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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1949
Page
2
The piece summarizes Wisconsin weekend highway death tolls and critiques education engineering and enforcement efforts. It stresses safe driving as a shared responsibility and calls for practical safety improvements and balanced enforcement. It urges drivers to stay alert and take pride in safe driving with the slogan Let's drive to stay alive.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee set the pattern for foreign arms aid. It backed a fund exceeding one billion dollars for Truman and split the money between cash and contract authority. The White House seeks a master plan and clarity on expenditure and timing amid broad spending pressures.
New York reports Mrs Corne lius Vanderbilt Jr. does not have polio as first suspected. Doctors hospital said tests ruled out polio but ailment had not yet been diagnosed and a hospital spokesman explained.
Los Angeles announces the birth of a seven pound four ounce boy to Adolph Spreckels Jr and his wife actress Kay Williams. The newborn adds another heir to the Spreckels sugar family in a recent ceremonial presentation.
Ten years ago Judge Marshall L. Peterson began a river canoe trip August 16 1939 from Portage to New Orleans. Yeggs failed to blow a safe in Chapman lumber office at South Wayne. tear gas bomb drove robbers from the building. Dairy booth plan features a consumer care lesson with Red for State fair demonstrations by Dorothy Figi and Josephine Schwarzenberger. Open house celebrated Mrs Anna Elmer's 80th birthday.
Hollywood recalls Will Rogers as more than an actor a shrewd philosopher with a folksy image. Associates describe his kindness memory humor and sharp sense of news reading taste for chili and onions and a preference for plain work over flashy dressing rooms.
Wisconsin will launch minimum dairy standards on November 15 for milk and dairy products covering production marketing and processing. Farmers and industry must comply or face fines up to 200 dollars and loss of selling rights. The aim is education and safety with 100000 copies of the order to be distributed to farmers and industry.
Clarence E Nelson sues Beloit Waterman School Board claiming breach of contract for the 4 175 salary he would have earned under a April 7 agreement. Nelson was dismissed June 7 from his Waterman principal post amid district shakeup.
A historical notice warns dairymen against spraying DDT on dairy cows or barns due to milk contamination risks. It promotes switching to government approved non DDT stock spray as safer for health, stressing proper use and availability from feed, drug, hardware stores, dairies, and cooperatives in quart to three gallon sizes.
Ervin Kameron of Milwaukee made an emergency landing his single engine amphibian on Lake Winnebago after a fouled fuel line. Passengers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steuck, Milwaukee, were rescued by a yacht several hundred feet from shore.
A glimpse into the Congressional Record reveals the appendix as a release valve for lawmakers. The daily printed record captures floor actions, while the appendix hosts longer, print-ready statements. Unanimous consent enables such insertions, often featuring speeches, education notes, or editorials by senators and representatives.
Wallace Beery left three quarters of a million dollars in cash in a bank safe deposit box as part of a $2,000,000 estate. Government bonds worth over $600,000 were listed, and the Superior Court ordered inheritance taxes. Beery died April 15 at 64, leaving his estate to his adopted daughter Carol Ann, his brother William, and his nephew Noah Berry Jr. Claims include ex wife Mary Areta Foyt and film extra Gloria Schumm. Foyt seeks half, Schumm claims paternity of Beery’s 18 month old son and $104,135, while Beery denied paternity and disinherited the infant.
Joan W. Cawley a 42 year old Milwaukee crop duster died when his plane crashed from about 200 feet after takeoff on the Will Apton farm 12 miles northwest of Vanville Illinois authorities said the accident occurred yesterday
Frederick H. Schmidt of route 3 and Harold H. Engels of route 1 reported fender rubs on highway 69 at 10 30 a m Saturday. Later two other vehicles operated by E E Hasely of South Wayne and Fred Dearth of 1743 15th street collided at 9th street and 13th avenue at 10 12 p m Saturday, causing greater damage.
Ed ward Hunt, 19, of Brodhead, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to assault with intent to do great bodily harm after a shooting during a barn fire set on John Yusten’s Newark township farm near Orfordville. He also pleads not guilty to arson. both cases continued to Aug. 23. Hospital tests urged prolonged institutional care for protection of self and society. Yusten, 78, was wounded in the hip while surprising Hunt as the fire started.
Mrs. George J. Rieff 99 a Beloit native died Monday after an eight week illness. Born Nellie Schaefer May 2 1894 in Monroe she married George J. Reiff May 27 1913 in Rockford. A Gold Star mother her son Thomas George Rieff was killed in the South Pacific in February 1943. Surviving husband a daughter Patricia Ann a son Clarence two sisters and three brothers and three grandchildren. Funeral 3 tomorrow at St John s Church Beloit with burial in East Lawn cemetery. Rev W J Baese to officiate. Friends may call this evening at the Rief home 245 Middle Beloit.
Merrillan marks the arrival of the North Western road’s streamlined 400 with fanfare and a two daily stops beginning now. Local bands from Neillsville and Alma Center join the celebration ending a 14 year campaign to bring a stop to this area. National Guard troops parade and an American Legion rifle squad fires volleys as John Clune, 91, the line’s oldest surviving engineer, recalls guiding trains along this track laid eight decades ago.
The South Wayne Homestead weekly will join Warren Sentinel Leader this Thursday. Frank W. Thomas, owner and publisher of the Warren paper, buys the South Wayne weekly from J. Louis Smith. The two papers merge into a single weekly published in Warren.
Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes reached a July record of 12,767,718 gross tons, the Lake Carriers Association reported. Through Aug 1 the season’s iron ore total stood at 45,953,288 tons, three million plus above the 1948 period, with only 1942 surpassing it.
Westburg macia Clow, 45, executive secretary of the Family Service of Milwaukee, drowned in Lake Michigan yesterday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while wading to swim. Witnesses said she fell in about 50 feet from shore and was recovered within five minutes by Donald McCreddy, visiting in a neighboring cottage.
The AFL executive council said there is no broad U.S. mood of decline. They attributed talk of a business recession to a deliberate propaganda campaign to curb wage growth.
Hamburg based Welt am Sonntag reports that 20 Soviet army officers were killed on July 25 in a plot targeting Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky. The British licensed German newspaper notes the unconfirmed claim and cites wartime intrigue surrounding Soviet leadership.
President Truman Herbert Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt sent tributes for Ethel Barrymore as Lionel Barrymore and Louis B Mayer attended a luncheon. Lionel quipped about his writer while Truman recorded remarks praising the “first lady of the American stage” on her birthday.
Mrs J B Munn held a sale of personal property and real estate at 24 North Grove avenue Freeport attended by buyers from Monroe and nearby cities. The eight room residence sold to Charles L Crowe for 4625 while antiques and wares drew spirited bidding with items ranging from 6 to 68 dollars and cut glass going to a Ohio buyer. Mrs Munn whose illness prompted the sale is a former Monroe resident and daughter of David Sunderland.
Foreign Minister Ben C. Limb announces that Belgium and Australia have extended diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Korea, expanding Seoul's international acknowledgments amidst growing Cold War alignments.
General MacArthur formally declined an invitation to return to the United States and testify on the far eastern situation regarding the administration background arms aid bill. He said for the best reasons in a public Aug. 11 statement he could serve the national interest by remaining at his post in Tokyo.
Sam Engel, a 3 year old gay blade with a noted way with women, announced in court plans to run for governor. He denied taking money from Florence Barrette of Chicago and said the charge is a scheme by State's Attorney Boyle to elect himself governor. Engel apologized after the judge urged.
Elena Paula MacArthur, 29, wife of Washington lawyer Bowman McCalla MacArthur and niece of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, became a U.S. citizen yesterday. The couple met in Shanghai.
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