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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1956
Page
4
HAL BOYLE recalls a bygone era of paternal authority while noting shifts toward shared family roles. He argues a decisive head is needed in crises, but reflects on his own daughter Tracy Ann’s limited obedience. A nostalgic vignette contrasts old style discipline with present day parenting.
Milwaukee police say two 16 year old Wisconsin youths armed with a loaded deer rifle and an air pistol robbed the Club 41 roadside tavern of 30 dollars early today and were captured 30 minutes later. State police identified them as Gordon W. McLeod of Milwaukee and Theodore F. Baron Jr. of Milwaukee. They will be charged with armed robbery.
Gen Juan Jose Valle, a top rebel leader in the Peron regime revolt, was captured and placed at the Army Ministry’s disposal. Gen Raul Tanco remained at large as authorities weighed whether Valle would face a firing squad given previous presidential clemency for others.
The article traces the historical footprint of Green County with two Winnebago villages Spotted Arm and White Breast’s located within today’s boundaries. It notes a 1839 map placing White Breast’s Village at Centreville and recounts Centreville’s speculative boom, including land swindles and even Daniel Webster’s name on early deeds, underscoring the long arc from promise to settlement.
Indian tepees marked the frontier as settlers moved toward the lead mining districts. Clarence Village, later Clarence, grew to about 20 houses and businesses by 1858, five miles from Centreville along the Sugar River. Decatur formed on Centreville’s site in 1848, renamed by an 1852 act, and by 1857 boasted a post office, mills, five stores, two hotels, two blacksmiths, a wagon shop, a stage line, and 400 residents.
Mrs Donald Young of Route 1 Madison will attend University of Wisconsin graduation exercises for her daughter, a Home Economics graduate and Phi Upsilon Omicron member. After graduation the Youngs plan a vacation in eastern Canada and then settle in Middleton Wisconsin. Mrs Young will teach home economics at the Middleton school while her husband resumes his genetics department post at UW.
The Mikanow theater in downtown Manitowoc burned for nearly two hours Monday afternoon turning it into a blackened ruin while no patrons were present and staff prepared for evening shows. A separate note reports about 16,400 Americans yearly suffer disabling accidents while working on television aerials.
At the American Medical Association gathering medics discussed non nervous illnesses with hidden causes and new blood cell chemistry linked to schizophrenia. They noted atomic medicine's rise for peace time uses and the need for safeguards against radiation sickness. A vein anesthetic named Methitural sodium offers rapid sleep with rapid awakening for surgery and dental use.
Pvt Robert E Moore 22 son of Mrs Fern L Heller Shullsburg has graduated from the field radio repair course at the Army Southeastern Signal school Fort Gordon GA Moore enlisted September 1955 and did basic at Fort Leonard Wood MO His father Glenn S Moore lives in San Bernardino CA Jona W Larson son of Mrs Esther Larson is a member of the GI Lakes Blue Jacket Choir performing at Pensacola Florida with a prior program in Detroit and Minneapolis His address is John W Larson AN 489 6274 Co 312 Battalion 143 Reg 14 Recruit Training Command USNTC Great Lakes Illinois
General Curtis E LeMay pressed a Senate appropriations subcommittee for a 3.8 billion increase in Strategic Air Command funds to accelerate B 52 production. Chairman Chavez disclosed the request after LeMay testified in a closed session amid budget hearings. The figure would exceed current SAC estimates by about three billion dollars, sought over four to five years to counter Soviet long range bomber growth.
Milwaukee inmate Halazon, 18, received 110 year terms for unlawful escape and car theft at Waupun prison. He will start after 3 15 year sentences for armed robbery and assault. Halazon escaped with Vernon Ingram, Oshkosh, who got 1 3 years for burglary and a Baton Rouge parole violation. The reformatories superintendent cited a pattern of escapes after new leadership. Wheat crop for the season totaled 252 297 000 bushels, up from last year and below the ten year average, under government quotas and price supports.
The USDA projects the total wheat crop at 922.672 million bushels, down from 938.159 million last year and below the 10-year average of 1.1465 billion. Winter wheat is forecast at 670.375 million bushels versus 681.432 million a month ago.
New York The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People vows to resist Alabama's injunction banning NAACP activity in the state. Board Chairman Dr Channing Tobias says attorneys will seek a hearing on the merits at the earliest date to dissolve the restraining order while pursuing public opinion avenues. Milwaukee The 60th annual convention of the Wisconsin Bankers Association set for June 18 20 in Milwaukee will feature change in banking leadership and schedule updates.
Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, wed Jeannette Edris, 37, in a surprise Hayden Lake ceremony near Spokane. The bride, heiress to a million-dollar fortune, left for a brief wedding trip after an informal reception at her parents’ lake home, with reports released to newsmen.
Whitewater State College students home for the summer include Rani Jo Stencel Jeannette Stussy Ruth Ann Blackford Isabel Kaderly Clifford Anderson Bobby Matzke Tom Edgar Clarence Hoesly William Schrader Virginia Boettcher and Maribeth Riese. Sonja Leatherman and Beverly Mau will work at Wisconsin Dells this summer and return to UW this fall. A Sunday picnic on the Zietz farm near Sugar River drew R J Douglas Tom Nixdorf Brazilian exchange student Fred Deppeler Marjorie Jimmy Cathy Clarence Hoesly Mrs Jessie Douglas Mrs Clara Woodward Viola Viney Helen Meyers and others from Brodhead Belleville and Monticello.
Rudolph Reid, 19, NAACP youth council organizer, was arrested after refusing to move to the rear of a Miami Transit Co bus. A boycott and possible legal action loom as Miami enforces segregated seating and signs directing Negroes to rear sections.
Funeral services will be conducted today for B Reeves Breezy Eason longtime action director and rector of chariot sequences in the silent screen Ben Hur Born in 1870 he later handled such scenes in Cimarron Duel in the Sun Gone With the Wind and other films He was known as the first action director.
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