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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1955
Page
6
Fair and cool tonight with partly cloudy skies Tuesday. Low tonight 50 to 56 and high Tuesday 78 to 84. Temperature readings show recent highs of 85 and lows of 54 last week, with barometer around 29.62 to 29.75 inches. Sunrise 7 32, sunset 7 33. Warmest spot yesterday Presidio Texas 113 degrees. Bryce Canyon Utah 30 was coldest.
Judge Marshall L. Peterson presides in a small claims matter naming Bonnie Jean Cook of Route 1 Brodhead with no vehicle registration. Court seeks $5 plus costs under state traffic provisions.
Jay Milton Zimmerman of 2102 16th street and Rose Kathryn DeVoe of 712 27th avenue are both over 21, confirming age eligibility for an unspecified proceeding.
Mr. and Mrs. Burnell McGuire of Woodford announce a son born June 26. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gordee of Argyle announce a son born June 27.
St. Clare Hospital accident lists William Gene Anderson Monticello Mrs Robert Ruegsegger Warren and Harold E Suffin Rio Medical Edward Benash Evansville Mrs Josie Jones Brodhead Mrs Hazel McConnell Green County hospital Mrs Royal Steinke Janesville Surgical Mrs Amalia Gmur Beloit Frank Koepnick 2569 13th street Mrs Loren Dirrenberger Woodstock Mrs Allen Lavery Beloit Mrs Leigh Richards Brodhead Lawrence Coole Brodhead ae Mrs Raymond G Tangye Beloit Dismissals Stanley Inman Donald Linchum Earl McCaully Milo Moe Robert Greenwood Orville Bear Mrs Hansina Bondele Mrs Josef Benkert and daughter Mrs Ronald Kleiten and daughter Herman Karlen LaVerne Mittlestead Mrs Bertha Wyss Mrs Tobis Goodman Mrs Otto Wieser and Mrs Freeman Hanson
John W. Andereck US 55 452 615 has been promoted to corporal in Korea. His address is Hq's Co. 14th E. B. (C) APO 358 San Francisco. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Andereck.
Pfc. Roscoe W. Heimann of Route 1 Argyle serves in Korea as a gunner in Battery A of the 26th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion within the 24th Infantry Division. He entered the Army in January 1954 and is the son of John E. Heimann.
Robert Wild son of Mr and Mrs Harold Wild recently promoted to corporal. He and his wife reside at 102 South Olive Street Rolla Missouri. Cpl Wild is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.
Mrs Tobias Wilde died Friday. The services were held at 3 30 p m today at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with Rev Paul C Kehle of St John's Evangelical and Reformed church officiating. Burial followed in Greenwood cemetery. Pallbearers were Glen Siedschlag Marvin Wild Kenneth Feldt Ralph Karlen Rolland Karlen and Ralph Siedschlag. Song service conducted by Mrs Winnie Kuebli and Mrs Robert Buehler.
John Minnig died Friday. Funeral held at 2 p m in Shriner Neushwander funeral home. Burial in Greenwood cemetery. Rev A R Achtemeier officiated. Song service by Mrs Achtemeier and Mrs Ralph Kubly. Pallbearers Walter Minnig Roscoe Smith Robert Braun John Bohren Fritz Mani Herman Arn.
The state hearing on proposed changes in boxing and other regulations on brick and Muenster cheese at Beaver Dam has been rescheduled to Wednesday July 6.
Two veterans Selmer S. Saeter and R H Scharnweber join The Eve ning Times job printing department as production expands. Saeter, former Galesville weekly publisher, relocates to Monroe with family at 715 25th avenue. Scharnweber, once Berlin apprentice, Chicago printer, minister in August 1942, and Kohli plant worker, now lives with his wife and children at 1120 13th avenue.
At Wimbledon Budge Fatty of Los Angeles defeated Lewis Hoard 6-4 6-4 6-4 to reach the semi finals along with Tony Trabert who beat Jaroslav Drobny 8-6 6-1 6-4. Patty, 31, a former Wimbledon champion, jeopardizes his United States Davis Cup chances as Beverly Baker Fileitz and Susan Chatrier advance in the women’s quarter finals.
Will A. Foster vice president of the Borden Cheese Co will appear on the Dave Garroway show Wednesday. The program usually airs on Channels 4 and 5 starting at 6 a.m. Monroe time and will feature a Milwaukee phase on the same day.
Robert F Keen a vocational agricultural instructor at Brodhead High School and committee member in charge of the county Dairy Day at Brodhead Saturday was omitted from the committee list printed Saturday. Keen led much of the work for the FFA and 4 H cattle show.
William Gene Anderson two year old son of Mr and Mrs Gene Anderson of Monticello had surgery for amputation of his right hand after it was caught in operating gears of a pump jack at home. He was admitted to the hospital at 7 05 p m last night.
Chicago butter remains steady with receipts at 1,650,503 and wholesale buy ing unchanged. Butter scores hold at 93 AA 92 A 56.75 for 90 B 54.5 and 89 C. Eggs show weakness with receipts 18,675 and wholesale prices down 1 percent. U S large whites 60-69.9 percent A's 37, mixed 37, mediums 35, U S standards 33, dirties 31.5, checks 31, current receipts 22.
A parade of visitors: T G McMartin from Detroit and Larry Belen from Coffeyville join many others from Milwaukee Rockford Cedar Rapids and more in Monroe. Weekend and yesterday calls from Beloit Madison Oshkosh and St Louis are noted alongside trips to Wisconsin Dells and Florida Bahama Islands.
Ruth Eastwood of Woodford travels to Minneapolis for the National Home Economics Association convention running from today through Friday. She and another Lincoln school Beloit teacher will attend, with Mrs. Myrtle Webb county home agent also present.
Gov. Kohler signed a bill imposing a 20 percent surtax on individual incomes to raise about 29 million dollars for 1955 57. The measure faced Democratic opposition and was a major obstacle to recessing the Legislature. The Assembly concurred after Senate approval. Also signed was a plan to erase the state deposit guaranty fund and move six million dollars into the general fund.
Milwaukee Police Chief John Polcyn, 64, was injured in a morning crash while en route to Milwaukee from his lakeside cottage. His car hit the rear of a vehicle pulling onto Highway 42 four miles south of Baileys Harbor. the other driver, Miguel Carmona of Cuero Texas, was only shaken up.
Belgrade Radio announced President Tito accepted an invitation to visit Moscow after a Big Three Yugoslavia conference. An official communique noted broad agreement among the United States Britain and France on international questions and stressed a strong independent Yugoslavia.
Borrah Minnevitch known as Harmonica King and leader of the Harmonica Rascals died at age 52 from a cerebral hemorrhage at American Hospital in Neuilly near Paris yesterday. He toured vaudeville venues across the United States with the group.
Washington report: in a decisive 77 percent vote, about 328000 participating wheat farmers support continued marketing quotas for the 1956 crop with a government price guarantee of 1.81 dollars per bushel. The referendum, aimed at curbing surpluses, reflects approval well above the two thirds required.
The list records winners in several classes including junior and senior cattle and heifer divisions. Names like John Grunzel, Wayne Magnussen, and Jake Voegels ace blue ribbons across blue and red awards. Locations include Janesville Monroe Juda Albany and Beloit with farms such as Swisstown Farms and Lake Mills cited among owners.
The Agriculture Department plans a milk vending machine test in two Pennsylvania communities within a month. The study aims to measure milk consumption impact and expects up to a five percent boost. Coin operated machines will sell milk in half pint and pint cartons in public areas and industrial plants.
Reading shows a chaotic list of cattle ages and buyers including Monroe, Lake Mills, Swisstown Farms, John Grunzel, Alfred Meier, Norman Magnussen, Emil Fritsch, Arthur Marsh, Victor May Farms, and Nathan Bloom. The fragment references two and four year olds and various Blue marked animals with multiple bidders.
Antonio Segni a 64 year old farmer and Christian Democrat was asked by President Giovanni Gronchi to see if he can form a new Italian cabinet. He has until Thursday to decide and will meet political leaders to explore possibilities. If he declines Ezio Vanoni may be named next.
Secretary of State Dulles flies to Bangor Maine for talks with President Eisenhower on foreign policy issues including the shooting down of an American plane by Soviet fighters. He will report on the United Nations week long anniversary meeting in San Francisco. Original plan had been a meeting in Washington on Eisenhower’s return from a New England trip.
In Queens a dirt wall at a housing project excavation collapsed burying two boys alive. Billy Cotton, 5, was buried up to his neck, and Nathaniel Brown was rescued. Billy’s brother John, 11, and Angel Matos, 7, were also trapped but saved by rescuers who reached them before immersion.
GELSENKIRCHEN Germany fourteen coal miners were killed yesterday by air pressure from an explosion two thousand four hundred feet below the surface in the Nordstern diggings in the Ruhr region.
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