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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1963
Page
6
Daily Record reports a partly cloudy and warmer night with isolated thundershowers in northwest and extreme north Wisconsin. Saturday turns mostly sunny and warm with lows in the 40s and highs in the 70s to near 80. Monroe Zone mirrors the trend with partly cloudy nights, mostly sunny days, and similar temperature ranges.
Since yesterday at 1 p.m. highs reached 68 and lows 47. A year ago temperatures were 63 and 54 respectively. Barometer read 30.28 at 1 a.m. and 30.32 at 1 p.m. Warmest spot Needles California at 107 while Pellston and Sault Ste. Marie Michigan were at 26. Sunrise 5:59 and sunset 5:38.
Real estate transfer involves James Tresner shifting ownership of It 3 block 5 Railroad's Add No 1 in Monroe to Evaline L Tresner. The transaction records a change of title within the city parcels.
A collection of county and state notices detailing juvenile and adult traffic violations. Cases include too fast for conditions, improper use or license, non registration, and failure to maintain vehicle control. Bonds ranged from 10 to 30 dollars with various suspensions and mandatory traffic school or license restrictions.
Monroe police report Hazel McDonald of Monroe had a speeding forfeiture of $10. The notice records the action against the driver for the cited violation.
Larry Roy Wieck aged 20 of Freeport and Pamela Koehner aged 19 of Orangeville filed a marriage license application in Freeport.
Obituaries list several deaths: Gerald Neiz, age 40, Benton. Thomas Heron, 87, Footville. William Leary, 78, Janesville. Mrs Herman Twachtman, 74, Evansville. William L. Smith, 80, Route 2, Freeport. Mrs Robert D. Gapen, Isla Morada, Florida. Mrs Annie Elizabeth Ostrander Rowe, 95, Friendship, New York.
Mr and Mrs Keith Yoerger Albany announce a daughter born Oct 3 at St Marys hospital Madison. Mr and Mrs Alex Bushle Belleville report a son born Oct 3 at Madison General hospital. Mr and Mrs Nathan Sacker Woodford announce a daughter born Oct 4. Mr and Mrs Kenneth R Clark Brodhead report a son born Oct 3. Mr and Mrs Donald Bliss Browntown announce a son born Oct 3.
A list of individuals linked to St Care Hospital including Walter Gempeler, Sheila Kay Cody, Walter J. Burkhalter, Edward Taets, Tracy Hatch, Joe Zweifel, Phillip Elmer, William Birkholz, and others in medical, surgical, and dismissal categories. The compilation names multiple residents from Brodhead, Shullsburg, Rockford, Monticello, Janesville, South Beloit, Tampico, Il. and surrounding communities.
The Monroe Vocational School reports enrollment of 408 after recent registration, 100 more than 1962, the largest in city history. A knitting course drew 89 students, with instructors Mrs. E A Janke and Mrs. Virgil Brunkow. Additional classes include key punch machines typing cake decorating welding woodworking and art. Some courses are full.
Stephen Digman Alvin Tschudy and David Pick are recognized as top FFA leaders from Monroe. Digman, son of Kendall Digman, is state soil and water management winner and Wisconsin Holstein state winner with a history as dairy exhibitor. Tschudy serves as Monroe FFA vice president with Ayrshire shows and state fair experience. Pick exhibits Holstein bulls, grand champion at Dairy Day and County Fair, and led county herd at the State Fair.
District Attorney Joseph D. Viney announced that Douglas Ebweter, 21, of Monroe, and Raymond Warne, 19, of Beloit, have agreed to plead guilty to the Sept 18 break-in at Monroe Country Club. Sentencing is set for Monday at 9 30 a.m. in Rock County Court at Janesville. detention warrants will be sent to that court.
Dr. Charles Goff an associate professor at Oshkosh State College will address the Monroe Jaycees at Marco's on Wednesday night October 16. He will discuss the merits and drawbacks of city manager and City Council forms of government with invited city officials to join the discussion.
The Stewart Chapter of the Order of DeMolay in Monroe will hold a public installation of officers tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Monroe Masonic Temple. The Chevalier degree will be conferred for the first time on three Stewart Chapter members by state officers, with a reception in the temple banquet room after the ceremony.
Mr and Mrs Harry Sauer visit from Brodhead and order First Communion gifts at Bet te's Gift Shop run by Mrs Harry Mc Guire Jr. 2003 14th St. E C Hamilton attends Pioneer Patrons meeting at Wisconsin State College and Institute of Technology with Richard McKnight at South Wayne and a dinner at the Student Center. Public Euchre at American Legion Hall Oct 2. E J Ryan of Chicago visits Monroe. No Hunting signs available at The Times. Martintown church chicken supper Oct 17 serving at 4 30 CST.
The regular Smith Lodge No. 31 F and AM session featured a Civic Night program with city officials on a panel answering questions about current civic projects. A luncheon followed, served by John Taft Henry Tschudy and Harry Williams.
A special five cent stamp honoring Cordell Hull, secretary of state under Franklin D Roosevelt, will be available at the post office here Monday. The green vertical stamp is printed in panels of 50 with an initial printing order of 130 million.
In Madison Superior Court, a charge against Dean Holcomb of Monroe was reduced to failure to have his car under control on the district attorney's motion. Holcomb was fined 50 dollars plus 3 dollars in court costs. The incident involved a vehicle that went out of control near Paoli earlier this year.
Mr and Mrs Jacob F Marty left Monday for Midland Texas summoned by the death of her sister Mrs Edward Driscoll formerly Hulda Schuetz of Monroe The funeral was held in Midland Tuesday
Joe Manser of Route 1 Brown town struck and killed a calf owned by William Zinhlke just south of Monroe on County Trunk K in heavy morning fog. The incident was reported to sheriff's deputies at 6 48 a m. No damage occurred to the panel truck Manser drove.
Randy Geiser six year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Geiser is reported slowly improving at Rockford Memorial hospital. He suffered burns on eighty percent of his body when a gasoline can exploded in his hands on August sixteenth and hazardous flames cast embers on a pile of smoldering rubbish leading to skin grafts.
Walter Gempeler, 68, of Brodhead head, admitted to St. Clare hospital as a surgical accident patient at 4 45 p m yesterday. He injured his elbow in a fall from a plow while working on a farm near Brodhead. His condition is reported as good.
A Polaris A-3 missile was fired Thursday from a surface ship in Cape Canaveral Florida marking the second straight successful test of a new rocket launching system.
Mrs. John Melsha of New Berlin led a year long drive against regrooving worn tires. Her activism with women’s clubs and safety groups helped win Gov. Reynolds’s approval of a bill prohibiting regrooving, a personal triumph she said stemmed from tire concerns and testimony at Madison hearings.
Governor Reynolds urged Midwest Democratic leaders to back Kennedy’s civil rights program and push state governments to act. He warned against treating civil rights support as bad politics while speaking at the Midwest Conference. Ted Sorensen will headline the final conference program.
Col Osvaldo Lopez Arellano seized power in Honduras after a bloody coup that toppled President Ramon Villeda Morales. The army pledged to end Communist infiltration as Villeda Morales fled to Costa Rica with his presidential candidate Modesto Rodas Alvarado. An army communique put 21 people still in the capital fighting. Tourism context appears about the Isle of Man with Manxmen calling visitors come-overs.
John Wasserstrass of Monroe, son of Mr and Mrs George Wasserstrass, will represent Wisconsin at the AAAS meeting in Cleveland December 26 and 27. He will present Interdimensional Measure a paper he prepared for Junior Academy of Science events at Platteville and Milwaukee. He describes Indemitry as a facet of multi dimensional geometry linking dimension to solids, vertices, faces and edges. Wasserstrass is a high school junior active in French Club Math Club orchestra Science Club 4 H and Youth Fellowship and has held officer posts in 4 H and Science Club.
The Brown Swiss bull W.B. Raven Proctor owned by Voegeli Farm Inc Monticello and Louis and Bill Elpert Decorah Ia won grand champion at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo Ia. Viney Farms Evansville had reserve champion calf W F Yvonne s Lorraine. Voegeli took top junior get of fire first and second in bull two and second in junior yearling bull plus junior and senior yearling heifers, with a fourth in aged bull and a ninth in heifer calf.
A rural intersection four miles east of Omro saw a school bus with twenty two aboard collide with a truck. Seven students were treated and released Thursday afternoon.
VIENNA The Czech government freed Archbishop Josef Beran and four other Czechoslovak bishops from confinement on Thursday night. Two bishops remain under arrest. Beran, 74, was jailed in 1951 for refusing to sign loyalty to the Red regime. The Vatican had learned he was living at a Moravian monastery. His release leaves Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary as the last top prelate under restriction in the region and suggests new efforts to resolve Mindszenty’s case.
Wisconsin lawmakers expect the $2 income tax filing fee to be repealed early in the new session. Sen. Walter Hollander and Assemblyman Glen Pommerening say the fee can be removed from the 1963 65 budget without new revenue. The fee aimed to raise 6.8 million dollars and was part of a budget tax settlement with Gov Reynolds and Republicans.
Curtis W. Gonstead welcomed as a new member during the Monroe Kiwanis Club gathering at the Swiss Wheel yesterday. WEKZ chief engineer Leo Stewart spoke on unidentified flying objects and sightings of flying saucers.
James Nash, 42, of Juneau Alaska, checked himself out of St. Clare Hospital after learning his 18 year old daughter was seriously mangled by a bear. An accident patient since Sept 23, Nash plans to hitchhike home to Freeport to catch a Canadian rig. He served 20 years in the Air Force and RCAF as a test pilot. He asked Green County Red Cross for $10 for food en route home. He lives on the Petersburg River. his mail boat stops weekly.
The Friends of Reynolds Committee announced the governor will start his re election drive with a $50 plate testimonial dinner in Milwaukee on Saturday November 9. Postmaster General John A Gronouski will be featured as the speaker. he recently served as Wisconsin tax commissioner.
Mrs. Rowe aged 95 died after a stroke last week in Friendship New York where she lived with her granddaughter Mrs Gordon Werely. Born January 26 1858 she was the oldest of four Ostrander siblings and survived by two daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral service and burial were planned for tomorrow in Friendship per a niece Mrs Floyd Pyle.
In Salt Lake City Negro leaders warned church officials that racial pickets could occur at the 133rd church parley if demands are not met. A spokesman tied the action to urging the church to back President Kennedy's civil rights program. The NAACP Utah chapter presented the demands at a meeting with LDS Church officials.
A compendium published by the Monroe office of Loews & Co lists securities with bid and ask ranges. Included are Aqua Chem, Northland, Bowman Products, Browning Arms, Bank of America Chicago Musical, Clark Oil, Dean Foods, Gateway Chemical, Lake Superior Dist, Jim Walter, Mad. Gas and Electric, Master Ottertail Power, Playskool, Rockover Bros, Sta-Rite, Thermogas, Wis. Power and Light, among others, with percentage figures beside each name indicating price ranges.
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