Monroe FFA district 15 speaking contest winners
Monroe High School hosted the district 15 FFA speaking contest with first place John Deininger of rural Monroe delivering And Whosoever Shall Be Chief Among You on leadership and citizenship in agriculture. Alternate Craig Hagen of Janesville-Craig spoke on Our Natural Glory Degraded about water pollution. Kevin Keen of Brodhead spoke on Whatcha Doing in My World about agriculture today. Bill Hookham of Milton Union spoke on Is There A Future in Farming for Future generations.
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FFA
Monroe
John Deininger
Craig Hagen
Janesville
Craig Ffa
Kevin Keen
Brodhead Ffa
Bill Hookham
Milton Union Ffa
Browntown caucus nominates slate for spring election
Village president seat tops the ballot with Patrick Hampton and John Sigalus competing. Other posts include trustee Ralph Lueck and Gerald Schmoldt, clerk Willis Schmoldt and Nathan Garwell as treasurer. Rockow and Gail Burington honored for long service. A foundation referendum is planned. Monroe students get Feb 28 off for educator convention. St Victor's will dismiss students March 7 for a sisters meeting in Racine.
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Hubert Rockow
Browntown
Oscar Schumacher
Patrick Hampton
John Sigalus
Ralph Lueck
Gerald Schmoldt
Oscar
Lorraine) Schumacher
Terry Schliem
Willis Schmoldt
Nathan Garwell
Awalt Lueck
Duane McKenna
Willis
Shirley) ‘Schmoldt
Nick
Helen) Mayne
Rockow
Gail Burington
Monroe City
Southern Wisconsin Educational Association
Madison
St. Victor’s School
Racine
Bloodmobile to Visit Monroe March 4 at Turner Hall
Red Cross Bloodmobile returns to Monroe on Tuesday March 4 from 1 to 6 pm at Turner Hall. The donor requirements cover donation interval age weight illness operations pregnancy malaria jaundice immunizations allergy injections and diet with consent rules for minors and armed forces service. A second brief item notes a market rally in New York after Vietnam peace talks progress.
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Red Cross
Monroe
Turner Hall
Albany Caucus Nominees Set For Spring Village Vote
Albany Village nominates six trustees for three seats and re elects Ruth Bly as village clerk. Incumbents Fahrney and Briggs favor continued service. Leady misses top six. Write in withdrawals allowed. no new names but write ins for April 1 election. Virginia Blumer named treasurer without opposition. Also notes Washington press secretary appointment for Rep Henry Schadeberg and the death of UW arboretum founder Prof G William Longenecker.
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Albany
E. C. Killingstad
Stanton P. Stears
Ruth Bly
Glen Spring
Arlie Fahrney
James Webb
Warren Nipple
William Briggs
Ervin Coplien
Fahrney
Briggs
Ralph Leady
Charles Richardson
Michael Alderman
Robert Atkinson
Charles Coole
Curtis Steindorf
Virginia Blumer
Stanton P. Steurs
Garland Rankins
Duane Dixon
Monroe Board Approves Advisory Planning Committee
The Monroe Board of Education approved a long range advisory planning committee draft led by president Rodney Kittelsen a cross section of residents from the district will study problems and make recommendations to the board and administration. The 20 member group will include representatives from St Victor s School press radio construction industry education and the public names submitted by each board member will determine final membership. The board also favored continuing the student exchange program with trips planned for March 13 to Wilmington Delaware and a potential exchange with Abilene Texas. A payment of 5688 to Madison Moving and Wrecking Corp Oshkosh was approved for destruction and hauling away of Turn to No 1 Back Page
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Monroe Board of Education
Rodney Kittelsen
Kittelsen
Schol
St. Victor’s
Lee Olsen
Wilmington
Del
Washington, D.C
DuPont High School
Olsen
Monroe High School
Abilene
Tex
Madison Moving and Wrecking Corp
Oshkosh
Blanchardville Vocational Union Request Tabled Again
The State Vocational Board again tabled Blanchardville School District’s request to attach to the Madison Area Vocational School District. Marquette County and Wonewoe districts were approved for attachment, while lingering questions center on Blanchardville’s future status and potential consolidation amid statewide open door policy adoption for vocational and adult education.
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Blanchardville
Madison Area Vocational
Madison
State Vocational Board
Marquette County
Wonewoe
Wisconsin
Green Rock County
Eldon Hird
Doumawestern
Richland
Iowa
Crawford
Lafayette
Grant
Noll
Hird
Viet Cong push toward Saigon as attack widens
In the fourth day of a major offensive, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces moved within 15 miles of Saigon, seized refugee villages in Bien Hoa, and pressed the edge of a key American air base. U.S. and South Vietnamese troops fought back with helicopter gunships and ground assaults as reinforcements arrived.
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Saigon
Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
U.S
State Fair Site Is Given Boost by Wisconsin Holsteins
At the 78th annual Wisconsin Holstein Breeders convention in Beloit members unanimously urged keeping agriculture at the State Fair and favor a site near Milwaukee. They support a year round exposition facility on a 600 acre site, with a $25 to $30 million project. Donald N. McDowell was applauded for leadership as other groups push similar site moves.
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Sheraton Inn
Beloit
Milwaukee
Willis Freitag
Monticello
State Fair, Explained the Advisory Council
Fair Management
Freitag
Donald N. McDowell
State Association
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
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Larry Buetzer
Dennis Miller
Brodhead
Tom Lokrantz
Donald Siedschlag
ASCS
Les Goke
Soil Conservation Service
Allen Reed
Myron Jeglum
Green County
Bill Henguinet
Monroe Production Credit Association
Floyd Achterberg
the Commercial Bank
Kenneth C. Allen
Times
Hampton, Sigafus
New York
Vietnam
Albany Village
Washington
Rep
Henry Schadeberg
R-Wis
Today
Ray Py
The
Beloit Daily News
G. William Longenecker
University of Wisconsin Arboretum
Allan Larson
Juda
St. Bernard
Mrs. Larson
Te Blanchardville
Joseph Noll
Kenosha
Milford Thompson
At Nored
Blanchardville Board
AP News
Detroit
General Motors
GMC
New Orleans
Airy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Clay Bertrand
Clay Shaw
Bertrand
Dean Andrews Jr
Shaw
Jim Garrison
Oswald
Asst. Dist
James L. Alcock
Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Grant B. Cooper
Arthur Goldberg
United States
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