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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1949
Page
1
Washington reports the 1949 tax season begins with a predicted $15 billion in receipts over three months. Corporations face final 1948 payments tomorrow, while individuals weigh 1949 taxes ahead of the March 15 deadline. The notice outlines key dates including Jan 1 Social Security increases and Feb 15 information returns.
The Ludlow Memorial library board approved rules to recognize the Monroe Woman's club long service and to give the club priority in Green room scheduling subject to board approval. The move ends 45 years of questions about club status and librarian calendar responsibility and preserves the club as the Green room headquarters since 1905.
The Monroe FFA chapter awarded chenille emblems to members based on a six unit point system. Twenty five of sixty seven students earned over 109 points during the 1949 program, with emblems to be presented in January.
Two husky prison parolees were seized after a violent spree near Waupun in Fond du Lac County. William Barnes, 27, and Floyd Jones, 26, allegedly robbed a taxi driver, ransacked a tavern, and assaulted residents before fleeing. Barnes was captured in a field. Jones hid in a milk house three miles west of Oshkosh. The farm wife was injured, and authorities tracked the suspects with help from county officers and volunteers. Barnes had been paroled November 24. Jones on August 5.
Ammonia gas from a split pipe at a fertilizer plant spilled from a tank car into West Oakland. Waves of gas forced over a thousand residents to flee before dawn. Scores were overcome and several hospitalized as the cloud spread over about 20 square blocks.
The committee for economic development says national security will cost at least 20 billion dollars yearly for years ahead. It urges defending civilian supremacy, strengthening long range security, and protecting freedom while warning against overbearing loyalty probes and witch hunts.
Holiday programs peak at city schools as vacation starts Friday afternoon. The high school will host a junior orchestra dance interpretation of The Juggler of Notre Dame on Friday at 2 p.m. St. Victor's and four grade schools plus Green County Normal School prepare festive programs. classes resume January 3.
The cold weather stretches across the middlewest with subzero readings in northern areas. Madison reports subzero as Howard Thompson notes, while Superior hits 14 below. From Wisconsin to the Dakotas and Minnesota, frigid lows dominate with single digits above zero in many spots.
A Monroe group of Senior scouts earns a charter as Sea Scout ship No. 501 based at Monroe. A January bridge of honor ceremony sponsored by U S Grant Boy Scout council will present the charter. Ship 501 meets at 1606 23rd Avenue in winter and at the American Legion home in summer, cruising Lake Mendota.
GOP leaders in Chicago argued for a clear positive program to win the 1950 election. Arthur E. Summerfield and Guy Gabrielson urged a uncompromising set of principles and a direct challenge to Democratic policies. Wisconsin’s Thomas E. Coleman outlined a personal contact plan to expand party work from 6,000 to 25,000 volunteers.
A massive explosion at the Swift and Co packing plant in Sioux City leveled the main office and sparked a disaster scene. Officials estimated 25 to 35 dead and up to 200 injured as gas may have caused the blast. Emergency units including national guard and naval reserve rushed to the site.
The Darlington city council voted to set the 1949 tax rate at 29 dollars per thousand. This is one dollar less than the 1948 rate despite a county budget increase of 5712.52. The city school budget fell by 2000 dollars.
In Shallmar Maryland fifty four families struggle after the Wolf Den mine closed last March due to no orders and poor coal. Unemployment checks faded last August while the town awaits a market revival. residents cling to hope and assist each other as they await potential reopening and local lunch programs.
Vernie Kennedy and August Brunjes of Clinton Iowa were sentenced by Municipal Judge Arthur L Luebke to Waupun state prison on two counts each. Kennedy received 364 days in county jail and five to 10 years in state prison for burglary tools. Brunjes got the same county sentence and three to seven years for burglary tools. They were arrested in a Beloit tavern December 2.
Archie H. Schneider retiring president will preside at the Monroe chamber of commerce retail committee reorganization tonight at the Monroe Hotel. Newly elected members are F. Royce Zumbrunnen Harold S. Haworth and Dean Peterson. Holdover members are Ross S. Martin Robert Richardson Richard H. Bahr and Vernon Peterson.
Claire Kammerud 37 of Argyle is hospitalized at St. Clare with a fractured left hip and heel after falling from a ladder while installing storm windows on his second-story farm home. He entered the hospital at 5 30 p m Monday and spikes were placed into his hair yesterday. He is a brother of Paul Kammerud of 803 24th Street.
The city water board approves payment to Joseph Eggerer Well Drilling Co for drilling a 1 531 foot well at cost 30 527 30. It advertises for bids to construct a pump house and trenching for the new water tower east of St. Clare hospital with bids opening Dec 27. Walter Ekum a recent college graduate and son in law of Mrs Edna Schmid will begin as engineering aid to City Engineer Z A Gorder.
Henry A. Lichtenberger, 53, a Freeport broker with 25 years in the securities and investment business, received a one to ten year sentence in circuit court after pleading guilty to four indictments charging embezzlement. He was jailed immediately. The case stemmed from a 1940s scheme selling first mortgage trust deeds, some allegedly forged, with misdirected principal payments.
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