Vanguard Fails To Reach Orbit
The Navy satellite launched by Vanguard failed to reach orbit and sank in the Atlantic after a near perfect launch. Dr. John P. Hagen said the 20 inch ball did not attain the required horizontal velocity, marking the fourth failure in five tries.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Vanguard
John P. Hagen
Project Vanguard
Hagen
Bahama Islands
British West Indies
Police Checking School Break-ins
Police investigated break-ins at Green County Teachers College and North School last night. A small amount of change was taken from desk drawers and some vandalism was found. entries occurred by forcing ventilators and breaking a window at the teachers college.
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Green County Teachers College
North School
Teachers College
Two Fans Return Braves Championship Pennant
Milwaukee officials announced the world championship pennant stolen during a late rally was recovered by two youths. Dist Atty William McCauley met with Braves GM John Quinn, who declined prosecution. The 37 by 15 cheer banner was restored to County Stadium.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Braves
County Stadium
Braves
William McCauley
Ble. McCauley
John Quinn
Memorial Day observance set with cemetery parade and BBQ
Memorial Day activities include grave decorations at Greenwood cemetery at 7:30 am and a parade starting 9 am from the National Guard Armory. A band concert and a sermon by Rev. Jesse Dom follow at the cemetery. Jaycee chicken bar-b-que runs 11:30 am to 2 pm at the fairgrounds with pickup and carryout service.
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Greenwood Cemetery
Monroe
National Guard Armory
Howard Counselman
18Th Avenue
12Th Street
20Th Avenue
16Th Street
23Rd Avenue
Jesse Dom
First Universalist Church
Fairgrounds
Mrs Humbel 76 Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Margereta Humbel age 76 mother of Sheriff Samuel F Humbel died at 5 30 p m yesterday at St Clare hospital after a lengthy illness She lived on Route 3 near Monroe born Feb 16 1882 in Hasley Berg Marigan Canton Bern Switzerland she came to America in 1907 and married Paul Humbel Dec 15 1908 They farmed near Monroe and lived in Akron Colorado before settling back near Monroe Surviving are five children six including Paul F Samuel F Pauline Cunningham Helen Jackson and Mary Hackle seven grandchildren one great grandchild with services pending at Stuessy funeral home.
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Margereta Humbel
Samuel F. Humbel
St. Clare Hospital
Route 3
Highway 69
Monroe
Humbel
Margereta Zenger
Johanns and
Katharina Fahner Zenger
Hasley Berg Marigan
Canton Bern
Switzerland
America
Chicago
Paul Humbel
Akron
Colo
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Paul F
West Bend
Samuel F
Pauline Cunningham
Pueblo
Helen Jackson
Denver
Mary Hackle
Emma
Theodore
Stuessy Funeral Home
Angling Outlook Bright for Holiday Weekend Fishing
Brown trout eight to ten inches are being stocked in most area streams this week for a put and take fishing weekend. Zander’s Lake fishing remains strong, and Yellowstone Lake near Argyle now has a no motor area with a six mile per hour limit within 100 feet of shore. County officials report a growing deer herd and consider a shotgun deer season. the last gun deer season was in 1906.
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Harold A. Pederson
Jaycees
Swiss Wheel
Pederson
Zander’s Lake
Wisconsin
Clarence R. Benkett
Yellowstone Lake
Argyle
Benkett
Benkert
Nike project speeds to start on Madison facility
Army engineers expect to begin work by July 1 on the Nike defense facility near Roberts in St. Croix County. Bids are being collected now.
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NIKE
Madison
Army
Roberts
St. Croix County
Eisenhower Sees U S Economy Weathering Slump
President says the recession’s force has largely spent itself but warns against further deficits from tax cuts. He declines to forecast a recovery, notes ongoing study of taxes, and calls for no reductions beyond relief for small business while urging wage and price restraint. He also supports Alaska and Hawaii statehood and avoids discussing France and Lebanon.
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America
Eisenhower
France
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
Republican Party
Alaska
Hawaii
House
Presbyterians Unite in Pittsburgh To Form United Presbyterian Church
In a rain soaked street ceremony in Pittsburgh two Presbyterian sides the United Presbyterian Church and the U S A joined hands to create the United Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. The merger combines more than three million members making it the fourth largest Protestant body in the nation.
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Pittsburgh
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
United Presbyterian Church of
United Presbyterian Church
Monroe senior Kirk West to receive Lions Club grant
Kirk West an 18 year old Monroe High School senior headed for the Milwaukee School of Engineering will receive a 400 scholarship from the Lions Club. He is active in school activities including Key Club Junior Jaycee Badger Boys State and Youth Government. The Lions will present the award June 5 in the high school auditorium with J T Duke Etter announcing the grant.
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Monroe High School
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Lions Club
Kirk West
Elmer L. West
13Th Street
West
Badger Boys State
Wisconsin Youth and Government Conference
Key Club
Milwaukee
Carter Machine Works
J. T
Duke) Etter
Monroe Lions
Audi
Wisconsin student named delegate to national council conference
Miss Dianne Grossen a Monroe high school sophomore becomes the first local student named to attend the National Conference of Student Councils as part of Wisconsin’s eight delegates. She will travel from Janesville with the state group to Ferguson Missouri for the June 22 to 26 event funded by the Junior-Senior High School PTA.
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Monroe
Dianne Grossen
Edward Grossen
7Th Street
Wisconsin Association of Student Councils
Ferguson
Janesville
Miss Grossen
PTA
St. Louis
Antique Auto Rally Set for Monroe Fall Foliage Tour
The Illinois Region Antique Automobile Club of America will hold its Fall Foliage Tour in Monroe from Friday October 3 to Sunday October 5. Willard Gould of Melrose Park chairs activities with Lorentz B. Knouff announcing plans. Over 100 participants are expected, with leaders mapping arrangements in July. The 1906 Model N Ford driven by Kenneth Butler of Mendota won the Fred J. Karlen trophy in 1956.
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Illinois
Antique Automobile Club of America
Monroe
Monroe Evening Times
Willard Gould
Melrose Park
Chicago
Lorentz B. Knouff
Antique Auto Club
Gould
Knouff
Antique Auto Group
Fred J. Karlen
Kenneth Butler
Mendota, Ill
Dissolution Refused For Country Schools
At a joint meeting of Green and Lafayette County school committees held at the Courthouse, dissolution of two rural districts was rejected. Martintown in Cadiz Township and Rush, a joint district in Cadiz and Wayne Townships, Lafayette County, will remain open.
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Green
Lafayette County
Martintown
Rush
Cadiz Township
Cadiz
Wayne Township
Beloit Driver Dies On Trip From Florida
RINGGOLD Ga Arthur C Peterson 67 of Beloit died of a heart attack while driving home from Florida on U S 41. He had been an engineer with Fairbanks Morse Co Beloit since 1916 and collapsed at the wheel with his wife Mrs Peterson at his side.
Eisenhower signs four cent mail rate increase in Aug
President Eisenhower signed a bill raising postal rates starting Aug 1. A letter stamp goes from 3 to 4 cents, air mail from 6 to 7, and post cards from 2 to 3 cents, with larger increases for newspapers magazines and advertising matter in coming years. The measure also boosts postal pay for about 520000 workers and signals pay hikes for up to a million civil servants.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Two Unknowns Lie In State at Capitol
The unknown soldiers from World War II and Korea lie in state at the Capitol rotunda after arrival from the destroyer Blandy. Vice President Nixon and dignitaries observe as the coffins join the World War I Unknown Soldier memorial tradition, with burial ceremonies set for Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Capitol
Washington
America
Korea
Nixon
John J. Pershing
Blandy
Eisenhower
Arlington National Cemetery
Tractor Mishap Paralyzes Youth In Monroe Township
A 15 year old Monroe youth was pinned under an overturned tractor for three hours yesterday in a field northeast of Monroe. Walter Creuzer sustained arm bruises and developed paralysis from restricted circulation. A wrecker from Albany rescued him after cousin Carl Stubbe found him. He had been weed cutting and planned to fish at a nearby stream. He was treated at the Medical Center and released.
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Monroe
Walter Creuzer
Kenneth Creuzer
Pleasant Township
Albany
Carl Stubbe
Creuzer
Albert Wyss
Wyss
Stubbe
Walter
Park Construction Underway in Monroe
Work is under way at the new north side park in Monroe. City employees will grade the proposed tennis courts today. The area was purchased from the American Legion and roads, tennis courts and ball diamonds are planned for installation this summer as part of a long range development program.
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New North Side Park
The
American Legion
Edna Dunwiddie Dies at 83 in Monroe Wisconsin
Miss Edna Dunwiddie 83 longtime Monroe resident and former First National Bank employee died at 1 30 am at St Clare hospital She born July 2 1874 earned bank bonds duties WWI Liberty Bond sales member of Monroe Building and Loan Association for 31 years and Eastern Star burial set for Greenwood Cemetery with services at Shriner Neushwan der funeral home and Universalist church rites
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Edna Dunwiddie
St. Clare Hospital
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Wisconsin
Miss Dunwiddie
Monroe
Sarah Yarger
Monroe High School
First National Bank
J. D. Dunwiddie
First National
Liberty
Monroe Building and Loan Association
James Bray Insurance Co
St. Omar
Eastern Star
William
J. D
Mary Kemp
China
Tacoma
Wash
Donald Kemp
Mary Dunwiddie
Colorado Springs
Robert Covey
Crystal Lake
Ill
Shriner-Neushwander Funeral Home
Jesse R. Vom
Universalist Caureh
Dunwiddie
Greenwood Cemetery
Memorial Day Dispensation Granted by Dioceses
Rev. Larry J. Trayser announces Bishop Halleck grants a general dispensation from abstinence laws for the diocese this Friday. Earlier, a similar dispensation was issued by William P. OConnor of the Catholic Diocese of Madison.
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Larry J. Trayser
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Donald H. W. Halleck
William P. O'Connor
Madison
De Gaulle Called by Coty as Pflimlin Resigns in France
Paris tense as President Rene Coty summons General Charles de Gaulle to form a new government after Premier Pierre Pflimlin quits amid a large anti De Gaulle demonstration. National Assembly opposition and Algeria crisis add to the turmoil.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Rene Coty
de Gaulle
Monroe
Coty
Guy Mollet
Antoine Pinay
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Catholic Popular Republican Movement
Pierre Pflimlin
France
National Assembly
Pflimlin
Algiers
Algeria
Corsica
Elysee Palace
Frito Company Buys Crispie Potato Chip Co in Stockton California
The Frito Co of Dallas owner of Fritos of Wisconsin announces a purchase agreement to acquire Crispie Potato Chip Co of Stockton California. The deal expands distribution in the San Francisco Bay area while Crispie continues as a separate corporation.
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Frito Co
Dallas
Fritos
Wisconsin
Monroe
Crispie Potato Chip Co
Stockton
Calif
C. E. Doolin
Frito
Anthony Caminata
Crispie
Caminata
Louis Conti
Doolin
San Francisco Bay Area
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Richland Center
Bill Lovelace
Reese Riddiough
Jim Lovelace
Bill Mauerman
Dave Grams
U.S
Torium
Etter
DeGaulle
Beloit
Florida
Tractor
Assembly
Frito Firm
California
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