Date Set For Discussion With Policemen In Monroe
Mayor Walter R. Ekum announced May 27 at 7 30 p.m. as a general discussion with Monroe Policemen Association reps on pay, hours, and related matters. The open meeting at City Council Chambers will be attended by all council members and taxpayers. The session aims to hear requests rather than bargain and follows a late May letter from association president John C Winkler dated May 13 1968. Also on the docket was a public hearing on liquor licenses with none opposing and a zoning tweak allowing storm sewer work beside the Swiss Colony building to extend to the bakery complex. A land strip behind the industry building was approved for transfer.
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Walter R. Ekum
Monroe Professional Policeman’s Association
John C. Winkler
Ekum
Winkler
Police and Safety Committee
Weasel
Swiss Colony
13Th St
Thedustry
Poppy Day Observance By American Legion Auxiliary
Poppy Day volunteers of Zil mer Riley Post No 84 distribute poppies across the city on Friday May 24 and urge residents to wear the memorial flower. Proceeds aid wounded veterans and the families of war dead while honoring service members in Vietnam and reflecting on sacrifices for freedom.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Zilmer-Riley
America
United States
Vietnam
First National Is Host Goetz Honors 21 Monroe Students
Lt Gov James Goetz of Minnesota addressed Monroe high school honor students at the sixth annual First National Bank banquet in the M Room. He urged students to be "honor citizens" and criticized welfare programs as destructive to self respect, stressing Monroe as a shining private enterprise example. The event featured 21 named honorees and concluded with a social period.
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Renae Marti
Monroe High School
Times
James Goetz
Minnesota
Monroe
First National Bank of Monroe
Board of Education
Bank
William Amans
Aleta Anderson
Mary Babula
Carol Barry
Phyllis Beer
Janann Benkert
Kathleen Burkhard
Marcia Connors
Thomas Eraser
David Goetz
Barbara Hefty
Athy Lamboley
Randy Rockow
John Schuetze
Dianne Schulz
Donna Springer
Elizabeth Stuessy
Deborah Whitehead
Daniel Wilson
James Zabel
James Zach
Goetz
Goen
Wisconsin
Walter Babula
Edward M. Adam
First National Bank
Babula
Adam
Supt
D. J. Huenink
Milton Petzold
St. John’s Church
Girls’ Service Club
Rieder Elected By Cheese City Toastmasters
Robert J. Rieder was chosen president of the Cheese City Toastmasters at a Tuesday morning meeting in the First National Bank Community Room. He succeeds Rolland Karlen, with officers Leonard Haney, Ted Scheffer, Roger Burroughs, Merle Monahan, and Dwight Coplien also elected for the coming year.
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Robert J. Rieder
Cheese City Toastmasters
First National Bank
Rolland Karlen
Leonard Haney
Ted Scheffer
Roger Burroughs
Merle Monahan
Dwight Coplien
Mr. Scheffer
Don K. Christianson
Jack Fernan
Walter Ekum
Chuckler
Roger Schwaiger
Stanton Steurs
John Schild
Lyle Rodgers
Lowell Stuessy
Howard Olsen
Ray Hughes
Paul Bouda
Herman Stuessy
Monroe
Ted Sheffer
Lyle Rodger
Robert ‘Rieder
Madison
Testimony Aimed At Flood Controls Hearing in Green County Courthouse
Public hearing by the U S Army Corps of Engineers on the Upper Rock River Basin Illinois Wisconsin drew 50 attendees with six offering testimony Col Walter Gelini presided aided by two aides and a recorder A similar hearing drew 100 in Watertown The record will stay open 30 days for written statements and suggestions to the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers Rock Island Illinois 61201 Notes also name Rep Robert Kastenmeier and others who testified or submitted statements
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Helen Zimmerli
Green County
U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers
Upper Rock River
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Walter Gelini
Rock Island, Ill
Watertown
Monroe
Robert Kastenmeier
Palmer F. Davgs
Lake Mills
Lynn Stalbaum
Racine
Kastenmeier
Washington, D.C
Gordon Roseleip
Darlington
W. W. Russell
Army
Congress
Tilt Family Returns to Peru Mission Field
World War II veteran George Tilt, a missionary aviation mechanic and former businessman, and his California native wife Eloise return to Peru after three years in Florida and a Monroe visit. They spoke at Zion United Methodist Church in Judo about their work with the mission base at Yarinacocha near the Amazon headwaters.
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Peru
George Tilt
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc
Times
Helen E. Zimmerli
Melen &. Zammele
South America
Florida
Monroe
George
Eloise Tilt
California
Wendell Brunkow
Zion United Methodist Church
Judo
Wyelitte Sine
Brunkow
Tilt
Texas
Federal Aviation Agency
Yarinacocha
Amazon
Monroe Students Chosen for Latin American Summer Fellowships
Three Monroe High School students Jo Ellen Gordee Gerard Stricker and William Henkleman have been selected to spend three months in Latin America. Chosen by International Fellowship Inc Buffalo NY they will travel to Mexico City Bogota Colombia and Manizales Colombia. They will depart mid June from O’Hare Field Chicago and join seven to eight thousand other fellows nationwide.
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Monroe High School
Jo Ellen Gordee
Gerard Stricker
William Henkleman
Latin America
Alan Stauffacher
Monroe
International Fellowship, Inc
Buffalo
New York
United States
James
Gordee
Mexico City
J. Daniel Stricker
Bogota
Columbia
Manizales
John Sztekla
O'Hare Field
Chicago
Alumni Grants Go To Students in Green County
Six Green County high schools each award a $100 UW Alumni Association scholarship. Recipients: Bernard White Albany High, Rhonda Stuessy Brodhead, Richard Leaver Juda, William Spring Monroe, John Legler Monticello, Silvan Disch New Glarus. Total $600 yearly. donations fund program. Rally New York stock market rally continues as trading remains active.
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Green County
University of Wisconsin Alumni Association
William Gyure
Bernard Whitehead
Albany High School
Rhonda Stuessy
Brodhead
Richard Leaver
Juda
William Spring
Monroe
John Legler
Monticello
Silvan Disch
New Glarus
Freeman urges more funds and authority for food aid expansion
Secretary Orville Freeman told the House Education and Labor Committee that Congress must provide additional money, authority, and manpower to extend programs aiding the poor, saying the department is stretched to its budget, staff, and legal limits. The remarks were prepared for today’s hearing.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Congress
House Education and Labor Committee
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Dairyland Co-operative
la Crosse
Andrew Jost
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