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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1962
Page
2
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Editorial notes visitors praise Monroe Wisconsin for attractive downtown fronts with Swiss and Old World touches and growing home beautification. Authors urge continued improvements and plans to repaint homes, hoping other communities emulate Monroe’s pride in business and residential appearance.
The incoming governor John W. Reynolds urges Wisconsin papers to run a campaign convincing the public of the need for more state revenue while defending high combined state and local costs. The editorial stance questions his plan to rely on media to sway taxpayers and warns against expanding state budgets.
The latest figures show more than 45 million households in the United States, marking an increase of over six and a half million since a decade ago. The rise reflects ongoing demographic shifts across regions and the expansion of household formations nationwide.
A 10 year time slice notes Swiss cheese at 50 cents a pound in September 1952 and a 1952 political backdrop with Taft Eisenhower cabinet tensions. Also mentions Rev Kyle M Miller ordination in Albany, polio treatment center at St. Clare, and related local events.
Mrs. Mary Luetta Kriens 79 rural Pecatonica Ill died Saturday in Sunnyside Nursing Home Warren. Rites held this afternoon at Seward Congregational church burial in Twelve Mile Grove cemetery. Knapp funeral home Pecatonica in charge. Survived by two daughters two sons two sisters and a brother.
Services for Lewis P. Rishell, a retired farmer from Oneco Township, will be held at 1 30 p m Thursday at Walker Mortuary Freeport with burial in Elmwood cemetery Warren. His wife Zoe Gray Rishell died Aug 24 1962 and there are no immediate survivors.
Frederick J. Bouray 76 rural Rock City Illinois died yesterday after a heart attack at a neighbor’s farm where he stopped to visit Ronald Goeke. A native of Atkinson Nebraska he moved to Rock City area as a child and farmed until retirement. Survived by sisters Edna Kinney Ridott and Daisy Stevens Forreston. Myers Funeral Home Dakota making arrangements.
Clarence L. Hartung a North Western Rail Road foreman for 36 years and former grocer died Sunday at age 55. Services set for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St Marys Catholic Church with Rosary at 8 p.m. and Elks memorial at 8:45 p.m. He is survived by his wife Wilhelmina, whom he married in 1929, two sons Paul and Glenn, two daughters, six sisters, three brothers, and four grandchildren.
Shelton Conn. George H. E. Smith aged 64 lawyer author and political analyst died Monday of a heart attack. He was a former staff director and secretary of the Republican Policy Committee in the U.S. Senate and served as assistant professor in Yale Universitys Institute of International Studies from 1937 to 1941. Born in Astoria New York he built a notable career in law and politics.
William Seaver Woods, 90, longtime editor in chief of the Literary Digest from 1897 to 1933, died Monday after a short illness. He then edited the New York State Journal of Medicine from 1934 to 1940.
Delray Beach report notes the death of 88 year old Episcopal bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins of Milwaukee who led the diocese from 1925 to 1952. Ordained in 1909 he also served as dean of Nashotah Theological Seminary from 1921 to 1925.
The Supreme Court will decide if an inmate can sue the federal government for damages under the federal court claims law. Henry Winston, ex Communist leader, seeks a million dollars claiming delayed brain-tumor treatment left him blind. Carlos Muniz alleges beatings at Danbury prison. The appeals court allowed suits. the Justice Department argues Congress did not intend such suits.
The coast guard reported a collision between the aircraft carrier Kearsarge and the British passenger liner Oriana in fog near Los Angeles harbor today. No injuries were immediately reported and both ships remained at the scene.
Emmett S. Pellett, 81, father of Wesley Pellett of Brodhead, died yesterday in a Richland Center hospital after a long illness. He was a retired farmer and painter. Services will be at 2 p.m. at Lunenschloss Hanson funeral home in Richland Center. Surviving are a daughter, three sons, two sisters, a brother, 10 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. His wife died in 1961.
Evansville notices funeral services for Mrs J W Ames 84 who died Sunday in Stoughton hospital after a long illness will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at Allen funeral home. She was the former Myrtle Crow a lifelong resident. She married Dr J W Ames in 1903. He died Oct 11 1951. She was a member of the First Congregational church.
A fragment notes a member of the Eastern Star and Matrons Chain along with the Women's Literary Club. Two sisters, Misses Blanche and Jane Crow, survive. The terse line hints at familial ties and civic affiliations within the community.
Funeral services for Mrs. Owen Burke 84 Shullsburg will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St Matthew’s Catholic church Shullsburg with burial in the church cemetery. She survived by her husband two daughters a son and two sisters Mrs Julie Francis and Fannie Beggin both of Shullsburg.
Democrat Karl Rolvaag filed a Monday court action in Albert Lea requesting a recount in all 87 Minnesota counties for the governor election. He trails Gov. Elmer L. Andersen by 142 votes in the certified county tally.
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