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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1947
Page
2
The Monroe Evening Times notes it is authorized by the Associated Press for republication of all local news and AP dispatches under the Board of Directors order dated April 1947.
Veto power should not block UN actions says Trygve Lie. He notes the Soviet Union has used its veto 16 times, all unnecessary, and urges democratic nations to pressure Stalin by confronting him in the Balkans if he does not withdraw.
Mrs. William M. Chambers of Sylvester will represent Green county in the state milkmaid contest. Funeral services were held in Albany for Miss Johanna Needham. Miss Ruth Jensen and Walter W. Schindler were married. A 25 year old note recalls Jessie Mac a $5000 racing mare with a track record. Gate money at the fair topped last year and the new amphitheater drew praise. The blue law of 1849 yields to baseball with Sunday games continuing.
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge American occupation commander said protests were made after Aug 12 arrests of three U S soldiers in Korea. Intelligence reports said Pyongyang guards refused interview and provided no information. Soldiers were inspecting telephone lines between U S headquarters and Pyongyang.
The 1948 program covers wheat insurance in twenty four states with wheat income regions. Wisconsin counties were not offered coverage. The plan limits immediate participation to about 200 counties across major wheat producing areas.
Amid an odd exchange the two characters express astonishment and hunger. One notes having eaten nothing while the other recalls a tray meal and a movable feast at home. They mention leaving for a log roadhouse near the village to avoid recognition. To Be Continued.
Abby and Barry drift toward marriage after a private night drive, sharing a tense, passionate moment as Abby learns her father’s secret about her mother’s madness. Barry proposes a simple elopement while Abby wrestles with fear, love, and the weight of family history.
The provincial board of health issued the first official casualty figures from Monday night’s explosion in Cadiz. About 150 people were known to have perished with roughly 30 bodies still beneath the wreckage and some 5,000 injured, including 250 seriously hurt.
Social items from Twin Grove and Monroe list visits to homes and events. Families such as Beight Camron Emrick Bell Rupnow and others are noted attending birthdays, dinners, circuses, trips to the Milwaukee state fair and motor jaunts to the Black Hills and Yellowstone.
Acting Gov Rennebohm vetoed a bill to require marking blacktop roads eighteen feet wide or more along centers to meet federal standards. The proposal would cut state aid to towns and counties that failed to mark the roads.
President Truman said federal spending this fiscal year will be about half a billion dollars short of his initial estimate, yet he forecast a historic four billion dollar budget surplus next June 30. He credited Congress with cutting 1.52 billion from government costs, leaving a net 37 billion instead of 37.528 billion. He warned that international programs may raise costs and that taxes must remain high.
At Green Bay a convention debated restoring the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor platform calling for public ownership of utilities. A proposal urged expanding the federation's executive board from 11 to 15 members while other resolutions pushed against introducing natural gas, and urged hiring tradesmen and college-trained teachers as industrial arts instructors at vocational schools.
Otto Skorzeny, famed SS colonel who aided Mussolini's rescue, faces trial in Dachau with nine Ardennes battalion members. They pleaded not guilty to charges of killing American POWs. Prosecution signals possible death penalty request in U. S. military court.
In newly formed Macedonia within Yugoslavia, the wartime era song Chattanooga Choo Choo tops popular taste. President Slavic Lazar Kolishevski leads a cautious reform, as rugged mountains and rural life contrast with urban electrification and evolving national identity under Tito’s federation.
The Wisconsin Bureau of Personnel announced that applicants for permanent state jobs will be interviewed at the Green County Courthouse between 8 and 11 next Tuesday morning. With about 75 vacancies across all classes, representatives will visit areas showing potential labor surpluses to fill clerks, typists, stenographers, accountants, and library positions.
Fragmentary record lists occupations including bakers carpenters plumbers nurses and clinicians. It notes a monthly living cost range from 134 to 605 dollars starting Saturday.
Britain issues an ultimatum to 4400 Jewish refugees aboard three ships off Marseille to disembark by tomorrow or be sent to Germany. If ignored they will be moved to the Bergen Belsen camp in the British zone. A spokesman calls the plan a crime against humanity.
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