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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1960
Page
2
The Monroe Evening Times urges voters to oppose the universal garbage plan in the April referendum. It argues the proposals need months more study, actual bid estimates, and detailed design before any action by City Council.
In Havana Fidel Castro's labor minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez calls the Guantanamo naval base a foreign business under Cuban law. The statement marks the first official hint of pressure tactics in any potential U S Cuban conflict over the base status.
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in mediating the end of the Russo Japanese War. The award highlights efforts toward international arbitration and diplomacy during his presidency.
Forty years prior Delaware stood alone against ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment. Ratification could be delayed to miss the 1920 presidential election, while reports show Reds in Germany engaging in warfare and trench fighting in Westphalia as the Ebert government struggles to hold on. Joseph Wood of Green County, born 1833, marks his 89th birthday and is famed for music, having installed the organ at Universalist church in 1866. Monroe to play Cedar Rapids in the interstate tournament first round at Madison.
William A. Schuetze announces a brick two story livery barn to occupy the Payne and Jefferson corner opposite his current site. The 65 by 110 foot structure will be built on the 9th street and 17th avenue block. General Charles King will inspect Company H March 28 during the Easter dance night at the Armory. A municipal election April 5 will consider abolishing liquor licenses following a 150-elector petition. March has had 24 straight sunny days.
Franklin Pierce Adams known as F P A the witty humorist and poet died in a New York nursing home at 78. He wrote This Little World and light verse praised by many and gained fame on Information Please with John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman. Kieran planned to attend services in New York as requested by Adams's widow.
Princess Anne will be among eight bridesmaids at Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones’s May 6 wedding. Clarence House released the list of the bridesmaids ages six to twelve, confirming the youthful roles at the royal event.
Rural schools receive 50 star flags from county superintendent Rudolph T. Haskee for TB drive efforts on behalf of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. East Dayton school and Peebles school won honors for per student sales and percentage increase in WATA Christmas Seals with gains over 1958.
Funeral services for Elizabeth Rosenthal Bedford 78 of Carthage South Dakota were held Tuesday at the Congregational church in Clarno Township. She died Friday in Mitchell South Dakota and burial followed in Artesian cemetery. She was born September 22 1881 married in Browntown in 1899 and lived on a farm between Carthage and Artesian from 1905 to 1947. She had been in a Fedora nursing home recently. Survivors include eight children and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband and a daughter.
Joseph E. Brink 63 of Mt. Horeb and Dane County employee for 15 years died after a long illness in a Madison hospital. A World War I veteran, he will lie in state at Gesme Funeral Home Mt. Horeb with rosary tonight. Services are set for 9 a.m. tomorrow at St Ignatius Catholic Church Mt. Horeb. Survived by his wife two daughters Mrs Harland Kanause Spring Green and Mrs Robert Lehnherr Mt Horeb three brothers Barney Madison Andrew Mt Horeb and David and three grandchildren.
Theodore Halverson 83 longtime Postville area store operator dies. Funeral at Adams Lutheran Church Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev. Emil Martinson officiating. burial in Adams cemetery. Surviving children numbered in five daughters and three sons with many grandchildren.
Local attorney Joseph D Viney will discuss "Descent of Property" at a joint meeting of Oakley Mid-Century Club of Judo and Jefferson Homemakers at Union church Oakley. The talk ties to the March project in county homemaker clubs. Husbands and others invited to attend.
Lawrence A. Waldsmith 37 of Waukesha died at his home Tuesday. Services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at B L Booth funeral home in Oregon. Survived by wife Wanda Hawley of Brooklyn, three daughters Kathleen Loretta Donna, mother Mrs Leo Long Sr, five siblings including Mrs Donald Way and Mr Vernon, and Leo in Boston with Armed Forces.
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