Monroe FFA members earn sectional win and state candidate
Jerrold Zuhlke placed second in Section 5 farm award and Nathan Hartwig became one of 14 state candidates for the American Farmer degree at the Wisconsin FFA convention at Green Lake. Donald Witt and Karl Drye Virgil Leopold and Richard Ammon also received Wisconsin Farmer Degrees. Zuhlke Leopold served as chapter delegates while Kenneth C. Allen, VAO G adviser accompanied the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Green Lake
Jerrold Zuhlke
William Zuhlke
Zuhlke
Poland
Nathan Hartwig
Donald Witt
Karl Drye
Virgil Leopold
Richard Ammon
Wisconsin Farmer Degre
Leopold
Kenneth C. Allen
Voag
FFA
Wisconsin high school merger deadline under fire in Madison
Debate over postponing the June 30 1962 deadline for district consolidation fills a Senate education committee hearing. Sen. Chester Dempsey and Sen. Leo O'Brien push postponement while critics call the law socialist and undemocratic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Senate Education Committee
Chester Dempsey
Hartland
Leo O’brien
Green Bay
O’brien
H. C. Allness
Viroqua
Vernon County
Peter Carr
Blanesville
Victor E. Kimball
State Department of Public Instruction
Kimball
Sen
Dempsey
Edward Kaderly
Juda
Russia
Co. B Guards Twice During Camp McCoy Maneuvers
National Guard Company B conducts two 24 hour guard duties at Camp McCoy during a two week summer training. SP4 Frank Dillon cites guard shifts this Friday and June 23 from 9 p.m. to 9 p.m. The 32nd Division reviews 11 a.m. Saturday with Gov Nelson as massed parade. Captain Kafura leads honor guard. advance detail includes several sergeants and specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp McCoy
Frank Dillon
Gov. Nelson
Frederick Kafura
Appleton
127Th Infantry
Co. B
Willis Kohlhagen
Harold Lehnlerr
William Neiderberger
Leo Hauri
Otto Erzinger
James Coole
Arthur Tschudy
Emmet O’donahue
Robert Babler
James Daly
Don Neuenschwander
Harlan Prechel
Adlai Target of Red Attack
Chilean Communist media in Santiago accused Adlai E. Stevenson of involvement in a Cuba invasion as he met with officials on Latin American living standards. The paper El Siglo published a front page on protests and urged Kennedy’s envoy to leave.
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Santiago
Chile
United States
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S. Information Agency
el Siglo
Kennedy
Stevenson
Cuba
Freedom Riders Converge for Southern Integration Test
Thirty two travelers divided into three groups begin a staged test of segregation in the South. The first bus arrives at Myrtle Beach after a Wilmington stop. Groups plan stops in Charleston Jacksonville and St Petersburg while avoiding Alabama and Mississippi. A rabbi and clergy group leaves Raleigh for Sumter.
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Associated Press
Myrtle Beach
S.C
Wilmington
N.C
Washington
Charleston
D.C
Florida
South
Jacksonville
Fla
St. Petersburg
Alabama
Mississippi
Raleigh
Sumter
Stock Prices Make Technical Advance
New York markets showed a modest late day gain in slow trading as prices climbed on several key issues. DuPont led the advance with more than a two point rise while steels motors rails airlines and chemicals posted increases.
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New York
DuPont
Ida B Schenk dies at 65 in Monticello hospital
Mrs. Ida B. Schenk 65 formerly Ida Rhyner died last night at St. Clare hospital after surgery. Born May 5 1896 in Clark County she was married to Frederick Schenk in 1916. Survivors include three sons two daughters a brother and a sister and nine grandchildren. Services Friday at Zwingli United Church of Christ Monticello burial Highland cemetery. Friends may call at Voegele funeral home after 2 pm tomorrow.
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Ida B. Schenk
Monticello
St. Clare Hospital
Schenk
Ida Rhyner
Clark County
Casper
Barbara Lutzy Rhyner
Frederick Schenk
A. A. Muehlmeier
Green County
Herbert
Brooklyn
Ivan C
Madison
Ray
Kenneth
Alice) Holcomb
Highland
Ind
Bernard
Erma) Biederman
Freeport
Fred H. Rhyner
Warren
J. J. Disch
Albany
Leonard W
Jacob C
Zwingli United Church of Christ, Monticello
J. Allan Mittler
Highland Cemetery
Voegeli Funeral Home
Turnfest Draws Turners for Monroe Swiss Day
Scores of contestants from Cleveland Milwaukee and possibly Toronto will attend Turnfest at Monroe on June 25 as part of the Swiss Daily Festival. Events begin 8 a.m. at the junior high grounds with calisthenics track and field stone lifting broad jump and Swiss National wrestling plus apparatus work at Turner Hall and Baumgartner's Grove.
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Festbummlers
Rooters
Monroe
Monroe Turn and Schwing Club
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Toronto
Canada
Turner Hall
Baumgartner’s
Monroe Turn
Schwing Club
Turners
Blonde Polish spy lures diplomat into disclosure case
Irvin Chambers Scarbeck, a 41 year old U S Foreign Service officer posted at the Warsaw embassy for two decades, is jailed on charges he gave classified information to Polish agents after a Polish blonde allegedly seduced and blackmailed him. The case, tied to a possible political rather than military leak, carries potential penalties up to ten years or a ten thousand dollar fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvin Chambers Scarpeck
U.S
Warsaw
Scarbeck
FBI
Washington
Justice Department
U. S
Sam Wertleb
United States
State Department
San Francisco
Naples
Italy
Dusseldorf
Germany
Delegates Attend State 4-H Events
Sixteen county 4H club members with George Gramling attend the annual State 4-H Week on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. Delegates include Walter Wunschel Juda Gary Brewer Jolly Mixers Barbara Deininger Richland Linda Scheisser New Glarus Selby Mauermann Decatur Barbara Ross Brown town Marilyn Phillips York Karen Meier Clarno Classy Clubbers Lee West Decatur Marvin Ruff Richland and junior leader Marlen Schuetz. JoAnn Montgomery Browntown and Daphne Mauermann Decatur join 4H band and chorus with David Hustad Roger Ace New Glarus and Gerald Kubly Richland. They left yesterday and will return Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gramling
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Walter Wunschel
Juda
Gary Brewer
Jolly Mixers
Barbara Deininger
Richland
Linda Scheisser
New Glarus
Selby Mauermann
Decatur
Barbara Ross
Browntown
Marilyn Phillips
York
Karen Meier
Clarno
Lee West
Marvin Ruff
Marlen Schuetz
JoAnn Montgomery
Daphne Mauermann
Decature
David Hustad
Roger Ace
Gerald Kubly
Editor Risken Dies in Montana
Risken Saw Risken 67 Butte Mont native Shullsburg journalist with a long Montana career died yesterday in a Butte hospital after ill health since 1959. Editor emeritus of the Montana Standard and Butte Daily Post, he retired August 17 1959. Born in Shullsburg he grew up in Anaconda and worked for Montana papers.
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Saw Risken
Butte
Mont
Shullsburg
Montana
Seattle
Wash
Risken
Montana Standard
Butte Daily Post
Lee Newspapers
Anaconda
Janesville Area Boy Named Star Farmer
Richard Arnold, 17, of rural Janesville, won the State Star Farmer award at the Future Farmers of America convention. He has managed a 160 acre farm since 1959, focusing on cash crops and swine after his father was incapacitated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Lake
Richard Arnold
Janesville
Future Farmers of America
Arnold
Kennedy Keeps Back Injury Secret From Wife
White House confirms President Kennedy sustained a back injury during a May Canada trip and concealed it from Mrs. Kennedy. Press secretary Pierre Salinger said she learned of it from newspaper stories while vacationing in Greece. Mrs. Kennedy planned to return to Washington but he advised otherwise.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Greece
Byington Reports on Chamber Modernization Efforts
George Byington, chair of a new Chamber of Commerce committee, presented the first report at the recent general meeting at Swiss Wheel. The group discussed a proposed city highway bypass and the idea of color brochures alongside existing industrial booklets. Brief notes covered plans for the Swiss Dairy Festival June 23 to 25 and the chamber’s dairy promotion activities.
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George Byington
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Officials to discuss CD plan at City Hall
City officials and others interested in Civil Defense are invited to a 7:30 tonight informal meeting of the City Council at City Hall. Wally Ewald of the state Civil Defense office will explain what must be done to implement Monroe's master plan and why a workable schedule is needed.
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Monroe
Wally Ewald
Madison
State Civil Defense Office
Summer Bible School Enrollment Reaches 446
Rev Karl Koch dean of Monroe Vacation Church School reports enrollment hits a record 446 pupils for the two week program beginning June 5. A staff of 82 aids brings total participation to 528 across St John’s Immanuel Methodist Grace Lutheran and Bethel with daily offerings aiding Wisconsin Migrant Ministry programs.
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Summer Bible School
Karl Koch
Monroe
Vacation Church School
Koch
St. John’s
Immanuel
Methodist
Grace Lutheran
Bethel
Wisconsin Council of Churches
Hay Day events draw hundreds near New Glarus
Nearly 400 farmers and dairy leaders attended the annual Hay Day at the Mannard Figg farm west of New Glarus during June Dairy Months. A lunch in the Zwingli church grounds featured Alice in Dairyland and Burdette Fisher, with demonstrations of hay cutting and baling methods. Women of the Swiss Valleys Watershed Association ran the refreshments, as dealers from multiple towns displayed farm machinery.
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New Glarus
Maynard Figg
Alice
Burdette Fisher
Swiss Valleys Watershed Association
The
Watershed Association
Figg
Monroe
Blanchardville
Argyle
Brodhead
Monticello
Draft call estimate reduced to 100000 next fiscal year
The Selective Service System informed a Senate appropriations subcommittee that its draft call for the next fiscal year is estimated at 100000 men. It had previously expected 110000 draftees up to age 26 for the year ending June 30.
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Washington
Selective Service System
Senate Appropriations
County Board Cuts Hours and Expands Benefits
County supervisors approved a 40 hour work week for county hospital staff with a two week vacation after one year. They expect hiring of five to six more workers, boosting the next year’s budget by about 20,000 dollars, and possibly a per capita cost rise of 50 cents to 1 dollar weekly. The measure aims to meet state standards and aid about 35 employees. The board also authorized malpractice insurance for nurses, approved an architect and bids to repair milking stalls, and passed a records retention resolution. George W. Armstrong received retirement commendation after 17 years with the Sheriff’s Department. An expense allowance was approved for court clerks to attend a UW Court Reorganization Institute.
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Amos S. Johnson
Johnson
State Health Department
George W. Armstrong
Sheriff's Department
Republicans Move Nusbaum Confirmation In Wisconsin Senate
In Madison, after 18 months of political jousting, the Republican controlled Senate committee recommended Senate confirmation of Joe E. Nusbaum as commissioner of the State Department of Administration. Nusbaum previously served as financial adviser to Gov. Nelson during his 1958 campaign for governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Joe E. Nusbaum
State Department of Administration
Senate
Senate Governmental and Veterans Affairs Committee
Nusbaum
Gov
Nelson
Castro Demands Bigger Machines for Prisioner Swap
U S Cuban negotiators in Havana discuss a proposed exchange of 500 tractors for 1 214 Cuban invasion prisoners. Osvaldo Corticos remains firm on heavy tractors while the American team offers smaller farm machines and faces a list of incompatible prisoner swaps.
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Havana
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
Duane T. Greathouse
Washington
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Corticos
Havana Radio
Dorticos
Manuel Artime
Jose San Roman
Rafael Bolivar Fuente
Francisco
the Hook) Molina
New York
Pedro Albizu Campos
Henry Winston
Schadeberg Delays Visit To Friday For Swiss Cheese Talks
Rep Henry C Schadeberg will arrive Friday night to gather data on the Swiss cheese industry's trouble caused by FDA publicity about sliced cheese holes. He planned to visit Saturday, but the change shifts plans to Friday at 8 p m to view a local packaging plant and the issue of blind slices in high grade cheese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Schadeberg
Schadeberg
FDA
Fred Galli
Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Producers Association
Galli
German Spy Sentenced in Frankfurt Case
A German employee of the U.S. Army library in Frankfurt was sentenced to three years in prison for spying on U.S. forces for the East German intelligence service.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Frankfurt
U.S
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Red
Janesville Area
Vacation Church
Robert Salzwedel
Gregory Phillips
Jeffery
Sandra Albertson
Larry Weckerly
Times
JFK
Byington
County Hospital Group Benefits
Nusbaum Okay
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