Bank of Juda Captures Minor League Softball Title
Ken Krattiger pitched for Bank of Juda as they beat Agrico 4 to 2 to win the title. Juda collected 5 hits while Agrico totaled 5 singles and a double triple and homer combined. Krattiger earned the win with G. Gast taking the loss as Juda led from the first inning through to the final out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ken Krattiger
Bank of Juda
Agrico
Juda
Zimmerman
Affolter
Palombi
Scott
Bertalot
Jordan
Herbert
Schilt
Ball
G. Gast
Cardinals Top Pony Pennant
The Cardinals beat the Dodgers 4-2 to capture first place in the Monroe Pony League. Keith Monte pitched three and one third innings in relief without allowing a hit for the win. Stu Grendahl hit a first inning three run homer and Cardinal hitters included Grendahl, Tschanz, Wuetrich, and Eley. Penniston took the loss with ten strikeouts.
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Cardinals
Dodgers
Monroe
Keith Monte
Mike Penniston
Stu Grendahl
Cardinal
Grendahl
Bill Tschanz
Tom Wuetrich
Dave Eley
Dodger
Mike Isely
Mike Becer
Cassius Clay Bans Public From Final Training Session
World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay bars public access to his final workout before the title defense against Britain's Brian London. He cites spies and film reports sent to London as the reason for the secrecy.
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London
Cassius Clay
Britain
Brian London
Clay
Cubs Rally in 12 to Edge Braves 6-5
Chicago topped Atlanta 6-5 in twelve innings to improve its record against the Braves to seven wins against four losses. Ken Holtzman started for the Cubs and Ken Johnson pitched for the Braves with rematch set for Wednesday.
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Cubs
Braves
Chicago
Atlanta Braves
Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee
Ken Holtzman
Ken Johnson
Apple Tree Evaporates 100 Gallons in Hot Summer Day
A mature apple tree loses about 100 gallons of water to the air during a hot summer day as evaporation accelerates. The event highlights plant water use under high temperatures and sunlight.
Huber Leads Sox To 16 0 Win Over Tigers
Mike Huber pitched five nearly perfect innings allowing one walk to Alex McKeown on a 3 2 count while striking out 14 and adding two hits to lift the White Sox to a 16 0 victory over the Tigers. Dale Leutenegger added two singles for the Sox.
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Mike Huber
Sox
Alex McKeown
White Sox
Tigers
Pirates
Giants
Huber
Dale Leutenegger
Rick Robertson
Pat Molitor
Denny Haegele
Jim Connors
Roger Price
Bob Gordee
Medical Center and Montgomery Win in Girls Softball League
Montgomery upset Hasler's Farmers 19 to 16 as Montgomery's bats exploded in the fifth inning. Toni Pederson went 4 for 4 with 3 RBIs to pace Montgomery. Mae Burke added 3 for 4 with 2 RBI. In the other game Medical Center defeated Joe's White Elephant 27 to 5 behind a 23-run fourth and fifth inning surge.
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Montgomery Electric
Hasler
Farmer
Medical Center
Joe’s
White Elephant
Montgomery
Toni Pederson
RBI
Mary Ammon
Mary Jo Prien
Diane
Dee Indergand
Mae Burke
S. Joe’s
Sue Malkow
Jo Ann Treuthardt
Jo Schindler
Joe
Patty Landly
Jo Ann Keough
Ada Look
Crops Capture Honors at Fair
At the Green County Fair a bumper crop featured junior winners across divisions. Notable winners include Gerald Block and Jene Eberle for best 4 stalks hybrid corn, Alvin Wald for oats, John F. Deininger for oats in Juda FFA, and Dwight Indergand for collection of weeds in a scrapbook, with multiple firsts and seconds awarded to Richland and Juda FFA participants.
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Green County Fair
Gerald Block
Hiawatha
David Moen
Dougherty Creek
Gail Rose Dunwiddie
JJ Jrs
Kurt Coplien
Oakley
Allen Zimmerman
Oak Corners
Andy Eberle
Richland
Terry Eberle
Jene Eberle
Juda Ffa
Alvin Wald
Hilltop
Monroe Ffa
John F. Deininger
Fred Mohns
Robert Erb
Dick Holyoke
CCC
Gerald John F. Deininger
Dwight Indergand
Tom Hoesly
Don Ruehlew
Monticello Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mrs C D Curtis reports Mr and Mrs Ernest Kern of Monroe called Monday evening at Kenneth Klassy’s home. Mrs Gene Flesher and family joined Sunday dinner with her mother Mrs Adeline Reuter of New Glarus. Mr and Mrs Arlie Trickel of Freeport were Sunday supper guests of Mr and Mrs Henry J Elmer. Charles Putnam and daughter Mrs Herman Durtschi of rural Albany visited Mrs Putnam, a medical patient at St Clare Hospital Monroe.
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Ernest Kern
Monroe
Kenneth Klassy
Gene Flesher
Adeline Reuter
New Glarus
Arlie Trickel
Freeport
Henry J. Elmer
Charles Putnam
Herman Durtschi
Albany
Putnam
St. Clare Hospital
Bethel Upsets Junction House In Baseball Clash
Bethel steals win over Junction House as Ardell Kopp Chuck Soddy drive in three runs each. Ken Mahikuch leads Bethel with hits while Bob Stamm earns the win for Bethel. Junction House chalks up six hits led by Joe McGuire Marion Mueller. Alphorn Lounge defeats Pats Tap 6-3 with Alphorn collecting 11 hits. St Johns tops Eagles 8-5 behind Bob Drews and Mike Bidlingmaier two hits each.
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John Prien
Bethel
Junction House
Ardell Kopp
Chuck Soddy
Ken Mahikuch
Kopp
Chuck Trotter
Lowell Stuessy
Soddy
Bob Stamm
Joe McGuire
Marion Mueller
al Schwartz
Alphorn
Mickey Hyland
Paul Miller
Bill Walters
Jerry Pederson
Bob Buchholtz
Jim Ruf
Dave Lueck
Bob Rieder
St. John’s
Hans Sulzer
Fred Blanc
Leonard Kemprood
Bob Drews
Mike Bidlingmaier
Sam Remus
Bethel Church
Junction
Alphorn Lounge
Pats
St. Johns
Eagles
Orangeville Community Notes Highlight Family Reunions
A series of family visits and gatherings around Orangeville features Ronald Holmes returning to Grove City Ohio with his wife and daughters Cathy Sue and Sheri, joined by relatives from Lena Freeport Joliet and Winslow. Amid celebrations Cathy Sue’s June 16 birth is noted and local residents travel to Beloit Janesville and Spirit Lake for visits and baptisms. Earl Schulz suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized at St. Clare Monroe.
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Ronald Holmes
Sheri
Cathy
Grove City
Ohio
LaVerne Holmes
Orangeville
Earl Kleckler
Lena
Ill
Lizzie Solace
Earl Ferguson
Nancy
Daryl Shadle
Shirley
Winslow
Merlen Dornsteadt
Freeport
LaVerne
Cathy Sue
Harold Stephens
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Harry Mains
Irene Moyer
Mmes
Leo Kundert
Loda
Wis
Norman Kundert
James Price
Clifford Scheider
Adam Zweifel
Wisconsin
Aldo Kerr
Kerr
Funk
Cordovia
Glen Bolender
Eddie Johnson
Janesville
Beloit
Bradley Heilman
Ralph Babler
Robert Dicks
Lake Worth
Fla
George Folgate
Edna Ermold
LeRoy Thorn
Russell
Brodhead City Council backs pool repairs and alerts plan
Brodhead council discussed firemen home alert radios costing about 100 dollars yearly and approved repairs to the swimming pool with a 398.76 dollar bill. The meeting covered truck and pump payments, street black topping, tree work, permits, and property disposal at Decatur Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brodhead
Donald Edwards
Bruni- Miller
Monroe
Bancroft Dairy
Carl Fynstegard
17Th St
John Kueng
Juda
Garden Club
Decatur Park
Classifieds Spotlight from The Monroe Evening Times
A brief notice highlights room for rent in a Monroe residence advertised through the paper’s classifieds section. The item emphasizes affordable lodging and contact details for interested readers seeking local housing.
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Monroe Evening Times
Inland Steel Raises Prices On Strip And Sheet Metal
Inland Steel Co of Chicago boosted its prices for strip and sheet metal by 2 to 3 dollars a ton. White House officials immediately huddled to study the situation.
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Washington
Inland Steel Co
Chicago
White House
Rain Dampens Opening Night At Starlight Theater
In Kansas City the singer Jack Jones performed as Curly in Oklahoma until a sudden downpour halted the outdoor show. After a seven minute delay he resumed as 6 000-strong crowd returned to their seats while Ellen Singer of Toccoa Georgia was named prettiest waitress of 1966 in Atlanta New Jersey at age 21.
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Kansas City
Jack Jones
Starlight Theater
Jones
Curly
Oklahoma
Atlanta City
N.J.R
Ellen Singer
Toccoa
Ellen
Wilson College
Chambersburg
Clift Estate Mostly Goes to Sister and Mother
The bulk of actor Montgomery Clifts 200000 estate goes to his mother Ethel Clift and sister Ethel McGinnis as revealed in a surrogate court probate filing. The will also names brother William B Clift Jr of Atlanta.
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New York
Montgomery Clift
Manhattan
Ethel Clift
Ethel McGinnis
Austin
Tex
William B. Clift Jr
Atlanta
Dying Bull Snatches Sword Near Franco Family at Festival
In La Coruna Spain a dying bull tossed aside a mata dor's sword and it flew narrowly past Gen Francisco Franco's daughter the marchioness of Villadere who sat with her husband the Marquis Cris tobal Martinez Bordiu. Gen Franco occupied a higher box.
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LA Coruna
Spain
Francisco Franco
Marchioness
Villadere
Cristobal Martinez Bordiu
Franco
Princess Alexandra Gives Birth To Daughter In London
Princess Alexandra and the newborn, weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces, are reported well. The 29 year old princess, wife of Angus Ogilvy and daughter of the Earl and Countess of Airlie, already has one child, James Robert Bruce Ogilvy. The birth places the baby seventeenth in line to the British throne.
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London
Alexandra
Angus Ogilvy
Earl
Countess of
Airlie
James Robert Bruce Ogilvy
Tim McFadden Returns Home From Vietnam After 13 Months
Tim McFadden arrived back in the United States after thirteen months in Vietnam. A sign on his parents’ Norwood home, a deco Christmas tree with gifts, and a freezer-stored snowball pile marked his homecoming. Mr and Mrs Robert McFadden say Tim wrote last winter about a possible snowball fight. The family has three other sons serving in the armed forces.
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Viet Nam
Robert McFadden
Norwood
Tim
United States
McFaddens
Wisconsin magician reenacts Houdini escape at sea
Ron Fable an Army veteran of Viet Nam freed himself from iron chains and a 500 pound truck weighted with cement and steel submerged ten feet in the Atlantic Ocean surfacing 27 seconds later to cheers at the Steel Pier Amusement Center. He previously performed the stunt in fresh water beginning in Milwaukee in 1961 and later across the Midwest and Canada.
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Wis
Houdini
Atlantic Ocean
Ron Fable
Viet Nam
Steel Pier
Milwaukee
Midwest
Canada
Army
East German actor defects to Sweden leaping from ferry
Hans-Dieter Deutler, 29, jumped more than 12 feet from a ferry in Trelleborg harbor and fled to Sweden. He was injured, treated at Malmo hospital, and told reporters he sought political asylum.
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Malmoe
Sweden
Hans-Dieter Deutler
Trelleborg
Deutler
Sinatra and Mia Farrow Arrive in London for Wedding
Frank Sinatra aged 50 and his 21 year old bride Mia Farrow arrived in London by air from the United States. They flew from Prestwick to Northolt and then drove to an apartment in Grosvenor Square for their wedding trip.
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London
Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
United States
Prestwick
Scotland
Sinatra
Northolt Airfield
Grosvenor Square
Barbs by Walter C. Parkes on Easter bonnets and fashion
A witty note recalls Easter bonnet fashion and plans for fall ward robes. The piece asks readers to remember when change included half-dollars and hints at nostalgia for bygone times.
Nation Braces For Spring Fever After Flu Season
The passage notes the country moving from winter flu recovery to spring fever as a forthcoming seasonal uptick in activity and mood. It frames spring as a contrasting trend following the recent illness wave.
Glock wins juniors title at world skeet championships
Tim Glock of Oconomowoc Wisconsin fired 99 of 100 in the .28 gauge juniors event at the 1966 world skeet shooting championships in Rush New York.
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Rush
N.Y
Tim Glock
Oconomowoc
Wis
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Albert Hemp- Earl Schulz
Robert E. Petersen
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Beeline Garage
Ed Peterson
18Th Ave
Herb Davidson
Winslow Marketing Center
Winslow, Illinois
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Vear
Wayne Etnyre
Mgr
Atlantic City
N.J
Cincinnati
Tim McFadden
Frederick W. Boss
Glenn W. Boss
Route 1
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Colo
U.S. Air Force
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G. L. Redman
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