Booster Canvass Set To Launch Green County Cheese Day Fund
A booster canvass begins Tuesday in Monroe to raise funds for Green County Cheese Day set for September 9. Volunteers including Herbert E. Lanz and Laverne C. Gallitz aim to raise $6,000 with a $10 minimum from contributors, excluding taverns and wholesale cheese firms. The drive covers city businesses and includes numerous local activists. The Swiss Colony has donated over 150 pounds of Green County Swiss cheese for Shrine events in Los Angeles.
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Monroe
Green County
Herbert E. Lanz
Laverne C. Gallitz
Otto
May
Shrine
Los Angeles
Christ Buhlman
Colony
Madison
West Coast
Long Illness Fatal To Jacob Regez 72
Jacob Regez 72 son of a pioneer cheese maker died after years of illness in St Clary hospital He retired sixteen years ago and had been hospitalized since May 18 after transfer from Phoenix Arizona He was in Cleveland the prior four years A retired wholesale cheeseman he worked in the limburger department for Badger Brodhead Cheese Co and later for Carl Marty and Co He began the Regez Cheese Co with his father His father J Jacob Regez Sr a Swiss immigrant played a major role in early cheese industry He was born February 25 1878 married Elsbeth Ottilie Durst in 1899 He was a member of St John s Evangelical and Reformed church and of Smith Masonic lodge He leaves a son Robert and three daughters seven grandchildren and a sister and brother The funeral will be at Shriner Neushwander with burial at Greenwood cemetery
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Jacob Regez
Green County
St.Clare Hospital
Phoenix
Ariz
Bureau
Robert
Cleveland
Regez
Limburger
Badger-Brodhead Cheese Co
Carl Marty and Co
Regez Cheese Co
John Jacob
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Paris
Normandy
United States
Ohio
Europe
Jacob
Amer
New Glaus
Monroe
J. Jacob Regez Jr
Louise Wittwer Regez
Washington Township
Elsbeth Ottilie Durst
P. A. Schuh
St. John’s Church
St. John's
Mr. Reger
St. John’s Evangelical and
Robert Crews
Russell W. Prien
8Th Street
al DeJohn
San Mat Calif
Herman
7Th Street
John Strahm
17Th Avenue
Shriner-Neushwander “Funeral Home
Paul C. Keble
St. John’s Evangelical
Greenwood Cemetery
State Heart Group To Honor Dr Barry at Madison Dinner
Dr Barry and Dr John A Schindler attend Wisconsin Heart Association sessions in Madison today. Barry, campaign chairman for last February fund drive, will be honored at the annual dinner receiving a certificate of appreciation from Glen V Bork, Eau Claire campaign chairman.
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George R. Barry
John A. Schindler
Madison
Wisconsin Heart Association
Barry
Glen V. Bork
Eau Claire
March Milk Prices Dipped to 3.05 at Area Factories
A survey shows the average price at Swiss cheese factories in March was 3.05 per hundredweight, down 45 cents from February. State brand prices fell as much as six cents per pound, with March 1950 Swiss prices at 43 42 cents, and limburger at 31 2 cents. Net farmer income rose about 50 percent due to a 65 percent higher milk flow than February, while butterfat averaged 3.30 for March.
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Limburger
Bushmans Ailing At Chicago Zoo
The famed 22 year old gorilla Bushman at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago is gravely ill from arthritis heart disease and old age. Veterinarians diagnosed from a distance and cannot enter his cage which has been unentered since 1936. Bushman weighs about 550 pounds stands six feet two inches tall and may die within minutes or live a year.
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Amcagourpus
Chicago
Wesley Young
Anti-Cruelty Society
Lincoln Park
Bushman
Grant County Six Cities Show Population Gains in Census
Preliminary 1950 census figures released by the district supervisor show Grant County rising from 40,639 residents in 1940 to 41,541 in 1950. The six cities listed include Boscobel, Lancaster, Platteville, Muscoda, Cuba City, and Fennimore with notable increases.
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Sucrose
Ry Ussant
Boscobel
Tancaster
Platteville
Muscoda
Cuba City
Fennimore
Truman assails Soviet motives and world threats
President Truman denounces Soviet Russia as peace violators while claiming the free world grows stronger. He criticizes Moscow for large peacetime armed forces, subversion, and dictatorship aims, and pledges sustained U S help to free nations beyond 1952. The speech in Jefferson Memorial setting accompanies a Jefferson memorial dedication and World War I veterans reunion activities.
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St. Louis
Truman
Soviet Russia
Russia
United States
Jefferson Memorial
Mississippi River
Midwest
Soviet Union
Hisory
Germany
Hitler
Mr. Truman
United Nations
135Th
129Th Field Artillery
Thomas Jefferson
Harry
35Th Division
Eugene P. Donnelly
Kansas City
Battery D
France
University of Biscouri
Mrs Vandenberg Dies at Washington Wife of Senator Arthur Vandenberg
Mrs. Vandenberg, 67, wife of Michigan Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, died early today in Washington after serious illness following two major operations in 1947. In World War II she led Red Cross camp and hospital services, and was known as a loyal partner to her husband and a key Republican foreign policy figure in the Senate.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
City Playgrounds Programs Set Up
City park board approved a full recreation program for risk park directed by L L Kitchen. The plan includes washers and tether ball tournaments, horse shoe like events, softball starting May 22 and opening May 30, with a free pool day tomorrow. Lessons begin June 39 after Bible school close. Gene Davis leads pool and June Schoonover oversees playgrounds. Old Timers band performs that night. Rehearsals start Monday at 8 in the high school band room. A croquet tournament runs across playgrounds June 19 to 23. Green County tennis tourney June 24 and washers June 26 to 30. Cub scout circus prep continues for the season.
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Recreation Park
City Park Board
L. L. Kitchen
Gene Davis
June Schoonover
Green County
Soo Defense Force Repulses Saboteurs In Surprise Attack
The Soo locks faced a dawn mock assault by nine teams of saboteurs trained at Fort Riley and numbered about 45. The 143rd bridge unit of the Michigan National Guard repelled the first wave as the Fifth Army mobilized nearby defenses at Fort Sheridan and Fort Custer for rapid response. The exercise aimed to train troops in lock defense and had been anticipated to start in June.
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Metre —Ury
Soo Locks
Fifth Army
Fort, Riley
Kas
Michigan National Guard
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Fort Custer
Mich
Allies Reject Berlin Withdrawal Proposal
The western Allies formally rejected today a Soviet demand for the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Berlin as the price for holding city-wide elections. They backed West Berlin's city government stance, which had already refused the Russian demand.
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Berlin
Alexei Jelisarov
West Berlin
Senate Setback Delays Rent Control Test Vote Monday
A weary Senate edged into a 16 hour session ending at 1:40 a.m. to set a Monday 10 a.m. test vote on a bill extending federal rent controls six months beyond June. Senator Cain led a 12 hour filibuster and path to the bill’s fate shifted to Wherry’s banking committee motion, signaling a setback for Lucas.
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Washington
Senate
Cain
Rwash
Chamber
Wherry
Nebraska
Banking Committee
Lucas
Ilinois
House
Robert LaFollette Jr
Wisconsin
Higley Favored But Kohler Holds Strong Following
Milwaukee reports a tight Wisconsin Republican endorsement race for governor at the party convention with Harvey V. Higley leading early, Kohler’s Walter Kohler Jr., and State Senator Gordon Bubolz as top contenders. Delegates tally votes, platform pledges agriculture parity, veterans housing tweaks, and a four year term for constitutional offices, while arguing about vote counts and support.
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Arthur Bystrom
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Republican Party
Harvey V. Higley
Marinette
Higley
Walter 5. Xohier Jr
Kohler
Gordon Bubolz
Ancleton
Rennebohm
Cy Phillip
Republican National
Phillip
Hirley
Warren P. Knowles
Kohlér
Bubolz
Committee Approves Additional Policemen
The city council police and safety committee voted to present a resolution at the next meeting to add two policemen. Chief J H Schw ger requested the extra personnel last week, and the city fire and police commission will receive an eligibility list and advertise for applications and examinations.
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Council Police and Safety Committee
J. H. Schwger
City Fire and Police Commission
Schwger
Farm Blaze Charred Barn and Livestock Near Chilton
About 25 firefighters from Chilton New Holstein and Calumetville fought a nine hour barn and shed fire at the Gilbert Schneider farm seven miles south of her. Damage ranged from 15000 to 20000 dollars. Nine cattle and three pigs perished and machinery suffered damage.
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Battle Farm
Chilton
New Holstein
Calumetville
Gilbert Schneider
Yonkers Newspaper Wins Phone Service Battle
Yonkers Daily Times secured a court order for immediate restoration of its telephone service after Public Safety Commissioner Patrick F. O Hara cut lines alleging use for relay of racing information. The paper published without interruption but the 12 trunk lines remained dead early morning.
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Xonxers
V.x. — Wey
Yonkers
New York Telephone Co
O'Hara
Diary Notes Said to Link Forrestal to Amerasia Case
Washington Evening Star reports secret diary notes of Secretary Forrestal in New York claiming he intervened in the Amerasia matter to keep Truman informed and avoid embarrassment with Russia as the United Nations was being formed. The notes, due to be shown to a Senate committee, are cited as supporting the inquiry and subpoena of Amerasia editor Philip Jaffé.
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Vashington
Washington Evening Star
Amerasia
Forrestal
New York
the Star
Truman
Russia
United Nations
San Francisco
Senate
Philip Jaffse
Amerjasia Magazine
Senate Inquiry Committee
Star
Forest Fire Threatens Newfoundland Town of Lewisporte
Firefighting crews battled Newfoundland’s worst forest fire as calm weather allowed a long effort to shield the town of 1,500 and its nearby gasoline depot serving Gander airport from advancing flames.
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Vonn
Ohio Firm Tops Race News Field
A senate commerce committee report identifies Continental Press of Cleveland as a major source of racing news used illegally by bookmakers. It lists press services and newspapers as contributors, notes legal racing data transmission, and urges a ban on pre race news moved across state lines. The report cites Continental as having a near monopoly in transmitting racing news to bookmakers.
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Don Whitehead
Washington
A_ senate
Continental Press Service
Cleveland
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
Continental Today
Continental
Telegraph
Russian Roulette Ends Life Of 15-Year-Old In Fatal Game
Anthony Petrulli, 15, died during a dangerous game of Russian roulette. Three friends watched as he removed all bullets, replaced one, spun the cylinder, then pressed the gun to his forehead and pulled the trigger. The chamber contained a live bullet. Police Lieutenant Joseph Lennon confirmed the incident.
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Anthony Petrulli
Joseph Lennon
Anthony
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State Heart Group
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Moscow
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Soo
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D-Miss
Newfoundland
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American Telephone and Telegraph Co
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Morning Telegraph
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