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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1949
Page
2
Subscriptions priced at 12.50 per year in Monroe city, rail in Wisconsin and Stephenson county Illinois at 7 per year, outside Wisconsin and Stephenson county Illinois at 8 per year. Office hours 8:40 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Phone number omitted.
A memorandum on recommended changes in city department operations argues the reforms will clarify duties and improve efficiency in a small municipal staff. It notes records and accounting as prime functions, seeking better service for taxpayers while acknowledging reforms alone cannot solve all growth needs. Monroe voters previously rejected city manager plans, but officials hope phased steps offer clearer problem insights for future planning.
The piece doubts President Truman can rally states rights bolters from the Deep South to return to the fold. It notes his boast of winning without the solid south and industrial east and warns seniority rules in Congress will limit reform. It predicts softer talk to states righters as the political row continues.
Bryce S. Landt, longtime American Dairy Association president and founder, died in an accident near Portage this week. He helped organize the ADA national promotion program and led efforts to expand cheese advertising, leaving a void as colleagues plan a forthcoming fall promotion rollout.
A 22 year old woman Beverly Breister died yesterday as the first polio victim of the year in the Fond du Lac area. She had been ill for weeks and spent most of the time in an iron lung.
Compromise in German Polish crisis seen as averting world war. Miss Ruth Winger to be crowned state dairy queen. Miss Charlotte Saalson and Harold E. Magee wed in Argyle Lutheran church. Miss Margaret Malmer and John Grutzmacher exchange vows in Argyle. Additional notes cover Golden anniversaries and local business changes.
Belarusian and British notes aside, Moscow faces open defiance in Yugoslavia and Finland as Tito and Helsinki resist Soviet pressure. The Finnish strikes and a new German communist party in the Soviet zone signal rising discontent, challenging Moscow's imperial aims and potentially reshaping Europe.
Cripps told department heads in Britain's labor government to prepare for at least a five percent cut in next year's national budget. The move aims at savings around 600 million dollars and comes ahead of the planned talks with U S officials in Washington on September 7. Washington reportedly knew of the plan though officials say there was no American pressure.
Montana state prison was quiet as 510 inmates were locked in their cells after a sitdown strike began Tuesday with about 18 agitators demanding more "good time" off from work. Warden Lou Boe Decker said tear gas was used in one cell block to enforce the measure.
Maouly Wisconsin steam railroads will receive a hearing here September 29 on an application to raise intrastate freight rates. The Public Service Commission reports the request seeks a temporary boost to align with an Interstate Commerce Commission approval of about eight to 10 percent, effective next month.
Charles Round Low Cloud, a Winnebago Indian fire correspondent for the Black River Falls Banner-Journal for nearly two decades, died after two weeks of illness. Born December in Shamrock, he attended Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s and returned to Jackson County area. He was known as the Indian Report and cited by state papers for his quick, pointed commentary on politics and Indian social affairs.
New Diggings honors Rev Fr Samuel Mazzuchelli, pioneer priest who built the 1844 New Diggings Catholic church and St Patrick's in Benton, founded 17 other churches, and helped establish six additional parishes in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. His convent at Sinsinawa marked its 100th anniversary this month. he is buried in Benton as a Vatican envoy visited his grave on August 14.
Charles Conley a 63 year old Minnesota lifer paroled in 1946 after 33 years for slaying a woman in a Minneapolis rooming house asks to be sent back to prison to avoid poverty. Warden Leo Utecht says Conley surrendered at Libby Montana and wants to return so he can obey parole terms and not end up in the poorhouse.
Assembly of God Rev L E Curtis announces Sunday school at 10 worship at 11 evangelistic service at 8 prayer and Bible study Wednesday evening Christ's ambassadors service Friday evening St Johns Evangelical and Reformed observes Eleventh Sunday after Trinity no Sunday school worship at 10 45 September 4 no services with regular schedule resuming September 11 Rev Paul C Kehle pastor
Local religious listings show First Universalist pausing services in August. Congregations including Union Presbyterian Grace Lutheran Mt Olive New Apostolic Immanuel Bethel Fairfield Methodist Browntown and South Wayne/Lamont/Wood provide service times sermons topics and pastor names with Sunday school at 9:30 or 9:45 and worship around 10:30 to 11 a.m. plus midweek meetings and youth activities.
In Ford and nearby towns, multiple churches list Sunday services and Sunday school times. Notes include Lamont Woodford Monticello Zwingli Reformed Washington Reformed Browntown Christian Twin Grove Martinton Community Clarno Staver and resumed services after a layoff. A line cites that about 88 percent of US coal comes from PA OH IN Hindis VA WV and KY.
A county wide religious census to map church affiliation will be conducted next month in Green county. The program aims to provide data to all Catholic and Protestant churches and reports are due by Sept. 25 with a full analysis in October.
A regional council of farmer co operatives moved to record opposition to any plan or program based on direct production or subsidy payments to farmers. The board approved a resolution urging policies that reward farmers with fair market exchange rather than taxpayer funded grocery subsidies.
U S marshals seized five slot machines at Minnow Shack and four at Snack Shack on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. U S Atty Charles H Cashin said the federal government does not permit reservations to operate slot machines and acted on a complaint by J C Vaill, superintendent of the Great Lakes Indian Agency.
Madison reports Governor Rennebohm has named Albert A. Day of Clam Lake as registrar of deeds for Ashland County. He succeeds Mary A. McDonald who resigned.
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