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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1950
Page
2
Founded October 13 1838 the Monroe Daily Journal outlines subscription rates by carrier and mail with in city 12 50 per year outside Wisconsin and Stephenson county 8 per year and 7 per year for Wisconsin and Stephenson county. Office hours run 8 30 am to 5 30 pm with telephone line 3.
The abrupt appointment of General Walter Bedell Smith to head the CIA is welcomed. His Moscow experience and blunt view of Soviet aims should sharpen U S understanding of Asia and guard against future surprises like Korea. He will oversee and coordinate intelligence for military use across branches.
The piece argues the Eighth Army may cut off newsroom access to headquarters telephones and teletype services only if needed for military reasons. It defends reporters for providing accurate war coverage and urges home readers to demand prompt, candid explanations if constraints hinder reporting.
Citizens are urged to perform simple cleaning and touch up work to present a welcoming and prosperous image to Cheese Day guests. The call emphasizes making southwestern Wisconsin's finest city memorable as a center of foreign type cheese industry and dairy farming pride.
Ten years ago William E. Trukenbrod was elected grand chancellor at the Knights of Pythias convention in Appleton while Sir Oliver Lodge, noted scientist and spiritualist, died in England. Also reports of marriages and civic notes from Monroe and Green county.
Washington reports that current reserves could meet expansion needs, but a war with Russia would demand far more doctors. The army drafted 734 reservists, with little success in volunteers. Congress funded ASTP and V 12 programs to educate doctors, but many graduates did not join the reserves, prompting calls for a moral obligation to enlist and repay government support.
London doctors report two near death children with tuberculous meningitis were apparently cured by a tuberculin liquid containing growth products and streptomycin. The treatment, described in Lancet, is still experimental and may take 12 to 18 months to confirm.
A marble memorial at Arlington National Cemetery honors five American airmen shot down four years ago in Yugoslavia. Government and military officials, families, and Gen. Carl Spaatz attended as wreaths were laid. Names listed include Captains Claeys Freestone Schreiber and Cpls Combo Lower, with a Yugoslavia date inscribed on the back. Over 300 donations funded the monument, including many from Yugoslav Americans.
Milwaukee’s 1950 tax valuation climbs to $1,208,133,390, a new city record and the fourth billion dollar total. Tax Commissioner Thomas Byrnes cited the reassessment program and new residential and industrial construction as key factors driving the increase, with the 1950 figure up by $47,381,950 from 1949.
Gen. Carl R. Gray Jr. announced a major shakeup of the Veterans Administration in Tennessee over irregularities in the rehabilitation and education program. Ten top state officials are affected: two to be discharged, four to be restored and reprimanded, three to resign, and one case pending involving J. M. Nixon of Nashville.
Hal Boyle reflects on war correspondence in Korea detailing the risks and emotional toll. Journalists endure frontline danger while gaining respect from soldiers who value their presence and the duty to report. The piece explores guilt, longing, and the urge to write home.
Spring Grove residents share visits and gatherings with relatives from Beloit Batavia Janesville Milwaukee and other towns. Local families host guests and attend reunions at Lagoon Park Beloit while council meetings and weekend hospitality mark a busy period.
A secret East German league calling itself the union of free jurists operates from West Berlin. It indicts on crimes against humanity and quietly guides zone judges to delay or modify sentences while warning Western court extraditions. Leaders stay anonymous as they fight communist legal domination.
Pope Pius XII urges clergy worldwide to accept and respect church dogmas in a long encyclical stressing safeguarding religious instruction from error. The letter comes amid Protestant Catholic debates over dogma and a forthcoming proclamation on Mary's Assumption into heaven.
Dr. William F. Petersen a 63 year old physician author and industrialist died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while working in his garden at Lake Geneva.
The season's first major hurricane veered off 120 miles from the coast relieving New England. Nantucket and Cape Cod reported high tides and gale winds up to 55 mph as the storm moved into the North Atlantic.
Judith Ann Updike year old daughter of Melvin and Hazel Updike died at Wisconsin General hospital Madison after a leukemia illness diagnosed June 12. She was born July 13 1949 in Monroe and survived by her parents two siblings and grandparents with last rites at Zwingli Church and burial in Highland cemetery.
Col Henry A. Allen 83, a planner of the Panama Canal, died. Born in Madison he was a 1887 Naval Academy graduate. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1907 to study canal type, he led Chicago's 108th Combat Engineers in World War I and helped develop the unit. He served as city engineer over Chicago water pumping stations from 1912 until retirement two years ago.
The Electric Co. ordered a 120 000 kilowatt turbine and a 25 million dollar plant unit with total project cost near 100 million. City officials opened a rate investigation after a profits announcement while the company reported 2.08 per share earnings and 64 percent local return.
Sharon and Gayle Walker vacationed this week with their grandparents Mr and Mrs Earl Barron. Carl and Tommy Babler are visiting their grandparents Mr and Mrs John Babler while Ralph and the Babler parents attend the Illinois state fair in Springfield.
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