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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1966
Page
2
A humorous reminiscence of a family Mother's Day spoiled by snow and rain. The narrator describes breakfast misfires, a burned bacon breakfast, a gift of a frying pan, and a quiet evening with a movie. The wife hints she’d prefer a fishing trip next year if the trout season is not open.
The New Glarus 4 H Club will meet on May 11 at 8 p m in the grade school gym. Demonstrations and talks will be presented by several members, with refreshments served by the Eldon Hustad Donald Hustad and LaVerne Ostby families.
Classified ads link buyers renters and sellers seeking matches. Advertisers promote goods services and listings to attract potential customers in a local market.
Hal Boyle lists recognizable status symbols of corporate success. He cites wife’s lunch money rise, color TV sets, bank familiarity, occasional overdrafts, office talk about golf, windowed desk, senior VP hostility, public dinners with early tickets, credit for ideas, spouse gossip, martini lunches, PTA solitude, college standing for children, changing friends, monthly pay and direct-mail checks.
Appleton Wisconsin argues the state suffers a brain drain with many Wisconsin trained scientists leaving. The State Department of Resource Development director Paul A Pratt urged attracting growth in resource based and existing industries to keep talent. The Wisconsin Academy honored Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt plus Wallace E Scott and S C Johnson Foundation. John W Thomson was elected president elect of the Wisconsin Academy.
Evanston Illinois Methodist minister Rev Carlton R Young says American hymn writing is depressed as pastors lack time to compose sermons and songs. He notes 180 of 539 selections in the new Methodist hymn book are new, only about 10 percent from this century. Distribution of the hymnal begins July 1.
A casual guide notes that leaders who dress sharply influence staff behavior. It claims wearing bow ties can trigger office boys to imitate, signaling success and signaling a winning presence.
Engineering students at Platteville State University announce the annual Miners Ball on May 12. The May 13–14 open house showcases the moved School of Engineering and the new Centennial Hall with lab demos, computer displays, and a torch relay ending in lighting the large M. Larry Ladd leads music for the Beaux Arts room Ball.
Sealed bids for furnishing labor, tools, equipment and materials to install about 690 feet of 42 inch storm sewer pipe in Monroe Wisconsin are due by 5:00 PM May 31 1966 at City Hall. Plans and specs available at City Clerk and City Engineer offices for a $5 deposit refundable to bona fide bidders.
The Board of Education dismisses remodeling and expansion of the current high school and shifts focus to an entirely new school structure. Sheriff Humbel says he will recruit 129 county men as auxiliary police in case of emergency.
Twenty years ago John L. Lewis urged a 12 day truce to the soft coal strike while Monroe residents were asked to conserve fuel in every way possible to ease gas shortages.
Thirty years ago on May 10 1936 a Chicago woman died when a rock crushed her skull in a hotel room on Michigan Avenue near the loop. Ex convict William Hahan pleads guilty in federal court to a 200000 kidnapping of George Weuerhaeuser.
Forty years ago on May 10 1926 a Chicago gangster yielding to police surrender after a compliance order forfeited a 35000 bond in the International Harvester Co holdup murder inquiry. Browntown firemen respond to Jesse Goodman home fire as Ullom school burned last month.
Fifty years ago today a British destroyer was badly damaged by gunfire in a brief engagement with German warships. The incident occurred amid rising tensions as the two navies clashed in open water.
Sixty years ago on May 10 1906 Green County residents were warned to expect hot air balloons to be released at the Woodman picnic in Freeport while the Sugar River saw plant pike spawn activity. Monroe area mining reports note rich jack and lead being struck near Galena Illinois.
Albany special report says five year old Leigh Atkinson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Delmar Atkinson, was taken to Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She has a hole between the heart’s atria to be repaired and will be hospitalized at least three weeks.
United Nations experts question long range world population projections as a new U.N. booklet by T E Smith notes that 1963 estimates ranged from 5.3 to 6.8 billion by 2000. The report warns against literal reading of long term figures due to uncertainties and data gaps, especially from Communist China.
Buffalo N Y The state has filed rules allowing Black Muslim faith practice in state prisons in response to a federal court order granted April 12. Earlier court rulings had deemed Black Muslimism a bona fide religion with rights equal to other faiths.
Dr. T. D. Luckey of the University of Missouri Medical School warns that a lack of Earth bacteria after extended spaceflight may cause bacterial illness upon return. He suggests bacteria pills to restore balance before reentry, based on studies with guinea pigs and rats.
New York schools will require all fifth graders to take a typing course. Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan stated typing is essential today and the mandate will begin with the new intermediate fifth through eighth grade schools opening in September.
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