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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1950
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices by carrier type in Monroe and nearby counties, with Wisconsin Stephenson and Steubenville county rates, and a higher outside rate. It notes advance payment is required to meet postal regulations and provides business hours and a phone number.
The Better Choice committee proposes a restrained peacetime extension of the law with limits on its scope. The plan delays peacetime inductions until emergency declared, stalls mobilization powers until Congress acts, allows active duty of reserves after emergency, and lets under 19s decline service with parental choice. Public reception may improve with these safeguards.
The Chrysler strike ends with union leader Walter Reuther praising the victory over perceived corporate selfishness while the company’s negotiator says the new contract should improve plant operations and that many benefits could have been settled at the table without lost pay. Both sides warn against diminished cordial relations.
Lightning hit a street car early today injuring 23 passengers with three in serious condition. Twenty passengers were treated at hospitals and released.
The commerce department reported 2,145,055 persons employed nationwide for the census in March. The figure comes from the joint committee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures as of today.
Thirteen entries recall events from 19 to 50 years ago on May 5. 1940 parades and a music festival finale, mourners at Clair Mitchell’s funeral, Archie S Myers honored on a booster trip. 1925 city street work and fuel changes, 1910 train collision near Juda, 1900 frost doubts and rain impact, and other local notes on civic work, births, deaths, and community happenings.
The National Milk Producers Federation criticizes the government’s 4 billion dollar farm price support plan as creating lazy salesmen among farmers and processors. It proposes shifting buying selling and storing to farmers cooperatives and private processors with commodity boards setting price stabilizing schemes funded by equalization fees on each sale. The plan aims to curb overproduction by tying fees to surplus size and directing surpluses to low price uses or export markets, while current supports remain more uniform regardless of surplus.
Milwaukee Wisconsin 7200 telephone company workers began voting on a wage settlement with Wisconsin Telephone Co The vote is at home stations with traffic and plant department workers voting on separate agreements The contract announced Wednesday is among the first Bell system settlements though it does not guarantee general wage increases and may yield varying boosts.
Washington officials reveal upgrading late model jet interceptors with automatic devices to track enemy bombers in night skies or bad weather, shoot them down, and bring the pilot home. The robot family is installed to counter high speed bombers and atomic weapons threats.
Labor's house of commons majority rose to six after a close victory in a nearby special election. The result tightens the tally for the ruling party in a closely watched national contest.
Paul G. Hoffman, Marshall Plan administrator, told the United States chamber of commerce in Washington that the Soviet satellites are cracking under growing tensions. He warned upheavals could occur suddenly as Western Europe regains strength, while state department experts differ on timing and likelihood.
The Mills Pep club met at Mills School with two new members enrolling Dick and Mary Tane Notter. Movies were shown by M. E. Jeglum county agricultural agent. The next meeting is set for May 15 at the school.
The Juda 4H club of 53 members with 12 present will lead the morning service on 4-H Sunday at the Evangelical United Brethren church. Activities included safety rule roll call, group singing led by Janet Arnsmeier, piano by Esther Larson, and a saxophone solo by Joan Hazeltine. Refreshments served to 35 members, five leaders, and three visitors by Hazeltines and others.
Kenosha residents Benjamin Ehert and Kenneth W. Carr were sentenced to two years in federal prison each for white slavery. Echert's wife Margaret received one year and one day. The trio had been arrested after transporting a 21 year old woman from Omaha to Sioux City on August 17.
Dr Paul Federen, 78, a Freud collaborator and psychiatrist, was found with a self inflicted gunshot at his residence in New York. Police ruled the death a suicide.
Dr. E T Leonard 60 longtime Rockford physician and Hollendale native died last evening at St Anthony Hospital after a three month illness. He practiced medicine in Rockford 33 years and served on St Anthony Hospital staff for 21 years. He played baseball at Marquette and Milwaukee Brewers early in his career before medical training. He married Aug 1 1917 in Seattle and is survived by his widow three sons a daughter his mother and a brother in Hollandale.
King Miahi of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon Par ma announce they are expecting a second child in November through the king's private secretary. The statement was issued here today.
George W. Young 86 a Milwaukee patent attorney and head of Young and Young died at home after months of illness. Born in Waco Texas he moved to Milwaukee in 1885 to build a 60 year career. His firm patented inventions include Evinrude outboard motors Harley and Davidson motorcycles and Allis-Chalmers saw mill machinery.
A four door driven by Nemeu Ar Dell Johnson from Route 3 Argyle smashed into a cement culvert near the M and C intersection in Adams township at 2 30 a m yesterday. Johnson said he fell asleep at the wheel. The left front end was severely damaged and he was knocked unconscious. A motorist found him and took him to Monroe.
The air force announced four secret installations planned in Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa in a radar defense network. Locations include Mason City Iowa East Farmington Wisconsin Elkhorn Wisconsin and an unspecified Minnesota site northeast of Duluth with East Farmington costing about 1 million dollars.
A bus stalled during a heavy rainstorm in Rio de Janeiro caught fire today, killing 12 people and injuring 20 others. Police and fire crews responded quickly to the fatal blaze.
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