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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1955
Page
8
The Daily Record notes a cool breeze tonight and Thursday with lows 50 to 56 and highs 75 to 80 in the east and 80 to 85 in the west. Temperature highs and lows since yesterday at 1 pm are 78 and 55, with a year ago high of 95 and low of 72. Barometer readings are 29.58 at 1 am and 29.67 at 1 pm. Sunrise is at 4:30 and sunset at 7:30.
The First National Bank of Monroe named executor for Michael Croake 94 Albany who died March 2. Hart and Warren Croake named heirs and Ina Dixon Albany. Randolph Elmer guardian ad litem. Flossie Bast appointed administrator for Viola Smith estate. William Kane will admitted to probate with Alice Kane as administrator and appraisers Bender and Carter. Elmer Bartell named executor for Fred Benkert estate. widow Fannie receives life use of trust and specific bequests per will dated 1953.
Transfers list parcels in Monroe and surrounding areas. F Earl Lamboley with others sell E 55 ft of lot 6 and W 20 ft of lot 7, block 1 Eastlawn, Monroe. Edna Drake with others sell E 63 ft of lot 2 and S half of lot 3, block 30 Rattans add to New Mexico Monroe. Clarence M Brager sells 60 ft of 112, block 189, Brodhead. Evelyn I Sprecher and Carmen H Anderson sell outlet 102 per Green County Assessor plat, Brooklyn village.
Monroe police report a speeding case involving L A Koenig and Don Cardisf in Antioch Illinois with fines of $10 and costs.
Virgil Keith Wunschel of Spring Grove Township and Dorothy Rose Brandt of Janesville apply in Janesville. The filing appears on an application made at Janesville.
Small Claims Court Judge Marshall L. Peterson and Robert Hawley of Argyle pleaded innocent to operating a vehicle while intoxicated. The case was postponed until 11 a.m. Tuesday, per the Sheriff's Department.
Herman W Becker, 57, of 1817 14th Avenue, is reported dead at his residence. Authorities noted the age and address as provided in public notices.
Mr and Mrs David Wild of New Glarus announce the birth of their daughter on June 15. Mr and Mrs Charles Behring of Route 2 announce the birth of their son on June 15.
A mixed list records hospital activities including accidents, tonsillectomies, other medical cases, and dismissals. Names of patients and local residents such as Mrs Henry Thrumen and Nancy Eldred appear alongside Beloit Albany area addresses and assorted surgeons.
Shrine group reports nearly all 300 tickets sold for Sunday's Braves Giants game ensuring a Milwaukee trip. Lester M. Johnson Alden J. Hawthorne lead the special Milwaukee Road train with Rolland W. Blaha on the committee. Train departs Monroe at 8 30 A M Sunday with six passenger cars and a refreshment car.
A U.S. Air Force Sabre Jet crash landed near Fukooka Japan striking and killing a Japanese farm woman. The pilot was unharmed.
Norman O. Everson announced a compulsory Plan B brucellosis testing program across 16 townships with veterinarians assigned to specific areas. Testing started yesterday and will continue until all Plan B herds are checked. reactors must be disposed of within 30 days.
Orville Rear III is ill at his home at 1018 11th Avenue with lobar pneumonia. He had been recovering at home for four months after hospitalization as a medical patient and was able to be out and about until this setback.
Cletus S. Ganshert, state milk inspector, purchased a residential building lot in Eastlawn subdivision facing 14th Street between 25th and 28th Avenues. The sale was made by F Earl Lamboley, Frank Mau and Marie Blum.
Members of the American Legion and auxiliaries hold joint installation ceremonies for all Green County posts June 24 at 7 30 p m in the Legion home. James Martineau state commander will be the installing officer.
Tom Bacher son of Otto and Mrs Bacher has returned home to convalesce after a surgical stay at a Freeport hospital.
The American Red Cross transferred 40 parcels to the Chinese Communist Red Cross for Americans detained in Red China. It marked the second acceptance of parcels by China.
Dorothy Lawson from Sullivan and Mrs. L. C. Norbohm from Rome Wis. visited Monroe yesterday. Ray H. Zorn postmaster of Troy Grove Ill. stopped in Monroe. Norma Hyland went to Stoughton to visit her mother Mrs. Palma Halley. A Belleville high school class of 1942 reunion was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schwend in Belleville. Bake sale June 18 at 9 30 a m at First National Bank Building Juda E U B church. Betty Buckstaff returned to Oshkosh after visiting grandmother Mrs. Margaret McDonald in South Wayne. Joyce Schmoldt of Madison visited here with Oscar Leck. Frankie Yankovic Jr. of Cleveland is visiting the Rufenachts. Paul Jeglum of Wisconsin is home for summer after second year in mechanical engineering. Mrs. Albert Zimmerli and cousin Mrs. J F Stuart visited from Albany. Mrs. Stuart has been in Hattiesburg and Roswell and is daughter of the late Mrs. Abbie Rogers of Albany.
President Eisenhower presided as the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Belgium signed agreements for mutual atomic research cooperation. The pacts commit unrelenting U S cooperation to advance peaceful atomic energy uses including power generation, pending Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy approval.
Edward Busjahn of Red Oak won the Brown Swiss judging contest held at Savanna June 7 in the Brown Swiss Canton show. Fifty five FFA and 4-H members participated in the event, held in conjunction with the Canton show. Edward is a member of the Orangeville FFA.
The 32nd Division reports a turnout record at Camp McCoy during a two week summer encampment starting Sunday. Lt. Col. Richard Ballman says 10,009 men or 96.75 percent of eligible guardsmen were on hand. Pvt. Darrell Brey from Eldorado chosen for a National Guard film. Sgt. William Deroo injured by a misfiring spring. treated in LaCrosse. The unit reviewed Army grey green uniforms set for September 1956.
Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov met privately for 28 minutes with Dag Hammarskjold UN secretary general in New York. It was his first UN visit since 1946 and he was en route to the UNs 10th anniversary meeting in San Francisco aboard the Queen Elizabeth.
William T. Kane 58 of 2616 8th street died Saturday. Services were held at Stuessy funeral home and St. Victor's Catholic church with Revs. Helfrich Crooke and McCollow officiating. Military graveside rites were by the American Legion at All Saints cemetery Des Plaines. Knights of Columbus attended. pallbearers named John Ruef Howard Smith Norton Hogan Donovan and Clark.
Private Roger L Hasse records a new address RA 16 488 208 Class FPC 69 Co C 9003 DU FSUSA Ft Benjamin Harrison Ind. This entry lists his change of address within military service and station.
A long list of donors and counts per township includes Schuetz Browntown and Shirley Leopold with one each. Juda-Pat Kundert 468 Judith LaBorde 40 Joyce Zimmerman 37 Sally Walters 23 Donna Riese 13 Mary Lee Brunner 11 Penny Kundert 8 Louise Gruenewald 7 Bonnie Vanderbilt 6. Monroe with multiple names. Monticello and New Glarus show larger figures such as Lynn Luchsinger 292 Ruth Legler 278, Deanne Showers 145 and others, reflecting a community fundraising or tally of participants.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation board votes to back a proposal to add 90 state traffic patrolmen annually for three years. They cite extra gasoline tax funds as enough to augment and sustain an effective traffic organization amid a Senate passed bill awaiting Assembly action.
In Brockton Massachusetts Gertrude F Riordan 44 mother of two teenagers confessed to police that she drowned Michael Baldwin age 3 in her bathtub after inviting him to play. The boy was found there yesterday.
The U S Air Force will transport 1680 children from the Soviet zone living in West Berlin to vacations in West Germany this summer as part of Operation Kinderlift. Fourteen C 47 planes will carry 336 children daily to five West German cities.
The Krambo Food Stores in Wisconsin merges with Kroger Co. Headed by Clarence L. and Irvin S. Kramlich the Wisconsin firm will keep the Krambo name and continue to operate 25 stores. Kroger president Joseph B. Hall announced the arrangement. The Krambo chain includes seven Milwaukee stores and locations in Appleton Green Bay Oshkosh Wausau Fond du Lac Neenah Merrill Antigo Marinette Manitowoc and Sheboygan.
A dinner meeting of the Green County Shrine Club will feature a talk on highway safety scheduled for Tuesday. The event brings together club members and guests to discuss road safety practices and related community concerns.
Bert Salisbury of the State Motor Vehicle Department will speak at six thirty p m at Monroe Country Club on road safety and saving lives on the highways.
The University of Wisconsin Alumni Association will honor William D. Hoard of Fort Atkinson and Philip D. Reed of Milwaukee with distinguished service awards at the commencement reunion banquet in Madison. Hoard is publisher of Hoard's Dairyman and Reed serves as chairman of the General Electric Co. board.
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