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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1948
Page
2
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Editorial notes a weekend snowfall creating slick highways and risky driving. It praises local road crews for timely responses but argues state routes need better winter treatment on curves and grades. It urges motorists to avoid travel in severe conditions and acknowledges the push of optimistic drivers to venture out.
The piece insists Alaska frontier commander Gen Nathan Twining lacks sufficient forces and airpower. It flags concern that Alaska is treated as a liability and compares defense posture to wartime mobilization against threats from the north and east as MacArthur warns of communist pressure.
A U S Supreme Court divison decision held the United States had no authority to interfere with military tribunals in Tokyo for war crimes. Only Justice Murphy dissented, writing no opinion.
A disheveled man leaped to his death from the Morrison hotel's 15th floor. His body struck a Sun-Times delivery truck and then the street. Police found no identification on the victim. He wore an old brown suit and a tattered brown hat.
The clipping recalls events from December 21 1938 including J M Blackbourn fighting a blaze in the Heali office basement. It notes a bull in the Argyle herd earning All American junior yearling honors and Lieut Fred T Bruni receiving a 15 year service medal. Extra staff were hired for the post office Christmas season.
Michigan doctors at Ann Arbor describe a two step treatment for acute kidney failure that cuts death risk from fifty percent to zero for two years. The method treats the underlying damage and replaces salts lost during recovery, avoiding artificial kidneys and requiring careful fluid and electrolyte management.
The Commercial and Savings bank basement lounge offers a meeting and social venue for officers and staff. It features chrome furniture, light blue walls, glass brick, kitchenette, and rubber flooring. A 13 employee Christmas party with buffet, gifts, and music was held last week.
Miss Patricia Stauffacher daughter of Mr and Mrs David Stauffacher will arrive home this evening from Mercy Hospital in Dubuque. She has been hospitalized for a month after an accident in which a car collided with a truck and she suffered a severe fracture.
The article notes that at least two thousand covered bridges are believed to still exist in the United States. It highlights the historical and architectural significance of these structures and discusses preservation concerns.
Chicago reports wage talks between the nation's railroads and 16 non-operating unions will restart January 5. A presidential fact finding board proposed cutting the 48 hour week to 40 without pay loss and a 7 cent hourly raise retroactive to October 1, 1948, with total 1949 costs estimated. Daniel Loomis, head of carriers' negotiating panel, previously called union demands for 40 hours at full pay plus 25 cent raises excessive.
Wisconsin county and district fairs received an average state aid of $2,000 for 1948. A W Kalbus, supervisor for county and district fairs, said premiums paid by 77 fairs totaled more than the $160,000 appropriation, necessitating a pro rata deduction of 22 percent.
Mr and Mrs Donald L Collins and family moved to Evansville to farm south of the village. Mrs Anna Emerson travels to California for a few weeks to visit relatives. Mrs Joanne Schuster and Miss Ethel Mae Curtis visit Cambridge Wisconsin to spend holidays with their mother.
La Crosse authorities plan to drag the La Crosse river and adjacent marsh with an electro magnet to recover a .38 caliber murder weapon used in the 1947 killing of Dr. James E. McLoone. The physician’s body was found on Highway 16 November 14, 1947, with three slugs recovered. the gun remains missing.
The market now offers at least thirty five distinct soup flavors in cans. Producers list a wide range from vegetable and chicken to specialty blends, highlighting broad consumer choice and shelf presence across retailers.
A patient expresses sincere thanks and appreciation to those who remembered them during a hospital stay at St. Clare and wishes readers a merry yuletide.
The agriculture department forecast next year's winter wheat crop at 964,808,000 bushels, 25,290,000 below this year's 990,098,000. It compares with the 1947 record of 1,068,048,000 and the 1937-46 average of 688,606,000. If spring wheat reaches 295,000,000, the combined winter and spring crop would total 1,259,808,000, versus this year's 1,288,406,000. The record crop was 1,367,186,000 in 1947.
In Pershing Square a large outdoor Christmas party drew thousands of youngsters to see Santa and movie heroes Gene Autry Wally Ford and Reginald Denny. More than 100 children became lost as the crowd clogged the stage and mic area until police herded them onto a bus for parental reunion.
Washington mourns Dr. Hugh Scott Cumming age 79 former surgeon general of the United States public health service died last night. Funeral set for Thursday.
A fleet of ocean going motor vessels may create a direct Mississippi River to Caribbean seaports water route. The first ship, the Angelo Higgins, left Memphis with 900 tons Cuban scrap iron and will pick up cargo in St. Louis for Havana. Capt. Frank Kerley of New Orleans said the ship will arrive Wednesday.
A federal court orders Metro Goldwyn Mayer to reinstate writer Lester Cole to his $1,350 weekly post and pay about $75,000 in back salary. Judge Leon R. Yankwich upheld a jury verdict, ending the dispute over his dismissal.
Last Friday Cole prevailed in his reinstatement lawsuit following a trial. He was among ten Hollywood figures suspended by their studios last year after being charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to disclose to the House Committee on Un American Activities whether they were communists.
Oakley School plans its Christmas program for 8 PM on Wednesday night December 22. Shanghai school holds its program December 25. The State Line Sunday school presents a Christmas program on Christmas Eve. Atwood school to conduct Christmas exercises December 22.
Concrete has been poured at the new Orangeville bridge site by the Sheppard Engineering Co of Belvidere Illinois. Weather permitting traffic likely will be resumed over the bridge this month.
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