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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1968
Page
1
Key Senate provisions include allowing confessions without rights advisement, banning inter state pistol sales, authorizing wiretap probes, and a 400 million Safe Streets grant. The status bill moves to a House-Senate conference amid expected House opposition and possible presidential veto.
Daily Doggerel by Clair R. Munns about a daughter inviting a boyfriend while warning her father off. The verse hints that Dad’s presence is unnecessary as two are enough, while three becomes a crowd.
Queens crowns ready Monday May 1 at 8 p.m. in the Agricultural Building. Voting for dairy queens starts Monday in Albany Belleville Blanchardville Brodhead Brooklyn Juda Monroe Monticello and New Glarus with ballots in groceries and from milk deliveries and cheese factories. Eligible contestants must be county residents 16 by June 1 and 18 or younger with at least one year of high school remaining in 1968. Voting runs May 27 to June 3 and June 3 winners advance. The June Dairy breakfast is June 1 at 7 30 a.m. at St Johns United Church of Christ Monroe. The queen banquet is June 27 at Albany.
Rev. Burton L. Holling will conduct farewell services May 26 as Monroe Bethel EUB now United Methodist merges with Immanuel Church. Monticello and New Glarus congregations also close or merge. Holling moves to Colfax and Tainter United Methodist churches around June 20.
Envelopes for the Bellringer campaign are circulating fostered by the Green County Mental Health Association except Monroe and New Glarus where United Fund supports the effort. Returns are due by May 31, said Mrs. Hans Sulzer president. Ted G Scheffer leads the campaign. A Wisconsin film The Future Is Now shown May 21 at Green County Hospital highlights changes in county hospital care.
A Vietnamese orphan, Do Thi Phung, gains a better life through World Vision and the Grace United-Methodist Ladies Missionary Circle of Monticello. The circle sponsors the child for a second year and will continue despite Grace church’s closing this Sunday. The final sermon is at 8 pm with Rev. Burton L. Holling and a farewell reception afterward. public is welcome.
Mrs Stauffacher of Browntown has been nominated as an alternate delegate to the national Republican convention in Miami on August 5. Confirmation was expected at the state GOP convention in Madison today. Alternates from the Second District include Mrs Stauffacher and Carroll Metzner of Madison.
Heinzelman s grand opening at the southeast corner of Monroe Square continues through Sunday with factory demonstrations and awards. The event runs today and tomorrow until 9 30 p m and Sunday after 1 30 p m Ray and Dorothy Heinzelman previously ran in the Piggly Wiggly block now expanding into kitchens large appliances carpeting and paint redecorating services. Increase approved Madison presidents of six Wisconsin state universities receive 2000 annual salary bumps.
Seven Jefferson Township farmers refused to sign deeds for land needed to widen County Trunk S from Juda to the Illinois line. Condemnation proceedings may begin as the project aims to widen the highway to six seven or nine rods with federal aid covering half the cost. The group protested the use of federal funds and questioned compensation offers while noting a broader issue with the road plan.
A joyous weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs Howard Moody Belmont followed the return of their son Paul Moody 29 paralyzed since a traffic accident last August. He had been a patient in the Rehabilitation Institute in Chicago for more than five months and was home for a few days.
Linda Zeal daughter of Mr and Mrs Allen Zeal of Juda wins the Green County March of Dimes nursing scholarship. She will study at Methodist Hospital in Madison and receive 200 dollars per semester in her first year. Zeal has worked as a St Clare Hospital aide for two years and plans a career in nursing. The March of Dimes funds back birth defect research and patient care and supports medical education. The note also covers Paul Moody's continued recovery in Chicago after surgery and his ongoing rehabilitation at the Chicago Rehabilitation Institute. his family visits and gratitude are mentioned.
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