Platteville State Uprising Over Beer Age Protests
Several thousand Platteville State University students demonstration against a 21 year beer age escalates into clashes with police. Rioters pelted squad cars with rocks bottles and eggs as fire engines sprayed water and tear gas. four firemen injured, arrests and jail clashes followed. A flag reading 18 Beer was raised at the police station.
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Platteville
Platteville State University
Corwin Bishop
Platteville University
Bjarne Ullsvik
Grant County
Roy Graney
U 11Svik
Darlington Dairy Day Parade Set for May Saturday
Darlington Dairy Day observance will be held Saturday May 20 featuring bands from Argyle Darlington Stockton and Warren Illinois antique cars from Monroe the Madison Shrine motorcycle cavalcade floats and saddle clubs from Darlington and Gratiot Dairy princess contestants will be judged that morning with winners announced at the end.
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Warlington
Argyle
Darlington
Stockton
Warren
Illinois
Monroe
Madison Shrine
Gratiot
Alice Stauffacher
Willow Springs
Rose McCarten
Pauline Anderson
Sonja Dunn
South Wayne
Julie Teasdale
Shullsburg
Anita Neuenschwander
Kathy Thomas
Kathy Miller
Belmont
Snipers Sought After Texas Southern Officer Death
White helmeted police stormed a dormitory at Texas Southern University to halt student snipers who held a no-man's land on campus. Rookie patrolman Lewis R. Kuba, 25, was killed with a shot between the eyes. Police jail 488 men as they search for the shooter and identify others wounded in the assault.
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Houston
Tex
Texas Southern University
Lewis R. Kuba
Police Academy
Kuba
Monroe FHA Honors Members at Annual Banquet
At the Monroe Chapter banquet, Mrs George House received honorary National FHA membership for her leadership. Delegates and scholarship recipients include Aleda Schuetz Janet Williams Georgia Wegmueller Marcia Wells Jill Counselman and others as they prepare for state and national conventions.
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National Fha
George House
Monroe Fha
Jane Wells
Mrs. House
Times
Sally Hoesly
FHA
Monroe
Future Homemakers of America
House
Janet Williams
Jack Williams
Green Lake
Aleda Schuetz
William Schuetz
Georgia Wegmueller
Ernest Wegmueller
Marcia Wells
Emerson Wells
Jill Counselman
Phillip Counselman
District Five
Miss Counselman
Jane
Los Angeles
Calif
Janet Lawyer
Ginny Bacon
Pat Updike
Joan Walters
Horst Hart
Horst
Famed Monroe resident Mrs Youngblood dies at 93
Mrs Henry M. Youngblood Sr. 93 of 1307 22nd Street died last night at St. Clare Hospital from old age complications after a fall on Palm Sunday. Born Margart Josephine Blackbourn Jan 23 1874 in Apple River Illinois she was a twin of Joseph N. Blackbourn now hospitalised in Dubuque Ia. Her father ran stores in Apple River and Dunbarton and she married Henry Youngblood Sr. in Dunbarton June 11 1902.
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Monroe
Henry
Margaret) Youngblood Sr
22Nd St
St. Clare Hospital
Youngblood
Margart Josephine Blackbourn
Apple River
Ill
Frederick
Victoria Beadle Blackbourn
Joseph N. Blackbourn
Albany
Dubuque
Dunbarton
Lafayette County
Wisconsin
Henry Youngblood Sr
Milestone FHA chapter marks 21st anniversary
Members of the Monroe High School Future Homemakers of America celebrated the 21st birthday of the organization with a banquet at the Holiday Inn in Janesville. An 21st birthday candle design decorated the tables and a skit gave a year‑long progress report. Officers installed included Aleda Schuetz as president and Georgia Wegmueller as vice president.
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Peggy Logeson
Aleda Schuetz
Georgia Wegmueller
Pat Updike
House
Walter Babula
Dodge
Loleta
Hervey Hoesly
William Stuckey
E. B. Lux
Milford Parriott, 72, Orangeville, Dies at Home
Milford Parriott, 72, of Orangeville, died suddenly at 9 20 this morning of an apparent heart attack at his daughter’s home. Cramer Funeral Home handling arrangements. Governor Knowles will sign the bill lifting the last ban on colored oleo next Wednesday at 9 30 a.m. May 24.
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Milford Parriott
Orangeville
Pauline Babler
Cramer Funeral Home
Cleo
Bill Madison
Warren P. Knowles
Knowles
County Board Meets on Emergency Center Plans
County and community officials attended a special County Board session that served as a conference for Green County Civil Defense. The only action was approving emergency sewer repair contracting for the Green County Hospital funded from hospital accounts.
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Dina Speich
Special County Board
Green County
County’ Civil Defense Organization
State Bureau of Civil Defense
Green
Lafayette
Green County Hospital Board of Trustees
Green County Hospital
City of Monroe
City of
Monroe
Board of Public Works
Civil Defense Network
C. S. Pierce
Don Heimlich
WSU
Stevens Point
Benefit Event to Aid Shrine Hospital Children in Need
Green County Shrine Club hosts a benefit concert Saturday May 20 at Monroe Junior High to support the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children in Chicago. Proceeds aid Lori six and Timmy nine and their long-term casts and home therapy programs. families include David Judy Pattinson Wilhelmson and farmed 600 acres of Argyle area.
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Shriners
Lori
Timmy Wilhelmson
David Wilhelmson
Adams Township
Green County
Shrine Hospital For
Chicago
Shrine Club
Zor
Monroe Junior High
Crippled Childrens Hospitals
Wilhelmson
Richard Haldiman
Tom Watson
Shrine Hospital
Green County Shrine Club
Green County Shrine
Monroe
Zor Shrine
Timmy
David
Judy Pattinson
Shriner Hospital
Argyle Public Schools
Donald
Lawrence Winger
Argyle
Donald Wilhelmsons
Bonnie Finley
Adolph Wilhelmson
George Stephenson
Rockford
Chester Pattison
Daily Doggerel by Clair R Munns III
Poet Clair R Munns III quips on smoking a pipe not bestowing wisdom nor making him a cherub yet suggests it helps him avoid sounding foolish.
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Clair R. Munns
Deputies Seek Opossum in Rabies Bite Case
Deputies searched woods on the William Hartwig farm after a 13 year old girl was bitten by an opossum. Rhonda Mueller was taken to a doctor who advised finding the animal to rule out rabies. The opossum was not located and the girl may begin anti rabies shots if needed.
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William Hartwig
Marion Mueller
Monroe
Rhonda
Monroe Council set June 20 public hearing on housing code
The Monroe City Council approved enforcement of the housing and property maintenance code with a new housing office under the mayor. They adopted liquor licenses, operators’ licenses for Ammacher and McGuire, and reinvestment resolutions. A party wall agreement with Gempler Tire Shop and several payments were authorized.
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Monroe
Office of Housing and Property Administrator
Frederick J. Ammacher
Burnell McGuire
Treasury
First Namal Bank
Commercial and Savings Bank
Gempler Tire Shop
McGuire Construction Co
Janesville Construction Company
Morgan Fire Equipment Co
Gerritt E. Mouw
American Legion Auxiliary
Nicolas Leutenegger
Air National Guard
Oshkosh
James Mauermann
Bernard Poff
Eleanor Frederick
Four Pets Impounded at City Pound Including Cat
Four dogs and a cat are now at the City Dog Pound. A small brown female all American type dog picked up last week is running out for immediate claim. Two small terrier dogs were placed there Monday evening, another small brown female joined Tuesday. The lone female cat, a yellow and dark color mix, has been at the pound for a week.
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City
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