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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
8
Weather summary reports heavy frost overnight except near Lake Michigan where frost is lighter. Saturday will be fair and pleasant with low temperatures 29 to 33 degrees in the northwest and 32 to 33 in the southeast and highs in the mid 60s.
The report notes yesterday’s day shift high of 68 and low of 50 with today’s record. It compares to last year’s 60 high and 41 low. Barometer read 29.70 at 1 am and 29.80 at 1 pm. Yuma Arizona was the warmest at 98 and Helena Montana the coldest at 21. Sunrise was 6 12 and sunset 5 21.
Clarence Malott transfers lots 1 2 3 4 block 40 Railroad's add Albany. B C Spangler transfers lot 26 and half of lot 25 block 1 Dixon and Karlen's add Albany. Emil Steindorf transfers west half of fractional lot 3 section 28 village Albany.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley grants Dorothy Maxine Cummings a divorce from Charles W. Cummings of the U S Air Force on adultery grounds. She gains custody of two minor children with support. Married May 17 1944 in San Diego. separated June 27 1949. she served as an army nurse.
Monroe couple Viola Zentner and Glenn Carl Schwend obtained a marriage license.
Mr and Mrs William Winzenried of 1308 21st street announce a son born October 13. Mr and Mrs Dale Sterry of Albany report a son born October 14.
A roster from St. Clare Hospital includes surgical patients Mrs Mary Weiss of 1620 21st street and Palmer Clements of Juda among others. Medical cases noted Frank Brunkow and Mrs Joseph Quirk of Beait with several dismissals listed.
Eleven area mechanics enroll in a 17 week carburetion training program taught by Russell West at Burkhard Auto Electric. The course blends shop work and homework and will start a second class after certificates are issued by a St. Louis factory supervisor.
The senior high will host six vocational night courses meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9. Registration occurs at the start with a $2 fee refundable after 18 weeks if 80 percent attendance is met. Courses include typing bookkeeping clothing arts and crafts English citizenship manual arts and more. Men's basketball returns under director Monroe recreation. Additional classes can be added if 10 or more show interest.
The breakfast and celebration include out of town guests from Beloit Two Rivers Wauwatosa Stevens Point and Milwaukee among others. Attending are Mr and Mrs Klingberg and numerous state officers along with Dr Earl McConnell and Dr William McCormick. Reservations have been received from 27 past grand matrons and patrons of Wisconsin.
Harry T. Schindler, longtime Lake shire maintenance man, buys a third share in Maurer and Theiler garage at 1304 14th Avenue. The joint venture adds Schindler to the group with Nathan Theiler and Robert H. Maurer, now forming Monroe Motor Service. Schindler handles truck repair while Theiler leads tractor and auto work.
At 6 15 p m yesterday John Blum of 728 16th avenue and Mrs Edna Garwell route 1 collided as Blum tried to pull around parked cars in the 1200 block of 9th street wounding driver side fenders and front bumpers. A second accident involving a city water department truck driven by Adam Meyenschein at Spring Square damaged the right doors of a car owned by Fred Voegels 1115 30th avenue.
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and attending events in Wisconsin and beyond. Mrs Regis Gavigan and sons Ronald and Leroy from Monticello were in town. Florence Viegt attended a church camp directors meeting in Milwaukee. The Schuetze family visited Waukesha and Madison. Mrs Claude Eley returned from Janesville caring for her mother in law. Other visits include Browntown and Beloit residents at Milwaukee Veterans Hospital and a Chicago-to-Detroit trip. Marilyn Kubly left Badger airport for North Central College homecoming in Naperville.
Juda residents prepare a homecoming parade and coronation at Twin Grove Jefferson park for a 2 p m football game. A queen and attendants will be chosen from eight candidates in a Tuesday ballot. The event ends with a dance at the high school gym. Coastburg visitors will stay overnight to attend the six man game and festivities.
Norman Fredericks 20 of route 3 Merrill and Laura Hulke 16 were trapped in a wrecked 1949 convertible that slid into a shallow creek two miles southeast of the city. Fredericks died after being pinned beneath the inverted car. Hulke was rescued after about half an hour.
Walter Thoman, 46, of Monticello, fractured a bone in his left foot after falling from a platform while servicing a corn shredder yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to St. Clare hospital at 3 35 p m.
Sixteen cars of an eastbound Soo Line freight train derailed and piled up near Boyd Wisconsin station. Most cars were badly damaged and the incident disrupted local service.
Edwin C. Smith of Burlington, 52, was killed instantly when his car left highway 51 seven miles south of Stevens Point and crashed into a tree early today.
A 200 page public health report on the Sonora Pennsylvania smog disaster of Oct 27, 1948, details 20 deaths and 6,000 illnesses after a rare fog event. It cites 25 scientists, urges anti-pollution measures, and requests $250,000 to fund prevention efforts nationwide.
Grace Mahon, 17, wife of a Milwaukee engineering student, vanished en route from New London Connecticut to Milwaukee. Police hunt spans nine states amid belief amnesia from a March 1948 auto crash could explain her disappearance. She had been visiting her mother in New London since Sept 25 and was due in Milwaukee Monday after leaving New London at 11 Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Tallie E Everson and Mr and Mrs Eugene Clark attend an open house at the Wilbert Vault Co in Rockford Saturday. Mr and Mrs Marvin Sveom and Tallie Everson Jr attended Sunday. Prizes were presented to Tallie Everson Mrs Sveom and Tallie Everson Jr.
Tony Neiderberger becomes cheesemaker at Green County Co operative factory in Monroe replacing Ernest Wyssbrod. Franz Neiderberger will take over at the Advance March 1. Gottlieb Oberholzer travels to Switzerland October 28. Fred Galli and Glenn Erbe inspect entries for Wisconsin Cheese Makers display. Hang Leuenberger seeks his own factory. Hans Emil Hohl joins Kraus Cheese Co. annual Advance factory meeting elects Norton president Huffman secretary and Asmus treasurer. Raymond Clark returns home after a hospital stay for broken leg and knee injury from Otter Creek cheese factory accident.
The coyote now occupies ranges from the western United States to Ohio in the east and up into Alaska in the north, indicating a broad geographic expansion of its habitat.
Livestock shows steady to higher quotes with hogs at 18.40 for 240 260 lb, sows 16.75 17.75, and cattle 24.00 27.75 for 1000 1300 lb steers. Live poultry steady. eggs firm. grain weak with corn down. Receipts include 4,500 hogs and 1,500 cattle, color lines note Colorado cattle billed direct to dealers.
Wall Street trading opened with subdued activity as selling constraint led to fractional declines around a point in the Dow and broader market. Investors showed little urgency amid a light session.
The movement showed many leaders holding small plus signs while major firms such as Standard Oil (NJ) American Can General Electric Radio Corp International Harvester Sears Roebuck and General Motors remained in the background. Bonds were mixed and idling along.
Rev Paris Reidhead Jr. returns missionary from Africa to speak at Bethel Evangelical United Brethren church Sunday morning on Motives for Missions. He is a Sudan Interior Mission member who did language research among eleven tribes in the Anglo Egyptian Sudan. In evening he presents moving pictures at the Evangelical United Brethren church in New Glarus showing life among interior Africa tribes.
In Budapest the Court of Appeal upheld three death sentences for Laszlo Rajk and two conspirators for treason claiming they sought to turn Hungary into a satellite of Yugoslavia. The ruling also kept prison terms for three co-conspirators who admitted plotting to overthrow Hungarys Moscow backed regime with two receiving life terms and one a nine year term.
Polio incidence in Wisconsin continued to dwindle with only four new cases reported to the state board of health. The 1949 total reached 893, more than double last year at this time. Cases today appeared in Plymouth and Racine, and in Spencer in Marathon county and Sumner in Jefferson county.
The Wisconsin farm bureau announced director of organization T. C. Petersen has accepted a similar post with the American Farm Bureau federation.
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