Monroe High School adds facilities to expand enrollment
Monroe High School unveils a completed addition with a 288 seat auditorium and new offices, study hall, and team teaching stations. Principal Walter Babula notes enrollment will rise to about 840 to 850 students from 772 last year, with 44 faculty members and five shared teachers.
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Monroe High School
Walter Babula
Monroe
Monona Grove
Babula
Sun Prairie
Ralph Neale
Wits
University of Wisconsin
Tax Rate Slashes Okayed by Group
Washington The House ways and means committee voted for an income tax rate slash averaging 15 percent for most taxpayers. The Treasury proposal would set rates from 14 to 70 percent and be included in a bill expected to pass by early September. Corporate rate would drop from 52 to 48 percent. Two thirds of the cut would start Jan 1, 64, with the rest the following year.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
The
Treasury
Swiss Mart Steady in Cheddar and Swiss Markets
Madison market reports ample supplies for cheddar with steady pricing and tight lower grades. Swiss cheese remains steady with adequate top grades and tight lower grades. State brand blocks run 43 to 45, B 41 to 42, C 37 to 39.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Budget Expert Moore Proxmire's New Aide
Senator William Proxmire named Dr. Roy E. Moore, fiscal economist for the Senate House Joint Economic Committee, as his administrative assistant. Proxmire called Moore one of the nation's foremost authorities on the federal budget and budget reform.
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Washington
William Proxmire
Roy E. Moore
Senate House Joint Economic Committee
Moore
Fourteen new teachers join faculty for term
D J Huenink announced 116 teachers hired for the new term, including 14 new to the system and two new posts in guidance and American history. Roy Hull and John A Peters fill the two added positions.
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D. J
Roy Hull
Rhinelander
John A. Peters
Elgin, Ill
Huenink
William J McArdle dies at 38 in Elkhorn
William J McArdle 38 former Monroe resident died yesterday at Lakeland hospital Elkhorn after a two day stay following prior surgery. He served in World War II with the Navy and lived in Monroe Shullsburg before moving to Elkhorn. Surviving wife Barbara Anderson seven children and several siblings attend his services at St Patrick's with burial at Mt Olivet Elkhorn.
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Monroe
Lakeland Hospital
Elkhorn
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Joseph Hanauska
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Fredrickson Funeral Home
Mr. McArdle
Darlington
Thomas
Catherine McGowan McArdle
McArdles
William J
Navy
Asiatic- Pacific
Europeserve
Richard Bassett
Simon Willard
McArdle
Shullsburg
O’donnell Trucking Co
American Legion
Barbara Anderson
Debra
Jeanette
Evansville
William
Laurene
Karrin
Cathryn
Carolyn
Po Thomas McArdle Sr
John McDonald
Argyle
Orvin White
Elaine
Thomas Jr
Edward
Janesville
Richard
Prairie Barn Blaze Destroys Hogs
A Prairie du Chien farm near six miles east of the city saw a barn and attached machine shed burn after a Tuesday afternoon fire likely sparked by spontaneous combustion. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries while hogs were destroyed along with 5000 bales of hay and farm machinery. crews fought the flames for three hours.
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Prairie DU Chien
Alfred Marks
Lighting project for courthouse approved by board
The County Board voted 25-8 to accept a 1 083.76 bid from Buri Electric Co. to install four mercury vapor floodlights at the courthouse corners and two porch lights to illuminate the entrance. Nine names opposed the plan, led by Edward J. Kaderly, who urged taxpayers not to bear extra costs. The project aims to finish before the State and National Corn Picking Contests on Oct 23 and 24.
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Buri Electric Co
Edward J. Kaderly
Spring Grove Township
Kaderly
Richard Jarman
Albany
Leland Jordan
Jefferson
Chester Pinnow
Sylvester
Merlyn Rufer
Washington
Stanley Knight
Brodhead
E. Hi. Ross
Ben J. Deininger
Delegates Chosen for NFO Milk Haulers Meeting
Green County NFO will meet Aug 22 at 8 p.m. in the Agricultural Building to discuss holding action plans. Sixteen delegates were chosen to attend the state convention in Stevens Point in September. alternates named. Fred Krebs read a letter from national president Oren Lee Staley noting progress toward contracts and discussing a two cent per quart milk price rise. About 30 farmers caravanned to Chicago to meet Dean Milk Co. officials, who agreed to listen to NFC members Friday morning. Women of Albany Township provided lunch.
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Green County
NFO
TSI
Stevens Point
Ben Riemer
Merlin Loveland
Martin Bonkoski
David Erickson
Joe Baker
Mike Makus
John Zuber
Tom Saunders
Merlin Rose
Harold Brat
Staley
Green
Chicago
Dean Milk Co
Dean Co
National Farm Organization
Jebs
Dean Firm
NFC
Albany Township
Valachi Guarded at Fort Monmouth Secret Hideout
Army officials confirmed Joseph Valachi, aged 60, is protected at Fort Monmouth New Jersey amid heavy guard and barbed wire. He has for over a year told Justice Department agents about the crime syndicate while facing a possible underworld death sentence for breaking the crimes code of silence.
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N.J
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Army
Peter Hoffman
New York Daily News
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Senate
New York City
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Federal
Atlanta
Ale Anil
Eaiu
Cohen
Wisconsin Synod votes to split from Lutheran Conference
The 350 000 member Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod votes 138 to 28 to withdraw from the Lutheran Synodical Conference over doctrinal differences. The action ends formal ties with the Missouri Synod and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, with only two groups remaining in the conference.
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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Synod
Lutheran Synodical Conference
Wisconsin Synod
Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
Missouri Synod
Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Federation
Monroe
Mt. Olive Lutheran
Grace Lutheran Church
United Lutheran Church
Wisconsin
Missouri
Home For
Lutheran Children’s Friend Society
Lutheran Institutional Missions
Bethesda
Watertown
Mrs. Kennedy Quits Hospital After Birth of Patrick
Mrs John F Kennedy left Otis Air Force Base Hospital with the President by her side after a weeklong stay for the birth of daughter Patrick Bouvier Kennedy who lived less than two days. Air Force personnel families and children watched as they moved from the hospital to a waiting car then to a helicopter pad.
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Otis Air Force Base
Mass
John F. Kennedy
Tollway rate hike planned on Oct 1 with new axle charges
Illinois tollway officials expect approval of a rate increase starting October 1 as bonds funneled to retirement. Car tolls rise from 30 to 35 cents and two axle trucks from 40 to 45 cents while four to six axle categories gain to 60 75 and 90 cents. A final bond retirement will make the tollways freeways.
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Illinois State Toll Commission
Indiana
South Beloit
Tristate
Northwest
David's Arrival Set for Aug 24
Monroe's first foreign exchange student David Eduardo Schulman of Argentina now is set to arrive Saturday, Aug. 24. He leaves Buenos Aires Aug. 21 and, after processing in Miami Aug. 22, will reach Chicago Aug. 24 to be hosted by Dr and Mrs George Barry. The program is arranged by the Monroe American Field Service committee led by E O Evans with support from the Monroe Student Council and others.
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Monroe
David Eduardo Schulman
Argentina
David
George Barry
Buenos Aires
Miami
Fla
Chicago
Outdoor Theater Break-in Probed
The Sky VU Drive In Theater on Highway 69 south of Monroe was burglarized, missing 13 dollars and 10 cartons of cigarettes. Deputies say the break-in was found at 5 a.m. by Paul Chapman, a baking company manager, after he arrived to make deliveries. A door was left open and the building had been locked at 1 a.m. Entry was gained through a window.
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Highway 69
Monroe
Paul Chapman
Military chiefs back treaty with few handicaps in missile testing
General Maxwell D Taylor told the Senate that the Joint Chiefs of Staff see limited nuclear test ban as workable despite dis advantages. Dr. Glenn Seaborg urged ratification, arguing underground testing still allows anti missile and warhead development. Secretary McNamara said atmospheric tests would not be needed to decide on deployment. Goldwater criticized rhetoric and pressed for ironclad assurances against inhibiting anti missile progress.
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Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Glenn T. Seaborg
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Seaborg
United States
John Stennis
D-Miss
State Ruck
Defense McNamara
U.S
Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Services
Senate House Atomic Energy Committees
McNamara
Soviet Union
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
Kennedy
Williams Retires From U.S. Steel Post in Pittsburgh
Charles H. Williams a Madison native retires as administrative vice president in charge of engineering for United States Steel Corp at Pittsburgh.
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Steel Post
Pittsburgh
Charles H. Williams
Madison
United States Steel Corp
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