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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1950
Page
6
Weather note reports cloudy and warmer conditions with occasional rain in the north and showers in the south tonight or early Wednesday. Wednesday brings rain in the north and possible showers in the south. Forecast lows 34-38 north 38-44 south, highs 45 north and 46-52 south, with recent high 58 and low 36. Barometer readings and a note on regional extremes accompany the forecast.
Real estate transfers recorded for V Hartman to new stone back block 190 Brodhead and Lloyd Staffon to Verona Jones part outlet 117 W% of SE quarter section 35 Monroe city limits.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley presides over cases from Frank V. Niklay Jr of New Glarus for motorcycle without registration, $5 and costs. Richard E. Reinke of route 5 faces charges of drunkenness on the highway with $10 and costs.
H A O Neill Darlington Orris Syster Cuba City no current registration card in cab five dollars and costs. Deaths Mrs Magdalena Legler 84 Warren Otto J Weiss 69 Janesville Mir and Mrs Roland Schroeder Hanover Wis a son May 2 Mr and Mrs Joseph Legler Monticello a son May 1.
St Clare Hospital case list includes Kenneth Rutsch of Juda undergoing tonsillectomy. Surgical patients include Mrs. Burnett E Painter Mrs Ruch McNair Rockford Elsie Pinnow Brod. Medical patients include Orville Chenous Blanchardville Charles L Schultz Janesville and others. Dismissals note several residents including Amelia Karlen Elmer Trickel Maurice Christenson and others.
Waagi, president of Monroe chamber of commerce, accepted a sampling challenge from the Ohio Swiss cheese industry to a test in Congress. He will confer with Rep. Lawrence H. Smith on arrangements. The event stems from Rep. John McSweeney's demand for a Wisconsin versus Ohio showdown at the Wisconsin dinner for U S chamber delegates and lawmakers.
Roger Stauffacher was chosen captain and Paul Jeglum manager of the Monroe 4 H club softball team at a courthouse meeting yesterday. Practice is set for Sunday at 1 30 p m at the Lincoln school playgrounds. Robert Brunkow entertained with accordion selections and plans for a 4 H Sunday were discussed. The next meeting will be June 5.
The Broadway musical South Pacific won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for best original American play. Eisenhower announced the awards from Columbia University. The Way West by A B Guthrie won fiction. Meritorious public service prize went to Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch for exposing Illinois reporters on the state payroll.
Miss Mamie Tillema, county home agent, recalls Hawaii as lei day lifts spirits. She once led home demonstration work in Green County, where Hawaiian festivities bring holidays to schools, with children dancing around maypoles and crafting leis for contests. Awards go to the prettiest floral combinations.
The Fox River Valley four week construction tieup ended as AFL truck drivers and laborers signed wage agreements with contractors. Construction operations to resume today after carpenters plasters and cement finishers had halted work since April 6 awaiting the other settlements.
Four witnesses testified that Bernard Darling appeared intoxicated about four hours before the auto crash that killed Shirley Mae Trout, 15. Darling, on trial for two counts of negligent homicide, showed mêssed hair and fuzzy speech, per Floyd Rhodes, a former part time bartender.
Five servicemen from Camp McCoy were killed Monday night when their car collided with a loaded auto transport one mile west of here. Army officials withheld identification until next of kin were notified. Coroner listed the victims as Edward R. Bohrer Eugene Watts Wesley W Mohr Harold R Hill and Duane A Galup. Madison reports say Wisconsin highway deaths for April totaled 54, with 207 for the year through four months, down from 191 last year.
Gordon Orians will attend the 11th annual Wisconsin Society of Ornithology convention at Point Beach state forest near Two Rivers. Mr and Mrs Clifford Meinext and children relocate to Prairie du Lac. Meinert to cabinet making. Spencer Bowen visits Oconomowoe and Milwaukee and attends a Pabst cattle sale and sport show. A A Ambrose family moves to a tenant house near Monroe. church congregation purchases their old home. Erling Landfried and family plan Gary Indiana for a draftsman role after ending Monroe Transit Co link. return from a northern vacation.
Gov Rennebohm canceled a scheduled trip to Washington to testify before a congressional committee in support of the St Lawrence River Seaway after an asthma attack in Delafield. He was en route to Milwaukee to address the State Street Advancement Association when the illness struck.
Mrs Hattie King 46 of Beloit died yesterday morning in St Clare's hospital after a two month illness. Services at 3 30 p m tomorrow in Rosman Uehling Kinzer chapel with Rev Herman A Michelke officiating. Burial Turtle Ville cemetery. Born Turtle township December 12 1903. Married to George King in 1937. Survived by parents four sisters and three brothers.
Ken Smith and Phil announce the largest event of its kind in Monroe at Phillips and Smith from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday May 5 and 6. The invitation promises something for everyone and urges attendance.
Monticello beat Juda 7 to 0 in a State Line league baseball game at Monticello yesterday, with the home team showcasing strong pitching and timely hitting to secure the shutout.
Washington reports the U S Labor Department has shut down its news printer amid the United Press telegraphers strike. The department calls continued use of the printer a crossing of the picket line and offers no further comment. Gerard D. Reilly, former NLRB member tied to Taft Hartley work, says the department is engaging in a customers boycott without UP pressure.
New York crooner Frank Sinatra suffered a throat hemorrhage last night and canceled the remainder of his singing engagement at the Copacabana night club.
Mrs Grace M Thorpe registry of deeds official returned from Madison where she attended an institute on admin procedures for Wisconsin register of deeds held on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Frank A. Buehler to formulate the plan with Arthur S. Peterson as general chairman. The condition of Roy Jaberg of 1904 10th street remained unchanged as a medical patient at St. Clare hospital since Friday evening.
Walter Ham mer family of 2217 16th street reports their dog was poisoned after a new battery was stolen from the car and an old broken one replaced. The dog survived and a veterinarian confirmed poisoning as the cause.
A senate committee investigating gambling released a list of race clients from its files. The names include lessees of Western Union telegraph wires used to carry horse racing information, supplied by Walter W. Semingsen Western Union assistant VP. The General News Service Bureau of Chicago is included.
Detroited negotiators halted after a 62 hour marathon session with CIO United Auto Workers and Chrysler representatives, ending a 98 day strike. Both sides recessed at 3 a m and planned to resume at 8 a m to craft a new contract aimed at returning 89,000 Chrysler workers to their jobs.
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