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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1948
Page
2
The Monroe Evening Times, founded 1899 and absorbed by Monroe Daily Journal in 1927, outlines AP affiliation and subscription rates. Carrier in city $12.50 per year, mail in Wisconsin and Stephenson county $6, outside WI and Stephenson county $7.50, all in advance. Office hours 8:30 am to 5:30 pm with after hour numbers for news and business.
Editorial argues that Western ambassadors visit to the Kremlin could mark a significant wartime era turning point. It notes Stalin may meet the envoys to study Western positions on Berlin and related crises. The piece says Berlin negotiations could rise in status and future progress is expected without war.
The piece argues President Truman should avoid a second congressional call and instead present a clear plan to tackle inflation. It criticizes government export controls and lingering scarcities, urging capable advisers free from economic fringes to outline nationwide cooperation and policy clarity.
The article notes cheese shortages stem from British purchases of American Type cheese under lend-lease and export regulations. About 28 million pounds have been bought, sparking a dealer scramble amid a four cent price differential. Government says the extra goes to packaging and shipping costs, while dealers doubt the effect on consumer prices.
Mary Ann Huber a 15 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Huber 1511 17th avenue won a superior rating in the Chicagoland Music Festival audition in Chicago last weekend She was one of three in class B to receive this high rating and will compete August 14 in Chicago with other contest winners Finalists will perform in a mass music festival that night Donald Fritz also 15 son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Fritz 1913 11th street received an excellent rating in the same class but will not advance There were 23 contestants in their class.
Glancing backward lists 1938 health award winners Alice Muller and Paul Horne of Brod head as Green county's healthiest 4-H members. Also notes Pearl White's death in Paris and Julius Heil's cheese industry pledge at a courthouse address.
The Green County Farm Bureau announced the new co operative livestock market near 7th avenue and the Milwaukee road tracks will be ready for operation late this month. Built on four acres with railroad siding it costs 50 000 to 60 000 dollars and will be leased by Equity Co operative Livestock Sales. Equity will supply salesmen and marketing data to farmers and aid in finishing meat animals for market. E O Baker will manage the Monroe yards.
Myron E Jeglum and Fred Williams will be interviewed by Henry Lunz on WHA at 12 30 p m Friday. They will discuss the county and township weed control unit system and emphasize its educational use and ease with available sprays. Lunz noted repeats on WIBU Payette and WBNB FM Beloit Friday evening.
Across numerous species, the male remains physically attached to the female as a parasitic partner. This unusual reproductive strategy appears in diverse insects and fish, shaping mating systems and sexual dimorphism.
White tailed deer show a preference for second growth trees and shrubs or thickets. The behavior highlights habitat choices that support foraging and cover.
John F. O'Melia, a Rhinelander attorney, was elected as the Wisconsin American Legion department commander. The convention approved a softened housing resolution that previously attacked Gov. Rennebohm and the legislature, endorsing the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and urging federal aid and reforms in housing and veterans programs.
Wesley Dodge Arthur Peterson Harold Heimann and Ernest Wenger four Monroe convention delegates flew to Milwaukee for meetings. The Zilmer Riley post moved a resolution urging continuation of the legion school at Indianapolis. Peterson presented the resolution from the convention rostrum after passage through the resolutions committee and it was approved.
Robert M. Daniels was indicted on three counts of first degree murder in Mansfield for killing John E. Niebel, Nolanda Niebel, and their daughter Phyllis. Arraignment set for Wednesday. Daniels, linked to six murders, remains in Mansfield custody and faces additional warrants in Columbus and Tiffin for other slayings.
The federal state crop reporting service said 2,416,000 acres or 94 percent of all corn planted in Wisconsin this year were sown with hybrid seed. Wisconsin farmers, pioneers in hybrid seed corn, have developed the crop to be among the top three in the state with higher yields and shorter growing periods.
Holy communion will be held at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning at St Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Transfiguration will be at 10 o'clock Friday morning. Rev. L B Hastings, vicar of St Andrew's, also conducts services at the Episcopal churches in Freeport and Shullsburg during August.
Milwaukee dairies raised regular milk by 0.20 dollars per gallon and high-butterfat milk by 0.23 dollars. The action affects five dairies with two more firms signaling similar increases soon.
Midway through Monroe's summer park program new classes in archery tennis and handicraft will be formed this week. Registration for beginner tennis and advanced tennis with a tournament will be at Recreation park bath house. Archery class competes for Robin Hood classification with 20 bulls eyes and students including Ronald Elmer Lester Peter Owen Hefty Kenneth Stair and Jerry Stauffacher have started.
New York City Investigation Commissioner John M. Murtagh subpoenas records of the Sheffield and Borden Milk companies and several grocery chains as part of a municipal probe into milk prices. Indictments of the Borden Co. and Bowman Dairy Co. in Chicago fueled the action amid a regional price rise. Milk now costs 22 to 25 cents a quart in the metro area, higher for home delivery.
Milwaukee firm Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. reports second quarter 1948 net earnings of 3,793,723 dollars. After preferred dividends and an estimated 2.52 million taxes, earnings equal 1.39 dollars per common share.
A. F. Barnes announces relocation of his Monroe harness repair shop to Brodhead with a mid August opening, after 14 years in Monroe and previously 12 years at the Commercial and Savings bank basement. He first learned the trade in 1897 at Krieger Saddlery in West Bend and has worked in Neillsville Rockford and Brodhead earlier. Barnes specializes in shoe repairs horse and dog harness repairs and riding leather equipment.
Three Holstein Friesian cows from W G Timm route 5 Monroe completed official production tests in the herd improvement registry. Cres cent Elmado Lassie led with 13966 pounds milk and 495 pounds fat in 276 days at age five years, five months, followed by Crescent Piper Segis Elmado with 12195 pounds milk and 429 pounds fat in 295 days at age three, and El mado Crescent Prince Bessie with 12833 pounds milk and 421 pounds fat in 283 days at age three years, one month.
Units of the 84th airborne division moved into Fort Riley Kansas for 15 days of training as a reserve unit. Maj. Gen. Ralph M Immell Madison is the commanding general of the division.
Officers and enlisted men from Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois heard General Immell address the division after arriving by plane. He then returned to Wisconsin where he is a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Col Dewey B Gill of Milwaukee serves as commanding officer in Immell s absence and Capt Donald F Reinoel of Darlington is acting division adjutant general.
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