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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1968
Page
1
Petition drive aims to put George Wallace on the November ballot in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Wallace for President chair says signatures are being gathered with hopes of broad support and a late summer campaign appearance planned.
The Monroe Volunteer Fire Department hosted a dinner and card party where a painting of the old Monroe fire station, created by Mrs. Carl Maurer, was unveiled along with the department’s restored first custom cab fire engine. Local officials including Fire Chief Joe Benkert and Mayor Walter Ekum attended, with gifts and plaque acknowledgments to contributors. A separate note reports ten-year-old David Thiessen drowned in Lake Monona during a Madison visit to his grandparents.
Six accident reports filed by Green County sheriff deputies note injuries as Ernest Naef and Leon Sack among others. incidents occurred near Monroe on Highway 11 81 and County Trunk E with vehicles driven by Duane Indergand Leon Sack Robert Disch and Larry Nipple involved. Naef admitted to St. Clare Hospital after a fractured arm.
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Melvin R. Laird urged Nixon to consider Rockefeller as running mate at the Republican National Convention. He argued a Nixon Rockefeller ticket could win in November and help Republicans gain the House, with Rockefeller possibly as vice president and a cabinet voice.
The Monroe City Band conducts an August 7 program at Twining Park Band Shell directed by Allan Barnard with Leon Rabe leading a 35 member Green County Barbershop Chorus. The event features a Bubble Blowing Contest for children, a Dixieland Combo segment, and Sousa marches plus patriotic numbers including Duty Honor Country and The Star Spangled Banner.
Daily doggerel critiques political manners and campaigns. It hints some candidates win by questionable means and suggests they should have been brushed aside. The verse uses playful imagery of sweeping and brushing to lampoon public figures.
Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles says this is his last Republican National Convention as he seeks a third two year term in 1970. He cites younger leaders and long political life while noting personal upheaval after his wife’s Mexican divorce and quick remarriage.
The Republican National Convention opens with Gov Daniel J Evans delivering the keynote. Nixon leads with 572 first ballot votes toward the 667 needed, while Rockefeller has 232 and Reagan 161 as delegates remain uncommitted or pledged to favorites.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Wednesday August 7 on the Green County Hospital grounds site for a 150 bed Pleasant View Nursing Home. Bids for general contracting were awarded to Anthony Grignano Co Madison with Ames Torkelson and Associates Madison as architects. The project cost is about 1.7 million dollars and aims for completion by January 1.
State Sen. Gordon Roseleip charged UW President Fred Harrington publicly defended communism in 1949 with a statement by Madison residents opposing the Mundt Fer guson bill. He urged Wisconsin to demand clarity on the president’s stance amid Vietnam war deaths and global tensions.
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