Astronauts Guide Gemini 6 Craft To a Safe Landing
Space Center Houston reports Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford guided Gemini 6 to a safe Atlantic splashdown near the Wasp after a near perfect re entry. Gemini 7 piloted by Frank Borman and James Lovell hovered nearby as retrorockets pulled Gemini 6 from orbit and the crew described the mission as a world praising rendezvous.
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Space. Center
Houston
Tex
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Atlantic Ocean
Schirra
Wasp
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Pacific
Mexico
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
United States
Moon
Borman
Lovell
Bermuda
Service Extended At Monroe Postoffice
Monroe Postoffice adds window service for stamps and parcel post this Saturday December 18. Windows open 8 30 a m to 5 p m according to Postmaster Myers. Every mail for delivery will be delivered Friday December 24. Special delivery mail gift parcels and perishable parcels will be delivered on Christmas Day December 25. Myers
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Monroe Postoffice
Myers
Nominations Open for Monroe Citizen Honors
Area residents are reminded to submit blanks for the Monroe Outstanding Senior and Outstanding Junior Citizen by next Monday, December 20. Forms are available at The Monroe Evening Times and local outlets and should be mailed to the Outstanding Citizens Committee, PO Box 298, Monroe.
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Monroe
Oustanding
Citizens Committee
Jaycees
Special Citizens Committee
Yuletide Show Shines At Junior High Christmas Program
Monroe residents enjoyed an early Christmas gift with a Cadet Band concert and the play Toby Trims the Tree at the annual Junior High School Christmas program. Allan Barnard and Vance Nelson received band honors, while directors Werner Blum and Lillian Hanson were thanked with flowers. The six member cast, led by Robert Baumann as Toby Perkins, kept the audience engaged as music and drama filled the auditorium. Proceeds will help buy a Cadet Band flag to accompany a new American flag gifted by the VFW Auxiliary.
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Larry Lindgren
Monroe Area
Toby Trims
Allan F. Barnard
Vance W. Nelson
Werner Blum
Lillian Hanson
Gruff
Tom Schilt
Vicki Phillips
Schilt
Barnard
VFW
Robert Baumann
Toby Perkins
Mary Stewart
Ma Perkins
Toby
Hawley Anderson
Christopher Barth
Bobby Smith
Carolyn Myers
Susie
Mary Bell
Climbers Seek Victims of Crash
Aspen, Colo. officers and forest rangers depart to recover the bodies of Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II and his wife Mary, both of Albuquerque, and their pilot Milton Brown after their two engine plane crashed southeast of Aspen. Brown survived to place the doctor’s body beside his wife and cover them with coats. recovery could take until late afternoon.
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Aspen
Colo
W. Randolph Lovelace II
Lovelace
Mary
Milton Brown
Albuquerque
N.M
Brown
Pioneer 6 Satellite Clears Cape Kennedy on Sun Orbit
Cape Kennedy Florida— Pioneer 6, a heavily instrumented drum shaped spacecraft, lifted at 2:32 a.m. EST atop a Delta rocket and settled into a complex solar orbit. The mission aims to chart paths to assist future astronauts traveling between planets and form a guiding formation for interplanetary travel.
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NEW Sun
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Pioneer 6
Probe Will Continue Into Theft at Oakley
Green County deputies say the investigation into a theft at a Spring Grove trailer near Oakley continues with no further information available. Nearly $3,000 and a large amount of jewelry were reported missing from the trailer occupied by Mr and Mrs Norman White, Oakley store operators.
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Oakley
Green County Sheriff's Department
Spring Grove
Ows
Norman White
Women Deliver Christmas Cheer To Monroe Nursing Homes
Seven women led by Mrs. James Forbes organize Christmas Cheer a Christ mas Stocking project to brighten Monroe Manor Wagner's White Haven City Hotel residents. They loaded 108 gift containers with Girl Scout cookies fruit and candy and plan to deliver this afternoon. Local Girl Scouts prepared cookies apples and oranges while Fritos were donated by a local producer. Last year sixty seven people received gifts.
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James Forbes
Monroe
Forbes
Howard McCoy
Burton E. Bacon
Edmund Hamilton
Times
Robert Weckerly
Lillian Gempeler
George Robinson
Monroe Manor
Wagner's
White Haven
City Hotel
Governor vetoes bill on agency shop contracts
Gov. Warren P. Knowles vetoed a bill that would have allowed agency shop contracts for public employee unions, marking a setback for proponents of mandatory union membership in state work. The action clarifies state policy on union-bargaining arrangements.
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Bill Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Board to interview architects for new Monroe school
The Monroe Board of Education voted to interview three to four architects for a proposed elementary school. The advisory committee will study potential sites on January 6 and seek a bond issue vote next spring to fund the project, aiming for a September 1967 occupancy. The board also approved $8,950 for remedial programs in reading and mathematics at Lincoln School, with full and part time teachers to be hired. programs will serve public and non public students.
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Monroe Board of Education
Alvin H. Babler
Babler
Madison
Citizens Advisory Committee On
Board of Education
Derwin J. Huenink
John Thompson
Lincoln School
Thompson
Monroe
Ve. Peeces
Author Stricken at 91 Maugham Dies At La Mauresque
British author W Somerset Maugham dies at 91 in Nice after a stroke. He wan for days in a coma and spent his final years at the Riviera villa La Mauresque after transfer from the Nice hospital. His career spanned over a half century with 3 plays, 26 novels and 120 short stories. His novel Of Human Bondage (1915) remains the standout work.
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Nice
France
W. Somerset Maugham
Riviera
Villa
la Mauresque
Maugham
Cap Farrar
Library of Congress
Do It With Yule Cards Christmas Is Good Time to Make More Friends
HAL BOYLE advises using Christmas cards to reach out to strangers. Send 100 notes to random people from Who's Who in America with a polite, vague thank you message. Expect 99 replies about health wishes. the 100th person may be unreachable.
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Hal Boyle
New York
America
Joe
Jack
Pete
Algernon
Australia
Yuletide
Brush Removal Crews Needed at Zanders Lake Flood Plan
The Wisconsin Conservation Department asks volunteers to join a weekend brush removal effort at Zanders Lake to enable flooding of the Tracre lake basin. Four-man burn crews are required and chainsaw operators are still sought. If heavy snow arrives, flooding could be delayed.
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Zanders Lake
Tracre Lake
Fisheries Division
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Ray L. Beckman
Green County Conservation League
Moose
Beckman
Lafayette Plans Day Care Units
Lafayette County Association for Retarded Children Inc announces plans for one or more day care facilities for severely and profoundly retarded children. The program aims to give respite to mothers and provide individualized self care training, with location depending on public interest. interested parties may contact Lafayette Adjustment Rehabilitation Center in Shullsburg or call 965-4464.
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Lafayette County Association For
Lafayette Adjustment Rehabilitation Center
Shullsburg
Road Agent Retiring After 78 Years With Milwaukee Road
Waterloo Wis Milwaukee Road station agent Joseph A Ziebarth retires after 78 years and 7 months of continuous service. Beginning at age 18 he paid $50 to learn telegraphy in Columbus. After a career in several Wisconsin cities he moved to Waterloo in 1982 and has served there 33 years.
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Waterloo
Wis
Joseph A. Ziebarth
Milwaukee Road
Ziebarth
Columbus
Wisconsin
Market Near Historic Highs
New York stocks moved toward historic highs as steels led a rally. The Associated Press average rose 1.4 to 356.8 at noon, with industrials up 2.2 and rails up 1.0, surpassing the prior record closing figure. The Dow neared its closing peak, autos and tobaccos gained, and rails reached new highs.
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New York
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Area roads slippery from snows delay travel
Snow kept roads slick across the area as county and city crews worked to sand and salt the surface this morning. Light snow was forecast to continue tonight, keeping driving conditions hazardous and urging caution for travelers.
Wisconsin cheddar cheese market steadies with firm demand
The Wisconsin dairy market shows cheddar cheese prices largely steady with fair to good demand and short to adequate supplies. Quotes include 40-pound blocks at 41 to 43 cents, single daisies at 43 to 44 cents, long horns 43 to 44 cents, and midgets around 44 to 43 cents.
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Wisconsin
Program Set For 4 H Event Banquet in Monroe
Green County 4 H leaders banquet set for Saturday at Monroe High School with Dr. Donald R McNeil delivering a talk as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. Larry Klassy toasts. Rev. C James Weis to deliver invocation. Walter Babula and Willis Rigiter among speakers. Bank host, five to twenty year laters to be acknowledged. group singing led by Mrs. Walter Ludwig. slides by Calvin Kraemer.
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Green County
Monroe High School
Donald R McNeil
University’ of Wisconsin Extension Service
Larry Klassy
Adult Leaders Association
C. James Weis
First Methodist Church
Montoly
Walter Babula
Willis Rigiter
Agriculture Committee
Waren
Commercial and Sayings Bank
Aten
Susan Sass
Merry Monroettes
Calvin Kraemer
Tax School Held At City Hall For Area Attorneys
A tax school was held this afternoon at the new City Hall for area attorneys. Lafayette County attorneys were invited by the Green County Bar to participate. A representative of the State Tax Division conducted the school.
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New City Hall
Lafayette County
Green County
State Tax Division
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Zanders
Lafayette
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