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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1952
Page
2
The 1952 Green County Fair ends with praise for the effort while criticizing beer access by youths. Authors urge raising the drinking age to 21 and tightening seller responsibility after incidents of teens using borrowed IDs or licenses. The piece notes likely legislative action in 1953 and questions how many youths got away with it.
A nostalgic jab at automobile horns argues they must be replaced by quieter tech. The author condemns horns for nuisance uses and questions engineers motives behind the loud super-duties while imagining a future with silent cars.
Milwaukee papers report Lt. William Ellis Pulliam, son of late Milwaukee industrialist John Page Pulliam, killed in a plane crash in the Korean area. A Navy lieutenant, he served with underwater demolition forces at Okinawa in World War II and held the Silver Star for gallantry.
Pottsville reports John L. Lewis seeks a wage increase for about 100000 anthracite miners and 450000 soft coal diggers. He did not disclose the amount. The United Mine Workers chief notified the anthracite industry the current contract under 60 days notice ending Aug 1 will expire Sept 3.
Glancing backward through historical items dated Aug 5 across years 1842 to 1902 notes the city council ordering removal of the old American War cannon to Recreation park for safekeeping, Ringling blaze aftermath and first aid in Cleveland, and various local obituaries, sports results, and civic reminders from Beloit, Juda, Rock Falls, and Clarno.
Monroe citizens aged 21 and over accept a get-out-the-vote challenge from DePere in Brown County. L. A. Koenig and a steering committee lead a broad civic drive aiming to exceed DePere’s near 100 percent turnout in the September primary and November general election.
The Midwestern area office appeals for registered nurses to bolster polio care in six states Wisconsin Illinois Iowa Oklahoma Texas and New Mexico. A Red Cross spokesman notes cases rise but not epidemic and cites a Public Health Service report guiding the need.
The family of the late Nic Frei tag plans a memorial at Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed church. They will present an altar table a dossal curtain and a dossal rail designed by Ossit Brothers Church Furniture Co Janesville. A sketch of the church front for a remodeling project is on display in the cloak room.
After ten years of correspondence the Russell Werrens of near South Wayne met their friends Mr and Mrs Joe Kosiba of Leland Ir When Lorene Kosiba daughter of the Kosibas died in 1944 the Werrens and Kosibas continued writing Last week the Kosibas visited the Werrens in South Wayne Browntown area and were accompanied by three daughters Dorothy Annette and Janette
Madison based report states the legislative council committee on problems of the aged considered opening social security aid rolls to public inspection. The proposal would exempt home value and personal property, allow $500 cash total, and require inspectors to reveal their identities and purposes to welfare agencies.
Wisconsin legislative council review shows the highway commission spent or committed 64,236,831 for 1951-52 ending June 30 split into 41,668,682 for construction 8,844,794 for maintenance 13,457,907 in aids and 265,449 for operation. A July 1 cash balance stood at 54,217,670 with about 3,995,978 available for new contracts. The 1951-52 totals are slightly below 1950-51's 67,432,928.
Mrs. C D Walker formerly Mary Augusta Neiman died Sunday in a Freeport hospital at age 75. Services were held at 3 p m at Walker Mortuary with Rev. Carl M. Grahl officiating and burial in Oakland cemetery. She was born January 26, 1877 near Orangeville, married to C D Walker in 1920, and is survived by her husband two brothers Oscar H Neiman of Freeport Louis Neiman of St Paul two sisters Mrs Lowell Coomber and Mrs Clayton Hoffman of Freeport.
Mr and Mrs Ray Lane with Garry and Clark from Dubuque have moved into the D L Zentner apartment in Monticello. Mr Lane is a salesman for the National Cash Register Co and has been transferred to a new territory.
Maj. Gen. Roger M. Ramey and Dr. Jessie Sprowls dismissed saucer reports as not real objects. Washington buzzed after Ramey’s TV remark with scattered calls and radar checks failing to confirm unidentified flying objects. About 20 percent of 1,500 reports remain unexplained.
Detoured traffic around route 26 from belt line road to West Stephenson street began this morning due to a state city project widening South West Avenue. Gund-Graham Construction Co started the work with portions slated for completion before cold weather.
The Treasury still collects about 59 percent of factory firms gross earnings in 1952, down 13 cents per dollar from last year after rising costs. Combined sales rise five percent to about 1% billion, but labor and operating costs jump nine percent, squeezing profits to 5.7 cents per dollar from 6.9. Public filings show tax payments fall 433 million while net profit after taxes declines 299 million.
The Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Jim Dan Hill bivouacked for 24 hours at Camp Ripley Minnesota. The exercise included an aggressor force with prisoners interrogated by staff officers. Weather grounded training planes and the division of 7,700 men remained injury free as units prepare to return home August 10.
James Marlow opines that 1956 conventions provoke public criticism over disruptive floor demonstrations and polling delays. He suggests improving TV time for delegates by private rooms with cameras to let voters back home view individual delegates.
Two cars driven by Keith E. Wolf 22 Orangeville and Fred Brooks Jr Dakota collide two miles east of Seas Saturday night. Mrs B riding with Wolf is treated at Deaconess hospital Freeport for lacerations chest injuries. Neither driver injured.
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