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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1956
Page
8
Daily weather summary for May 4, 1956 notes fair and cool to partly cloudy conditions with increasing cloudiness and possible rain from west to east during Saturday afternoon or night. Warmer Saturday with highs 53 to 62 and lows 28 to 36.
Transfer notice records Joe H. Hoesly Estate transfers parcels to John Wettach. Property lies in Exeter Township sections 31 and 6 and 5 within New Glar Township along Little River. Documents reference land transfers and location boundaries for future record filing.
Justice L A Keeni Rolland Baker Monroe charged with leaving the scene of an accident with $15 and costs. Deaths Harry Demus 64 Beloit A Johnson 72 Buffalo. Births Mr and Mrs Harold Engels Route 1 son May 3. Mr and Mrs Francis Wand Gratiot daughter May 4.
Dismissed patients and staff include Mrs. Walter Pire Beloit Mrs Donald Reimer Beloit Lee R Endres Madison and John Maurer Brodhead Surgical. Also listed are Mrs Gaspare DeVita Beloit Alfred Goepfert 2719 Seventh Street and numerous others plus staff such as Fred Baumgartner Mrs Arnold Bahler Mrs Effie Vincent and Mrs Richard Hunter and daughter Larry Bergum.
State brand cheddars dropped one-eighth of a car and leveled off at 33½ percent at the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange today. Various styles showed little change with bids and offers listed for 40-pound blocks and pasteurized longhorns, while trading tone remained weak on cheddars but steady on other styles.
John A. Johnson, 72, of Buffalo Missouri, brother of Walter A. Johnson, died Wednesday night after years of illness. Born November 19, 1883 in College Springs Iowa, he married Anna Keegan and lived in Buffalo 15 years. Survived by his wife, a daughter Lenoir Miller of Clarinda Iowa, five sons Mead Harold James John Hollis, a sister Mabel Layton, and relatives. Services Monday in Clarinda with burial in College Springs.
Blanchardville Times special reports Joan Weidenfeller is valedictorian at Blanchardville High, with a four year GPA of 2.66. Co salutatorians are Deanna Frank and Eloise Kolden. Seniors with B or better four year averages include Beverly Thompson Sonja Syftestad Thelma Hermanson Deanna Olson Kathryn Steketee and Bernard McGowan.
The Army issued a draft call for 13,000 men in July up 1,000 from May and June. No other service is using the draft. The July call boosts Army strength for the new fiscal year beginning July 1, bringing total drafted or earmarked since September 1950 to 2,057,430.
Speci Committee members John Kroten Royal Voegelin and Eichorst have contacted industries to locate in Monticello. The committee, through the Monticello Community Club, was appointed by president Thomas Brusveen who met with the group Monday night.
Funeral services were held at 1 30 p m today in Shriner Neushwander funeral home for Mrs Rose Schramm 63 of 837 11th street who died Monday night in St Clare hospital Rev Howard Bailey pastor of the Assembly of God church officiated Burial was in Greenwood cemetery Miss Ruth Lindirman soloist sang In The Garden and Beyond The Sunset accompanied by Mrs Fred Buchler Pallbearers were Paul Delwiche Jerry Thomm L D Gross Gerald Kiel Orville Kiel Jr and Alan Kiel
Mrs Floyd Montefeldt from Beloit visited Monroe today as Scouts missed calls for donating clothes hangers please phone 1304 for pickup Saturday morning. Miss Esther Garvey Appleton former society writer and pediatrics head was in Monroe. she now directs nursing at Theda Clark Neenah. Cpl Maurer and family from Las Cruces NM visiting relatives. he will finish six months of enlistment at White Sands.
Rural youth group at Green County Teachers College heard Dr Eugene E Eckstam program chairman of Green County Safety Council describe the council s program. They voted to buy circle records and to meet with junior 4H leaders next Wednesday to discuss the dairy bar business. Miss Shirley Leopold reported on the picnic May 27 at Blue Mounds as part of the state committee report. Recreation included group singing.
Miss Shirley Leopold will represent Green County Rural Youth at a Young Peoples State Committee meeting in Eau Claire this weekend. She will give a report on the national training school at Carbondale Illinois, which she attended.
Wisconsin Democrats Lester Johnson Henry Reuss and Clement Zablocki joined Republicans Lawrence Smith Glenn Davis Gardner Withrow Melvin Laird John Byrnes and Alvin O Kens in voting for the soil bank measure. William Van Pelt was not recorded. A Smith Masonic Lodge meeting in Mineral Point aired conference reports.
Start of excavation for the Burrington residence in Browntown southeast and an easement for the Wells home in the town south. Roy Hefty leaves Monroe Automotive Elec Co for Streiff Chevrolet in New Glarus, with Hefty family moving there, native of New Glarus. James Sharer and Charles Stephens, Carroll College juniors, named to offices in Albany and Brodhead.
Green County Teachers College graduates will spend their final week of school on a Mackinac Island trip. Otto W. Lund, college president, notes the student teachers have a 38 week year, starting a week before grade school and staying a week after. Grade school ends June 1, with junior student teachers on campus until June 8.
Wisconsin 1956 highway toll rose to 249 today from 231 last year. Gus Frondine, 63, president of the Reedsburg State Bank, was fatally injured in a freak night accident on Highways 12 13, five miles east of Sauk City. He had stepped from his car to inspect a flat tire when struck by another vehicle.
Sharer a sophomore was elected secretary of the Mu chapter Tau Kappa Epsilon. Stephens a junior will serve as vice president and athletic chairman for Wisconsin Gamma chapter Sigma Phi Epsilon. Both are national social fraternities at the college.
Gorden Wahler of 1709 16th avenue reported his car damaged on a left fender shortly after 1 a.m. by an unidentified car traveling south on 16th avenue. Wahler, at the A and P food store, heard the noise and investigated. Police have several clues about the speeding vehicle.
The article notes a 50 bed expansion and higher service costs at St. Clare with total project costs around 1 million dollars, more than double the original build 12 years earlier. Staff rose from 58 in 1939 and daily costs per patient reached 14.95 dollars, well above the 1954 national average of 21.76. major gifts from Emery A. and Amelia B. Odell and Ford Foundation cannot cover operating deficits, prompting room-rate hikes from 6 to 16.50 dollars daily.
London newspapers speculated that a missing British frogman may have been captured by Russian sailors while allegedly spying underwater on the cruiser that brought him to the area. The reports reflected wartime tension and doubt over the diver’s fate and location.
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev tour London while an unnamed Royal Navy officer suggests diver Commander Lionel Crabb may have been a prisoner on the Ordzhonikidze last week. Crabb, 49, vanished after the cruiser docked in Portsmouth. the Admiralty says he is missing and presumed drowned during a secret underwater test but body unrecovered.
Wallace M. Hughes of New York, assistant general manager of Hearst Advertising Service, was announced Thursday night as the new publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel. The announcement was made by the paper’s leadership.
Harold G. Kern, general manager, announces Hughes succeeds Robert C. Bassett as Sentinel publisher. Bassett resigns to become vice president for labor relations and community affairs at Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. Milwaukee. Bassett had been Sentinel publisher since 1954 and prior served as Hearst labor counsel.
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