Shrubs Offered By WCD Officials To Boost Wildlife
Rural residents can obtain wild grape, silky dogwood, ninebark and multiflora rose shrubs for wildlife habitat work. Wisconsin Conservation Department will distribute orders after Jan 1 through James Huntoon district game manager. Prices: multiflora rose ten dollars per thousand. others twenty dollars per thousand. Orders must be multiples of 25 plants with ground preparation and care required for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie Fink
Times Farm
Wisconsin Conservation Department
James Huntoon
County Agricultural
Boscobel Nursery
Huntoon
Crying Babies Delivered by St Nick Dec 25 Were Dolls
The article notes that all so called crying babies delivered on Christmas Dec 25 were dolls rather than real infants. It mentions St Clare Hospital reporting no babies born on Christmas Day and lists several real births at other local addresses between Dec 24 and Dec 26. It also recalls the three actual 1965 Christ mas babies and credits the Green County Sheriff's Department for a separate rescue near a farm during heavy snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nick
Santa Claus
Monroeso
St. Clare Hospital
Robert Fairman Jr
Hanover
Rod Traog
St. Evansville
Benjamin Bennet
13Th Ave
Monroe
Paul Bechtolt
Brodhead
Holly Jo Butts
John Butts
Belleville
Kelvin John Rhyner
Alan E. R
Otto Klemm Dies. longtime Monroe weed commissioner
Otto E. Klemm 80, a 12 year weed commissioner for the city, died at 5 a.m. Christmas Day at Monroe Manor Nursing Home. Born in Germany January 11, 1886, he immigrated to America with his family, lived in Winslow and Cadiz Town ship, moved to Monroe in 1941, and was married to Grace Keel in 1909. Surviving are two sons, three daughters, a sister, a half brother, 21 grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Comer Funeral Home, with Rev. Lowell Mays officiating. burial in Cadiz Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto E. Klemm
9Th Ave
Monroe Manor
Mr. Klemm
Germany
America
Winslow
Til
August
Augusta Stabenow Klemm
Grace Keel
Browntown
Cadiz Township
Monroe
Klemm
Wilbur
Brodhead
Kenneth
Edward
Marian) "Zwicker
Ralph
Helen) Krueger
Milwaukee
Cece
Betty Ann) Daly
Calgary
Alberta
Canada
Frank
Emma) Foulker
Milton Busjahn
John D
Frieda) ‘Stauffacher
Bible Course Will Be Offered By Joint Committee
Bible courses planned by the School of Religion and Life sponsored by the Joint Committee on Christian Education of Monroe Churches. Rev. James C. Plymire will teach a session on interpreting and responding to the Bible using God Is For Real Man by Carl E. Burke. Other courses include Family Living and The Gospel and Current Issues. Classes meet at St John’s United Church of Christ on Wednesdays Jan 4 through Feb 1 from 7:30 to 9:30 with a $1 registration fee.
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School of Religion and Life
Joint
Committee On Christian Education
Monroe
James C. Plymire
Carl E. Burke
Burke
Erie County
Buffalo
New York
St. John's United Church of Christ
15Th St
Rosalie Radcliffe
St. John’s Church
Rhinelander Faces Frigid Fifteen Below Zero
The Associated Press reports Rhinelander, Wisconsin, posted the season's coldest reading at 15 below zero, with subzero temperatures across a wide area. Nearby cities showed minus figures including Superior at 11 below and Milwaukee at seven above. International Falls, Minnesota, registered 20 below.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Rhinelander
Superior
Park Falls
Eau Claire
Green Bay
Wausau
Lone Rock
Madison
LaCrosse
Beloit-Rockford
Milwaukee
International Falls
Minn
Miami
Wheat crop record set at 171 million tons in 1966
Kevich announced a record grain crop of 171 million metric tons for 1966. He noted some wheat purchases in the West are still likely.
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Goodkevich
Father wounded daughter with unloaded gun mishap
In Griffin, Georgia, seven year old Denice Sanders was killed after her father LeRoy Sanders reportedly picked up a live ammunition pistol mistaken for a blank gun. Sheriff notes the coroner ruled an accident and no charges were filed.
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Griffin
Venice
Marie Sanders
Dwayne Gilbert
Chester Wright
LeRoy Sanders
Griffon
Denice
Spalding
Gray Pinson
Wright
Sanders
Pinson
Condition of Youth Reported Improved
The 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs John Blum Route 4 Monroe was seriously injured in an auto accident on November 27 and remains in the intensive care unit at St. Clare Hospital with no visitors allowed as of today.
Supreme Court Justice Sets Thursday Hearing in Kennedy Suit
A New York justice scheduled a Thursday hearing at the publishers of The Death of a President to block its publication in the suit brought by Mrs. John F. Kennedy. The case centers on preventing the release of the controversial book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Supreme Court
John F. Kennedy
Road Toll Tops 1,106 Dead in 1966 Wisconsin Year
A fatal three day Christmas period pushed Wisconsin highway deaths past 1,100 for 1966, reaching 1,106. Five students and a professor from the Medical Institute of Technology in Cambridge were killed when their car struck a concrete abutment on Interstate 94. Victims include Dr. James N. Murphy and four associates, en route to a Minneapolis convention. Two-car head on crashes on I 90 94 near Racine Kenosha left Ward Readeker and Mac Faddin Marvel as the identified victims. Another fatal crash occurred when Schweitzer, of Mineral Point, died in a collision with a semi near Mineral Point.
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Associated Press
St. Croix County
Croix County
Medical Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
Interstate 94
Wisconsin State Patrol
James N. Murphy
Cherry Street
Lexington
John F. Keil
Bell Avenue
Hasbrouck
N. J
David L. Wright
Baldwinville
N. Y
John’ P. Augustine
Phoenix
Ariz
David B. Ar
Baldwin
Racine - Kenosha
Racine
Rence
Jay Readek
Evanston
Ill
Racine County
Ward Jay Readeker
MacFaddin D. Marvel
Glendale
Il Schweitzer
Rt. 1
Mineral Point
Five Rogers girls orphaned by crash and fire face winter
In Racine Caledonia Wisconsin a double tragedy left Richard Rogers 19 and his five younger sisters aged 2 to 15 homeless after their parents Richard 47 and Vivian 33 died in a Highway 31 crash and a basement fire destroyed the six room home. Neighbors saved gifts and a $200 wallet. Richard vows to keep the family together as he plans a new home and relies on grandparents and local help. Fire department cites overheated furnace as cause. The weekend disaster follows a Christmas prior to the loss.
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Racine
Rogers
Richard Rogers
Caledonia
Richard
Vivian
Kara
Patricia
Deborah
Lisa
Sue Lynn
Cyril Murrary
Friendly postyule values sale in Monroe merchants
Merchants in Monroe invite shoppers to a post Yule sale offering value deals before 1967. Stores, supermarkets, and car dealers promote high quality merchandise, practical car accessories, and festive pantry items. Ads appear on the Salute of Values pages in the Monroe Evening Times and Trade Journal, Turn to No. 1 Back Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Mom
Monroe Evening Times
The
Trade Journal
Christmas Weekend Traffic Death Toll Falls Short of Records
The national three day Christmas weekend traffic deaths totaled 578, well below the all time high set in 1965 and below the 391 non holiday level. Snowbound travelers reduced totals, while officials forecast New Year tolls of 460 to 540.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Oklahoma
New England
Midnizht
Four Injured On Area Roads During Holidays
Sheriff's deputies report four injuries from Christmas Day road accidents in the county. A car driven by Charles V. Schiller of Monroe, with Helen Ebweter as passenger, spun into a tree north of Monroe after speeds over 120 mph. Ebweter remains hospitalized with a neck injury. Schiller’s 1963 convertible was heavily damaged. Kirchner, 17, suffered multiple lacerations after his car hit an embankment near Clarno. Albright, 19, riding a county trunk motorcycle, was injured when his bike slid on an icy spot south of Albany. Monroe police logged two minor city accidents with no injuries on 25th Avenue. Sedwick struck Esser’s parked car on 13th Street.
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Green County
State Highway Patrol
Dennis Schroeder
Sheriff's Department
Helen Ebweter
Virginia Monte
Route 1
Browntown
Terry A. Treuthardt
Route 4
Monroe
Stephen Kirchner
Hilton Kirchner
Keith P. Albright
Brodhead
Miss Ebweter
Charles V. Schiller
13Th Ave
Liz ‘Ods
Robert D. Brugger Place
Kirchner
St. Clare
Clarno
Albright
Albany
Gary Lovell
9Th St
Arthur Holcomb
25Th Ave
Yesteriday
Holcomb
Allen Sedwick
Nora
Illinois
William Esser
Madison
13Th St
William Manchester Receeds Critical List After Pneumonia Attack
Middleton Conn William Manchester is no longer on the critical list following a pneumonia attack. He has received get well telegrams from Mrs John F Kennedy and Senator Robert F Kennedy.
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Middleton
Conn
William Manchester
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
LOST CAUSE DOGGEREL BY CLAIR MUNNS
Daily verse notes holding grudges hurts more than it helps. The speaker recalls keeping a grudge for days with little to show for it, admitting it never improved anything despite effort.
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Clair R. Munns
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