City Playground Schedules Set Up
Monroe unveils a full summer plan with June 3 pool opening and June 8 playground start. Recreation Director Joe E. Miller announced daily schedules for children at Lincoln Park Normal School and Recreation Park, with arts crafts, story hour, and organized games through Friday. Older youth activities at Recreation Park feature arts and crafts, tennis, archery, dramatics, and sports under Joyce Babler and staff, with a safety and activity calendar running through August. School facilities plan daily and weekly programs, with special activities like field trips and swimming meets, plus opening-day registrations and baseball league games.
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Joe E. Miller
Lincoln Park
Water Tower
Miller
Recreation Park
Joyce Babler
Rose Johnson
Morocco
Schuetze’s
Gempler
Phillips
Smith
Carter
Gruenewald
Lincoln and Recreation
Cardinal
Shullsburg
Ball Diamond
Red Cross
Bathhouse
Ludlow Memorial Library
Sixty Sports Cars to Visit Monroe For Luncheon Stop
The Chicago Region Sports Car Club of America will bring about 60 cars to Monroe tomorrow before noon for a luncheon stop linked to the Cook County 120 rally. Chief Steward Thomas Rosso and Rally Chairman W liam R Behanna say 51 entries already, with first cars due around 10:30 a.m. The event includes a scenic loop from Dundee, NL, via Highway 69 and 13th Avenue, ending at the Lakeshire Marty plant hosted by Raymond Kubly.
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Sports Car Club of America
Lakeshire-Marty
Guttenberg
Cook County
Monroe
Thomas Rosso
W. liam _R. Behanna
Rosso
Lakeshire- Marty
Raymond R. Kubly
Dundee
13Th Avenue
10Th Street
17Th Avenue
6Th Street
Bus Line Rejects Monroe Route After Conference
Operators of a Racine Janesville bus line rejected extending service to Monroe after a two hour meeting with Monroe Janesville Brodhead Juda and Footville representatives at the Monroe Clinic library. They said a profitable Monroe Janesville run would require about 3000 monthly gross revenue for two daily trips each way and suggested a Milwaukee Greyhound style tie up.
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Greyhound
Milton K. Johnson
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Dwight Newcomer
Brodhead
Jacob Gruenewald
Juda
N. E. Bear
Harold Scherler
Monroe Clinic
Janesville
Beloit
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Monroe
Clinton S. Pierce
J. C. Timm
Dwight Pierce
John Derning
Richard Anderson
Brad
J. J. Jones
Ernest! Worth
Ray Hawkins
Leslie Curry
Footville
Otto Steinmann
Herbert H. Stauffach
Peter S. Solomon
Harold A. Blumer
E. C. Hamilton
Lyle F. Sickinger
Joseph Dearth
GM and CIO Agree on Pay Changes in Long-Term Contract
General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers today agreed on modifications raising pay rates under their historic five year contract signed in May 1950. The agreement covers about 350,000 GM workers. UAW President Walter Reuther said the union would press for similar concessions from other manufacturers with long term contracts.
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CIO
Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto
UAW
Walter Reuther
Vintage Fashion and Song Highlight Monroe High School Concert
A two hour vocal concert titled Melodies on Parade featured a fashion parade of historic gowns and hats, with seven flower children and soloists from Monroe High School. Students modeled clothing and performed dances and songs, including wedding march backgrounds, a bicycle duo, and various chorus numbers led by Mrs. Mabel C. Viel.
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Combin Choruses
Monroe
Linda Miller
Jinx Peterson
Becky Hauser
Janis Kline
Carol Ann Summeril
Edward Rule
John Benkett
St. Mary
Sally Wenger
Susan Blumer
Robert Geyer
Judith Se
Monroe Persons
Judith Norder
Thomas Hyland
Geri Lou Blaha
Shirley Geigel
Shirley Montgomery
Kenneth Krebs
Gee
Lover's Lane
Miss Seyler
Krebs
Rita Bregenzer
Richard Kelley
Billie Ann
Wenger
Kelley
Sandra Haworth
Herbert Ableman
Miss Bregenzer
Five Dead as Freakish Tornado Hits Port Huron Area
Port Huron area reports five fatalities after a freak tornado strikes near Ontario. The disaster compounds regional damage as emergency crews survey wreckage and victims. Authorities urge caution amid ongoing search and rescue operations.
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Port Huron
Ontario
Cheddar Prices Firm at Plymouth on Wisconsin Exchange
Cheddar values remained unchanged with a steady trading tone on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange in Plymouth. Sales included four cars of 30 day cheddars at 35% cents, two cars cheddars at 35%, and one car single daisies at 37%. Unfilled bids listed seven cars cheddars at 35%, one car raw milk cheddars at 35%, and one car long horns at 38%. One uncovered offer stood for one car junior grade longhorns at 31% cents.
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Plymouth
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Poppies To Be Sold Tomorrow In Monroe
Poppy Day will be observed in Monroe with veterans and volunteers selling crepe paper poppies in the streets. Mrs Sam A Rubi leads the Legion Auxiliary poppy drive assisted by 36 Girl Scouts and Legionnaires. Winning contest posters are displayed in windows around the square to remind residents.
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Monroe
Sam A. Rubi
The
Legion Auxiliary
John H. Bruni
Legionnaires
Public Test Also Planned Monroe Children Ride Fire Truck Sunday
Monroe volunteers will host a three hour public ride program at Recreation Park Sunday afternoon for about 20 children per batch until 4 pm. The event showcases Monroe Fire Department No. 6 the new 1000 gallon pumper with four water streams and four wheel drive for off road access. A radio linkage will connect to headquarters. the drill follows a public test at Lake Francis with a generator floodlights and entry tools for wall and floor access.
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Monroe
Volunteer Fire Department Public Relations Committee
Children At Recreation
Park
Lake Francis
Chester A. Pfund
Ray Beckman
Josef Benkert
Louis Jlanc
W. E. Deininger
Hervey Joesly
James Lanz
William R. Rieder Jr
Forrest Riese
Monroe Fire Department No. 6
Sheriff's
Utilities Restored After Heavy Storm in Wisconsin Area
Utilities were restored by Wisconsin Power and Light Co. and United Telephone Co. after a severe storm tore down facilities Wednesday night. Rain totaled .50 inches last night, .43 the previous day, with widespread damage to farm buildings and communications lines in Watseka Crescent City and surrounding area.
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Wisconsin Power and Light Co
United Telephone Co
Watseka
Crescent City
Illinois
Louis ain Texas Flood Toll Rises
The Associated Press reports mounting flood damage across Louisiana and Texas as swollen rivers overflow. Louisiana death toll climbs to eight with Lake Charles seeing the worst flood in 40 years causing about $2 million in property damage. The Calcasieu River forces 2,000 families from their homes while nearby Orange Texas braces for Sabine River flooding.
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Jay
Louisiana
Texas
Lake Charles
Propety
Calcasieu
Orange
Tex
Sabine
Louisna
Breakfast Flight To Attract Pilots At Monroe Field
Nearly 20 area aviation enthusiasts will attend the Green County Pilot's Association Breakfast Flight at Monroe air field Sunday starting at 7 am. Model airplane clubs from Janesville and Beloit will perform with radio controlled planes. Prizes will honor the first woman pilot to arrive, the youngest licensed pilot, the pilot from the greatest distance, and the oldest plane entrant. Association officers elected include Delbert Folgate president, Victor Schiller vice president, Frederick Mahlbuch secretary, and Roger Isely treasurer.
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Green County
Brunkow
Delbert Folgate
Victor Schiller
Frederick Mahlbuch
Roger Isely
Reflector Tape Booth Planned by Monroe Jaycees Tonight
Monroe Jaycees set a reflector tape booth at the southeast square corner to operate tonight. If tape supplies hold, a roving Jaycees squad will apply the bright red bumper tape as a safety precaution to motorists.
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Jaycees
Saturn
Grganization
Windstorm Rips Through Canadian Border Districts
A tornado surged through the Port Huron area and Sarnia districts causing multiple deaths, injuries, and millions in damage. Port Huron suffered about $1 million in damage. Sarnia up to $3 million. Dozens treated. hospitals reported critical cases. The storm toppled buildings, derailed a Grand Trunk freight train, and struck residential areas along a 40 mile path.
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Anado
J. B. Gibbs
St. Clair
Sarnia
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Charles la Forest
Here
Springbank
Ont
Sarinas
Simon Thompson
Dorothy
Sarah Macintosh
Margaret Clark
Watford
Lake Ontario
Michigan
Ontario
St. Clair County
Imperial Bank
Vendome
Smiths Creek
Grand Trunk Line
Tornado Threat for Illinois and Indiana Foreseen
The U S weather bureau forecast a band of severe thunderstorms developing near the Mississippi River south of Quincy Illinois this afternoon moving east across southern and central Indiana. There is a possibility of a few tornadoes south of the Quincy Danville line in Illinois and south of the Danville Crawfordsville Union City lines in Indiana this afternoon and early evening.
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Indiana
Chicago
U. S. Weather Bureau
India
Cial
Mississippi River
Quincy
Ill
Danville
Crawfordsville
Ind
Union City
Lost Tot Found Alive in Woods
Beverly Kay Bradley a missing two days from Menominee Michigan was found alive and in good condition near her grandparents cottage. Coast Guard helicopter joined the search at 10 p.m. and located her about noon in the woods one mile from the cottage and she was returned to the hospital. Ground searchers reported she had strayed from the cottage yard 48 hours earlier.
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Menominee
Mich
Beverly Kay Bradley
Upper Michigan
Coast Guard
Bt. Sosegh
Holph
Tat
Reds Extend Amnesty To East German Zone
A Soviet backed amnesty releases prisoners in Thuringia with up to five year terms for anti Soviet activity. The move follows a general order from the Kremlin after Stalin's death as East German inmates are freed from Untermassfeld prison.
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Untermassfeld
Thuringia
Kremlin
Stalin
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