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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1962
Page
2
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Editorial urges support for the 1962 New March of Dimes highlighting progress against polio and expanding to birth defects and arthritis. It cites statistics on birth defects affecting about 700 infants daily, arthritis affecting millions, and stresses early detection and ongoing research funded by donations. The piece endorses the slogan Your Dimes Will Do It Again.
A retro roundup notes 1952 events Congress reconvenes for an election year session. A Green County patrol targets a rural tavern holdup and Senator Bridges wins Republican floor leadership. Civil Defense posts prepare for a mock air attack as AP names the Yankees team of the year.
Fifty years ago Andrew Lewis was elected president of the Green County Agricultural Society and F D Jeffrey named vice president. The village of Woodford formed a 24 member band with E L Divan of Browntown as director. The Illinois Central depot at Orangeville was destroyed by fire with loss of records tickets cash and three sacks of Chicago mail. H A Smith of Monroe Electric announced the meter rental charge of one dollar per year would be dropped amid patron complaints.
A fragment from a wartime audience address urges measuring gifts by past benefits and by awareness of new goals in the fight against crippling disease. The text hints at philanthropy tied to public health during conflict, but the larger context remains unclear.
Mrs William Sue 72 a lifelong Belmont area resident died Saturday in Cuba City hospital Services were held this afternoon in Platteville She was born Nora Martins attended Livingston and Pleasant View schools She and her husband farmed south of Belmont until 1946 retiring then moving to Belmont Surviving are the husband one son Norman one sister Mrs D H Engelke and four grandchildren
Services for Andrew Jevne 84 long time Blue Mounds area resident were held this afternoon at Gesme funeral home. He died Friday at the Dane County Home Verona where he had lived the past 15 years. There are no immediate survivors.
Community notice calls for a physical development program in schools. It urges parents to check if their child’s school provides at least 15 minutes of vigorous activity daily, tests students’ abilities, tracks progress, and questions inadequacies.
Mrs Earl Crase 59 of rural Mineral Point died Saturday morning after a brief illness. Services were held this afternoon. Surviving: husband Earl Crase. sons Robert Blue River James at home Paul Kendall Township. daughter Mrs Leo Bockhop Belmont. four sisters. four brothers. six grandchildren.
A quirky note reflects on how a missing stage act resurfaces through unintended logic. The observer muses on chance, memory, and the idea that absence can reveal hidden structure in a performance.
Vice Admiral Walter G. Schindler, retired and based in Sarasota, receives national recognition for Project Alert a nationwide educational program he helped launch in 1959 while commanding the Eighth Naval District in Lubbock Texas. The effort grew from a Feb 17 1959 meeting and a call to “an alert to Communism” as part of Americanism.
Kathryn Lewis fifty daughter and secretary to John L Lewis former UMWU president died at Wickersham hospital Sunday of natural causes.
Ellie A. Yost 89 former examiner for the Federal Radio Commission the forerunner of the FCC died Sunday. He was brother of the late Fielding Yost University of Michigan athlete and coach.
Edward Bradley Cosgrove 73, chairman of Green Giant Co., longtime University of Minnesota regent, died Saturday in Palm Beach. Also note a separate health note stating burning charcoal yields nearly twice the heat of the same volume of wood.
Wisconsin joins 22 states in adopting both sales and income taxes as of February 1. The state imposes a 3 percent sales tax on selected items and a 1 percent higher income tax withholding than in 1961. Vehicle, fuel, liquor and cigarette taxes vary by state with Wisconsin at top rates for liquor and cigarette taxes.
Mrs Angie Sarah Marti 76 Beloit born Sept 7 1885 Argyle native died Saturday in a Janesville hospital. She lived in Beloit 45 years and will be laid to rest at Eastlawn Cemetery after services at Rosman Uehling Kinzer Mortuary Beloit. She was a West Side Presbyterian church member Rebekah Lodge and Woman's Relief Corps. Survived by son Russell Ableman sisters Mida Kipelinger Myrta Schliem Anna Bi ers and three California based stepchildren plus two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Paul E. Scallon, 58, longtime Ohio native who lived in Chicago 35 years, then Darlington four months, died yesterday at Darlington hospital after a brief illness. He resided on Route 2. Survived by wife Ruth Rosleip and three brothers and three sisters in Ohio. Body to Somerset, Ohio for services and burial.
John L. Ryall, 91, of Brodhead died at 8 15 Sunday morning in St. Clare hospital after a brief illness. He was born February 22, 1870 in Louisville Kentucky and lived in Council Bluffs Iowa Lady Smith Wisconsin and Oshkosh before moving to Brodhead in 1938. He married Augusta Behrens on February 22 1922 in DeLand Florida. He was a member of St Peter s Lutheran Church Brodhead and the Ladysmith Masonic Lodge. Surviving are his wife three sons Ernest Kenosha John Livingston Montana and Richard Elgin Illinois one brother Ernest Council Bluffs two sisters Mrs Dora Fullenweider Crawfordsville Indiana and Mrs Nell Bartley Gary Indiana seven grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1 30 p m tomorrow at Newcomer funeral home with Rev H J Schaar of St Peter s Lutheran Church officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery Brodhead. Friends may call at Newcomer tonight.
Don Ott elected recording secretary of the Community Betterment Committee to replace Gerald Disch who becomes chairman succeeding Waldo Freitag. Red Cross representatives seek committee help to secure pledges for the Bloodmobile drive in New Glarus next month.
David W. Mendel of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin reports improved skilled trades training in Green County in 1961. Six new indentures were approved across four trades, up from four indentures in three trades the prior year, and three apprentices completed in three trades. Recipients listed include Joe Rast in carpentry, Leland H. Hoeft in electrician construction, and Homer Partridge in plumbing.
The Census Bureau notes the Negro population rose 46.7 percent in the last 20 years, outpacing the 35.7 percent rise in total U.S. population. In 1960, Negroes numbered 18,871,831 or 10.5 percent of the population, up from 9.7 percent in 1940, with a birth rate higher than the national average.
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