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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1948
Page
2
A plea urges drivers starting on trips to observe extra caution on the Fourth of July. Highways will be jammed as less experienced motorists overreach to save time, risking accidents. The piece promotes a safe round trip to enjoy Wisconsin scenery without incidents, urging deliberate driving for a safer holiday.
Major steel and coal companies file unfair labor practices charges against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. They claim the contract’s union shop provision violates the Taft-Hartley Act, arguing a ballot in an NLRB election is required. They warn a strike over the point could cripple steel plant mines.
In Monroe the absence of traffic signals is offset by signs and careful driver conduct. Recent summer traffic near the court house square sees many motorists roll through intersections without stopping or yielding, endangering pedestrians especially the elderly. Citizens are urged to cooperate or city traffic enforcement may tighten.
Northwest Airlines reported that for the first time since the war tourists could visit Japan starting July 15. The Japan travel bureau will arrange seven day trips through the country priced at 175 dollars.
Ten years ago Morgan Erickson assumes ownership of Annex Cafe on July 3 1938. Dietrich Geiger dies in Madison with burial in Monroe. Mrs Lucille Ginner Gault 32 receives last rites. Edward and Lydia Schultz die in car crash en route to visit kin. Fair association sponsors Fourth of July. J A Hooker dies at Brodhead. Twenty five years ago school budget passes amid tax debate. Miss Lillian Figs weds Edward Niffenegger. Vronian visits Monroe after 61 years. Red Sox and Monroe Golf Club bargain over track infield leases. Forty years ago Dr William Monroe 89 dies. W O Nuzum moves to Pawtucket. Colin W Wright urged for school board.
A haphazard road encounter near Horseheads yields a wandering craftsman with a peg leg. He explains sharpening knives and mower blades as his trade, recalls a tough path from education to farm work after losing a leg, and ends with a brisk, corny city-block anticlimax as he halts in Montour Falls before Watkins Glen.
Senator Wiley indicates possible revisions to the displaced persons act as criticism grows. The law will admit about 205,000 European refugees to the United States over the next two years amid charges of bias against Jews and Roman Catholics.
Argyle will hold an afternoon and evening of entertainment starting with a softball game against Monticello at 2 PM. Races, a horseshoe pitching contest, and a baseball game will follow, ending with a fireworks display and a dance in Phillipson's hall.
A Hillsboro Illinois housewife pleads to the president for a two inch water pipe to reach her home 700 feet away as a long drought and water shortages strain four families. A steel company loaned staff and a truck carrying steel was arranged to deliver water access today.
Madison District Attorney Edwin Wilkie said others may join William T. Evjue editor of the Madison Capital Times as defendants in cases over a Wisconsin law forbidding newspapers from identifying rape victims. The state supreme court upheld the law noting the victim’s identity can be revealed by other means. The Evjue charge arose from naming a relative of UW student Carl L. Carlson killed on November 14, 1947. Wilkie will await final outcome before acting against other papers or agents.
The European recovery program will take 37.5 million pounds of surplus frozen whole eggs from the agriculture department. The eggs are the remainder of stocks bought under a producer price support program last year and had not sold to U.S. food manufacturers. They will be sold to the recovery program for about half their cost.
A hot summer day leads Sandy to slip into Recreation Park pool where he cannot swim. Lifeguards act quickly, reviving him with artificial respiration and he is taken home. He plans to enroll in swimming classes the next day.
A two car collision near Portage killed 18 year old Gladys Gralock of Milwaukee and injured four others. Arnold Rettig of Milwaukee and Jacob DeBoer of Freeport were involved with DeBoer’s passengers including his wife and eight year old son Marvin. Marguerite Wittebeckers of Freeport was also injured.
New members include Tova Marie Peterson of route 1 Juda born Oct 27 1942 Evonne Christine Peterson route 1 Juda born Feb 26 1944 Glenda Mae Severson route 2 Juda born July 14 1945 Rouletta Enid Severson route 2 Juda born Sept 27 1947 and Ronald Charles Feldt Juda born July 5 1947.
Mrs. 3. N. Miller and Mr. E. L. Deans visit daughter and family in River Falls. Russell Carter drives Arthur Carter Eugene Theiler Carlos Sweeney and John Larson to Phantom Lake camping trip near Milwaukee. Other visitors include Mrs. Chester Mohns Janesville Milwaukee neighbors at Madison and Monroe and Chicago visitors to Brodhead Monroe and surrounding towns.
All boys and girls up to 12 years old are invited to join the Monroe Evening Times Boys and Girls Club. Fill out this coupon and mail to the Evening Times Club Monroe Wisconsin. Name Street or R F D Post office Date of birth Age last birthday.
Mt Pleasant township rural schools reported full dental completion with 553 students and 20 districts earning awards. County nurse Ruth Chase noted a 50 percent rise in dental awards this year versus two years ago, with seals sent to teachers across Pleasant Grove Jefferson Francis Moritz Grove Dorothy Galaxon Fairview Mt Pleasant Margaret Blum Gill Brooklyn Mary Swann Jug Prairie Brooklyn Eleanor Albertson Oak Shade Mt Pleasant Anne Babler East Clarno Clarno Velma Mueller Silver Mt Pleasant Edna Babler Spring Creek Clarno Evelyn Walters Babler Mt Pleasant Leone Coplien Watson Cadiz Roxie Tobin Dutch Hollow Sylvester Barbara Goecks Black ford Jordan Florence Golick son Iliff Monroe Leila Meyer Pleasant Valley Jordan Roselyn Wells Farmers Grove York Florence Loveland Davis Spring Grove Florence Figi Zentner Mt Pleasant Ruth Rebly Greenbush Sylvester Marguerite Wenger Bethel Monroe Elizabeth Severson.
Ed Schuster and Co Inc, operator of three Milwaukee department stores, proposed to the Securities and Exchange Commission a public offering of 15 000 shares of cumulative preferred stock. The price will be filed later.
A notice highlights the value of classified advertising as a cost effective way to reach customers. It frames want ads as a practical tool for small budgets, offering broad exposure and ongoing usefulness for local merchants and individuals.
Governor Rennebohm outlined three steps to aid farmers hit by drought in northern Wisconsin. He has asked U S Secretary of Agriculture Brannan for emergency funds and urged hearings by the state public service commission with the Interstate Commerce Commission to cut freight rates on hay and feed. The Wisconsin Rural Rehabilitation Corp. would provide funds, as farmers in Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Sawyer and Washburn counties report 80 to 85 percent of livelihoods from dairying and hay production at 35 percent normal yield.
The agriculture department announced it will buy up to 200000 long tons of potato flour for relief feeding in western Germany. The flour will be bought for the army as a large portion of this year's potato surplus is converted into flour.
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