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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1967
Page
2
Monroe Evening Times announces post office filing, editor Emery Odell, AP member, and subscription rates. In Wisconsin in county circulation regions, mail rate listed. office hours and contact included.
The Town Meeting of the World telecast paired Gov. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy answering questions from European, African, and Asian students. The program exposed stark anti US sentiment abroad and doubts about Vietnam policy, urging more global dialogue and wiser foreign policy despite competing TV entertainments.
Governor plans a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by McCarthy. John C. Burt graduates from West Point. Dorothy Johnson is elected to the board of directors of the Wisconsin Heart Association during a Milwaukee session.
A. O. Collentine professor of dairy husbandry at Wisconsin College of Agriculture will judge the Brown Swiss Canton Show at the Fairgrounds. The summer softball season begins at Recreation Park with VFW Lanz Hardware and Victory Tavern posting Minor League victories on a wet diamond.
Chicago police remove wounded and dead steel workers as sixty one injured and three killed in clashes. League president suspends Dizzy Dean for conduct detrimental to the interests of baseball on June 2, 1937, marking a turbulent period in sports.
Forty years ago on June 2 1927 Monroe schools closed for summer break. Monroe High School graduates numbered 74 with 30 boys and 44 girls.
Washington announces that National Guard divisions will be sent to serve on the French front. Rev. J. C. Bleiler to take over the first pulpit at Jefferson. First Regiment Band arrives for two public concerts in the recruiting drive for Company H.
A three year old boy was found safe in a neighbor J A Elmer s pasture after an all day search by family and friends. An officer from Madison visited to inspect Company H at the Armory in the same report.
The World Almanac notes NYC endured 26.4 inches of snow in 24 hours on December 26 to 27, 1947. The storm halted city life with closures and traffic jams, surpassing the 1888 blizzard by 5.4 inches.
Social news from Spring Grove includes visits by Mrs. Herbert Mohns and others to Beloit Illinois and Durand while families such as the Badertscher Stern and Wendler clans share weekends in Vilas and Janesville. Birthday greetings for Otto Uphoff mark North Freedom visits.
Mrs. Howard Ensor of Hanover Rock County died after a brief illness in a Rockford hospital. Born Flossie Perry July 25 1901 she married Harold Ensor December 19 1916 in Rockford. Surviving sons George Brodhead Harold West Allis daughters Dorothy Lund Vera Dey Lucille Swart five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services 1 30 p m tomorrow at Silverthorn Newcomer Funeral Home Orfordville. Burial Milton Cemetery. Friends may call 7 9 p m tonight.
Henry Schlittler 75 a Mt. Pleasant Township native and former Monroe resident died of an apparent heart attack yesterday at his Ozark Missouri home where he had lived since 1960. He worked for William A Becker Co. and later Borden Cheese Co. in Monroe. He was born February 10 1892 to Jacob and Elizabeth Zweifel Schlittler and married Mael Indergand November 18 1915 in Monroe.
Gary Zweifel son of Mr and Mrs Dwight Zweifel will receive his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin honors graduation in Madison on Sunday June 4 The event marks Zweifel’s completion of his studies and forthcoming degree conferment.
The obituary notes a widow and daughter Evelyn Eiekhof of Ozark along with three brothers Edwin Ernest and Jacob of Monticello and Brodhead and two sisters Lydia Baebler of Monticello and Emma Day of Florida. The funeral is tentatively planned for Monday in Ozark.
Mrs. Alice Bucher 89 of Durand died after a short illness in Beloit hospital. She was married May 4 1895 in Monroe to a man who died in 1949 and they ran a general store in Durand for 30 years. Surviving are a daughter Mrs. Frank H. Osborn Beloit and two granddaughters. Services 3:30 p.m. tomorrow Chapin McCorkle Funeral Home Durand. Burial Durand Cemetery.
Mrs. Pauline Thornton 76 a Brooklyn native died in her sleep at her Evansville home with her mother Mrs. Charles Johnson present She married in 1912 and farmed near Oregon with her husband until his July 1957 death She survived by her mother two sons Hugh and Keith Oregon two daughters Mrs Alfred Koehler Brooklyn and Mrs Eva Lundgren Berkeley Calif a brother Roscoe Haynes Evansville 11 grandchildren and one great granddaughter Funeral services 2 p m Sunday June 4 at Oregon Methodist Church with visitation 7 to 9 p m Saturday at Allen Funeral Home Evansville
Rainy weather forced the West Clarno School picnic to be held in the schoolhouse. About 75 attended including 18 pupils and families, with a Wednesday trip to Freeport Lincoln statue site and Rockford, touring the Structo plant, then a sack lunch at Krape Park. Mrs Rex Jones taught multiple grades.
The 13-cent Kennedy aerogramme, issued to meet May 1 postal rate increases, went on sale in Chicago May 29 and becomes available at Monroe Post Office May 31. The design matches the prior issue except for denomination and features a Kennedy photograph. The lightweight envelope offers low-cost worldwide airmail service.
A brief meditation on how losing an act or event reveals what is taken for granted. The piece underlines irony in seeking order when things vanish and suggests that absence exposes underlying priorities and assumptions.
William Lengacher, former Dane County assistant district attorney, will get 2374.06 in back pay after a circuit court order. The amount is based on 3432.88 gross earnings for four months, with director James Boll agreeing to the stipulation. Lengacher submitted his registration to Boll and awaits rein statement.
Miss Mary Ann Burgy daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred T Burgy will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree at the close of the summer school session She majored in French and studied in France her junior year She will join 578 students honored for outstanding university work at the All University Honors Convocation in the Field House on the campus at 4 p m Sunday.
A proposal calling on Congress for tougher federal limits on shipments of goods to North Vietnam by Americans drew no approval on Thursday in the Assembly.
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