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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1968
Page
7
Roggenkamp cites industry data showing 1965 auto liability underwriter loss of 301 million and a decade total of 1.6 billion. He says higher injuries thefts and medical/repair costs drive rate increases, not faulty underwriting alone.
The Freeport Sweet Adelines plan a Saturday Oct 19 performance at 8 p.m. in the Freeport Consistory Auditorium featuring Hawaiian tunes, costumes, two guest quartets including the Debutones and the Vigortones, with Ralph Sherman as host and Leon Rabe directing. Tickets are limited and sold by local Monroe women. Also noted is Army Lt Rodney D Gates, 24, son of Wilbur Gates of Monroe, assigned Sept 28 to the 160th Signal Group near Long Binh, Vietnam, with wife Shirley residing in Park City Decatur Illinois.
A compendium of notable events on this date includes Alaska’s formal possession by the United States in 1867 at Sitka, Hernando de Soto’s clashes in 1540 southern Alabama, the 1767 Mason Dixon boundary agreement, the 1892 opening of the first long distance telephone line between New York and Chicago, Soviet entry into Czechoslovakia in 1944, Nazi indictments in 1945, Douglas-Home succeeding Macmillan in 1963, a 1968 note on British troop withdrawal from Jordan, UN Security Council seat elections in 1965, and a Venus lander note from a year ago.
Carl Roggenkamp of General Casualty Insurance urged public indignation to push bad drivers off streets to lower auto insurance rates. He praised Governor Knowles highway safety program as a first step and noted the auto insurance industry adapts to a market growing by three million vehicles yearly while aiding accident victims.
Wisconsin weed control specialists Ronald Voerson and Walter Gojmerac tour the state to discuss the 1969 field crops weed and insect control recommendations focusing on corn soybeans and alfalfa. The program includes the 1969 field crops herbicide handbook with meetings in Janesville Crescent Park Oct 24 and Mt Horeb Nov 7. Reservations required by Oct 18 for Janesville and Nov 1 for Mt Horeb.
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