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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1961
Page
4
The U S Army National Guard will equip 76 air defense batteries nationwide with Nike-Hercules missiles starting late next year. Guard units now share Ajax missiles and the decision which units switch will depend on further planning. Hawaii currently uses Hercules.
The Hamilton Grange house in upper Manhattan, once Alexander Hamilton’s home, is crumbling between a apartment building and a church. Senators Javits and Lindsay seek to move it several blocks to a City College of New York area. A bill would fund about $300,000 for relocation and renovations. The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society owns the property and it has welcomed visitors for 25 years. Hamilton built the house in 1802 on his former farm.
Wisconsin moves to organize a shelter program with a 21 member Governor's Civil Defense Council meeting in Madison. The council will map non military defense plans and receive briefing on the federal shelter survey program. Local officials prepare for a coordinated civil defense effort amid national fallout shelter discussions.
Mandrake the Magician gram notes Civil Defense director William K. Chipman says Governor Nelson will chair a one day council meeting. The shelter survey forms part of a nationwide push ordered by President Kennedy to locate shelter facilities and stockpile them with supplies. WASH WREATHS A method to refresh artificial wreaths is suggested by sponging with dry soap suds skimmed from a bowl top.
Darlington special report states Mike Deahler, 85, retired cheesemaker, died after a long illness at the local hospital. Services set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the United Church of Christ. He came from Switzerland in 1900 and worked 49 years in the area before retiring in 1953. He is survived by a daughter Mrs. Gerhard Gollrud, two sons Walter and Warren, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. His wife Annie died in 1957.
Justin Potter, 63, multimillionaire board chairman of Nashville's Cherokee Insurance Co., died Saturday in a Nashville hospital.
Jefferson Iowa reports 8 year old Stephan Curtis son of Alvin Curtis Jr. died in a car truck collision Saturday while traveling to Platteville to visit relatives. The Curtis family recently lived in Greeley Colorado where Curtis was a former music teacher and band director at Platteville High School while pursuing an advanced degree at Colorado State College Keith Russet 21 is named in the notice.
Iowa, a Colorado State student, was seriously injured. Curtis and a daughter, Chris tie, were released from a hospital after treatment.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor spent the day at their country home near Paris ignoring the 25th anniversary of King Edward VIII abdication. Edward stepped down in 1936 to wed Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman he loved.
Services for Maude L Bunyer 80 of Galena Illinois were held at St Marys Catholic Church after she died Friday at Hicks nursing home She was a native of New Diggings and a daughter of the Bunyer family in local obituaries.
Mrs Bertha McPhillips and a son Henry both of Galena are mentioned along with a sister in the family notice tied to Mr and Mrs Kelly Shea.
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