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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1967
Page
2
A medical bulletin links histoplasmosis to starling roosts and urges removal. Iowa City researchers used distress calls played under a microphone to drive flocks away, dispersing starlings for good after three evenings. Other species disturbed but not as much.
Herman Zwenet of New Glarus suffered injuries to both legs when the car lurched forward and pinned him to the garage wall while working on the engine. He sustained a broken leg and a fractured leg with torn ligaments. He was taken to St. Clare Hospital in satisfactory condition.
Farmer Thomas O'Donnell shot at what he thought was a fox in a Cashel area tree. His 11 year old son Jeremiah fell from the tree and died. The incident occurred Monday and investigators are examining the chain of events surrounding the fatal misfire.
Funeral services were held today at Bartell Funeral Home for Mrs. Rosalie Bird 81 who died Saturday May 13 at Caters Nursing Home Burial was in Citizens Cemetery Surviving are two sons Arthur Freeport and Miles Scales Mound five daughters C W Williamson Kokomo Ind Maynard Schultz Rockford Tacob Kornelly Mrs William Gray and Mrs Norbert Bach all of Freeport two brothers including Robert Chigart Cuba City Wis a sister Mrs Bertha Miller Galena 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren
Miss Shirley Rae Montgomery a 1956 Monroe High School graduate was named one of two regional Alice in Wonderland princess winners at Boscobel. House votes to end soil bank program honors Otto Schneider after 27 years as Courthouse custodian.
May 16 1947 report notes Sen Melvin J Olson of South Wayne gifting Wisconsin lawmakers aged Swiss Cheese and declaring Our Swiss Cheese is the best in the World The piece also mentions the UN special assembly on the Holy Land questioning Soviet Russia’s dual democratic Arab Jewish state proposal.
Thirty years ago on May 16 1937 an infant died in a car accident on Monroe street. Philip N Snodgrass was named president of the Monroe Country Club succeeding H M Place.
Forty years ago on May 16 1927 Robert Keen recovers from cuts and bruises after an automobile accident. A motion picture Wilhelm Tell filmed in Switzerland is shown at Turner Hall.
Fifty years ago on May 16 1917 the United States transferred $100 million to the Russian Republic. Police Chief W O Blunt secures approval for extra officers to manage traffic on Wednesday and Saturday nights. The Board of Education says it will act on the hazing incident injuring Russell Carter at Lincoln gym.
Farmers report rain is needed as Monticello area work begins on new barns at the Baltz Disch and W H Prisk farms. F J Breylinger, Monticello hardware dealer, starts a one story addition to his building as dry conditions persist.
Jo Jean Retrum, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Retrum of Blanchardville, will perform with the Wisconsin Ballet Company in the Spring show at the Orpheum Theater Madison on May 17 and 18. She solos in Faust and duets with Tibor Zana, also joining a modern number. Guest artists Melissa Hayden and Edward Villella join from the New York City Ballet. Jo Jean earned a Stone-Campbell scholarship for summer study in Chicago and will accompany the company to New York in August for two weeks. She assists at Jean Bettum Dance Studio in Monroe and their dance recital is June 3.
Mrs Leonard Heinen 61 Dakota dies Sunday May 14 in Freeport Memorial Hospital Funeral services scheduled for 9:45 at Daughenbaugh and Myers Funeral Home and 10:30 at St Marys Catholic Church Durand Burial will be in the church cemetery Rosary service to be held at 8 tonight Surviving daughter Mrs Robert Otterstein Rock City son Leo Dakota and three grandchildren
Lester B. White 72 a retired store clerk died Sunday in Freeport Memorial Hospital Services are at 2 p m tomorrow at Bartell Funeral Home Burial will be in St Josephs Cemetery Surviving are his widow Julia a son John G Cedar Rapids Iowa a brother Roy Warren and three grandchildren
Mrs. Dean Streiff, chairwoman, reports New Glarus Township Cancer Fund Drive collected 108.25 dollars. Workers included Mmes Eugene Dahlk Quinton Ott Walter Yaeger George Gerber Jack Heller Eugene Saunders Robert Elkins John Bircher Coral Disch Worris Marty Paul Klassy Robert Yaeger Elmer Hoesy and Marvin Freitag. Milwaukee sobbers struck a shopping center variety store 20 minutes before armored truck arrival and escaped with 7706 dollars.
Beatrice M Flanagan daughter of Mr and Mrs James Flanagan Route 3 Monroe is among 261 seniors earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing at College of Saint Teresa Minnez Minnesota during commencement May 20. The 1967 class is the largest in the school history with students from 20 states and several overseas regions. Miss Flanagan is a 1963 Monroe High School graduate.
Airman Third Class Roy A Albertson son of Clifford A Albertson Route 2 Darlington has joined the U S Air Force Hurricane Hunters at Ramey AFB He is a aircraft equipment repairman in the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron which flies WC 130 Hercules The squadron tracked 12 hurricanes last year and provided warnings after entering the storms It includes 500 personnel and 13 aircraft and operates from Puerto Rico enabling flights over 2000 miles away The unit also supports aerial refuelings atmospheric sampling for the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies Albertson is a 1964 graduate of Darlington High School His wife was Diana L Buggs
Samuel C Heitter 80 of Freeport died Saturday in Ortiz Nursing Home. Services were at Leamon Funeral Home with burial in Oakland Cemetery. Survived by sisters Elma and Ruth Heitter, both of Freeport. Heitter was a retired farmer.
Albany students from kindergarten through sixth grade present the elementary school Spring Musical at 8 tonight. All participants join in a final performance singing God Bless America.
Advertisement invites adults to become brokers or salesmen with classes in Madison at Hotel Loraine on Wednesday May 1st at 7 00 PM. Mentions other Madison classes and home study option plus Wisconsin School of Real Estate in Milwaukee at 161 West Wisconsin Avenue.
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