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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1964
Page
2
Editorial lauds the Saturn rocket launch as the largest payload in history, weighing 37 700 pounds and doubling the heaviest Soviet orbit. It credits engineers and workers nationwide for the milestone and asserts a restored American edge in space achievement.
Milwaukee police communications chief Henry Barnes dies of heart attack. The piece lauds Senator Smith from Maine as a poised contender and notes her potential impact on the national convention, while comparing her style to past political figures and highlighting her humorous public persona.
Ten years ago Monroe High School’s basketball team led by Herb Ableman and Bob Anderegg defeated Stoughton 43 on a game dominated by free throws. The item also notes a jail plan for 30 prisoners and dairy surplus concerns from local committees, plus a 1954 birthday ball for President Roosevelt.
A high school science fair Saturday features a 1:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. program with a 3 p.m. physics of language talk in the lecture hall. Dr Milton Pella of Wisconsin will discuss new trends in science education in a 2 p.m. talk, while a boy program on the physics and biology of spoken language is prepared with local sponsors. The event includes a 19 minute film, an artificial larynx demo, delayed speech feedback, and a computer speech recording. The fair is open to the public with 30 displays and a bicycle energy display by Wisconsin Power and Light Co. Edmund R. Anderson chairs the science department and fair.
Milwaukee story notes 19 year old Marilyn Draeger of Fort Atkinson as Alice, a state promotion figure, was barred from beer involvement by the Department of Agriculture. Fisheries council and Brewers Association reached a compromise: Alice remains parade head for the smoked fish display then departs, avoiding beer exposure.
Washington Mary Anderson 91 longtime head of the Labor Department Womens Bureau from 1920 to 1944 died Wednesday in Royal Oak Michigan Mead L Bricker 78 longtime Ford vice president and top production executive died Tuesday in New York Mrs Gayer G Dominick 77 mother of U S Senator Peter H Dominick died Wednesday after a long illness in New York City and Colorado Springs respectively
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce a textile testing house requests 200000 moths of the cloth chewing variety. They plan to use these moths on material samples claimed to be mothproof to gauge effectiveness and durability.
Albert E. Blum 63 Monticello native and IRS evaluation expert died at 5 40 AM in North Shore Hospital Miami Florida where he spent the weekend with his mother He was born March 13 1900 and married Selma W Waage July 16 1927 Surviving mother sister and brother live in Florida and Michigan Funeral plans are pending at Voegeli funeral home.
Milwaukee Dele gates to the annual High way Conference rejected Gov Reynolds appeal to use influence for voter approval of an accelerated road construction program. County highway commissioners adopted a non political resolution for a study of financing increased road work and backed a one cent gas tax increase and a highway bond debt referendum to be voted April 7. Reynolds had pressed for immediate adoption, but the GOP majority sent the issue to a referendum.
Baumgartner Schmidt and Casper Mallory lead names of ward workers and block workers. The lengthy list covers Fifth through Eighth wards with dozens of Mmes and Messrs named alongside Mrs and Misses in the election staffing roster.
Wisconsin Elks mid winter conference chaired by Paul A. Fischl will convene Saturday and Sunday in Wisconsin Rapids, with the Wisconsin State Elks Association organizing the event.
Green County residents would pay about 8.23 million dollars as their portion of a 97.9 billion federal spending plan for 1964 65 according to S L Horman president of the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce Wisconsin’s total federal tax bill is estimated at nearly two billion for the year starting July 1 Green County’s portion is about 0 412 of the state tax load Lafayette County taxpayers are projected to pay about 3 52 million Illinois?
Badger Regional Blood Center at Madison seeks nurses to staff bloodmobiles full time. Vernon Schillinger of the Green County Red Cross urges interested nurses to contact the Green County Chapter at the Chamber of Commerce office for more information.
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