Cub Scouts Award Rally Highlights Tribal Honors
Cub Scouts gathered south of the Recreation Park shelter for a tribal themed awards rally led by Assistant Cubmaster Lowell Markwardt. Twenty Cubs earned name awards silver and gold arrows and bear badges while the Tribe of We belos showcased dances and stories of Hiawatha and Wisconsin river lore.
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Recreation Park
Lowell Markwardt
Tribe of Webelos
Tom Cunningham
Robert Olson
Wolf
John Hammer
Gordon Stauffacher
Larry Loveland
Owen Hefty
William Lanz
Lester Peter
Michael Bellahan
William Boyd
Larry Trickel
George Jacobs
Rodney Becker
David Dwyer
Gene Baker
Ronald Bregenzer
Dennis Goecks
Gary Broge
Gold Arrows
Alvin Summers
Curtis Wagner
Goecks
Herbert D. Goecks
Robert C. Dunn
Wisconsin
Minneapolis
O. N. Johnson
John H. Bruni
Tepee
Council
Home Ransacked Here This Morning
Mrs. Jack E. Schlichting reports her home at 1924 14th Avenue ransacked this morning while she was downtown shopping. Details are pending police investigation. Officials note about one similar case has been reported each month recently. Mr. Schlichting is a Swiss factory superintendent at Kraft Foods Co.
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Jack E. Schlichting
14Th Avenue
Schlichting
Kraft Foods Co
Power Outage Hits Monroe Area Briefly
A minute long power failure affected the entire Monroe area around 11 this morning. Wisconsin Power and Light Co. district manager W S MacDonald said transmission failure at a sub station is suspected. By 1 30 p m no exact cause had been confirmed.
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Monroe
W. S. MacDonald
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
State Highway Check Shows Speed Rise to 50.7
Madison reports an average speed of 50.7 mph on Wisconsin highways last month from 15 locations including out of state vehicles and heavy trucks. The figure marks a 2.6 mph rise from May 1948 and the highest on record. Heavy trucks rose from 42.6 to 46.7 mph while passenger autos averaged 49.9 and out-of-state cars 55.0. Forty-seven percent of drivers traveled between 45 and 60 mph.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Commission
Swindle Artist Opens Bond Fight in Chicago
Swindler Sam Engel pleaded innocent to a confidence game charge as his bond was challenged. Judge George M. Fisher set September 12 for trial and postponed bond reduction hearings to next Tuesday. Engel claimed his twin brother Arthur was the lover in a prior elopement with jewels, while Mrs. Pauline Langton, a New York divorcee, declared she would stand by him.
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Chicago
Sam Engel
William S. Ader
Harry Busch
Lothario
George M. Fisher
Engel
Pauline Langton
New York
Arthur
U S Says Soviet Ignores Treaties
The United States charged Russia with disregarding Balkan peace treaties and blocking Western action over alleged human rights abuses in Hungary Romania and Bulgaria. The State Department note framed the issue as part of ongoing Western condemnations of religious political and other rights denials in the three nations.
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Washington
United States
Russia
State Department
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Cheddar Prices Slump in Plymouth Sales at Wisconsin Exchange
Cheddar values fell today on the Wisconsin cheese exchange in Plymouth. Sales included 15 cars at 293 cents, 12 cars at 2944 cents, and 10 cars at 29 cents, with daisies trading at 32 and 31 cents. Unfilled bids totaled eight cars at 29 cents, and two cars at 31 54 cents. Uncovered offers listed five cars at 2934 cents and single daisies at 31 cents. Trading began weak and ended steady.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
New Bill Aims Veterans Housing Loans Grants
State conferees propose a compromise veterans housing bill allocating about 16 million dollars for loans to individuals and nonprofit housing organizations and grants to city village and housing authorities. Provisions include 20 percent loan funding 2 percent interest for 20 years five percent veteran equity and grants up to 10 percent of project cost with administration by the department of veterans affairs.
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Veterans
Assembly
Senate
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Work on Highway 59 Completed for Year
The Monroe to Albany highway project finishes resurfacing the old section within Monroe city limits and reaches near the Albany area. Seal coating of the relocation will wait until next year as weather and rains slowed progress during the past weeks of the year long construction begun last May.
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Monroe
Albany
Monroe-Albany
Governor Urges Proper Land Use at UW Conference
Governor Rennebohm urged proper land use as a chief concern at a conservation conference at the University of Wisconsin. He called for wider adoption of soil conserving practices and better water pollution control, reforestation, and restoration efforts to sustain soil productivity and natural resources.
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University of Wisconsin
Ernest F. Swift
Conservation Department
William Vogt
Washington
Haying Accident Fatal to Dodgeville Farmer
Ben Webster a 55 year old Dodgeville area farmer was killed when his tractor overturned on the Keith Bray farm half a mile south of Dodgeville. Coroner F W Kopke said he died of a broken neck and crushed chest after the tractor rolled from an 8 foot ramp while backing out of the barn. He left a wife three children and a sister Mrs Lauren Redell of Waupun.
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Dodgeville
Ben Webster
Keith Bray
Here
Iowa County
F. W. Kopke
Webster
Bray Farm
Lauren Redell
Waupun
Coplon Sentenced to 40 Months to 16 Years in Spying Case
Judith Coplon, 28, Barnard graduate and former Justice Department analyst, was sentenced by Judge Albert Reeves to 40 months to 16 years on the spying count and 1 to 3 years on the theft count, to run concurrently. She faces a possible parole after 40 months and plans an appeal. Also tied to a New York espionage conspiracy case, she had a $10,000 bond in this matter and $20,000 elsewhere.
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Washington
Judith Coplm
Russia
Justice Department
Albert L. Reeves
Reeves
Miss Coplon
Barnard College
Archibald Palmer
Kelleys
Wheartys
John Kelley
Raymond P. Whearty
Gubitchev
United Nations
New York
Palmer
Heil Workers Strike Hits Milwaukee Plants
About 1,350 CIO affiliated United Steelworkers walk out at two Heil Co. Milwaukee plants after two months of failed negotiations halting manufacturing operations.
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Heil Workers
Milwaukee
CIO
United Steel Workers Union
Heil Co
Mt Horeb Blonde Selected As New Alice in Dairyland
La Vonne Hermann a 20 year old soprano from Mt Horeb was chosen as the 1949 Alice in Dairyland at Wisconsin State Fair Park from 16 statewide finalists. Runner up Barbara Lou Brunswick Delavan received the second prize. Hermann will model the plaster Alice statue at the Aug fair site and is an X ray technician at Wisconsin General Hospital Madison.
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Milwaukee
la Vonne Hermann
Mt. Horeb
Alice
Dairyland
State Fair Park
Barbara Lou Brunswick
Delavan
Miss Hermann
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison
la Venne
Margaret McGuire
Highland
Truman Must Call Turn on Labor Bill
Washington awaits President Truman's word on the Taft Hartley repeal effort as the Senate passes a Taft substitute upholding most of the current labor law. The vote signals the measure will remain on the books and shape the 1950 campaign. President Truman vows to press the fight with no white flag, while House leaders seek his views on whether to act. Senate approval also covered emergency strike provisions and government seizure of plants for up to 60 days.
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Truman
Senate
Taft
Ohio
White House
Mr. Truman
House
Labor Committee
House Committee
Rayburn
D-Tex
Lucas
Illinois
Burke
Dohio
Jacobs
D-Ind
Love's Park Priest Held as Police Raid Church Bingo
Rev. Raymond Patrick Gordon, pastor of St. Bridget's Church in Love's Park, was arrested after a raid by 12 officers on a Thursday bingo game. He faced a charge as keeper of a gambling establishment and was released after appearing before a justice of the peace. Andrew Pozzi and two others were detained but released on bonds. police seized gaming equipment. The mayor, Frank Larson, had warned of a raid if bingo continued.
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Rockford
Raymond Patrick Gordon
St. Bridget’s Church
Love’s Park
Justice of the Peace
Roy York
Andrew Pozzi
York
Frank Larson
Father Gordon
Brodhead Soldier Milo Wallace's Body Returned for Burial
The remains of S/Sgt. Milo H. Wallace, Monroe native and later Brodhead resident, are flown home aboard the Carroll Victory. Wallace, killed Sept. 18, 1944 in Belgium, served in glider infantry and took part in the Normandy D-day landings. Born December 10, 1910, he was the son of Henry S. and Ida Wallace.
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Brodhead
Milo H. Wallace
Monroe
United States Army
Carroll Victory
Department of the Army
Wallace
Belgium
England
Normandy
Blanchardville
Henry S
Ida Wallace
U S Credit Controls Ended as Law Expires
Washington reports that installment credit terms are freed as the wartime controls lapse at midnight. The Federal Reserve Board authority ends and Congress let the law lapse after a renewal last summer following an 11 month wartime period starting in 1947.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
New Fair Catalogues Distributed in County
Catalogs for the 95th Green County Fair July 28 to 31 were distributed across the county today. The booklets include premium lists and the superintendents of each department along with the four day programs.
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Green County
Heat takes toll as city worker collapses in square
Elmer L West a city employee fainted from extreme heat while melting lead joints on a water main at the northwest corner of the square. Two men were treated for heat prostration as Monroe endures the year's worst heat wave with highs near 95 and a record hot night.
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Elmer West
Monroe
Elmer L. West
138Th Street
North Side Ditch Starts on Square in Courthouse Area
The water main trench across the north side of courthouse square began today forcing traffic into a small northeast corner parking area. Heat slowed work with a worker fainting yesterday and crews given rest periods every ten minutes. Large piles of underfill sit ready for concrete pouring as the electrical contract proceeds on the southern street light segment.
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Court House Square
Anata
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U. S
Board of Health
Knowles
New
Richmond
Schmidt
Gettelman
Upstate
Ruth Steinhagen
Eddie Waitkus
Phillies
Conservation Rally
Rennebohm
Coplon
Judith Coplon
Alice In Dairyland
Mary Lou_ Collins
D. L. Collins
Ces
Earl L. Kellogg
8Th Street
Kelloge
United Telephone Co
Lake Michigan
Superior
Rhinelander
Lac du Flambeau
East
New Jersey
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