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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1950
Page
6
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with light rain or snow beginning in the southern portion Tuesday. Temperature changes are limited with lows around 22 to 28 north and 25 to 30 south. Tuesday highs forecast at 32 degrees in the north and 32 to 36 in the south.
Last week highest 36 and lowest not stated. Since yesterday at 1 p.m. high 34 and low 23. Year ago today high 49 and low 27. Precipitation snow flurries. Barometer 29.58 at 1 a.m. and 29.54 at 1 p.m. Warmest U S location Fort Worth Texas 86 for yesterday, coldest International Falls Minnesota 8. Sunrise 6 05, sunset 6 11.
Otto and Herman Lanz transfer land in section 32 and 33 to David Indergand in Washington township. Theron H. Ridge transfers W 87 feet of outlet 121 in Monroe to Donald J. Clark. John M. Elmer transfers 37 acres more or less in section 31 to John Peter Kubly in Sylvester township.
Small Claims Court found Bernard Purcell, driver for Purcell Grocery, liable for $5 plus costs for operating with out contract carrier authority. Judge Harold J. Lamboley presided.
Mrs Henry Dittmar aged 75 of 1329 23rd Avenue Neil Scott 43 Magnolia Martha Ten Eyck 88 Be It Charles W Trickle 79 Freeport.
Mr and Mrs August Faessier of Juda welcome a son born March 18. Mr and Mrs Isaac Alder of New Glarus welcome a son born in March. Mr and Mrs Robert Fernsteadt of Veteran's Housing Unit welcome a daughter born March 18. Mr and Mrs William Hafen Jr of Juda welcome a son born March 19. Mr and Mrs Sylvan Disch of Juda welcome a son born March 20.
St Clare Hospital lists patients undergoing surgery including Mrs Truman Kittle son Albany Arthur Savage and Mrs Ruth Gustaf son Beloit with others noted under medical and tonsillectomy, plus a long roll of dismissals naming numerous patients and accompanying relatives across Beloit Shullsburg Browntown and surrounding towns.
Jean Wipfli, injured in an automobile crash on Schwarzenberger hill, was dismissed from St. Clare hospital and flown to her home in Wausau by Gilbert T. Baltzer. She suffered a fractured vertebra, broken ribs and jaw, and hand fractures as a passenger in John A. Marty's car.
Passaic New Jersey reports Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin won the Marine Corps League national Americanism award for 1950.
Shiocton high school pupils and principal Monroe Manely returned to school today after a week long boycott over his employment. The school board will decide next steps as three members still contend Manley offered a verbal resignation last Friday.
Mrs Paul L Frenzel of 1315 22nd avenue fell Friday and was found to have a broken arm on Saturday. She works at Lees on the south side of the square. Mrs Robert Gempler of 1403 11th street had major surgery at a Madison hospital this morning. Her sister Mrs Harold C Berger of Milwaukee arrived yesterday to care for the Gempler children during the hospitalization.
Lee Babler of 1328 18th Street bought the first fishing license of the 1950-51 season at the county clerk’s office.
Mr. and Mrs. Hafen Joyfully announce the birth of a son yesterday at St. Clare hospital. Mrs. Hafen is the former Helen Newman daughter of Mr and Mrs T R Newman Juda. She was formerly employed at the PMA office.
Beverly Rattin eight year old daughter of Mrs Elsa Rattin has been dismissed from St Claires hospital after leg surgery. She is convalescing at the home of her aunt Mrs Charles Dwyer 1303 19th street.
The second daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Fernstaedt of the veterans housing unit was born Saturday evening at St Clare hospital. Mrs Fernstaedt is the former Helen Wilson. The Fernstaedts’ older daughter is Kath ee, 2.
Nancy Bishop daughter of Mr and Mrs Lester H Bishop and Nancy Houser from Arcadia tied for third in finals at the Union theater University of Wisconsin. Bishop led dramatics while Houser led dance in Gamma Phi Beta events.
Eugene Davis son of Mr and Mrs Roy F Davis of 1200 21st Avenue is admitted to the L club at LaCrosse State Teachers College based on letters won in swimming and track.
Richard Francois of Belleville barely escaped drowning when his car left the county trunk road and plunged into Sugar River in Primrose Dane county late Saturday night. He was hospitalized at St Marys Madison with a head injury and shock in fair condition. Neighbors heard the crash and rescued him as the car went underwater.
Valentin A. Gubitchev, a Soviet engineer diplomat, began return to Russia in handcuffs aboard the liner Batory at 11 12 a m as authorities signal possible Kremlin actions in a spying incident.
Rev. Harold Auler, missionary in the Honduras field, was guest speaker at midweek Lenten services Friday evening at Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed church. He showed pictures of mission work.
A string of social notices lists Mr and Mrs Nick Calabresa in Elgin Sunday and J L Babler in Freeport on business. Various locals and visitors from Juda Janesville Albany Monroe Wiota Rockton Madison Milwaukee and Chicago are mentioned with weekends visits, trips and family gatherings. A church supper at Union Presbyterian is announced for March 22 and several residents are noted for hospital checkups visits and travel to Europe and Grace Lutheran anniversary events.
Hollywood safecrackers looted the vault of Dr. Will Durant, author, of about 225000 in war and savings bonds plus possibly 25000 in jewels. Mrs. Ariel Durant found the theft upon waking. The burglarized vault door was jimmied and locks broken. police cataloged the bonds and warned that forgery attempts would face swift banking scrutiny.
Mrs Adelaide Blaser visited Rockford on Sunday. Nancy Bishop of Waukesha visited her parents the Bishops alongside the Schuhs Germanns and Judith Germann in Madison yesterday. LaVerne Wickersham of Milwaukee spent the weekend with Ernest and Mrs Dettwiler. Carol Priewe Margie Cullen Etha Discher Dorothy Hannan and Marjorie Holcomb attended the Green Bay state bowling tournament. John Stackpole Winslow and family hosted Sunday dinner for their children in Madison. Lee Babler and daughter Jean attended a university symphony concert in Madison. A group including H D Baker Eugene and Mrs Smith and others visited the Scherer home in Madison and Monroe vicinity.
Monroe, in 1927. He taught several years in Green county rural schools. On Jan. 4 1938 he married Margaret E Barrenger of Magnolia. Last employed at Brunsell Co Evansville. Survived by widow and four children, parents, two sisters in Chicago and Beloit, a brother in Footville, three half sisters and two half brothers. Burial Magnolia cemetery.
An explosion ripped out a wing fuel cell of the XC-99, the world’s largest military land airplane, injuring eight workers at Kelly Air Force Base. Precautions against fire hazards kept damage to a minimum.
In 1947 Canada welcomed five million eight hundred thousand automobiles from the United States according to border statistics. The large influx reflected postwar automotive trade and sustained cross-border mobility between the two countries.
Thomas Chudzinski and Ronald Heggerty found a handbag near Kilbourn Park in Milwaukee containing $16,891. A card named Anna Voight tied the money to an inheritance she said she lost the night before. Police held the funds for verification as the boys kept portions: Tom $500 and Ronald $2,390.
Washington reports the Chinese government blocked a mass evacuation by refusing two landing craft access to Shanghai. Nearly 2,000 foreigners including 310 Americans had planned to depart tonight aboard the General Gordon, which was ordered to remain at sea. American officials were urged to seek reconsideration.
Miles P. Dempsey aged 61, longtime Bear Creek village and Outagamie county official, died Sunday after a three year illness. He served 16 years on the Bear Creek village board before 1945 and 12 years on the county board until his resignation in 1947 due to ill health.
Shawano county supervisors on Thursday rejected a bill in the senate to return 13 081 acres of county land to the Stockbridge Munsee Indian tribe. The board voted against the proposal, opposing the land transfer.
A Monroe resident reports seeing flying saucers around 7 30 am with a disturbing noise and objects shooting through an open doorway a tiny man about twenty inches tall exits wreckage and walks to work. Earlier a woman dancing on a slick floor toppled on slick sidewalks, highlighting the night’s unusual conditions and mishaps.
President Rutherford B. Hayes' last surviving child and only daughter Frances Hayes dies at 82 in Lewiston. The report places her death at the Marcotte home. Historians cite early observations of static electricity by Thales around 600 B.C. as a noted spark-production by rubbing lodestone with amber.
Wisconsin insurance commissioner John R. Lange announced a 15 to 20 percent rate increase for drivers under 25. Older drivers will pay less as annual mileage rises beyond 7.5 miles. The changes, implemented by 60 companies in the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters, cover about 40 percent of Wisconsin casualty insurance. Lange noted 20.1 percent of licensed drivers are under 25 but account for 35.5 percent of fatal accidents and 28.8 percent of all accidents.
Socialist opponents mobilize 30 600 workers in Brussels as Belgians resist the plan to reinstate King Leopold III. The strike signals broad political tension in the country amid the pro Leopold forces.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, creator of Tarzan, died in Encino California from a heart attack. He authored fifteen novels awaiting publication, with film rights rumored to net millions. Tarzan books total nearly 40 million in print across many languages.
J F Dunn a 33 year old Chicago man was named administrative assistant in the state dairy division by Donald N McDowell director of the department of agriculture Dunn will head the food inspection service and direct eleven inspectors in the division
In Saigon Indochina two U S destroyers left on schedule after four hours of rioting that killed three people and injured at least 30. A march by about 3000 students and 1000 workers waved the Moscow gold star flag in protest of American support for the French backed government.
The Monroe Moose bowling squad bowled yesterday at the state Moose tournament in Madison. Team members Arthur Meyers Lyle Sickinger John Stauffacher Eddie Zwicher and Marvin T Holcomb played alongside their wives in support.
Nancy Olson, a rising star in Hollywood since her days as a University of Wisconsin coed, married Sunday in Los Angeles to Allan Jay Lerner, a noted writer, marking a high profile union in the entertainment world.
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