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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1963
Page
7
Students, parents, advisers and officials will attend a Tuneful Oklahoma event in the M room with William S. Johnson of Wisconsin Power and Light Co. as principal speaker. Attendance includes Sherry Ott and other local families and staff.
Riot control troops began arriving in Birmingham amid fresh tensions as President Kennedy planned a visit to Alabama. Curfew areas eased, traffic normalized, but violence lingered with injuries reported and federal plans to deploy across Maxwell Air Force Base and Ft. McClellan.
The 20 top scholars of Monroe High School’s 1963 graduating class will be honored May 23 in Monroe. First National Bank sponsors the event with permanent awards. Speakers include Rev. Frank Hinebaugh and music by the Staccatos.
Seven people were injured in weekend traffic and tractor accidents with three still hospitalized. Patients include Robert Wahl 8 of Route 4 and Mrs Genevieve Stephenson 59 of Brodhead and David K Thompson 27 of Monroe.
Mary Lou Lawrence 26 an aerialist in Madison hospitalized since February 15 after a 35 foot fall at the Dane County Arena. She has returned home to Crown Point Indiana and says she is eager to begin practicing again to resume her trapeze act.
Monroe residents are urged to welcome 100 Monroe Lions Club volunteers who will canvass homes from 5 20 pm distributing over 1000 bags of eight bulbs each containing four 60 watt and four 100 watt bulbs. Proceeds aid the Lions aid to the blind program. Bags may be exchanged for 25 40 or 75 watt bulbs at Bahr's Variety Store without charge.
William D. Stauffacher 71 a native of Dutch Hollow and Browntown resident for 25 years died at 10 a.m. yesterday after a long illness. He was born October 1 1891 and married June 11 1945 in Monroe to Bessie Brecklin Haefty. He leaves a wife three sons six daughters and eight grandchildren with a sister and stepchildren. Services will be 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Peace church Browntown with burial in Greenwood Cemetery Monroe. Friends may call at the Shriner Neushwander funeral home until 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The Soviet Union declared five American and five British diplomats unwelcome and expelled most after accusing them of spying connected to Oleg Penkovsky and Greville Wynne. Attache Hugh Montgomery remains on home leave. other named Americans include William C. Jones Alexis H. Davison Rodney Carlson and Richard Jacob.
New York stocks mixed as tobaccos and select issues advance in a late afternoon session. Trading was moderately active with about 5 million shares traded, slightly below Friday’s 5.26 million turnover. Most key stocks moved only fractional amounts.
Weather threats loomed as heavy clouds over Cape Canaveral could block camera coverage for the Atlas launch planned between 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. Monroe time. Cooper prepared in trainer sessions and awaited a final mission review with officials.
The junior high chorus will perform in the auditorium with a real Surrey prop provided by Richard Saunders for The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. The program includes Oklahoma Oh What a Beautiful Mornin Pure Justice Dead People Will Say Were in Love and All er Nothin directed by Thomas Norager with Susan Goetz as assistant.
Isaac Daehlin Mricken 62 of 619 21st avenue died at 6 a.m yesterday in St. Clare hospital where he had been a medical patient since April 26. He was born in Woodford December 2, 1900, married Frieda Pfister December 1, 1922 in Rockford, and lived in Freeport before farming in 1932. Survived by his wife, a son John and daughter MFSAlvin Jean Goepfert, a Beloit brother Alfred. Burial in Greenwood cemetery after visitation at Stuessy funeral home with Rev. Paul H. Olm officiating.
The Wisconsin Council of Churches reports its directors voted to back a statewide 21 age for beer purchases before the 1963 Legislature citing traffic accidents and youth protection. The group also opposed Senate bingo legalization and reaffirmed support for private and parochial schooling.
The Monroe Police Department reported reaching 10 000 complaints since starting the current record system on January 1 1958. The milestone came after a 65 month period of recording complaints.
Madison Martin W. Hanson 36 of Mellen, a noted outdoorsman and bow hunter, was named to the State Conservation Commission by Gov. John W. Reynolds. The governor announced the appointment at a news conference, to replace Charles F. Smith Sr. of Wausau whose term expires July 27.
The first annual Green County Barbershop Chorus Spring Concert drew a near capacity audience at the junior high auditorium. Performers included the Four Clips from Green Bay and groups such as the Down Beats and the Badg-Aires of Madison. The event featured costumes from swimsuits to formal wear, encores, and an After-Glow with additional quartets. The program closed with the SPEBSQSA theme song Let’s Keep America Singing and honors for organizers and participants.
The first American Shetland Pony Club forum and judges school in the United States drew strong attendance at the fair grounds along with a pony farm sale. Col Maurice Conrad and Col Don Teasdale led the sale with ponies from five top farms including Dor Lin J M Stofer Reedsburg Matt Britten Marshfield Silver Stone Farm Sheboygan Falls Russell Gray Lodi and Halbrook Farms Stable Monroe. Roy Sellow of Brown Town bought a registered three year old chestnut stallion from Silver Stone Farms.
Cheddar market steady with fair demand and ample supplies. Prices show 40 pound blocks at 35 to 36 percent, single daisies at 37 to 38 percent, longhorns at 37 to 39, and midgets at 37 to 38 percent with overall ample availability.
Darlington board members including president Ervin Johnson face subpoenas from Lafayette County law enforcement as a legal action looms over a May 28 referendum on a 1.2 million high school bond. The Citizens Committee opposes the bond argues a 30 class addition could cost 60 thousand.
East German border guards fired at a bus trying to breach the Berlin wall, wounding a woman and three men and killing the driver. The remaining passengers, aged 20 to 30, were led away at gunpoint.
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro arrived by train today at Bratsk in Siberia to visit the site of a large hydroelectric project.
The Associated Press notes Wisconsin highway fatalities rise with at least 13 deaths over the weekend, lifting the 1963 toll to 239. Victims include James F. Van Roo, 47, near Tomah on U S 12, and several others in crashes across Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Ozaukee, and Juneau counties.
More than 1,500 attended the 8th annual Antique Show and Sale sponsored by Monroe Kiwanis club at Turner hall Friday through Sunday. Proceeds go to the Kiwanis Youth Cabin and Scout Chalet funds. Wesley Dodge said plans are underway for next year. Eighty percent came from out of town including Chicago Indiana Minnesota and Waterloo Iowa. Dealers were "more than happy" with attendance and business.
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