Swiss cheese makers plan appeal to federal agencies
Representatives from Swiss cheese firms will draft an appeal to the USDA and CCC for future government food contracts. Wisconsin lawmakers Smith and Laird urged the industry to push for a 5 to 10 percent Swiss blend in school lunch, military, and VA hospital processing. Hearings may be held in Minnesota and Wisconsin this summer as factories threaten to switch to American cheese amid surplus stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Lawrence H. Smith
Racine
Melvin R. Laird
Marshfield
USDA
CCC
Rep
Smith
Laird
House Agriculture Committee
Wausau
E. C. Hamilton
Evening Times
Smith, Laird
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Green County
Lancaster Woman 26 Fatally Stabbed by Burglar
In St Louis a 26 year old woman identified as Mrs Rita Holzer was killed by a burglar she found in her apartment while tending to her 6 month old baby who survived. Neighbour Joseph Palazzola rushed to help and reported she spoke of the intruder before losing consciousness.
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ST. Louis
Rita Holzer
Lancaster
Wis
Joseph Palazzola
Wisconsin Cheese Market Steady Demand Fair
Wisconsin dairy report shows steady demand for American cheese with adequate offerings. Selling prices across categories include cheddars 22 to 34, single daisies 35 to 37, long horns 35 to 36, and midgets 35 to 38.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Market Specialists To Tour Cheese Area In Wisconsin
State marketing chiefs will visit Monroe on Wednesday September 28 after touring Green County Swiss factories and packaging plants. W L Witte Madison president of the National Association of Marketing Officials organized the visit ahead of the national convention in Madison September 29 and 30. A Swiss entertainment program and dinner at Monroe Country Club are planned. Witte retired as head of the division of markets at the State Department of Agriculture but remains active on department projects. He is father of Dr Keith Witte of Monroe Clinic.
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Monroe
Green County
W. L. Witte
Madison
National Association of Marketing Officials
Witte
Monroe Country Club
Division of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
Keith Witte
Monroe Clinic
Area Youth Hurt In One-car Crash West of Monroe
A 20-year-old Blanchardville youth, Sheldon W. Kammerud, was in critical condition at St. Clare hospital after a one car crash on Highway 81, six miles west of Monroe, at 6 45 p m yesterday. He suffered fractures of both jaws and head injuries after the car left the road, struck a telephone pole and wrecked. Kammerud, a sailor on leave, was freed from beneath the auto and taken to the hospital by ambulance. The accident occurred near the site where his brother Pfc Otis Kammerud was killed in 1953 while en route to Monroe for a dance, after Korea POW service. The 1942 model car was purchased by the Kammerud youth yesterday.
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Blanchardville
St. Clare Hospital
Monroe
Sheldon W. Kammerud
Kammerud
Pfc
Otis Kammerud
Korea
Albert Brunsvold Dies in Minnesota
Albert S. Brunsvold, 75, Fargo, N D, died Monday in a Detroit Lakes Minnesota hospital from injuries suffered in a traffic accident Saturday near Detroit Lakes. He was a former resident of Orfordville. Surviving: wife. two daughters Mrs. Harry Heggness Rosemont Minn and Mrs. Helen Hanson Los Angeles. brother Carl Orfordville. two sisters Mrs. Maggie Hagen Kindred N D and Mrs. Nellie Roen Chicago. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 10 a m in the Fargo Lutheran church.
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Albert S. Brunsvold
Fargo
N. D
Detroit Lakes
Minnesota
Orfordville
Harry Heggness
Rosemont
Minn
Helen Hanson
Los Angeles
Carl
Maggie Hagen
Kindred
Nellie Roen
Chicago
Fargo Lutheran Church
Tanks Installed On Two Rural Fire Trucks
Two chassis for rural tank trucks purchased by area townships arrived in Hortonville for installation. The Melray Co. will fit tanks and apparatus, with the first truck due in about 30 days and the second soon after. Fire Chief Josef J. Benkert and acting chief Paul Kubly supervised the transfer, accompanied by Benkert’s son John.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hortonville
Melray Co
Paul Kubly
Josef J. Benkert
Benkert
John
Paul Mueller
Inspector Tells Of Bribe Efforts
Washington report on Senate investigations hearing where Michael Weintraub accuses Chicago cap maker Harry Lev of repeatedly attempting to bribe him for accepting contracts. Testimony also cites a deathbed statement about Colonel Vere Painter aiding Lev’s wealth with taxpayer funds.
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Washington
Chicago
Harry Lev
Michael Weintraub
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Vere Painter
Lev
Lavern J. Duffty
Subcommittee
Hyman Roskin
St. Louis
Roskin
Society Brand Cap Co
Bonita Rand Dies in Janesville at 61
Bonita V. Rand of Janesville died Saturday after years of illness. Born August 5, 1893 in Brodhead as Boni ta Olsen, she married Merle Rand in 1920. he died in 1951. Surviving: son James H. Rand, daughter Mildred Erickson, mother Mrs. C. H. Olsen, two grandchildren, and a widow, Mrs. P. E. Taggart. Services in Janesville. burial Milton Lawns.
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Brodhead
Bonita V. Rand
Rock County
Janesville
Eisenhower Dines With Soviet Leaders at Geneva Summit
President Eisenhower and Marshal Georgi Zhukov shared champagne toasts at a Geneva dinner with Soviet Premier Bulganin and top officials. Dulles and Molotov exchanged greetings. no clear progress on East West differences disclosed. Zhukov received gifts from Eisenhower for his daughter, while Molotov and Dulles noted past differences but mutual cooperation in talks.
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Geneva
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Georgi Zhukov
Zhukov
Lake Geneva
Maj
John Eisenhower
Germany
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Moscow
Molotov
Dulles
State Asks Bids For Highway 59 Paving Project
Harold Plummer chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway commission calls for bids to pave 13.5 miles of Highway 59 between Monroe and Albany. Bids due August 2 in Madison at 9 30 a m. The project covers 25 500 tons of blacktop and 20 000 gallons of asphalt and is state funded. Ryan Bros Construction Co of Janesville holds the $104 000 contract for related work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Plummer
Wisconsin State Highway Commission
Monroe
Albany
Madison
Plummer
N. C. Jensen
Jensen
Highway 39
Monticello
Legler
Ryan Bros. Construction Co
Janesville
Seal Coats
New Glarus
Twin Grove
Ullom School
Goetz Advances In Wisconsin Women’s Golf Tourney
Ruth Goetz of Monroe won the first round of match play in the 43rd Wisconsin Women’s Golf Tournament by five up with four to play. She will face northeastern champion Marilyn Klumb tomorrow at Milwaukee Country Club after a steady round and middle-ground iron work.
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Nathan
Ruth) Goetz
Monroe
Milwaukee Country Club
Goetz
Monroe Evening Times
Paula Clauder
Clauder
Merrill Hills
Barbara Little
Milwaukee
Miss Clauder
Marilyn Klumb
West Bend Country Club
First Atomic Power Surges Through Lines In Upstate New York
The united states reaches a milestone as the Atomic Energy Commission chief Lewis Strauss switches on the first commercial atomic electric power in upstate New York. The Niagara Mohawk grid receives a 12 500 kilowatt generator built by General Electric, with expected output around 10 000 kilowatts and potential electricity for about 35 000 homes.
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Upstate
New York
West Milton
N. Y
Free World
Upstate New York
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
General Electric Co
Niagara Mohawk
Shrine KC Ticket Drive Opens in Downtown Madison
Shrine KC ticket drive for the August 14 Recreation Park game began in downtown Madison business places. A Swiss Wheel dinner last night set final drive details with over 50 attendees paying their own way. Major events include a five inning Shrine versus Knights of Columbus softball game with a VFW color guard and ceremonies led by Herman Schmitz. William Rollins to sing the national anthem and the Sloppy Five clown band from Sun Prairie will perform. A Janesville barbershop quartet and an Oregon drill team will also appear along with visiting clowns from Madison area.
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Recreation Park
Swiss Wheel
Shrine
Knights of Columbus
VFW
Herman Schmitz
William Rollins
Sloppy Five
Sun Prairie
Janesville
Oregon
Madison
Revenue Agent To Be In Monroe Tomorrow
An Internal Revenue Service agent will visit Monroe tomorrow working from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. under a new system that expands hours. The agent will be available in the post office office the first and third Wednesday of each month from 9 to 4.
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Internal Revenue Service
Monroe
Dale Bruhn Named To Hutchison Post
Dale Bruhn, 30, of Elkhorn, was named information supervisor for the State Department of Agriculture. A marketing specialist in the promotion section since last March, Bruhn succeeds Bert Hutchison, who resigned to become farm radio director at KDKA Pittsburgh.
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Madison
Dale Bruhn
Elkhorn
State Department of Agriculture
Bruhn
Bert Hutchison
KDKA
Pittsburgh
Senate votes to provide free polio vaccine to children and mothers
The Senate approved a bill to buy and distribute free polio vaccine for under twenty year olds and pregnant women. The measure faces House action where a similar bill cleared a commerce committee. Debate highlighted Cutter vaccine concerns and calls of cover ups while funding remains undecided.
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Washington
Senate
House
Commerce Committee
Morse
Dore
Sen. Welker
Ridaho
Public Health Service
Welker
Idaho
Hill
D-Ala
Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Eisenhower’ Administration
Congressional Appropriations Committees
Stock Market Slumps As Geneva Talks Spark Selloff
A mid morning selling flurry pulled the New York stock market back sharply as investors weighed Geneva conference developments. Prices fell one to three points with larger losses in high priced issues. Du Pont dropped about eight points at one stage. Steel, railroad, motor, and aircraft shares led declines along with Standard Oil.
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New York
Wall Street
du Pont
Standard Oil
Rugged Old Victim Fights Back In $68,000 Robbery
In Greeneville Tennessee three holdup men targeted 74 year old John Bohannon in his home seizing 68000 dollars plus eight thousand in loose bills. Bohannon resisted yelling I never put my hands up for any man and retrieved a rifle prompting the attackers to flee. Police arrested two men and questioned another in Morristown about three hours later.
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Greeneville
Tenn
John Bohannon
Bohannon
Morristown
Council To Act On Cheese Day Plans And Traffic Changes
The City Council will consider blocking off the square and surrounding streets for Cheese Day on Sept 10 and approve a parade. It will review purchasing a timing device for vehicles and speed watch costs, plus signs for a forthcoming one way system with stop signs on 16th and 17th avenues.
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Police and Safety Committee
16Th
17Th Avenues
Scottish Bandits Grab Cash From Money Truck
Four masked bandits seized a money delivery truck outside a Glasgow bank and escaped with 30 000 to 40 000 pounds in cash. They assaulted a guard, tied him inside the truck, and fled through city traffic dropping bags of notes before moving the cash to a waiting car and fleeing to a garden hideout.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Dr. Agnew Resigns from Platteville USGS Post
Dr. Allen Agnew founder of the Platteville US Geological Survey office resigns to become associate professor of geology at the University of South Dakota.
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Agnew
Platteville
Allen Agnew
U. S. Geological Survey
University of South Dakota
Big Four Leaders Focus on German Unification at Geneva
At the Geneva summit Eisenhower urged Soviet Defense Minister Zhukov to discuss NATO and German reunification. Bulganin pledged the US would fight only if attacked as four powers set a four-point agenda prioritizing German unity and East‑West talks.
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Geneva
Eisenhower
Georgi Zhukov
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Germany
Nikolai Bulganin
United States
Marshal Zhukov
Zhukov
Bulganin
Paris
Europe
Eden
Faure
Big Four
Democrats Pushing $1 Minimum Pay Bill
Democrats moved to force House passage of a bill to raise the federal minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour. The Senate has already endorsed the $1 figure and the White House had urged 90 cents. The measure would cover about 24 million workers across interstate business. Administration backers prepared to press the 90 cent option as the floor fight loomed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
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John F. Kline
de Kline
Beach
Times
Albert Brunsvold
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Methodist Church
Milton Lawns
Pal Zhukov
Legler Bridge
Miss Klumb
Ruth Goetz
Mrs. Wilson
Wilson
Hutchison Post
Charles Bohlen
U.S
Russia
John Foster Dulles
London
Reich
James Hagerty
Leonid Ilyichev
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