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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1949
Page
6
Rain and drizzle shifting to snow flurries and much colder by night. Strong northerly winds shift to colder. Low temperatures tonight 12 to 18 northwest 35 to 40 southeast. Sunday night 5 to 15 below northwest 8 to 5 above southeast. High 47 and low 31 yesterday. Miami warmest 80. Helena coldest 3. Sunrise 7:28 sunset 4:52.
Ellen Mae Sonsteby of Primrose and LeRoy Fredrick Trumpy of Mt. Pleasant obtained marriage licenses.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Akins of South Wayne welcome a baby boy born January 14.
St Clare Hospital lists Mrs Ralph Mon son and Mrs Delvin Spinhirne among others in Janesville and Winslow. Medical entries include Ralph Brazel Ar gyle and Mrs Walter Twuescher South Wayne, with names from Blanchardville Brodhead Darlington and surrounding areas.
The Wisconsin Rural School Association board will meet to discuss consolidations guided by local democratic procedure. President Joseph Walsh of Potosi says the group supports better rural schools, higher teacher pay, and open meetings for affected districts.
A petition opposing the city manager form of government is circulated in Rhinelander. It asks the council to adopt a charter amendment returning to the mayor alderman plan or refer the amendment to voters. The drive requires about 500 signatures, 15 percent of those who voted for governor in the last general election.
Three candidates have taken out nomination papers for Oshkosh mayor next spring. Mayor E. R. Siewert seeks re election. George F. Oaks, a former five term holder, tries to regain the post he lost to Siewert. Leo Niemuth, a former state legislator, is also a candidate.
Mae West, veteran actress, was admitted to University Hospital for an abdominal ailment described as only fair. Six hours later she departed in a wheelchair at her own request to avoid delaying the production and risking the jobs of 50 other cast members.
William H. McKeighan former Flint mayor was ordered to stand trial in Mt. Clemens on bribe conspiracy charges. The Macomb county grand jury struggled for two and a half years to bring him to court.
Irving C. Jensen of Mukwonago, aged 42, died when his automobile left Highway 24 near Muskego, struck an embankment and overturned. The fatal accident occurred yesterday on the rural road near Waukesha.
Sixty registered Holstein-Friesians from the Bennett and Norton herd were auctioned at the fairgrounds pavilion this noon. Buyers from distant states arrived, as the new Bennett farm tenants near Albany plan grade cattle. Auctioneers were Gene Mack, F. L. Buchschacher, and Herman J. Schmitz. pedigrees by Cc. Rohde and A. O. Collentine. leadsmen Kendall Digman and William Norton. clerks R. W. Blaha and W. C. Bender for Green County Sales and Service, Monroe.
Monroe residents enjoyed springlike sun while drivers cruised the square. Adolph Wandfluh, sewage disposal plant superintendent, reported large quantities of soap soapwerk dumped last night to drift into aeration tanks forming soap bubbles like snow. He warned excessive soap risks harming plant bacteria.
Two traffic incidents reported in Monroe yesterday afternoon left cars with damage. Hollis Elmer and Alois Ruf each had doors damaged after opening or backing out near 11th Street. Oscar W. Erb and Edward A. Grossen were involved in a second backing collision. Grossen’s truck remained undamaged.
August Simolke, missing after leaving a lumber camp, was identified by his Chicago family and 25 friends as the man found dead in a hotel. Police reported his wife Jennie and relatives said he kissed her goodbye on August 10 before vanishing. The family spent 996 dollars to bury the man they believed was Simolke after the body was identified.
A series of social notices lists individuals visiting, calling, or spending weekends in towns from Argyle and Janesville to Madison and Albany. Notables include Joann Easter, Henry Gempeler, Mrs. Lee Richards, Mrs. Edward Kohl, and Miss Alice Faeser, with multiple weekend visits and cross-town gatherings. A joint installation of Rebekah and Odd Fellow lodges is slated for Monday January 17, with a 6:30 picnic supper and pot luck.
London reports show Conservatives liberals and rank and file Labour MPs uniting to criticize Britain's Palestine policy. Next Wednesday in the house of commons foreign secretary Bevin faces a sharp reception amid growing Middle East discontent spurred by the Israelis shooting down five RAF planes near the Palestine Egypt border eight days earlier. Harold Macmillan notes Conservative support despite past misgivings about Bevin's stance.
Mr and Mrs Fred F Burgi of Minneapolis have gone to Hollywood Florida for a month while Mr Burgi recovers from an operation. He has just been named an assistant vice president of Northwestern National Bank at Minneapolis.
Lt. and Mrs. M. L. Hasley and sons Michael and Patrick are to return to the States in February from the Hawaiian islands where Lt. Hasley is stationed. They plan to visit their parents in South Wayne.
Members of the New Apostolic church packed 46 care packages with food and some clothing on Thursday and Friday nights. The bundles were mailed to the church in Europe for distribution among members there.
Finance Minister D. C. Abbott reports Canada has a budgetary surplus exceeding 600 million dollars for the first nine months of the fiscal year. By December 31 revenues reached 1.956 billion while expenditures stood at 1.343 billion.
Prof Farrington Daniels of the University of Wisconsin predicts peacetime atomic energy will begin within a year in a limited laboratory demonstration and may become widely useful only after political world peace. He notes natural resources are limited with only five percent of coal oil and gas expended since 1900 and expects more atomic information to be released as security rules ease.
An underground broadcast says Indonesian republican guerrillas cut into Cheribon area communications and drove the Dutch from Parjitan on Java's south coast. Other units seized Djatibarang, a rail junction 20 miles northwest of Cheribon, as native leaders discuss political futures in Batavia.
Pvt. Wilson Hill, 19, AWOL from Fort Ord Calif, traveled 2200 miles to kill his father James E Hill 48 and club his step mother Alta Hill 49 in Painesville Ohio. He confessed a mutual grudge stemming from being placed in a detention home. He will be arraigned today.
Benton Harbor, Michigan report notes 17 year old Betty Holferty regained release from hospital after a single-car rollover near the city. She and her father Glenn Holferty returned to Wauwatosa with memory still blank about the incident.
A Milwaukee railroad was halted for about three hours late last night when a passenger train rammed the rear of a dead head equipment train near Sturtevant. No injuries are reported and investigators began examining the scene.
Dr C W Bennett an 83 year old banker and dentist took a first plane ride over his farm south of Juda with Gilbert T Baltzer of Badger airport. The flight offered a view of Monroe and Green county landmarks and hints at a planned second aerial trip when fields are greener.
The United States announced that nations not in collective defense pacts will not receive American arms or defense supplies. Spokesman Michael J. McDermott said only countries allied with the defense arrangement would be eligible. He cited Latin American republics, Western European powers, and members of existing pacts as covered by the policy.
The Convocation of Canterbury lower house adopted a declaration that wine used in Holy Communion should be pure fermented grape juice. Passed 82 to 44, it awaits further steps to become canon law. Archdeacon Percy Hartill of Stoke on Trent defined wine as fermented grape juice.
A boy and a girl both aged two drowned in Lake Monona yesterday. The victims were Tony Dussling and Haskell Furumo, children of Madison families. Their bodies were found by police floating about 40 feet from shore after being missing since morning.
President Truman told Senator Wiley he will make every effort to prevent sabotage of the St. Lawrence Seaway project within his administration. Wiley charged groups in power used devious means to delay the seaway bills and cited National Defense Department tactics.
Chicago jurors convict two youths known as "mad dog" slayers for the 1947 murder of Emil Schmeichel. James Morelli is sentenced to death in the electric chair while Lowell Fentress receives 199 years for the same crime. They already have 199-year terms for killing John Kuesis and face a third murder charge against Theodore Callis.
Maynard Black, a radio repair shop operator handling emergency messages during a four day ice storm, underwent an emergency appendectomy after staying at his transmitter to manage a flood of messages. He remained the sole outside link, relaying traffic for the Katy railroad and stories to the Associated Press from Parsons Kas.
Arnold Walker and his wife, tied to an import export business with Melvin Hildreth, receive tickets to Harry Truman's inauguration. Walker defends choosing to attend, saying they could not resist seeing the man behind the political surprise. An earlier report misidentified Walker as a vegetable stand proprietor.
A crash on U S Route 66 three miles north of Lincoln Illinois killed Edwin C Korczykowski 35 of Chicago and Mrs John Bennett 40 of Chicago and injured four others. The collision involved an auto and a truck.
Atomic blasts pose rain and dust risks as winds carry radioactive particles. Evacuations may last days to weeks while cleanup methods improve. Cattle near the New Mexico test suffered hair loss and scars. some survived with skin issues, cancer fears unresolved.
A small Beltsville turkey variety was created in 1940 with an average live weight under 10 pounds. The breed was developed to yield a compact bird used for research and production breeding.
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