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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1950
Page
2
Subscription rates listed: $12.30 per year for City of Monroe residents in Wisconsin. Outside Wisconsin, $2 per year. Stephenson County option at $8 each. Office hours begin at 8 a.m. and telephone number provided.
Editorial warns Milwaukee Road plan to reduce train service will harm Monroe and surrounding communities by cutting morning trains and delaying trips from Janesville to Monroe, worsening mail and express schedules and severing ties west to Mineral Point. It urges the railroad to seek economies without sacrificing service.
The piece argues the Amerasia affair involving secret government data during the war warrants full public explanation. It notes six arrests with varied outcomes, lingering questions about communist sympathies, and urges the state department and others to either reveal truth or clear those charged. The public deserves clarity beyond a halfway stance.
George Long, a retired LaCrosse detective, was appointed chief to replace Herman F. Rick who resigns effective Thursday. The police and fire commission selected Long from four candidates, including five from outside the city. The piece notes a pension demand tied to Townsend clubs.
From the June 2 1940 column comes notice that Daniel Rebly 60 of Monticello is hospitalized with injuries after being struck by a car while crossing a street. Mrs John Deal 78 of Jefferson township escaped with minor injuries when hit by an auto crossing a road in Jefferson township. The item summarizes multiple local incidents and dates.
About 125 people from 40 states gathered to push for a union of democratic nations under one central government. Led by Owen J. Roberts and allied with Clarence Streit, the group proposes a two-step process via a presidential convention and potential ratification by member publics.
Dr J Martin Johnson testified in circuit court that a young mother died at Ripon and blamed two nurses for delays in plasma preparation. He seeks to make permanent an injunction blocking the city from denying him access to hospital facilities, after a hospital commission barred him for criticizing the board and staff. He accused a former superintendent and a surgeon of conspiring to hide X ray evidence of a forceps left in a patient's stomach during earlier operations.
Mrs Susan Howard a registered nurse testified she was summoned to assist in an abortion case in spring 1944 and said there were hard feelings with the superintendent after she refused. Dr E L Watson testified he performed a so called therapeutic delivery.
Mrs Kenneth S Parker of the Parker pen family died at her Janesville home after months of illness. Her husband is president of the firm and their son Daniel works there. Born Mildred Gapen in Madison she was UW graduate. She leaves her mother Mrs Clarke Gapen and sister Mrs Louis Crowell of Evanston. Funeral services are set for Saturday afternoon.
New Catholic directory for 1950 shows 21,166,141 Catholics in the United States Alaska and Hawaii an increase of 3.8 percent over the prior year The largest diocese is Brooklyn with 1 249 197 followed by Pittsburgh 805 699 Archdioceses over a million include Chicago 1 691 681 Boston 1 302 985 New York 1 260 328 Philadelphia 1 058 038 and Newark N J 1 028 951 A $500 camera built from odds and ends will photograph shock waves at 100 million per second for explosives research in Washington
A. O. Smith Corp reported net income of 4,143,403 for the nine months ended April 30, down 683,516 from the same period a year earlier. Milwaukee.
Round Grove school will hold its picnic Sunday at Recreation Park. Two students, Robert Brunkow and Yvonne Lehr, are graduating, and two have perfect attendance this year, Brunkow and Shirley Kummer. If weather turns bad the gathering shifts to the school house.
Albany special report Charles Dixon, a former Albany merchant who owned a hardware store, has purchased an interest in the Osocales theater in Soquel California. Dixon previously ran a hardware business in Albany.
John Walter announces the judges for next Wednesdays Montgomery Ward bicycle safety parade. They are H. W. Ritchie, Herbert T. Johnson and L. L. Kitchen. The route starts at North School at 2 pm, circling the square to be judged in front of the Ward store.
Plans are forming for a local delegation to attend the 600th anniversary of Canton Glarus joining the Swiss Confederacy. Any native or descendant of Glarus is eligible for the 1952 voyage, with celebrants traveling as a group.
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