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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1951
Page
8
Fair and not quite so cool tonight with a low around 42 to 46 degrees. Tomorrow will be fair and warmer with highs near 70 to 75, except near Lake Michigan. Historical notes show temperature extremes of 85 and 42, and Phoenix 96 while Duluth 34. Sunrise and sunset times are listed as 4:24 and 7:33.
Clarence Hanson transfers 12 acres in section 28 York township Blanchard ville to Thomas C. Erickson in Lafayette county. Mrs Lisetta Rieder conveys land in section 20 and 2 Albany township south of Little Sugar river to J Jacob Rieder.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley granted an uncontested divorce yesterday afternoon to Gerald Sauer, 19, a Brodhead serviceman, from Mildred Sauer, 18, of South Beloit Illinois, on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment without violence. They wed December 29 1950. no alimony or support was ordered.
In a small claims context Virgil R. Pick of route 5 faces speeding allegations at night with $10 costs. Bennie and Lorrain C. Wall, brothers from Blanchardville, charged with disorderly conduct with $10 costs.
Katherine Genevieve Stopka and Clifford Walter Leuzinger obtain marriage licenses. Justice L. A. Koenig and Kenneth P. Quinn of Juda convict for driving under the influence with fines and costs. Obituaries note William S. Pond aged 80 of Janesville and George M. Fugate aged 78 of Hartford. Infant son of Mr and Mrs Ervin Beckman of Orangeville mentioned.
At St Clare Hospital McCue in Darlington the surgical list includes Mrs Gilbert Lee Beloit Mrs Leslie Malmberg Rockford Lavere Erbsen Pearl City and Mrs Ella Ol son Darlington Tonsillectomy patients include Mrs Edward Wittwer 30th avenue Ronald Engel Brodhead James Beutel Argyle Herman Beutel Argyle Hattie Enzinger Dakota and Elda Schadewald Juda Dismissals list Elmer W Lahorn Jacob J Blumer Herman Halvorson Sam Smith Mrs Harold Cline Mrs Herbert Soddy and Mrs Alvin Indegand.
Price Stabilization Office plans a community by community pricing program for 15 to 20 grocery items within 30 days. The items will include processed foods. No rationing is contemplated. Merchants must post ceiling prices as under wartime OPA, with local conditions guiding set prices.
The school board pledged to find a replacement for Edward M. Ensch a veteran farm training instructor recalled to active duty with a Camp Crowder Missouri report due June 16 The board noted 15 applications on file and will continue the search Theodore J Burgy and local veteran groups urged action The board also allowed Alcoholics Anonymous to use the high school auditorium on June 24 for a meeting.
Marie Olson Pond 80 wife of W S Pond died in Janesville less than a day after her sister's Chicago death. Born in Janesville July 18 1870 she married W S Pond Aug 29 1893. Survived by husband two sons Edwin T Pond and Alonzi W Pond five grandchildren and five great grandchildren one sister Miss Anna Olson Funeral at Overtow Janesville Friday with burial in Oakhill cemetery.
Funeral services for 71 year old Carl Olson of Orfordville will be held at 1 30 p m tomorrow in the East Luther Valley church with Rev Marcus Lewis officiating and burial in Luther Valley cemetery. He died Sunday at St Clare hospital from injuries after a fall at work on the Lawrence Bergh farm. Survivors are Runans family members. Infant Beckman graveside services were held at Orangeville cemetery. Roscoe Smith and Mrs Oscar Losey of Monroe and Clarence Loveland of Washington township attended a Milwaukee wedding. Frank Miller returned to Crookston Minn after visiting Mrs Lois Chase.
Local social notes list visitors and calls from Darlington Juda Egan Monroe Albany Madison Racine Waunakee Evansville Albany and Dubuque. Names include Masie Ross Donnabelle Rosheisen C S Pierce Marvin Mullen Lula Silver Phoebe Chadwick Lillian Young Richard Swanson and many others. Several trips to Chicago and Madison described along with graduation, church and club gatherings and a regular Women of the Moose meeting.
Big meat packers report production cuts due to short cattle supply under OPS ceilings. Layoffs begin nationwide as Armour and Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. confirm reduced slaughter and transfers to keep workers employed. DiSalle cites beef stock levels, with a 110 city survey showing supplies at or above month-ago levels.
British delegation to the U N reports U N forces in Korea suffered a spike in casualties from the latest Chinese offensive. Total British dead exceed 700 with wounded and missing over 1,100, while US figures as of May 25 show 67,427 battle casualties including 10,127 dead, 15,889 wounded and 11,41 missing.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff met with France’s top military leaders in Paris to receive a first hand briefing on rearmament. He conferred with the joint chiefs of staff of the French land sea and air forces and scheduled a luncheon with Defense Minister Jules Moch.
Governor Kohler signed a package enabling veterans to defer installments on state housing loans during military service and six months after discharge with interest waived. The bill requires proof of financial responsibility before an occupational driver’s license is granted and mandates that county judges be lawyers starting in 1954 with appeals from county courts going to the supreme court. It also appropriates 1,096 dollars to Darlington residents for food damage from a 1950 flood disinfectant incident ordered by a state inspector.
Four air force crewmen died when a C-119 cargo plane exploded during a rainstorm and crashed on a farm near Vacxson Tennessee. Three crewmembers were blown from the wreckage but survived with shock and minor injuries. Wreckage spread about 15 miles southwest. one body found near the wreckage with a half opened chute. Identification of the dead was being withheld. Highway patrolmen and Tennessee national guardsmen searched the scene.
Stanley Crocker, 26, formerly at Stay Ward Wisconsin, was sentenced to 14 to 25 years after pleading guilty to second degree murder for slashing his two young children, Christine four and Stanley Jr. one, with a senoki blade. He cited pain from a tooth extraction and said he did not remember the killings, though psychiatrists had pronounced him sane.
Washington reports May unemployment at 1,609,000, a postwar low since 1945 with a 137,000 drop from April. Employed civilians rose to 51,193,000, the highest in six months, as the labor market improved.
Price slashing by New York department stores spreads to Baltimore Newark Omaha and San Francisco as Macy’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s cut prices on watches phonograph records and more. Abraham and Straus adds Father’s Day gifts while a Rogers department store rush injures three shoppers. New York sales rise about 25 percent from last year.
Hayworth's attorney Bartley Crum said Aly Khan balks at the 33 million settlement actress Rita Hayworth seeks for their daughter Yasmin. Crum planned to travel to Paris to press talks with Aly's lawyers as Ms Hayworth arrives in Nevada for a six week residence before divorce action.
Lester A. Bartlet a 22 year old Sheboygan county farmer told U S Commissioner Floyd E Jenkins he would rather go to jail than serve in the army. Jenkins bound him over under a $1000 bond to the next federal grand jury. Bartlet refused to take the oath of allegiance when to be inducted in Milwaukee on February 12 claiming it opposed his religious views. He has been a member of a religious sect since July 1950.
The Army and Air Force recruiting office will operate on a part-time basis from 12 to 3 p m each Tuesday. A full-time recruiter is expected to be assigned here next month. Sgt Walter M Hel- is noted in the brief notice.
Gesen, a former recruiter, is transferred to Camp McCoy and will report June 16. Cpl. Jack L. Walsh is assigned to the Green County area and Janesville area. Appointment cards will be left in a box on the door of room 3 in the post office for those unable to attend during office hours. The Janesville office opens until 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
At 1 800 feet two air force planes collided in midair, killing two pilots and injuring a third. A fourth plane piloted by Korean veteran Franklin C. Winters of Eugene Oregon escaped unharmed. Winters said one fighter wing was sheared off in the crash as the other craft collided nearly head-on.
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