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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1950
Page
2
The Monroe Daily Journal, founded October 13 1898, remains under the same management. It lists Associated Press Inland Daily Press Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation as members. Subscription rates and office hours are noted with AP republication rights.
An editorial asserts council sessions on the first and third Tuesdays at city hall are public. It emphasizes citizen access, debate, and the democratic duty to attend meetings to learn municipal function and influence local governance.
The park board considers resurveying recreational needs and programs as it searches for a new director to replace Ja. Municipal facilities in Monroe have advanced, expanding age groups and objectives, with benefits to be kept or eliminated as progress dictates.
Rev. Wilford H. Evans of Sheboygan was chosen moderator of the Wisconsin Congregational Conference at the 112th annual session. He succeeds Harold Frame of Racine and has led the First Congregational Church in Sheboygan since 1930. Delegates also re elected Rev. Jess H. Norberg of Madison to a second term as superintendent and confirmed Harold F. Brandenburg of Madison as conference treasurer.
Alvin Helgesen, owner of Helgesen Bros. farm southeast of Albany, is convalescing at his Evansville home after an accident Saturday when his leg was drawn into a silo filler blower. The injury mangled the leg from ankle to above the knee and required 15 stitches by an Albany physician.
A compendium of reminders from October 5 dates across years 1910 to 1990 highlights enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission in 1940 on cheese prices, a Pennsylvania powder plant fire suspected as sabotage, past century social notes from Wisconsin including marriages and local trades, and transportation cuts like Milwaukee Road line changes. The entries sketch legal, social, and industrial threads tying decades to a common date.
Monroe is seventh among 45 mid sized cities in fire rating based on the Fire Insurance Rating Bureau analysis. The bureau scores seven major items water supply fire department fire alarms police building laws hazard ordinances and structural conditions with climatic and divergence factors. Total deficiency points for Monroe total 2651 of 5000 with Whitefish Bay leading at 2146 and Waukesha at 2191.
Edmonton premier E C Manning opened Canada's first major crude pipeline linking Alberta to eastern markets. The 439 mile Edmonton to Regina leg begins with 95 000 barrels daily when full operation arrives next spring, with 70 000 bpd eastward and about 55 000 bpd to Superior Wisconsin for Ontario shipments.
A Boy Scout candlelight ceremony and Cub Scout charter presentation will occur at 7:45 p m Sunday at Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed church. Irving Eichorst leads the program with awards, poems, and insignia presentations as Cub and Boy Scouts display in the church basement.
Patricia Kenerney a 10 year old girl awoke from a deep sleep after a 40 hour period when a fire siren outside her home blared as engines passed by. Her father Michael a 44 year old engineer recounted a similar 14 day sleep in August 1949 and Patricia was awakened by the siren and fire truck proximity. A physician who treated her before declined to discuss the case further.
North Hollywood mourns as Harry Crosby father of Bing Crosby dies at 79 from heart ailment at home. Bing rushed from Pebble Beach to be at his father’s side before his death. The Bing Crosby radio program was canceled in response to the loss.
A tropical hurricane altered its track and moved northeastward toward Newfoundland after veering from a predicted Nova Scotia coast. Forecasts indicated winds up to 70 miles an hour in gusts along the southern Newfoundland shore as it swept eastward.
Representatives of the south central association of county welfare departments from Green county and six other counties will meet tomorrow in the circuit court room. Sessions begin at 10 a m and continue all day with a Swiss Wheel luncheon at noon. Round table discussions on welfare department problems are planned with speakers William Fries from the Madison social security field office and district supervisor Marvin R. McCann.
Madison announces a citizens' committee to plan Wisconsin's observance of United Nations Day October 24. Dr. L. H Adolfson of Madison named chairman with members Mrs. E. H. Miles Fort Atkinson, Mrs. Alf Gunderson La Crosse, Clayton Stockwell Janesville, Nathan Pusey Appleton, Maj. Gen. Jim Dan Hill Superior, George Haberman Herman Steffes and A. F. Mandelker Milwaukee.
Mary Guthrie, 19, a Eau Claire State Teachers College student, sold her 891 pound Aberdeen Angus for 1 158.30 dollars at the Northwest Wisconsin junior livestock show the highest price in 10 years. Swift and Co of Winona bought the reserve champion for 38 cents a pound from Albert Becker 16 Eleva.
Mrs Joseph B Taft 69 died at 8 a m in St Francis hospital Freeport after a lengthy illness. Born Fern Rice in West Point township she married Taft February 24 1901 in Lena. Survived by widower three brothers and four sisters. Services set for 1 30 p m tomorrow at Cardascio funeral home and 2 at Winslow Methodist Church with burial in Rock Lily Cemetery.
Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. called General Douglas MacArthur one of the greatest military leaders of all time. He credited MacArthur with planning the Inchon landing as the most masterly and audacious strategic stroke in history during remarks at the American Life convention.
In a local Battle of Britain anniversary contest, the prize is three months of free haircuts. The winner is W. J. Thompson, a local barber.
Sgt. Helegesen announced vacancies exist in air force and army quotas for October. Openings for women with high school diplomas in WAC and WAF will be doubled in November. Reservists urged to notify him upon receipt of active duty orders.
The Wisconsin High School Forensic Association schedules five speech institutes for pupils and instructors. River Falls on Oct 7, Neenah Oct 14, Eau Claire Oct 21, Park Falls Oct 28, and Madison on Nov 11. The association will hold its annual meeting in Milwaukee on Nov 3.
Jakarta reports that U S Ambassador Merle Cochran criticizes anti American remarks by a Chinese government official. The protest is described as receiving sympathetic consideration by a high government official.
Sheriff Mat Solliran announces increased patrols across Green County during Halloween. Pranksters face penalties up to three years in prison or a $1000 fine for tearing down rural mail boxes, with reports to local law enforcement and the post office inspection service in Chicago.
Ancient Roman belief held Vulcan a smith god with a forge inside Mt Etna a volcanic peak. The legend ties volcanic activity to the blacksmith deity and explains fiery eruptions as divine craft.
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