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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1959
Page
1
Memorial Day visitors at Punchbowl Cemetery will see a new monument honoring the dead from World War II and the Korean War. The 10yearold cemetery expands its tributes beyond existing military headstones to include this significant memorial.
At Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific is adding a new hilltop war memorial for America’s Pacific dead. The project features the Garden of the Missing with about 26,000 World War II and Korean War missing names, a central memorial court, and a massive Roman travertine design with a Columbia statue and a Lincoln quote. Ernie Pyle lies among the buried, and the commission notes a possible three million dollar cost with completion expected in summer 1962.
An explosion at a fireworks plant in Shimoina, 120 miles west of Tokyo, killed seven people and injured 15 seriously. A total of 179 others suffered lacerations and minor injuries, while 17 missing earlier were accounted for.
There will be no Memorial Day edition of The Monroe Evening Times tomorrow in keeping with the holiday observance. Regular publication will resume with Monday's edition.
Holiday plans in Monroe look mild with sun and a few showers possible tonight. Temperature highs near 67 to 75 tomorrow. yesterday a cool front dropped mercury by 20 degrees. Severe storms swept parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, causing a fatality in Dixon from a falling tree and weather disruptions at Comiskey Park.
Eighteen eighth graders from St. Victor's Catholic grade school graduated in a ceremony after Holy Mass at 7:55 a.m. A parent banquet followed with gifts given to Rev. Donald Lins and Sister M. Juliana. Graduates include Ervin Bartels, Mary Ann Blum, Christine Boss, Raphael Daly, Leonard Fenton, Beatrice Flanagan.
The Wisconsin Highway Commission says construction on state roads with heavy traffic will halt from noon today through Monday noon for Memorial Day weekend. Areas with 1,000 or more vehicles daily are labeled heavy traffic zones. lighter sections defer to district engineers to decide on suspensions.
Memorial Day mark in Monroe with a 9 a.m. parade from 18th Avenue to Greenwood Cemetery led by parade marshal T J Burgy Jr. The program includes a high school band concert at 9:05 a.m. and a veterans ceremony with taps and the Gettysburg Address. Afterward, a chicken barbecue runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Numerous civic and youth groups participate and decorations honor veterans from five wars.
Memorial Day events include 7:30 a.m. cemetery graveside decor by squads, 8:15 a.m. traffic units to cemetery, 8:30 a.m. parade assembly at Armory, 9 a.m. parade start, 9:05 a.m. Monroe High School band performs at cemetery, 9:45 a.m. memorial program, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jaycee chicken barbecue at fairgrounds.
Robert Van Raale announces a Space Flight themed program at Monroe schools auditorium tonight at 8 15. JoAnn Montgomery leads the processional Pomp and Circumstances with 8th graders singing songs and the Hiawatha school square dance group performing Irish jigs by Nancy Hyland and Mrs Gordee. Rudolph Haskee county superintendent presents 150 rural and state graded school 8th graders with promotional certificates.
President Eisenhower will stay in Washington over Memorial Day weekend. In past years he has spent the holiday weekend on his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania farm.
Capt. Glenn L. Kubly commanding officer of Co. B Green County National Guard Unit graduated yesterday from a four month course at Ft. Benning Georgia. He and Mrs. Kubly will be en route home this weekend. Mrs. Kubly has been there the past 10 days.
A Nassau County grand jury indicted 15 men including John J. O Rourke an international vice president of the Teamsters and head of Joint Council 16 in New York City. The charges include conspiracy coercion extortion and attempted extortion tied to a jukebox industry racket on Long Island. Delivery of indictments triggered arrests by 30 county detectives. Local 266 officials were among the accused.
Comedian Bud Abbott, once Lou Costello's straight man, says he is broke and unemployed while in tax arrears. He plans to sell his home to pay part of what he owes as the tax collector closes in.
HOLLYWOOD A shape ly blonde junior high school teacher quit teaching after a school official criticized her dress and later became a featured stripper at the El Rancho Club in Los Angeles. Patricia Ann Carruthers from Minneapolis now performs as Patti White to avoid embarrassing her former school. She says she quit last October after continual criticism of her wardrobe and that students liked her style though an official warned it affected junior high boys. The former University of Minnesota graduate, class of 1956, explains the name change.
New York stocks varied in slow trading as small gains and losses rounded to fractions of a point. Many investors departed for the long Memorial Day weekend, with activity thinning on Thursday as traders prepared for the holiday.
The June Dairy Month committee voted to sponsor a dairy slogan contest with a June 21 deadline. Residents are asked to submit 25 word slogans with product labels to Dairy Slogans care of the Courthouse Monroe. Top five prizes total 15 dollars.
Able and Baker the famed space monkeys arrived in Washington for a press conference after a 1500 mile journey and a 15 minute suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral. Scientists used radio instruments to note pulse rate blood pressure and body wear during the mission. Project leaders say the successful flight advances plans for future Mercury astronauts.
In Seoul a U S Army general court martial acquitted Pvt Ronald G Smuck 19 of Rockford I on a charge he helped rob a Korean cab driver of 24 dollars Smuck testified he was present but did not partake Two other soldiers Pfc Robert E Walker 3 of Cuyahoga Falls Ohio and Pfc James E Cooley 18 of Gardnerville Nev had pleaded guilty to the robbery and a second April 3 cab assault They were sentenced May 18 to 10 years in prison and given dishonorable discharges
The four foreign ministers Christian Herter Andrei Gromyko Lloyd Maurice Couve de Murville met in Geneva after a trans Atlantic flight. They planned a private 5 p.m. meeting at Lloyds residence to push Berlin and summit issues.
John Foster Dulles left the bulk of his estate to his widow Janet Avery Dulles with major bequests totaling more than a quarter of a million dollars. Surrogate's Court announced the will, dated July 25 1958, notes specific trusts and that two of the three Dulles children stand to inherit, while son Avery Dulles receives 5000 dollars due to special circumstances.
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