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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1949
Page
1
A Green County survey shows Swiss cheese production in 1948 boosting farmer income despite low farm prices. Farmers received an average 3.85 per hundredweight for milk, up from 3.75 in 1947, with December milk prices at 4.05 and average yearly milk test at 3.27, following 3.29 in 1947.
Washington proposed a stamp book system to finance expanded social security covering 50 million workers. Arthur J. Altmeyer outlined plans to raise security tax revenue, extend coverage to farm operators and urban self employed, boost benefits, create a disability program, and lower the pension age for women. Opposition already forms as proposal faces resistance in Congress.
A two year old boy named Michael John Strobel was found dead in his parents bedroom in Fond du Lac. Police held his brother for investigation as detectives probe possible foul play while the father, Urban Strobel, 33, denies involvement. The infant’s jaw was noted to have injuries as authorities investigate the circumstances.
The market.news service reports Wisconsin cheese prices holding steady to firm as demand remains light and supplies are adequate. Prices noted for various forms include single daisies at 32-44 and longhorns square prints around 32%.
The State Department issued a sharp report claiming Russia censors information to keep its citizens from comparing living standards with the United States. It cites blocked exchanges in education science and publishing and warns that Soviet fears of free ideas persist. The document, released before a New York world peace conference, condemns Moscow evasions and spy phobia.
The Mississippi River breached a levee about three miles north of Port Allen sending residents fleeing. The break flooded sugar plantation country with Highway 190 under three feet of water within three hours, no casualties reported immediately.
John L. Lewis ordered 463,000 idle coal miners to resume work on Monday. The executive order, issued to district officers, ends the memorial period on March 28 and calls miners east of the Mississippi to be available for work that date after a stoppage begun March 14 in memory of deceased and injured workers.
Ten piglets perished in a hog brooder blaze at the Jacob Becker farm on the old Juda road after an oil stove exploded. John Kruse was present when the fire began. Monroe firemen battled flames for nearly an hour, saving surrounding structures but losing the brooder shed.
Congress faces a House Senate clash over a rent control extension. The Senate approved a 12 to 15 month extension with limited increases and a local decontrol option, while the House pushes a broader home rule bill. Conferees plan to meet tomorrow to resolve differences before a White House decision.
Registration of Monroe voters for the April 5 election closed yesterday at 5 p m but totals aren’t expected until voting lists are checked early. Unqualified voters must bring two property owners to city hall to sign an affidavit of voting rights.
The day began with a 30 degree open and rose toward a new season high by early afternoon. A thin haze lingered as showers were possible overnight and Friday forecast calls for a chilly and windy day.
A contract approved today by Gov Rennebohm funds maintenance on 14.6 miles of highway 81 near Darlington by Ryan and Sons of Janesville for 37369 dollars.
The Wisconsin assembly, led by a Republican majority, shelved two Democrats aims for immediate action. A rent control extension failed 42 to 42, and a reapportionment study proposal was sent to committee. A separate measure to read the constitution’s preamble in schools and prayers at day’s end faced indefinite postponement. Other votes touched annexation limits, sewage district commissions, deer hunting licenses, and open hunting rules. Senate committees advanced conservation bills amid delays.
In Congress the Rankin veterans pension bill was shelved by a 208 to 207 roll call. The measure returns to the veterans committee for study, with leaders warning the vote kills the bill for this session. The scene followed a complex sequence of motions and recounts as members voiced their positions.
Wisconsin Creameries Association backed repealing taxes on oleomargarine. Oscar Christianson said farmers support repeal if deceptive sales are curbed. no legal basis remains for taxing or comparing oleo to butter. Milo Swanton urged against the bill, warning unrestricted sales harm consumers. Phillip Marshall called the tax discriminatory and costly for low income groups.
The 21st annual Monroe Turn and Schwing club exhibition begins Friday at 8 15 p m at Turner hall. The program features tumbling pyramids and workouts on bars, special musical numbers and a roller skating act, with men and women classes. Two 1948 Olympic team members will join the instructors’ course of the Midwest Swiss American Gymnastics Association in Monroe Sunday. Vincent D Antonio and Frank Cumiskey will demonstrate 1949 competition exercises. Clubs from Monroe Milwaukee Cleveland Toledo and Pittsburgh will be represented.
Kathleen Babich age 17 and Milton Babich 19, sought in connection with Patricia Birmingham's slaying, waived extradition in Minneapolis. They had fled after a marriage in Kalama zoo Michigan and were found in a rooming house. Milwaukee detectives planned transport back to Wisconsin as the investigation continues.
Dulles told the Philadelphia Bulletin forum the North Atlantic pact is defensive yet may be seen as offensive by Soviet leaders. He warned ambiguity could provoke the war it seeks to prevent and urged careful conduct to prove the pact supports a free society. Bohlen said the pact arose as UN peace machinery stalled by Russia but is not a substitute for the United Nations.
Fred Hahlen chairman of the production marketing association was re elected president of Green County Council of the Department of Agriculture Agencies at an organizational meeting in ACA offices yesterday. Myron E Jeglum county agent was re elected secretary as the council reorganized for the next year. Other members include Miss Mamie Tillema Cecil Hollaway William Brown and Robert E Davenport.
The agriculture department recommended a federal program to regulate Rockford Freeport milk sales. It would set minimum prices paid to dairy farmers by handlers but not control retail prices. The goal is to assure adequate local supply and reduce drain to Chicago.
The P. D. Block of Inland Steel Co. tied to a dock in Escanaba yesterday, marking the official opening of Great Lakes navigation here.
Raymond C. Fritz was commissioned a captain in the National Guard and joined the Headquarters Medical Company of the 128th Infantry at the armory last night. He will serve as administrative officer under Maj. Wayne J. Fencil, previously the sole officer in the company. Fritz began service in March 1941 and was discharged February 1946 after a stint with the military police in the Central Pacific.
Winona Minnesota truck driver Emil Kujak aged 28 faced a 3000 dollar bond today after a rear end collision in Sparta that killed Reuben Rosa 48 of Tomah. Kujak was charged with failing to stop after the accident as Monroe County Sheriff H R Biegel reported.
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