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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1954
Page
1
The 1954 Wisconsin deer season claims 17 lives so far with 8 gunshot deaths, 7 heart attacks, and 2 asphyxiations. Notable fatalities include 13 year old Lawrence Lee of Eau Claire County and 26 year old Albert Anderson, among others across multiple counties.
Dealers report a one cent rise in September Grade C and two cent rise in grinders. September factory price schedule lists State brand 38, Grade B 36, Grade C 34 and grinders 31. October limburger price up one cent to 33 cents, continuing a summer trend from 29% low.
Mrs Joan Elmer of South Wayne was released from St. Clare hospital to spend Thanksgiving with her parents. She was shot by her husband Harvey Elmer Jr. in an incident at Spring Square on November 10. He killed himself later the same night at his parents farm near Monticello.
The dense fog shut down most flights and airports in Southern California, with crashes reported around Los Angeles. The Coast Guard rescued a crippled Navy crash boat Harmony eight miles north of Isthmus Cove, Catalina Island, as smog and fog contributed to health concerns including three infant deaths from respiratory illness.
Mrs. Harry G. Bronson 57 of Madison died Wednesday night in a Madison hospital after a heart attack at her home 714 Huron Street. Born Grace Broderman April 7 1897 in Woodstock Illinois she married Bronson April 24 1922. Funeral Monday at St Andrew's Madison with burial in Forest Hill cemetery.
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange reports unchanged cheddar values as of trading. Plymouth trading zone remained steady with bids unfilled on five cars of state brand cheddars at 32% cents and one car U S Grade A cheddar at 31 to 21 percent. one car state brand pasteurized single daisies offered at 34 percent.
Two Monroe men Delbert J. Ross and Norman Strothman pleaded guilty to larceny before Judge Marshall L. Peterson as sentencing was deferred to next week. They confessed to stealing items valued in the thousands and selling them at area auctions.
The Southern Wisconsin Breeders Cooperative for Green County will hold its annual meeting at Turnerhall Dec 8 starting 10 30 a m and ending 3 30 p m A noon lunch is served The program includes a full fiscal year report color slides of bulls and offspring Twelve U delegates to represent Green County will be named A Q and A period follows All Southern Wisconsin dairymen are invited to attend
WAUKESHA Wis. Les Paul and Mary Ford, famed recording duo, became parents to a 5 pound daughter born Thursday in a New Jersey hospital. The paternal grandmother Evelyn Polfuss of Waukesha announced the birth excitedly.
The state motor vehicle department said driving conditions improved in most parts of Wisconsin in the last 24 hours. In Hayward area highways were slippery. in LaCrosse and Antigo areas they were slippery in spots.
Cleveland jurors view photos showing blood spots at the Sheppard house as luminolDetect blood evidence introduced by prosecutor chemist Heny Dombrowski. Judge Blythin overrules defense motion for continuance amid objections to pre trial press coverage.
A two-pound baby born Tuesday morning at St. Clare hospital remains in an incubator today. Weighing two pounds at birth, the infant dropped to one pound eleven ounces before feeding began yesterday. Survival at this size is described as extremely unusual by a physician. if it lives, it would be the smallest survivor here. Parents' names are withheld.
An 18 year old Chicago youth, Raymond J. Glazewski, was held on breaking and entering and larceny warrants for a La Grange filling station after capture in a cornfield near Whitewater. A 15 year old companion was held at Woodstock. Officers pursued a stolen car from Fort Atkinson, the car overturned, and the youths fled. The younger boy later eluded capture, stole another car, and was caught by Illinois state police at Richmond.
Former Counter Intelligence Corps agent Benjamin Sheehan says 10 wastebaskets of secret espionage files were burned at Ft Monmouth just before the Army McCarthy hearings. He alleges consolidation by an unidentified CIC major targeted investigations dating back over two years and that he faced harassment after being suspected in a national security case.
Washington officials argued that Peiping’s imprisonment of 13 Americans as spies could backfire. They anticipated two outcomes including reduced Chinese diplomatic gains and a setback to Britain’s Formosa compromise efforts. Eisenhower sent Thanksgiving messages to families and vowed to seek all peaceful avenues, including U N involvement and possible mediation by recognizing powers.
Senator McCarthy plans to attend the Senate reconvened session on whether to censure him. His attorney said he would be released from Bethesda Naval Medical Center on Sunday after a treatment for an injured elbow. He had been hospitalized last week, prompting a recess until November 29.
The Norwegian Parliament approved German rearmament and NATO membership. Denmark also ratified the agreements and Britain’s House of Commons vote signaled approval.
FBI charges Lewisburg inmate Lewis Cagle Jr. with murder of former government economist William W. Remington in his room on November 22, revealing motive tied to ransacking plans. McCoy and Parker already charged. Remington died from blunt force injuries while serving a perjury sentence. Alger Hiss faces imminent release with cooperative conduct and possible congressional inquiries loom.
Miss Charlene E. Johnson 24, a teller at the Commercial and Savings Bank in Argyle, died from a skull fracture when a car she rode in overturned on a curve on Highway 78 north of Argyle. Driver Mrs. Doris Nybroten Paulson 24 suffered cuts, bruises, and shock. The crash occurred after turning from a Madison dance, as other occupants in both vehicles were unhurt. Sheriff said speed between 50 and 60 mph. road dry and weather clear. Johnson leaves parents and siblings. arrangements pending.
In New York stocks advanced in a moderately active early afternoon session. Leaders included Sea Board Railroad Union Pacific Standard Oil NJ Amerada Petroleum U S Steel United Aircraft Curtiss Wright Radio Corp Du Pont and Lowenstein while declines came from Youngstown Steel Goodyear Boeing American Dynamite International Paper and American Can.
Chinese Reds reportedly attacked a Nationalist post in the Formosa strait with motorized boats and junks. Initial claim said Reds landed on Wuchiu Island and were captured, later reports said they approached from three directions and were repulsed with several boats sunk by Nationalist air forces.
In Berlin an Army court martial disclosed that Soviet authorities refused political asylum to American deserter Sergeant James R. Bissonette, 38, of Grand Rapids Michigan. He was sent back to the West, convicted of desertion, given three years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge after disappearing from his Berlin infantry unit on November 4 for four days.
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