15000 AMC workers walk out over UAW contract talks
About 15,000 American Motors Corp workers in Milwaukee and Kenosha Wisconsin and Grand Rapids Michigan stopped work as a 10 am deadline passed without a contract. The walkouts hit the Hetw division in Milwaukee and the Kenosha assembly plant along with the Kelvinator division in Grand Rapids. Negotiations continued marathon style as observers signaled possible near agreement but no official word emerged.
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Detroit
American Motors Corp
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Wis
Grand Rapids
Mich
AMC
United Auto Workers
Wisconsin
Hetw
Kenusua
Kelvinator
CLAW
American Motors
UAW
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
American
U. S
Brunner Elected By Banking Group
Fred Brunner cashier of the State Bank of Belleville was elected president of Group 2 of the Wisconsin Bankers Association at a Madison dinner. The group includes banks in Green Dane Lafayette Columbia Iowa Sauk and Grant Counties. R. W. Blaha president of the Wisconsin Bankers Association spoke. office moves to Madison with George Froster as new executive director.
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Fred Brunner
State Bank of
Belleville
Wisconsin Bankers Association
Chanticleer
Madison
Green
Dane
Lafayette
Columbia
Iowa
Sauk
Grant
R. W. Blaha
Commercial and Savings Bank of
Monroe
Marvin Morgan
Malone Sisters
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Bank Association
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
George Froster
Catholic Cardinal Constantini Dies After Illness at 82
Celso Cardinal Constantini, 82, chancellor of the Roman Catholic Church, died tonight in Vatican City after a lingering illness. His passing leaves 54 cardinals living of the college, which normally numbers 70.
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Vatican City
Celso Cardinal Constantini
College of Cardinals
Homecoming Bonfire Costs Grand Junction Station
Grand Junction High School junior class planned a homecoming bonfire by gathering old tires from service stations. An attendant directed them to storage behind the building where tires were kept for recap. The ensuing blaze burned for four hours and filled three trucks, valued at about 1800 dollars.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Feldt, Son Buy Herd at Belmont
Point Farms Inc at Belmont reports selling its entire Hereford herd of more than 500 head to Ben F Feldt and Son of Monticello. The $100,000 deal includes 200 cows 200 calves and 100 yearlings to be delivered by November 1. About 320 head move to Feldt farms in Green County the rest to other area farmers. The 1440 acre Point Farm is also sold.
Polio cases rise in Detroit area in 1958 report
Detroit records 590 polio cases for 1958 with three new infections Thursday. Wayne County outside Detroit reports two new cases, bringing its total to 181.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Monroes and Middleton Face Off In Homecoming Clash
Homecoming events conclude with Monroes hosting Middleton at Recreation Park after a bonfire rally and parade. Senior players vow victory as starting lineup is announced and the band leads cheers amid a large crowd.
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Mary Ellen Summeris
Middleton
Karen Wagner
Times
Grid
Joan Swiggum
Elaine Signer
Beverly Koehn
Blythe
Butch) Myers
Gene Vincent
Anita Ainsworth
Steensrud
Bill Mauerman
Butch Myers
Witt
Myers
Kline
Marean
Ginner
Isely
Muenich
R B
O’grady
Lovelace
Grams
Ratings Took Dip as TV Quiz Show Rigging Charges Reach
New York NBCs 21 was dropped after Thursday night amid rigging allegations by former contestants across quiz programs. Pharmaceuticals Inc sponsor cited sagging ratings blamed on the quiz show probe. Concentration will replace 21 with Downs emceeing the daytime slot. Van Doren and Van Nordhoff denied knowledge of rigging.
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New York
Dotto
Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Concentration
Jack Barry
Tinue
Hugh Downs
Charles van Doren
Efrida van Nordroff
van Doren
Miss van Nardroff
NBC
CBS
Pheasant Season Opens as Green County Hunters Await Best Year
The Green County pheasant season opens tomorrow at noon alongside quail squirrel rabbit and raccoon. Clarence R. Benkert, district game manager, described the county’s pheasant population as healthy with a large carryover from last fall and hay cutting. More than 2,000 mature cock pheasants and nearly 2,000 hens and cocks have been released on public grounds across 18 000 acres, with reports requested on tagged birds to help tabulate results. The 44 day season sparked debate, with some league members preferring a nine day or closed season.
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Clarence R. Benkett
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Green County
Green County Conservation League
Bluff View Park
Brodhead
Benkett
Benkert
League
Department
Brooklyn
New Glarus
Albany
Browntown
Benton
Spafford
Argyle
Yellowstone
Footville
Evansville
Hanover
Deansville
Leuten
Mazomanie
Ray L. Beckman
Night School Enrollment Surges at Monroe High
About 150 adults enrolled in Monroe High School night classes, well above last year’s numbers. Vocational director Charles Mowbray announced make up sessions next Tuesday and Thursday evenings, with regular classes starting next week and some courses needing more students to proceed.
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Monroe High School
Charles Mowbray
Mowbray
Helland Named League Director at Green County Conservation League meeting
Duane Helland of Juda was named a new league director at Bluff View Park near Brodhead. Nine others were re elected including Leland Miller Monroe Township and Myron Stair Monroe. Wisconsin Conservation Department official Lester Voigt urged unity in conservation and praised Hoesly and Benkert while noting a pending Green County deer season and ongoing wildlife planting programs.
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Duane Helland
Juda
Green County Conservation League
Bluff View Park
Brodhead
Helland
Morris Grenzow
Leland Miller
Monroe Township
Emmanuel Fuchs
Max Voelkhi
Myron I. Stair
Monroe
George Bjork
Abner Anderson
New Glarus
Ronald Shrier
Decatur
Robert Wittner
Adams
Chester Pinnow
Jefferson
Ernest Zentner
Lester Voigt
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Voigt
Clarence R. Benkert
Kenneth Hoesly
Ray L. Beckman
Hoesly
Green County
Lafayette County
James Schwoegler
County
Soil Conservation Service
Myron E. Jeglum
Jeglum
Schwoegler
League
Joseph Riedweg
Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Meet December 6
The Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Association will hold its annual session on Saturday December 6 at Turner Hall. Registration begins 10 a.m. and dinner is served at noon. Four directors terms expire Frank Deininger Dale Merriam Conrad Stauffacher and James Ula with hold over directors John Burke Edgar Judd Ray Silver Robert Calvert and William Lauper. Burke serves as president Silver as vice president and G Fred Galli as secretary treasurer and manager.
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Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Association
Turner Hall
Frank Deininger
Monroe
Dale Merriam
Darlington
Conrad Stauffacher
Monticello
James Ula
Blanchardville
John Burke
Edgar Judd
Belleville
Ray T. Silver
Robert Calvert
William Lauper
Hollandale
Burke
Silver
G. Fred Galli
Death of Dr. Frederick Sardeson in Seattle
Dr. Frederick Sardeson 92 a renowned naturalist and geologist and one of 28 Americans listed in the first Who's Who in America died August 28 in Seattle after retiring there ten years earlier. Born February 22, 1866 near Argyle he taught at Minnesota and Freiburg and directed Minnesota soils surveys. Survived by wife Edna and daughter Marion Baruth in Seattle.
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Frederick Sardeson
Argyle Area
United States
America
Sardeson
Seattle
Argyle
Owego
Augsburg Seminary
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
University of Freiburg
Germany
Minnesota
U. S. Geological Survey
Minnesota State Securities Commissions
Texas
Oklahoma
Edna
Marion Baruth
Mrs Goodman in Critical Condition After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Mrs. Frank Goodman, 89, of 930 1th Street, is listed in critical condition at St. Clare hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage and a fall on basement stairs at her home yesterday. She was admitted at 1 40 p.m.
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Goodman
Frank Goodman
Lth
St. Clare Hospital
Dulles Plans Formosa Talks Amid Quemoy Tensions
Secretary of State Dulles will fly to Taipei to confer with Chiang Kai-shek under Article IV of the Mutual Defense Treaty. The talks aim to firm up future defense operations before the Quemoy truce ends, with no demilitarization of Quemoy or Matsu unless Beijing demilitarizes similarly.
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Washington
Dulles
Formosa
Chiang Kaishek
State Department
Taipei
Special Air Force
Rome
Pius XII
Chiang
U.S
China
United States
Quemoy
Matsu
Eisenhower
Red China
Mrs Slightham 49 of Janesville Dies at St Clare Hospital
Mrs Stanley Slightham aged 49 of Janesville died at 11 45 this morning in St Clare hospital where she had been a patient for three weeks. Survived by husband, funeral arrangements by Overton funeral home of Janesville.
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Stanley Slightham
Janesville
St. Clare Hospital
Overton Funeral Home
President Eisenhower Opens Six Day West Coast Campaign
President Eisenhower begins a six day tour to energize the GOP drive for Congress with stops in Cedar Rapids Iowa Kansas Abilene Denver Los Angeles San Francisco and Chicago He plans informal talks at the National Corn Picking Contest and visits the Cedar Rapids school He will urge Nixon to counter Democratic foreign policy criticism and continue travel with Mrs Eisenhower aboard the Columbine III, which landed ahead in Cedar Rapids.
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Kansas
Colorado
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Chicago
Eisenhower
Nixon
Columbine III
Cedar Rapids
Farm Belt
Abilene
Kan
Faisenhowers
Denver
John S. Doud
Fisenhower
Harvest Smorgasbord Set By Universalist Church Tomorrow
The Universalist church will hold its annual Harvest Smorgasbord starting at 5 p.m. tomorrow on opening day of the pheasant season. It has long been a traditional event drawing out-of-town hunters and remains open to all Monroe residents.
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the Universalist Church
Monroe
Cheese exchange holds steady amid mixed bids in Wisconsin
Values unchanged on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange with five car cheddar trades and one car pasteurized single daisies recorded. Bids remained unfilled for three car lots including 40 lb blocks and pasteurized daisies as trading tone stayed steady.
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Green Bay
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
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Feldt
Belmont
Recreation Park
GOP
Congress
John Callahan
United Fund of Monroe
Kenneth Schneider
Jack Kundert
The
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Schneider
Kundert
Marjorie Treuthardt
Joyce Fey
United Fund
Nathan Goetz
Dr. Sardeson
Chaing
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