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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1951
Page
2
Fragmentary AP style note shows Monroe city matters with a $12.50 figure and a reference to public finances or fees. The readable portion mentions Aeronee and Qever in connection with city affairs, signaling a municipal financial or service adjustment.
The piece argues that American mail service is regressing as post office leadership seeks more funds, not efficiency, leading to service cuts and weekend backlogs in first class mail. It urges restoring prompt high service and warns against privatization or higher rates without accountability.
The death of John Erskine marks a public loss to informative entertainment. He revived figures from classics and legend with romantic atmosferes, translating them into everyday people. Erskine inspired millions to study legends thoroughly, turning their utterances into household words.
Complete but unofficial returns from Italy's interior ministry show Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrat party winning by a 21,876 vote margin over Communist led forces in Sicily's regional assembly elections. Final totals remain unofficial.
Miss Mauree Applegate of Janesville delivers the Rock County schools commencement address to Green County normal graduates stating that the world needs more and better teachers. Nellie Stabenow and Wendell Fuller exchange marriage vows. William E. Johnson receives an American Legion medal for athletic excellence and scholarship. Last rites held for Frank Winters at Gratiot.
Two Monroe men Grant Elmer and Basil Wilson developed a remote control system with enough power to run a 100 hp motor. Used by Rees Construction to operate a 2,000 gallon water tanker valve, it can open farm gates, windmills, and pumping motors from up to a mile away and even via flashlight batteries. Elmer, a lifelong mechanic with Rees since eight years, and Wilson, 45, a Monroe area machinist since 1942, plan to patent the device.
Mos lem followers of the Aga Khan will weigh him at the start of his seventh year as spiritual leader and pay him in platinum pounds. Current weight cited around 240 pounds with a projected payment near 3 million dollars if platinum prices hold and weight stays constant.
Washington delivers a column analyzing a Supreme Court ruling upholding the 11 top Communist leaders’ conviction under the Smith Act. He traces First Amendment limits through Holmes’s 1919 doctrine of clear and present danger and outlines decades of court balancing between free expression and national security. The piece notes the 1940s enactment and the 1950s appeal, highlighting the ongoing tension in free speech doctrine.
Defense called the Smith act unconstitutional arguing it violates the First Amendment and suppresses political ideals by treating the Communist party as a political group. Prosecution painted the eleven defendants as conspirators and enemies of the state allied with Moscow aiming to overthrow the government.
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, aged 95, who heads the Vichy regime, was reported somewhat better this morning at Port Joinville on the Atlantic island after a weekend relapse from severe pneumonia. He has been ill since an April attack of pneumonia.
Heavy winter rains and melting snow raise Wisconsin’s groundwater levels the U S Geological Survey says with shallow wells showing gains from Monroe to Park Falls. Artesian wells remain largely unchanged while overall recharge tracks precipitation and winter ground thaw.
A record first day enrollment of 288 is announced by Rev. Newell Mendenhall, dean of the union Vacation Bible School. Classes run two weeks at four church centers with 80 in Immanuel beginners, 111 in St. John’s primary, 40 juniors at Methodist, and 50 intermediates at Grace Lutheran.
Wisconsin's oldest resident Mrs Mary Jane Taylor will celebrate her 109th birthday on Wednesday. Her son Homer Taylor and daughter in law will host a quiet family party at home to mark the occasion.
Mrs. Taylor, living at Vernon county farm home, says she began daily snow baths in winter until she reached 95 and continues bathing in cold water. She credits the practice with helping keep wrinkles away and cites calm living and adherence to the Golden rule as keys to a long life.
Two Toronto residents walked out in shirts and prompted police action. One rode a city bus in an undershirt, paid fare, then was charged with vagrancy after a stampede formed. he claimed to be sleepwalking. The other man stood on a busy corner in a dress shirt and was taken to the station for a mental examination, refusing to provide his name.
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