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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1969
Page
2
The fragment references the Inland Daily Press Association Audit Bureau and Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League, indicating a routine circulation audit or industry report within Wisconsin newspapers.
A compact retrospective lists encounters and events from the week including Jim Beer, Mayor Lindsay, Bill Hefty, Paoli, Roundy, Karen Keister, Henry Blumer, Rudy Burkhalter, the Swingens, the Ryses, the Cliff Lions, Adam Clayton Powell, Ray Kundert, Myron Bartle, Elroy Hirsch, Oshkosh and LaCrosse plans, Don Liedschlag, a library opening concern, anniversaries, Father’s Day, a family reunion, Jake Wyss, Lawrence Berger, Robert Zimmerman, Stalder, Bob Luedy, Darlington races, Greg Leck, Yearwood, Mary Condon, Nate Bloom, Ray and Joan, and a northwoods fishing memory.
FS Services Inc sponsored a Peoria Illinois clinic on June 1617 drawing 150 attendees including Virgil Brunkow and Roger Burrows of Green County Farmco Cooperative. FS ties to Farm Bureau in Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin. Crisis threatens Washington AP reports PATCO warns against further government investigations into last week slowdown heightening air travel crisis risk.
Abundant reader mail to Dear Abby covers marital trust flirtations and dating woes. A wife warns of her husband’s old flame contact and Abby urges jealousy and commitment. A professional wedding musician asserts being unpaid does not erase duty. A young woman seeks dating guidance. Abby cautions first date kiss not determining future encounters.
Members of the Badger Lapidary and Geological Society joined a camping and rock hunting trip to Murdo South Dakota for the 1969 Midwest Federation convention from June 12 to 15. About 3000 rockhounds from 14 states gathered for mining trips, elections, and three days of shows lectures and slide programs, with auctions a barbecue and a street dance. Delegates toured the Black Hills and Mt Rushmore, finding agates jasper petrified wood and chalcedony among others. Local members Bert Cooper Janesville Mrs Rollin Parriott Winslow the Will Ward family and Mrs Franklin Pickett Monroe also attended.
Cliff Ault was elected president of the West Clarno Pioneer Cemetery Association at a recent meeting in Monroe. Gayl Matzke was reelected secretary treasurer, with directors Weaver Seyler Evan Keister and Mrs Verla Babler.
TV guide page lists nightly and tomorrow schedules with channels 3 6 10 13 15 17 21 23 27. Programs include That Girl Gunsmoke Jeannie Avengers Bridges Mayberry and many movies and talk shows featuring stars such as Joseph Schildkraut Glen Ford Cornel Wilde and Doris Day among others.
On this date in history a series of notable events are listed including William Penn's peace treaty with the Indians in 1683 and Charleston's incorporation in 1722. Other entries cover the 1780 Springfield battle, 1836 U.S. treasury surplus shared by states, Texas annexation in 1845, the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority, and a 1967 meeting between Lyndon Johnson and Kosygin.
Deputy Prime Minister Sean Lemass becomes prime minister after Eamon De Valera steps down. A 1961 note recalls a burned empty station wagon of three civil rights workers found near Philadelphia Mississippi after two days missing. A 1959 Buenos Aires soccer stadium stampede killed 71 as fans exited the venue.
Glancing back 10 years to June 23 1959 Maureen Dillon named winner in Monroe Dairy Queen contest and to a county contest at Browntown. Len Gallett Milwaukee Blue Mounds golf pro low pro with 67 at Monroe Swiss Cheese Open. A Norwegian guide smoking linked to Stalheim hotel fire. 25 vacationers dead or missing mostly Americans. Rev Paul Kehle elected president of South Wisconsin Synod. Forty years ago June 25 1929 John Rufenacht cheesemaker crushed after car rolled down embankment near Darlington. Monroe baseball signs Hall hit 400 Big Ten to join lineup versus Madison police nine. W E Trukenbrod and John A Becker delegate to Kiwanis International Convention in Milwaukee.
Miss Mary Timm won second place in a national 4 H Holstein breeders contest. An ordinance proposing parking meters around courthouse square received its first reading before the city council. Willard C. Bender was elected grand knight of the Monroe Knights of Columbus. J A Hughes, former band director at Monticello New Glarus and other district schools, was killed in a car crash in Boscobel.
Bishop Ralph Cushman of St. Paul predicted the United Church of Christ in America would form within 50 years. The remark was delivered in an address at a Methodist church, marking a notable ecumenical statement from 30 years ago.
Fifty years ago today on June 23 Premier Clemenceau leader of the peace conference was informed from Weimar that Germany will sign the peace treaty. At a good roads booster meeting in the courthouse farmers backed bonding Green County to fund four million dollars of highways over ten years. The Beveridge Canvass Play House opened with an engagement in Market Square.
Sixty years ago on June 23 1909 the University of Wisconsin conferred degrees on 577 graduates the largest class in its history Sam Kneller is listed among the attendees and new alumni reflect the era’s growth and drive.
Beloit officials urge residents to buy stock in a proposed local go cart plant. Janet Jennings donates a Lincoln Gettysburg Address tablet to the Churchill school building board of education, matching the high school display.
Seventy years ago today on January 25, 1899, an aldermanic meeting approved a dog tax ordinance. F. E. Legler plans move to Kilbourn to run a hotel business. Fred J. Karlen secures a gold medal at the Central Schuetzenbund event in Dubuque on the opening day. Toland's business university to open in Monroe, with Syndicate block rooms leased for five years at 300 dollars annually.
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