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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1950
Page
4
The piece argues socialists reject flogging revival, favoring more police, as crime rises. It notes Lord Chief Justice Goddard’s remark on abolition fueling violence, compares past suspensions of hanging, and reflects on England's gunless police culture and underworld response. It questions war’s role in the surge of crime.
Wisconsin chapter of the international association of electrical inspectors favors counties gaining authority to make and enforce electrical inspection regulations. Currently delegated to cities, the proposal was adopted in a resolution at the annual convention. Officers named include Henry G. Affeldt LaCrosse chairman Grover Kruecke Milwaukee vice chairman and John E. Wise Madison secretary treasurer.
In Lindsay California the Valencia orange crop in central and northern California suffered 72 percent damage from recent cold weather. Aviators report swifts circling planes flying up to 83 miles an hour.
Monticello residents attend and host various social events in Monroe Madison and neighboring towns. Attendees include Henry Elmer Adam Duerst Robert Holcomb Jr Fred Marty Joseph Blumer and many local families at funerals visits and club gatherings. Several residents travel west to visit relatives in Los Angeles and other places. community members attend church events auctions and birthday celebrations in New Glarus Freeport Verona and Chicago.
Travel arrangements were to be completed today for the return home of 58 Czechs who arrived here unwillingly Friday in three airplanes carrying 26 other Czechs fleeing their homeland. They were kept segregated from the 26 refugees who have no intention of returning to communist ruled Czechoslovakia.
Linda Marie Retrum eight months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Retrum Hollandale died at 2 am yesterday in a Dodgeville hospital after two weeks illness from complications Born Dodgeville July 11 1949 she was the daughter of Lawrence and Barbara Schneider Retrum Surviving are the parents three brothers Lawrence Oliver Gerald Clifford Ronald Dean and two sisters Shirley Ann Edith Mae all at home the grandparents Mr and Mrs Conrad Retrum Dodgeville and Mr and Mrs Adolph Schneider Hollandale Services will be held tomorrow at Saether Funeral Home and at 2 pm in Blanchardville with burial in Hollandale Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home
World church official Dr F L Chang of Shanghai warns that famine in China could exceed the 1870 scourge with an estimated 13 million dead. He says over 3 million farm families in Hopeh province survive on mud, grass and roots as famine sweeps ten North China provinces and urges urgent aid from Britain and Russia.
Musa in charge of collecting federal income taxes in Georgia was hospitalized yesterday due to overwork. Doctors advised rest for Allen to recover.
Helen E Steurn of Lafayette County Co Op Creamery at Darlington produced 1 589934 pounds of butter in 1949 versus 1 538298 pounds in 1948. Wisconsin supplied over a third of all cheese received in California markets from July 1948 to July 1949. Cheese prices fell about 10 percent last year, with continued downward trend. U S cheese production likely rose, and Hay Hollow Cheese added a new intake. Wisconsin Swiss Limburg er Cheese Producers head Fred Galli attends a managers course in Madison after attending a European types conference in Champaign Illinois.
George Pulkrabek of Monroe is noted as a speaker. The text cites 1949 cheese imports at about three percent of U S production with Italy Argentina and Switzerland providing the top quantities. It also covers dairy price changes, retail milk costs, and Wisconsin farm export figures quoted by Emil Rauchenstein of the University of Wisconsin and USDA.
Rauchenstein notes dairy heifers require similar feed to milk cows but use more roughage. Calves need about half the labor of cows per year. Milk price spikes in eastern and southern regions allow higher cow prices, unlike Wisconsin. Strong sales outlets and abundant roughage are essential for profitability.
Area relatives gather for the funeral of Richard Gilmore 93 formerly of Woodford who died last Wednesday in Yuma Colorado. Surviving are his widow three sons three daughters one sister Mrs Oscar Walters of Twin Grove a brother Arthur of Monroe and many grandchildren and great grandchildren including a great great grandchild.
Mrs Anna Plautz 80 died Saturday at home in Warren Services were held this afternoon at Graham Funeral Home with Rev H E Beldin officiating and burial in Elmwood Cemetery Born Anna Wickler in Scales Mounds September 20 1889 she married Peter Plautz October 15 1886 and they lived in Warren since 1902 Surviving are two sons Charles and Henry both of Warren one brother Christ Warren two sisters Mrs Lizzie Robbins Lena and Mrs Katherine Gluntz Madison two grandchildren and three great grandchildren
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