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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates for Monroe residents at 12.0 per year by carrier and 7 per year by mail for Wisconsin and Stephenson county Illinois. Office hours and contact details are provided.
The board of education opts to send the bond proposal and building plan to a special meeting of Union district electors rather than direct board action. The open meeting will answer questions on need, schedule, and future needs, with the referendum still required. If electors approve, a special session could set a bond election soon after, with construction to begin after winter weather subsides and classrooms ready by fall term.
A Senate Labor Committee hearing revealed a growing coal emergency with officials warning of potential furnace outages. The three day week under John L. Lewis reduced output as strikes hit hard coal regions, though mild winter spared some districts. a frigid wave could worsen the crisis and trigger public protest.
The piece argues that a large manufacturing halt over unresolved points at Chrysler reflects deeper union-management tensions. It notes the public misunderstandings of labor tactics and questions the reliance on strike as a bargaining tool while reporting plans for a secretariat building at the United Nations with extensive glass windows.
Ten year recap includes Kenesaw Mountain Landis proposal to end farm system in baseball and Italian Hungarian volunteers aiding Finland. Also notes junior high instructor change and various 19th 20th century events such as birthdays weddings and local sports results.
President Truman urges using floodwaters to generate electricity as part of a broad plan to develop the Mississippi Missouri Ohio river valleys. He touts a $1,500 flood control and navigation program and public power projects to fuel industrial growth, with massive kilowatt targets and long term projects across several states.
The Brodhead PTA will hear Dr Adolph R Winther director of Whitewater State Teachers College speak on School Reorganization Problems Monday at 7 30 pm in the high school play room. An open forum led by William Struck will follow the address with parents urged to attend.
Roy Grether aged 26, keeper of a Pike Lake tavern, died Tuesday night from injuries suffered in an automobile collision that occurred Sunday, in Hartford.
The Oakley homemakers gathered at Mrs. Judd Earleywine’s home with co hosts Mrs. LaVerne Nyman and Mrs. Lawrence Rosheisen. An 18 member plus one guest class learned mitten and glove making taught by Mrs Nyman and Mrs Swain. A new member, Mrs. William Beightol, joined. gifts celebrated the Earleywine baby and Mrs. Weidman’s son. A Feb. 11 family party is planned. next meeting Feb. 15 at Mrs. Raymond Arnsmeier’s home.
Wilbur McCreedy will open a new grocery and meat market tomorrow in the old meat market building. George Hlavachek will head the meat department after years with the Fairbanks Morse plant at Beloit, but he finishes there Tuesday.
Eleanor Booth Simmons born about 80 years ago in the area died recently in Hackensack. A pioneer in feminist journalism she covered the Black Tom explosion despite wartime censorship, filing seven columns for The New York Sun. She also helped win women seats at the sports press table by covering the Jess Willard Frank Moran bout at Madison Square Garden.
A columnist recalls women reporters who wrote a cat column for the World-Telegram and the Sun while at a hospital. editor notes that today’s newspaper girls have a notable tradition to live up to.
Federal suits against Col. Robert H. Morse of Fairbanks Morse and Co. by his stepdaughter have been settled. One suit, filed in March 1949 by Belleta Wilma Dou of San Diego, sought to set aside the will of her mother Rosali Morse, wife of Col Morse, who left a $500 000 estate.
Judge LaBay learned that Miss Douglas will be paid 115000 under an out of court settlement. Another suit sought an accounting of a 250000 trust fund created by her mother, with an agreement allowing lifelong benefits from the trust.
Pumice and pumicite deposits are mined in eleven states plus Alaska. The output notes broad geographic spread of quarrying operations and implies significant regional activity in volcanic rock extraction.
An old classified style ad touts a chiropractor offering Neurocalometer evaluations and medical contact via a listed phone number, highlighting the practitioner and location details for potential clients.
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