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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1955
Page
8
Mostly cloudy and cool tonight and Saturday with local drizzles. Low 45-52, high 60-68. Temperatures tracked hourly from Thursday 1 pm to Friday 1 pm. Warmest places Needles and Blythe, Calif. 118, coldest Frazer, Colo. 24. Sunrise 4:31, sunset 7:28.
Justice L A Koenig and Calvin Saxby of Juda face postponed proceedings to July 13 over unsanitary dairy farm conditions per the State Department of Agriculture.
Roland C. Ellis of Madison and Marian H. Paulson of Blanchardville are named in a Dane County issued notice.
Death notices report Mrs Grace Riemer 62 of 1800 21st Avenue and Mrs Wesley Maxfield 54 of Browntown. Both names listed under local obituaries with ages and dwelling places.
Mr and Mrs Howard Bressath of 2009 14th Street welcomed a daughter born June 9. The announcement notes the family’s residence and newborn’s sex.
The notice lists St. Clare Hospital staff and patients in medical and surgical categories. It names LeRoy J. Duerr of Scales Mound Illinois and others, plus Andrew Heinzelman and William Richter among surgical cases, and a long listing of dismissals including Louis Hubert and Rob ert Hermanson.
The service record notes Pvt John Ensinger Jr the son of Mr and Mrs John Ensinger Sr from Dakota has a new address listed as US 55 535 276 Co A 25th AEB Class 47 6th Armd Div Ft Leonard Wood Mo
A hearing on Mrs Leonia May Wirths petition to detach from New Glarus school district and join Monticello village schools will be held at 8 pm Monday June 25 in Monticello The county school committee decided this last night in the Courthouse Clerks of designated districts are to be notified The committee also approved bus routes for 1955 56 for seven high schools and two elementary schools with others to be acted on later
Monroe sends two delegates John Hammer and John Jeglum to Badger Boys State in Ripon for a weeklong leadership program. They depart tomorrow from Monroe with family chaperones linking Brodhead and Albany to the event. The pair return the following week with their Monroe hosts.
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange reports steady trading with two cars of pasteurized longhorns at 33 one car junior graded cheddar at 29 medium unfilled bids for two cars junior grade cheddar at 29 4.
Mr and Mrs John Woethrich and daughter Wilma Joy have moved into their recently remodeled home purchased from the Herbert Matzkes.
Personal mentions note Mrs. Claude Wideman Juda visits here while Rev. Hulburt spends day in Shullsburg. Several towns ahead of weekend plans include Madison for Betty Lamb’s youth board meeting and a Knights Templar conclave in Madison.
At a Kremlin dinner honoring India's Prime Minister Nehru, Soviet Premier Bulganin praised Nehru's peace leadership and expressed hope that India, Russia, and Red China could ease global tension over Formosa. Nehru replied that his hand for peace would be extended to others.
In New York the stock market moved up from a slow start with prices rising one to three points in early afternoon trading. Railroads and steels led gains as Northern Pacific showed strong activity with a rise of roughly three to four points, offsetting earlier faltering.
Paul E. Rosen age 83 a retired Madison tailor was struck and killed by a car while attempting to cross a busy Madison street late Thursday. The driver was John T. Pope 21 of Madison. Coroner Stanley Larson announced an investigation of the accident.
The Rev. Grant V. Clark 86 a retired Congregational pastor died at his home Thursday night He served as mayor of Rhinelander from 1916 to 1918 and held pastorates in Tomahawk and Evansville He retired four years ago.
Browntown widow and former Laura Elma Larsen, eight years as postmistress, died after a yearlong illness. Born March 19 1901 in Elroy she married Richard Smith in 1918 and Wesley Maxfield in 1928. Surviving are husband Leon Smith a son and two brothers. Services at Stuesky funeral home and Wisconsin Dells Methodist church with burial in Spring Grove cemetery.
Douglas Aircraft plans the DC-8 jet transport for passenger service to cross the United States in about four and a half hours and the Atlantic in about six and a half hours. The airliner should fly by December 1957 with airline deliveries starting in 1959. It will carry 80 to 125 passengers at speeds above 550 mph, edging ahead of the DC-7.
In Canton Mississippi five candidates for governor unite on a segregation platform promising to keep Negroes out of white public schools if elected. The joint appearance, sponsored by Citizens Councils, featured former Gov Fielding Wright and attorneys J P Coleman Ross Barnett and Paul Johnson with Mrs Mary Cain among speakers.
Grantsburg announces the engagement of Marilyn June Hanson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil R Hanson to Harold C Jordahl Jr son of Mr. and Mrs Harold C Jordahl Madison. Hanson graduate of Superior State College Lambda Sigma Lambda member now teaching in Green County Normal School Monroe former Spooner teacher. Jordahl Michigan graduate attending Harvard public administration on leave from State Conservation Department formerly stationed in Spooner. They will marry June 18 at 8 p m in English Lutheran Grantsburg with Rev Lester L Stine officiating.
The House appropriations committee laid out a clash over the Dixon-Yates power project. It sent a bill for 1.282 billion dollars to fund federal power agencies for the year beginning July 1 and rejected an administration request for 65 million to build a Dixon-Yates line. Instead, funds were directed to begin a new TVA steam plant at Fulton Tennessee, potentially denying Dixon-Yates an outlet and shifting power generation to TVA in the area planned for Dixon-Yates service.
Madison hearing on a bill to ban secret meetings by boards and councils at all government levels. Executive sessions allowed only for personnel matters. Records of public agencies would be open to public inspection. Seven Democrats urged passage with support from Wisconsin Press Association secretary Carl Zielke. John Lobb of the Investment Board voiced caution about full disclosure of board spending data.
The Assembly taxation committee voted 7-2 to recommend a House bill granting property tax exemption to Frank Lloyd Wright's school of architecture near Spring Green. The measure, brought by Mrs. Raihle, would extend exemption to the Wright Foundation and other institutions after the state Supreme Court ruled the foundation is not primarily educational.
Miss Shirley Bruny daughter of Mr and Mrs Sam Bruny residing at 1310 20th avenue and a Monroe high school graduate has enrolled at St Josephs hospital Milwaukee for a two year course as X ray technician.
Times Special reports Miss Evelyn Elliott a 1955 Juda high school graduate has accepted a position at the Walgreen drug store in Beloit.
The family of the late Grace Riemer requests that flowers be omitted as a personal wish of the deceased.
Richard Sarbacher and Charles Hicks leave tomorrow for Badger Boys State at Ripon College. They are sponsored by the Nessny-Kuenzi American Legion Post.
Robert Chambers son of Mr and Mrs Stuart Chambers who graduated last week from Platteville State College will teach science and music at Seneca high school this fall. His parents and Barbara and Mrs Mayme Segner attended the graduation exercises.
Mrs. David Howery begins work at the Bank of South Wayne. She previously worked at Wainwright's drugstore in Monroe.
GREEN BAY Circuit Judge E M Duquaine denies motion to quash mandamus action against Mayor Otto Rachals over refusal to sign first monthly installment on water pipeline contract with Lake Michigan.
United Steelworkers open negotiations with Inland Steel as six major producers sit in talks. Union seeks sizeable raises amid 2.33 per hour average wage for 600000 workers. potential strike if no accord by June 30. Other groups at the table include Jones and Laughlin and Youngstown Sheet and Tube.
Mrs Herbert Mohn writes about Spring Grove with names including Arvetta Smith and Col Bernard Smith. Guests visited Mrs Myrtle Weidman at Oakley and Elmer Lundeen of Rockford called at the Meinert home. Dallas Weidman hosted family June birthday gatherings.
A county mishap report describes a Wesley Moe truck hitting a cow owned by Jerry Thomm near Blanchardville at about 6 p m. The cow was injured but survived. In the city incident a milk truck driven by Robert Stauffacher and a parked auto owned by Glen Thommen sustained minor damage.
Miss Kathryn Schmerse daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Schmerse is awarded the Nettie Sayles scholarship at Whitewater State College. The annual award goes to a junior woman preparing to teach in the elementary grades, supporting her education.
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