Armory Plans Christmas Telephone Party For Guardsmen
The Armory hosts a Friday night Christmas telephone hookup for families of local National Guardsmen at Ft. Lewis. Lions Club chair Perry Power coordinates with Lt. Hugo Voelkle and Mrs Voelkle to ensure each man talks with relatives. A bus will transport 39 Guardsmen from Dixon to the Armory for reunions the same evening.
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Perry J. Power
Lions Club Project
Power
Hugo Voelkli
Ft. Lewis
Monroe
Company B
Quartermaster Company
Lions Club
Dixon
Inl
Wisconsin
ICC
Armory
Two Jets Crash At Des Moines
Iowa Air National Guard jets crashed during a routine training flight. Capt. Richard D. Ervin bailed out before his F86L hit at 57th and Grand. First Lt. Harlan J. Quamme also bailed before his jet crashed southeast of Des Moines Municipal Airport. casualties not reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Air National Guard
Richard D. Ervin
57Th
Grand Avenue
Harlan J. Quamme
Callahan Named Green County Brotherhood Week Head
Monroe attorney John K. Callahan was named Green County chairman for the 1962 Brotherhood Week observance set for February 18 to 25. The announcement came from Leon Feingold, District 8 chairman, with committee chairs including William J. Schmitz, Rev. Wilfred Shea, D. J. Huenink, Stewart Haberman, and James Volkert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callahan
John K. Callahan
Monroe
Green County
Leon Feingold
Brotherhood Week
William J. Schmitz
Wilfred Shea
D. J. Huenink
Stewart Haberman
James Volkert
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Flames Destroy Darlington Home
In Darlington a fire around 10 a.m. destroyed the Lancaster home on East River Street. Oil heater in the basement exploded and the blaze left the family with almost nothing but moved them to neighbors. Mrs. Lancaster, four grandchildren, Dale Benson and Ole Benson were inside. firefighters kept the flames from a nearby barn.
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Darlington
Charles W. Lancaster
Kay
Gary
Lancasters
East River Street
Charles F. Lancaster
Monroe
Allen Faces Harlem Diplomats in High School Showdown
Coach Ken Allen vows his undefeated record stays intact as the Allen team hosts the Harlem Diplomats of Canada in the high school gym at 8. He adds Bob Anderegg to his staff while proceeds benefit the school athletic fund.
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Ken Allen
Harlem Diplomats of
Canada
Allen
Bob Anderegg
Cage
Monroe
Michigan State University
Globetrotters
Kennedy visits Caracas amid heavy security and progress pledge
President Kennedy toured Caracas to promote the Alliance for Progress amid large security deployments. He warned Latin Americans against alien philosophies promising prosperity but eroding liberty and urged self help. Venezuelan President Betancourt hailed Kennedy’s leadership as counter to dictatorship.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
U.S
Maiquetia
la Carlota
la Morita
Latin America
Europe
China
United Nations defeats Red China bid to seat Peiping
In the United Nations General Assembly a 48 36 vote blocked Peiping's bid to replace Chiang Kai shek's Nationalists. The tally surprised many as 20 abstained, with Britain siding with the U S on the two thirds rule but France and others voting with the Soviet bloc on seating Red China.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
China
Chiang Kaishek
General Assembly
Peiping
United States
Soviet Union
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Zorin
Britain
Russia
France
Kuehn Plans New Bid for Wisconsin Governor
Milwaukee political figure Philip G. Kuehn, a Whitefish Bay cold storage operator who lost to Gov. Gaylord Nelson in 1960, is expected to declare a 1962 gubernatorial bid at a Milwaukee news conference. Wilbur N. Renk of Sun Prairie already seeks the GOP nomination.
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Milwaukee
Philip G. Kuehn
Wisconsin
Kuehn
Whitefish Bay
Gaylord Nelson
Wilbur N. Renk
Sun Prairie
University of Wisconsin
GOP
Pupils Invite Parents To Holiday Carol Hour
Monroe public school pupils invite parents to an Hour of Christmas Carols at elementary schools led by Bruce Patterson with teachers assistance. Programs run December 18 to 21 at South East Richland North Iliff Browntown Lincoln with all events at 7 PM except Browntown.
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Monroe Public
Bruce Patterson
Browntown
South School
East
Richland
North
Iliff
Lincoln
Driver Faces Charge In School Bus Deaths
In Greeley Colorado six of twenty children killed when a school bus was hit by a passenger train. The bus driver Duane Harms 23 was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter. He posted 1000 bond through a school district official and spoke to reporters saying he felt terrible.
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Greeley
Colo
Duane
Harms
Tshombe Feels Pullback As U N Seizes Katanga Strongholds
Swedish troops capture the Katangan base in Elisabethville and advance on holdout forces. President Tshombe reportedly moves government to Kipushi as U N forces claim key gains including Camp Massert and the Lido hotel amid heavy fighting and rain.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
P—U.n
Elisabethville
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Kipushi
Rhodesia
Massert
Brussels
Tshombe
Leopold II Hotel
Lido
Open House Planned for Chalet Cheese Co-op Addition
A new Chalet Cheese Co-op addition six miles north of Monroe will feature wrapping and labeling lines, extra cellar space, a truck garage and loading dock. Open house is scheduled 2 to 4 30 p m tomorrow. The co op, owned by 59 patrons, makes limburger and brick and limburger seasonally sold through Kraft Foods in Monroe.
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Monroe
Times
Albert Deppeler
Kraft Foods
Kraft
United States
New York State
Wyss
Adolph Brunner
Alvin A. Ku
Addi
Mooney Quits Wisconsin Cheese Post After 1943 Tenure
George L. Mooney of Plymouth, longtime executive secretary of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, resigned effective December 31 after since 1943 in that role and 1931 to 1943 with the National Cheese Institute. He cites plans to move offices to Madison and offers to help his successor in Plymouth.
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George ‘L. Mooney
Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
Mooney
National Cheese Institute
Madison
Tax Yield Put At $169 Million
Gov Nelson's adviser said the proposed tax compromise would raise 169 million dollars in the current biennium. If Senate approves and the bill is signed, 60 million would be raised by June 30, 1962 and 109 million for the full year starting the next day.
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Madtson
Nelson
Assembly
Senate
Howard Koop
Koop
Bailey Named Head of Northland College
ASHLAND The Northland College board named Dr. Richard Bailey president with duties starting April 1. Bailey has led Yakima Valley College since 1959 and succeeds Dr. Gus Turbeville who retired last July. He earned a PhD from Wisconsin in 1959 after teaching at Oshkosh State and serving on the State College Board of Regents.
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Ashland
Northland College
Richard Bailey
Bailey
Yakima, Wash. Valley
Two Men Injured In County Mishap Near Brodhead
Two men were treated at St. Clare hospital after a car struck the rear of an auto carrier two miles south of Brodhead on Highway 11 near the Abraham farm at 12 48 a m. Strait 22 and his passenger Ricken 21 suffered facial lacerations bruises and possible internal injuries with Ricken later admitted for ankle injury. The Janesville Auto Transport firm blamed a broken piston and dispatched a second tractor.
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St. Clare Hospital
Brodhead
Highway 11
Abraham Farm
Stewart Lee Strait
13Th Street
William John Ricken Jr
Route 2
Springbrook
Washburn County
Janesville
Calvin A. Bahn
Monticello
Bahn
Jerome A. Cox
Albany
Harry Loeb
Madison
Commercial and Savings Bank
Robert E. Tschudy
Rusk Briefs Franco in Madrid on World Affairs
U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew into Madrid today to brief Generalissimo Francisco Franco on the latest international developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusk
Franco
Madrid
U.S
Dean Rusk
Francisco Franco
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Willie) Niederberger
Co. B
Niederberger
CWO
Hugo H. Voelkhi
Perry Power
America
William Jr
Menominee
Abana
Diplomat
JFK
Kennedys
Red China
Lyle L. Olson
Monroe Clinic
Singers Guild
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Jaycettes
Green County Hospital
Tion
Bruni-Miller Co
Erickson Plumbing and Heating
Kline Electric Service
Koenig
Ambros Mayer
Prosper
Austria
Deppeler
Fred Deppeler Sr
Wittenwyler
Switzerland
Alice Ingold
Depplers
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