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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1949
Page
1
The senate approved speed limit proposals of 65 and 55 miles per hour. A related assembly action considers a resolution to include a contemplated reservoir along the Little Boone Plain River. The body also debated police residency requirements for state chiefs and a measure to bring scholastic athletic association benefit plans under state insurance laws.
Five persons were naturalized at a term of circuit court held here by Judge Harry S. Fox. The proceedings occurred in February and listed the new citizens as residents of Janes and Frie da with addresses including 2946 16th Avenue and other local details.
The five day outlook for southern Wisconsin shows possible 78 degree highs over Memorial weekend with light scattered showers holding off until after Tuesday. Skies remain dry tonight and into Wednesday with springlike cool nights around 25 degrees.
Governor Rennebohm indicated a willingness to compromise on the veterans housing bill. He favors counties having final say on fund use but is not adamant on loans versus grants and supports local governments or housing authorities deciding what programs fit local needs.
Walter J. Kubly of Monroe saved an unidentified Albany youth from drowning in Sugar River near a dam. The boy, about five years old, nearly drowned twice as three boys played nearby. Kubly heard no cries and later the youth gave the name Elmer Barton, which could not be confirmed.
Milwaukee reports that the Very Rev. Edward J. O'Donnell S J university president announced tuition fee hikes for most Marquette university schools and colleges. The higher rates take effect with the opening of the fall semester in September.
Green County highway police chief George W. Armstrong warns motorists to drive at average speeds, rest, avoid drunk driving, and use safe routes for Memorial Day travel. The motor vehicle department Safety Division notes seven traffic deaths during 1948 Memorial Day weekend in Wisconsin.
The Red Cross offers a two week home nursing course with six classes from 2 to 4 pm and 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Instructors include Genevieve Arensdorf, Leo J. Norton, and Mary Miller. Enroll by June 1 with Mrs. E. C. Hamilton or Miss Lois Faubel.
Rep. Paul J. Randolph announces move to revive a bill allowing sale of colored oleomargarine in Illinois. Both Senate and House committees have rejected repeal attempts of the 52 year old colored oleo prohibition. Randolph plans to urge discharge of the agriculture committee and place the bill on the full House calendar.
Seventeen people including a group of engineering students and their professor were killed while attempting to climb the active Purace Volcano in Cali Colombia. The field trip turned deadly as lava flows struck the group.
Berlin remains bottled up as 12 000 rail workers strike halts all movement into the western sector. The airlift continues while western police assume control of key facilities amid a four power standoff and food supplies rot in stalled trains.
Police photo tentatively linked to a trio of suspects in last week's loan office heist. Rosemary Dorr, 19, selected the likeness from police files, and Chief Jasper Webb said the same image had been recognized by loan-office workers in other cities.
All incoming and outgoing mail will be worked on Memorial Day Monday but no city or rural delivery. Special deliveries will be handled in the city. Lock box patrons may get mail until 6 p.m. but no window service of any kind.
Madison attorney Herbert Siggelko was found beaten to death in a wooded area northeast of New Lisbon. A 47 year old New Lisbon man and a 15 year old youth, both detained as witnesses, led authorities to the body after Siggelko’s client, the suspect, was identified. The district attorney said he would charge the suspect with first degree murder.
Mr and Mrs Irwin W Boyles of Milwaukee claimed their car found abandoned at Albany with an empty fuel tank. Their 17 year old son left home Saturday with the car and has not been heard from since. The Albany car was later connected to a Browntown vehicle found near the county line.
Green county history efforts move forward after a recent historical society meeting. A mass meeting will be called to boost interest, with Dr. Clifford L. Lord invited as main speaker. Idle Hour farm is identified as a potential center for historical activity and cataloging work.
The Evening Times announces use of the Polaroid Land camera with special film delivering a print in under two minutes. Experiments over two weeks show rapid develops for emergency coverage, despite large print size and sepia tone posing reproduction challenges.
A semi-trailer gasoline truck collided with a Soo Line freight at a Chippewa County crossing in Cadott Wisconsin. The truck driver Ralph Bless and freight engineers Ed Ceary and Robert Zimmer died as the 58 car train burned, fuel pooling and cars entering the flames. The Petroleum Carrier Co of Minneapolis owned the truck.
Plymouth Wisconsin cheese exchange reported no sales today with a firm market and bids unfilled. Two cars and one lot cheddars offered at 30 cents, one car longhorns at 32 cents, one car single daisies at 32 cents. No offers and trading tone firm.
David J. Bell, 56, rural mail carrier since 1921, was injured in a crash at a rural intersection when his car hit a heavy cement mixer truck. He was thrown from the vehicle and briefly left in a hospital as the truck rolled onto his car.
Three sides of the court house square will be open to traffic and parking tomorrow as work continues on water mains on the south side. The last wood blocks were removed. remaining blocks are in the far north lane of 10th Street toward 16th Avenue intersection. Project Engineer George Glass said crews will hook up the new south side water main to service lines before fill gravel is dumped to raise the roadbed. William A. Vinton’s firm bids $208,692 for concrete surfacing over 1,122 miles in Waupun with concrete curb and gutter poured this week on the south storm sewer. Glass added that work is progressing satisfactorily.
Effective Wednesday June 1 the Cardinal bus lines will drop one eastbound trip to Janesville and add a third westbound to Platteville. New schedule shows eastbound at 7 15 8 55 am 2 20 5 30 8 20 pm and westbound at 9 45 am 4 20 10 25 pm. The 9 45 am run is new and the 8 20 pm eastbound replaces the 6 pm Janesville bus.
Letters to officials protested a five dollar reward for Sharon Broge who recovered a fifty three thousand dollar deposit of checks and drafts. The firm says the drafts were valueless to others and would cause only minor inconvenience if lost. It is studying further steps without elaboration.
London Bow Street magistrate's court refused to extradite Gerhart Eisler to serve two U S prison sentences tied to his communist activities. Eisler, labeled America's top communist agent by a congressional panel, will go to the Soviet zone of Germany. He greeted guards with a handshake, smiled as freedom came, and pledged to move to Germany quickly. He, 52, was offered a professorship at the University of Leipzig.
Attorney General Tom Clark said the United States will continue efforts to bring Gerhart Fisler back from England to serve his prison sentences. He argued Bow Street ruling hinges on narrow technical grounds and does not end the case.
In Bow Street Magistrates Court Sir Laurence Dunne rejected the U S extradition bid for Eisler. The judge ruled the American conviction for falsification of passport information did not amount to perjury under British law. Eisler’s other offense for defying the House Committee on Un American Activities was deemed separate. The U S Embassy said the matter rests with the attorney general.
The state conservation commission will establish a 20 acre wildlife game refuge on the Kenneth Mayer farm near old Argyle road northwest of Monroe effective June 1. The refuge will operate for five years unless amended or canceled by legislative action or commission order and will serve as a retreat for game and game birds with hunting or trapping prohibited.
The Monroe water works mortgage revenue bonds arrived from the printers and were stamped with the city seal by Clerk G S Soseman. There are 300 bonds at $1,000 each. About $225,000 will likely be issued. Soseman and Mayor Frank A Buehler plan to take the securities to Chicago next week to sign them with bond house officials present.
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