Green county board session opens with salary hike pleas
Frigid conditions and a packed agenda mark the opening hour of the November session of the Green County board of supervisors. Salary raise requests lead off, including Grace M. Thorpe for a $10 monthly deputy raise and Otto Schneider seeking a 10 percent bump. The salary committee reviews requests tied to highway workers.
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Green County Board of Supervisors
Grace M. Thorpe
Register of Deeds
Helen Kummer
Otto Schneider
Court House
Army Plans January Draft Call for 40 000 Men
The Army announced a January draft of 40 000 draftees, bringing total wartime calls to 250 000 since Korea began. September and October calls were 50 000 each month, November 70 000, December 40 000. All conscripts have joined the Army. Navy and Air Force rely on volunteers. The January call is limited mainly by available training space and facilities.
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Washington
Army
Korea
Navy
Air Force
Veteran Farm Agent A V Miller Dies
Richland Center longtime agricultural agent since 1934 died yesterday. A former teacher he served as secretary of the Richland county fair association and held leadership roles as president of the Wisconsin Association of Vocational Agricultural Teachers and the National Vocational Agricultural Teachers Association. He also served as alderman of Richland Center.
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Richland Center
Vernon Miller
Richland County
County Board Sidelights At 10 12 A M
The county board met with all 28 members present and heard reports from Treasurer-elect Louis B. Stauffacher and Clerk Lois Faubel who takes office January 3 1951. Delinquent personal property tax for 1949 totals 851 23 with township precincts listed and a $6 000 request from the County Normal school board for a new oil burner heating unit before August 1951.
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Citizens Committee
Argyle Road
Warden W. Francis
Louis B. Stauffacher
U. S
Wilma S. Lengacher
Ruth Davitte
The
County Normal School Board
Lois Faubel
Cadiz
Clarno
Jefferson
Jordan
New Glarus
Spring Grove
Sylvester
Albany Village
Brodhead City
Welfare Agency Seeks $62 Million Budget for 1951 53
Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare requests a 62,028,734 biennial budget for 1951 53 to cover 35,677,500 for public assistance aids and 26,351,234 for administration and operation. Old age pensions would receive 20,920,000, dependent children 10,398,500, blind 638,000, general relief 450,000, disabled 1,161,000, and county administration 650,000 with smaller sums for other purposes. The plan will be reviewed by Gov elect Walter Kohler in hearings starting tomorrow.
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Madison
State Department of Public Welfare
Walter J. Kohler
George Keith
Division of Public Assistance
Libya to become independent UN state on Nov 25
British officials report Libya will be proclaimed a United Nations sponsored independent state on November 25. Emir Sayed Idris El Senussi of Cyrenaica is named monarch. A constituent assembly will convene in Tripoli to unite Cyrenaica Tri politania and the Fezzan with Tripoli as capital.
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London
Libya
United Nations
Cyrenaica
Sayed Idris el Senussi
Tripolitania
Fezzan
Tripoli
County Rural Youth Leaders Recognized
Miss Violet Durst of New Glarus and David Williams of Brodhead received pins for outstanding rural youth work at a Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Milwaukee. They represented Green County rural youth. several other attendees were noted.
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Violet Durst
Anna Durst
New Glarus
David Williams
Ira Williams
Brodhead
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
Hotel Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Green County
Phone Strikers Shift Picketing Across Wisconsin
Wisconsin Telephone Co picketing moved from Milwaukee to Madison and Appleton as a court delay on a temporary restraining order looms. Testimony was set for 2 p m before Circuit Judge Walter Schinz while unions dispute the legality of the pickets amid ongoing service.
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Milwaukee
Western Electric Co
Madison
Appleton
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Wisconsin Telephone Co. Oe
Malcolm Riley
WERB
Walter Schinz
CIO ‘Communications Workers Union
Donald J. Martin
Schinz
C. N. Goulet
Exchange
G. E. Vande Veld
Appleton Supversiory
Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
CIO Communications
Bell
National Labor Relations Board
CWA
Stock Prices Edge Higher During Rally
A timid rally followed a slow early decline in the market. Steel shares and autos led the recovery, outperforming the day’s average after morning weakness.
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New York
Williams Edges Kelly by 1406 in Michigan vote count
Democrat C Mennen Williams holds a 1406 vote lead in Michigan after a turbulent canvass. With 81 counties tallied and two remaining, results show Williams up as corrections from ballot counting bungles narrow the margin on Harry F Kelly’s 93375 tally. Officials warn further errors could still alter the outcome.
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Williams
Michigan
Detroit
C. Mennen Williams
Harry F. Kelly
Freemen
Kelly
Wisconsin Farm Bureau to Seek State Aid Increase
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau federation will vote tomorrow on boosting state aid to schools from 17 to 65 percent of operating costs. The proposal outlines two tax funding methods, including a $5,000,000 shift from utilities tax or a modified sales tax with groceries and low cost clothing exempted. Other resolutions oppose repealing the ten mile truck tax, raise minimum weight limits, and back a farmer operated surplus crop holding system not based on subsidies.
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Milwalee
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
Nina Warren Granted Visit Rights After Quarantine
Nina Warren daughter of Governor Earl Warren, who had polio, will be released from quarantine and allowed visitors in her Sacramento hospital room tomorrow.
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Nina Warren
Sacramento
Earl Warren
Canadian Pilgrim Flight Crashes in Alpine Cliffs
A DC-4 carrying 58 Holy Year pilgrims from Rome to Paris crashed into Mount L Obiou in Grenoble, leaving 58 dead including monks and priests. Rescue teams planned body removal at first light as guides reported wreckage high on the mountain and Vatican officials ordered a Mass for the victims.
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Grenoble
France
Rome
Valette Dosia
Mount
L’obiou
Bat
Pius XII
Vatican
Paris
Montreal
Giuseppe Butera
Brooklyn
Marguerite Catherine Bourgeoise
Order of the Sisters of Our Lady In
Canadian Wilds
Aire
Pius
Msgr
Paul Emile Leger
St. Peter’s Basilica
Tibet Appeals to UN Lacked Support in Security Council
Tibet sought United Nations backing to repel Chinese forces but faced no sponsor and no direct admission as a member. India and nationalist China viewed Tibet as part of China, leaving the case a civil war under UN jurisdiction. The United States, focused on Korea, signaled study but no stand yet. The council may meet soon to discuss a resolution demanding Chinese troops depart Korea.
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Tibet
United Nations
U. N
Security Council
India
China
United States
Tsepon Shakabpa
Trygve Lie
U. S
Ernest A. Gross
Red China
Korea
Peiping
Council
Prince Charles Turns Two At Clarence House Party
Bonnie Prince Charles is two today and attending a party at Clarence House. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will help entertain the toddler and future king of England.
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London
Bonnie Prince Charles
England
Clarence House
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Wisconsin Board Tests Patents on Rindless Swiss Cheese Plan
Wisconsin agriculture officials studied the next step in rindless Swiss cheese research after the state board authorized contesting Kraft Foods patent rights. The move, approved in Milwaukee, aims to determine state rights to proceed with research and production, with Kraft products already made in Illinois for two years.
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Wisconsin Agriculture
State Board of Agriculture
Kraft Foods Co
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
A. E. Mahler
Department of Agriculture
Times
Madison
Kraft
Chicago
Illinois
Madler
Southern Medic Urges Initiative by Doctors
Dr. Hamilton W. McKay of Charlotte North Carolina president of the Southern Medical Association told the annual meeting that the American medical profession must clean its own house or lose its freedom. He warned that if the public cannot see organized medicine taking vigorous steps to correct shortcomings it will demand external initiative.
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St. Louis
Hamilton W. McKay
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Medical Association
General Medical
California Probers Link Hoodlums to Tax Office Evasions
The California crime commission reports ties between criminals and federal tax officials and notes no top racketeer convicted of income tax fraud in the state. It cites Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen’s $200000 mansion and cash-heavy payments by Sam Termini, arguing tax evasion explains lavish spending.
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Sacramento
California Crime Commission Today
California
William H. Standley
Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Stockholders Vote to Sell Browntown Telephone Company
Browntown Telephone Co stockholders formed a seven member committee to pursue a sale. Offers of 10000 and 12000 from United Telephone Co via Albert Stoldt were received. Board President Ole Sandley to appoint four new members. three appointed already. Existing directors Sandley Coryell and Craigo join the committee.
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Browntown Telephone Co
United Telephone Co
Albert Stoldt
Ole Sandley
Naned
12Th Avenue
Herman Lueck
Oscar Evanson
Sandley
John Coryell
Roy Craigo
Rev A H Schoenfeld 75 dies long time Wisconsin pastor
The Rev A H Schoenfeld, 75, pastor of the Lake Mills Congregational church for 17 years and former grand chaplain of the Free and Accepted Masons of Wisconsin, died today. He previously led churches in Dodgeville Spring Green Mineral Point and Milwaukee and earlier taught school in Illinois and Kansas and worked as a YMCA field secretary in Kansas.
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Lake Mills
A. H. Schoenfeld
Free and Accepted Masons of
Wisconsin
Schoenfeld
Dodgeville
Spring Green
Mineral Point
Milwaukee
Illinois
Kansas
YMCA
Wisconsin Dean Named to Dental Research Council
Dr. C. A. Elvehjem, dean of the University of Wisconsin graduate school, is named to a council on dental research by the U S Public Health Service, announced in Washington.
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Washington
C. A. Elvehjem
University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Council On Dental Research
U. S. Public Health Service
Shivering Troops Advance Amid Freezing Korean Front
U S Seventh Marine Regiment captures Hagaru on Changjin reservoir southern tip amid reports of little to no opposition. Fronts across Korea endure subzero winds with 21 below zero readings and Arctic conditions. American units push toward Manchuria while coastal and western sectors see patrol actions and limited ground fighting.
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U.S
Tungsan
Yongbyon
Kum
Won
Chungjin Reservoir
Line
Orangchon River
Korea
U. S. Seventh Marine Regiment
Hagaru
Changjin Reservoir
First Marine Division
Seoul
U. S. First Corps
U. S. Eighth Army
Pungsan
Kapsen
Seventh Division
Pusan
U. S
Rochester
U. S. Tenth Corps
Hapsu
Pyongyang
Far West
Eighth Army
U. S. First Cavalry
Pakchon
Sinuiju
Manchuria
Yalu
Three Guilty In Miami Brassiere Brigade Case
A six man criminal court jury in Miami convicted three women after a 24 minute deliberation. The defendants were found guilty of smuggling coins out of the Southern Bell Telephone Co counting room using their brassieres.
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Miami
Southern Bell Telephone Co
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Harold J. Lamboley
Judical Department
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North Korea
South
A.V. Miller
County Board
Harry A. Keegan
Monroe
Eugene
Free State
County Rural Youth Leaders Recognized
Stella Lee
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Garrett
Dolores Burket
Ray Lee
Alpine Peak
Prince Charles
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