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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1950
Page
2
The notice lists Sia and Stephenson County Tih at $8 per year with all subscriptions requiring advance payment to comply with postal regulations. Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and telephone contact is provided.
An editorial column highlights farmers' complaints about city residents abandoning stray and ill dogs and dumping garbage on roadsides. Letters argue disposal aims to dodge city service fees, with some farmers admitting they may transport debris to rural rights of way. Authorities should enforce penalties for health hazard littering.
The terse Russian claim that millions of Germans taken to the Soviet Union as prisoners of war have been repatriated draws German protests. If true, what of 1,500,000 Germans listed as missing since the war? Some may be dead, others in slave labor camps or dispersed across Soviet territories, raising questions about postwar humanity and the fate of civilians.
Preliminary hearing set for two men accused of stealing half a ton of cheese from Saxon creamery. Milton Haney, 32, Hurley, charged with breaking and entering. Mary Gray of Mercer charged with buying and receiving stolen property. Both arraigned Friday before County Judge Trembath and released under $1,000 bond. Gray allegedly bought 1000 pounds of cheese stolen last Tuesday from Saxony creamery.
An armed services medical board report released yesterday states numerous tests found no evidence that current antihistamine compounds prevent or cure colds. The U S bureau of land management oversees 125 000 000 acres of forested public land in Alaska.
Ten years ago Monroe Little Theater announced its first May presentation in the new high school auditorium. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest staged May 6 1940 starring Mrs Dewey Clark Cadiz native. Other notes include local deaths and events such as Henry Haugen 60 dying in Blanchardville and a golden wedding observed by Mr and Mrs Join G Duerst Jr. in New arts.
The writer recalls Teddy, one of three grandsons, visiting Washington with awe for the White House, Truman era relics, Lincoln memorial, and the Washington trolley. Teddy treasures a Truman remingtons display, a red “Swiped from Harry S Truman” pad, and the ride atop the Washington monument. He notes the trolley cars charm a child more than embassies and reflects on changing times and attitudes.
In Green Bay a jury acquitted Bernard Darling on two counts of negligent homicide in the Halloween night death of 15 year old Shirley Mae Trout near Allouez. After about eight hours of deliberation, the court allowed a lesser verdict on one count related to possible liquor influence and speeding. Darling had admitted consuming alcohol before the incident.
T C Johnson has returned to his summer home at South Wayne after wintering in Chicago. Mr and Mrs William Hale and family will move from the Glen Meier farm to the Sargent house west of the village. East Viota Lutheran church aid meeting was attended by several. James T J Lacey and Ethel Olson of South Wayne and Clark Smith of Madison returned from Boston with Dr and Mrs Caruolo. Mrs Clara Menehan of Waupaca, sister of Mrs H T Maddrell, is a surgical patient at Wisconsin General hospital in Madison.
Albany report says the freshman civics class collected 130.50 dollars for the cancer fund drive. Local fund chairman Mrs Emma Rech Steiner announced the total today.
John Cooper, 22, of South Milwaukee, died Friday night when his car failed to control on a road a mile and a half north of Husher. It left the ditch and struck a tree, ending his life. Police investigated the fatal crash.
Trygve Lie, U N secretary general, travels to Moscow to pursue peace on a universal U N basis. Moscow relations with Stalin and Molotov surface, while Western diplomats doubt major breakthroughs. observers say groundwork for future peace may emerge, despite Moscow's long running plan to extend communism.
The American Medical Association council notes 16,559,973 hospital admissions in 1949, up 237,199 from 1948, with 2,820,791 live births in hospitals, and 6,572 registered hospitals nationwide. Bed capacity rose to 1,439,030 as daily patient load hit a record 675,096.
Field Marshal Friedr ich von Paulus’s daughter Frau Olga von Katschenenbach said a postcard from him dated April 17 reports he remains a prisoner in camp No 7027 near Moscow. Tass had said all German war prisoners were returned. A naturalist later estimated over one billion passenger pigeons near Louisville in 1813.
A farm tale follows Sammy as he climbs a hill daily to watch clouds and dream of distant lands. An errand run ends in rain and a soggy cake, shaping the boy into a captain of his imagined ship amid a muddy, weather washed return home.
Script discussion in Monroe Clinic with Nat Bear and Sig Olson outlined a color film on Green county Swiss settlement and cheese industry. Green county publicity group sponsors the project with organizers Halliday and local figures planning a late spring shoot and a 1951 release.
Mrs Joseph Ruppert of Fayette and Mrs Robert Keough of Little Springs were elected president and vice president of Lafayette county homemakers council at an assembly of homemaker presidents and secretaries. County rally day for all clubs is June 6 at Darlington high school. Attending from South Wayne were Mrs Lloyd Retzlaff, Mrs Merlyn Chapman, William Hexum, Robert Homb, Ralph Miller, Wallace Schaber and Richard Binns.
Elizabeth Bentley, once linked to a Soviet spy ring, resigned as a teacher at Mundelein College Chicago amid a loyalty probe into William W. Remington. School officials said Bentley requested release from her contract, stating she could no longer remain in Chicago.
Green County school committee and Rock County committee plan a joint meeting Monday evening in Janesville to discuss joint county school districts and related arrangements.
Larry Robert Schwartz of 937 1 2th street May 15 1949 Gene David Baumgartner Belleville May 5 1949 Kathleen Jo Wells Brownown April 30 1949 Pauline Rosa Beer route 5 May 30 1949 Debra Kathleen Saxer route 2 Monticello May 7 1949 Duane Melvin Foley route 1 Woodford May 24 1949
The village board approved building an outdoor sub station to house switching gear and Wisconsin Power and Light transformers in the southeast village park. The 69 by 34 foot site will be fenced with a six foot barbed wire perimeter. The board also approved paying transport and meal costs for the New Glarus high school band for Cheese day in Monroe on Sept 9. Henry W. Heft was named to the light and water commission, replacing his brother Peter, now in Florida.
The Monticello American Legion auxiliary selects Ruth Gempeler for Girls State, noting she is a high school junior active in band chorus and church work. Ruth is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gempeler. Richard Hefty will attend Badger Boys State at Ripon, sponsored by the Amstutz Marty post.
A boy, drenched by rain, is sheltered by his mother who offers dry clothes and hot chocolate. Seated by the stove, he muses that he would rather be Sammy than any Indian fighter, explorer, or sea captain in the world.
Planned city kindergarten registration is set for May 16 from 2 30 to 3 30 p m in the high school auditorium. City teachers Miss Ann Marly and Mrs Glen Langston will discuss the child’s first days, with school nurse Miss Genevieve Arensdorf speaking on health in relation to school and the preschool health examination on May 23.
Miss Bessie Hulburt of Oak Park Illinois arrives to care for Mrs John Wood, continuing Albany connections. Mrs Jane Flint returns to Wisconsin Dells to oversee her son in law A T Riese and granddaughter Jean while Mrs Riese seeks treatment in Vallejo California. Mrs Riese formerly Wilma Flint is said to be improved since March 1.
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