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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1954
Page
2
Monroe's Turn and Schwing Club earned a major share of honors at the Swiss American Gymnastic Association competition in San Francisco. The group excelled in team and individual events, reflecting the club's dedication, practice, and leadership.
The piece urges year by year pride in displaying the American flag across the country. In Monroe the downtown district and many homes flew the colors during the holiday weekend. Fireworks were praised as the nation marks its 178th Independence anniversary, and readers are urged to keep the flag raised on all occasions.
The National Safety Council says the holiday weekend traffic toll ran about 25 percent below earlier estimates. Ned Dearborn cites safer behavior due to coordinated efforts, but warns of persistent young drivers and ongoing reckless behavior. He urges extending safety messages to youths who treat cars as playthings.
Earl Behnke, 33, of Brillion Wisconsin, was trapped for over an hour when his truck overturned in a flooded underpass during Tuesday’s storm in Waukegan Illinois. He suffered a dislocated shoulder a broken arm and several broken ribs. Rescue crews delayed by inability to use torches as gasoline leaked from the split tank into the water.
Summarizes events from July 7 1944 including 146 dead mainly women and children with 250 injured, five circus officials charged with manslaughter, plus concurrent wartime actions on Saipan Noemfoor and a Powhatan mine incident, and voting and local notices spanning Monroe.
Washington report details a large government held farm surplus worth over six billion dollars. Congress approved a sell and give away plan to reduce holdings by selling 700 million to foreign buyers and donating up to 300 million worth to famine relief, while remaining stock stays stored. Estimates itemize wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, rice, peanuts, butter, cheese and dried milk, tied to parity price guarantees. The piece explains parity aims and loan supports behind the program.
Eisenhower plan seeks to loosen the 90 percent parity guarantee for wheat corn cotton rice tobacco and peanuts allowing a range from 75 to 90 percent. The House voted Friday to set the guarantee within 82 1 4 to 90 percent for these crops and adjust other crops accordingly. Senate approval remains uncertain.
Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff denied a new trial for four Puerto Ricans convicted of firing shots that wounded five congressmen in the House chamber on March 1. Sentencing was set for Thursday for three men and one woman.
Dr. James L. Doenges of Anderson Indiana, president elect of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, labeled social security un-American and socialist. He warned Congress that mandatory participation harms liberty and accused the program of targeting physicians with biased taxes and benefits removal for nonretirees.
H J Lawrence 62 of Fond du Lac was killed Tuesday night when his car left the highway near the Marquette County community of Neshkoro and overturned on Highway 73 five miles southeast of town.
The TR Davis 4-H Club gathered at the Ervin Sonnenburg residence with El den Sonnenburg leading the pledge and Andrea Sonnenburg directing group singing. A club tour is set for July 18 at the E J Kaderly farm. Four H polo shirts were issued and David Trumpy will attend 4-H camp with the club donating 5 for ward expenses. Constance Sonnenburg gave a health habits talk and joined Constance and Andrea Sonnenburg in a duet and solo on accordion and piano.
The county reports a drop in June marriages with 27 licenses issued this year versus 31 last year. County clerk Wilma Lengacher notes seven licenses require parental consent. Without consent men must be over 21 and women over 18.
Ronald Merton Fuller 45 of SANTA SUSANA died in a 55 foot shaft while searching for buried chests of gold linked to Ti burcio Vasquez lore. His daughter and son in law from Los Angeles said he believed a Mexican bandit buried three chests beneath a rock shaped like a lizard. Fuller had spent eight years in the treasure hunt and died when dynamite fumes caused a fall.
Two sailors working with a crew member located the body at the bottom after an incident on a shaft. The search followed a ledge finding and involved rescue operations to retrieve the remains.
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