Lafayette Electric Co op Elects Directors and Plans Rate Cut
Lafayette Electric Co op reelected three directors at a March 12 meeting at Darlington grade school gym and learned a $32 000 rate reduction is being planned possibly before summer end. Longtime director Francis Patzkill received a clock and pen desk set for 25 years of service. A motion to repeal the 1964 by law limiting directors to two consecutive terms was not decided but will be voted on next year. President Harry Mc Gow an reported possible sizeable rate reduction in 1968 and capital credits redemption for 1950 and 1951 about 44 000 total. checks to members earlier era to be issued in June. The financial report showed assets over 2 million and operating margins of 59 886 on 1967 revenue of 584 887. State officials spoke on taxes and plates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Electric Co-op
Darlington
Homer McGranahan
Dale Schliem
Argyle
Oscar Nybroton
Co-op
Francis Patzkill
Charles Russell
Shullsbury
Harry McGowan
Blanchardville
Oscar Waybroten
Gordon Roseleip
Joseph Tregoning
Shullsburg
Roseleip
Registration Set For Monroe Voters Next Monday Night
Monroe city records show the City Hall will host an evening registration on Monday March 18 from 7 to 8 30 p m for those unable to register during the day The registration deadline remains 5 p m Wednesday March 20 Those new to Monroe or with address changes should register to vote for the April 2 primary Write in candidates for at least three municipal posts have been announced likely boosting voter turnout
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Freda M. Bray
Monroe
Monroe High French IV Club Heads to Quebec Trip
Twenty six Monroe High School French IV students set out March 23 for a study trip to Quebec with Miss Judith Sugarman and Larry Larson. Plans began last May with chairs Mary Hodgson Liz Stuessy Tom Eraser and Gary Neuenschwander guiding fundraisers that raised 2000 dollars helped by the Monroe Kiwanis and Lions Clubs. The itinerary includes a stop in Detroit to visit Henry Ford Museum before reaching Quebec to stay at La Maison Acadienne and practice French with locals for a week of education and cultural exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe High School
Quebec
Judith Sugarman
Larry Larson
Mary Hodgson
Liz Stuessy
Tom Eraser
Gary Neuenschwander
Monroe Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
School Personnel Seminars Planned On Mental Health
Green County Mental Health Education Committee plans in service seminars for district personnel. Kathryn Etter coordinates with CESA psychologists John Zweifel and Marilyn Rhodes. Questionnaires will be sent to administrators to assess feasibility and scope of seminars for Monroe and other schools. Green County Mental Health Association funds the project. A meeting is set March 19 at 8 p.m. in the Green County Hospital auditorium with a film on volunteers. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
CESA
Kathryn Etter
John Zweifel
Marilyn Rhodes
Monroe
Green County Mental Health Association
Green County Hospital
Winnebago State Hospital
Wisconsin The Spotlight Shifts To Wisconsin Politics
As national focus moves from New Hampshire to Wisconsin on April 2, 59 Democratic National Convention votes are at stake in the powerful primary. The scene features possible GOP crossovers after Romney's withdrawal, with Nelson, Reuss, and Kastenmeier remaining neutral while Proxmire backs the President though neutral in the primary. Bronson La Follette signals neutrality on the presidential contest with Vietnam positions closer to McCarthy, and Donald Peterson leads the McCarthy camp in urging Kennedy to announce.
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Milwaukee
Wis
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
White House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Richard M. Nixon
Michigan
George Romney
Gaylord Nelson
Henry Reuss
Robert Kastenmeier
Vietnam
William Proxmire
Bronson C. LaFollette
Minnesota
Monroe School District to vote on property purchase
Electors of Monroe School District are reminded of a special meeting on March 20 at 7 30 p m to vote on buying property owned by the late Edna Mackey adjacent to Lincoln School for physical education use. Cost is 8500 dollars. The session occurs in the Junior High School Library before the regular board meeting.
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Monroe
Browntown
Clarno
Adams
Cadiz
Jefferson
Jordan
Mt. Pleasants
Sylvester
Washington
Board of Education
Edna Mackey
Lincoln School
Girl Scouts Plan Cookie Sales and Camps in Monroe
Monroe Neighborhood Girl Scouts will start taking cookie orders February 15 through March 24 for Badger Council, offering Pixies Mints Sandwich Creams Savannahs and Scot-Teas at 45 cents a box. Proceeds fund Camp Hickory Acres Camp Oakwood Knoll and Camp Birchwood and day camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownie
St. Victor’s Gymnasium
Girl Scouts
Monroe
Girl Scoutscookies
Badger Council
Lester M. Johnson
Leland Lamboley
Monroe Land Company
Monticello
Browntown
Lamboley
Hickory Acres
Beloit
Rock County
Oakwood Knoll
East Troy
Walworth County
Birchwood
Hayward
Eva Mazzetta
Monroe High School
AFL
Kenneth Baker
John Callahan
Juliette Low
Melvin Voegeli Dies in Dunn County Car Crash
Melvin E Voegeli 43 of rural Colfax died at Memorial Hospital Menomonie at 8 a m Wednesday March 13 from a car crash seven hours earlier. His wife Beatrice is in critical condition at St Marys Rochester Minnesota. The couple were thrown from the vehicle after it ran off a Dunn County road and fell 15 feet into the embankment.
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Monroe Township
Melvin E. Voegeli
Colfax
Memorial Hospital
Menomonie
Beatrice
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Menomonie Hospital
Mayo Brothers
Voegels
Dunn
Juda High School Benefit For Tom Keen Arm Need
A community benefit at Juda High School on Sunday March 17 at 7 30 p m aids Tom Keen a Juda High School junior who lost his right arm in a self unloading wagon accident last October Proceeds fund an artificial limb with a variety show featuring Rollie Spongberg Mike Babler Mrs Dennis Davis the Mag ical Wurtzels and Father Kalscheuer Tickets at the door 1 adults 75 cents students 12 and over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juda High School
Tom Keen
Tom
Kenneth
Doris
Laymann) Keen
Juda
Rollie Spongberg
Wrextv
Mike Babler
Monroe
Dennis Davis
Vietnam war death toll tops 500 in past week
AP News In Brief reports 509 Americans killed and 2,766 wounded in combat last week, down from 542 killed and 2,191 wounded the prior week. Other items note Nixon withholding war plan details, Castro forecasting private bars to be nationalized, and other global economic anxieties.
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Saigon
USS
U.S. Command
Kiwanis Antique Show and Sale Slated in Monroe
The 13th annual Kiwanis Antique Show and Sale will be held at Turner Hall May 10 11 12. Co chairmen are John McElhaney and William B Johnston with Harold H Grunewald and wife managing the event featuring 19 exhibitors and dealers from Detroit Argyle Oak Park Milwaukee Cedar Rapids Racine Wisconsin Dells and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Turner Hall
John McElhaney
William B. Johnston
Harold H. Grunewald
Elkhorn
Monroe
Rubly Clayton Antiques
Detroit Mich
Eva Monson
Argyle
Gwen’s
Newark
Ill
Galson
Oak Park
Virgie
Milwaukee
Charlotte Morgan
Cedar Rapids
Brennan
Mildred’s Antiques
Edgerton
Cleverinf Antiques
Niles, Mich
LaFonda Antiques
Bettendorf
the Antique Lady
Waterloo
Edmonds Clasen Antiques
Wisconsin Dells
Wauwatosa
Jeanne
Platteville
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City Pound
George Bloom
Bloom
Jos
Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford Museum
la Maison Acadienne
Chance
GOP
la Follette
McCarthy
Donald Peterson
Robert F. Kennedy
Melvin Voegeli
Magic
Henrietta and
Robert
AP News
New York
Nixon
Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Communist Party
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stander
William S. Gaud
Agency For International Development
London
Zurich
United States
Pentagon
Navy
John F. Hartzheim
Marie Hartzheim
Appleton
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