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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1954
Page
2
The President's traffic safety crusade mobilizes newspapers and groups nationwide to persuade every driver and passenger to adopt safer practices. Editors and citizens are urged to join, with the aim of instilling an instinctive safety mindset behind every wheel.
Congress crafts a bill to ban the Communist Party and require its members to register, aiming to curb subversive activities. Legal questions loom over the measure’s exact scope and how it would operate, amid debates on potential court challenges and alignment with the Smith Act and McCarran act provisions.
Ten years ago the federal docket in Madison centered on OPA actions against Kraft Cheese Co. leasing 29 nearby plants while in Europe talks sought foundations for postwar peace organizations. Obituaries recalled Dr. M W Gouse of Orangeville and Mrs Sophia Caradine. Lt Richard Booth earned Oak Leaf clusters for 35 missions.
An article recounts a near disaster when a small brass fire extinguisher in a lakeside home halted a basement blaze five miles from fire crews. The author recalls neglect, inspections, and the need for extinguishers on every floor, employee training, and regular refills to prevent tragedy.
President Eisenhower, after a White House conference with Rep Gard Ner Withrow and eight lawmakers, ordered higher government purchases of domestically mined lead and zinc under a long term stockpile plan. He rejected tariff increases, citing uncertain benefits and potential international relation harm. Mining interests and lawmakers from lead and zinc states had backed the tariff commission’s 50 percent proposal.
Admiral Pride, new commander of Pacific Fleet naval forces in the Philippine area and South China Sea, takes over aboard the Yorktown in Manila Bay from Vice Admiral Phillips who returns to San Diego. The ceremony ends a transfer visible to observers aboard the carrier.
Lt Col Harry Fleming a Racine artillery officer pleads innocent at a general court martial in a North Korean POW camp case. He says his actions saved lives including some accusers by informing on Reds forming camp groups and broadcasting for the enemy. The process continues with possible life imprisonment if convicted.
Livestock entrants from Lafayette County will display at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee next week. A total of 34 4 H FFA and FHA members from Shullsburg Darlington and Argyle enter dairy sheep and swine events.
Pope Pius XII directs Roman Catholic bishops to lead a prudent and persuasive battle against modern immodesty. In a Vatican letter, Cardinal Pietr Ciriaci urges action against indecency of the mode, noting the summer spectacle as sad and reprehensible.
A writer recalls saving a tired porcupine adrift in a canoe near a Wisconsin waterway. The animal, blamed as a nuisance, is praised for forest work such as bark grazing and winter browse drops that aid deer, while highlighting the need for protection of porcupines from hunting.
A brief notice invites boys and girls up to 12 to join the Joe Evening Times Boye and Gir club in Monroe Wisconsin. It mentions preventing excessive growth and mouth closure dangers for a creature likely Porky the porcupine and advocates protection rather than destruction. Bill Geagan comments on Our Dumb Animal Massachusetts SPCA.
A local notice lists new members with full names and addresses including Route 4 and Route 1 locations. Dates range from 1947 to 1953 with several entries in 1951 1953 and 1948. Notable residents include Sandra Kay Rufer Mona Lindgren LaVonne Phillips Nancy Rackow Jerry Phillips Janice Barry Michael Jones Robert Garsson Jr Sydney Garsson.
Rev John L Dodge pastor of First Baptist gave the invocation at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and closed with a prayer for rain. A thunderstorm broke over the resort city moments after, delivering the area’s first rain since July 18.
Illinois Legion commander Irving Breakstone announced the department rescinded the ban on Legionnaire support for the Girl Scouts. He praised the revised 1954 handbook updating citizenship, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the flag, the national anthem, and the Great Seal, and pledged full future support.
Edmuna A Brunmeier, a 51 year old Cleveland newspaper dealer, died Friday night when his auto left High 141 four miles north of Mantitowoc county community and overturned in a ditch.
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