Aerial Grasshopper Strike Planned Across Wyoming and Montana
An 8 million aerial task force will spray bran bait laced with chlordane and toxaphene over 1.5 million acres in Wyoming and Montana to halt a migrating grasshopper swarm. The USDA states the plague could threaten crops similar to a prior $250 million loss, with the operation expected to last about 30 days from Sheridan, Wyoming.
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Denver
Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
U. S._ department of agriculture
Plains
USDA
Ain Belt
Canadian
Texas
Infant Saved From Crib Fire in Darlington
A one year old boy was saved when his mother woke to smoke on Sunday morning in a second floor Darlington apartment. She found the crib mattress smouldering and Bernard Hicks Jr. sleeping face down, a position the parents credit with saving his life. The fire origin was not determined and the Darlington fire department extinguished the blaze.
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Darlington
Bernard Hicks Jr
Darlington Fire Department
Bernard Jr
Gordon Schultz Named Monticello Badger Boy
Gordon Schultz son of Mr and Mrs Will Schultz of Albany is a Monticello high school junior chosen by the AmstutzMarty American Legion post to attend the Badger State at Ripon. He will leave Sunday.
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Monticello
Gordon Schultz
Will Schultz
Albany
Amstutz-Marty American Leion Post
Badger Ys
Ripon
Gordon
Release of Secret FBI Data Threatens Innocents and FBI Work
Washington column argues broad public release of secret FBI files harms innocent people and damages undercover agents. It notes the Judith Coplon trial forced disclosure, risking future prosecutions and undermining national security efforts.
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FBI
James Marlow
Washington
Judith Coplon
Russia
Miss Coplon
Nism
Coplon
Local News Briefs From Blanchardville Area
Mrs. Walter Peterson hospitalized in Madison after illness. Carl Halverson and Irene Nelson Halverson purchase Crandon funeral home and plan July 1 takeover. Neal Hawley, son of Colleen Garfoot Hawley, to graduate UW June 17. Poppy sale in village raises 128 dollars 72 cents.
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Walter Peterson
Methodist Hospital
Madison
Carl Halverson
Merrill
Reese-Busch Funeral Home
Crandon
Halverson
Irene Nelson
Blanchardville
Neal F. Hawley
Colleen Garfoot
Waupun
University of Wisconsin
Hawley
W. F. McGuigan
Chris Wahl
Curtis Thompson
David
Darlington
Harry Bishops
Farm income slips across Midwest in early 1949 months
The Agriculture Department reports total farm cash receipts for January through April 1949 fell in every Midwestern state compared with the same period in 1948. Iowa led the nation with 731.35 million dollars, followed by Illinois at 541.995 million. California and Texas trailed with 503.505 and 447.474 million respectively. Livestock receipts for the first five months of 1949 run about nine percent below 1948, while crop receipts are roughly on par with 1948 and about five percent above 1947.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Illinois
California
Texas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Social Roundup From Monticello and Nearby Towns
A series of weekend and midweek visits list residents and guests from Monticello, Monroe, Madison, Lake Mills, New Glarus, and Washington Township. Notable names include Mrs. O D Curtis, Mrs. Matt Zentner, Dr Harold Youngreen, Miss Norma Freitag Madison, Rolland Babler UW student, the Theiler and Babler families, and the Stauffer and Freitag households. The note ends with a craft fact about women once cooling hands with a smooth handmade glass ball.
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Matt Zentner
Bessie Youngreen
Harold Youngreen
Milton Maitland
Poplar Grove
III
Norma Freitag
Madison
Henry D. Freitag
Joe Viney
Monroe
Lora Pease
Rolland Babler
University of Wisconsin
Henry Babler
Herman Babler
Clyde Jones
Tom and Dick
Lake Mills
Alvin Ott
New Glarus
C. M. Stauffer
Regula Hefty
Washington Township
Bart Richards
Yolanda Richards
Rinehart Theiler
Henry Babler Sr
Los Angeles
William Tuescher
Frederick
Spring Grove Social Notes Highlight Farm Group Outing
Mrs. Herbert Molins reports visits in the Black Hills and Custer Park. Birthday party honored Mrs. Glen Wunschel. many relatives and friends attended. Several residents hosted gatherings and a surprise anniversary dinner in Rockford. The Friendly Farmerettes held their annual Beloit picnic.
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R. J. Douglas
Pearl Englebretson
Black Hills
Custer Park
Emil Goecks
Gunder Olson
Florence Grunder
Monroe
Poplar Grove
Sarah Haas
Orlin Haas
Twin Grove
Alice Rumann
Morris
Carl Montefelt
Otto Becker and
Russell
Walter Swanborg Jr
O. E. Wirtanon
Rockford
Swanborg Jr
Kenneth Horstmeier
Elmer Stahlecker
Fred Wise
Freeport
Spring Grove
Beloit City Park
Howard Newsomer
Clate Matzke
Davis
Soviet Deputy Tevosyan Named Deputy Prime Minister
Moscow reports Ivan T. Tevosyan has been named deputy prime minister of the Soviet Union. Tevosyan formerly served as minister of the metallurgical industry and was succeeded in this post by Anatoly Kuzmin.
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Moscow
Ivan T. Tevosayn
Soviet Union
Tevosyan
Anatoly Kuzmin
Mrs. Simmons to Celebrate 89th Birthday in Albany
Albany special report notes Mrs. C. J. Simmons, Albany's oldest resident, will observe her 89th birthday Wednesday. Born June 15, 1860 in Pepin Illinois, she married C. J. Simmons in 1885 and now lives alone in Albany. She has four living children, twenty grandchildren, and twenty great grandchildren. two sons are deceased.
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Albany
C. J. Simmons
Pepin
Ill
GOP Ripon Shrine May Be Auditorium
The GOP plans a Memorial building in Ripon with a 2000 seat auditorium and hotel rooms as a landmark project. Davidson Obear of the Educational Foundation outlined the tentative plans awaiting a committee report confirming Ripon as the party birthplace.
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Ripon
Republican Party
Davidson Obear
Santa Monica
Calif
GOP
Educational Foundation
Obear
Ripon College
Kentucky Bank Robber Makes Second Escape
Ex convict William D. Mes Samore, 33, held for an August 1948 bank robbery, cut his way out of a second floor bullpen in Paducah Kentucky after slugging Deputy Jailer Bill Owings with a sack of items and escaping his cell.
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Paducah
William D. Mes Samore
Bill Owings
Jail escape in Indiana ends with brief run for freedom
Messamore escaped from McCracken county jail after severing telephone lines. He had earlier fled a Corydon jail while questioned about the Vandivers disappearance. No trace has been found of William Vandiver his wife and step-daughter.
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Thing
McCracken
Messamore
Corydon
Ind
Arch
William Vandeiver
English
Vandivers
Acting Mayor Hoyer Wins Minneapolis Election
Acting mayor Eric G. Hoyer leads with 74,783 votes to John G. Simmons 60,747 with 309 of 347 precincts reporting. Simmons concedes. Hoyer to serve two more years after Humphrey's resignation to U S senate.
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Minneapolis
Eric G. Hoyer
John G. Simmons
Hoyer
Simmons
Hubert H. Humphrey
U. S
Minnesota
Stork Was Airborne In a C Forty Seven Birth
The son of Sgt. and Mrs. Barney Fisch was born Sunday in a C-47 cargo plane 6,000 feet above Los Angeles. Attendants at the Naval hospital here call the one day old boy C-47.
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Stork
Long Beach
Naval Hospital
Barney Fisch
Los Angeles
694 Dogs Souvenir Collection Grows Across Continents
Winslow special report on Miss Lois Mary Ritzman who owns 694 toy and keepsake dogs from 20 states and abroad including China Canada Japan Africa England Sicily and Italy. The collection, gathered since 1941, includes glass china plastic wood and other materials. She is a school teacher and plans a five week western states vacation tour to add to the collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winslow
Lois Mary Ritzman
China
Canada
Japan
Africa
England
Sicily
Italy
Ritzman
Wales and
Kennedy
Catholic aide seized in Prague by security police
The Vatican reported that Dr. Antonin Mandl secretary of the secular Action Catholica was seized by security police last week. The official said priests are being arrested daily and more than 100 are in Czechoslovak prisons. The piece ends with an odd note about want ads and dig producers.
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Prague
Antonin Mandl
Actio Catholica
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