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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1968
Page
1
The Poor People's Campaign begins erecting a tent city housing about 3,000 demonstrators in Washington with the first 450 arriving over the weekend. Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. led Sunday's march as the campaign seeks more federal aid for the poor.
Colleen Naomi Kortemeier, a first child to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Kortemeier of McConnell Illinois, arrived at 5 22 a m on Sunday May 12 the hospital's sole birth. Her mother Susan Adams shares the May Day birthday a rare coincidence.
The High School Chorus will be directed by Joan Kane a senior at Wisconsin State University Platteville. They rehearse eighteen members who are mostly freshmen and will sing pieces from Elijah Mendelssohn Brahms Schumann and Malin plus selections from The Fantasticks in the Spring Choral Concert May 16 in the Junior High Auditorium.
Valley District Boy Scouts held a pioneering camporee at Zander's Lake with modern trailer campers from B and B Camping Service. 140 boys, 20 leaders, and ten families attended across multiple troops. Flaming Arrow Troop 101 won first, Bob Cats Troop 29 second, Flaming Arrows Troop 129 third, Hawk Patrol Troop 115 fourth.
Assemblyman Paul R. Alfonsi of Minocqua, Corsican native and ninth session Wisconsin lawmaker, will be the featured speaker at the Green County Republican Women's Club luncheon Thursday May 16 at The Harris House Brodhead. Reservations with Mrs Eileen Wagner due by Tuesday evening. luncheon price two dollars with serving at noon.
Nine traffic incidents were logged by law enforcement this weekend across six county and three city areas. Notable crashes include a Belleville two car collision injuring Judy Rufener, 17, and damage to Kenneth Chrysler and John Baumgarner’s vehicles on Highway 92 in Dayton.
St Clare Hospital will host an open house on Wednesday May 15 in observance of National Hospital Week. The St Clare Auxiliary will guide tours showing hospital operations from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
The Lions Club Light Bulb Sale will be conducted this evening. Members remind residents that if the regular package bulbs are unsatisfactory they may be exchanged at Bahr's Variety Store.
The doctor prescribes five days in bed yet the poet resists rest on laurels pace not the floor My laurels are getting mighty sore and the verse keeps rolling with a stubborn wink from Clair R. Munns.
In the first substantive Vietnam talks in Paris, Ambassador Harriman accused North Vietnam of moving increasing troops and supplies into the South and urged Hanoi to take steps toward peace. The North rejected the U S position, claiming aggression and noting U S bombing and reconnaissance flights continue.
Neighbors of Merlyn J Babler Route 1 Juda helped plant corn at the Babler farm on May 8. Babler has been a Pinehurst Sanitarium patient since February 7. His sons Gary and Dale 14 and 12 share farm tasks and schooling as others help.
Patricia McKeon, 20, rural Darlington and Platteville State University junior, named District 1 winner in the Alice in Dairyland contest held Saturday in Darlington. She previously earned Miss Wisconsin Farm Bureau in 1966, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McKeon. Other district finalists named by the State Agriculture Department include Diane Barnhorst District 6 New Lisbon Peggy Sousek District 8 Algona, Judy Westerlund District 10 Augusta, Susan Wutke District 12 Peshtigo, and Linda K. Lee District 9 Ellsworth.
About 20 000 Army Navy Air Force and National Guard reservists begin active duty amid Paris talks. Up to two years service possible with timing tied to U S Vietnam negotiations. Pentagon notes 24 500 ordered to active duty with 10 000 to Vietnam and the rest domestically. Nearly 20 000 report today in 34 states.
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