Monroe Postmaster Pick Delayed Amid Patronage Tangle
Alfred H. Henning Jr. faces removal as acting postmaster with permanent appointment stalled. Democratic officials have yet to name an interim or confirm the long-awaited permanent choice. The delay follows Wisconsin patronage politics as county Democrats and Sen. William Proxmire’s office remain noncommittal.
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Democratic Party
Evening Times
Chester K. Norton
Democratic
Norton
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Proxmire
Henning
Memorial Day Parades Highlight Green County Civil War Vets
A reminiscence recalls 1915 Memorial Day marches in Green County led by color guards from Monroe's 5th Wisconsin Battery and GAR veterans. The parade featured veterans in blue frock coats with gold buttons, swords, and medals, with officers from the 38th Wisconsin and other units. The piece notes historic details from the 1865 River Queen meeting with Lincoln and Seward and includes mentions of Confederate Peace Commissioners and Lincoln assassination events.
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Green County
Sha
Titus
Woodle
Monroe
5Th Wisconsin
14Th Corps
Army of the Cumberland
Sherman
County
Mr. Tochterman
Wisconsin
Stephens
Hunter
Campbell
Lincoln
Seward
Hampton Roads
Payne
Herold
Atzerodt
Surratt
Spangler
Arnold
O'Loughlin
Mudd
Albany Woman Lottie Lewis dies at 91
Lottie Lewis 91 of Albany dies at 7 a.m. after a short illness. Born March 10, 1870 in Fulton, she taught rural Green County schools before marrying John Lewis. Survived by daughter Mrs. Peckham, two grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Funeral at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sharer funeral home with burial in Hillcrest cemetery.
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Albany
Lottie Lewis
Eastern Star
Everett Peckham
Lewis House
Peckham
Percy
Sharer Funeral
Bruce Willett
Hillcrest Cemetery
Wide stock list shows mixed moves after late trading
In a slow irregular market Texaco gained about 5 points as it neared a stock split. Ford slipped about 4 after news of a planned public offering of 2.75 million shares by the Ford Foundation. Gulf Oil declined over 1 point on reports it is offering 1.67 million shares.
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New York
Texaco
Ford
Ford Foundation
Gulf Oil
Miss Freeport To Be Crowned In Pageant Tonight
Miss Freeport of 1964 will be crowned tomorrow night at the Consistory auditorium after a dress rehearsal and a tea with the five judges. A downtown parade at 10 a.m. opens the final events followed by an afternoon style show.
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Freeport
Monroe Senior Neil Jacobs Wins 1961 American Legion Award
Neil E. Jacobs, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Jacobs of 2227 8th Street, selected as U S Air Force Academy appointee, named recipient of the 1961 American Legion award. He will receive the honor at Monroe High School ceremonies next Thursday. his name will join 38 past winners on a plaque. Jacobs is active in football track wrestling cross country and has been a long time swim team member and summer lifeguard at Recreation Park pool. He is the first local youth in years to win a U S military academy appointment.
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Monroe
U.S. Air Force Academy
Neil E. Jacobs
American Legion
Jacobs
George E. Jacobs
8Th Street
Robert L. Cashman
Legion
Neil
David Grams
Richard Muenich
Recreation Park
U.S
Milk Marketing Control Sought
A bi party Senate bill proposes a state milk marketing control department with power to set maximum and minimum milk prices, regulate trade practices, license dealers and cooperatives, and create a three member board with a full time director. The board could fix wholesale and retail prices for fluid milk and set minimum prices paid to farmers for processed milk.
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Madison
Senate
Mexicans Aid Fund for Liberty Tractors Exchange
A drive in Mexico City to raise funds for “liberty tractors” to exchange rebel prisoners in Cuba is progressing, led by exiled Cuban industrialists, businessmen and professionals.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Cuba
Yale Chaplain Among 11 Integrationists Held in Montgomery
A group of 11 including Yale chaplain Rev. William S. Coffin Jr and three prominent denominational leaders were jailed for breach of the peace after attempting to eat at a Trailways terminal lunch counter. Bond for five is expected at $1,000 each, with other six remaining jailed until a June 16 hearing. The case follows large scale demonstrations as federal court action seeks to block segregation in interstate terminals.
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Montgomery
Ala
Yale University
William S. Coffin Jr
Yale
Gaylord B. Noyce
Yale Divinity School
David E. Swift
Wesleyan
Middletown
Conn
John B. Maguire
George B. Smith
Charles Conley
South
Trailways
Wesleyan University
Ralph D. Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Freedom Riders
Solomon S. Seay Sr
Henry V. Graham
National Guard
Jackson
Miss
Senate approves Kennedy school aid bill for $2.55 billion
The Senate passed Kennedy’s $2.55 billion public school aid measure 49 to 34 after eight days of debate. Supporters expect House passage by a slim margin, though funds for teacher salaries could be trimmed. The bill allows grants for teacher pay or construction and, on a floor amendment, for operating costs such as buses textbooks and libraries. It provides $850 a year in grants for three years to help states equalize opportunity.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
House
Kennedy says a Negro president possible in 30 to 40 years
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told a Voice of America audience from Washington that racial prejudice is breaking down and a Black person could become president within 30 to 40 years. He noted U S history with Irish immigration and cited his brother John F Kennedy as an Irish Catholic president.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Voice of America
Alabama
Kennedy
Boston
John F. Kennedy
United States
Wisconsin considers raising beer age to nineteen
A Wisconsin bill would raise the legal beer purchase age from 18 to 19. It imposes fines from 50 to 200 dollars on underage buyers and 50 to 500 dollars on outlets selling to minors. Sen. Ernest Keppler and others back the measure, with a June 7 public hearing set alongside another 21 age bill.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Senate
Ernest Keppler
Sheboygan
Keppler
Casmir Kendzierski
Milwaukee
Governmental and Veterans Affairs Committee
Leo O’brien
Eberle Named President of Richland Creek Watershed Group
Verlyn Eberle was renamed president of the Richland Creek Watershed Association at the weekly meeting. Ernest Wegmueller was elected secretary as new directors Don ald Deininger Wegmueller and Tschudy replace Kubly John Waefler and Alfred Bauimgartner.
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Verlyn Eberle
Richland Creek Watershed Association
Ernest Wegmueller
Secre
Donald Deininger
Wegmueller
Tschudy
Kubly
John Waefler
Alfred Bauimgartner
Albany Manufacturing Corp Brings Jobs to Local Village
The Emil J. Paidar Co. subsidiary in Albany began in 1954 and now employs 37 workers in a six department plant on Highway 59 along the Sugar River. The Albany facility makes barber chair upholstery beauty shop chairs and related items shipped to Chicago, with about 150 beauty chairs and 100 upholstery sets produced weekly and two million pounds of freight handled last year.
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Albany Manufacturing Corp
Albany
Emil J. Paidar Co
Chicago
George F. Radock
Highway 59
Sugar River
Radock
Madison
Paidar
John Kauk
Carl Riddiough
Helen Davis
Indiana Condensed Milk Co
D. A. Crandall
Monroe
Times
Three Monroe Pastors To Take Part In Baccalaureate
Three Monroe pastors will join the Class of 1961 Baccalaureate at 8 p m Sunday in the junior high auditorium. Rev Walter C Anderson pastor of the Assembly of God will give the main address with topic Privileged and Responsible Rev A Gordon Wetmore of the Church of the Nazarene will lead worship prayer and benediction Rev Max L Fisk Baptist pastor will read the scripture and lead the Baccalaureate prayer The high school orchestra directed by Allan F Barnard will accompany the service and the mixed chorus directed by Thomas Norager will sing No Man Is an Island and You ll Never Walk Alone
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Monroe
A. Gordon Wetmore
Church of the Nazarene
Max L. Fisk
Allan F. Barnard
King
Thomas Norager
No Man Is An Island
Whitney and Kramer
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Thirty two students to graduate from St Victor's
Thirty two students, a large class, will graduate at St Victor's next Wednesday. Ceremonies begin with a 7 55 p m processional, then a 8 p m Holy Mass by Rev E C McCollow, diplomas at 8 45 p m, and a 9 p m recessional. Report cards will be distributed and classes dismissed after. The graduating class includes James Ambrose Joel Baumle John Benkett Beth Counselman Margaret Doherty Michael Doyle Charles Gable Mary Jo Gerhart Dennis Geren Dale Roger Gille Timothy Hyland Jan Kitto Celelia Koenig Margo LaBuch Linda Larson Paul Line Darlene May Madalyn Meythaler Linda McGuire Ann Marie Miller Thomas Mitchell John Molin Mary Ann Purcell Michael Reilly David Rieder Jean Robichaud James Ruf John Schiller Julene Simmons Joann Spani David Stauffacher Terrance Stauffacher.
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St. Victor’s School
E. C. McCollow
St. Victor’s
James Ambrose
Jerome Baumle
John Benkett
Beth Counselman
Margaret Doherty
Michael Doyle
Charles Gable
Mary Jo Gerhart
Dennis Gerendale
Roger Gille
Timothy Hyland
Jan Kitto
Cecelia Koenig
Margo LaBuch
Linda Larson
Paul Line
Darlene May
Madalyn Meythaler
Linda McGuire
Ann Marie Miller
Thomas
Cheddar Board Lists Sale of Six Carloads
GREEN BAY Wisconsin Cheese Exchange report shows six carloads offered for sale. Two cars of 40 lb blocks priced at 34.5 cents per pound and four cars of pasteurized single daisies at 36.42 cents. Bids unfilled include one car cheddar at 34.5, one car pasteurized daisies at 37, one car pasteurized daisies at 36.42, and one car pasteurized longhorns. No offers uncovered.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Graduation List Announces Class of 1961 Candidates
Supt D J Huenink lists 145 seniors candidates for graduation at 8 p m in the high school gym Thursday among them late member William A Burkhard Jr who died in a car crash last Saturday His diploma will be accepted by his father A senior banquet is canceled and other activities are halted in respect for Burkhard The program includes a baccalaureate Sunday and commencement Thursday Dr Glenn S Pound of Madison will speak Motto is Out of the world of questions into a questioning world The class colors are powder blue and white with the American beauty rose as the flower
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D. J. Huenink
William A. Burkhard Jr
W. A. Burkhard Sr
Huenink
Glenn S. Pound
Madison
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Alfred H. Henning Jr
John J. Burkhard
By John Dreier
Mr. Galu
Ball
Bast
Booth
Cunningham
Divan
Gapen
Knipschild
Lewis
Robb
Preston
Sickinger
Sisson
Wickersham
Light Artillery
Shiedegger
37Th
Wisconsin Regiment
Legion Award
Bill Smiley
Jack Hefty
Bob Kennedy
Eberle
Plant
Walter C. Anderson
Assembly of God Church
Edgar Allen Anderson
St. Victor's
Cheddar Board
Richard Arnold Albright
Barbara Jean Alston
Albert John Anderson
Barbara Jean Anderson
Donna Jean Anderson
Minor William Anderson Jr
Shirley Jane Ault
Robert Henry Babler
Eugene Leo Bartelt
Judith L. Berndt
John Robert Beutel
Barbara Joan Blacknik
Richard John Blum
Harold Kenneth Blumer
Nathan Charles Botteron
David Allen Bowman
Jerry J. Boyer
Nellie Mae Brown
Ronald R. Brown
Tamara Jo Brugger
Carol Ann Brunkow
Roger H. Bruny
Karen Ann Buholzer
Richard Stuart Campbell
David Lee Carlson
Kay Suzanne Chambers
Richard John Christen
Jane Genevieve Crouch
Thomas A. Daly
Donna Lee Deininger
Francis John Denny
Richard Francis Dooley
Linda Lee Drake
Karl Arthur Drye
Alan T. Elliott
Janet Linda Elmer
LaVon Eileen Elmer
Karen Kay Feldt
Ralph L. Figi
Thomas DeWayne Figi
Penny Sue Fitzgerald
Beverly Ann Flaherty
Sandra Kaye Franklin
Walter I. Frauchiger
Marlene Kay Frey
Donald William Friske
Robert G. Fritsch
Judy
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