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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1947
Page
5
The 1946 election year produced a GOP victory with 51 of 96 Senate seats. The final GOP opposition rose as conservatives gained in foreign circles viewed as a rightward swing. Strikes at industrial plants, sparked by a United Auto Workers action from October, remained a leading year end story.
The year ago top stories included birth of the atomic bomb and the United Nations getting underway. It notes shifts in Britain, probes into Pearl Harbor, and trials of war criminals, with postwar upheavals across Europe Asia and the Pacific.
The year saw a tougher U S stance on debated issues as domestic tragedies rose. The June La Salle fire in Chicago cost 61 lives, the worst since earlier disasters, followed in December by the Winecoff hotel fire in Atlanta which killed many more.
Brooklyn Dodgers win a dramatic playoff to claim the National League pennant amid a crowded news year. Other top items include the Paris peace conference and cabinet resignations of Henry Wallace and Harold L. Ickes, meat shortages, space exploration via radar and rockets, the Garson case, and the housing crisis.
Residents in Browntown and Freeport shared holiday gatherings with relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Melborn Miller joined M V Miller and others in Denton Nebraska for Christmas while Sir Jack Miller returned from radar training in Boston to visit family. New Year Eve parties hosted by Ray Rackow featured prizes won by Ivan Ellingson and Erma Teuscher among attendees including Erma Foulker, Helen Ellingson, and Palmer Wahler. Whitehead and Van Matre hosted guests from Monroe and Freeport for New Year celebrations.
Bernard Albright and Wendell Wunschel visit Chicago with uncle Vernon Albright. E T Lahr and Ben Lahr families host. Joe Jones guests honor birthdays of Mrs. Leroy Peterson, Mrs. Jones, and Mrs. G B Lahr. Donald Miller and John D Elmer dine with Herman Mauerman in Albany. Goecks and Buhlman families visit Freeport. In Lima Peru is figima giant.
Madison man J Ward Rector, 43, a justice on the state supreme court, announced his candidacy for election in April. Appointed by Governor Goodland on April 6, 1946, to fill the vacancy after Joseph Martin’s death, Rector cites his court record and bar experience as qualifications. He previously served as deputy attorney general from 1939 to appointment and was secretary to Gov Schmedeman from 1933 to 1935.
Senator elect Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin advocates labor law changes to curb labor boss excesses and increase democracy in unions while warning against overreach. He also cautions against a rapid 20 percent income tax cut, urging careful consideration by Republicans.
Mrs Rosa Taft 81 former Monticello resident died Monday at her Whitewater home where she had lived the past 20 years Funeral services will be Friday at 1 PM at Skindingsrude Lei funeral home Whitewater Rev Alfred Head officiating Burial will be in Highland Cemetery Monticello She was born Rosa Marty in New Glarus on November 17 1865 and was married to Frank Taft on September 15 1889 Survivors include son Herbert F Taft Whitewater daughter Mrs H C Klassy Monticello three grandchildren and four great grandchildren
Attendees at the Vivian Kauffmann and Marvin R. Devine wedding at Bethel Lutheran Madison include Mrs A R Burgdorff Mrs O A Glaeden Mrs Henry Glaeden and Scott Hilton with Rubly Glaeden and Dolores Glaeden as bridesmaids. Cap Hotel hosted a wedding dinner and lion. Several Madison and New Glarus residents were mentioned in subsequent family events, hospital visits and baptisms. Rosa Taft death announced in Whitewater with service Friday in Whitewater and burial Monticello cemetery.
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