Holstein Meet Centers Set in Monroe Speakers Named
The Green County Holstein Breeders association announced that the state Holstein convention will center in Monroe at the Goetz theater and Eugene hotel with registration starting February 20. Dr. Huddleston of Michigan will speak, with Dr. Heizer and Robert Rumler also on the program. a Turner hall banquet will honor state youth dairy winners including four 4-H boys, five FFA boys, and two 4-H girls.
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Green County Holstein Breeders’ Association
Monroe
Goetz
Eugene
Barron
Wisconsin
Barron ‘County Breeders’ Association
Walter G. Timm
Goetz Theater
Huddleston
Michigan
E. E. Heizer
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Robert Rumler
National
Holstein-Friesian Asociation
Turner Hall
FFA
Willard S. DeVoe Dies at Orfordville
Willard S. DeVoe, 75, died late yesterday at his son Jesse DeVoe’s home in Orfordville from a malignant growth. Born October 24, 1874 in Martintown, he married Jessie Smith in 1894. Survivors include five children, a half-brother, 17 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending at Everson funeral home in Brodhead.
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Orfordville
Willard S. DeVoe
Jesse
Martintown
Loren DeVoe
Jessie Smith
Winslow
Freeport
Charles Knudson
Evansville
Frank Daniels Jr
Milton
Lyle Eggen
Fred Haun
Milton Junction
Charles DeVoe
Brodhead
Everson
School Board Offers To Inspect Used Bus For Sale
Northland Greyhound lines offered a 29 passenger bus for 4000 dollars to replace the old unsafe transport used to move teams and activities. The board planned to inspect the vehicle this afternoon after it arrived from Madison. Fire causes minor damage at Baumgartner's cheese store. Sparks from a short circuit ignited cotton snow in Swiss miniature display pieces, quickly extinguished by staff with no damage to the building.
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Northland Greyhound Lines
Madison
Baumgartner’s
Fishermen Salvage Cars From Ice Break Floe on Winnebago
Hundreds of ice fishermen retrieved autos stranded when a wind broke the ice on Winnebago creating a large floe. About 250 cars were left on the ice. by Monday only 26 remained in the Oshkosh area as owners moved vehicles to shore and garages with a conservation department escort.
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Lake Winnebago
Oshkosh
Ian
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Chilton
Conservation Department
Fond du Lac
Intruder Sought In Orfordville Hunt
An impromptu manhunt formed in Orfordville after a 45 year old stranger forced his way into the home of Mr and Mrs Anton Fossum near highway 13. He ate canned meat and sought a car while speaking little before fleeing when the couple’s son arrived. Police and volunteers conducted a search with no results. Earlier the man allegedly molested Jacob Blumer, 81, near Monticello.
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Urtoraviie
Anton Fossum
Jacob Blumer
Monticello
Evans Again Heads Brown Swiss Group
Evans Again Heads Brown Swiss Group at the Wisconsin Brown Swiss Breeders association annual meeting in Madison. Evans was re elected president and Clifford Martin of West Salem was named vice president. Mrs Norman Magnussen of Lake Mills was re elected secretary. The group backed Paul Dirkson of Columbus Ohio to judge Brown Swiss at the 1950 state fair, with Harvey Swartz of Waukesha as second choice and Wayne Lyon of Galesville as junior show judge.
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Madison
Willard Evans
Waukesha
Clifford Martin
West Salem
Norman Magnussen
Lake Mills
Paul Dirkson
Columbus
Harvey Swartz
Wayne Lyon
Galesville
Mao Back in Moscow After Leningrad Stopover
Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung returned to Moscow today from a brief trip to Leningrad.
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Mao
Moscow
Mao Tze-tung
Leningrad
Hospital Boosted Patient Care in 49
A 1949 annual hospital summary for St. Clare shows 4 593 patients treated, up 429 from 1948, with record days of 105 in hospital and 43 on a quiet day. The average stay dropped to 6.5 days, births reached 813 with six pairs of twins, and the hospital logged 69 511 patient days.
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St. Clare Hospital
Ar Tival
W. G. Bear
Ben H. Brunkow
Bear
City Band Plans County Home Concert in February
The City band aims to perform at the Green County Home with dates to be set later. Band president Josef J. Benkert reported he contacted Warden Francis who welcomed the idea. Officers and park board reps outlined policy points and programming, uniforms, and invitation acceptance policies.
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Green County
Park Board
Josef J. Benkert
Warden Francis
A. F. Barnard
Grains Edge Up Amid Buying and Short Covering
Chicago grain prices rose modestly at the board of trade as commercial buying and short covering supported wheat. Reports Spain arranged a $12,000,000 loan to buy wheat from the United States and Canada boosted sentiment. Corn receipts were light at 53 cars and cash dealers posted a half cent higher buying basis.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Spain
United States
Canada
Democrats Back Truman on Formosa Policy Unity
Senate Democrats endorsed President Truman's hands off stance on Formosa and warned that military aid to Chinese nationalists could spark war. The party line was echoed by Lucas of Illinois and O'Conor of Maryland, while Republicans pressed for firmer action amid seizing of the Peiping consulate and calls to block Communist China from the UN.
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Washington
Senate
Democrats United
Truman
Formosa
Lucas
Illinois
State Acheson
State Department
China
George
D-Ga
Moscow
Peiping
O’conor
Maryland
Rules Committee Seeks Quick Vote
Washington reports the Rules Committee moved to force a quick vote on a change to restore its power to pigeonhole legislation with Rep Cox tasked to advance a vote. President Truman may enter the fight if time allows as a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats seeks to curb House maneuvering.
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Washington
Truman
House
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Sabath
D-Ill
Rep
Cox
D-Ga
Monroe High School FFA Students Earn Profits From Farm Projects
Monroe High School agriculture students in the Future Farmers of America program earned 26836.40 dollars from farm products and improvements last year. Sixty four members completed 132 activities covering soil crops machinery buildings livestock and marketing. The department with nearly 70 students exceeds the state average and produced twenty five major letter awards and multiple emblems and chapter awards. Eight FFA students qualified for the Wisconsin Farmer’s degree though only three may receive it due to the quota per chapter. Projects included beef cattle dairy calves pigs and chickens exhibited at the county fair and the FFA booth earning first place.
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Monroe
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Robert E. Davenport
Booth
Prankster Steals Gas Truck Menacing Chicago Port Traffic
Charles Martin, 23, reportedly drank before the incident at Midway airport. He sped a gasoline truck along runways, jeopardizing two incoming airliners, then halted as police and firefighters pursued. No charges filed immediately.
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Chicago
Chiesan 1. T
Midway
Municipal
Charles Martin
Eastern Airlines
American Airlines
Washington
Martin
Henry J. Allen Dies at Wichita
Henry J. Allen 81 former United States senator and former Kansas governor died shortly after 6 am today after several weeks illness. He led as a party orator at the peak of his career and had been less active the last two decades. A newspaper editor and publisher in Kansas for half a century he was chairman of the Wichita Beacon board at death. Survivors include his widow a daughter Mrs Julius Holmes and three grandchildren. He first sought the Kansas governorship in 1912 as a Teddy Roosevelt progressive later won in 1918 and was reelected before being named in 1929 to an unexpired U.S. Senate term.
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Wichita
Henry J. Allen
United States
Kansas
Allen
Wichita Beacon
Julius Holmes
U. S
Lewis Douglas
London
Teddy Roosevelt
U. S. Senate
Chamber Committee Holds One Day Drive for 1950 Membership
More than twenty chamber of commerce members conducted a one day canvass across the city for the 1950 membership campaign. The morning breakfast at Eugene hotel distributed cards and member lists to workers led by Paul Dannerbeck and Paul Neubauer. No progress reports or goal figures were available, but organizers expect renewals and new memberships to push totals above 340.
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Chamber of Commerce
Eugene
Paul P. Dannerbeck
Paul W. Neubauer
City Council to Hear Two Department Reports Tonight
City council plans to receive at least two department reports in the session tonight. Police Chief J. H. Schwaiger will report on police activities for the year and City Engineer Z. A. Gorder will present final details of the public square repaving project.
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J. H. Schwaiger
Z. A
Gorder
Mississippi Rise Threatens Floods
The Army Engineers and Red Cross ordered 12 000 people to evacuate a low flood way near New Madrid and Birds Point Missouri as emergency plans go into effect for the Mississippi flood threat. Evacuation was precautionary with potential dynamiting of a plug to relieve pressure downstream.
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Associated Press
Army Engineers
Red Cross
Charleston
New Madrid
Birds Point
Great River
Wabash
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Vincennes
Arkansas
Michigan
California
San Joaquin Valley
Pacific
Shawneetown
Carmi
Ill
Marnne
Rising Sun
Concord
New Haven
Little Wabash
Cincinnati
Pipeline Blast Shocks Dumas Texas Officials
A two foot gas line supplying Texas gas to the west coast ruptured last night, roaring loudly and blazing for a period. No casualties were reported.
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Dumas
Tex
Texas
Miners Idle as Nationwide Strike Expands
79,000 miners in six states are idle as the coal strike worsens. Crucible Steel cuts 25 percent at its Midland plant in Pennsylvania and Duquesne Light warns industries to prepare for possible plant shutdowns by Friday if power rationing occurs. President Truman rejects Brewster request to use Taft Hartley act against John L. Lewis.
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Pittsburgh
Crucible Steel Co
Americ
Miland
Dequesne Light Co
Adamant
Washington
Truman
Brewster
R-Me
John L. Lewis
Crucible Steel
Midland
Syracuse
Denham Delays Ruling On Three Day Week In Mines
Washington report says Robert N. Denham general counsel for the national labor relations board has not decided whether to seek a court order against the three day work week in coal mining. Mine owners claim the plan violates fair labor practice provisions under Taft Hartley law.
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Denham
Washington — (P
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Coal strike spreads as miners walk out and plants face curtailment
The strike widens with roving pickets at coal and steel sites. Duquesne Light considers cutting power to industry to conserve for homes, threatening 300 plus major plants. About 10,500 West Virginia miners join the stoppage, with 1,800 Albania mine workers also closed. UMW leaders urge return to work while predicting spread nationwide. US Steel cites prudent business practice in halting miners' credit as the three-week stalemate continues.
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N. Y
Duquesne Light
Steel Company
Albania
United States Steel Corp
Republic Steel Corp
Pennsylvania
Cambria County
Indiana County
United Mine Workers
Lewis
District Four
Cecil J. Urbanik
Monongah
W. Jane
West Virginia
UMW
John Ozanich
Robena
Greene County
Ozanich
U.S. Steel
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Holstein Group
Winnebago’s
Evans
Pittsburgh Steel
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Acheson
Russia
North China
Manchuria
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Thomas Albert Brennan Jr
Brennan
T. A. Brennan
Earl Sorenson
Janesville
Times
Mississippi
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