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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1964
Page
2
An editorial urges inclusive open discussion among citizens and city departments on the fire police station project. It notes divided local opinions, points to rock removal costs, and suggests bundling a new city hall wing into one package to save money if grades are adjusted to limit rock work.
Analysis notes President Johnson used simple phrases to present his goals for fair chances, fair play, full-time jobs, family, children, and security. It contrasts government’s role with individual enterprise and critiques politicians’ failure to address decent homes amid economic challenges.
Monroe Evening Times recaps multiple era items from 1964 1939 1924 and 1914. Subjects include rising business levels in Monroe 60th wedding anniversary Otto Blum, high school Silver Streaks in a 54 42 loss, Sun Prairie Badger Conference inquiry, limburger cheese industry funding and hearings, Goetz family relocation to Miami, St Johns Evangelical leadership, a harness racing fatality, skating rink fixes by Kiwanis and postmaster exams, local bank directorship, and federal tax filing reminders with route revisions and street widening plans.
The discussion centers on restricting the helping hand approach to voluntary or needed areas as the federal budget edges toward the $100 billion mark for the next fiscal year set by Mr. Johnson. The remarks frame a clash over welfare scope and fiscal discipline.
A Swiss Colony gift parcel bound for USS Glacier sailors during Operation Deep Freeze was jettisoned from an Antarctic plane after engine trouble. Three quarters of the cheese survived the snow dump near McMurdo Sound, and a Florida wife’s note praises the salvaged gift as a rare bright spot amid extreme cold and isolation.
Dallas widow of Lee Harvey Oswald accepts as fact that her husband killed President Kennedy. Her adviser says she has no desire to sue Dallas or anyone else and remains under Secret Service protection while free to come and go. Marina Oswald has received about 38000 in national contributions.
Gov. Rockefeller presented a 1964 program promising no tax increases and avoided major political confrontations that could hurt presidential prospects. He urged targeted reforms, backed a June primary, endorsed repealing old railroad crew rules, pay raises for state workers, and grand jury presentments. He also deferred decisions on wage, ethics, licensing, local aid, housing, and gun ownership reforms while touting five-year progress in growth, education, and civil rights.
Clifford Cortrite 81 died Tuesday night. Services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at Sharer funeral home with Rev. Paul Gibson of Immanuel EUB Church Brodhead officiating. Burial at Maple Hill cemetery Evansville. Calling hours tonight. Survived by daughter Mrs. Marvin Elmer Route 1 Albany and four grandsons.
Julius Raab former Austrian chancellor dies at 73 in Vienna. He steered Austria back to independence after postwar occupation by the United States Soviet Union Britain and France, with the occupation ending in 1955.
Warden W Francis spoke long distance with Lucille Francis of Albany and her husband William Carpenter in Orlando after a Jacksonville hotel fire listed Mr and Mrs William Carpenter of Orlando among victims. The Carpenters, in Florida over ten years, had been seriously injured in a traffic accident and moved south for his health. They reported no casualties among them.
The American Dairy Association argues that published gloom about the dairy industry is overstated. A new report notes rising 1963 milk demand by over 10 billion pounds versus 1950, while actual marketed milk climbed about 18 billion pounds, creating a large surplus and pressuring price improvements.
Principal nominees for West Point vacancies in the First District are Thomas P. Gage of Whitewater and George H. G. Hall of Janesville. Randall W. Schmidt of East Troy is the Air Force Academy pick. No First District opening for Annapolis Naval Academy. Schmidt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schmidt, is a East Troy High School senior and NSF mathematics scholar at Rollins College. Hall, son of Col. and Mrs. Francis G. Hall, finished his freshman year at Indiana University at 17. his father and brother are West Point graduates. Gage, son of Norval Gage, is a Whitewater senior active in athletics and National Honor Society.
Mr and Mrs Paul Grossenbacher report their son John in Heidelberg Germany and his wife and daughter spent Christmas with Grossenbacher relatives in Burgdorf and Basel Switzerland The family belongs to a base church choir that joined in a Kennedy memorial service a tape of which was sent to Mrs Kennedy They note church bells rang across Switzerland and Germany during Kennedy’s funeral
In Washington the President politely declined a French hint to meet Charles de Gaulle in Martinique citing duties that keep him in the United States. Johnson outlined a five year poverty program costing more than five billion dollars with initial year funding around one billion, later clarified as the first year. A federal court sustained a panel’s ruling that four operating unions face job cuts as railroads reduce staff, signaling broad layoffs.
The Central Intelligence Agency reports that the Soviet Union’s economic growth trails the United States, with Russia’s growth under 2.5 percent annually in the last two years while U S growth runs about 5 percent. Russian gold reserves have fallen below 2 billion dollars.
Gov. John W. Reynolds announced the appointment of Edward J. Ruetz a Kenosha banker and retired judge to the Banking Review Board. The new term runs until January 1969.
Experienced buyer sought to purchase and assemble Swiss Cheddar Munster and other cheeses directly from cheese factories. Excellent commission or salary plus benefits. Send details to Box No 79 Times.
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