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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1953
Page
6
Partly cloudy today with local thundershowers spreading over south and west portions. Tonight thundershowers in south and east, partly cloudy and cooler in east. Highs 79 to 85 north and 84 to 89 south. Low 50s to mid 60s. Precipitation 0.54 inches. Barometer 29.01 am to 29.62 pm. Warmest Phoenix 106, coldest Seattle 52. Sunrise 4:24, sunset 7:42.
Elvira Gorham and Gladys Gorham Andrews transfer a parcel of land in Sylvester Township to Alfred Meier and his wife in a private real estate transfer recorded this week.
Justice L A Koenig and Harry R Houston facing multiple traffic offenses. Unregistered vehicle, no license, and illegal muffler guilty with fines and costs. Four days in county jail in lieu of fines chosen. Stanley Rebly of Orangeville guilty of reckless driving for $35 and costs. Miss Lucille Stietz of 1509 15th Ave pleads nolo contendere to failure to yield, $10 and costs.
Marriage licenses granted for Raymond LaVerne Rupnow and Joan Katherine Kundert. Death announced for Mrs. George Garwell, age 82. Listed are names of individuals in hospital, surgical, and dismissal categories from St. Clare Hospital and surrounding communities. Including Dennix Guttmer, Sylvester Cashman, William Amendt, Chalmer Armstrong, Frank Ulrich Jr, Mrs Alfred Pinnow, Walter Douglas, Mrs Fred Kubly, and others.
Joyce Babler, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry W Babler of 1715 5th street, was elected clerk of circuit court at Badger Girls State on the University of Wisconsin campus. Elizabeth Gibson of Rhinelander was elected governor of the week long session sponsored by the Wisconsin American Legion Auxiliary and the UW Extension Division.
Two nattily dressed young robbers robbed the Bensenville State Bank at noon and escaped with about $3,000. The bank, in DuPage County near Chicago, was entered just before closing by men in sportswear and dark glasses, according to bank president Raymond A. Franzen.
Funeral graveside rites were held at Calvary cemetery for Frederic J. Scott 54 who died Wednesday in his Chicago home Rev Richard Schlaefer of St. Victor's Church presided Attendees included out of town guests such as Charles Magnon Martin Flink Virgil Briggs and others from Chicago Savanna Milwaukee Madison and Rockford The funeral followed a death notice of no fatalities in a separate Rantoul Illinois 18 car Illinois Central train collision with no serious injuries reported
Louis Schuetze marks his 79th birthday at home with family after a week with son Robert in Milwaukee and visits to Madison. Born at the historic United States House hotel, he worked in hotels, rural mail delivery, Borden Co. and Monroe schools. Married to Clara Scoggin since 1896, they remain residents downtown.
John G. Bruni son of Mr and Mrs John H Bruni of Rockford has been chosen as a patrol leader for the U S Grant Council contingent of 30 scouts and explorers to the third national Boy Scout jamboree at Irvine Ranch Newport Harbor California. The group leaves Rockford July 10 at 4 20 a m and arrives July 13 returning July 24 arriving Aug 1. The Irvine Ranch camp layout includes 36 sectional camps and a tented city of 50 000. Other locals attending include Charles Chase as scribe Dennis Goecks Gary Hoesly and Donald Martin.
The Illinois Senate balks at a $100,000 reward as pressures mount after the June abduction of Clem Gravér. Lawmakers fear a state reward could invite further kidnapings of prominent figures. Gov Stratton weighs a $25,000 reward whileHouse debates move toward a larger sum. Private Albert Olson Jr. and Pvt Eugene Haeft are named in addresses as part of base postings.
Mrs Effie Wenger leaves for Kewaunee to visit the Robert C Wenger family. Mrs Frances Durner visits Madison with her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Leo Chryst. Larry Lindgren and daughter Mona Lee visiting Bara Boo over the weekend. Mrs Samuel Humbel and children visited Milton grandparents H B Dunwell. Rev Howard L Orians attended a Wisconsin campus alcohol studies conference. Irene Rieke and sister Bonita overnight from Colin W Wright’s office in Minneapolis. Mr and Mrs G L Redman travel to Indianapolis to visit son and daughter-in-law. They return Monday. Mrs Christ Heaney, her mother Mrs Mary Welter, and Theresa Heaney of Kenosha visited Henry Rinehardt. George Shaler leaves for Poughkeepsie after visiting Arthur C Benkert. Benkert and Shaler dine at Wagon Wheel for Shaler’s 42nd wedding anniversary. Rudolph P Reger and others return from fishing trip to Lake of the Woods with cold weather and two rainy days but a fair catch. Mrs Lester Ellingson and daughter Donna return from Algoma and stay with sister Mrs R J Gauike to help care for ill mother Grandmother Mrs Cora Arnet. Mrs Arnet’s condition remains unchanged. Mrs Ned Nelson and Christina and Harold Nelson visit from Charlotte Michigan for wedding of their niece Darlyne Adelman. Adelmans and Nelsons spend Wednesday at Beaver Dam with Mrs William Field and family.
An 80 year old Illinois farm woman Ann Pittman faced a five day jail term after telling Justice Gus Hansen she would pay the fines for a traffic violation but refused to pay the state. Pittman owned a Walnut area farm and criticized the state and its justices of the peace as crooked.
The Veterans Administration announced the May guarantee of the three millionth GI home loan. Through May 25, 3,004,157 loans totaling 19.6 billion dollars had been made to veterans in nine years, with about half guaranteed or insured by VA. Nearly 43 percent have been paid off, and fewer than six tenths of one percent resulted in government claims. Crowned at Kenosha a man drowned while fishing on Lake Elizabeth.
Shullsburg physician Dr Mary Gratiot aged 82, born August 17 1871, is admitted to St Clare hospital for routine physical. She carried on her late husband Dr Charles C Gratiot’s practice since his death in 1924 and has long served as village health officer.
McCarthy said the state department refused to bring home two U S officials from Germany for questioning, citing travel funds exhaustion. A spokesman denied this, saying no formal request had been made to return the pair. The men are Lowell M. Clucas in Munich and Gordon A. Ewing of RIAS Berlin. Glen Wolfe, also to be questioned, had departure canceled after a Washington cable.
A Racine couple on their first wedding anniversary were held up by two gunmen in the Wisconsin Dells. Mr and Mrs Richard B Dirgot were bound with ropes and robbed of $75 after sleeping in their car the prior night due to no cabin rental. The bandits fled toward Por, described as untidy by a passerby who flagged a motorist for help.
LUBBOCK Texas Secretary of Agriculture Benson told drouth harassed farmers the government will act to save foundation cattle herds for future beet supplies. He warned a calamity if herd liquidation continues. Eisenhower designated Texas and Oklahoma drought areas as major disaster areas, making them eligible for federal relief grants.
President Eisenhower endorsed Taft’s plan to withhold about a billion dollars in Western European aid until the European Defense Community is ratified. The House tied aid funds to six Western European nations’ approvals, with only West Germany and France among the five yet to ratify.
Mr and Mrs Zenno A Gorder LaCrosse and son Steven visited here yesterday en route to Janesville and northern Wisconsin on a vacation trip Gorder is city engineer at LaCrosse and formerly was works director here.
A baby girl weighing eight pounds four ounces was born at 10 this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pintar at their Brooklyn address. Mrs. Pintar’s maiden name is Ruth Foulker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Foulker, and the Pintar grandparents include Louis Pintar Sr. of Milwaukee.
Unprecedented floods in Kyushu sweep villages as waters rise and force thousands to hills and rooftops. Police report 252 dead 703 missing and 725 hurt while U S military units mobilize to assist 610000 residents in the stricken area.
Western high commissioners for Germany met in West Berlin today without any Soviet presence. Talks focused on last week’s workers rebellion in the Soviet sector of Berlin and East Germany, amid speculation of new Kremlin proposals. The session released the Herman Goering Steel Works from Allied control, with Bonn to assume full responsibility for its “deconcentration.”
Attendees listed include H. Bruni, George R. Barry, M. O. Erickson at 1125 23rd Street. Guests were Mmes. Keneth E. Lamb, William Bigelow, Ronald Palmer, Russel Hebb, Robert Stott, L. D. Gale of Beloit and Mrs. Wayne Cook, Mrs. Morris Rowbotham of Walworth, Mrs. Paul Rambholtz Genoa, Mrs. W. J. Stromberg Lake Geneva, and Mrs. Thomas James Darien.
Mrs. Jessie E. Horn a famed trapshooting star and longtime member of the first women’s Grand American Handicap squad in 1905 died at 69 in Waukesha. She helped pioneer women in the sport and was a national figure in shooting circles.
Washington reports the House approved President Eisenhower's defense department reorganization plan after intensive debate. It shifts authority to the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and takes effect Monday at midnight. Republicans and Democrats warned of a possible military dictatorship while supporting the plan’s overall restructuring.
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