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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1961
Page
6
The forecast calls for sunny to fair conditions this afternoon with a little cooler air in the southeast and extreme east. Tonight will be fair and cool with scattered frost. Wednesday brings more clouds and a warmer trend away from Lake Michigan with a chance of light showers southwest.
Since yesterday at 1 p.m. highs reached 64 and lows 40. A year ago today highs were 68 and lows 55. Trace of rain noted. Barometer 30.30 at 1 a.m. and 30.25 at 1 p.m. Warmest spot Presidio Texas at 105 degrees, coldest Devils Lake North Dakota at 23. Sunrise 5:37, sunset 8:16.
Maude Clock transfers an undivided one half interest in E 90 feet of Its 1 and 4, bike 23, Tall man’s Second Add Monroe to Tessa Stearns. Eileen Hughes conveys land in Exe ter Township to Cloyce A Hollis, spanning sections 12 and 11.
Deaths include Alfred Branchi 68 of 626 17th avenue Fred Feutz Sr 77 of 141 22nd avenue Frank G Cook 85 Evansville Louis Bohnhoff 84 Galena Tl Samuel J Klitz 74 Route 1 Rock City Tl Fred H Rech 69 rural Winslow William George Gavigan 77 Freeport Miss Lucy Sample 68 Beloit William Matzke 81 Canova Sd Alfred Lobsiger 56 Route 2 Belleville Tl
List of patients undergoing tonsillectomy at St Clare Hospital including Randall Naef and Orville Mann with addresses in 15th avenue Browntown South Wayne Madison and New Glarus. surgical cases Ellis Puell and Wade Strothman with Evansville Capon and Freeport. dismissals Timothy Babler Edward Clark Malcomb Muenich and two matrons.
In Birmingham Alabama on Sunday a bakery worker Jesse Oliver Faggard thirty signed a statement admitting he answered a Ku Klux Klan call to attend a bus station where integrationists were to gather but he denied hitting anyone. He faces charges of assault with intent to murder and grand larceny.
Services for Warren Chris Croake 70 who died Sunday night will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Sharer funeral home officiated by Rev Bruce Willett of the Methodist church with military burial at Hillcrest cemetery. McDermott Steindorf American Legion Post members will participate. Croake was a World War I veteran with overseas service.
French monitoring station says it picked up voice signals on a band commonly used by Soviet space technicians. Officials speculate the test relates to another space missile launch.
One Webelos award and several pins were presented at a Pack 315 picnic in Lincoln school gym due to bad weather. Webelos graduate Steve Kohlhagen was received into Troop 101 by David Deininger, with den leaders and Cubmaster acknowledging multiple Bear Gold and silver arrows along with one two and three year pins for various scouts. New den mothers were also named.
Hollywood pays final tribute to Gary Cooper at a Requiem Mass outside the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. A crowd of hundreds, police lines, and stars inside hear Msgr. Sullivan and Bishop Manning honor the actor as husband father and man of faith.
Madison Wisconsin The Assembly approved a bill to let the Conservation Commission set a variable quota system for deer party hunting permits in 1963 The measure moves to Governor Nelson The bill would repeal all party permits for 1961 and 1962 After that the commission could designate areas for the $5 permit and decide permit numbers All members of a deer party must be present when issued
Arvid Wesley Holmquist, 40, a Wisconsin salesman turned bandit, pleads guilty in district court to one of 13 robberies and one attempted robbery he admitted, awaiting sentencing.
Mrs Nathalee Shultz spent the weekend in Milwaukee with her daughter and family. Rummage sale at Union Presbyterian church on Saturday May 20 from 9 am to 3 pm. Mr and Mrs Fred Frick Miller will leave for the Hayward area for several weeks. Lloyd Flick of Monroe returned from Nashville and visits in Madison and Milwaukee. Police Chief and Mrs Henry S Hefty returned from a trip through Superior Duluth and Grand Marais. Women of the Moose hold weekly meeting with a white elephant sale Wednesday at 8 pm. Mr and Mrs Robert Inder g a nd and Mrs Alma Starr were Sunday dinner guests at Pearl City, Al. Mr and Mrs E R Blair returned home after visiting their son and his wife in Hinsdale Al over Mother’s Day weekend. Mrs Anna Morgenthaler has returned home after five months in Los Angeles visiting her son Harry Morgenthaler and daughter Virginia Morgenthaler.
The board approved buying a $2,696 grit chamber from Chain Belt Co and hired Bruno Hartman to draft plans. They noted delays in the digester, planned lime treatment to curb odor, and that total grit chamber costs could top $13,000.
Gov Nelson proposes a $50 million program to preserve Wisconsin outdoor resources. A public hearing in the State Assembly chamber on May 24 will consider the measure and gather public input.
The State Department said the South Korea situation is so fluid and unclear that the administration cannot comment at this time. The remark reflects uncertainty amid regional tensions and evolving events. No further details were provided.
Alfred Lobsiger, 56, a farmhand on Rufus Legier’s Montrose Township farm, died of a heart attack yesterday while sowing oats. Unmarried, born in Switzerland, he had lived in Belleville 20 years. Survivors include a half sister and four half brothers. Services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at Becker funeral home, Belleville cemetery burial.
Lucy Sample 68 of Beloit died at 4 30 p m yesterday a patient at the Green County hospital She was born in Mississippi daughter of Mr and Mrs William Sample and moved to Beloit in 1923 Survived by four sisters including Mrs Ivan Martin Mrs Henrietta Boden and Mrs Maggie Kearn Beloit and a brother Funeral arrangements are pending with M J Hanson funeral home Beloit Newcomer funeral home handled the body
The Monroe Swiss Club votes to move its annual picnic to July 9 from June 25 due to Swiss Dairy Festival weekend events. Turner hall hosts the meeting with kitchen chair Mrs. Henry Altmann and assistants Mmes. Ted Altmann John Altmann Anna Brandli Bertha Thomann and Ernest Ammon Sr. involved.
Funeral services for Minnie Blum, 78, of 1203 12th Street, died Saturday after a two year illness at White Haven nursing home. Rev. Paul H. Olm officiated at Shriner Neushwander Funeral Home with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Grandsons Duane, Alvin, Ralph, Richard, Donald Blum and Eldon Walters served as pallbearers.
Thomas Clifford Fritz of Monroe Miami University has been initiated into the Miami chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa. Fritz serves as president of Lambda Chi Alpha, is a member of the men’s Glee Club, and works as a student counselor in a freshmen men’s residence hall.
Kent Roy Meier, son of Roy and his wife of Argyle, was baptized at East Viota Lutheran Church. Sponsors were Raymond Meier and Eugene J. Meier. A dinner at the Roy Meier home followed with paternal and maternal grandparents, relatives, and family members attending.
The Stewart Chapter of DeMolay will hold a fun night at 7 30 p m tomorrow in the Masonic Temple. The event is scheduled to avoid conflicts with final examinations set later this month in the schools.
Mr and Mrs A Richard Nichols Jr of Wauwatosa welcome David Richard as their second child born today. He has a sister Nancy three. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs A Richard Nichols Sr of Oak Park and Mr and Mrs Glenn Stauffacher of Monroe. Great grandmothers are Mrs Fred J Stauffacher and Mrs Pauline Benguerel, both of Monroe.
Kenneth C. Allen, an agriculture instructor, will speak and show a film on machinery adjustment at the Skinner Creek Watershed Association meeting Friday at 8 p.m. in Iliff School.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Brown Jr. of Richmond California welcome their first child born May 3 naming him Danny Alan. Grandparents include Velma Alsbrook of San Pablo and John F. Brown Sr. and Mrs. Brown of 903 10th Avenue.
Republican state chairman TM Claude Jasper said at a 6th District caucus that Gov Nelson is likely to run as the Democratic candidate for the U S Senate in 1962. He called Nelson a failure as a statesman and leader and warned he has led the state to financial chaos.
The SEC ordered a private inquiry into the American Stock Exchange to review rules and procedures for specialists and members and to examine their role in public stock distributions. The probe, conducted under oath, could lead to a public report and possible new exchange regulation.
Three separate accidents push Wisconsin 1961 highway death toll to 268, six miles south of Superior, in Eau Claire and Milwaukee. Mrs. D. S. Sharp dies from injuries after his car hits a steel utility pole on wet pavement. Kenneth Nyquist of Superior fatally injured when his car overturns at County Trunk C and Highway 25. Stanley Stefanski of Milwaukee dies after being struck crossing a street near his home.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Rhyner and Albert Krause of Brodhead attended the funeral today for William Matzke in South Dakota who died Saturday He was born in Sylvester Township and left the area about 60 years ago to farm in South Dakota.
Social Events Project HOPE film shown by Stanley Maurer at the Immanuel Evangelical church Fellowship hall during the Mother-Daughter banquet. Readings include Bless ed are Mothers What is a Mother and What is a Girl. Awards given for youngest daughter oldest mother most daughters and more. Tea poured by Mrs Evenson and Mrs Koch.
Green Bay Packer Corp board re elected President Dominic Olejniczek and officers on Monday. Richard John B. Torinus named secretary and Fred Trowbridge named treasurer.
Wisconsin Democrats in the State Senate unveiled nine amendments to the $493.5 million executive budget, aiming to restore Gov. Nelson's recommendations. They seek a 20 percent faculty raise for the UW system and nine colleges, opposed by the Assembly’s 12 percent, and add 12 tax auditing positions in the Taxation Department to improve income tax reports.
Reports state that all gambling chips used at the Monte Carlo casino are accepted as legal tender in Monaco’s retail shops. This unusual arrangement ties casino currency to everyday commerce, enabling visitors to spend chips much like official money.
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