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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1957
Page
8
Mostly fair with increasing clouds and warmer tonight. Tuesday overcast with showers. low in the 40s. High Tuesday near 76, trace precipitation since Saturday. Warmest U.S. reading in Presidio Texas at 102, coldest in Grand Marais Michigan at 24. Sunrise 5 26, sunset 8 28.
Ray Meier a 29 year old from Wiota Township and Helen Louise Peters 24 issued license. Dean Markey Miller 22 and Alice Juanita Falk 23 both of Wheaton Illinois issued license.
Birth announcements list new babies born to families in Wisconsin communities. Includes Elwood McConnell in Darlington a son born May 15. Mark Bucalo of Durand a daughter born May 19. James Flannery of Orangeville a son born May 19. William Stockdale of Durand a daughter born May 19. Henry Severson of Brodhead a daughter born May 19. Fred Bauman of Warren Illinois a daughter born May 20.
List of named patients and dismissals at St. Clare Hospital, including Mrs Edwin Simmons Brodhead Walter Gollmer Apple River Ill Elmer Bates Capron Ill Mrs David Gardner Platteville Robert Weald Basco Mrs Clarence Watkins Argyle Stanley Knutson Davis Ill. Marilyn Handel 801 9th street. Mrs Earl Trotter Beloit. Mrs Claude Becker Belleville. Mary Ellen Reigle Brodhead. Mrs Owen Beckman Juda. Mrs Alvin McMillan Beloit. John Isoz Rockford. Mrs Quentin R Smith Rockford. Conrad Kubly 18th street and 12th avenue. Peter Calacurio Rockford. Mrs Glenn Scott Argyle. Dismissals: Roy Pierce John William Stoehr Jr David Huntley Robert Johnson Paul Heiman Tambrey Sue Newcomer Burnette Robertson Gladys Steiner Mrs Lucas Dischler Mrs Albert Mielke Mrs John Milner Mrs Fannie Kibbe Mrs Raymond Morgan and daughter Mrs Jake Leuzinger and daughter Mrs Martin Schmidt and daughter Charles Harty infant boy Norton Mrs Thomas Flynn and daughter Mrs Charles Cook Russell Tyler Otto Mahlum Earl Montgomery Asmond Pederson Mrs Blanche Hannaford Mrs Ella Keller Mrs William Decker Mrs Oscar Spoon Mrs Donald Cleveland Mrs Leonard Swenson Mrs Hulda Rieder Mrs Lloyd Knox Mrs Wesley Moe Mrs Lena Meythaler Mrs Rubin Nemitz and son Raymond Pann Mrs Minnie Hanson Elaine Parker Phone 3 for an Adtaker today.
Information pamphlets and envelopes for a summer vacation student insurance program were sent home with Monroe high school students. Enrollment blanks are due in two days. The plan, under Continental Casualty Co Lanz Agency, matches the current year’s coverage and runs noon on the last day of school through Sept 20.
Six candidate princesses were selected in three district contests and will compete in the state finals on June 1 at Beaver Dam. Contestants include Shirley Rae Montgomery Browntown and Sally Bergenske Madison, with others from Wonewoc Independence Fountain City Whitewater Twin Lakes.
Police report a minor two-vehicle crash at 19th street and 13th avenue involving Wayne O Bahn of 1405 13th avenue and Frances L Francis of Evansville. Bahn was pulling from a service station when the collision occurred.
Barbara Anne Zimmerman is the name chosen by Mr and Mrs Edwin Zimmerman Browntown for their daughter born May 15 at St Clare hospital. She has two siblings Joseph Edwin 19 months and Mary Elizabeth 31 months. Maternal grandparents Bert McGinnis Warren and paternal Ulrich Zimmerman Winslow sum up the family.
The Salvation Army collection will occur on Thursday May 23 instead of the last Thursday of May due to Memorial Day holiday.
Reverend Clarence Warfel of Grace Lutheran attends the thirty-eighth annual Illinois Synod meeting at First Lutheran Church in Decatur Illinois. The session opened today and runs through Thursday with Reverend A Howard Weeg presiding as synod president.
Members of the Monticello school music department, 93 students, traveled to Wisconsin Dells Saturday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Disch, M. C. Davison, and Norman Benkert.
The final of four electricity schools for 4-H project members will be held this week. Sessions are at Green County Teachers College tonight and at New Glarus High School tomorrow night.
Personal mentions list residents and guests arriving or visiting Madison and nearby towns. Names include Miss Margaret Altman, Mrs W B Crabtree, August Planti kow, Harry Roth and son David, Lillian Gempeler, Walter Stauffer group, Augustine Ronnerud, Viola. Ed Jones and Frank Deininger guests, George Mohrlein Sr and family, Donna Geier. Ernest Wilson returning from Ames Iowa State. L A Drews Oshkosh. Babler and Feldt families. Lucille and Mary Stietz returning from East vacation. trips to Holland Tulip Festival and Racine. multiple Rohner families visiting.
Stanton P Steuri from Albany and G M Howery of Darlington joined a conservation panel on Meet the Editor over WISC TV Madison yesterday afternoon. Lester M Voigt director of the state conservation department answered questions. Jerry Deane news director ran the program. A Markesan editor missed the show due to a $60000 fire at his business yesterday.
Contractor Joe Kuhne lists fixtures from the old St. Victor parochial school for sale ahead of demolition after classes end for summer. Kitchen and bath equipment water pipes heater windows doors and lumber to be sold and viewable tomorrow or Wednesday.
Thomas W Kundert 83 of rural Belleville died Saturday at St Clare hospital. Services set for 1 p m tomorrow at Swiss Evangelical and Reformed Church New Glarus with Rev Lynn F B Tschudy officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Pallbearers include grandsons Milton and Roger Krueger Gary Lewis and nephews Garland Marty Jacob Bruni Palmer Duerst. Zentner funeral home in charge. He was born February 15 1874 in New Glarus to Balthasar and Agatha Disch Kundert. He married Anna Werndli April 20 1899 and they farmed near Belleville. His wife died in 1937 and he lived with daughter Mrs Fred Elmer Jr Exeter Township. Surviving are three daughters Mrs Elmer and Mmes Vernie Krueger and Vaughn Lewis Evansville, four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. A brother and three sisters preceded him in death.
Mrs. Ida Frey 83 died Thursday. Funeral services held at 1 30 p m at Shriner Neu shwander funeral home with Rev Paul H Olm officiating. Burial in Greenwood cemetery. Pallbearers were Pat J Connors Maurice Connors Roycie Foulker Joe Norder Howard Kohn and Ralph Frey.
In a long chat during The Sun Also Rises set Ava Gardner speaks on chasing happiness not life’s glamour. She recalls marriages to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw, a tumultuous time with Frank Sinatra, current interest Walter Chiari, and a love of Spain while maintaining beauty and defiance toward scandal.
The Golden Age Club meets at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Community Center. A program and refreshments are planned.
William Patrick Hansberry aged 70 of Beloit died recently and will be honored with a rosary tonight at Daley Murphy and services tomorrow morning at 8:30 at Daley Murphy and 9 at St. Jude's Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery Father Raymond Foren to officiate He was born May 22 1886 in Chicago and married Ann E McGinley in Beloit Survived by wife a son William in Hamilton Ohio a daughter Mrs Ira Cram Jr of Cueto Cuba two sisters Mrs Chris Anderson Milwaukee and Charles Bernstein Beloit and two brothers Frank Milwaukee and Jack Beloit
At 8 45 a m two trucks collided one mile east of Dayton on a one way bridge. The Zimmerman truck plunged off an embankment landed on its side destroying 82 cans of milk. No injuries were reported. The Judd truck remained on the roadway with moderate damage.
FINLAYSON Minn three persons died and four were injured when a car carrying five youths from a resort hall dance crashed into a concrete bridge abutment and into the path of another car. Allan Bakke 15 and Richard Cress 22 of Sturgeon Lake were killed on impact and Cress, driver of the second car, perished as flames erupted. Howard Rock 23 of Willow River was thrown into a creek and drowned.
Alfred G. Nelson of Monroe is appointed general agent for Franklin Life Insurance Co. in Green and Lafayette Counties. Nelson previously spent years in the area life insurance business and has been active in Monroe Boy Scout work in recent years.
Frank V. Powell, 71, who headed the state Bureau for Handicapped Children for 17 years, died Sunday in a Madison hospital after retiring last year.
Billy Graham drew 19,000 to Madison Square Garden for the fifth New York crusade night. The arena sold out with 18,500 seats plus 500 standees, bringing total attendance to about 84,000 across five nights. A record 913 people came forward to commit to Christ, bringing converts to the pulpit total of 3,526.
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