Council Asked To Rezone Area At County Shops
The City Council read and referred a petition from the jail and courthouse committee to rezone land at the county highway shops from residential to light industrial to allow a new jail. The area runs from the shops east to city limits, including Walter W. Stauffacher’s signature. The council also heard Monroe Industrial Development Corporation’s request to form a committee to aid in attracting industry, with projects like jet aircraft and GM expansion cited.
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County Board
Planning Commission
Judiciary Committee
17Th Avenue
Lakeshire Marty Co
Walter W. Stauffacher
Leo M. Ties
A. L. Miller
Henry Rebly
Joshua J. Hoesly
Myron I. Stair
Fred Baertschi
John W. Steinmann
Monticello
Monroe Industrial Development Corporation
Harold A. Blumer
Blumer
Madison
General Motors
Janesville
Milton K. Johnson
James W. Kelley
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Robert W. Goetz
M. J. Gonstead
Hugo H. Voe- Ul
Synod Refuses Reinstatement for Brookfield Pastor
The Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America unanimously refused reinstatement to Rev. Victor K Wrigley 35 pastor of Gethsemane church Brookfield following a prior heresy trial and unfr o ckment. The committee after two hours Monday reported he re examined his faith and recommended against reinstatement at this time. If he desires a further review another meeting may be held in January 1957 chaired by Dr A A Zinck Milwaukee.
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We Wauree Ot
Wauiesna County
Northwest Synod
United Lutheran Church In America
Victor K Wrigley
Gethsemane Church
Brookfield
A. A. Zinck
Milwaukee
Wrigley
Jet crash kills dozen nuns at Ottawa convent
A CF100 twin jet struck the Grey Nuns of the Cross three story home near the Ottawa River killing 15, with 8 more missing and presumed dead. Survivors report the building instantly burst into flames. a priest tied to the navy chaplaincy also perished.
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Ottawa
Grey Nuns of the Cross
Marie Edmond
Order
Canada
Montreal
Louise Auguste
Uplands
Richard Ward
Canadian Navy
Ottawa River
Verona Driver Dies in Crash
The Verona crash killed Francis H. Ripp 29 seven miles west of Madison. Two Kimberly girls Deborah Jansen 4 and Linda Van Boxtel 5 died as they walked home from school after Mrs Henry Kilsdonk 52 swerved to avoid them and hit a wall.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Francis H. Ripp
Route 1
Verona
Madison
Middleton Road
Kimberly
Deborah Jansen
Marvin Jansen
Linda van Boxtel
Garius van Boxtel
Quentin Williams
Henry Kilsdonk
Williams
Kilsdonk
Curtice trims auto output forecast lowering sales outlook
General Motors executive Harlow Curtice cut 1956 U S auto sales forecast to 5 8 million units from 6 million projecting the industry would face slower demand. He cited tighter credit by the Federal Reserve and a surge of speculation about revolutionary 1957 models. Curtice noted GM employed 50 000 fewer hourly workers than last June with more layoffs likely this week.
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Meamall
General Motors
Harlow Curtice
Curtice
Federal Reserve Board
Beloit Picket Injury Suit Dismissed by Jury
A Rock County jury at Beloit found Wilford C. Jenkins of Chicago did not prove damages after an auto collision while he picketed the Bessy-Welles Co plant on April 16, 1954. The defendant Roger Leich of Evansville was cleared of negligence. Judge Harry Fox presided.
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Wilford C. Jenkins
Chicago
Bessy-Welles Co
Beloit
Jenkins
Roger Leich
Evansville
Leich
Harry Fox
Catlin Charged with Accepting Money of Convicts for 'Favors'
Hundreds of rural parents and friends filled the high school auditorium to witness 165 eighth graders from 68 state graded and rural schools receive diplomas. Walter B. Senty urged moving ahead in the atomic age and outlined four groups graduates may join. Prizes were awarded to spelling contest winners David Hoesly and Donald Wolters, with dictionaries and plane trips as prizes. The program featured musical numbers by the free club from Green County Teachers College and a processional with accompanist Marjorie Deppeler.
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Walter B. Senty
State Department of Public Instruction
Senty
David Hoesly
New Glarus
Donald Wolters
Decatur School
Irene C. Powers
British explode new atom device in Australia test
Canberra reports Britain detonated an atomic device today in a Monte Bello Islands test off Western Australia. Officials say the blast was successful though details remain scarce and timing aligned with a potential hydrogen bomb trigger test to be conducted later this year.
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Canberra
Briain
Monte Bello Islands
Australia
Howard Beale
Big League Training Baseball School in Monroe July 9 and 10
The Monroe Evening Times and Milwaukee Braves announce a Silver Sluggers baseball school July 9 and 10 here. Braves scouts plan to conduct the local program with staffers and area contacts guiding 16 to 21 year old athletes. One Monroe participant may join the Wisconsin Upper Michigan All stars for the Aug 7 Milwaukee County Stadium game, with further Braves training opportunities in 1957. Sentinel writers will help select two players for the Aug 22 Hearst Junior All star game in New York.
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Monroe
Monroe Evening Times
Milwaukee Braves
Evening Times
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
Silver Sluggers
Milwaukee Sentinel
Braves
Eddie Danvisak
Milwaukee County Stadium
Waycross
Sentinel Sports Writers
New York
Polo Grounds
Eisenhower Edges Kefauver In Nebraska Presidential Primary
Unofficial Nebraska results show President Eisenhower leading Senator Kefauver about 64 to 36 with 76,665 to 41,296 from 1,709 of 2,127 precincts. Write ins for Stevenson and Harriman were negligible and statewide races also saw Gov. Victor Anderson defeating Edwin Hart while Frank Sorrell emerged to challenge Anderson in the fall.
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Omaha
Eisenhower
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Nebraska
Adlai Stevenson
Averell Harriman
Edwin L.hart
Lincoln
Frank Sorrell
Syracuse
Anderson
PTA Election and Revue Concert Tonight at School
The Junior Senior high school PTA holds a meeting this evening to elect and install officers. A Junior Band concert starts at eight, followed by a dress revue by clothing classes at 8 20. Refreshments provided by foods classes. Allan F Barnard directs the band with Mrs Alvin Livingst on and Miss Margaret Fisher as sewing and cooking instructors.
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Kne
PTA
Allan F. Barnard
Alvin Livingston
Margaret Fisher
Illinois Church Adopts Anti Segregation Policy at Convention
St Louis report notes the Illinois Church, the largest Lutheran body in the United States with 2 270 655 members, formally adopted an anti segregation policy at its annual convention.
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ST. Louis
Illinois Synod of the United Lutheran Church
United States
Paul Kehle Named President of Southern Wisconsin Synod
Rev. Paul C. Kehle of St. John’s church was elected the first full‑time president of the Southern Wisconsin Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church at the spring session in Milwaukee. He will take office Aug. 31 for a four‑year term and become a delegate to the National General Synod in Lancaster, Pa. He plans to relocate after giving 90 days notice to his congregation. The meeting also approved building a $187,000 home for the aged at Big Cedar Lake near West Bend.
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St. John’s Church
Paul C. Keble
Southern Wisconsin Synod
The
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Milwaukee
Kehle
National General Synod
Lancaster
Madison
Synod
Wisconsin
Ripon
Elmhurst
Ill
Eden Treatical Seminary
St. Louis
Wisconsin-Upper Michigan
Kiwanis
Benevolent Society of the Church
Big Cedar Lake
West Bend
Monroe Jaycees Elect New Officers at Eugene Hotel
Rev John Purdy heads Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce as president with Dr C G Hennager as first vice president Ronald D Johnson as second vice president William Kuntz as treasurer and Robert Hardell and Bernard McGuinness as directors. Sparkplug awards honor many members including Purdy Hennager and McGuinness. The group will handle publicity for the county Civil Defense program and plan a Jaycees picnic after the Teen Age Road-eo at Recreation Park.
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Joan A. Muray
Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce
Eugene
C. G. Hennager
Ronald D. Johnson
William Kuntz
Robert Hardell
Bernard McGuinness
Sparkplug
H. L. Fenton
Hennager
Samuel F. Humbel
Hardell
Lloyd Holmes
Johnson
Verlin Kenworthy
Lee Kirsch
Kuntz
McGuinness
Norman O. Everson
Larry R. Lindgren
Kenneth Schneider
Jeremy V. Ferries
Robert H. Rieder
Jaycees
Monroe
Recreation Park
Stock Trend Mixed as Auto Sector Drops on Forecasts
The stock market opened higher but turned mixed with small moves overall and a two point swing during the afternoon. Most sectors remained mixed while Automobiles lagged due to forecasts of lower production this year.
Catlin Sr. Dies After Stroke in Parking Lot
Appleton 74 year old Catlin Sr. father of Assembly Speaker Mark Catlin Jr. suffered a fatal heart attack en route to his law office where he shared space with his son. A former assemblyman and Republican, he was a noted athlete and Lawrence College coach with a storied career. Survivors include wife, mother, three sons and a daughter.
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Appleton
Mark Catlin Jr
Assembly
Catlin
State Supreme Court
Wisconsin Bar Association
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Mark
John
Thomas
University of Chicago
Chicago
Michigan
St. Louis
University of Iowa
Lawrence College
Lawrence
Kohler Probed As Assembly Speaker Catlin Charges
Gov Kohler said Edwin M Wilkie investigated allegations against Assembly Speaker Mark Catlin Jr and sent the report to Wisconsin bar commissioners in January The bar has charged Catlin a Republican Senate candidate with taking money from prisoners at Waupun to influence their release Allan C Hobanks reported rumors of the conduct and Kohler spoke after returning from the Pacific where he observed the H bomb test site
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Madison
Kohler
Edwin M. Wilkie
Assembly
Mark Catlin Jr
Wisconsin Bar Commissioners
Bar
State Supreme Court
Catlin
U.S. Senate
Waupun
Allan C. Hobanks
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Service Association
Wilkie
Supreme Court
Pacific
Wisconsin bar accuses Senate hopeful Catlin of taking inmate pay
The Wisconsin State Board of Bar Commissioners accused Republican U S Senate candidate Mark Catlin Jr. of accepting money from prison inmates to aid petitions for clemency and parole. Catlin denied the charges as false as his father, former Olympic star and assemblyman, died of a heart attack. The Supreme Court was given 20 days to respond.
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Madison
Wisconsin State Board of Bar Commissioners
U.S. Senate
Mark Catlin Jr
Catlin
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Supreme Court
State Assembly
Appleton
Waupun State Prison
Frank Fazio
Louis Fazio
Fazio
Kenosha
Bar Commissioner
Bar
Atty
A. J. Hedding
Louis Schuetze Taken by Death
Louis G. Schuetze aged about 18th avenue resident died at 2 50 p m at St Cl after a brief illness he had been a patient there since yesterday born in the old United States House hotel operated by the Schuetze family on the square he worked at the Borden plant and served as a maintenance man in the Monroe public school system services are pending
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Louis G. Sie
18Th Avenue
St. Cl
Mr. Schuetze
United States House
Schuetze
Borden
Monroe
Bad Weather Delays H Bomb Test Aboard USS MT McKinley
Weather worsened off Bikini Atoll causing another postponement of the H bomb blast aboard the USS Mount McKinley. The test, originally slated for Thursday, was delayed to a tentative new date with hours left before the shot time.
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Uss
MT Mckinley
Bikini
U. S
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Joseph C. Dearth
Fourth Ward
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Actionco Council
Sebastian Laeser Jr
Ramond A. Quale
Board of Health
Dearth
Floyd W. Matzke
L. A. Moore
John L. Norton
Bernard Poff
Frank Boeck Sr
Fritos, Inc
U.S. Government
Building Reserve Fund
Charles A. Booth
Alfred Henning Jr
Roy True
True
Deppeler
Marjorie Deppeler
Donald Edwards
Brodead
Victoria Torki
J. L. Neighbours
Harold Dyar
Annie K. Babler
Bernice Baehler
Leona Coplien
Pearl Folkedahl
Robert Hoffman
Edna Zumbrunnen
Werner Blum
Nancy Foley
Lillian Hoffman
Rita Synder
Paul C. Kehle
Paul Kehle
Church Synod
John Purdy
State
Mark Sr
Board of Bar
Louis Schuetze
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