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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1949
Page
2
Rates listed for Wisconsin and Stephenson county Illinois at 7 dollars per year with outside Wisconsin at 1 dollar per year. All subscriptions require advance payment to comply with regulations. Office hours from 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m and calling numbers provided for after hours news and business inquiries.
Gov Rennebohm leads early budget push trimming 26 million from department requests to shape upcoming appropriation battles. Lawmakers urged to move beyond partisanship and lay long term foundations for services while debating expanding the state highway police amid local policing concerns. A compromise may be needed to resolve the patrol expansion dispute.
The administration seeks immediate drafting of a Columbia River Valley Authority, a massive project expected to dwarf the Tennessee Valley Authority. Proponents see government control of natural resources expanding, while critics recall early opposition to TVA.
Walter Craine, 54, a World War I marine private, gave up his military medals and dress uniform to avoid jail. He reminded the judge he may still wear the good conduct medal earned, after being charged with wearing the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award.
Ten years ago three hundred students in a January short course at Madison were placed under scarlet fever quarantine. Last rites were held at Apple Grove church for Mrs. Clara Monson. Formal impeachment demand in the House targeted Frances Perkins. First reports listed 4,000 dead in the central Chile earthquake.
Madras province faces famine affecting more than 12 million people, according to the provincial revenue minister. Government agencies assess food shortage and relief needs across the region.
The University of Wisconsin extension offers a remedial reading course for teachers. Enrollment is at Monroe High School with classes at Monroe High School weekly through the semester. Prof. Theodore L. Torgerson will teach, offering graduate or undergraduate credits transferable to teachers’ colleges.
At Darlington Saturday the Darlington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. re-elected three directors and all officers. Directors are Robert Howe Benton D T Stuart Charles Harris August Stiefel and Chester Winger and George Engebretson. Officers are Stuart president Elmer Fitzimmons vice president and Howe secretary treasurer. Receipts for the year were 131598.16 and disbursements 68605.44. Total insurance in force on Dec 31 1948 was 31528077.
London Lambeth borough council formed a clean food association after the medical officer reported a grocery customer found two live mice inside a packet of breakfast cereal. The move aims to improve safety and sanitation across retailers.
James L. Kraft chairman of Kraft Foods Co. donates jade valued at $1,000 to the University of Wisconsin art education department. The gift includes white Burmese jade and pieces from New Zealand, British Columbia, California, Alaska, and Wyoming.
President's daughter Margaret Truman will receive a 100 pound bag of Lebanon County potatoes. The gesture follows a statement from Mrs. Truman denying reports she had quit eating potatoes, with the potatoes arranged after Mildred Gibble Deuber of Myerstown started the process.
Washington reports a projected shift toward guided missiles, with up to 40 percent of the defense budget by 1952. Experts say propulsion and guidance may advance, while mass destruction weapons remain a broader research focus. submarine launched buzz bombs and radar tracked missiles feature in ongoing work.
Cesare T Compien, chair man of ime research and development Board, leaves the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to assume a government post. A scientist by training he has spent much of his career in administration.
Harold Maginn of Auburn, Illinois, was arrested by a Springfield motorcycle cop after a stolen car he claimed to own was found. He could not present a license, then admitted reporting the car stolen last April and recovering it last August.
Washington notes Senator Brewster a Republican from Maine discussed a plan to give every person a $100 monthly pension during a debate with House Majority Leader Rep. McCormack a Democrat from Massachusetts last night.
Eighty attended the second weekly meeting of the community leadership training school sponsored by the Monroe Minstrel association at the Methodist church. Sessions occur each Monday for four weeks led by Dallas D. Landrum on pupil understanding and religion's significance, with other instructors from Zwingli and St. Joans churches teaching Biblical courses and teaching methods.
The air force cadets will switch to blue uniforms after April 4 replacing the wartime Standard Knaki. The new outfits will resemble those worn before 1942 for the fledgling fliers.
A county wide nurse recruitment program will be held on Tuesday February 15 at 3 PM in the Monroe high school auditorium. County nurse Miss Ruth Chase announced the event with Anita Kieterman recruitment nurse from the state board of health as speaker. Green County high school seniors and others interested in nursing will be invited.
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