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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1949
Page
2
The Evening Times pledges to strengthen its daily news role and community service during Newspaper Week. Editors vow candor and clarity in reporting, upholding the press as a watchdog while serving the general welfare and civic needs of readers.
The Berlin air lift marked a triumph for Western democracies in the Cold War as the Russians ended the blockade weeks ago. The air shuttling of food and supplies inspired morale in the western zone and signaled the likely end of this operation though readiness remains for a future impulse if needed.
A two story Beaver Dam building suffered severe damage after grease from a stove ignited the roof causing a collapse. The Knights of Columbus club rooms on the second floor were destroyed, the first floor restaurant and Elks clubrooms were damaged, along with three nearby buildings. Firemen estimate losses near fifty thousand dollars and several firefighters were injured. Fireman Nelson Gilmore was hospitalized after smoke inhalation.
Workers trouped back to the National Pressure Cooker co. plant after a two day strike including Sunday. CIO steel workers voted 237 to 95 to return to work under an extension of the 1948 49 contract.
George Cardinal Mundelein, 67, archbishop of Chicago, dies suddenly on October 3, 1939. Other items recall local events from Green County including a talk by Judge Marshall L. Peterson on Science and Youth, injuries from a store fall, and a wedding between Miss Irene S. Mann and William Howe.
Official Treasury data show a first quarter deficit near 1.4 billion dollars as federal revenue lags. Officials warn deficits could reach 2 to 7 billion for the year, with 14 billion dollars in appropriations awaiting action and spending climbing above peacetime records.
F. A. Pattridge of Kingston will be the new cashier of the Bank of Albany replacing Bert Ketter who left for a similar post in Chilton. Pattridge has 20 years banking experience and comes from the Kingston Dalton bank in Green Lake county. He will arrive within two weeks with his wife and five year old son joining once housing is secured.
A 10,000 ton American tanker has lost her propeller in the Atlantic about 400 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina, and a tug has been dispatched to aid her from Baltimore.
Funeral services for Oswald Garrison Villard liberal editor and author who died Saturday at 77 will be held tomorrow at 10 a m at the Unitarian Church of All Souls. Burial will be in Sleepy Hollow cemetery Tarrytown N Y. Villard crusaded for reforms from the Spanish American war to World War II and was grandson of William Lloyd Garrison the abolitionist. For many years he was publisher of the New York Evening Post.
Enthusiastic PTA members praised nine workshops held at the district conference after noon sessions in the senior high school. Genevieve Arensdorf and Lawrence L. Kitchen of Monroe spoke on health and lunch programs and on recreation and safety with Baraboo and Prairie du Lac colleagues.
Lawrence J. Parish of Milwaukee and New York, an industrialist, died in a hospital after four weeks illness. He joined A. O. Smith Corp. in 1923 and later was associated with Cluett and Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts.
Merrill reports the death of Rev. Ernest Schedler aged 79, a retired Lutheran pastor born in Germany. He began his ministry at Mondovi and served in later assignments before passing away Saturday.
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The 21st annual tri state coon and fox hound field trial ended with Salty owned by Leo Burke of Stockton Illinois taking both line and tree. Over 4 000 spectators watched 250 entrants from Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota compete in sixteen heats and consolations. A conservation display drew interest with wildlife specimens. Attendees from Monroe included John Hauser Jacob Kubly T A Hosely Willis Van Horn and the Schneiders. No method has been developed to make steel commercially without manganese.
The Swiss cheese market for the week ending September 29 remains firm with increased bids for state brand and some forward buying. Prices rose up to two cents on state brand, and one cent on grades B and C. State brand prices range 45 to 48 cents per pound f o b Wisconsin assembling points, with other grades in steady demand.
A restraining order stopped a Milwaukee gas strike as six unions faced court action. The injunction, issued by Circuit Judge Roland Steinle, halts overnight and weekend work while the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board pursues the case under the state utility anti strike law. The dispute centers on overtime pay for Saturday and Sunday shifts.
Dewitt MacKenzie reports that Moscow calls for total ban and stockpile destruction with veto rights, while the United States and allies demand inspections by UN bodies, delaying agreement. Western unity tightens as Russia’s atomic weapon is disclosed, with Canada and Britain joining in development. A UN path to world problems may be urged by the President as efforts continue.
Tri Town Homemakers club lists officers led by President Ambrose Wenger and Vice President J Herman Elmer. October prospects named Mrs Edward Soper and Mrs Wenger. Fun night chair Mrs Frank Schiesser and Christmas program head Mrs Clarence Itten. Next meeting October 13 at Mrs Robert Wild home.
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