Eight Injured In Weekend County Crashes
Seven people were treated at St. Clare hospital after two county accidents. One crash at East Albany village limits involved six injured, including a Monroe girl and a Madison couple. Charges were filed against John J. Elmer and Charles D. Raisbeck for operating while intoxicated.
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St. Clare Hospital
East Albany
Highway 59
Monroe
Brooklyn
Madison
Sheriff's Department
Raisbeck
Monticello
Wilbur Zimmerman
Pope Pius XII Placed Under Rest Amid Illness
Vatican reports Pope Pius XII, aged 78, confined to bed with strict diet to restore strength as hiccoughs and swallowing difficulties return. Vatican secretary of state says the mood is cautious but not alarmed, with prior months of weakness requiring indirect sustenance.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican
Four from County Start Grassland Tour to Washington
Four members of Green County join a countywide Grassland trip to Washington D C this morning after meeting another group at Janesville. They will visit Beltsville Mt Vernon Gettysburg and the Department of Agriculture station while en route to Chicago for the International Livestock Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
Washington, D. C
Janesville
Sanford
York Township
Green County Progress
David Hermanson
Paul Hirsbrunner
Belleville
Green County Grassland Committee
Norman Everson
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Mt. Vernon
Gettysburg
Chicago
Miss Evelyn Johnson Crowned Cheesemakers Ball Queen
Browntown teen Miss Evelyn Johnson 19 is chosen Cheesemakers Ball queen at Turner hall event Wednesday night. She will crown the wrestling champion and present wreaths during the intermission and awards to other contestants.
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Evelyn Johnson
Browntown
Turner Hall
Miss Johnson
Morgan Johnson
Green County Normal School
South Wayne High School
Ernest Ammon
Route 5
Midwest Turn
Monroe
Ohio
John Marty
Brewster
John Leeman
Ernest Lehr
George Hollenstein
Darlington
William Senatsch
West Boycotts Moscow Parley
Moscow hosts a conference boycotted by the West as Molotov convenes a communist led gathering with participants from seven East European states and Soviet republics while Western powers refuse participation until Paris arms talks are ratified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Vu. M. Molotov
Russia
Spiridonovka Palace
Soviet Union
Foreign Ministry
Molotov
Britain
France
United States
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
East Germany
West Germany
Tiny Infant Fights To Stay Alive At Six Days
A six day old premature girl born three months early at St. Clare Hospital remains alive in an incubator weighing about two pounds at birth and one pound 12% ounces today. Doctors note small weight loss after birth is common and survival at this size is highly unusual. Parents' names are being withheld.
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St. Clare Hospital
Gales and Floods Hit Britain and Wales Farms
Heavy rains flood roads and fields across 17 counties in England and Wales with disastrous crop losses and reduced working time. Five days of gales wreck beach huts boats and sea walls, with at least ten deaths at sea reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Wales
'Glued On' Kernels Lose Corn Title for Pecatonica Brothers
Judges at the International Live Stock Exposition disqualified Arnold and Paul Karsk of Pecatonica Illinois after their DeKalb 822 ear sample was found to have kernels that appeared glued on. The disqualification sparked a redraw and a bid to crown a new corn king, with Willard C. Kirk previously named as reserve champion. The brothers blamed politics for the reversal.
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Chicago
Arnold
Paul Karsk
Pecatonica
Ill
Karsk Brothers
Willard C. Kirk
Jeffersonville
Ohio
Paul
County Officers Find More Loot From Thefts
County officers recovered a modern kitchen set and stove linked to thefts by two Monroe men. A coal and wood burner stolen from Mrs Mabel Reynolds south of Franklin school was found but not yet recovered. The kitchen set from a farm home south of Monroe was found in a Freeport second hand store. Delbert Boss and Norman Strothman, both indicted, pleaded guilty to larceny and await sentence as investigations continue in multiple counties.
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Monroe
Mabel Reynolds
Franklin School
Reynolds
Freeport
Ralph Kehm
Monticello
Delbert Boss
Norman Strothman
Kehm
Sheriff's Department
Lafayette County
Sauk County
Three Monroe Men To Leave for Service
Five volunteers and five pre inductees from Monroe area will report at the National Guard Armory on December 6 at 7 45 am. The group includes Kenneth L. Baker Donald J Brennan Robert J Hoesly Thomas E Ten Eyck and Richard L Williams with listed addresses in Monroe Brodhead Monticello.
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Monroe
Brodhead
Monticello
National Guard
Kenneth L. Baker
16Th Avenue
Donald J. Brennan
15Th Avenue
Robert J. Hoesly
Thomas E. Ten- Eyck
Richard L. Williams
Clark pleads guilty in husband’s death in Massachusetts
Lorraine Eaton Clark, 28, mother of three, pleaded guilty to second degree murder for the shooting and stabbing death of her husband in Salem Massachusetts and received a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Mass
Lorraine Eaton Clark
White House weighs response in China case over 13 Americans
Eisenhower administration weighs stronger action as 13 Americans jailed by Chinese Communists prompt calls from Sen. Knowland and relatives for measures beyond words. Dulles to address policy tonight in Chicago. British mediation continues amid China rejects US note. UN debate looms on Korean armistice implications.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Washington
Sen
Knowland
Dulles
Chicago
White House
Senate
United States
James Hagerty
U. S. Army
State Department
U. S
Peiping
United Nations
U. N
North Korea
Seven Lives Lost In State Mishaps
A weekend sweep of Wisconsin accidents claimed seven lives. Milwaukee child Juanita Whitlow, 13 months, died from burns after a house fire. Two young brothers, ages 3 and 4, survived with injuries as firefighters carried them from the home.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Juanita Whitlow
Edward Wischer
Rusk
Weyerhauser
Jerry Mansky
Chester
Minneapolis
William S. Nightingale
Hudson
Wis
Ruth Zacher
Wauwatosa
Highway 41
Milwaukee County
William F
John J. Connor
Last in Family Dies Of Jet Crash Injuries
Washington Clinton Md father John W Waugh Jr 25 died after suffering burns from a jet fighter crash in October that killed his wife and two small children in their backyard. He had been recovering following the disaster on October 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clinton
John W. Waugh Jr
Evansville Girl Wins National 4 H Honor At Congress
Seventeen year old Janice Abey of Evansville won a national 4 H Club award at the National Club Congress in Chicago receiving a 300 dollar scholarship in the frozen foods program. She prepared 1530 quarts of produce and 5147 pounds of meat for the home freezer and has 488 exhibits across dairy home grounds and food preservation.
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Evansville
Chicago
Janice Abey
Route 3
Rock County
Fred Abey
Robert C. Clark
Widow Admits Poisoning Four Husbands in Several States
Affable 49 year old Nannie Doss told investigators she used liquid rat poison to kill four of her husbands in Tulsa and elsewhere. Prosecutor says murder charges will be filed. other relatives’ deaths under investigation.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nannie Doss
J. Howard Edmondson
Samuel Doss
Edmondson
Frank Harrelson
Jacksonville
Ala
Harley Lanning
Lexington
N. C
Richard L. Morton
Emporia
Kas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Doss
Charley Braggs
Alabama City
Lanning
Morton
Okmulgee
Oklo
Harrelson
Fermi Remembered as Atomic Hero and Nobel Laureate
Enrico Fermi, 53, dies of stomach cancer in Chicago. Pioneer of the atomic age, he built the first experimental nuclear pile at the University of Chicago and influenced the development of the A bomb. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize for leadership in nuclear physics.
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Chicago
Enrico Fermi
Fermi
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
University of Chicago
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
University
Institute For Nuclear Studies
Italy
Rome
Pisa
Leyden
Gottingden
University of Rome
Sweden
Laura
United States
Columbia University
Navy Department
First Jets Reach Formosa for Nationalist China
The first batch of American F-86 Sabre jets for Nationalist China arrived on Formosa today, with about a dozen planes in the shipment, according to qualified sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipeh
Formosa
China
McDermott, Killer of Ohio Publisher, Escapes from Prison
Patrick Eugene McDermott, 55, who killed Canton Daily News publisher Don R. Mellett in 1926, again escaped Ohio State Penitentiary. He, with a woman visitor, left in a dormitory area as guards watched. Previously he escaped in 1929 with a rope made from clothing and was recaptured the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Don. R. Mellett
Canton
Mellett
Vice
McDermott
Claude Wideman Dies at 64 in Jefferson Township
Claude Elmer Wideman 64 of Jefferson Township died this morning at St. Clare hospital after a 10 week illness. He was born June 4 1890 in Rock Grove Township. Survived by wife Ruth Milks a daughter Mrs Frank Koch Juda a son John Wideman Juda four grandchildren and three step grandchildren. Services 2 pm Wednesday at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church Rock Grove with Rev Henry F Neal officiating. Burial in Rock Grove cemetery. Everson funeral home to provide arrangements.
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Claude Elmer Wideman
Jefferson Township
St. Clare Hospital
Wideman
Rock Grove Township
Ill
Mr. Wideman
John and
Corilla Jane Frankeberger Wideman
Ruth Milks
Frank Koch
Monroe
John Wideman
Juda
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Rock Grove
St. Paul’s Church
Henry F. Neal
Sharon
Everson Funeral Home
Relocation Damage Hearing Under Way
A County Court hearing to appraise value and damages from relocating Highway 11 between Monroe and Browntown began this morning in the Circuit courtroom with Judge Marshall L. Peterson presiding. The process may last two to three days as eight property owners’ applications are heard, with qualified appraisers called to testify. early witnesses include Sen. Melvin J. Olson of South Wayne and F. L. Buchschacher of Monroe.
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Highway 11
Onroe
Browntown
Marshall L. Peterson
Circuit
Melvin J. Olson
South Wayne
F. L. Buchschacher
Monroe
McCarthy Urges End to Censure Debate Amid Senate Hospital Return
Senate brief debate over censure of Senator McCarthy nears end as he, speaking from the Bethesda Naval Hospital, requests a Wednesday vote. He defends his blunt rhetoric while stressing national welfare and ongoing efforts to expose government communism. Galleries were crowded, with many leaving for a reception for new North Carolina senator W Kerr Scott.
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McCarthy
Washington
Sen. McCarthy
Senate
Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Lyndon Johnson
Tex
Jenner
R-Ind
Joe McCarthy
North Carolina
W. Kerr Scott
Scott
Vandalism Wave Reported Across Rock County
Rock County authorities logged a weekend vandalism spree affecting Newark and surrounding towns. A shotgun fired through a store window in Newark, rural mailboxes were knocked over between Newark and Orfordville and Brodhead, and a school window near Brodhead was smashed.
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Rock County
Newark
Orfordville
Brodhead
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John J. Elmer
Russell Elmer
Laverne R. Wickersham
Donna M. Wickersham
Joan Dettwiler
12Th Street
Patricia Wickersham
Charles D. Raisbeck
Stoughton
Pope
Guy Christmas Seals
Miss Johnson Cheese Queen
Roy Kundert
Blanchardville
John Marts
Hans Geissbuhler
Lamont
West
Pecatonica Brothers
Alger Hiss
Lewisburg
Atomic Pioneer
Claude Wideman
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