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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1961
Page
8
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered thundershowers mainly in the north and west central areas. Cooler north tonight and overall Friday except extreme southwest. Lows 58-65 north 65-70 south. Highs 78-86 northeast with low 90s southwest. Monroe Zone mainly sunny warm and humid this afternoon then scattered storms tonight and Friday. Cooler Friday. Lows 65-70. Highs 85-90.
Summary of temperatures and barometer readings with date comparisons. The warmest location Blythe California reached 110 degrees and Lewistown Montana saw 33 degrees as the coldest. Sunrise 5 25. Sunset 8 42. Highs and lows include yesterday from 1 pm 90 and 70, year ago 86 and 63, barometer 30 08 at 1 am and 30 15 at 1 pm.
Monroe police report shows Justice L A Koenig of Route 1 Browntown cited for stop sign violation. Defendant ordered to pay $20 and costs and attend three sessions of traffic school.
Obituary notice lists deaths for Mrs Lester McQuillan 81 Woodford Rev K K Olafson 80 Manchester Iowa and Zahradka 46 Louisville noting their passing and locations.
Mr and Mrs Kay Burdick of Janesville announce the birth of a daughter on June 28. Mr and Mrs Emil Leutenegger of Albany announce the birth of a daughter on June 29.
The notice lists patients and staff connected with St. Clare Hospital. Barbara Stauf fer and Rick Reuter of New Glarus are named for tonsillectomy. Additional names include Sigfried Swanson Arlington Heights and Mrs. Donald Kittoe Rockford. Dismissals include Chris Olson and several others.
Louis Zahradka a Wisconsin dairy industry consultant and former Falls Dairy Co-operative general manager died suddenly Tuesday night after speaking at a dairy co operative meeting in Dresser Polk County He died in Osceola where he was born with earlier roles at Cheese Producers Marketing Association Dairyland Cooperative Assn and Consolidated Badger among others
Rev Wilfred J Shea, chaplain at St Clare hospital, will serve pro tempore as administrator at St Josephs Gratiot and St Johns South Wayne in addition to hospital duties. Rev Lawrence J Kieffer will study at Catholic University of America with an internship and residency at St Elizabeths hospital. Kieffer honored at farewell party with 175 attendees and a purse gift. program featured local junior band and choir, Shullsburg guest Rev McHenry, and altar society serving ice cream and cake.
Sister Mary Agnes III, former superior at St. Clare Hospital, is critically ill with a tropical disease at the Mother House in Fond du Lac. She previously led the congregation's first foreign mission in Waspan Nicaragua and was flown from Central America to Miami with medical support.
Three youths died in separate water accidents as a Wisconsin heat wave drew crowds to lakes and pits. Donald Matson, 15, drowned at Lake Magner near Clear Lake. Donald Rademacher, 9, fatally stepped into a hole in Big Muskego Lake. Stanley Buss, 15, drowned in an Outagamie County gravel pit.
Personal mention Walter M. Stewart grandson of Monroe Sentinel founder John W. Stewart is visiting Monroe. The Monroe Laundry will be closed the week of July 3 and reopen Monday July 10.
Claude Jasper, a Madison attorney, will serve a new two year term as chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party. Re-elected by the Executive Committee, he will be joined by first vice chairman Mrs Norris Krohn of Oshkosh and second vice chairman Ray O Jondahl of Racine, with Talbot Peterson, Chester Hanson, and John Hough filling additional leadership roles.
The Federal Power Commission denied the Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Co. plan to build a Madison to Baraboo Wisconsin gas lateral. The commission announced approval for Northern Natural Gas Co. to raise its pipeline capacity by 174,050,000 cubic feet per day and to sell 75 million cubic feet of extra gas to Michigan Wisconsin.
David M. Rufer, a Browntown area youth who drowned Monday night, was laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery Monroe after funeral services at Zion EUB church Juda. Rev. William L. King officiated with Mrs. Irvin Matzke singing and Mrs. Esther Larson at the organ. Burial followed with cousins serving as pallbearers. Shriner Neushwander handled arrangements.
Washington The Joint Chiefs chair Lemnitzer expects no clash with Gen Maxwell D Taylor Kennedy's military adviser. Sources say Lemnitzer welcomes Taylors appointment though Taylor has called for dissolving the joint chiefs and creating a single defense chief of staff with an advisory board.
Jack Olson secretary treasurer of the Wisconsin Good Roads Association urged Gov Nelson to call safety conferences after a weekend highway toll of 21 deaths. He proposed involving police chiefs mayors district attorneys and safety council officials and coordinating law enforcement. He suggested inviting Abraham Ribicoff to discuss Connecticut's highway program.
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill to allow school districts to run summer schools with state aid for students. It passed 95 to 0 and backers say idle classrooms would be used year round. The Department of Public Instruction estimates 10,000 to 12,000 students would attend at a cost of about $65,000 annually.
Madison Wisconsin dairy traders report a steady cheese market with fair to good demand and ample supplies. Cheddars run 36.10 to 37 percent, 40 pound blocks 36.10 to 38, and longhorns around 377 percent with similar ranges for other varieties coalescing around 37 percent.
A brief column muses on the whimsical appeal of a lost stage act and the broader puzzles of logic it evokes. The piece frames disappearance as a lens on art, error, and audience expectation.
Thomas Clifford Fritz of Monroe is listed among the 1,020 students receiving a BL rating for the spring semester at Miami University.
A bake sale sponsored by St. Victor's Church begins at 9 a.m. Friday at the First National Bank.
A dinner meeting of the Monticello Community Club was held Tuesday at the Casino. The pond development committee was authorized to continue further study of the project.
Mr and Mrs Vincent M Coyle Cross Plains announce the birth of their son James Daniel on June 17 at St Marys hospital Madison He has three brothers Patrick five Robert six and Michael eight Grandfathers are John Kueng Juda and Joseph Coyle both of Cross Plains
New York actress Marilyn Monroe was hospitalized for the fourth time in five months. She was ambulanced from her Manhattan apartment to Polyclinic hospital with a mild intestinal disorder. She was accompanied by her second husband, former baseball star.
She first married renowned playwright Arthur Miller after divorcing Joe DiMaggio. The pair later separated, and she again pursued a separate life with Miller before finalizing the divorce.
President Kennedy and his family will depart Washington at 3:45 p.m. Friday to spend the long Fourth of July weekend resting at their Hyannis Port Massachusetts home. A one hour jet flight will depart Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland and land at Otis Air Force Base near Hyannis Port in Falmouth.
Secretary Pierre Salinger stated that Kennedy will travel back to Washington early Wednesday morning, indicating a swift return to the capital.
In Sauk Centre Minnesota the novelist Sinclair Lewis earned the nickname Doodles Lewis as a boy after calling himself Yan kee Doodle Dandy when a 13 year old ran away from home in a failed bid to join the Army.
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