Park Board Approves 1953 Budget Plan
The Park Board approved a tentative $20 000 budget for 1953 to be recommended to City Council. Lincoln Park improvements include shelter house rest rooms beautification and trees removal. Recreation Park allocations cover salaries repairs and pool maintenance with $2 000 for new projects and $600 for replacement items. The plan also funds the Monroe Park Band Youth Center and playground programs with specified salaries and operating costs.
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Park Board
Recreation Park
Lincoln Park
Monroe Park
Lincoln Projects
Allan F. Barnard
Clifford O. Leck
City Council
Board of Public Works
Lee Mitchell
John A. Schindler
Wesley L. Dodge
Rudolph P. Reger
Louis F. Blanc
Nell W. Cunningham
Woman Hurls Rocks To Save Trapped Lancaster Man
Ray Slater, 60, of Ellenboro Township, survived an auto crash that left his car under eight feet of water in a creek. Neighbor Helen Beyer of Grant County threw rocks to break the rear window, allowing Slater to reach air before a wrecker rescued him.
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Lancaster Area
Lancaster
Ray Slater
Ellenboro
Lancaster General Hospital
Helen Beyer
Grant County
Slater
Richard
Barbara
Beyers
Tenney Named 1953 Medic Leader
Dr H K Tenney Jr of Madison a pediatrician and former House of Delegates speaker was named president elect of the Wisconsin Medical Society to take office in 1953. He succeeds Dr J C Griffith of Milwaukee who was installed as president today. Other officers elected take office immediately include Drs N A Hill Madison E M Dessloch Prairie du Chien A H Heidner West Bend A J McCarey Green Bay and W T Casper Milwaukee councillors.
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Milwaukee
H. K. Tenney Jr
Madison
University of Wisconsin
House of Delegates
Wisconsin Medical Society
J. C. Griffith
N. A. Hill
E. M. Dessloch
Prairie du Chien
A. H. Heidner
West Bend
A. J. McCarey
Green Bay
W. T. Casper
Councillors
Polio Benefit Concert Steers Funds to Local Emergency Fund
Monroe high school auditorium hosts a polio fund concert organized by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Monroe Park Band led by Allan F. Barnard opens with solo and band pieces. Mrs. Robert Rieder Jr. delivers coloratura soprano numbers with piano, ending with a Venite encore. Green County Masonic chorus director Delbert Bowles presents songs including This Is My Country and Give Me Your Tired Your Poor. The program closes with the Park Band performing march and overtures.
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Monroe
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Monroe Park
Allan F. Barnard
Charles A. Booth
Allan L. Barnard
Kentucky
Barnard
Robert Rieder Jr
Johann Strauss
Delbert Bowles
Green County Masonic Chorus
Country
E. O. Evans
Park Band
Temperatures Rise After Brief Dip With Weekend Showers
A pattern of slightly higher temperatures develops this afternoon with the mercury at 50 after a 34 night. It is expected to climb to the low 60s tomorrow with a cooler Thursday and a warmer Friday. Sunday looks cool with localized light showers next weekend.
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Thursdavy
Yanks Clinch 14th World Series Title With 4-2 Victory
The New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 to claim their 14th World Series crown. Mantle and Woodling homered, Mantle driving in the final run as Ed Lopat and Joe Black started, then Reynolds, Kuzava and Erskine handled the mound duties in a pitching miscue-filled game despite Brooklyn rallies.
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Brooklyn
New York Yankees
Brooklyn Dodgers
Mickey Mantle
Gene Woodling
Yanks
Mantle
Ed Lopat
Joe Black
Allie Reynolds
Preacher Roe
Vic Raschi
Reynolds
Robbie Kuzava
Roe
Carl Erskine
Yankees
Campanella
Lopat
Hodges
Shuba
McDougald
Furillo
Martin
Snider
Cox
Dodgers
Black
Reese
Noren
Robinson
Stengel
Woodling
Rizzuto
USDA Sees Potato Shortage Possible Turn to No 1
The Agriculture Department warned of a possible potato shortage next spring based on the September 1 crop report. It projected higher overall 1953 production for potatoes and other fresh market crops than in 1952 if weather remains average or better.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower and Truman trade barbs on Pacific Northwest drive
In a cross country clash Eisenhower targets Truman from Washington to Oregon accusing him of demagoguery while pushing plans for Western resource development. Truman rails against Eisenhower on a Colorado Springs train stop calling his foreign policy and Korea stance flawed. Stevenson attacks Eisenhower for aiding Soviet praise of prosperity as war born during a five day campaign swing through the Midwest Pacific Northwest and Detroit speech plans.
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Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Truman
Pacific Northwest
GOP
Washington
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Columbia Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
Brannan
Potomac
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Colorado Springs
Colo
Korea
Sens
Saginaw
Mich
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois Today
Soviet Russia
Stevenson
America
Illinois
Detroit
CST
CBS
McCarthy to Tour Illinois With Report on Stevenson
Senator McCarthy announced plans to visit Illinois on October 27 to deliver his background report on Adlai Stevenson. He spoke at Superior on Monday, saying the Chicago dinner would cost 50 dollars per plate and the event would be broadcast nationwide by radio and television networks.
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Associated Press
McCarthy
Stevenson
Superior
Chicago
Caravan Tells History Goals At Monroe Swiss Dinner
The State Historical Society caravan visited Monroe last night with five officials led by director Clifford Lord. About 80 residents heard how local history is being made alive through expanding historic sites and markets and the new American History Research Center. Dr. Herbert Kellar spoke on the McCormick collection, papers of Cyrus McCormick and early records of firms that became International Harvester.
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State Historical Society
Monroe
Clifford Lord
Turner Hall
Wisconsin
Green County
Herbert Kellar
McCormick
Cyrus McCormick
Reaper
International Harvester Co
Raymond Sivisind
George Waller
Society
American History Research Center
Donald McNeil
Medical History Project
Kalber Balleli
Knoefli
Bratzeli
Albert T. Lundgren
Clara Brawand
Anna O. Blum
County Society
Seven U N Posts On Hill Positions Overrun in Attack
In the Korean front a 15 000 strong Chinese assault overran seven Allied hill outposts and pressed toward White Horse Mountain and Arrowhead Ridge near Chorwon 45 miles north of Seoul. Heavy artillery and tanks dominated the fighting as Allied counterattacks sought to seal the captured ground.
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Seoul
White Horse Mountain
Arrowhead Ridge
White Horse
Panmunjom
Arrowhead
Chorwon
Korea
U. N
Night Class Plan Listed at School
The Monroe night school registers classes for 18 weeks starting Oct 16 with Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7 to 9 at the senior high office. Refund of $2 registration for 80 percent attendance. New course in practical wiring for electricians plus courses in typing shorthand bookkeeping arts and crafts clothing citizenship cabinet making and more with listed instructors.
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Monroe
Darlene Gratz
L. A. Koenig
C. W. Chase
Mary Randall
Lillian Gempeler
John C. Calder
Prin. T. R. Holyoke
Col Smith's Widow Faces Murder Charge in Tokyo
Mrs Dor othy Smith daughter of Gen Walter Krueger is charged with murder in the fatal Saturday stabbing of her husband Col Aubrey D Smith Gen Mark Clark's headquarters says she is detained under observation in a Tokyo Army hospital She is mother of two and held in hospital custody following the incident.
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Tokyo
Dorothy Smith
Walter Krueger
Aubrey D. Smith
Mark Clark
Oboe
Democrats Face Cash Gap As Fund Drive Starts
National chairman Stephen A. Mitchell warned that money scarcity hinders the Democrats. He cited Republicans as having abundant funds and described the party's eight day drive for five dollar contributions. He recalled near cancellations of Stevenson broadcasts in 1948 due to budget limits.
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Washington
Stephen A. Mitchell
Mitchell
National Press Club
Democratic Party
Gov. Stevenson
Polio Cases Reported as City Sees Two Week Low
Three year old Bette Jane Helland of Juda is diagnosed with spinal polio at St. Clare isolation ward. Health officer Dr. L A Moore says Duane Helland will be quarantined away from his food business while polio incidence is said to be subsiding with nine cases in two weeks across Monroe Green and Lafayette counties. Other patients improve at St. Clare and Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Bette Jane Helland
Duane Helland
St. Clare
Bette
L. A. Moore
Evening Times
Monroe
Green County
Lafayette County
Gratiot
Evansville
St. Clare Hospital
Madison
Wisconsin General Hospital
Elsbeth Gempler
Roy Gempler
Gary Thompson
Donald Thompson
William Stauffacher
Defense calls up 460 physicians and 204 dentists
The Defense Department announced that December draft will include 460 physicians and 204 dentists. The army will receive 285 physicians and 159 dentists, with remaining personnel assigned to the Air Force. Total physicians drafted since July 1951 reaches 2,694 and dentists 1,254.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Air Force
Postal Service Plans Oct 16 Changes Area Wide
Sharp revisions cut rail mail between Mineral Point and Janesville and suspend two Freeport Monroe star routes. A temporary Freeport Monroe star route and a mobile post office between Madison and Dubuque via Monroe will be added. Bids for the new route are due Oct 10.
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Burkhard
Mineral Point
Janesville
Monroe
Freeport
Madison
Dubuque
Milwaukee Road
Brodhead
Juda
Albany
Chicago
Orangeville
Browntown
South Wayne
Gratiot
Clarno
Winslow
McConnell
Red Oak
Cedarville
Star
Sciota Mills
Mobile
Verona
Basco
Belleville
New Glarus
Monticello
Darlington
Shullsburg
Leadmine
Benton
Hazel Green
Cuba City
Platteville
Dickeyville
Kieler
First polio death reported at Green Bay center
The Green Bay polio center recorded its first death of the year. Jim My Micoliczyk, 24, of Sobieski, is named in the notice.
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Green Bay
Jimmy Micoliczyk
Sobieski
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