Top Sale Bull Tops 390 At County 4 H Sale
An average price of 274 was paid for 24 Holstein bulls at the county 4 H FFA and Breeders sale held at the fairgrounds stock pavilion. Top price 390 paid by Harold A Hartwig for Haberdale Sussex Dandy.
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Donald Timm
4-H
FFA
Kendell C. Digman
F. L. Buchschacher
Auea
Herman J. Schmitz
Times
Fairgrounds
Harold A. Hartwig
Haberdale
Sussex Dandy
Walter Haberman
Brodhead
Sussex Robinhood Constellation
Haberdale Dale Julia
Ken Haberdale
Sussex
Gary
Kenneth Haberman
David Rowley
Evansville
Haberman
Rock County
Robert Hartwig
E. B. Griffith
Oyd Rockey
Juda
Haberdale Susser Price
David Hermanson
Blanchardville
Green County
Albany
Arthur Stauffacher
Kendall Digman
Norman Everson
Kenneth Allen
James DiVall
Ed Klassy
New Glarus
Officials Hunt Fake Money Plant
Milwaukee police and Secret Service agents hunted a counterfeit operation after a 32 year old man was arrested for passing 35 counterfeit ten dollar bills. Four other men and two women were taken for questioning as investigators chase the phony money to Milwaukee. Authorities linked the notes to the Midwest but noted a separate West Coast ring was involved in a $2500000 counterfeit twenty dollar bill racket tied to a Hollywood stage raid.
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Milwaukee
Secret Service
Truax Field
Madison
West Coast
Hollywood
Carousel Theater
Stock Prices Surge in Strong Recovery
New York stock market rose in its second session of a steady recovery. Prices advanced four to five points, with notable gains seen in New York Central, Atlantic Coast Line, Bethlehem Steel, Lee Rubber, Goodrich, Caterpillar Tractor, Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, Kennecott Copper, General Electric, General Dynamics, Climax Molybdenum, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Amerada Petroleum.
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New York i
New York Central
Atlantic Coast Line
Bethehem Steel
Lee Rubber
Goodrich
Caterpillar Tractor
Douglas Aircraft
Boeing
Kennecott Copper
General Electric
General Dynamics
Climax Molybdenum
Standard Oil (Nj
Amerada Petroleum
Monroe Bank Deposits Reach New Year End High
Total deposits across Monroe two banks rise to 18,652,529 at year end December 31 1954, surpassing 1953. First National Bank holds 11,458,481 in deposits with loans and discounts of 1,828,996. Commercial and Savings Bank reports 7,194,048 in deposits and loans and discounts of 3,264,454.
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Monroe
First National Bank
Commercial and Savings Bank
Eleven Injured In Two Crashes In Wisconsin Counties
Eleven people were hurt in two separate one car crashes in Lafayette County over the weekend. In the first incident two Milwaukee men, Joseph Salomone and Martin Brande, 62 and 58, were treated for cuts and bruises after a hunting trip party's vehicle crashed two miles east of South Wayne on Highway 11. The second crash, east of Benton on Highway 11, involved Alvin Bennett and family from Benton including Lanette Cindy and Kent a week old, plus Mrs. Bennett’s mother Mrs. Fred Poyser, all treated for bruises. Green County reported no traffic accidents.
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Lafayette County
Green County
Sheriff's Department
Joseph Salomone
Martin Brande
Milwaukee
St. Clare Hospital
South Wayne
Carl Frazio
Frank Frazio
Frederick Chandler
Highway 11
Benton
Alvin Bennett
Lanette
Cindy
Kent
Bennett
Fred Poyser
Wisconsin Rapids man given probation after embezzlement plea
Donald Gilman aged 37 of Route 1 Wisconsin Rapids was sentenced in Waupun to embezzling 2368 dollars from the Pearl School District. He received a three year probation after his attorney requested leniency.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Donald Gilman
Route 1
Waupun
Pearl
Eleven Die In Wisconsin Weekend Mishaps
The Associated Press reports eleven people died in Wisconsin accidents over the weekend. Victims include Richard Langan and James Cary in Dane County, Hugh Haines in Richland County, and other fatalities across Green Bay, Kenosha, Waukesha, Appleton, and Milwaukee areas.
Mrs. Harry Case 66 Dies in Beloit Hospital
Mrs. Harry Case aged 66 of Janesville died at 12 45 a m yesterday in St Clare hospital She was admitted Saturday as a medical patient Services are pending at Rosman Uehling Kinzer funeral home Beloit
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Harry H. Case
Route 5
Janesville
St. Clare Hospital
Ainsworth Installed as Kiwanis District Governor
Herbert M. Ainsworth of Monroe was installed as district governor of Kiwanis International Wisconsin Upper Michigan district at a mid winter training conference. About 400 delegates attended. Howard P. Olsen accepted the Monroe chapter banner as inter club relations chairman.
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Monroe
Kiwanis International
Herbert M. Ainsworth
Wisconsin-Upper Michigan
Ainsworth
Schroeder
George W. Wilkinson
Barney B. Barstow
Kiwanis
Board of Trustees
Green Bay
Howard P. Olsen
Olsen
Racine
Janesville Club
Eisenhower seeks reciprocal tariff cuts and foreign aid boosts
President Eisenhower asked Congress for power to cut tariffs up to 15 percent in a three year program to spur global growth. He urged customs simplification, tax changes to encourage overseas investment, and expanded technical cooperation while negotiating limited annual tariff reductions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
United States
Free World
Red Air Raid Bombs Tachens in Major Communist Strike
More than 66 Chinese Communist planes attacked the Tachens in a large air raid reported by the Defense Ministry. Two aircraft were shot down and two more damaged. 10 houses destroyed and civilian casualties noted. Planes came from Shanghai Hangchow Ningpo with 38 fighter bombers and 24 light bombers escorted by MiG jets. 200 miles north of Formosa.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Tachen Islands
Defense Ministry
Shanghai
Hangchow
Ningpo
Sanmen Bay
Chekiang
Red
Dancer Charged In New Kidnapping Case
Los Angeles reports Barbara Lee Collins a 27 year old carnival dancer faces federal arraignment for kidnapping a third child after FBI arrest at a suburban trailer park. Dexel Waymond Brock 34% was with her. he had been missing from Live Oak Florida for nearly two months. Collins had prior 1953 sentence in New York City for abducting two children from a Washington DC home five months earlier.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Lee Collins
FBI
Dexel Waymond Brock
Live Oak
Fla
Washington, D. C
Burglar Escapes Bourg Prison In Lyon France
A burglar escaped from Bourg prison in Lyon and seized the warden’s gun. He took the prison cash and locked the warden in a cell. Officials suspended the warden as investigations proceed.
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Lyon
France
Bourg
Penitentiary Service
Dallas Patient Dies After 168 Blood Transfusions
47 year old Hubert Harris of Dallas died after more than 168 pints of blood were transfused to treat mysterious intestinal bleeding. Baylor hospital reported the death at about 6:00 am after surgeons opened Harris’s stomach seeking the bleeding source. Harris had a rare b negative blood type and his case was noted as unprecedented in transfusion history.
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Dallas
Tex
Hubert Harris
Baylor Hospital
Harris
McCarthy Trip Delays Inquiry Into Peress Discharge
Senator McCarthy’s unexpected trip delays a requested inquiry by the Senate investigations subcommittee into the Army’s handling of Irving Peress. A fresh Democratic leadership is expected. Sen. McClellan would take over the chair if a new list is approved by Wednesday.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
Irving Peress
Army
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Peress
New York
Senate
Congress
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Missing Wisconsin Woman Vanishes Without Clues
WAUKESHA Wisconsin authorities search the Fox River for Rose Marie Planinshek 32 a West Allis housewife missing since a week ago. Sheriff Lombardi reports dragged searches fail to locate her body though boots and slippers found in the river are identified as hers and her car was found partly submerged along the riverbank.
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Waukesha
Rose Marie Planinshek
West Allis
Mike Lombardi
Fox River
Planinshek
Viennese Visitor Plans Return Trip After Monroe Stay
Mrs. Marie Auinger of Vienna will leave Monroe with her daughter and son in law Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Schwager and their son Gary for Chicago and New York to sail on the United States liner. She enjoyed Monroe's quiet air and American hospitality and hopes to visit again.
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Monroe
Vienna
Marie Allinger
Austria
Kurt Schwager
16Th Street
Schwagers
Gary
Chicago
New York
United States
Kurt
Trudy Schwager
Auinger
Valeria
Hic
Danube
Russia
America
Germans Emigrate to East in Wave Across Iron Curtain
Bonn reports thousands of West Germans are emigrating to the Soviet occupied east zone. Officials say some 6 000 to 7 000 people monthly cross the curtain, as the refugee ministry spokesman Peter Paul Nahm disclosed at a news conference.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
East Zone
Iron Curtain
Peter Paul Nahm
J P Elmer 100 Dies in Minnesota
J P Elmer a county native and long time cheesemaker died at the Old Colony convalescent home in Austin Minnesota after living there two years He was born August 12 1854 in New Glarus and became an oil land owner after learning of wealth in Divide County North Dakota He leaves four children four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews with services set for 1 30 pm tomorrow in Austin and burial there He was known as Uncle Peter and once received greetings from Mamie Eisenhower and a personal message from President Eisenhower.
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Austin
Minn
J. P
Peter) Elmer
Old Colony
Elmer
New Glarus
Peter
Divide County
N. D
Kathryn von Wolflinger Elmer
Ferina Elmer
Switzerland
Massachussetts
California
West Coast
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ben Feldt
Wally Feldt
Monticello
Highway 69
Mamie Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Albert M
Los Angeles
Walter
Oelwein Sr
Adam J
Savannah
Floretta Lubberts
Lucinda
Euphramia
Samuel
Nasser Honors U S Ambassador’s Wife in Cairo
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser awarded Egypt’s highest honor for women to Mrs. Jefferson Caffery in Cairo on Sunday night. She is the wife of the retiring United States ambassador to Egypt.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Jefferson Caffery
U. S
U.N. Chief and Chou End Peiping Talks Without Fliers’ Fate
Dag Hammarskjold and Chou En-lai concluded their Peiping meetings with a commitment to continue contact. The communique did not mention the 11 U.S. airmen imprisoned in Red China. Hammarskjold plans to travel to Hong Kong and Tokyo after leaving Peiping.
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United. Nations
N. Y
Dag Hammarskjold
Chou En-lai
Peiping
U. S
Red China
U. N
U.N. General Assembly
China
Chou
U.N
State Council
Foregin
People’s Republic of China
Peking
Per Lind
Tokyo
Hammarskjold
America
Canton
Hong Kong
William Stevenson
The
Toronto Star
Red
Youth Rescued After 30 Minutes in Lake Delavan
A 15 year old Williams Bay boy James Eitmontas fell into icy Lake Delavan while skating. Mr and Mrs James Hall residents on the shore heard his cries and reached him with a long plank after about half an hour in the cold water.
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Delavan
Wis
Williams Bay
Lake Delavan
James Hall
James Eitmontas
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James V. Cary
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Hugh Haines
Gilingham
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Abrams
Wisconsin Farm Service Co-operative
Przybilski
Joseph Howard
Fond du Lac
George Tinnes
Kenosha
Charles Adams
Appleton
Kathlee
St. Louis
Edward McKnight
Oakfield
Fond du Lac County
Joann Fetzer
Joseph Fetzer
Richfield
Harry E. Holmberg
Burlington
Milwaukee Road
Harry Case
U.S
Tachens
Chiang Islands
Dancer
New
By Helen Zimmerli
J.P. Elmer
Minnesota
San Francisco
Hugo Wistrand
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