75th Consecutive Green County Fair Inspires Longtime Attendee
Spencer Bowen, lifelong fairgoer since 1873, attends the 75th consecutive Green County Fair. He recalls early fairs with harness races, old amphitheaters, and simple exhibits, noting changes over 94 annual editions and anticipating a possible 100th anniversary.
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Spencer Bowen
Green County Fair
Green County Fairgrounds
6Th Street
Green County
Bowen
Durham
A. S. Douglas
John Sherman
C. J. Simmons
Jim Chadwick
Dan Hawver
Spy” Hyde
Cab”’ van Matre
Sam West
West
Kate Phalmont
Kate
Platteville
Lancaster
Old Mercury
Henry C. Burglar
Linden Boy
Fred J. Karlen
Winslow
Grand Jury Indicts Chicago Milk Firms
A federal grand jury indicted eight Chicago area milk companies and nine individuals for Sherman anti trust violations by allocating wholesale fluid milk sales in the Chicago area over seven years. The Borden Co and Bowman Dairy Co were charged with discrimination through rebates and discounts to certain customers.
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Chicago
Chicago Area
Borden Co
Bowman Dairy Co
County Fair Sidelights
County fair events feature Killean Beauty the all-American mare shown by Argyll Stables Mt Carroll NL in a Saturday Sunday horse show. Mary Holt trains the mare, famed as an all-American for two years. Also noted are Fair exhibits, traffic control by the National Guard, a model milkhouse display, 4-H Night, and Saturday harness races with 25 horses listed for tomorrow’s program.
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Argyll Stables
Mt. Carroll
Green County Fair
Mary Holt
United States
Throngs Gather For Second Day Of County Fair
Crowds rallied for day two at the Green county fair after a heavy thundershower dampened opening night. Rain and winds halted The Summer Follies of 1948. tickets from last night can be honored at the gate today. Harness racing featured two year old trot and 2:26 pace divisions as fairgrounds recover from last night’s weather.
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al Rood
Bowen
E. N. Churchill
Churchill
E. N
Will
Monroe
Fair Program For 1948 Wisconsin Follies At Amphitheater
Tonight features Rosalind Hupp and specialty acts at 8 30 in front of the amphitheater with free dancing at 9. Saturday events include 9 am pony futurity, 10 am family meat sale, 1 pm livestock parade, 1 30 pm harness races and band concert, and 2 pm home economics and agricultural demonstrations followed by the sixth annual horse show.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Monroe High School
Scrapbook
Councilman
Pat Crusader
Fair Hat
Henry Mc
Barbara Brookdale
Pav Mike
Mc Way
Jane Ruby
Colonial Sue
Hilandale
Janetta Bradford
Rosalind Hupp
Dance Pavilion
Tornado Hits Madison Area. Fair in Monroe Rained Out
A tornado leveled a farm home near Madison injuring the Ballweg family and killing 10 year old Lucille Ballweg. The Green county fair at Monroe was washed out by heavy rain, while between Madison and Monroe a narrow band of showers disrupted threshing and light rain fell in Monticello.
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Madison
Monroe
Frank Ballweg
Lucille
Green County Fair
Monticello
New Glarus
Resian Tildy resigns Hungary presidency amid crisis
Budapest reports President Zoltan Tildy resigning under pressure from a communist government. His son in law Victor Csornosky, minister to Egypt, is under arrest for alleged espionage and treason. Csornosky resigned days after returning from Cairo.
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Budapest
Hungary
Zoltan Tildy
Egypt
Victor Csornosky
Tildy
Csornoky
Cairo
Congress May Quit End of Next Week Says Taft
Senator Taft warned the Senate that Congress may adjourn at the end of the next week if the anti poll tax bill is disposed of by Wednesday. Southern senators pressed a filibuster against the measure led by Senator Stewart with no GOP opposition. The move would derail Truman’s civil rights agenda and other proposals as Republicans plan to argue Truman misread their power to end debates with cloture.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate Today
Congress
Stewart
D-Conn
Truman
Senate
Vandenberg
R-Mich
GOP
House
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Review Board Adjourns Meeting Until Tuesday
Monroe city board of review adjourned until next Tuesday after finishing all but one item of the 1948 assessment roll. City Clerk G S Soseman will total the roll and expects a report on real estate and personal property by next Wednesday or Thursday. The adjournment gives time for an out of town taxpayer to appeal a personal property assessment increase.
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City Board of Review
Monroe
G. S. Soseman
Soseman
New Phase Develops in U S Air Strength Buildup
The United States expands its air power in Europe as Maj. Gen. Leon W. Johnson moves to command two wings forming an air division under Lt. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay. The shift follows a pattern of deploying B-29s and jet fighters to counter Soviet forces and test Atlantic ferrying.
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Washington
Europe
Russia
England
United States
Leon W. Johnson
Air Force
Johnson
Curtis E. LeMay
United Sates
Germany
LeMay
15Th Air Force
European
Panama Canal Zone
North Atlantic
Truman Blames GOP for Ignoring Inflation and Calls for Powers
President Truman accuses the Republican Congress of blind disregard for rising prices and urges sweeping controls on prices wages rationing and credit. He unveils a 4 percent rollback plan for essential living costs as part of a broader economic package while Taft criticizes the president’s tactics and forecasts possible policy moves.
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Washingon
Truman
Republican Congress
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
OPA
Paul Porter
White House
War crimes verdicts for 13 I G Farben directors
Thirteen Farben directors were found guilty of war crimes in Nurnberg and given jail terms from 18 months to eight years. Carl Krauch received six years for misusing slave labor, while others were convicted on slave labor charges or plundering occupied territories. Several defendants were acquitted on waging aggressive war. One defendant was severed from the case due to illness.
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Nuernberg
Germany
I. G. Farben Dhemical Trust
Tudee Paul M. Hebert
Baton Ronee
T.a
Farben
Carl Krauch
Herman Schmitz
Farben Board of Directors
Fritz Ter Meer
Otto Ambros
Heinrich Buetefisch
Walter Duerrfeld
Georg von Schnitzler
Ernest Buergin
Paul Haefliger
Max Ilener
Freidrich Jaehne
Heinrich Oster
Hans Kugler
Ter Meer
Administration Hints At Ration Certificates
Washington considers meat purchase certificates to control prices and ration meat. Certificates would be issued in money denominations, covering available supply at fair prices. Consumers would receive an equal share of the certificates, usable alongside regular money for meat purchases.
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Washington
Army Demands 1.7 Million Barrels Gasoline From Industry
Washington reports Rear Admiral E D Foster says the oil sector must supply 1 700 000 barrels of motor gasoline within a week or face mandatory seizure under the new draft act. The Berlin crisis prompts tougher demands while aviation gasoline and oil shortfalls must also be met for the aerial supply line to Berlin.
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Washington
Armed Services
E. D. Foster
Armed Forces Petroleum Purchasing Agency
Armed Forces
Foster
National Petroleum Council
Berlin
John Marty Dominates Swiss Cheese Honors at Green County Fair
John Marty of Browntown won the top round Swiss cheese award with 97 points at the Green County Fair. Leonard Disch of Argyle and Fred Ochsner of Juda followed with 96 and 94 respectively among twelve exhibitors. Walter Minnig of Monticello won best limburger at 97 percent, with Eugene Zoller scoring 96 and Rudolph Speich 94 in Monroe. In black Swiss, John Rechsteiner led with 97, Casper Furrer 93, Louis Stucki 92. No brick cheese or butter entered in dairy products.
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John Marty
Browntown
Green County Fair
Marty
Davis
Leonard Disch
Argyle
Flint- Winger Factory
Fred Ochsner
Juda
Newman Factory
Walter Minnig
Route 1
Monticello
Silver-Lewis Factory
Limburger
Dairy Products
E. O. Lee
Fred Marty
Trading in Live Hogs Reaches Record $31 Price
Chicago reports live hog trading hits a record high of $31 per hundred pounds, surpassing $30.50 set last September and matched in July. The surge comes as fresh country receipts total about 40,000 head for the week, lifting prices from the year's low of $21 and last year's $28.50 top.
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Chicago
Treasury chief urges 10 percent reserve boost to curb inflation
Secretary Snyder told the Senate Banking Committee that a ten percent increase in bank reserves could freeze up to 12 billion dollars in funds banks hold for lending. He tied the measure to President Truman's anti inflation program and asked Congress to grant authority to regulate installment buying.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Truman
Senate Banking Committee
Treasury
Congress
GOP
Federal Reserve
Marriner S. Eccles
Truman Urges Inflation Controls Ahead of Congress
In a broad address President Truman defended anti inflation steps and warned that delaying action could force deeper limits on the free economy. He cited defense and foreign aid spending wage boosts and a shrinking federal surplus as inflationary pressures. Republicans floated possible credit controls including tighter bank lending and installment rules to curb inflation while Truman aides favored early passage of initial proposals.
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Truman
Council
GOP
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Fred Jaggs
Brodhead
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Fred
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Switzerland
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Leslie Schwitz
A. J. Reppen
J. E. Brecklin
Green County Farm Bureau
Allan F. Barnard
Follies
Russell W. Prien
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Communist Party
New York
House Committee On un-American Affairs
New York World-Telegram
Madison Family
Tildy Resians
Sen. Taft
Chamber
Review Board
U. S
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Binner Bank Reserves
Porter
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