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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1955
Page
2
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A collage of brief items including American paratroops entering Tokyo in 1945, the Monroe Merchants Association meeting on Saturday closing and local services, and President Truman backed by the American Legion. It also covers historical anniversaries 25 40 50 years ago with local obituaries fires property deals and public notices.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce will honor Cola G. Parker at a fall banquet as a leading national industrialist and incoming president of the National Association of Manufacturers. Parker, born in Monroe before moving to Chippewa Falls, rose to chair Kimberly-Clark and later led the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago board. He retires at 65 but remains active in banking and industry.
As the Green County Cheese Day approaches on September 10 in Monroe the article urges local volunteers to complete remaining tasks. It notes the tradition dating to 1914 and emphasizes community support and shared effort to ensure a successful event that earns wide national interest.
The article marks York Memorial Evangelical Lutheran church in Green County as it observes its hundredth anniversary near Blanchardville. It notes the church’s deep ties to the farming community, its heritage from early settlers, and the hope that the second century will be equally successful while the congregation enters its 101st year.
Henry and Betty Hough built the Vineyard Gazette from a shoestring weekly to a 6500 circulation island paper serving 6000 year round residents. The couple values small town life, covers town meetings thoroughly, and avoids sensational crime news while maintaining a broad read- ship from Tokyo to Trinidad.
The Associated Press obituary notices report Tony Schwoegler 69 in Madison and David Crampton 45 in Mantoloking both dying yesterday. Other deaths include Robert Gordon 24 in Los Angeles and Thurman D. Kitchin 69 in Wake Forest. Devere Allen 65 in Westerly and William G. Black unspecified location. Harry T. Rowland 56 in Birmingham.
Auto users in the United States pay 3% billion a year for state registrations gasoline taxes special city and county taxes and road bridge tunnel and ferry tolls.
Mackinac Island Mich Truman charges the Republican administration with 100 percent domination by big business in a three day Michigan Democratic gathering. He backs Adlai Stevenson and says he will not run himself while declining to discuss Eisenhower age or health. Nixon counters that voters will choose between Truman and Eisenhower records as Hall denounces the speeches as intemperate.
Metropolitan Anastasii Grebanovsky, head of the Orthodox Church outside Russia, was injured in a two car crash yesterday but conducted a service afterward. He refused treatment at the scene.
The jaguar, a big cat closely related to leopards, is found from southern Texas through Central America to Patagonia in South America, indicating a wide historical distribution across the Americas.
Shriners from five states of the Great Lakes Shrine Association will gather in Milwaukee September 16 17 aiming for about 25000 delegates. The event would be the citys largest since the 1941 American Legion gathering drew near 60000 visitors.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie are vacationing in Colorado for their fourth consecutive summer, staying with Mrs. John S. Doud. Eisenhower keeps a relaxed routine at Lowry Air Force Base, joins few public appearances, and attends Corona Presbyterian Church where a sobbing unidentified woman prompted Secret Service cautions.
In Statale Italy the famed shoemaker Gino Prato returns after winning 32000 on the 64000 question. villagers debate how to honor him and consider a local mineral spring investment. His father Giovanni Paolo Prato awaits the meeting in Rome August 31.
Statistics suggest a rise in accidents personal crises and crimes when barometric pressure drops. The data imply a correlation between low pressure and heightened public safety risks, prompting calls for further study and preventive measures.
East Lansing police chief Charles F. Pegg unveils a Rube Goldberg method to frighten starlings using was tubs filled with fire crackers hoisted into tree tops. Explosions amplified by a washtub have driven away the birds, though some return is not yet observed.
Wisconsin Attorney General Thomson warned that the state risks becoming the highest in come tax nation. He spoke to the Giddings and Lewis Staff Club about industrial investment and the need to avoid disproportionate tax burdens while promoting industrial growth and a favorable climate for business.
A statement argues that tax reform must promote fairness without shifting burdens to less numerous or vocal groups in the state. The position stresses inclusive policies and balance across taxpayers to prevent disproportionate impact on any single community.
The Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department reports a 10 percent drop in pedestrian fatalities this year. Through July, 73 deaths compared with 82 in 1954 and 90 in the prior year. City and village streets account for 39 deaths, rural highways 34, with Milwaukee at 18 by August 1 and Shorewood three, Eau Claire and Madison two each.
Mr and Mrs Ivan Schwerin of Janesville and Mr and Mrs Arthur Schultz with Mrs Grace Painter of Monroe and Mr and Mrs Simon Busse and daughters with Mrs C W Daubert of Rockford visited Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Jacob Daubert Nancy Lee and Judith Carol Bauer who have been staying seven weeks with their grandparents will return to Kankakee Illinois later this week
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