Silo boom changes Green County skyline with fast erecting crews
Green County farms rise with glass lined and concrete stave silos as crews from Tom's Silo Service speedily raise twin 16x50 units on Joseph Dearth's farm. The Madison Silos project, led by Thomas G. Bustle, highlights a growing rural skyline while crews travel county to county on a piecework pay plan.
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Joseph C. Dearth Farm
Highway 11
Willard
Dale Seffrood
John Tschumper
Times
Chicago
New York
Green County
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
Dearth Farm
Madison
Thomas G. Bustle
Tom's Silo Service
Monroe
Orangeville Firemen Festival Delayed To Sunday
The Orangeville Volunteer Fire Department postpones today’s Firemen Festival activities to Sunday due to bad weather. The schedule for Sunday includes a chicken barbecue at 11 30 am a parade at 1 pm a tractor pull at 2 pm and an evening program at 8 pm.
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Orangeville
Monroe City Band to Lead Latin Numbers Monday Night
The Monroe City Band will present three Latin American numbers at the Twining Park bandshell Monday night with audience participation. Zweifel brothers Mike and Keith will entertain, having auditioned for the Ted Mack Original Hour. Churches arrange patient transportation to the event. folding chairs are advised as benches are limited.
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Monroe City Band
Twining Park
Chiapanecas
Mike
Keith Zweifel
Alfred Zweifel
Juda
Zweifel
Ted Mack
Indiana State Band
Second
Connecticut Regiment
Islands
Little Shepherds
Moon River
Methodist
Grace Lutheran
Green County Hospital
Giant Grizzly Killed After Rampage in Zoo
A 1000 pound grizzly bear rampaged through a zoo area in Memphis Tennessee after breaking a sprayed concrete enclosure. Police and zookeepers fired more than 60 bullets including machine guns rifles and shotguns to end the attack. The bear roamed a tear gas filled service tunnel for nearly five hours before dying.
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Memphis
Tenn
National Guard Tightens Grip on Cambridge Racial Tensions
In Cambridge Maryland National Guard units with fixed bayonets restored order after six wounded in new shootings. Governor Tawes refused a special session while curfews and liquor bans held, and a Friday night march by about 250 demonstrators was halted by Brig. Gen. Gelston who urged participants to return to church.
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Cambridge
Dorchester County
State Court of Appeals
George M. Gelston
National Guard
Charles Bourne
Gelston
Principal Kniskern Resigns to Take Medford High Post
Principal D J Huenink announced Gordon C Kniskern ked his resignation at Monroe Junior High after a year. Kniskern has been offered the Medford Wisconsin senior high principalship for the new school year. He came from Morrison Kansas where he led the community consolidated schools and succeeded retiree Franklin Luebchow.
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D. J. Huenink
Gordon C. Kniskern
Monroe
Board of Education
Kniskern
Huenink
Medford
Wis
Morrison, K
Community Consolidated School
Franklin Luebchow
Tractor Pulling Slated for Fair
The 1963 Green County Fair tractor pulling contest starts at 2 20 am with a 450 purse across three classes. Entries close Aug 1 at 6 pm with weigh in at 4 30 pm. rules ban home built units and set drawbar, tire, speed, and safety limits. Ken Vesperman promotes. entries to John Bartels or Alfred Henning.
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Green County Fair
Ken Vesperman
Lancaster
John Bartels
Juda
Alfred Henming
Monroe Roller Mills
Wisconsin Junior Champ Day to be finished early due to eclipse
Monroe hosts the statewide Wisconsin Junior Champ Day at the high school track with about 300 athletes from 16 cities. Events start 9 a.m. and finish by 2 30 p.m. to protect youths from the solar eclipse, with housing sought for out of town entrants and safety cautions issued by organizer Robert L. Wells.
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Robert L. Wells
Monroe
Wells
Greendale
Beloit
Brookfield
Jaycees
Kennedy
St. Paul
Wisconsin
National Society For the Prevention of Blindness
Soviet Hunting Spy in Britain
Soviet agents pursue Anatoli Dolnytsin in Britain after his defection 18 months ago. He allegedly supplied British counterintelligence with details on Soviet networks and tipped off on spies, aiding exposure of William John Vassall and implicating Harold Philby in leaks. Dolnytsin hides under guard awaiting a new identity.
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London
Britain
Anatoli Dolnytsin
West
Dolnytsin
Soviet Union
Dolyatsin
Defense Ministry
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
Dolyntsin
William John Vassall
Harold Philby
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
Burgess
Maclean
Soviet Russia
Camp Exodus From Blue Ridge Camp Fueled by Mountaineers
In Rosman North Carolina Mountaineers attacked Summerlane camp with flames and gunfire forcing 70 campers mostly teens to depart by car and bus under police escort. The sheriff said the camp may relocate to New Jersey amid local outrage over alleged free love nudity and racial mixing.
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Rosman
N.C
Summerlane
Blue Ridge Mountains
C. R. McCall
New Jersey
North Carolina
Carol Gunderson 19 Dies in Janesville
Miss Carol Gunderson age 19 of Janesville died at 2 45 a m in St Clare hospital after being admitted June 17 as a medical patient. Born April 3 1944 she was a Milton Union high school graduate and worked at Borg Plant Delavan since October. Survivors include her parents three sisters and two brothers with services at Faith Lutheran Janesville led by Rev O B Anderson. Burial Milton Lawn Memorial Park. Friends may call Wolfgram funeral home.
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Carol Gunderson
Janesville
St. Clare Hospital
Miss Gunderson
Gustav
Alvena Meisner Gunderson
Johnstown
Milton Union High School
Borg
Delavan
Russell Dix
Elmer Peterson
Wayne Tucker
Clement
Rockford
Raymond
Air Force
Fairbanks
Alaska
Faith Lutheran Church
O. B. Anderson
Milton Lawn Memorial Park
Wolfgram Funeral Home
Moisture Boosts Wisconsin Corn as Rain Returns
Light rain and showers spread across Wisconsin easing a prolonged dry spell. .33 inch fell by mid morning, aiding tasseling corn while reducing pasture prospects. Hay prices surge and 21 counties designated disaster areas for soil bank hay relief. ASCS reports many applications and rapid appraisals as farmers rush to hay before further dryness.
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Wisconsin
Monroe
Eau Claire
Green Bay
Green County
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Green
Agriculture Stabilization Committee
Ascs County Committee
ASCS
Washington, D.C
Delavan Pedestrian Killed by Milwaukee Road Train
Thomas Murphy 65-year-old pedestrian died Friday evening after being struck by a Milwaukee Road train at a crossing in Delavan.
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Delavan
Thomas Murphy
Milwaukee Road
Amish Arrive to Buy Area Farms in New Glarus
Nine people from Iowa Amish settlements visit New Glarus to explore buying more farms as five area farms have already sold to Amish families set to move in this fall and spring. Buggies and horse drawn equipment will reappear in the community. The article notes Amish devotion to home worship in German Dutch and avoidance of other religions, with language taught to children until school.
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New Glarus
Iowa
Three More Die In State Mishaps
The Associated Press reports Wisconsin highway deaths rose to 405 for 1963 after three fatal auto accidents. Neenah residents Robert Priebe, 30, and Dorothy Boettcher died when a car hit a tree on a city street. Walter Peabody Jr., 19, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was killed when a rural road rollover near Lake Nebagamon occurred while he was serving as a Boy Scout camp counselor.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Robert Priebe
Neenah
Dorothy Boettcher
Route 2
Walter Peabody Jr
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Lake Nebagamon
Superior
Peabody
Cardinal To Baptize Newest Kennedy Heir
Cardinal Cushing will baptize Christopher George Kennedy the eighth child of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and wife Ethel Skakel next Friday in St. Francis Xavier Church Hyannis. The ceremony at the Cape Cod church follows the Kennedys regular worship pattern when in the area. Christopher was born July 4 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
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Boston
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Robert F. Kennedy
Hyannis
St. Francis Xavier Church
Cape Cod
Ethel Skakel
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Christopher George Kennedy
Turkey Rejects Moscow Nuclear Free Mediterranean Proposal
Ankara rejected the Soviet proposal to declare the Mediterranean a nuclear free zone. The Turkish foreign ministry, replying to a May 20 note, said the plan would not advance world peace as it would entail a one sided arms reduction.
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Moscow
Ankara
Turkey
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
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Sam Evans
Karen Jacobs
Gainieg
Southern
George E. Jacobs
Wendi
Donald Hugdahl
Blue Ridge
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