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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
2
Subscription rates listed for carrier and mail in Wisconsin and Stephenson County Illinois with outside rates. Annual payment in advance required. Office hours 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m Thone No 3. After hour news and business lines provided.
Rep. Smith calls for public release of a classified China report by Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer kept secret at the administration, claiming its findings may challenge Marshall policies and warn that the nation risks losing the Asia war without frank disclosure.
Green counties Red Cross chapter plans advanced and elementary home nursing courses for public instruction. Courses have proven valuable in war and prewar years when nurse supply for home care was scarce. The program aims to improve family health awareness and accident preparedness in the home.
Wisconsin Power and Light Co. asks for higher water heating rates and a bill surcharge reversing a 15 year trend of rate reductions since 1933. Rising labor and fuel costs of about 75 percent force new revenues to fund facility expansion. Efficiency gains no longer offset inflation.
Vice Admiral Hisashi Ichioka testified before the Allied tribunal that Admiral Soemu Toyoda permitted killings of survivors from torpedoed Allied ships. Toyoda, chief of Japan's combined fleet after May 1944, had commanded the Yokosuka naval district during most killings.
Dr Harold O Schneider and Miss Frances L Jan exchange marriage vows in Lincoln Nebraska on January 7 1939. Also sports notes Monroe high loses to Watertown 21 19 in final minutes and US blacklists Japan from buying airplanes bombs in protest of China civilian bombings.
E I Du Pont de Nemours announces grants of 10000 to ten universities including Wisconsin for 1949 50 to fund fundamental chemical research. Crawford H Greenewalt says the trial program may run five years if successful with projects chosen by the schools and no commercial implications at start.
Newark five crated military planes seized by federal court order as unauthorized arms shipment believed bound for Egypt. Planes valued at 250000 dollars were loaded at Port Newark onto an Egyptian freighter and marked for Djibouti Abyssinia but diverted to Egypt without state department authorization.
Emma Leone Grimsley, 76, Albany native, died December 15 in Americus Kansas, after moving there with her parents as a child. Born October 18, 1872, she was the daughter of Edward and Martha Morris. She married Wiley L. Grimsley, Americus postmaster from 1932 to 1940, and served as assistant until 1941.
Clarence Roth repeated as first in the Lions club sponsored residential holiday decorations in New Glarus with John W. Elmer second and Frei Wild third. Honorable mentions went to Grant Ingwell Durward McVey and Porter Nay.
Albany reports 1948 fire losses totaling $550 with $83.33 paid by insurance. Chief Oren Burt notes 18 calls, 14 in village and 4 in county, totaling 112 man hours. The previous year’s peak was $68,000 after the Miller’s Grocery and Krostue Implement Co. blaze in September.
The Lake Carriers association announced a 1948 Great Lakes movement record of 185,359,835 tons for iron ore coal limestone and grain, surpassing the 1942 wartime peak by about 1.2 million tons. Coal and limestone also posted all-time individual highs while iron ore reached a new peacetime record of 92,889,655 tons.
New Glarus fire chief Jacob Bruni reports total village losses of 245.84 for 1948 from a single automobile fire and lightning damage to six houses. The department answered 10 calls in town and 11 in the county.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced the election of Carl E Sturm of Mana wa Wisconsin to a governor seat. Five other governors were also elected.
The Monroe Ministerial association sponsors a community leadership training school at First Methodist church starting Monday Jan 17 with sessions each Monday through Feb 21. Courses cover New Testament understanding pupils and teaching methods taught by Rev A R Achtemeier Rev Dallas Landrum and Miss Florence Voigt with church roles noted.
Victor Fleming 60 veteran director of Gone With the Wind and Joan of Arc died of a heart attack in his cottage at Beaver Creek guest ranch near Cottonwood Arizona. Relatives said he was exhausted from nearly two years on his last film but had no known illness. Fleming directed Hollywood blockbusters and earned the 1939 Academy Award for top director.
Madison Indiana held announces T H Moran former Indiana Michigan and Kentucky General Telephone officer named general manager director and vice president of the Commonwealth Telephone Co Moran will succeed Walter Dakin who resigned in Lafayette
The Green County Farm Bureau Warehouse Co. plans a new Albany building 100 feet long with a six foot loading dock un loading hoppers new scales and a dust collector A ramp links two buildings largely built by co operative employees The railroad siding coal storages and an elevator are nearby.
Mr and Mrs John J Disch have purchased the Casper Hefty residence in the north part of New Glarus with possession set for March 1 The Hefty family plans to move to a farm near Paoli and leave the village home behind
Prague Czechoslovakia allows a free market to run alongside rationed trade. Noted prices include men's ties at 12 dollars, children's overcoats 58 dollars, women's underpants 20 dollars, and a skirt 78 dollars.
Church school begins at 9:30 with John Eley Jr. as superintendent. Morning worship at 10:45 features a sermon titled Every Believer an Ambassador. Missionary society meets Tuesday night at Mrs Awalt Eichstadt. Aid society supper Wednesday. Choir practice Thursday evening at 7. Rev Dallas D Landrum is pastor.
Immanuel and Bethel churches list weekly schedules with pastors Lyndon C. Viel and Lawrence A. Brown. Times include Sunday school 9 45 morning worship 10 50 youth 7 15, family night 8, choir, and 11 worship with Christian Endeavor at 8. Mid week fellowship Tuesday with Roy Roderick, 915 24th St. New Glarus Rev Lawrence A Brown presides Holy Communion at 2 30 Sunday.
Rev. Lawrence A. Bown, pastor, will lead worship with Holy Communion at 8 Sunday night in Monticello.
Sunday school at 6 30. Church service at 10 45. Annual congregational meeting with a picnic dinner after the service. Luther League at 7 p m. Choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30 p m. Confirmation class Saturday at 10 30 a m. Children of the church Saturday at 2 p m. Rev Newell Mendenhall, pastor.
Mt Olive Lutheran Wisconsin Synod holds divine service in the Episcopal chapel at 2019 10th Street Sundays at 11. Eldor A Toepel is the pastor.
The Christian Science church announces a Sunday service on the Sacrament subject with golden text from Psalms and readings from the Bible and Science and Health. Sunday worship starts at 10 45 with Sunday school at 9 30 for those under 20. Wednesday testimony at 7 45. Church library at 1411 10th street opens Wednesday and Saturday 2 to 4 pm.
Monroe Rev Ralph Kofoed is pastor with Sunday school at 9 30 and morning worship at 10 40 Intermediate youth fellowship at 4 p m Senior youth fellowship at 7 2 ms Browntown Rev Ralph Kofoed pastor morning worship at 9 Sunday school at 10 Aid society to hold first January meeting Friday at 2 p m Gratiot Lamont South Wayne and Woodford Rev George E Kelsey minister Gratiot Sunday school at 9 morning worship at 9 30 Lamont Sunday school at 10 Young adult fellowship Tuesday evening at the Mervin Thompson home South Wayne Sunday school
Morning worship at 10.00 and 11.00 service times listed with Sunday school at 9 30 and evening worship at 7 30. Holy communion will be served and the Youth Fellowship will hold a potluck supper in the evening.
Sunday worship at 10 with theme The Lord Has Done Great Things for Us Whereof We Are Glad. Sunday school at 11. Service at 7 30 with topic The Book of Remembrance. Wednesday service at 8 p m with topic Wisdom from Above.
Rev. D Bruzelius leads Sunday school at 1 30 p m and services at 2 30 8 p m with sermons Spirit Possessed Men and Your Adversary the Devil Special prayer at 8 p m Wednesday. Friday sectional Fellowship features 2 30 p m talk by Rev Carl Johnson Baraboo 6 30 p m talk by Rev Robert Graber Mauston and 8 p m message by Rev David Carlson district superintendent. Special music planned.
A worship service is planned for 10 45 with sermon titled Processed Religion. Church school meets at 9 30 and the nursery school will gather in the church. A noon dinner will be served by the men of the church.
Sunday service after Epiphany with church school at 9 30 and worship at 10 45. Annual meeting at 2. Youth Fellowship at 7 pm. Brotherhood meets Tuesday at 8 pm led by Rev. P C Kehle.
Swiss Evangelical and Reformed classes will be held tomorrow at 1 15 and 2 30 with Sunday school at 9 30 and church services at 10 45.
The Twin Grove church schedules Bible school at 10 and a Lord's supper and worship service at 10 45 led by Rev Eugene Morgan pastor.
Pastor J. A. Haack leads Browntown Evangelical as Sunday school convenes at 9 30 a m and the worship service plus annual meeting follow at 10 30 a m.
Monticello church announces Sunday school at 9 30 and morning service at 10 40. Sermon theme is Strength for the Day.
Music by the senior choir with rehearsals on Thursday at 8 p m. Junior choir meets Saturday at 1 p m. Children’s choir at 2 p m. Confirmation classes Saturday junior at 1 p m and senior at 2 p m. Washington Reformed Worship at 2 p m. Sunday school follows service.
Pastor Homer Retzlaff leads worship at 11 with Holy Communion to follow. Sunday school starts at 10. WSWS meets Wednesday at 2 pm with Mrs Valeria Granzow.
Milwaukee circuit judges elected Roland J. Steinle of Milwaukee as chairman of the Wisconsin board of circuit judges at its annual meeting. He succeeds Alfred L. Drury of Kenosha. Arthur W. Kopp of Platteville was named vice chairman. The board includes 29 circuit judges and the Milwaukee county municipal court judge.
For the 37th consecutive year C. A. La Vassor is re-elected president and A. P. Larson is re-elected secretary treasurer of the Argyle fire department. Lawrence Steiner is vice president, Bernard Smith fire inspector, with Roy E. Simpson Woodrow Wheeler and W. T. Schroeder as standing committee members.
The Green County Chorus begins rehearsals Sunday at 8 p m at Immanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church. They will work on parts of The Messiah for the Lenton season. Practices welcome all community members regardless of religious affiliation. directed by Mrs Lyndon C Viel.
The men of the First Universalist church plan a dinner in the church basement after the morning service on Sunday. Members families and guests are invited to attend.
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