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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1964
Page
8
A weather note reports cooler clearing with diminishing winds in the afternoon. Tonight will be fair and cool. From yesterday 1 p.m. to current conditions a high of 90 and a low of 57. Year ago today records show a high 83 and a low 70. Barometer read 29.90 at 1 a.m. and 30.20 at 1 p.m.
Albany police report two youth alcohol cases. In Zarlewickey county court Albany a minor sold beer with no plea entered and the case adjourned to June 19 at 8 a.m. bond set at 500. In Monroe John Stalder pled guilty to possessing fermented malt beverage off licensed premises by a person under 21 and a pre sentence investigation was ordered with sentencing set for June 29 at 11 a.m.
Charles R Stephens of Roc Ford named executor of his mother M Fern Stephens estate who died June 3. Appraisers Fred Hahlen and W M Lorch. Will dated June 25, 1957 divides heirs equally between Charles and Nancy Barganz. Also lists several deaths and births including Charles H Buehler Sr Stephen Cook Boswell and Miss Ethel Mae Curtis. births to Kiam FE Foesch and Keith Siegenthaler couples in Argyle and Cambridge area.
St Clare Hospital Medical records list patients including Julie Coots Rock ford Wilford Eliott Oconto Vincent Bernigen Lyons Earl Randall Juda Thompson Rockford Mrs Leo Horan Brooklyn and Mrs Nellie Coplien 604 27th avenue Surgical reads Mrs Roy Barraco South Beloit Stanley G Hodge Roscoe Thomas Flynn Brodhead Mrs Enos Jeglum Blanchardville Mrs Gerald Hilfiker 1923 13th avenue Mrs Marvin Hartman Lanark Harry T Worsing Pequot Lakes Minn Walton H Campbell Brodhead Royal W Karlen Sr Monticello Wesley Berkovich Rock rd and Mrs James A Jensen Beloit Dismissals list David V Hall Lee L Zoellick Craig Buchanan Wilhelm Schultz Carl H Clair John G Gruber Michael K Schony Randall Ruef Clifford Mulrooney Lester W Heath Mrs Tilman Linde Mrs Ida Everill Mrs Herey Benfer Mrs Toivo Battson Heidi Segner Julia Panoske Mrs Carrie
Emil Escher 82 of Monticello dies after two day illness. He was a bank director and retired cheesemaker. Funeral at St Victor’s Church Monroe with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers include William Escher and others. honorary pallbearers listed.
Construction on a new coin operated car wash started yesterday on Highway 11 at the west edge of Monroe. The project by Bill McCoy Construction Co of Prairie du Chien is expected to finish in about two weeks with Monroe Plumbing and Heating and Monroe Ready-Mix and Material Co. as subcontractors.
Police reported two accidents late yesterday. A car driven by 931 17th Street and another driven by Paul David Schneider at 5th Avenue and Highway 11 West collided as both stopped for a stop sign. In Spring Square parking lot a car driven by Donna K Mayne struck a parked car belonging to Patrick F Thorpe.
Park schedule lists tonight and tomorrow slowpitch games Dorman s versus Grace Lutheran Lanz Hardware versus South Wayne Swiss Colony versus The Office and softball matchups First National Bank versus Commercial Bank Agrico versus Gladiators Studers Service versus Orangeville Treuthardt Rusters versus Hughes Mobile Homes pool hours 6 30 to 9 p m each night social notes include several families and sons
A list of local social notes includes Mrs. Duane Dixon Mrs. F L Atkinson and Mrs E O Osborne from Albany attending a garage sale in Monroe on June 13 at 2308 16th Ave. Also covered are attendance at a funeral in Ripon and various travels of residents to Milwaukee Waldwick and Wisconsin Dells with mentions of AAA events and graduation news plus Canal Zone policing assignment and a Europe trip planned by Miss Delores Dettwiler.
James K. Patterson an 18 year old of Route 1 Argyle narrowly avoided injury when his car skidded on Highway 81 twelve miles northwest of Monroe and crashed into a tree in the Franz Gmar house yard. Skid marks measured 110 paces along the right side of the road then crossed the driveway yard and garden hitting a post and threading through heavy underbrush.
Brodhead fire crews were called to two minor fires on separate pleas. At 6 p.m. a grass fire near electric lines damaged by wind was extinguished. At 7 p.m. they fought a car fire along County Trunk near the state.
Washington Rep. Melvin R. Laird chairman of the Republican Platform Committee said no one person will write the 1964 platform. He declined to state a nominee preference and said the party is bigger than any one person. He added the platform will be moderate and not extreme. Goldwater would support it whether or not he is the nominee.
Mrs Fred Opie 85 of Milwaukee a former Mineral Point restaurant operator died yesterday in a Dodgeville hospital after a long illness. Services will be held at 10 30 a m tomorrow in St Pauls Catholic church with a Rosary service at 8 30 tonight. Friends may call at the Gorgen funeral home. She is survived by brothers Frank and Martin Mitchell both of Mineral Point and sisters Mrs Ruth Well of Mineral Point and Mrs Loys Stephens of Linden.
A 22 year old Madison woman Sarah Johnson claims 15000 against Madison Dane County and the state for being seized by police and held 14 days at Mendota State Hospital without a mental examination. Attorney Curtis Kirkhoff filed the claims. Johnson was released February 14 by Circuit Court Judge Edwin M Wilkie, who found she had been held in the hospital without due process.
The Browntown Busy Beavers 4 H club will hold its annual picnic tour Sunday starting at the firemen's shelter house in Browntown park. Members and families are invited. A dish to pass dinner will follow, with guests bringing their own table service. Tour committee: Jim Salesman Fredrick Lau Per and Valeria Soddy. Coin talk highlighted Monroe Rotary meeting as William Moon spoke on coin collecting at Marco's.
Hugo Richman, Stephenson County soil conservationist, will show slides and discuss Guatemala Peace Corps service at the Honey Creek Watershed meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in Ullem school. An ice cream social and free will offering will follow. attendees should bring sandwiches, a baked item and table service.
The American Heart Association broadens its earlier fat limits to advise everyone to eat less fatty food. Citing growing evidence links fat intake to cholesterol rise and heart disease, the group expands its guidance beyond those with heart disease or obesity. El Capitan in Texas features a sheer cliff rising 8 078 feet.
Fire departments from Monroe and Browntown plus neighbors helped Orville Hawthorne’s Clarno Township barn fire yesterday. About 2,000 bales were moved from the barn to a field over three hours. Fire Chief Josef J. Benkert said farmers can use supplied thermometers and charts to gauge hay danger, though the department will not check daily temperatures.
Scnppert Scnitz, a former Albany resident, resigns as Orfordville police chief effective Monday. In a letter to the Village Board he says he accepted another job but offers no details. Joe Nelson named temporary chief. Merlin Hegge to serve as village pay scene until a new chief is chosen. Schultz had reconsidered a resignation from last January. He served as village policeman over four years. his wife Betty formerly worked at the Commercial and Savings Bank of Monroe.
Governor Reynolds seeks an immediate review by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and state agencies of the Menominee Indians situation. He told Secretary Udall that extending financial assistance beyond April 30, 1965, is likely necessary and urged collaboration between state and federal bodies to provide health and welfare aid in the county lacking a proper government structure.
Office of Board of Educ Monroe Wisconsin lists junior high school matters including meeting notices and agenda items for the Monroe public school district.
The county outlines efforts to establish a solid economic base and develop a strategy to sustain growth. Officials emphasize diversification, job creation, and attracting investment to bolster long term stability for residents and local businesses.
In St Augustine Florida a white mob assaulted white and Negro marchers after a downtown march from St Marys Baptist Church near the old slave market. Police with clubs intervened and no arrests were reported. Rev William England, a 33 year old Boston University chaplain, was struck and stomped during the clash.
John Deininger and William, Monroe high school seniors, received FFA honors for soil and water management. Deininger won the soil and water management trophy and $50 at the convention after serving as Monroe chapter president and aiding the home farm conservation program. He also earned a separate $35 livestock farming plaque from the National FFA Foundation. William will also start his senior year in Monroe High School.
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