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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1955
Page
2
Ten years ago on August 6 1945 Monroe residents gathered on the Courthouse square to celebrate Japan's surrender with community programs and festive noise. Thanksgiving and prayer services were planned in Monroe churches as wartime rationing was announced to end by the OPA.
A columnist critiques Dag Hammarskjold for secret talks with China and advocates for open UN sessions. The piece argues secrecy risks democracy and warns against closed negotiations and underground diplomacy. It contrasts Hammarskjold’s Scandinavian background with Western open diplomacy.
Wilbert W. Red Wuethrich shaped Monroe area life through Minstrel shows Cub Scout and Junior Legion activities and local recreation efforts. He helped organize the Southwest Chapter of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association and served as its first president before his untimely death. His wider impact on youth and fraternal programs is noted as irreplaceable.
Graveside services were held for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Leuzinger of Route 2 Monticello at Greenwood cemetery. The infant died at 3 30 p m yesterday forty minutes after birth in St Clare hospital. Survivors include the parents grandparents Mr and Mrs Henry Leuzinger Route 2 and Mrs Sam Goecks Monticello. Arrangements were by Shiiner-Neushwander funeral home.
Arthur J. Altmeyer of Madison, a key architect of the 1935 Social Security Act, discusses his post retirement roles and a new job in Asia while reflecting on the act’s 21st year. He notes gaps, notably coverage for non industrial sickness and disability, and forecasts reforms pending in Congress.
Two angels discuss a silvery object passing overhead and joke about satellites, space race politics, and a fake signal. They note humans launch tin basketballs that orbit Earth, photograph each other, and even elope in space, while one angel imagines Ike and Bulganin.
The individual was named chairman of the Security Technical Board in 1935 and later served as a Social Security Administrator, a position held until 1953.
Graberhill Ormsby Abbekerk a purebred Holstein on the Peter Graber farm Monticello completed a herd improvement registry test with 518 pounds butterfat and 13 425 pounds milk in 355 days two times milking The average quarts daily was 18 She was four years and six months old when she began her record test Extra dollars from extra tons of hay can roll into pockets of farmers who top dress their alfalfa this fall with phosphate potash fertilizer The Middle West Soil Improvement Committee cites Prof C J Chapman University of Wisconsin soils specialist Chapman says fertilized alfalfa yielded three tons more hay per acre than untreated fields over a three year period in one Wisconsin test The high yielding hay fields were top dressed with 550 pounds of an 0 20 20 fertilizer which contained boron A registered Holstein Will Dell Cheryl owned by William J Figs Jordan Township produced 429 pounds butterfat and 12 675 pounds milk in 317 days on herd improvement registry test She produced an average of 19 quarts daily at the age of six years and seven months.
A chapel high in the Bavarian Alps conducts Sunday services for mountain climbers and skiers, offering a spiritual stop for visitors amid the rugged peaks.
Green County farms report gains in telephones water systems and power tools in the 1954 Agricultural Census. The census shows 1,998 telephones up from 1,917 in 1950 and 2,288 farms with piped running water. It details increases in freezers milking machines tractors and other equipment across multiple farm categories.
The 1954 replies indicate 2,182 farms reported 2,770 automobiles, up from 1950 levels of 1,972 farms with 2,530 vehicles. The comparison highlights growing farm equipment ownership and vehicle use across the period.
Tulsa publishing executive William H. Atcheson, 49, district manager of Gulf Publishing Co., was killed at Municipal Airport in Kansas City while running toward a plane on a 21 minute layover. He apparently believed the plane was about to depart. The fatal incident occurred yesterday as a whirling propeller struck him.
Minutes before a Braniff Convair was to depart a Braniff DC-3 started to taxi and, mistaking it for his plane, Atcheson ran onto the field and struck the propeller, causing a collision under airport authorities’ review.
New Glarus residents Mrs. Millard Tschudy and Mr. Tschudy visit the Wisconsin Dells calling on Mr. Tschudy's aunt Mrs. Charles Witte and family. Hedi Benzel of Mineral Point visits grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Hoesly while parents vacation in northern Wisconsin.
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