average was 3.51 versus 3.61 in December and 3.44 in January 1950.
State rests in Dodgeville murder trial of Hendrickson
The state rested its case in the first degree murder trial of 29 year old Charles Hendrickson after a crime lab employee testified that a test cartridge from a gun found in Hendrickson’s home and a shell from the Higbee hotel matched, fired the night of January 12 when Charles Exley was shot to death.
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Dodgeville
Charles Hendrickson
State Crime Laboratory
Hendrickson
Higbee
Charles Exley
Meat Price Cut Will Be Ordered by August
Washington reports a government price rollback for meat with a four to five cent per pound retail beef cut due by August and a similar reduction next fall. Prices on wholesale and retail may not drop immediately, but staged cuts will follow as live cattle prices are capped to ease producer losses.
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Washington
Edward F. Phelps
OPS
Michael V. DiSalle
Department of Agriculture
DiSalle
West
Wisconsin Men Die in B 29 Crash in Azores
Two Wisconsin men Maj. Robert J. Luebke of Fort Atkinson and Sgt. James J. Kreischer of Shawano were among 13 killed when a B 29 crashed yesterday in the Azores, announced by Walker Air Force Base.
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Roswell
N. M
Wisconsin
Azores
Walker Air Force Base
Robert J. Luebke
Ella F. Luebke
Fort Atkinson
James Ic. Kriescher
Henry T. Kreischer
Shawano
Milwaukee Welcomes Returned General MacArthur in Grand Parade
A massive Milwaukee welcome honors General Douglas MacArthur returning after 39 years. Gov. Kohler and 60,000 in MacArthur Square heard his emotional tribute as a six hour procession traced a 40 mile route through West Milwaukee and Milwaukee.
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Gen
Arthur MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
Arrow
Milwaukee
Walter Kohler
New York
MacArthur Square
West Point
Blair Man Parachuted To Safety From B 36 Collision
Blair Oklahoma reports four airmen parachuted to safety after a collision between a B 36 bomber and an F 1 fighter plane. Fourteen airmen were killed. Lt Elroy A Melberg 32 Blair flight engineer on the B 36 suffered shock and a hip injury but was not hurt seriously.
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Carney
Okla
Elroy A. Melberg
Blair
Highway Patrol
Melberg
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L. S. Wagner and Son Co
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S. J
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West Allis
General MacArthur
Gov. Kohler
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Cudworth
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