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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1964
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates for Monroe and outside Wisconsin and Illinois, with annual prices in advance. It also provides office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and a contact telephone number 325 5101.
Editorial relays James Marlow’s AP commentary praising Harry S. Truman on turning 80. It notes historians’ high regard, his steadfast decisions, and leadership during postwar crises from 1945 onward, including the atomic decision, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin airlift, and Cold War challenges.
Ten years ago Sandra Swanson of Searles School won first place in the Rural Youth Conservation poster contest with Sharon Weidman of Juda State Graded School second. Miss Almeda Leighton, 69, Rockford, a Monroe resident and poet, dies. The Supreme Court readies to hear Baby Jeffrey adoption case in Madison as the State Welfare Department opposes the couple. The House approves Seaway legislation ending a twenty year fight to authorize US ports with Canada.
The remarks praise Truman for his Korea decision and for policies combating communism. He endured abuse from critics like Senator McCarthy while his foreign policy from 1947 onward shaped later presidencies. Truman cites his 1948 reelection as a high White House moment.
The Defense Department said there is no information indicating any change in the characteristics of ground to air missiles in Cuba. Arthur Sylvester said reports of a Soviet pullout are not supported by official briefing.
Services for William Kleckler 17 months old son of Mr and Mrs Roland Kleckler were held at 2 p m today at Leamon Funeral Home. Burial followed in Chapel Hill Cemetery Freeport. He died Monday night at home after a long illness. Surviving are his parents a sister Patti and grandparents Mrs Hazel Kramer of Orangeville and Mr and Mrs Byron Klieckler of Orangeville.
Platteville State College launches its first full graduate program for a master's degree with 29 courses in a summer session from June 8 to July 31. Programs cover professional education liberal arts and specializations including agriculture elementary education language literature mathematics science history social studies music and industrial arts. Admission relies on the applicant’s undergraduate record and graduate coursework requires 30 graduate credits a minimum B average and passing exams as required by the Graduate Council. Dr Leonard Garside directs graduate studies.
Britain orders additional troops to Aden to reinforce its base and guard British oil investments in the Middle East amid planned stronger action.
Glenn Stella, a former high school dropout from Carthage Ill, will graduate with a business degree from Carthage College on June 1. He runs two businesses, has a wife and six children, and heads a new local political group while planning a move of Carthage College to Kenosha. Stella's path followed GI Bill aid and self motivation, balancing work and studies with a nine hour course load to finish college.
The upturn reaches 39 months with little signs of weakening. McGraw Hill reports planned 1964 business spending at 44 billion, up 12 percent from 1963. First National City Bank notes confidence improved by profits trend and a peaceful railway labor settlement. GNP at 608.5 billion for the quarter, with consumer spending driving most of the rise.
Pulitzer Prizes announced this week name four winners in letters across history biography general nonfiction and poetry. Sumner Chilton Powell wins for Puritan Village with ten years of source research in Sudbury and Marlboro Massachusetts and English villages. Walter Jackson Bate earns for John Keats as Harvard English Department chair. Richard Hofstadter receives for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Columbia history professor’s work already a 1956 prize winner for The Age of Reform. Louis Simpson, Jamaica native and UC Berkeley English assistant professor, wins for At the End of the Open Road. he once worked as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune.
San Francisco city supervisor George Moscone proposed the city fund overnight staffing at the Rincon Annex postoffice for a month. The plan aims to keep the branch open until midnight on weekdays as a temporary aid while the federal government resolves its financial problems.
Madison Wisconsin special report notes that all counties cities villages and towns receive 19 834 893 in supplemental highway aids from the State Highway Commission. Green County gets 67276 88 prepaid while Brodhead Monroe Albany Belleville Brooklyn Browntown Monticello New Glarus and 16 towns share 122 590 54. Final 1964 aid payments follow later in the year with two more major allotments totaling over 40 million in highway funds.
Beverly Hilton Hotels Corp sues actor Peter Lawford and Chrislaw Productions Inc for 6762.42 as the balance of a 9011 bill for lodgings and services from August 1962 to November 1963. Defendants include Lawford, Chrislaw Productions Inc, and five John Does. Lawford is married to Patricia Kennedy sister of the late President John F. Kennedy.
A Wisconsin driver, Robert C. Kathlow, 26, of Franksville, died after a rear end collision involving two semi trailers on a pressway near the Lake Cook Edens Ex County line.
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