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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1968
Page
1
Rockefeller says he is ready and willing to be the Republican nominee if the party wants him and he is on call to serve the American people.
One Green County precinct votes next Tuesday March 5 while Albany Township polls in Albany Village Hall narrow District 11 to two for County Board supervisor. Candidates are Fred Baerschi the incumbent, Herman Pluss, and Woodrow W Pryce. Baerschi fills the unexpired term of Richard Jarman who moved to Albany village. Jarman will run against Ben Cleveland who represents the village on the County Board.
The Green County Law Enforcement Association hosts an all you can eat pancake supper at the V F W Club tonight from 5 to 10 p m. Proceeds fund the outdoor target range north of the city for youth groups and law enforcement. Pancakes and sausages are served under chair David Deininger with committee members Lester Bacon Harvey Hoes ly and Forrest Riese. Tickets are 1 25 for adults and 60 cents for children under 12.
The Monroe High School 1967 graduating class donated $500 to the Peace Corps led School Partnership Program to build a self help school in Sta Teresita. Brent Ashabranner says the project will combine local construction with Peace Corps on the job guidance to educate the community.
David Viney of Evansville becomes president at the association's annual meeting held at the Dane County Fairgrounds. Edson Gearing Merrillan is elected vice president and Mrs. Russell Ridge Monroe is treasurer. James Price Brodhead is secretary. session to end with the Brown Swiss convention sale at the fairgrounds. Also, a Janesville woman, Hope G Enright, 26, drowns in the Rock River after breaking ice while attempting to rescue a dog. Authorities locate her body and footprints show a hole in the ice.
About 35 West High School students picketed the administration building Friday arguing the new grooming code would affect male students. Demonstrators displayed placards suggesting the code would have hurt figures such as Abraham Lincoln Albert Schweitzer and Mark Twain.
More than 20 million Americans receive larger Social Security checks starting today as benefits rise by at least 13 percent. The changes add about 465,000 people to coverage, raise maximum and minimum payments, and loosen work-earnings rules. An April 1 start brings new Medicare doctor-bill coverage and higher premiums to $4.
Albany Civic Park and Recreation Development Corp. ACPARD will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in Albany Village Hall following a 7 30 village caucus. Stan ton P Steurs president urges all members to attend as the session begins a series of monthly meetings planning industrial development and campground projects. But no strike Detroit United Auto Workers have moved toward terminating their extended contract with American Motors Corp. but no strike date has been set.
Sixteen high ranking 4-H members were interviewed at the Agricultural Building. David Erickson of York 4-H and Jane Wells of Browntown 4-H were named nominees to the 4-H Club Congress. They join Wisconsin peers to compete for final selection. Erickson attends Platteville State University in animal science. Wells attends Stout University. Both are in their final 4-H year and were named to the citizenship short course in Washington, D C. The remaining two nominees set to join in Washington were Kathy Zimmerli.
Jean Sulzer of the Young American 4-H Club topped the Green County speaking contest with Selling Your First Horse. The 15 year old sophomore at Monroe High School will compete April 3 in district speaking and music at Janesville against Dane Rock and Green County speakers.
A massive grass and brush blaze lit the night from Shannon to Rockton and beyond, visible up to 15 miles away as the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul train passed. Durand chief Jim Slocum says the cause is unknown but linked to the train, with fires sparked at intervals along the westward route. Fire crews from Durand, Davis, Shirland, Winnebago, Orangeville, Dakota, Rock City, Brodhead and Juda aided, with no buildings damaged. Brodhead chief Don Edwards described a red glow spreading from Durand to Davis, seen from hills as they responded about 11 p.m. Earlier, Brodhead firemen fought a grass fire behind Blanche Springstead property caused by a neighbor's incinerator. SAIGONS All Allied forces fought heavy battles at both ends of South Vietnam's northern frontier Friday, reporting 330 enemy deaths, many from machine gun fire and armored vehicles.
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