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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1955
Page
6
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with cooler air in the northwest and northeast. Low tonight 60 to 68. High Tuesday 78 to 83 in the north and 83 to 88 in the south. Last week highs and lows noted, barometer readings 29.57 and 29.58 in the morning and afternoon. Yuma reports 105 as warmest, Fraser 42 as coldest. Sunrise 5 10, sunset 6 58.
Wallace R Smith transfers part of 1t 3 block 8 Sun Rise Point subdivision No 2 in Monroe to Rolland E Karlen.
Judge Marshall Peterson assigns fines for several drivers in Monroe and surrounding areas. Ernest F. Schneider faces 25 dollars and costs plus 30 days jail with suspension if he avoids driving for six months except for work. Ernest W. Wenger pays 25 dollars. Glenn Fritz is fined 25. Gerald Kenney 17.10. Robert Bloom 10. Harold E. Gaster 10. Illegal passing and speeding cited, with sheriff’s department records.
Letters of administration issued to Anna Grimm for the estate of her husband Fred who died July 31. Under a will dated November 17, 1934 she is named sole heir and executrix.
Justice L A Koenig and Mrs M E Rabe of Brodhead faced fines for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle with forfeitures of 15 dollars each. William Klossner of Janesville also forfeited 15 dollars over an emergency vehicle matter.
Ray D. Figi 25 of Spring Grove Township and Therese M. Crotty 22 of 608 20th avenue appear for a marriage license. Ray W. Figi 25 of Spring Grove Township and Joan O. Crotty 21 of 608 20th avenue also appear for a license.
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Virgil Leuzinger Route 2 Monti cello listed in community notices. Schaffer 41 of Green ay and John Peter Figi 59 Park Ridge appear in short public notices.
Belleville hosts the Fahey family for a daughter born August 15. Monticello welcomes a son for the Ferris family on August 15. New Glarus, Juda, Brodhead, Argyle, and Blanchardville area couples report daughters and a son born August 13 to Kirsch, Reuter, Showers, Peters, and Kundert.
A hospital notice lists patients and dismissals from St. Clare Hospital including Kathryn Chambers Juda and Marjorie Gavigan Milwaukee in Medical care with several others from Beloit Monticello Tomah Appleton and Winslow. Surgical cases include Daniel Eley Juda and Thomas Matzke. Dismissals include Emil Wallman and several others.
Japan marked ten years since its 1945 defeat with prayers for war dead and reflections on the postwar occupation. Prime Minister Hatoyama praised the U S role in preventing famine while cautioning that peace arrived perhaps by chance. Ministers who served at surrender held a quiet commemoration in a Tokyo hotel.
Pvt. Phillip L. Crosby, 21, son of Bing Crosby, is hospitalized in Raymond, Washington with a broken back after his vehicle went through a guardrail and plunged 20 feet into the Willapa River bed while returning to Army KP duties at Ft. Lewis. Rescue tides prevented drowning.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stuckey of Juda welcomed daughter Cherly Ann born Wednesday at St. Clare hospital. Grandparents are Mrs. Carl Stuckey and Gottfried Waelchli. Cherly Ann has a sister named Lillian.
The Rolland E. Karlens have purchased the Wallace R. Smith residence at 604 27th Avenue and moved in today. The Smiths moved this morning to Middleton, where he has purchased a beverage depot.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Weckerly name their son Larry Alan born Wednesday at St Clare hospital Grandparents Mr and Mrs Guy Weckerly Route 3 and Mr and Mrs Chester Prien Maternal great grandmother Mrs August Prien
Clifford B. Isely fished Lake Wisconsin this weekend landing one of the lake’s largest hooked carp at 38 pounds. He also landed six catfish including two of 12 pounds and additional bluegill and perch using an eight pound test line on a spinning reel.
The Brooks Stock Co. begins its 44th Monroe season tonight under a tent north of the Green County Normal school. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for an 8:30 p.m. show premiere of Toby Goes to Boston with a different play each night all week. Cast includes Ickman Ronald Copus Gary Cummings John Luchsinger Fred Skerven and others.
Local residents reported visitors from Olney, Hillsboro, Belvidere, Rockford, Madison and Milwaukee. Guests included families from Freeport Dixon Sterling and Des Plaines, with many returning from weekend trips or extending stays in Monroe. A Women of the Moose meeting is scheduled for Aug 17.
Three day leave with Mr and Mrs Will McGrath and other area relatives. Mr and Mrs Robert G Blumer and Mr and Mrs Vincent Thomm stopped by the John D Scully home in Brodhead yesterday. Harold R Dehms returned from a trip to Niagara Falls New York City Atlantic City and Washington DC. Kiwanis convention attendees from area travel to Green Bay through tomorrow. Carol Galli returned from Camp Miniwanca Stoney Lake Michigan as a Rockford College student. Louis W de Lorimier on a three week vacation to Detroit Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Randall Martin and family plan move to Rhinelander and purchase a motel restaurant on Highway 8. Memorial rites held in New Glarus for Miss Anna Streiff. Helen Burkhard and sister travel to the south and east for a weeklong trip. Sunday guests at the Sam A Rubi family include multiple local residents from Milwaukee to Freeport and Monroe.
About 100 to 150 men stormed the gates at Perfect Circle's plant in New Castle Indiana and overturned four cars. The break in came after a bus carrying non striking workers was stoned outside the gates.
Barricades for pedestrian safety surround the Ludlow hotel as demolition proceeds. Workmen led by E R Cheeseman of Cheeseman Construction Co Freeport expect to begin tearing the roof by Wednesday. Inside, partitions are knocked out on the fourth floor and other floors are being stripped. The structure is being razed to make way for two modern stores.
New York reporters note three Broadway actors declined to answer questions about possible Communist ties at a House Un American Activities Committee hearing. Stanley Prager and John Randolph cited the First and Fifth Amendments, while George Tyne objected to interference with his inner beliefs. The witnesses opened the committee's hearing on Communist influence in entertainment.
The Service Record notes Red Morgan a Midshipman at the U S Naval Academy and Lawrence Morgan a Marine at Camp Pendleton are on 30 day leaves visiting their father Merle Morgan in Annapolis Maryland and California respectively.
Two Ohio men were taken to Jackson County jail after a wild chase that began when they left a gas station without paying. A Merrillan alarm triggered a 25 mile pursuit during which officers fired multiple shots, the car crashing through two barricades in Sparta before stopping on a dead end street.
New England unofficial polio tally reaches 1,523 with 17 new cases and five weekend deaths. Boston adds 13 cases to reach 435. New Hampshire reports three cases. at Camp Drum N Y a National Guardsman is stricken. Four Massachusetts adults and a 27 year old Connecticut mother of three die, lifting regional deaths to 53.
Herbert Putnam 93 longtime Librarian of Congress died Sunday in Woods Hole Massachusetts. Death attributed to a coronary thrombosis. He served as librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939 and was widely known as a scholar. He was a son of George Palmer Putnam founder of the New York publishing house.
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