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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1952
Page
8
Fair with mild temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 45 to 50 in the north and 50 to 55 in the south. High tomorrow 82 to 87. Yesterday afternoon to this afternoon peak 75 and low 58. Sunrise 4 50, sunset 7 22. Lake Geneva records warmest at 80 and Grantsburg coldest at 42 yesterday. Barometer 29.68 at 1 am and 29.73 at 1 pm.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley appoints Fred Zuber Jr. of New Glarus as executor for Fred Zuber Sr. who died July 17. Appraisers J. S. Urben and Henry Kundert. Will dated December 31, 1930 provides $1,000 to four children and life use of the balance to the widow, with the remainder to Fred Jr Emil John Zuber and Minnie Rewey after the widow’s death.
Benny A Bennet age 18 of Argyle guilty of operating an unregistered motorcycle. Sentenced to ten dollars and costs. Justice L A Koenig presiding.
Robert R. Ashly of Orangeville and Vera M. Swanton of Freeport applied for a marriage license in Stephenson County at Freeport.
Mr and Mrs John Barrenger of Evansville welcomed a daughter on July 31. Mr and Mrs Gordon Henning of New Glarus reported a son born July 30. Mr and Mrs Newell B Smith of route 5 announced a son born July 30.
A list from St. Clare Hospital names patients and staff across medical and surgical divisions. It includes Mrs Janna Golackson Woodford and others from Beloit Vernona Brodhead and Richland Center, with addresses on 17th and 16th avenues, plus Joseph Wermelanger and Jon Peters credited in surgical. Dismissals include Carl Hurley and several named spouses and relatives.
For a decade the A. W. Howard family from Fort Wayne Indiana has received Swiss Colony gift cheese at Christmas. On a Nicolet National Forest fishing trip they stopped in Monroe to replenish cheese supplies at the Swiss Colony store with mother father and four children.
Assemblyman Harry A. Keegan and Postmaster John J. Burkhard of Monroe will be flown from Truax airport Madison to Camp Ripley Minnesota tomorrow at 7 a m for Governor's Day. The airlift will transport legislators employers and officials to see the 32nd Division at work during Governor's Day and guardsmen will be inspected at their training posts rather than in a formal review.
Mr and Mrs J C Carlsen of Seattle Washington spent a month visiting friends and relatives in Michigan and Wisconsin They left Monday for home Their Seattle address is 2112 Second Avenue North They formerly lived near Blanchardville He is a Seattle policeman now.
W A Elmer agricultural instructor from Albany attended a farm machinery workshop in Edgerton from Monday through yesterday. The Times Special notes his participation in the event and his role as an instructional figure.
Madison report says Charles Caldwell coach of Princeton’s undefeated teams in 1950 and 1951 and Ivy Williamson of Wisconsin will head the Wisconsin High School Coaches Association football clinic August 18 to 22. Badger assistants Paul Shaw Milt Bruhn and Bob Odell join as riding staff. Bud Foster and Cliff Wells share basketball technique classes. Larry Jansky of South Milwaukee High and Art Mansfield of Wisconsin will also conduct sessions.
Three new patients entered the polio isolation ward at St. Clare hospital for treatment and observation. One is from Monroe, Ronald Hill. Also admitted are Bruce Wagner five, from 2335 17th avenue, and Thomas Savour from Beloit, plus Mrs. Edgar Lingard of Verona. Nine total polio patients are at the hospital with several showing partial paralysis and others improving.
Eisenhower plans a brief speech at the 30th annual inter tribal Indian ceremonial in Gallup New Mexico on August 10. He is a likely backer of Republican Senate and House candidates in New Mexico and Arizona and may press for defeating Democratic incumbents Ernest W. McFarland and Dennis Chavez. Chavez faces Republican Patrick Hurley, with Goldwater and Kahl seeking the Arizona GOP nomination. Ike will remain neutral on intra party fights where multiple Republicans seek the same office.
Wisconsin state veterinarian Dr. H J O Connell voiced suspicion of rabies and anthrax outbreaks in Wisconsin and hoof and mouth disease near the border in Canada. He told the Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives that biological warfare sabotage could be a factor, though only one anthrax case has appeared in 50 days.
Two Illinois youths will appear in court on August 21 on sheriff's department charges from highway speeding incident. Robert C. Duthler of Freeport posted $15 bond for passing on a bill and Eugene Locher of Lena posted $10 bond for speeding while being passed.
Two year old Joan Whittaker daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Whittaker was killed when a milk truck backed over her in the driveway of the Whittaker farm home near Lily.
A string of visitors and residents gather in Monroe and area towns. Names include T R Sauer Dayton Mrs Lloyd Kampmeier Freeport and many relatives from Lyons Waterford Pitts burgh Browntown Kansas City Sterling Ill Madison and Janesville.
The Treasury for the first time in over two decades will pay up to two percent on one year money. One year certificates were offered in exchange yesterday to holders of about $2.42 billion in two series of 11 month notes due Aug 15 and Sept 1. The policy tightens reserve activity, limiting banks ability to sell old securities for new investments.
Some sheep have hair rather than wool while some goats are described as having woolly coats. The statement highlights variation in animal fleece among common livestock species.
Wayne Hood of LaCrosse Wisconsin was named executive director of the Republican National Committee amid party unity efforts. Hood 39 former head of Wisconsin Republican voluntary committee and Taft supporter will influence policy and helped push a rule change enlarging the National Committee. He previously led a Taft supported bid and is vice president of Trane Co.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur accepted the chairmanship of Remington Rand Inc. in New York. James H. Rand announced the decision. MacArthur would retain his Army rank on an unassigned basis, similar to Eisenhower at Columbia University. The offer had been discussed since October 1949 but declined due to Far East duties.
The procedure, removing both adrenal glands from animals, leads to death within roughly 48 hours. Researchers note rapid hormonal loss and stress response dissolution as the likely cause of the fatal outcome.
Mike Sullivan of Orfordville visits Green County Fair for 50 years stating his first fair was with Borden Co earning 60 dollars a month. He splits eight months in Florida and four months in Wisconsin helping granddaughter Mary Arlene Carver with 4-H cattle exhibits. A Norwegian settlement joke accompanies his stay as John W. Ruff Holstein cows calved at the fair grounds for several years. Yesterday a two year old cow had her first calf a bull in the stock pavilion.
Lt. Coleman A. Peterson 38 an Army officer from Camp McCoy Wisconsin held in Marquette County jail after fatally shooting Mike Chenoweth 52 at a tavern in Big Bay 30 miles north of here. Peterson had just returned from Korea and shot Chenoweth after his wife Charlotte 41 reported she had been assaulted. Peterson based with an antiaircraft unit at the Big Bay range and lives in a nearby trailer.
U S B 29s raid near the Manchurian border shatters a large Oriental Light Metals plant south east of Sinuiju with 630 tons of bombs. The mission involved 63 unescorted bombers, facing heavy anti aircraft fire, marking the war’s biggest single objective raid. Five other Superforts hit additional targets as Brig Gen Ganey notes strategic aims.
500 pound bombs fell on the plant area and some items will not explode for hours or days. The area had been showered with leaflets for nearly two months warning noncombatants to stay away because it would be bombed.
Police officers Dale Olson and Milton Schwitz apprehended two underage youths drinking beer at closing time last night at the Special Green County fair grounds. One 16 year old from Albany and a 17 year old from Brodhead will appear in juvenile court here at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Two Mauston children died of bulbar polio in a Madison hospital last night. A third child remained seriously ill, and a 14 year old from Mauston was under treatment, with the illness traced to bulbar polio. The deceased were Mary Jo Abbott six and Freddie Dziewicz eight, children of local families.
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