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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1961
Page
6
Wisconsin cloudy and cold with light snow or flurries this afternoon through Sunday. lows 0 to 10 above, highs 12 to 20. Monroe Zone similar with slightly higher Sunday. Also obituary for Miss Luella Kennedy, 91, Los Angeles. births for Nathan and wife in Winston, son born Dec 30.
St. Clare Hospital Medical includes Charles J James William H Marean Juda Catherine Marie Hexom Freeport Lorie Lynn Wahl er Mrs Elias Schultz Warren Surgical lists Orson Robertson Jr Henry Primoli Dismissals name many individuals including Mrs Donovan Digman Leonard Baumann Donald Dale Gordon Klossner Sally Ann Klossner Harlan Wernle John Pinnow Mrs Rockow Mrs Harold Scott Mrs Alfred Grossenbacher Mrs William Baumgartner Bonnie Bohn Noreen Metz Martha Richards Roger Jorgenson Nancy Bunker Mrs Mary Wiesenberg Mrs Ernet Ziehli Mrs Otto Mannetter and Mrs Earling Moen and a daughter.
L E Kirsch of 2003 5th Street has finished his third Bankers Life Insurance training school at Des Moines Iowa and is now a graduate. The final advanced session focused on solving complex life insurance service challenges for businessmen and estate owners. Auto Club to Meet in Monroe
Miss Margaret Nalty who died in Chicago Wednesday evening received funeral rites at Stuessy funeral home at 9 a.m. and St. Victor’s Catholic church at 9:30 with Rev. E C McCollow presiding. Pallbearers were Frank Menehan James Quinn Werner Blum Elsmere Howe William Hogan and Sam Pickett all of Monroe. Burial followed at Calvary Cemetery after a 7:30 rosary service at Stuessy last night.
Masons at Brodhead held an officers installation Thursday night with Willis Riemer as installing master and Dr Mer ton Mattison as installing marshal. Howard Blackford was installed as worshipful master with Dr M W Stuessy senior warden Delos Johnson junior warden Fred Goodsir senior deacon Donald Witte junior deacon Arthur Blanchard and Vance Anderson stewards and August Lehnherr tyler. A social hour followed with relatives and friends as guests.
Greenfield police told motorists the meters were on the house after a brief freeze on Friday. The city urged residents to enjoy free parking until the meters thawed at noon, following numerous calls and a visit from a local resident who took a nickel to headquarters.
Mrs. Ralph A. Zettle of Route 7 sustained a thigh cut when her one and a half ton truck went out of control in Sylvester Township near the old Burkhalter cheese factory. Deputies report the vehicle tore down 50 feet of fencing on the Jake Burkhalter farm. The accident occurred at 9:42 am yesterday after Zettle saw a milk truck across the road and attempted to cross. Romayne W. Rete of Route 1, driving the Albert Doppler milk truck, failed to stop for a driveway and backed into the road as Zettle approached. A car owned by Carl Riddillough went into a ditch north of Searles school on Highway 59 during the night.
Canberra warned Indonesia that using force to seize West New Guinea would breach faith. Foreign Minister Sir Garfield Todd said Jakarta had repeatedly claimed it would not resort to force. Prime Minister Menzies urged negotiations under United Nations auspices after sending notes to both Indonesia and the Netherlands.
The Richland 4 H club held its Christmas party at Green County Teachers College. Roll call was answered with favorite carols, flag salute led by Mary Ann Sacker, and the club pledge given by Karen Hanson. Entertainment included Johnny Barbara and Georgia Wegmueller, followed by games and dancing before adjournment.
A kitchen shower for Miss Carol Ruehlow was hosted at the Edd Ladwig home with Grace Ladwig overseeing and Judy Schuetz and Janet Senn assisting. Guests included Carol’s fiancé Ralph Ruehlow and multiple family and local friends. The couple, Miss Ruehlow and Robert H. Babler, plan to marry January 6 at Grace Lutheran Church.
Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy today postponed her planned visit to India and Pakistan citing the illness of the President's father. The trip is delayed until early March.
Personal notes list Mr and Mrs Jerry Raha heading to Gays Mills to spend the holiday with Jayne Hoffman and Elizabeth K Hoff man. The Stanley Barr family visits Ellsworth Barr and others, while William Mauerman and George Mauer man Jr. spend the holidays with their parents in Monroe and at Columbia Medical School.
A Montgomery Circuit Court judge permanently ended a five year old injunction barring the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from operating in Alabama. Judge Walter B. Jones noted the U S Supreme Court order to act by Jan 2 and said the court will not issue a full opinion at this time. The three page decree says the NAACP has continued to do business in Alabama despite the June 1956 order and violated a state registration law for out of state corporations.
Sir Winston Churchill, 87, declared 1961 ends in darkness and menace in a New Year address to the Primerose League, an association of Conservative party leaders. He warned dangers remain and new factors have emerged, urging unified long-term efforts and a far-sighted plan and action among free nations.
A fully armed East German border guard fled to West Berlin during early duty at Heinrich Heine Strasse checkpoint and requested asylum. Police report notes about 300 Vopos fled to West Berlin since August 13 when the Berlin border was sealed.
The Wisconsin State Traffic Patrol will hire and train about 25 new officers and six inspectors starting April 1 to fill vacancies, said L. E. Beier, director of the enforcement division, on Friday.
Showman Billy Rose and Joyce Matthews were remarried Friday night in a quiet ceremony at an Manhattan apartment of an old friend, Sol Hertzfeld.
Miss Shin Yea Sun expresses gratitude for the warm reception in the Monroe area during her visit. She praises local residents, extends sincere wishes for a prosperous and Happy New Year, and hopes to meet more of the community in the remaining travels.
A 13 year old Freeport boy described how he fired a reportedly unloaded revolver at his friend during a Christmas holiday incident. Elwood Kortemeier Jr. died from a chest wound after the shot discharged in Jan Doelker’s second floor bedroom. The firearms were brought by another boy, Bill Strawn, who admitted taking them from his father’s dresser without permission. Dr Strawn, an optometrist, had warned his son not to touch the guns.
A $138,404 decrease in the county budget is reported as the state’s largest single county reduction. The Wisconsin survey notes 38 counties had lower levies in 1962 than 1961, with Green County showing the largest margin of reduction and Pepin County at $2,939. Milwaukee and Dane counties posted large increases, while 25 increases were under $50,000. The survey is a private nonprofit government research and service agency for taxpayers.
Walter L Wyss radioman first class USN son of Walter E Wysses living at 622 22nd avenue is undergoing training at the Naval Teletype Maintenance School in Norfolk Virginia. His eight week course began December 11 covering teletype theory and hands on work adjusting testing and repairing equipment. President Kennedy selects Allan Stewart career foreign service officer and former newspaperman as ambassador to Venezuela.
New York stocks posted a modest week gain in the final 1961 session, with the Dow up 10.27 to 731.14 and the composite AP index rising 3.20 to 262.70. Volume totaled 17,252,520 shares across four trading days, as year end tax actions and profit taking clouded leadership. no decisive leadership emerged. A separate note reports a $40,000 fire at the Windmill bar restaurant and canoe hall in Waupaca's Chain O Lakes resort area.
The farm scene notes Darius Eastman near South Wayne sells personal property on Thursday. John Ingold Estate of Monroe sells the Brown Spring Valley Run Schmelzer. West Jack LaBorde quits farming and holds an auction Friday at the Carter farm four miles southwest of Juda.
An anti trust action targets the two largest eyeglass lens makers Bausch and Lomb and American Optical Co. A civil suit filed in U S District Court seeks divestiture of more than 400 branch distributors. The government accuses price fixing and conspiring to force independents out of the eyeglass business.
Lawrence S. Katz, 49, co founder and head of a construction firm since 1946, was named Friday by President Kennedy to head the Federal Housing Administration in Wisconsin.
Three Highland youths were fined 25 dollars in Iowa County for disorderly conduct connected to harassing a young Black boy after an incident near Highland on December 8. A fourth teen faces a reckless driving charge while three defendants were waived to adult court for trial.
Luella Kennedy 91 of Los Angeles died Thursday morning at her home. Services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Christian Hollow cemetery west of Winslow. A former Winslow resident, she moved to Los Angeles years ago. Cramer funeral home in charge of arrangements.
Diosdado Macapagal, born to a peasant family in Manila, was sworn in as the fifth president of the Philippines. He pledged to combat corruption and communism and lead the nation toward reform and stability.
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