Officials Busy On Eve of Fair
Activity at Green County fairgrounds ahead of the 97th annual program with concessions stands, midway whirligs, and floral hall displays. Cattle and horse exhibits prepare as 4-H entries and state fair judging plan unfold, with events starting tomorrow evening and continuing through Saturday.
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Green County Fairgrounds
Floral Hall
Phillip J. Milburn
Green Bay
Phil Bob
Milburn
R. H. Schoonover
West Allis
Green County
OPS Raises Pork Ceilings For Retail and Slaughterers
The OPS announced new pork ceilings raising most pork chop and roast prices by five to six cents per pound at retail. Slaughterers may gain higher prices on pork loans under 16 pounds due to increased lean hog costs since January, while loan prices stay frozen at January levels. Retailers may pass on higher slaughterer prices, with shop price rises ranging from three to nine cents per pound.
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Washington
OPS
Mrs Ella Miller 63 Dies After King Picnic Trip
Mrs. Ella Miller 63 a Madison health board clerk died of a heart attack in her Madison apartment. She had joined a Monroe group at a WRC picnic in King Wisconsin. The death was ruled non criminal and a funeral will be held at Fitch Lawrence Funeral Home in Madison with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Ella Miller
Monroe
King
Wis
Madison
State Board of Health
Fitch-Lawrence
Forest Hill Cemetery
Miller
May L. Luchsinger
Mrs Loveland of Monticello Dies at 69
Mrs Fanny Loveland 69 longtime Green county resident died at St. Clare hospital at 2 30 am She was born July 26 1882 in Washington township married Otto Loveland in 1900 and lived on several farms before moving to Monticello She was active in Zwingli church Eastern Star and relief corps Surviving are two sons Clarence and Frank two brothers John and Albert Moritz a sister and four grandchildren Funeral services will be at 2 pm Thursday at Monticello Zwingli church with Rev A R Achtemeier officiating Burial will be in Highland cemetery.
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Fanny Loveland
Monticello
Clarence W. Loveland
County Board of Supervisors
St. Clare Hospital
Green County
Loveland
Washington Township
John
Mary Ruby Moritz
Otto Loveland
Moritz
Ellis Elmer
Mary Schuler
Monticello Zwingli Franecelical and Reformed Church
A. R. Achtemeier
Highland Cemetery
Voegeli
Profit Taking Knocks Stock Market Rally
The New York market faced heavy profit taking and dull spirits as it attempted a rally. Lenders led declines with losses up to about $3 a share, while many issues fell a few cents to over a dollar, and scattered buoyancy failed to reverse the downtrend.
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New York
Center To Reopen Friday Night After Disciplinary Action
The Youth center will reopen Friday night from 7 30 to 11 p m announced recreation director Joe E Miller. The building closed this week as a disciplinary measure after youths left it in disorder and caused disturbances. Those responsible must volunteer to clean before reopening. Further hours this summer to be set at a park board meeting Monday night.
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Joe E. Miller
Miller
Park Board
Work Under Way For Racing Track Near Monroe
Construction began this morning on a stock car race track near Juda, four to five days of earth moving expected. Stanley Whitehead owns the Elmer farm site, with Allie Holtshopple and Ben E Kubly of Monroe as interested parties. Seven trucks, three bulldozers, two power shovels and two graders are on site. The initial track will be one third mile, expandable to a half mile if needed.
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Highway 59
Monroe
Elmer
Stanley Whitehead
Juda
Whitehead
Allie Holtshopple
Ben E. Kubly
Sheriff Checks Rural Case After Abandoned Car Found
The sheriff's department investigates an abandoned car on highway 9 south of town and contacts the Illinois owner. A warning shot was fired by an officer during a search in a corn field for a man suspected of abandoning the car yesterday.
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Sheriff's Department
Highway9
City
Monroe
Illinois
Pomeroy Sentenced in Federal Training School Case
Madison Janesville youth Patrick W. Pomeroy, 19, admitted stealing a car in Jacksonville Florida and driving it to Janesville July 8. He was sentenced today by U S Patrick Stone to 18 months in a federal training school after arrest in Rock County following a car crash.
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U. S
Madison
Patrick W. Pomeroy
Janesville
Patrick Stone
Jacksonville
Fla
Pomeroy
Rock County
Witness Links Lattimore and Barnes to Soviet Intelligence
Former Russian general Alexander Barmine testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that in 1933 Soviet intelligence head Berzin named Owen Lattimore and Joseph Barnes as potential agents. Barnes, a former Herald Tribune foreign correspondent, later chaired the Institute of Pacific Relations council. Lattimore was editor of Pacific Affairs and later a Johns Hopkins professor. Barmine said he supplied arms in Western China and that he defected in 1937 after fearing purges among former associates.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Joseph Barnes
Alexander Barmine
State Department
Voice of America
Senate
Internal Security
Barmine
China
Berzin
Lattimore
Barnes
The
New York Herald Tribune
American Council
Institute of Pacific Relations
Herald Tribune
Johns Hopkins University
Institute
U. S
IPR
Pacific
Iran
Turkey
France
Italy
Belgium
Greece
Field Sentenced To Second Contempt Term
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, heir to the Vanderbilt fortune, was given a six month contempt sentence by U.S. District Judge John F. X. McGohey for refusing to identify contributors to the Civil Rights Congress bail fund. He already has a 90 day contempt term and faces further contempt if called again. The CRC forfeited $80,000 when four Communist defendants jumped bond, and prosecutors seek leads to their hiding places. Field appeals both sentences.
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New York
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Field
Commodore Cornelious Vanderbilt
John F. X. MceGohey
Romeo Starts Home On General Butler Transport
Homer Cook, a husky Oklahoma man who served time for smuggling himself into Germany to see his sweetheart, departed Bremerhaven aboard the transport General Butler for America today.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Homer Cook
America
General Butler
62 700 Students Fail First Draft Rating Test
Washington report shows about 62 700 college students flunked the first draft aptitude test given May 26. Selective Service said 53 percent of 42 500 freshmen 64 percent of 53 000 sophomores 72 percent of 44 000 juniors and 77 percent of 18 500 seniors scored 70 or better.
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Washington
Selective Service
Chicago Holds 46 In Gambling Raids
State and city officers raided 10 alleged gambling spots across Cook County yesterday arresting at least 46 people. Over 200 were dispersed as police uncovered a wire room at a North Side bungalow and a Four Aces club raid in Calumet City using a battering ram.
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Chicago
Cook County
Pratt Boulevard
Four Aces Club
Calumet City
Census shows 55 more Monroe children for 2037 total
The Monroe census counts 2 037 children aged birth to 19, up 55 from 1950. Public school pupils total 1 891 with 146 at St Victor's. boys 942 and girls 949 in public schools, plus 87 boys and 59 girls at St Victor's.
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Monroe
St. Victor’s
St. Victor
Buffer Zone Deadlock Stalls Korea Armistice Talks
United Nations and Communist negotiators remained at an impasse over a buffer zone in Korea. Talks in Kaesong stretched 1 hour 34 minutes with no progress, as both sides stuck to positions around the 38th parallel and current battle lines.
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U. N
Korea
United Nations
38Th Parallel
Kaesong
Nam Il
North Korea
North
South Korea
Pusan
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Lie Tests Highlight Squires Loot Across Illinois and Wisconsin
Russell J. Squires, 23, of Freeport, admitted to more than $2,000 stolen in 45 burglaries over four months. Police report lie detector tests linked him to break ins in Freeport, Rockford, Stockton, Dixon, Beloit, Sterling, and Monroe, with captures after a Stockton break in.
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Russell J. Squires
Freeport
Illinois
Wisconsin
Rockford
Squires
Henry S. Hefty
Clement M. Low
Stockton
Dixon
Beloit
Sterling
Monroe
Poisoned Food Found Near Doghouse
Poisoned meat and gravy with a strong phosphorous odor were found near a doghouse at 2008 18th Avenue tied to Mrs. Sarah Hofmeister. Police took the samples to headquarters. Mrs. Ella Rod says a man followed her and her son Merlin home the night before. they share the house with Hofmeister. The dog remained unfed.
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Sarah Hofmeister
18Th Avenue
Ella Rod
Merlin
Meister
Cheddar List Firm in Wisconsin Market Report
The Federal State market news service notes Wisconsin American cheese market steady to firm with fair to good demand. Prices show singles daisies at 40 percent, longhorns 40 to 41, square prints 40 to 42, and midgets 42 to 44.
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Madison
Wisconsin
I.c.l
Frick Open to Players Voice in Choosing Baseball Commissioner
Washington reports Frick president of the National League told Congress he would object to players having a voice in choosing a commissioner. The House Judiciary subcommittee studies baseball anti trust issues as Ty Cobb and others discuss salary controls and reserves.
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Ty Cobb
Detroit
Washington
Cobb
Ford Frick
National League
Congress
Leo Durocher
Frick
House
Salary Stabilization Board
Salary Board
Eric Johnson
Harry C. Byrd
University of Maryland
John F. Kieran
Information Almanac
New Test Blasts Also Scheduled in Development Plan
The AEC disclosed new secret sites to store atomic weapons and a plan for more frequent test blasts. Chairman Gordon Dean said storage sites would remain undisclosed while production sites were announced. President Truman sought $273 million for higher costs and new plants. The report notes progress in uranium and fissionable material, breeder research, and radiation treatment hope.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Congress
Gordon Dean
Truman
United States
Eniwetok
Nevada
Dean
Free Nations
Belgian Congo
Commission
Faithful Fairgoer Plans Attendance Despite Injury
One of Green County’s most regular fair attendees is Frank Matzke of 2215 15th Street who has never missed a year since age eight in 1870. Bedfast since a January 2 ice fall, he has “perked up” with fair time and hopes to attend, living with his son Gayl since the accident.
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Green County Fairs
Frank Matzke
15Th Street
Matzke
Gayl
Belleville Marine Returns Aboard Transport Mountrail
Belleville man Staff Sergeant George H Argue arrived today aboard the U S S Mountrail among 1330 Marine Corps combat veterans returning from Korea.
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Belleville
George H. Argue
U. S. S. Mountrail
Marine Corps
Korea
PSC Plans Hearing On Martintown Dam
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission will set a date for a formal hearing on a petition by a group of farmers seeking to purchase the Wisconsin Power and Light Co dam at Martintown to ease floods and protect farmland. Senator Melvin J. Olson represents the farmers. the option on the 180 foot dam built in 1922 is held by the farmers.
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State Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Martintown
PSC
Madison
Melvin J. Olson
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James S. Bray
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William A. Brown
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