Johnson Seeks Viet Nam Peace While Defending Resolve
President Johnson voiced hope for peace talks in Southeast Asia while stressing a firm stance against retreat. He noted budget gains of 5.3 billion in the year ending June 30 and defended antipoverty efforts, with remarks on foreign aid timing and nuclear weapons questions.
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Washington
Johnson
Southeast Asia
East Room
White House
Pakistan
India
Congress
Viet Nam
America
South Viet Nam
Munich
Monroe Tornado Tragedy Edition Sells Fast
The Monroe Evening Times releases a 16 page tornado edition depicting Palm Sunday storm ruins. Copies cost 25 cents each, 10 cents extra for mailed copies. 13,000 copies printed. over 10,000 sold. available at the Times office Rafs Confectionery and other city outlets.
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Monroe
Monroe Evening Times
Times
Raf
Times Job Department
Hot television set brings out firemen at Monroe home
Monroe firemen responded to 1305 20th Ave yesterday at 2 50 p m for a television set short causing smoke but no fire. Minor smoke damage reported to the Oliver E Rollins residence.
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Monroe
Oliver E. Rollins
20Th Ave
Wyandotte Exchange Students Visit Madison and Monroe
Wyandotte student delegates tour Madison sites including the State Capitol and the University of Wisconsin campus, with plans to meet Gov Knowles if available. They tour Hill Farm building, Wright designed Unitarian church, Memorial Union and attend a Monroe dinner dance with local hosts.
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Lee Fernstaedt
Wyandotte
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Fred R. Simpson
Warren P. Knowles
Hill Farm
Unitarian Church
Frank Lloyd Wright
Memorial Union
Monroe
Oaktron Industries
Fritos
Green County Pre - Pak
Monroe Clinic
Green County Court House
City Hall
Monroe ‘Country Club
Danny and the Diamonds
Freeport
Madalyn Meythaler
Susan Babler
Electric Company Moves to Square North Side
Buri Electric and its contracting business will relocate to the Moose Lodge building on Monroe’s Square North Side in a June grand opening. Carl A. Burgi and Milo F. Friedrichs, heirs to the Buri Electric legacy since 1919, will expand with about 150 fixtures on display, a parts catalog around a thousand items, a repair center, and new electrical appliances. Current staff includes Dale Friedrichs David Kuebli and Gerald Engebretson, with Burgi and Friedrichs both longtime Monroe residents and veterans. Link Store space vacated as part of the move.
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Burn Electric
Monroe
Moose Lodge
Link
Buri Electric
Carl A. Burgi
Milo F. Friedrichs
Louis E. Buri
Burgi
11Th Ave
Commercial and Savings Bank
Buri
17Th Ave
Kittelsen and Brand
Friedrichs
Monroe Area
South Dakota
Dale Friedrichs
David Kuebli
Gerald Engebretson
Mississippi River Flood Crests Hit Wisconsin Cities
The Weather Bureau warned the Mississippi River may take longer to recede from record crests as heavy weekend rains in the upper valley slow retreat. Crest reached 17.7 feet at La Crosse while flood stage is 12 feet. cleanup plans form in Prairie du Chien as bridges reopen and historic sites delay openings.
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Associated Press
U.S. Weather Bureau
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Prairie du Chien
Mississippi
Wisconsin River
Bridgeport
Grant
Crawford
State Historical Society
Madison
Villa Louis
Stonefield Village
Cassville
Murrow Remembered as Gallant Fighter in Nation Mourns
Tributes poured in for Edward R. Murrow the famous World War II broadcaster whose London blitz reports captivated American listeners He died Tuesday at his farm after an 18 month battle with lung cancer A funeral will be held Friday at St James Church in New York City Johnson called him a gallant fighter and faithful public servant others include Carl Rowan Dean Rusk and CBS chair Turner Back Page.
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Pawling
N.Y
Johnson
Edward R. Murrow
London
Murrow
St. James Protestant Episcopal Church
New York City
White House
Carl Rowan
U.S. Information Agency
Dean Rusk
CBS
VFW Post Honors Membership Drive Leaders
Commander Fred Felder received a citation for guiding VFW Cecil Jones Post to meet and exceed 1964 membership. District commander T. J. Burgy was awarded a national silver pin for netting over 25 new members in 1965 and Edward Doyle earned a citation for perfect 100 percent transmittals before the deadline.
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Fred Felder
VFW
Cecil Jones
T. J. Burgy
Edward Doyle
Burgy
Alois Beer
Fred Beer
Fred Felier
George Hoover
Francis Kaster
Glen Kubly
Walt Laeser
Ernest Marty
William Roth
Alvin Reise
Milton Steiner
John Wagner
Post
Gratiot
Madison Galen Day
Adolph Ostendorf
Felder
Joseph Viney
C. O. Miller
Alvinse
Wisconsin Assembly Debates Oleomargarine Ban Test Vote
Madison lawmakers backing a ban on colored oleomargarine lose a test vote on removing the measure from the calendar and returning it to committee.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Flannery Wins Spelling Contest at Green County Schools
Flannery, son of Mrs Rosemary Flannery of New Glarus, won the Green County schools spelling contest held in the Courthouse. Mark will represent the county in a state contest in Madison on May 8. Second place went to Lu Anne Marty spelling vengeance. Judy Bartels was third spelling feudalism. Mark, a sixth grader at New Glarus Junior High, will attend a Kiwanis luncheon May 6, receive a $25 bond, and a statewide luncheon May 8 at Park Motor Inn with Park's teacher Randall Koller.
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Mare Flannery
Rosemary Flannery
New Glarus
Green County
Mark
Madison
Luanne Marty
Judy Bartels
Kiwanis Club
Park Motor Inn
Park
Randall Koller
Flood Hits Quad Cities and Quincy Levee Breach
The Mississippi breached a levee south of Quincy Illinois flooding 5500 acres in the South Quincy Drainage District and inundating 15 industrial plants 26 cottages a radio station a power substation and about 60 residences while the Quad Cities area held against the crest near 22.6 feet with thousands aiding flood control efforts.
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Rock Island
Til
Quincy
Tll
South Quincy
Burlington Railroad
Quad - Cities
Army Engineers Corps
Quad-Cities
Moline
East Moline
Ill
Daenport
Iowa
Quad Cities
Ilinois
Hannibal
Mississippi
Clinton
Iowa-Fulton
Red Cross
Illinois
Johnson
Fulton
Raymond Botch
Wisconsin Traffic Toll Reaches 242 After Fatal Crashes
The 1965 Wisconsin highway toll climbs to 242 after a Wisconsin Rapids man, Joseph Jenkin, 30, died in a car train crash on Highway 45 near West Greenville. A Pewaukee man, Edward Lattari, 41, was killed when a car being repaired fell on him at his Town of Pewaukee home.
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Byte
Pross
Wisconsin Rapids
Outagamie County
Wisconsin
Joseph Jenkin
Toda
Highway 45
West Greenville
Pewaukel
Edward Lattari
Pewaukee
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U.S
William and
Wayne Schuck
Roosevelt High School
Helen Myers
Monroe City Hall
Dave Henderson
Circuit Court
John Weiss
Browntown
Monroe High School
Switzerland
Martha Bernet
Ernie Atmon
Herbert Ainsworth
Electric Company
Leslie Fisher
Society
Stonefield
Fisher
Bronson la Follette
Knowles
la Follette
Fredric Moritz
Jean Barat
Vicki Neuberger
Allan F. Barnard
Columbi Broadcasting Systems
United States Information Agency
Medal of Freedom
Flannery
New York
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