County GOP Meets Tonight To Select State Delegates
Green County Republicans gather at 8 p.m. in the Green County Courthouse to approve a slate of delegates for the state convention. Incumbents Sen. Gordon W. Roseleip and Assemblyman Joseph Tregoning expected. Tregoning to seek re election for Green and Lafayette Counties. Several Lafayette incumbents listed. no sheriff candidate yet. June 1 marks first day for circulating nomination papers.
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Green County
Gordon W. Roseleip
Joseph Tregoning
Tregoning
Green
Lafayette
Lafayette County
Darlington
Harold Mullen
Eleanor Mullen
Register of Deeds
Eugene Thompson
Elmer Virtue
John Schlieffer
Eleanor Muller
Schleiffer
Roseleip
N. J. Kramer
GOP
Fennimore
Fire destroys Be loit area farm home in Rock County
The Frank L. Searles family lost their home on the Beloit Newark Road when a fire of undetermined origin swept through the Be loit area Saturday night. Brodhead and Orfordville fire departments responded. no one was home. The oldest child Fred 18 was at a school program in Brodhead. The roof collapsed before discovery, leaving only the clothes worn by the family.
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Pmuvread
Frank L. Searles
Beloit-Newark
Avon Church
Rock County
Brodhead
Orfordville
Searles
Emery Marchant
Tim
Heidi
Marchants
Ildren
Fred
Lions Club To Hear NFO Official Tonight
The Monroe Lions Club meets at the Swiss Wheel Restaurant with dinner at 6 30. Charles Schrenk of Livingston Wisconsin, district representative for the NFO, will speak.
Lemon trees yield two ripe fruit at seven and eight years
Around the Block columns note two lemon trees on Henry Page’s Stockton home bearing fruit after blossoming a year. Two lemons, each weighing one and a quarter pounds, have dropped. Mrs Page is a noted piemaker. Mr Page retired from a long railroad career. The item weaves in local anecdotes and community notices from Juda and Evansville, highlighting family histories, a Swiss fair, and local events.
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Henry Page
Stockton,Jr
Page
Chicago, Great Western Railroad
Stockton Kreft
La Follette Enters Wisconsin Governor Race
Atty General Bronson C. La Follette announces in Madison his plan to run for governor, citing a crisis of Vietnam war burdens pollution urban and farm problems and taxes. He urges alternatives to politics as usual while Gov. Warren Knowles mulls re election or other ambitions.
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Madison
Bronson C. la Follette
Wisconsin
Warren P. Knowles
la Follette
la Foll
Knowles
Gaylord Nelson
Two Motorists Die After County Crash
A head on collision on Highway 69 fifteen miles north of New Glarus killed two motorists. Leon J Gerber 22 of Monticello and Neil Kenneth Sager 16 of Belleville died at St. Clare Hospital after the 12 10 a m crash. Both were unbelted. The Gerber car attempted to pass in a southbound lane and struck Sager head on. a third car involved swerved and rolled. Gerber had Marine Corps service in Vietnam. Sager worked at John Freitag farm and attended Blanchardville High School. Funeral services for Sager set for Tuesday at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. Burial at Hillside Cemetery. Sager survived by mother and several siblings. Gerber survived by parents. The investigation noted no seatbelt use by any driver. The Green County death toll from traffic in the year reached three with these fatalities.
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New Glarus
Highway 69
Leon J Gerber
Monticello
Neil Kenneth Sager
Belleville
Sager
Blachardville High School
John Freitag
Gerber
Monticello High School
Marine Corps
Werner Gerber Jr
Leon Gerber
Werner Gerber
Lancaster
Blanchardville High School
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
York Memorial Church
Blanchardville
Carol Nelson
Robert Nelson
Livingston
Rodney Schell
Madison
Nancy
Carl
Nathan
Roger
Hugo Koehner
Helda Sager
Carl Sager
Neil
Shepherd of the Hills
Richard Dargatz
Hillside Cemetery
Saether
Leon J. Gerber
Monroe
Werner A
Hedwig Walser Gerber
Vietnam
St. Clare Hospital
Sheriff's Department
Portrait of Leon Gerber Civil War Era? No, Marine Corps service memorial
Leon Gerber served as a non commissioned officer during construction of a chapel at Marble Mountain Air Facility and was discharged as a sergeant in the Marine Corps. His enlistment ended May 22, 1967. He received a Certificate of Achievement for chapel work. He later worked for Kahne Lumber Co. and at Kelly Springfield Plant. Surviving relatives include his parents three brothers two sisters and grandparents. Funeral services set for March 13 at Zwingli United Church.
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Marble Mountain Air Facility
Marine Corps
Gerber
Kahne Lumber Co
Monroe
Kelly
Springfield
Freeport
Werner Jr
Gerald
Dean
Linda
Monticello High School
Gloria
Monticello
Elizabeth Walser
Menlo Park
Calif
Ulrich Gerber
Monroe Manor
Gary Dean
Leon Gerber
Zwingli United Church of Turn
Red Cross Bloodmobile slated at Brodhead Friday
Bloodmobile hours in Brodhead moved to 1 30 to 6 p m on Friday March 15 at the Brodhead Bank with a 50 unit quota. Donor support honors Connie Helland kidney surgery patient and local hospital donors from Madison and St Clare Hospital.
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Hell and Youth Bloodmobile
Brodhead
Red Cross
Brodhead Bank
Connie Helland
Golden Hellands
St. Michael's Hospital
Milwaukee
Arnold Ayres
Spring Grove Township
University Hospitals
Madison
Scott
Susi Douglas
St. Clare Hospital
St. Clare
Brodhead High School
P.T.O
Julian Horgeon
Madison Badger Red Cross Blood Center
August Lehnherr
Leslie Kindschi
Green County Medical Society
Wayne Pencil
Monroe
M. Stuessy
Board Set To Vote On County Bond For Home Project
The Green County Board of Supervisors will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Circuit Courtroom to consider a resolution authorizing a 1.7 million dollar County Home Bond issue. The plan repeals a 1.365 million bond order from Dec 12 1967 to fund a remodel that now calls for demolishing the existing building. Overdrawn accounts include County Hospital Patients 19475.24 Sheriff Police and Radio 8462.90 Circuit Court 1292.65 and others under 1 000.
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Maren
Green County Board of Supervisors
Farmers Invited For Adult Classes In Albany
Albany special invites farmers to an adult class meeting at 8 15 tomorrow night in the Albany School cafeteria. Ronald Naggatz of Geigy Agricultural Chemical Co will discuss weed control chemicals and show slides and movies. Robert Heffernan, vocational agricultural instructor, notes the session in the cafeteria.
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Albany
Ronald Naggatz
Geigy Agricultural Chemical Co
Robert Heffernan
Saigon fires seven province chiefs amid offensive fallout
In Saigon the government dismissed seven of 44 province chiefs including the Hue envoy, marking the largest purge to date after the Communist lunar new year offensive. Other changes included two of four politically important corps commanders.
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Saigon
Hue
Orangeville Eyes Storm Alert System Meeting
Orangeville Fire Department and School District invite district residents to a public meeting at Orangeville High School tonight at 8 p m A storm alert system will be explained by Fire Chief Jim Whittenburg and school principals will outline procedures in their buildings Residents moving into or within the district should update fire maps The Rusk offer to halt bombing to start settlement talks is reported from Washington
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Orangeville
Orangeville School Distict
Jim Whittenburg
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