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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1963
Page
2
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The editorial honors William E. Wenger as a leading figure in Monroe’s cheese industry during a transition toward larger firms. It notes his balance of loyalties between local operations and Kraft Foods, his loyalty to longtime workers, and his career ending after a fatal automobile accident days before retirement. It laments rising auto-racket noise and urges a highway bypass.
In Monroe the summer nights are dominated by the clatter of empty auto carriers returning to factories. The police chief arranged with Janesville fleet operators to quiet the rattling tracks and loose channels on the trailers. Drivers mostly cooperate, though occasional offenses occur.
Highlights from multi decade local columns noting Mrs Arthur Godfrey bringing Arabians to the County Fair Horse Show event and other anniversary items. The piece references anniversaries 10 25 40 50 years ago and mentions officials and local figures tied to Monroe and Greenwood counties. It covers public notices, obituaries, and fair preparations with names such as Dr John A Schindler and Frank Shriner.
Kermit O. Hendrickson 52 of Hollandale died of a heart attack in Waukesha where he worked for James Cape and Sons Construction Co. He was born July 20 1911 in Green County and married Helen Dearth in Dubuque January 18 1939. Survived by wife five sons Colleen daughter one brother three sisters and other relatives. Funeral at Yellowstone Lutheran Church tomorrow at 2 p.m. with burial in Graceland cemetery Blanchardville.
Harry Erickson 64 shop foreman for Lafayette County Highway Department died at 4 20 p.m. yesterday in St. Clare hospital after collapsing while working on a White Oak Springs Township bridge. He had 42 years county service and has a wife Ina two daughters Mrs Donald Johnson Madison and Mrs Paul Shockley Rockton Ill a brother Albert Hastings Neb three sisters Mrs Roy Bredeson Mrs George Bredeson Darlington and Mrs Orin Hendrickson Blanchard Ville and seven grandchildren Services set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Sharer funeral home with visitation after noon tomorrow.
Mrs. Mercedes H. Douglas of Goldendale Washington, 46, was granted an uncontested divorce this week from Justice William O. Douglas of the U S Supreme Court on grounds of cruelty. The couple wed in 1954.
The Green County fair hosts a record junior cattle showing with 325 4 H and FFA dairy animals across 325 stalls. Exhibitors from Juda FFA faced moving animals through multiple barns before settling in vacant stalls, as three Green County dairy breeders secretly judge each club exhibit and awards a trophy from Commercial and Savings Bank of Monroe.
Ken and Dave Pick of Monroe Ag tied their calves beside a bumble bee nest in a dairy barn. Henry Pick Jr. sustained injuries in the ensuing bee conflict. The men won but breached a League of Nations agreement by using gas warfare.
On Tuesday a girl named Margie Bernet, living two miles from the fairgrounds, led her horse down a Monroe city street toward the fair. The scene reflects the growing number of horses and ponies exhibited each year at the fair.
Norm Everson, longtime University of Wisconsin staff member since 1958, began as a tobacco specialist. He served as Green County 4H agent in the 1960s, later becoming assistant State 4H Leader and supervisor of all 4H agents in Eastern Wisconsin.
Miss Margaret Mahoney, 95, longtime Shullsburg resident, died yesterday at Darlington hospital after a long illness. Services set for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Matthew's Catholic Church. Rosary at 8:30 p.m. at O'Flaherty Funeral Home. A niece Catherine Toebe of Milwaukee survives.
Educational department winners announced after final tabulations in Floral Hall Southwest. Judges Mrs Victor Ellingson and Miss Hannah Bindschaedler praise quality. list includes Jerry Steindl Monticello Grace Ballmoos Sanders Tommy Siedschlag Sam Ball Dennis Timm Roosevelt Laura Heinsohn Albany and many more from Oakley Albany Roosevelt Sanders and other schools for crafts drawings writing posters and health and social studies projects.
Areawide polio immunization program ordered in Walker County after seventh paralytic polio case reported this week in Jasper Alabama. Public health officials mobilize clinics and outreach to prevent spread and protect at risk residents.
Evansville special identifies Mrs. Paul Denig age 69 who died Wednesday and will be buried in Holy Mother of Consolation Church Oregon. She resided in Oregon 20 years and leaves husband two sons a daughter a sister and three grandchildren.
SEATTLE Theodore Roethke 55 Pulitzer poet and University of Washington English professor died Thursday after a heart attack. He joined the university in 1947 and won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. CHICAGO Robert Alan Conger 49 board chair of F E Compton and Co and senior vice president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc died Thursday.
In Oakland California Dr Arnold T Ohrn longtime general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance from 1948 to 1960 died Wednesday He had been a teacher and president of the Norwegian Baptist Theological Seminary at Oslo Norway for 38 years He was 74.
Montgomery Circuit Court Judge Walter B. Jones who rose to national prominence in the 1954 Phenix City vice trials died Thursday at age 74. He served on the Montgomery bench since 1929 and championed access for newspaper and television photographers in courtrooms. Jones was the son of former Gov. Thomas Goode Jones.
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