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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1966
Page
2
The Monroe Evening Times provides subscription rates for Monroe by carrier and announces office hours from 8 30 a.m. to 5 p.m. It states the paper is published with AP content and that A Odell 1871 1953 is noted in the issue.
Junior Girl Scout Troop 2311 members, 22 in total, finished the year with a June 4 picnic at Recreation Park following a Court of Awards at St. Victor’s School. Badges awarded included Sign of the Star, pen pal, housekeeping, pets, and My Home with several girls earning multiple honors.
Editorial recollects a week of local happenings in Monroe and Green County. Highlights include scholarships at Monroe High School, Alice in Dairyland’s year, a railroad parade in Brodhead, Jaycee Barbecue chickens, a memorial day tribute, and humorous incidents at the Times office.
Five Rockford youths and 35 Chicago Negroes were involved in a scuffle Monday at Pierce Lake State Park. Police said there were no injuries and no charges filed. The fight began over a claimed theft of a blanket and water cooler. The Chicago group had come by bus for a YMCA sponsored picnic.
David Cox and siblings Thomas Cox and Charles Cox stayed with their mother Mrs. Elverado Cox at 2423 10th Street Memorial Day weekend. David sails to Zurich June 5 to be vice consul, Thomas to Libya in August to teach at Overseas American School, Charles to Estes Park for summer before returning to SMU in Dallas.
Senator Estes Kefauver battles to regain ground after a Florida primary defeat as he presses his campaign in the days around May 31 1956. Peter Johnson receives the 35th annual American Legion athletic award.
Twenty years ago today the costly soft coal strike ends with President Truman addressing the mine tieup and seizure. The weekend toll on state roads climbs past eighty deaths.
Harry H. Wells a Monroe trucking firm head missing since January is held in custody in Phoenix Arizona. The Monticello High School band wins top honors at the Madison music festival.
May 31 1926 marks a deadly explosion and fire in Rockford that killed six women. Four defendants are charged with conspiring to poison four race horses amid the tragedy.
Jack Leeain who crashed under his racing car in the 300 mile race has a fighting chance for his life. A retirement of French troops west of the Meuse River is admitted in an official statement by the war office.
Sixty years ago today May 31 1906 members of the old Company H Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment and other Spanish American War veterans followed a United States suit against Marshall C Forrest of Racine. The charge states clothing issued to the men was never paid for.
Three Monroe residents are among 533 University of Wisconsin Madison students to receive honors at the All University Honors Convocation set for 4 p.m. Sunday June 5 in the Wisconsin Field House. The ceremony caps the 113th spring commencement week. Honorees include Ruth D Schuetz Route 3 Monroe Miles R Adam 2146 20th Ave and Nancy G Stavely 1315 15th St.
Fred W. Maurer 81 of Woodford died at home after a three month illness. He was born January 28 1885 in Cadiz Township son of Reinhold and Augusta Maurer. He married Ella Pickett September 20 1911 in Freeport. Survivors include his wife, a son Floyd, a brother Emil, two sisters Martha Scherer and Anna Wartenweiler, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Woodford Methodist Church with Rev. John E. Master officiating. Burial Franklin Cemetery. Friends may call at Erickson Funeral Home Argyle tomorrow and at the church after 12:30.
Michael Hollander 74 died at home after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Dodgeville with burial arrangements handled by Roach Minderman Funeral Home. He was a longtime resident of the Benton Shullsburg area before moving to Dodgeville in 1940. Surviving are his wife Elizabeth Dunn two sons Vernon and William two daughters Mrs. Clement Curran and Mrs. Aldro Martin a brother John and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Fred Steinhoff, 75, Platteville, died yesterday after a long illness. Surviving are his wife Lessie a daughter Mrs Roy Klinge and six sisters with a list of brothers. The obituary notes his ties to Platteville Belmont and Waukesha areas.
Shoal Ark Mrs Helene Ban buried Bismarck NC Mrs Alvin Martin Laona Mrs Dave Rhyne Chicago and two grandchildren Arrangements pending at Karman Funeral Home Platteville.
Wilbur Newman age 51 of 1446 Royal Blvd Glendale Calif died Saturday at 4 am of a heart attack in a local hospital. He was the son of Miles and Kate Stauffacher Newman a University of Iowa graduate, served with the FBI in World War II and 1946, owned a Glendale Chevrolet agency, leaves daughter Dorothy West and Ann a UCLA student, sister Marian Loudon, brother Harold Los Angeles. Services will be held today in Glendale.
Oxford students face a prohibition on fashionable short skirts with academic gowns during examinations. Dean Mary Proudfoot of Somerville notes skirts would look incongruous and distract from exams as both men and women undertake exams together.
A Washington education commission called for mandatory schooling for four and five year olds and urged federal support for the proposal as a landmark policy shift.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota VFW commander Andy Borg said President Johnson responded to his request for a citizens panel to define US enemies in the Far East. Borg, of Superior Wisconsin, said Johnson acknowledged the panel idea and that steps are being undertaken to commit to its announcement.
On May 31 in history events include the Johns town flood disaster between 2000 and 3000 deaths when the South Fork dam burst. Jutland naval battle began in 1916. The Sesquicentennial Exposition opened in Philadelphia in 1926. Churchill vowed to pound city by city in 1942. Okinawa’s Shuri fell in 1945. Dead Sea Scrolls deciphered in 1966. French Algerian talks over Sahara oil in 1956. Saigon cabinet changes in 1965.
Fire at the American Baptist Assembly dormitory in Green Lake Wisconsin caused about 25 000 in damage to a two story building on Monday.
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