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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1949
Page
2
Monroe celebrates dedication of a new youth cabin at Luchsinger’s grove supported by Kiwanis and local groups. The cabin will serve area youth organizations for outdoor programs pending responsible use and upkeep by the youths.
An official campaign against Czech, Slovak clergy mirrors Hungary and Bulgaria. A leading archbishop is a virtual prisoner amid treason charges. the Vatican excommunication edict challenges the Reds and tests faithful loyalties as resistance wanes.
The park board asks City Council to acquire nine and a half acres south and west of Recreation Park while under option at $1,000 per acre. Officials caution the plan is exploratory with no immediate development, and urge aldermen to gauge citizen interest and compare costs before the option expires.
July 18 1939 President Roosevelt and Secretary Hullahan press for neutrality legislation as congress acts. William Snow 81 dies at Brodhead. Monroe Townsend Recovery club elects officers with George Goetz as president and Charles Mackey as vice president. 25 years ago Otto Blum farm barn raised after highway blast. Prohibition agents nab five moonshiners in Kenosha Wisconsin. Frederick Krueger dies. Mrs. Margaret Hill to be buried in Monroe. 1909 rescue at Browntown by Conductor George Carson saves Milwaukee road bridge. 40 years ago Bilton settlers travel Wisconsin 1947 group. 1899 Monroe bands show lukewarm for joint outdoor concerts. Ringling Bros slated for Monroe Aug 18. Local phone plant to expand service.
Monticello's Homecoming festival revived by the Monticello Commercial Club drew more than 7,000 attendees. Howard Kennedy won first in the floats division with wool mill entries and local notables rode the decorated float. Other winners included North Washington 4-H club and Bank of Monticello.
Mrs Walter E Green a former Brooklyn high school teacher aged 74 died Sunday at her daughter Mrs Margaret Halstead s home in Janesville Funeral services are set for 2 pm Wednesday at Allen funeral home Evansville Rev Francis Kranz to officiate with burial in Maples Hill cemetery She was a native of Evansville and lived there until seven years ago She was the daughter of Harry and Mary Ryan Hayward Her husband died in 1937 Surviving include her daughter Harold in Pittsburgh one sister Mrs Harry Turner of Crown Point Ont and one granddaughter
The University of Wisconsin awarded meritorious service citations to three state educators during an institute for superintendents and principals. Honorees included Mary A. Potter mathematics supervisor of Racine public schools, Dorothy Enderis retired Milwaukee assistant superintendent, and R. F. Lewis superintendent of schools at Waukesha.
James D. White reports a small Ongjin border clash in Korea between northern and southern forces. UN observers limited to monitoring as Soviet withdrawal standoff and U S aid debate unfold. South Korea seeks quadrupled armed forces and two years of compulsory military training under UN backed government.
A blaze at the Swift and Co glue plant in the Chicago stock district yesterday injured two firemen and caused about a half million dollars in damage. The fire, which began in a building used as storage, halted operations and destroyed roughly 20,000 pounds of blue and adhesive powder.
Herman Swartz, 80, a former Albany area resident, is missing from his Rockford home. He disappeared Thursday. a search of Albany found no trace of him. The sheriff's department is notified and continuing inquiries.
Local farms competed in the Stephenson County Holstein association Black and White show in Freeport. Jesse Matzke earned four blue and three red ribbons. John M. Babler and Sons took three blue and two red. Burlington and Meisson won one blue and one red. Matzke’s wins included a bull calf senior yearling heifer two year old and junior get of dam. Bablers claimed firsts with junior yearling bull two year old and aged cow. Burlington and Meisson blue ribbon honored a senior bull calf.
Progress is reported in the Wisconsin Power and Light Co. expansion program in the Monroe district. New substation equipment was installed at Brodhead and Monticello, totaling about 28 thousand dollars, with a 69 000 volt substation to be built on 7th Avenue in Monroe. Groundbreaking soon for the Monroe site includes a steel control house and three transmission structures, plus a. driveway permits approved by the board of public works on July 15.
Raymond E. Ubert of route 1 Orangeville was killed when the car driven by Leland Pendergrass of Spring Valley left a jetway south of Stewartville. A coroner's jury found culpable negligence, and Pendergrass was arraigned in Rochester Minnesota on a second degree manslaughter charge.
John George Haigh testified in Lewes court that he killed nine people. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering Olive Durand Deacon, 69, and others, admitting killings and disposal of bodies in acid in a written police statement read by defense counsel.
George Dell Prentice, 66, former vice president of the Marine National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee, died at a Two Rivers filling station. He collapsed in his car while returning from a Door County vacation with his family.
Clyde Hastens of Rock Island pulled his 4-year-old son Jeffrey from a water filled gravel pit after the boy floated face down. He revived him with artificial respiration five minutes later. Hospital officials report the boy in fairly good condition. It marks the second rescue in five days of a Rock Island boy from the same pit.
President Truman appoints a three member panel to study the steel dispute and delay a strike for 60 days. The panel, impartial outsiders, will assess demands for pay and benefits and report findings. Neither side is bound by the recommendations, but public opinion may push cooperation to avoid a national impact.
A 56 yacht fleet sails Lake Michigan in the final lap of the Chicago to Mackinac race. Beyone skippered by John B. Ford of Detroit leads at the one third mark spotted by the coast guard cutter Mackinac. Kittyhawk with W. Robert Timken of Cleveland is second. Henry Holsman of Chicago is third with Falcon. Wendell Anderson of Detroit is fourth with Escapade.
New York honors David E. Lilienthal head of the U S atomic energy commission and Gen Lucius D Clay former U S military governor of Germany with the Freedom House awards for 1949.
A 160 page up to date guide on rectal and colon ailments is available free on request from McCleary Clinic and Hospital in Excelsior Springs Missouri. Write E711 Elms Blvd to receive the volume and learn about relief options.
Miss Helen Stauffer of route 1 Monticello tripped and fell on a walk near her home sustaining a fractured right ankle. She was admitted to St Clare hospital at 8 30 p m.
Local renter seeks a 2 or 3 bedroom house in Monroe. References to be furnished. Contact Bob Chinnock at phone number Monroe 2294.
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