Monroe High School Class of 1911 Reunion Planned
Members of the Class of 1911 are set to attend their first fifty year reunion at Idle Hour Mansion this Saturday night. The group photo lists many alumni and spouses across four rows, noting several as deceased and detailing names and hometowns.
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Monroe High School
Idle Hour Mansion
John Donner
Louise Zuhlke
Harvey
Ill
Ralph Collentine
Florence Wartenweiler
Guy
Phillippa Goddard
Hoesly
New Glarus
Albert
Anna Marty
Stauffacher
Claremont
Calif
John Zentner
Milwaukee
Lydia Woelfle
Monroe
H. B. Caradine
Fred
Frieda Trumpy
Jenny
Piedmont
Edna Stauffacher
Madison
Mat
Ruth Tilley
Elmer
Grace
Henn
Trumpy
George Norton
Vera
Carr) Foster
Hoy Clayton
Margaret (Upson) Parker
Merrill
Eva (Blotz) Zajicheck
Wauwatosa
Brooks J. Dinwiddie
Hazel Winter
Freeport
Ralph Stauffacher
A. A
Alta Tochtermann
Alexander
Ada Pickett
Lamm
Alma Reger
Lewis) Saevke
S. H
Florence Blunt
Ditzler
Byron R. Bennett
Hannah Bindschaedler
Samuel
Lydia Giessberger
Thickpenny
San Francisco
Clara Hess
Alvin
Grace Chesebro) Schmid
Knowles Predicts Wisconsin Highway Death Toll Could Reach 1000
Acting Governor Knowles warned that Wisconsin could see as many as 1,000 highway deaths this year. State officials noted that 10 of 13 drivers in fatal weekend crashes had prior violations or accidents, with 21 deaths last weekend signaling danger ahead of the Fourth of July.
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Madison
Warren Knowles
Wisconsin
Knowles
Gaylord Nelson
Hawaii
Dan Schutz
Motor Vehicle Department
Probe Requested In Chandler Death
Hollywood State Bureau of Hospitals will investigate the death of movie actor Jeff Chandler. Gordon R. Cumming said public interest warrants verifying hospital procedures under our jurisdiction, though medical doctor patient relations are outside our scope. Chandler, 42, died June 17 in Culver City hospital after multiple operations to repair a ruptured spinal disc.
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Hollywood
State Bureau of Hospitals
Jeff Chandler
Gordon R. Cumming
Chandler
Culver City
City Officials Attend Radiation Briefing at Truax Base
A Wisconsin briefing on radiation problems from a nuclear accident drew over 250 officials and community leaders. Monroe representatives included May orville R. Evans Police Chief Henry S. Hefty Fire Chief Josef Benkert Civil Defense Director Walter E. Drews and School Supt D. J. Huenink.
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Truax Air Force Base
Monroe
Orville R. Evans
Henry S. Hefty
Josef Benkert
Civil Defense
Walter E. Drews
D. J. Huenink
Wisconsin
Mrs. Lester McQuillan 81 Dies in Woodford
Mrs. Lester McQuillan 81 a Woodford seamstress and longtime foster mother to 36 children died at 1 15 pm yesterday in St Clare hospital after years of illness Old age complications. Surviving husband daughter Mrs Evelyn Hartwig of Monroe a grandson Thomas Hartwig and a great granddaughter Teri Hartwig all of Monroe. Services will be 1 30 pm tomorrow at Woodford Methodist church Rev Daniel Schowalter officiating burial in Greenwood cemetery Monroe. Friends may call at Shriner Neushwander funeral home or Woodford church after 10 30 am tomorrow.
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Lester McQuillan
Woodford
St. Clare Hospital
McQuillan
Evelyn Hartwig
Monroe
Luella Jane Hollister
Fred
Mary Robb Hollister
York Township
Postville
Argyle Methodist Church
Thomas Foss
Hartwig
Thomas Hartwig
Teri Hartwig
Fred Hollister
Winslow
Frank
Madison
Alfretta Fowler
Minneapolis
Woodford Methodist Church
Daniel Schowalter
Peace United Church of Christ
Browntown
Greenwood Cemetery
Shriner - Neushwander
Woodford Church
Blackhawk Picnic Set for Woodford July 8 and 9
The 21st annual Blackhawk Picnic will be held at Woodford's picnic grounds on County Trunk Y. The event starts Saturday night with an amateur show, rides, and concessions, and continues Sunday at 11 a m with a Wiota versus Monroe girls softball game. Sunday features free acts headlined by the Siglers, Walt Bode, the Le Brants, and the Gold Dust Twins.
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Blackhawk
Woodford
County Trunk Y
Wiota
Monroe
Siglers
Walt Bode
le Brants
Gold Dust Twins
Nixon Plans Book on Public Life for Doubleday
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon will write a book about his experiences in public life to be published by Doubleday & Co. The announcement came Wednesday via a Doubleday spokesman.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
Doubleday & Co
90 Degree Heat Sparks New Pool Attendance Record
The area endures a 90 degree heat wave with forecasts for more heat. Monroe Recreation Park pool reported a new single day attendance record of 1,357, topping the previous 1,344. Through 24 days this season 17,910 swimmers have used the pool, averaging about 750 daily. Temperatures tonight are expected to stay in the high 60s to low 70s.
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The
Mercury
Monroe
Thomas Norager
Recreation Park
Farmer Income Shows Increase in 1961 Receipts
The Agriculture Department reports farmers' cash receipts from crops, livestock, and products are about 5 percent above last year. First five months of 1961 show crop receipts at $4.1 billion, up 7 percent. livestock receipts at $7.9 billion, up 4 percent. Prices rise 1.3 percent and marketing volume up 4 percent. Aid comes from emergency feed grain program payments reducing corn and sorghum acreage.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Indecision Hampers Stock Market Action
New York traders faced hesitation as inaction dominated trading midday. The Associated Press 60-stock average edged up .10 to 243.0 with mixed results across sectors and small gains and losses across industries including rails oils and chemicals.
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New York
Associated Press
Tokyo Floods, Landslides Kill 213 in Japan
Torrential rains battered Japan for a fifth day, leaving 213 dead and 182 missing as floodwaters and landslides sweep through multiple prefectures. Rescue teams continue search efforts amid continuing weather.
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Tokyo
Japan
Power outages hit Monroe from major electrical failure
A 12,000 volt line fault in the Twining Park area caused outages for about 1,500 customers starting around 5 p.m. A transfer to another line burned out a connection, sparking a grass fire near 1714 28th Avenue that volunteers extinguished. Most service restored by 6:33 p.m. as crews responded and further outages occurred citywide.
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Monroe
Floyd Coplien
28Th Avenue
D. L. Mossman
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Twining Park
Mossman
7Th Avenue
12Th Street
Power Firm
Man with fake bomb targets Madison Auto Office
A well-dressed man entered the State Office Building near police HQ in Madison and tried to bluff Motor Vehicle Department workers into paying him. When refused he left, abandoning a package submerged in Lake Monona later found to contain old auto parts. He handed a note to a clerk demanding money for a taxi ride to prevent an explosion.
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Madison
Motor Vehicle Department
Lake Monona
One Dead Nine Hurt In Iowa County Crash
A two car collision on Highway 14 near Arena Wisconsin killed James Mickelson 17 of Mazo and injured nine others. Nine people were hospitalized with none in serious condition. The incident raises Wisconsin’s traffic fatalities for the year to 391.
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Iowa
Associated Press
Iowa County
Wisconsin
James Mickelson
Mazomanie
Highway 14
Arena
Kennedy Calls for United States Disarmament Agency
President Kennedy proposed a permanent U.S. disarmament agency with powers to draft plans negotiate and enforce any future arms control deal. The autonomous bureau would replace the current Disarmament Administration and expand the staff budget to about 6 to 7 million dollars.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
U.S. Disarmament Administration
State Department
John J. McCloy
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William C. Foster
McCloy
Disarmament Agency
State and
Defense Departments
The
Atomic Energy Commission
4th of July Fireworks in Monroe Planned at Recreation Park
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce sponsors a July 4 fireworks display at Recreation Park. Rockets will be fired from the golf course following a 7 p.m. softball game between the Monroe Major League All-Stars and a Beait Yacres American team.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Recreation Park
Monroe
Yacres
Kennedy Signs Bill to Complete Interstate Highway System
President Kennedy signed a law to finish the interstate system by 1972 in a White House ceremony attended by senators representatives and other officials. The bill provides 11.7 billion dollars funding with 600 million yearly from the gasoline tax 150 million from other highway taxes and 150 million from diverting 5 percent of truck and bus excise tax to the highway fund. It also extends billboard ban bonuses and raises taxes on trucks tires inner tubes and tread rubber.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
General Treasury
Highway Fund
Castro Hood Given Long Prison Term For Slaying of Girl
Francisco Molina known as the Hook received 20 years to life after being convicted of second degree murder for the killing of Magdalena Urdaneta 9, a Venezuelan visitor, struck by crossfire during pro and anti Castro clashes in a West Side restaurant. The case arose during celebrations linked to Fidel Castro.
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Castro Hood
New York
Francisco (the Hook) Molina
Fidel Castro
Castro
Molina
Magdalena
Urdaneta
West Side
Manuel Artime
Nelson frames foreign aid as urgent state issue
Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson told reporters in Honolulu that foreign policy is now as urgent as domestic concerns. He urged President Kennedy to clarify that U S aid helps ordinary people and will not prop up failing regimes, warning the program could collapse without explanation.
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Honolulu
Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
Kennedy
United States
Not Seeking Fight Auto Firms Discuss Proposed Contracts
Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp tell the United Auto Workers that new wage pacts must be non inflationary. Walter Reuther leads UAW bargaining with GM, Ford, and later Chrysler and American Motors in a push for economic justice and reduced work time proposals to curb unemployment.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Ford
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
Malcolm Denise
Denise
Reuther
Washington
Congress Okays JFK’s Housing Bill
The 5.6 billion omnibus housing bill clears Congress with eased FHA home buying terms. It includes 2 billion for urban renewal and raises mortgage ceilings to 25,000 for one family homes. A 53 38 Senate vote and 221 175 House tally sent the measure to President Kennedy.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Kennedy
Eichmann Denies Red Cross Claim
Adolf Eichmann denied the Red Cross report labeling him a powerful figure in the vast plot. He testified he had no role or authority in the Nazi mass slaughter, reacting to a Red Cross statement following a 1945 visit to Theresienstadt.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Red Cross
Gestapo
Third Reich
International Red Cross
Theresienstadt
Prague
Marquette Announces First Peace Corps Volunteer
Marquette University confirms its first Peace Corps volunteer is Michael Shea of Eau Claire. The 22 year old engineering graduate and former varsity football player is headed for Peace Corps training, following a strong academic record and extra coursework in business administration. He is the son of Mr and Mrs William Shea and a Regis High School alumnus.
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Peace Corps
Milwaukee
Marquette University
Michael Shea
Eau Claire
Shea
William Shea
Regis High School
Triple Payload To Give America New Space Data
The United States launched a Thor-Able-Star rocket carrying three satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral. The 442-pound atomic unit powered by plutonium 238 produced 2.5 watts for two transmitters, marking a historic lead over the Soviet Union in space power and navigation satellite systems.
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America
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Soviet Union
Earth
U.S
Navy
GREB
Naval Research Laboratory
van Allen
James van Allen
University of Iowa
Banghart Leaves Joliet After 27 Years in Prison
Basil Banghart the Owl, a former Joliet gangster, walks from Stateville Prison on parole after 27 years for his role in the 1933 kidnapping of John Factor. Banghart, 61, declines to discuss future plans and says parole prohibits publicity.
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NIXON
Madison ‘Bomb
Auto Parts
U.S. Agency For Disarmament
Bureau
Okays Highway Project
JFK
Eichmann
Banghart
Joliet
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