Major Revisions Included in Plan On City Hall Work
Reynolds proposes sweeping changes to city hall operations affecting the city clerk and water utility with a focus on the treasurer’s office. The plan sets Sept 1 as the transition date and outlines new hours, desk clerk, quarterly billings, and updated accounting methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston A. Reynolds
George K. Hood Co
Madison
G. S. Soseman
Charles B. Bolender
Water Department
State Public Service Commission
Reynolds
Dane Judge and Firm Face Extra Taxes in Madison
Dane County Judge Fred M. Evans is assessed an additional income tax of 1483.84 for 1944 to 1947 after failing to report 23235 in taxable income. Suburban Builders Inc, affiliated with Evans, faces 4019.50 for 1946-48 after underreporting 63112. Both notices sent last week with no stated appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Dane County
Fred M. Evans
State Tax Commission
Evans
Suburban Builders, Inc
Curry Farm Boar Wins Reserve Title at Wisconsin State Fair
The Curry Farm of Darlington with the reserve champion boar at the Wisconsin State Fair. Charles Batterman of Fond du Lac took the senior and grand champion boar titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curry Farm
Milwaukee
William Curry
Darlington
Charles Batterman
Fond du Lac
Labor Day Weekend Square Opening Plans Mapped
City officials and William A. Vinton outline steps to open public square by Labor Day weekend. After paving at 10th Street and 16th Avenue, crews will paint traffic markings, fill parking meter bases, and finish curb and gutter work. Painting could begin Wednesday for a Friday finish. Saturday opening depends on progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Wendorf
Public Square
George Glass
Wallace R. Lindsay
10Th Street
16Th Avenue
Times
William A. Vinton
Vinton
Frank A. Buehler
Board of Public Works
Buehler
South Florida Alerts as Storm Curves West
South Florida is put on alert for a hurricane as the erratic storm in the Atlantic recurves to the west-northwest. At 11 am it was about 480 miles east-southeast of Miami moving 15 mph, with forecasters noting an elongated center and uncertain path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Florida
Atlantic
Grady Norton
Bahama Island
Norton
Harry
Truman
Albany Native Miss Zentner Dies in Milwaukee
Miss Arlene Ethel Zentner 35, Albany area native, died at home in Milwaukee after lifelong illness. Born Sept 26, 1913 in Albany township, she was daughter of Harry and Erna Zentner. Survived by parents, sister Helen Zentner of Milwaukee, and great aunt Louisa Schindler of Monroe. Funeral Saturday in Milwaukee with burial in Hillcrest, Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Arlene Ethel Zentner
Milwaukee
Albany Township
Harry and
Erna Hein Zentner
Arlene
Helen Zentner
Louisa Schindler
10Th Street
Monroe
Hillcrest
Raffle By Hospital Halts Mail Delivery
Washington reports the post office has stopped mail deliveries to St. Marys Hospital Cincinnati. It accuses the hospital of running a charity raffle and sending lottery tickets via the mails for donations and raffles at its annual festival on August 27-28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cincinnati
Snoopy the cow trapped in farm silo after field raid
On a Wisconson farm near Osceola a 650-pound heifer named Snoopy squeezed into a ground level silo doorway during a field raid. Everett Lampman planned to fill the silo to force the cow out while Cherine Lampman and neighbors watched. Snoopy remained unhurt and fed on silage as the plan unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola
Snoopy
Silo
Wisconsin
Cherine Lampman
Cherine
Everett Lampman
Lampman
Farmer Lampman
Grady
Oklahoma
Most Rural Schools To Open on Monday
Green county 82 one room schools prepare to open Monday with Juda Browntown and village schools starting later. New laws require six by December 1 entry and attendance through age 16, shaping junior graduates toward high school. An eight grade schedule guides daily classes from 8:55 to 3:00 with periods for reading, arithmetic, social studies, science and arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
Juda
Browntown
Florence Wartenweiler
Ruth Schlicher
Edward Easter
Spring Creek
Clifford Ludwig
Dutch Hollow
Ralph J. Kundert
Blaine
Verona Jones
Fairfield
Rose Broerene
Hart
Selmar Olson
Badger
Arlene Lange
Davis
Jane Bender
Hillside View
Ethel Stoddard
Argus
L. C. Viel
Meeting Postponed On Center's Future
The youth center's future meeting, planned for next Monday, has been postponed to September 12 after Angle group talks. City recreation director L L Kitchen said the postponement aims to ensure parents and students are in town to participate. The group previously decided to invite adults to a discussion on the center's future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angle Group
L. L. Kitchen
Curiosity Pays Off In $25,000 Find In Wareham
In Wareham Massachusetts an insurance broker named David Lumiansky found a package in the highway center containing $25,000 in bills. He turned it in to Police Chief Chester Churchill. If unclaimed after a year, Lumiansky may keep the money according to the chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wareham
Mass
David Lumiansky
New Bedford
Lumiansky
Chester Churchill
Truman Opens Door to Southern Bolters in Party Rebound
President Truman welcomed southern party bolters while demanding alignment with the 1948 democratic platform. He praised the national committee move, purged five states rights members—Marion Rushton Alabama, William H Talbot Louisiana, J B Snider Mississippi, Mrs Hermes Gautier Mississippi, Mrs Anne A Agnew South Carolina—and invited broader party unity to push the program forward. Boyle took the chair and pledged no purge of non Truman Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Democratic National Committee
High Command
Congress
New York
East
Solid South
People
Boyle
National Committee
William M. Boyle Jr
Kansas City
J. Howard McGrath
Marion Rushton
Alabama
William H. Talbot
Louisiana
J. B. Snider
Hermes Gautier
Mississippi
Anne A. Agnew
South Carolina
J. Strom Thurmond
Fielding Wright
Navy Aide Admits Passing Confidential Data Memo
Cedric Worth, suspended Navy official, acknowledged he inserted "confidential data" into an anonymous memo that triggered the B 36 investigation. He testified to the House Armed Services Committee that he also handed a copy to Glenn Martin without confirming entitlement to secret information. The counsel warned that performance figures for the six engine intercontinental bomber could aid an adversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Cedric Worth
House
Armed Services Committee
Glenn Martin
Martin
Joseph B. Keenan
Worth
Summer Heat Grips Southern Wisconsin In Heat Wave
Midsummer heat returned to southern Wisconsin as The Times office reported 386 yesterday afternoon and upper 80s by noon today. Forecasters predict fair weather into Friday with little temperature relief. Prairie du Chien reached 97 degrees along with other areas in the 90s statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Mercury
Times Office
Prairie du Chien
Dr Carleton Bates Named Manager of Iron Mountain VA Hospital
Dr Carleton Bates, manager of the Manhattan Beach hospital in Brooklyn, has been named manager of a new Veterans Administration hospital nearing completion in Iron Mountain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Mountain
Carleton Bates
Manhattan Beach
Brooklyn
Veterans Administration
Monroe 128th Medical Unit Redesignated as Platoon
The Monroe unit of the 128th infantry national guard will become a platoon of the medical company attached to the regiment's 3rd battalion. The platoon of 25 enlisted men and two officers will stay in Monroe, while the medical company headquarters move to Prairie du Chien. Formal orders clarification ended rumors of disbandment and personnel release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
128Th Infantry National Guard
Robert Schiller
O. A. Moldenhauer
Schiller
Prairie du Chien
Mondovi
Wayne Fencil
Presnt
Maj. Schiller
128Th Infantry
Angry House Charts Plan for Holiday Adjournment
Speaker Sam Rayburn announced the House will adjourn tomorrow through Sept. 21 despite the Senate rejecting an adjournment resolution. The House would meet twice weekly with no business to be transacted, a plan not requiring Senate approval. Rayburn said the Senate's move was historic and harms bi chamber cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sam Rayburn
House
Senate
Rayburn
Congress
Chiang Appeals For Finish Fight In China War Push
Chiang Kai shek urged a finish fight against aggression from the communist international as troops renewed pressure on Canton. He framed the Reds as international agents and warned Chunking could again become the center of the struggle against aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Chiang Kaishek
China
Communist International
Chunking
Ten Die? No, Nineteen Hospitalized After Interurban Crash
Milwaukee tragedy leaves nineteen people hospitalized after two Milwaukee Interurbans collide in a deep railway cut. Motorman Leroy Equitz is reported in critical condition as passengers, crews, and rescuers cope with a massive wreck near the soldiers home grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Leroy Equitz
Soldiers Home Grounds
Senators Probe Maragon Europe Trip Ties to President
Senate investigators review a Vaughan memo showing President Truman personally interested in Maragon's 1945 trip to Italy. The panel cites ATC transport flights used by Maragon and Verley Perfume Co. agents, plus a $1500 settlement with customs over perfume oils in champagne cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Harry H. Vaughan
State Department
Truman
John Maragon
Vaughan
Maragon
Italy
Albert H. Verley Perfume Co
Chicago
Col
Shipley
Ruth E. Shipley
State Department Passport Bureau
Col. S
JFS
Europe
Albert Benett
Albert Verley Perfume Co
John F. Maragon
White House
ATC
Francis D. Flanagan
Flanagan
Scanlon
Mundt
R-Sd
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South
Miss Zentner
Albany Area
Kenneth Coleman
Paul Hansen
Minnesota National Guardsmen
Larry
McGregor
Minn
Angry
Chiang
Ralph Janus
Equitz
George Lederer
Kenosha Motor Coach Lines
Lucien Roth
Roth
Bulletin
Hoey
D-Nc
George A. Chadwick
Trans-American Traders, Inc
Chadwick
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