Questions Eyed By United Fund
A breakfast meeting with Monroe United Fund captains and workers, led by campaign chair Frank Mulligan, reviewed Q A on giving once for 17 services, agency approval, budget decisions, and cross-border help from Red Cross Salvation Army Travelers Aid and USO, plus why government should not run such private efforts. Some agencies feel they Turn to No. 1, Back Page.
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Monroe United Fund
Frank Mulligan
Monroe Toastmaster’s Club
United Fund
Our
Monroe
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Travelers Aid
USO
What's the Hurry Daily Doggerel
Clair R. Munns reflects on the approach of autumn with cool nights red sumac and kids returning to school signaling the coming winter.
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Clair R. Munns
Little Ginseng and Arrowheads Fill Roy Kolb’s Hobbies
Roy Kolb, 38, of Monroe, displays arrowheads and other stone tools at The Casino Monticello and South Wayne Bank. He owns about two thousand artifacts, including Folsom points dated to 10 000 to 15 000 years old, with many items from the Pecatonia River Valley area. Kolb also collects obsidian heads from Washington and repairs clocks at Kolb's Klock Shop while working as a customer engineer for Simplex Time Recorder in Madison. He searches for arrowheads after rains in spring and for ginseng in fall, noting ginseng can fetch up to 15 dollars a pound.
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Ollie Fink
Roy Kolb
Monroe
Kolb
Monticello
South Wayne Bank
Pecatonia River
Green
Lafayette
Washington
Simplex
Madison
Walter Fahrney
William Briggs Sr
William Briggs Jr
Briggs
State of Washington
Fahrney
Arlin Hanson
Stanley Johnson
Jerry Briggs
Ervin Kla
Wilbur K. Dehmer
Beloit Educator Publishes To Hell with the Kids
Verna King Gruhlke, a 30 year public school veteran from Beloit and South Beloit, has released a book criticizing federal policy and crowded classrooms. She proposes 12 month schooling, blended attendance, and argues teacher shortages are overstated while calling for better trained, dedicated teachers. A Nora clerk serves 55 years in Illinois Daviess County.
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Verna King Gruhlke
Beloit
South Beloit
PTA
Ilinois
Nora
Daviess County
Illinois
Family Biographies Highlight Slocum Children and Early Women’s Office Ballot Milestone
The memoir-like notice traces Helen Slocum’s long life from 1913 election after women gained voting rights in Illinois to widowhood in 1912 and a lifelong Nora grocery business with sister Bess Reiland. It profiles Kayetta Slocum employed in Murphyboro, Ken Slocum a WIU football player and former Rock Valley baseball member, and notes father Kenneth D. Slocum’s 4-H and Yo-Ag posts plus Carbondale SIU honors.
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Illinois
Bess Reiland
Nora
Kay
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
Ken
Rock Valley
WIU
English Couple Has Sextuplets In Birmingham
A UK couple welcomed sextuplets after 10 years of marriage. One baby died shortly after birth at Birmingham Maternity Hospital. The remaining five were two girls and three boys born two months premature weighing two to three pounds each.
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Birmingham
England
Sexa
Birmingham Maternity Hospital
Sheila Ann Thorns
Mrs. Thorn
Fortas Withdraws Nomination as Chief Justice
President Johnson accepted Abe Fortas request to withdraw his nomination as chief justice amid a Senate filibuster. Johnson called the Senate’s action historically and constitutionally tragic after a lengthy fight dating from June 26.
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Washington
Johnson
Abe Fortas
The
United States
Justice Fortas
Senate
Fortas
Area Man Injured In Traffic Mishap Near Winslow
Claus M. Busker, 61, of Route 2 Winslow Illinois, was injured Tuesday morning when his car went off W McConnell Road near N Belleview Road in Stephenson County and crashed through fencing. He was taken to Freeport Memorial Hospital with a fair condition.
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Claus M. Busker
Winslow
Ill
W. McConnell Road
N. Belleview Road
Stephenson County
Illinois
Freeport Memorial Hospital
Court Decision Delayed Over Urban Renewal Review
Wisconsin Supreme Court delaying ruling on Urban Renewal and on Monroe’s revised municipal code. City Atty. Schmitz said the decision, expected yesterday, may come Friday with no fixed date. The suit challenged an advisory referendum on the $817,725 west side development hit by the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Monroe
William J. Schmitz
High Court
Arthur Luebke
Beloit
George Clark
Stella Prechel
West Side
Palm Sunday
Walter R. Ekum
Planning Commission
Monroe Clinic
10Th Street
15Th
16Th Avenues
No. 3
Nude coeds dance in Wisconsin campus Peter Pan
At the University of Wisconsin in Madison two nude coeds danced in a student version of Peter Pan provoking police warnings. District Attorney James Bell warned performers would face obscenity prosecutions and warrants were anticipated. More than 1,000 students attended the two performances despite the controversy.
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Commerce
Village board approves cost sharing for tree removal and sidewalks
Albany officials approve amendments to village ordinances enabling cost sharing with property owners for dead tree removal and sidewalk repairs retroactive to July 1. The plan offers lower removal costs if individuals arrange removal through the village clerk Ruth Bly. land purchase disputes and sewer plant plans remain unresolved as funds await state and federal sources.
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Village Board At
Albany
Ruth Bly
Hillcrest Cemetery
Rev Koehler Named New Pastor at St John’s United Church
The St John’s United Church of Christ congregation voted to extend a pastor al call to Rev Wolfgang C Koehler after a trial sermon at 9 and 10 30 worship services. He will serve with Rev Milton G Petzold and replaces Rev Calvin P Fischer who moves to Wisconsin Rapids.
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Wolfgang C. Koehler
St. John’s
St. John’s Church
Koehler
Calvin P. Fischer
First Congregational United Church
Wisconsin Rapids
Rhineland
Germany
America
Sheboygan
Mission House College
Lakeland
Mission House Seminary
The
United Seminary
United Church of Christ
Neillsville
Friedens United Church of Christ
Fort Atkinson
Northwest Wisconsin Association Division
Winnebago Indian Mission
Wisconsin Conference Commission On
Elizabeth
Lakeland College
Erich
Matthew
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Illlinois Employment Service
Murphyboro
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Macomb
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Green County
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Orfordville
Miss Shotton
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Loning
Dodge
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Madison Police Department
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Water Street
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