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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1949
Page
1
Cars jammed Green county highways as hunters converge on Monroe for the opening at 1 p m. Men and women shop for licenses and ammo while farms post No Hunting signs surpassing 1 500. Hotels and barns prepare for a weekend influx of pheasant hunters.
Weather notes a brief warm spell followed by a sharp drop and strong winds. A rain shower lowered temperatures from 58 to 50 in an hour, then a frigid night near 33 degrees before a rapid day rise to 52. The forecast warned of a chilly Sunday with possible rain or snow and winds.
Beloit based Thomas Wallin becomes clerk of the Green County selective service board. Mrs Clara Ritter resigns to join Sgt Russell Ritter at Chanute Field Ill. Wallin will be in White Block office each Thursday 9 am to 4 pm. Registrations of those turning 18 may be made on Thursdays or at the county clerk's office on other days.
Comdr. Marvin Hert of Litchfield naval air station says a helicopter will lead a ground party to wreckage possibly from two or three missing navy fighters. A searching pilot reported wreckage 10 miles northwest of Superior, with Charles S. Barnes spotting two shattered planes about 500 feet apart on a hill crest.
London shoppers in the west end sparked a buying spree as rumors of higher purchase taxes to curb inflation spread. Stores reported the busiest morning of the year with housewives leading the crowds.
The Green county cheese heritage portrayed along Madison road near Monticello traces the 1869 start of Nick Gerber’s Swiss cheese operation with five patrons at the first factory, its later ownership, and nearby historic farms like Voegeli Valley Grove and Meadow Valley, noted for Brown Swiss breeding and preserved kettles, barns, and early dairying structures.
The text traces Strip Crop Pioneers Conrad Stauffacher Jr and family who arrived from Switzerland in 1871 and built a 600 acre property. It notes their descendants Fred H and Conrad Jr taking over in 1923 and advancing contour farming, then guides along to New Glarus woods state park and the Old Lead Trail marker.
Brodhead hosts a rain disrupted homecoming parade to boost the varsity football bid but Argyle dampened events as Brodhead fell 46 to 24. Kindergarten to Future Farmers floats win prizes. Billy Pfister and Erickson of Argyle suffer injuries. Betty Ehlert and attendants lead parade and a dance follows.
The Mc diary of J C Steinman spans 40 years and records the locations of Green County s first cheese factories including the limburger plant near Meadow Valley and the early Swiss factory on the Dietrich Freitag farm He served on the county board and helped shape local industry dying in 1942 at 88. Boulders for factory sites were sourced from Monticello after local stone could not be used.
Eleven leaders of the Communist party jailed after conviction face five year or three year terms and ten thousand dollar fines each. They filed appeals costing five dollars per motion, aiming for review by the U S Supreme Court with delays likely lasting months or years.
Mrs. Thomas P. Walters 69 of South Beloit Illinois died Thursday night at Municipal hospital Beloit. Funeral services will be at 2 PM tomorrow at Rosman Uehling Kinzer chapel Beloit officiated by Rev Leland Kuns First Presbyterian. Burial East Lawn cemetery. Survived by husband Edwin a son and three grandchildren. Monroe relatives plan to attend.
The intersection of highway 11 and 17th avenue on 9th street reopens this evening after a two week repaving closure. Traffic was diverted to 8th avenue for the duration while the block cured for a week prior to reopening.
Anton Huettl 67 longtime Wabeno village marshal died after being struck by a car on Highway 32 two miles south of here. The driver was Marty Neiczer 40 of Carter.
Cattle buyers from near and far attend a noon auction of 64 registered Holstein-Friesian cows and heifers at the rock pavilion on the fairgrounds. Clarence Smith heads the bidding, with F. L. Buchschacher and Herman Schmitz assisting in the ring. Pedigrees are announced as consignments from 32 Wisconsin and Illinois breeders are sold.
Green County highway police investigated two accidents within two and a half hours yesterday. A yearling heifer died after being struck east of the Babler school on Highway 39 near Albany to Monticello road at 4 15 p m. John Loertscher of Monticello struck the animal as it jumped from a ditch. Also two miles north of New Glarus on Hoesly’s hill Highway 69, cars driven by Flora Hoesly McKiernan of Madison and Margaret A Stauffacher of Monroe side swiped. Stauffacher’s car towed to a New Glarus garage. both drivers reported being blinded by lights.
Nobel laureate Harold C. Urey says U S secrecy slows progress and lets Russia gain on atomic knowledge. At a news conference he calls for ending witch hunts over secrecy while Lt. Gen. Groves and University of Illinois scientists back his view and warn Moscow will soon know as much about the bomb as Americans.
The Milwaukee Road cuts passenger service in Monroe with the 1:05 westbound and 4:05 eastbound trains daily. Freight cars remain exempt while the Janesville to Chicago train at 8:55 a.m. is dropped. Illinois Central freight trains still operate four daily runs. The reductions follow an Interstate Commerce Commission order to save coal.
The government moves to break the steel strike deadlock while coal supplies dwindle. The Interstate Commerce Commission orders a 25 percent cut in coal burning passenger trains as White Sulphur Springs and other miners walk out. President Truman relies on mediator Cyrus Ching to press U S Steel toward a settlement with CIO workers.
An expectant mother, Mrs. Maxine Larson, 39, of Glenview, was fatally injured in an auto collision today while en route to a hospital to deliver her baby. She was mother to five boys.
Washington reports two House members Rep. Short and Rep. Lass eer warn against punitive firings as Navy grievances and unification drive raise tensions. Defense Secretary Johnson backs unity and cites Sullivan resignation as evidence of no room for anti unification sentiment.
A grand jury indicted Amtorg Trading Corporation and six officers for failing to register as agents of a foreign power. The case could heighten U S Soviet tension with potential fines up to 10000 dollars and five years in prison. Five executives were arrested in New York with bail set at 15000 each. one official remains in Russia. Amtorg, chartered in New York in 1924, already faced prior notes from the State Department.
Glen W. Lancaster Jr., 16, of Darlington, was fined 35 dollars and costs in county court for reckless driving after a head-on collision that injured Emil Buehler of Argyle. Lancaster's license was revoked for one year. a no license charge was dropped when it was found he had applied for a regular license three weeks earlier. Buehler remained in St. Clare hospital with improving condition.
Three duck hunters adrift in a disabled outboard boat on Lake Michigan were rescued by the coast guard today near Two Rivers. The men were Arling Falk a local hotel proprietor, Robert Dokey of Two Rivers, and Sylvester LeClair from Route 1.
A major blaze ripped through Chungking’s Changpei district displacing more than 3000 residents. No casualties were reported in the fourth large fire in the city since September.
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