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Fragmentary OCR text from Monroe evening paper shows garbled lines and stray time references. It lacks a coherent event, names, or clear news to summarize into a factual item.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1950
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text from Monroe evening paper shows garbled lines and stray time references. It lacks a coherent event, names, or clear news to summarize into a factual item.
Police doubt automatic signals curb accidents in Monroe but urge stop signs at two key crossings. A sign at the southwest corner of 16th Street and 20th Avenue would address through traffic turning left from the Fort Port route. Another at the southeast corner of 20th Avenue and 6th Street would curb straight through eastbound traffic near the hospital. Continuous traffic studies are needed.
The Green County Bar Association urges merit and experience for state supreme court justices. It notes probate court experience is valuable due to many appeals from that source and supports younger, physically capable candidates. It endorses Marshall L Peterson as meeting mandatory qualifications and deserving election.
March 23 1940 obituary notes Chief of Police Fred Gilman who died of a heart attack in Evansville. Also mentions census calls by Dr W D Reed assistant director of the census bureau, and other items from past years in a retrospective column.
Senator Lehman of New York unveiled a bill to authorize a study on the effects of repealing the oleomargarine tax on American agriculture. The study would guide future dairy policy and probe impacts on butter markets, dairy production, soil conservation, and animal agriculture. He also introduced a second bill to empower the Justice Department to investigate possible monopoly in the oleomargarine industry.
An old ad copy touts Doan's Pills as relief for minor back and kidney discomfort. It claims the remedy has helped millions for over fifty years and promises to ease waste buildup in the kidneys through its filtrations.
A recessed hearing on pollution conditions in Madison area lakes Monona Waubesa and Kegonsa will be held May 2 instead of March 28, as the state committee on water pollution reported. Counsel for the southern Wisconsin anti pollution federation asked the postponement. More farm machinery rusts out than wears out.
Reuben L Grinnell 41 a native of Monticello died yesterday at his Madison home. Services Saturday at 2 in the Dodgeville Methodist church with Rev Charles Bolles. Burial in East Side cemetery Dodgeville. Surviving wife a son Reuben Jr father Walter Oregon five brothers and three sisters and numerous relatives.
Muwaukkee or Maine postman Roman Wojcinski, 41, turned in a bag containing 39500 in cash and 135184 in checks to police. Mitchell Street State Bank will award him a $1000 reward for returning the lost funds found in a gutter on a downtown street while en route to a bank.
Arthur Hopkins, a prolific Broadway producer and director of about 80 plays, died yesterday at age 71 from a heart ailment. His first success was Poor Little Rich Girl in 1913, and his final notable work was The Magnificent Yankee about Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1946. His last role in theater was directing Bert Lahr in Hopkins 1948 revival Burlesque.
Rosemary Oechslin, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Oechslin Jr, was named queen of Darlington High School juniors for Friday April 14 at the school ym. Attendants include Margaret Cavanaugh Mary McGinnis Betsy Zenz Joyce Skattum Gilbert Goetz Jack Johnson George Hollenstein and Donald Baldwin.
Wisconsin's minimum milk standards are the conference theme at the University of Wisconsin with Harvey Weavers outlining objectives and needs. Session focuses on milk house planning electricity in the dairy barn and the economic outlook for Wisconsin dairy farmers. National cash farm income fell about 10 percent from 1948 with dairy receipts down 15 percent while hogs cattle and tobacco also declined. An estimated 1,500 attended Studer Implement Co machinery sale featuring 30 head of cattle. Farm placement services invite farmers to apply for year round help at county agricultural offices. Sir Gladwyn Jebb named permanent British representative to the United Nations succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan.
Welfare board approves two new directors for mental hygiene and child welfare plus acting head role at Wisconsin psychiatric institute. Dr Leslie A Osborn 43 of Buffalo New York named director of mental hygiene division and B Frederick Dell Quadri 35 of Springfield Illinois named director of child welfare and youth services. Osborn will also act as director of the Wisconsin psychiatric institute in arrangement with the University of Wisconsin.
A vacancy created in February 1948 when Dr. Walter Urben, formerly of Monticello, resigned to become superintendent of Mendota state hospital, has remained open until now.
Mrs. Katherine K. Fassett, 47, a counselor at the University of Wisconsin student counseling center, was granted a divorce in superior court Wednesday from Norman C. Fassett, 49, a University of Wisconsin botany professor. She charged cruel and inhuman treatment.
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