Daily Record: Fair and cool tonight with frost likely
Daily Record reports a fair and cool night with frost likely. Saturday will be partly cloudy and warmer with temperatures rising, bringing milder conditions.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1948
Page
8
Daily Record reports a fair and cool night with frost likely. Saturday will be partly cloudy and warmer with temperatures rising, bringing milder conditions.
Arnold Kehrli transfers lot 6 block 1 original plat village of New Glarus to Arnold W. Kebrli. Francis L. Atkinson deeds 4 acres more or less to D. J. Pryce in Albany township. Kenneth L. Knapp transfers village of Albany property former C. H. Knapp residence to Harry R. Thurman.
Charles A. Schepp of Madison faces a $15 fine plus costs for an overload charge. He was ordered to increase his license fee and pay tax. Justice L A Koenig presided as the Schepp food truck was checked in Monticello yesterday by state highway police.
Deaths Marcus Anderson Davis 87 of 910 18th avenue Freeman Fossum 69 of Brodhead Mrs Fannie Poughkeepsie N Y Births Mr and Mrs Ralph J Alder man New Glarus daughter May 7 Mr and Mrs Willard Ander son 514 19th avenue daughter May 6
The St Clair Hospital lists surgeries including tonsillectomies and general procedures for patients such as Mrs Willis Duerst Mrs Kenneth Clark George Watkins and Mrs Betty Farrell among others. Dismissals include Mrs Emma Holtshopple David Milne Mil dred Asmus Gary Rufenacht and several others.
Mrs. Pauline Morris Oak Park, Mr. and Mrs. Ruth Rosenberg New York visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tielkemeier weekend. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Beightol dined with daughter Mrs. Ed Weber Milwaukee Sunday. David Hayman and children Milwaukee with Mrs. Thomas McMillan guests of Floyd Chambers. Oscar Walters visited Jennie Huffman Friday. John Chambers Monroe guests of John Chambers. Frank Duckow Rock City visited P. J. Reed home Sunday. John Emrick visited relatives in Footville Sunday. Veryl Boyer and sons Orangeville visited Alvin Camron home Sunday.
Argyle students staged a two day protest over disciplinary rules causing a walkout from Argyle High School. About half of 130 students walked out last Friday with most returning by Tuesday. Parents and board members met informally to hear public opinion on the dispute and the school administration. Classes were halted yesterday and today for the district music tournament.
The article recalls how President Truman delegated railroad control to DDT two years earlier during a strike by Johnston locomotive engineers and A Whitney's brotherhood. Whitney and other braches won 15 cent raises while three key operating unions push for a 30 percent wage hike and rule changes. Truman hints at a repeat draft threat, saying “Let’s wait and see.”
Otto H. Rupnow, local secretary of the U S civil service commission, announced exams for substitute clerks and carriers at Monroe post office. Basic pay is $1.04 an hour with annual increases. Limited to local post office patrons and temporary workers. Applications due with the regional director in Chicago by June 4.
The expenditures committee gave unanimous approval to nominating Jess Larson of Oklahoma as war assets administrator. The panel also recommended the Senate confirm Paul L. Mather, retired rear admiral, as associate war administrator. Milwaukee speaker Franklin D. Richards, FHA commissioner, will address a Madison builders conference May 26.
Personal mentions list numerous Madison and area visitors and shoppers including Mrs Ida Strahm Monticel, Fred Blum Monticello, Miss Bessie Johnson South Wayne, Miss Susan Hamilton New Glarus, chrysanthemum plants at The Klassy Shop, Misses Joyce Foster and Joyce Ott Madison visitors, LaVerne Deal and Mrs Archie Myers in Madison, Casper Schmidt Dodgeville visiting, Miss Rouletta Speich and Mary Hogan Madison visitors, Mrs Sally Moore and Mrs Glenn Holder Orfordville, Mrs Margaret Vogel guest of her sister Buholzer, Mrs Thomas Richards and daughter Sandra Argyle Brodhead in Monroe, Mrs Shirl Bower guest of Mrs Bessie Krueger in Brodhead, bake sale at Wisconsin Power and Light office by Bethel Evangelical U B ladies aid, Mrs Louella Brace visiting her mother Mrs Alma Olson and daughter Norabelle in Brodhead, Miss Lorrine Olson visiting Wisconsin Dells, Monroe visitors Mrs Dell Ludlow and Mrs Nathan Burgy and children Mary and Peter in Madison, Mrs Ole Hovde Woodford en route to St Paul, Monroe Woman's Club spring event at St John's church May 12, $1.35 per plate, reservations by Saturday, Jean Schock and family visiting hospital patient Norman Schock at St. Clare yesterday.
American Legion and auxiliary will meet in the Legion Memorial hall May 13 at 8 p m. Otto W Lund is reported in very good condition after a heart attack at St Clare Hospital. Kenneth R Marsh 26 of Brodhead is improving at St Clare after burns from brush burning. Mrs D J Garrett and daughter Susan leave for San Francisco en route to Honolulu to join Lt D J Garrett a Coast Guard pilot with USS General Mitchell due to sail May 12.
Wisconsin courts in 1947 sent fines totaling 72 232 dollars to the state treasurer for deposit in the school fund. The conservation department reported the money is required by state law to go to the school fund.
Ernst J. Hoesly died Wednesday at his New Glarus home aged 62. A funeral at the Swiss Evangelical and Reformed church was led by Rev. W. J. Stuckey with burial in the church cemetery. County officials and Green county board members joined friends at services, reflecting his 27 years on the board. Bank representatives from Monroe attended including Roy F. Burmeister, Emery A. Odefi, Roscoe Smith, and Dr. C. W. Bennett.
The U S army transport C C Bailey docked in Trieste with replacements for U S forces in the free territory. Army authorities declined to provide figures on new arrivals or on how many soldiers will return to the United States on the ship.
The Illinois Commerce Commission announced a May 12 hearing in Chicago on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee railway petition to transfer its bus operations to a subsidiary, the Waukegan North Chicago Transit Company.
The Roy Murphy farm home and 166 acres of land, among Iowa's first horseless farms, sold for about $70,550 or $425 per acre. Built circa 1915 by J. E. Deems, wartime Iowa food administrator, the property changes hands as match users today receive free about two of every five matches consumed.
Railroads brace for a nationwide walkout by engineers, firemen and switchmen affecting 190000 workers. Carriers issue embargo notices, alert nonstriking staff of possible layoffs, and warn passengers of travel risks as plans call for trains and services to halt. Some lines may use supervisors to run limited service. Major carriers like Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio announce full layoff if strike takes effect. New York Central and Erie say they would not run trains if the strike occurs.
German postwar rail security relies on searchlights to deter and flush bandits. Mail trains from Bremen Hamburg to Berlin are lit at stops and slow stretches to expose thieves who prey on parcels mailed to U S and British residents. Bandit gangs were caught between Helmstedt and Magdeburg and at Treptow station after lights were flashed.
Monroe High School will send four players to the seventh annual Southern 10 tennis meet at Madison West High School on Saturday starting at 9 30 AM. Coach Lee Mitchell’s squad features Ernie Vogler and Dick Kundert in singles with Alvin Feldt and a doubles partner to be decided between Bob Ableman or Don Timmons. Vogler is the defending singles champion and Kundert was last year’s runner up.
Washington reports a move to repeal the embargo on shipping tobacco seed abroad linked to the ongoing margarine tax dispute. Representative Murray asserts the bill aimed to boost European export of American tobacco with Marshall Plan funds cited as motivation, while August Andre sen and Murray deny connection to the oleo battle.
Mary went to Milwaukee this afternoon to attend a meeting of state delegates to the national democratic convention. Mrs. Marty, national committeewoman for seven and a half years, is not a candidate for re election. She will complete her term at the national convention. Max I. Armstrong, Albany, democratic chairman of Green county, will be unable to attend.
South Korean political leaders Kimm Kiu Sie and another figure urged followers to boycott the United Nations sponsored election set for Monday. In a radio interview Kimm said he would not worry about possible terrorist disruption as a step toward self government for the south.
Winston Churchill urged a 22 nation forum to push governments to create a European assembly as the first step toward a Europe united in voice. He described a three region world organization with a Soviet, a Council of Europe, and a western hemisphere, stressing the need for Soviet aid to lift fears of war. A resolution seeks a European deliberative assembly to exchange views and form a common European position.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a May 12 election at the Caterpillar Tractor Co. plant in Peoria to determine union representation. The CIO Farm Equipment Workers Union, which led the strike on April 8, was barred from the ballot for failing to file non communist oaths under Taft Hartley. Unions listed include UAW CIO, UAW AFL and IAM.
Browntown residents share Sunday visits and travels as families gather for meals and outings. Rae Campbell and Monroe attend at Oscar Nybroten’s home while Herbert Rockow and family visit friends James Perdue, Tarry Ellingson, Sonya Ellingson in Friendship. Others include Ransom Kiester, Delavan, Sterman Sawyer, Sylvia Whitehead, Charles Pittsley and Bob in Freeport visiting Lee Whitehead. Ervin Soddy visits his hospitalized wife at St. Clare. Lyman Pitkins and Greta visit John Williams and sons. Whitehead improving after illness.
In svuernberg Germany Prof Hugo Plaschke states a Russian custody claim on Hitler's jaw based on a dentistry article. He cites his 1934 bridge work and says a single look would confirm if the jaw remains Hitler's, noting his former assistant Katharine Heusermann's partial identification via X rays.
Five Czechs fled their homeland in an airliner at pistol point landing them in Germany. Two refugees were young women. Czech vice consul Yiri Benes linked the event to a trainer crash on a highway near Ingolstadt by a man fleeing his country. Since February three Czech planes have landed in the U S zone with refugees. The group said forced party membership or job loss spurred their escape.
A 55-year-old housewife, Emma Boettcher, was electrocuted in her Oak Creek home while scrubbing the basement floor with a wet extension cord. The county medical examiner’s office said the cord likely short-circuited.
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