Youth in Focus For FFA Week Observed Locally
Monroe and Green County FFA members join national National FFA Week activities with theme Challenging Youth in Agriculture. Local advisor Kenneth C. Allen notes about 500000 members nationwide and 50 Wisconsin chapters. Chapter officers announced and posters distributed as month meetings continue.
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FFA
The
Monroe Ffa
Monroe
Green County
United States
Kenneth C. Allen
Allen
Wisconsin
David Brown
Larry Hartwig
Mike Deininger
Jim Sacker
Terry Eberle
Steve Scott
Lavern Nall
Sentinel
Deininger Wins District FFA Speaking Contest
John Deininger of Monroe FFA won first place in a district FFA speaking contest at Milton Union High School. His water pollution speech titled Our Unnecessary Evil earned him top honors among seven schools. Craig Hagen and Denny Post placed second and third. Deininger advances to sectional in late March. Lucas dies at Rocky Mount Senate Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas, longtime figure until his 1950 Illinois defeat by Dirksen, passes away.
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John Deininger
Monroe Ffa
Lloyd Deininger
Monroe
Milton Union High School
Craig Hagen
Janesville Ffa
Denny Post
Clinton Ffa
Deininger
Florida Faces School Crisis and Farm Protests
Florida voters face a school crisis as about a third of public schools closed and 24 731 teachers were absent while Gov Claude Kirk resists a special session. In Monroe County farmers discuss meat and grain withholding with 400 NFO members pledging recruitment. Harold Clemens, 49, of Oconomowoc, appointed state treasurer, will run for election to the $13 500 post.
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Ollie Fine
Evening Times
Green County
NFO
Turner Hall
NFC
Corning
Monroe
Delbert Indergand
Burnett Kubly
Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Claude Kirk
Florida Education Association
Kirk
State Department of Education
FEA
Madison
Harold Clemens
Oconomowoc
Dena Smith
Vietnam war toll hits new high as data mixed
AP News In Brief reports Americans killed 543 last week and 2 547 wounded, with overall Vietnam casualties rising to 18 239 killed and 112 469 wounded. Separate figures show South Vietnamese troop deaths and large enemy losses since late January.
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Saigon
U.S
Children to Visit Shrine Circus With Kiwanis Pupils from Monroe Special Education
Forty seven students from two rooms of Monroe Junior High School Special Education will attend the Shrine Circus in Madison. They ride a chartered bus, depart at 12 15 p m and return by 5 30 6 p m with teachers Mrs. Bernice Kingdon and Mrs. Delores Frehner, and are sponsored by Green County Shrine Club.
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Monroe Kiwanis Club
Madison
Dane County Memorial Coliseum
Robert
Bernice) Kingdon
Fred
Delores) Frehner
Green County Shrine Club
Monroe
Kiwanis Club
Lee Olsen
Molthrop Sounds Alarm On Socialism At Monroe Club Dinner
David M. Molthrop of the National Small Business Association warned Monroe County club members that the U S risks a drift toward socialism if the government pursues a welfare state policy. He urged citizens to engage in government and criticized programs like Job Corps Social Security Medicare Vista and Urban Renewal while defending private enterprise.
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Monroe Country Club
Chamber of Commerce
Washington, D. C
David M. Molthrop
United States
Molthrop
Washington
National Small Business Association
Melthrop
Vista
Law and Order
Black Power
Supreme Court
War On
No. 3
Chamber
John Fernan
Robert H. Rieder
Washington, D.C
Orvile R. Evans Sr
New Chamber
Fernan
Monroe
Evans
Times
Pierce Is Brodhead’s Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year
Jaycees name Dwight I. Pierce of Pierce Hardware as the community’s Outstanding Senior Citizen of the Year after public nominations. He has served 13 years as director of Cotter and Co and led the Wisconsin Hardware Dealers Association in 1959, with banquet honors to be announced.
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James Larkin
Keith Williams
M. W. Stuessy
Mary Preston
B. H. Roderick
C. S. Pierce
Trumen Olin
Dan S. Markham
Stanley Knight
Pierce
Cotter and Co
Cotter
United States
Wisconsin Hardware Dealers Association
Washington Teen Hero Then and Now From A Cherry Tree Tale
HAL BOYLE argues Washington was unfairly cast as a priggish teen icon by the cherry tree fable. He notes Washington faced teenage challenges, built self discipline, educated himself, and endured failures before becoming a decisive leader and first president, a lively, strong figure who kept passions in check.
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Hal Boyle
New York
George Washington
Our Land
Washington
Parson Mason L. Weems
Young George
George
New Nation
Noontime Lent Services to Be Held in Monroe
Monroe pastors announce noontime devotional services during Lent in Grace Lutheran Church with 12 05 and 12 35 p m sessions open to all. Ash Wednesday Feb 28 marks the start with clergy from St John s U C C Juda Baptist St Victor s Roman Catholic Union Presbyterian and First Methodist among participants. Mrs Vernon Leopold to play organ. luncheon offered in church basement.
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Monroe
Larry Pinnow
Grace Lutheran Church
Grace
Milton G. Petzold
St. John’s United Church of Christ
John Engstrom
Juda Baptist Church
Henry Kalschauer
St. Victor’s
Roman Catholic Church
Garrett Mouw
Union Presbyterian Church
James Weis
First Methodist Church
John Masters
Peace United Church of Christ
Calvin P. Fischer
Vernon Leopold
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Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
FBI
Virginia
West Turn
No. 2
Annapolis, Md
U.S. Naval Academy
Kubly
America
City of Brodhead
Dwight Pierce
Jaycee Group
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