Schuetze Set To Sell Ponies To End an Era
Willard R. Schuetze starts a large auction Saturday May 27 at 10 a.m. selling 65 Shetland ponies three hackneys and five Welsh ponies plus Dr L M Groeneweg joining with 115 fine Shetlands. Hal brook Little Master the famed 43 under Roadster pony leads the sale with restrictions in a Madison area arena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard R. Schuetze
Shetland
Little Master
Willard
June Schuetze
Madison
Hugh Roberts Sr
Halbrook Farms
Monroe
Madison Square Gardens
June
6Th Street
Marine Lance Cpl David G Bendorf Killed in Vietnam Action
Mr and Mrs Lyle Bendorf of rural Livingston were notified their son Marine Lance Cpl David G Bendorf 20 was killed in action in Vietnam on Saturday May 20 He enlisted February 1966 earned a Purple Heart for injuries in September and spent 17 weeks in a Osaka hospital He graduated Iowa Grant High School 1964 worked as a bulk milk truck driver Surviving are his parents three brothers a sister and grandparents Funeral Home Montfort will handle arrangements.
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Lyle Bendorf
Livingston
Lance Cpl
David G. Bendorf
Vietnam
Cpl
Bendorf
Marine Corps
Okinawa
Platteville
Iowa-Grant High School
Ervin
Madison
Edward
Belvidere
Darrell
Gwen
Nellie Bendorf
Lancaster
George Quincey
Soman Funeral Home
Montfort
Juda Graduation Honors Include Leaver and Goebels
Juda High School holds graduation exercises at 8 p.m. Friday with Dan Leaver valedictorian and Richard Goebel salutatorian. Guests include Joan Fernan of Monroe First National Bank as speaker and numerous awards presented, including memorial honors for the nine girls who died in the New Orleans tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juda High School
Dan Leaver
Richard Gobeli
Dan
Clarence Leaver
Legislation
Commission On Higher Education
Richard
Fred Goebels
Twin Grove
Poplar Grove
Pleasant Grove
Joan Fernan
First National Bank
Monroe
Raymond Beightol
New Orleans
Beightol
Linda Hartwig
Robert Hartwig
Sheila Babler
Kenneth Babler
DAR
Nancy Siegenthaler
Herman Siegenthaler
Frank Murphy
Fred Mohns
Jeff Widemen
Ron Schmid
Vietnam
Darn Miller
Harold Miller
Russell Wirth
Wilbert Wirth
Betty Zweifel
Henry Zweifel
Lynn Davis
Clyde Davis
Jeff Wideman
John Wideman
Mike Newman
Vernon Jordan
Leland Jordan
Sgt. Newman
Korea
American Legion
Bette Helland
Duane Helland
Wisconsin
Raymond Beightel
Jerome Kalk
Times
La Crosse Students Protest State Drinking Age Rise
About 750 La Crosse State University students joined a downtown protest lasting five hours against the governor's traffic safety bill. The plan would raise the minimum drinking age to 21 from 18 with local option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Crosse
la Crosse State University
State University
Madison tobacco crop earns over 5 million in 1966
Wisconsin growers received more than five million dollars from the 1966 tobacco crop according to the Department of Agriculture.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture
We Never Learn Spent Four Seventy Five
A witty verse about high lawn costs and hiring a kid to mow, implying the speaker’s wallet and wisdom have not kept pace with rising prices. The poem frames suburban chores as a measure of practicality versus vanity.
Memorial Day program at Greenwood Cemetery named Rev. Gerritt E. Mouw speaker
Rev. Gerritt E. Mouw, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Monroe and former military chaplain, is designated the Memorial Day speaker for Greenwood Cemetery events. The day includes graves decoration at 7 15 a.m. and a 9 a.m. parade from 16th Ave and 15th St, with a concert by Monroe High School Symphonic Band and several veterans honors.
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Gerritt E. Mouw
Greenwood Cemetery
Mouw
Presbyterian Church
Monroe
16Th Ave
15Th St
Monroe High School
Allan F. Barnard
John Marty
Locan
Dennis Petzold
William Babler
Olin E. Flisram
Veterans Memorial
Lincoln School
21St Ave
16Th St
23Rd Ave
Circle and Monument
Edward J. Doyle
P. J. Connors Jr
Recreation Park
Awards Day honors at Monroe High School ceremony
At Monroe High School awards day in the gymnasium, Roberta Benkert hosted. High Honor Keys were awarded to seniors including William Babler and Roberta Benkert, with many juniors sophomores and freshmen also receiving honors and honor roll certificates.
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Monroe High School
Roberta
Bobbie” Benkert
William Babler
Donald Barry
Roberta Benkert
Byron Bennett
Mary Burkhard
Donald Elmer
Barbara Frantz
David Holling
Janet Johnson
Karleen Krebs
Michael Meythaler
Marilyn Myers
Timothy Mund
Steven Peterson
Dennis Petzold
Diane Liedschlag
Gwen Signer
Judy Winger
Phyllis Beer
David Goetz
Barbara Hefty
John Schuetze
Diane Schulz
Donna Springer
James Zabel
Mary Jo Goecks
Kris Schuepp
Mary Zuhlke
Chris Barth
Robert Bauman
Martha Boynton
Beverly Frehner
Mary Urban
Aleda Schuetz
Bill Spring
Liz Stuessy
Debbie Whitehead
James Zach
James Babler
John Deininger
Joseph Drye
Tom Hefty
Jeff Kohl
Tom Nondahl
Mary Salzwedel
Debbie Schmidt
Bombing Resumes After 24 Hour Truce in North Vietnam
American warplanes ended a 24 hour truce for Buddha's birthday and launched raids deep into North Vietnam's heartland continuing air offensives.
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Saigon
Buddha
North Vietnam
Johnson Farm Fire Leaves Family with Only Clothes
The Harold L. Johnson two story farm home near Blanchardville burned to the ground after a 6:30 p.m. blaze caused by faulty wiring. The parents and six children lost everything and plan to rebuild in a one story house while staying with their son Robert J. and family nearby. Donations are being collected at Blanchardville Lutheran Church with clothing and furniture needed as Marilyn Johnson, 17, prepares for graduation and an upcoming job in Monroe.
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Harold L. Johnson
Blanchardville
Johnsons
Robert J
Johnson
Marilyn
Blanchardville High School
Monroe
Grass Fire Spreads From Incinerator Near Kundert Oil Co
Firemen were summoned to a grass blaze spreading from an incinerator behind Kundert Oil Co on Highway 11 West. The flames reached Pole Sprayers Inc lot as firefighters from Monroe extinguished the grass and cooled a hot truck undercarriage. Delbert Metcalf moved the Kundert truck to safety. new Fire Department member William E. Hartwig received welcome at May meeting.
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Kundert Oil Co
Highway 11
Monroe Fire Department
Pole Sprayers, Inc
Delbert Metcalf
Jim Albright
Robert Silvis
Cool Off Sought In Middle East Crisis
Beiruts France and Britain allies in the 1956 Suez war urged international action to cool the Middle East crisis as Egypt moved to block Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. Mecga radio said Saudi Arabia had been mobilized for possible war with Israel.
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Beirut
Lebanon
France
Britain
Israel
Middle East
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Mecga
Saudi Arabia
Four Receive Key Club Grants To Attend College
A Monroe High School awards assembly recognized students across all grades for scholastic athletic and extracurricular activities. Grants and scholarships totaling hundreds of dollars were awarded by Lions Club Kiwanis and local groups, including four Key Club Scholarship recipients and multiple service, band, and merit awards.
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Monroe High School
Gary Babler
Myron Babler
Lions Club
University of Wisconsin
Nancy Ekum
Walter Ekum
John H. Usher
John Schuetze
Willard Schuetze
Kiwanis
O. R. Evans
Janet Buehler
Robert Buehler
Key Club
Dennis Burns
Robert T. Burns
John Etter
Sue Notbohm
Donald Notbohm
Merrilee Pickett
Frank Pickett
Miss Notbohm
Helen Tschanz
Christ Tschanz
N.O.M.A
Madison
Administrative Management Association
Robert H. Rieder
Robert Beem
Werner Bahler
John Philip Sousa
Jon Moritz
Alvin Moritz
Stanley Neuberger
Allan F. Barnard
Vance Nelson
Roberta Benkett
Byron Bennett
Mary Burkhard
Barbara Frantz
Diane Liedschlag
John Reese
Zumkehr
Bill Kubly
Alvin Kubly
John Duane
Chris Barth
Barbara Bauman
Margie Bernet
Sherry Boss
Steve Chambers
Linda DeVoe
Patricia Doherty
Karen Hanson
Steve Hennager
Terry Hoover
Linda Johnson
Steve Krupke
Sue Reynolds
Shir
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Schuetze
Juda
Daryl Miller
Newman
Clair R. Munns
Rev. Mouw
Jeffrey Lueck
Green County
Howard F. Schulz
del Rohde
Browntown
Gerald
Marvin
Jeffrey
Barbara
David
Blanchardville Lutheran Church
J. R. Hestenes
Lion’s
Bobbie”’ Benkett
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