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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR item notes a postal regulation compliance advance and office hours from 8:30 to 5 in a daily newspaper context, with unclear dates or names. The readable bits reference an Emery QpeU entity and a mail office schedule, suggesting a brief public notice style item.
A note discusses Iowa Highway Commission deer mirrors to reduce car deer collisions, citing 1300 crashes in two years and international use. It also reviews a Viet Nam era poem, Apollo 8 plans, and CARE’s $6 million Food Crusade feeding 28 million in 33 countries, aiming to lift malnourished children toward self sufficiency through meals and food-for-work programs.
Fifty years ago today December 19 1908 reports Twenty six couples attended the Married Folks Dancing club event at K P hall Benkert and Stauffacher dissolve partnership Benkert retires Bethlehem star expected every 500 years Dr W G Bear to visit a first aid class after the holidays First Regiment band Baraboo to play at inaugural ceremonies Sixty years ago today December 19 1918 notes paving plans for 26 blocks and village aid projects CARE appeal addressed to supporters by mail to New York address
William Maurer Philip Peterson and Richard Swiggum receive Webelos honors from East School Cub Scout Pack 312. U S rocket scientists launch a four ton satellite，如 in a major step toward space mastery. A Miami to Chicago airliner witnesses Atlas satellite night launch from 19 000 feet above Vero Beach Florida with 90 passengers aboard.
A 1949 food price dip is forecast by industry leaders while snowy weather blankets the nation. The season brings two inches in Monroe to 19.5 inches in New York, shaping a white Christmas across the Midwest and East. The Supreme Court refuses to halt an international tribunal that condemned Premier Tojo and six other Japanese war lords to death.
Thirty years ago on December 19 1938 Mr and Mrs Charles F Engelhardt Beloit former Monroe residents observed their golden wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter Mrs Robert W Blumer Second Lt Fred T Bruni former Monroe resident and 32nd Tank Company veteran receives a 15 year continuous service medal Monroe high schools basketball team makes first trip in the newly acquired bus to Platteville William L Sulzer promoted to Specialist 5 while in Germany and formerly worked at Kroger Monroe Darlington Six thousand six hundred Green County residents respond to Red Cross Christmas roll call Influenza spreading among Arctic Indians Bugler John Niederhauser son of Mrs Robert Kellenberger is the first Monroe member of Company H to return from the battlefield arriving at a Des Moines base hospital for seven bullets removal.
The Monroe Times letters page features Bertha E. Meinert urging Christians to oppose hard liquor recipes linked to The Licensed Beverage Industry. She cites moral and national harm, recalls Christmas and birthday symbolism, and urges Homemaker clubs to protest. The piece ends with historical notes from Dec 19, 1968.
Washington AP reports second class mail rates including magazines and newspapers rise in stages. The 1967 congressional plan advances to higher pound rates for in county editorial matter and outside county advertising while first class and air mail are unaffected this step. A further increase is planned for Jan 1, 1970.
Orfordville adopts state tax credits lowering the village rate from 40.46 to 38.16 per thousand. Village school tax share rises to 24.42, with state and county tax shares up, total assessed value at 2.57 million. Also notes a fatal pit accident and local civic details from 40 years ago.
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