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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1955
Page
6
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers west. Not so cool tonight with lows 50 to 60. Highs 75 to 85 on Saturday. Grain data shows range from 55 to 75 since yesterday. Warmest U.S. reading at Yuma 112 and coldest at Fraser 26. Sunrise 5 27, sunset 6 32.
Geigel Hardware Co transfers to W G Bear parts of Lybrand donations in Green County. Knob Hill Builders Inc transfers to Harry A Wilde lots in Knob Hill subdivision Monroe. Lester M Johnson transfers to Charles A Booth western 37 feet of Lot 7 in Ratans addition Monroe.
Judge Marshall L. Peterson reopened the Rexford Petersen case in Milwaukee charging operating a vehicle while suspended. Petersen was fined $10 plus costs. on May 25 he was arrested and forfeited a $31.15 bond. Peterson will send findings to the State Motor Vehicle Department.
Letters of administration issued to First National Bank of Monroe and Lena Smith widow for Roscoe Smith who died August 21. Will dated January 16, 1950 leaves homestead to wife, Richard may buy 160 acre Washington Township farm and personal property at appraisal price or $16,000, whichever is less, widow life use, five children share and share alike.
Edward Algot Riese aged 19 of Monti cello and Donna Rose Koller aged 18 of Washington Township received marriage licenses. The couple plans to wed.
Justice L A Koenig hears Fannie Smith of South Wayne charged with keeping a vicious dog within Monroe city limits. Adjourned until Sept 28 at 10 a m, Monroe police reported.
Mr and Mrs Rolland Zimmerman Monticello announce the birth of a daughter on September 7 celebrating the new arrival with family and friends.
St Clare Hospital lists accident victims and medical patients including LaVerne Zimmer man Winslow Ill and Mrs Charles Shea Route 2 among the injured in the accident. Dismissals include Leonard Cooper and Barbara Nelson with several patients formerly admitted.
American Legion Post members presented the Monroe Kiwanis Club with a United States flag at a Kiwanis meeting in the Swiss Wheel restaurant. The flag will be used at the Kiwanis Youth Cabin, and members viewed photos of their activities from the past year.
G Fred Galli attended a Madison meeting of the dairy transportation committee for the Wisconsin Federation. The group, of which he is a member, is weighing a revision to the milk carrier registration law.
A string of brief notes lists visitors and locals: S L Levy from Decatur and others such as L D Wilkening from Chicago, Mrs Clayton Stephenson from Albany, Walter Roddy from Omaha, Mrs Louise Pantler from Stratton Colorado, Mr and Mrs Jos G Robotka from Racine, and Mr and Mrs Daniel Lakin from Columbus Ohio. It mentions church events with Robert Barrington speaking at Immanuel Church and various locals traveling to or from Madison, including Dean Grant and Christine from Elkhart and the Miller family visiting from Palmyra.
Mr and Mrs Roland M Rockwell hosted a faculty social hour for the Brodhead school staff yesterday afternoon. Refreshments were served.
Misses Mary and Charlotte Preston welcomed a group of high school faculty members and their spouses on Wednesday night. Miss Betty Lou Dixon presented pictures from El Salvador and Mexico.
Mr and Mrs Gordon Shold hosted a supper party for Blanchardville school faculty members accompanying the Times Special report on the community gathering.
Smith Masonic lodge convened its first fall meeting last night in the Masonic temple with members present for the session and routine proceedings.
Timothy J. Murphy of Boston today becomes the national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He assumes leadership as the organization outlines its year agenda and veterans advocacy goals.
Plans by the state department and ADA involve stores countywide holding cheese use demonstrations next week. Training at the Courthouse tomorrow 9 a.m. will be led by Helen Schafer with demonstration teams provided. Mrs Stracka coordinates teams while Mrs Buehler and others ride the Cheese Day float in New Glarus 110th anniversary events.
Pickets surrounded eight blocks as Local 72 members picketed. Wisconsin plants run on curtailed crews during a model change. Production ends with the August 12 vacation and plans to resume next Tuesday. AMC delays layoff pay by a year, starting trust fund contributions September 15 1956 and benefits a year later. UAW vice president Woodcock cites aim to keep AMC viable and assist 3 000 displaced Hudson workers.
Detroit based American Motors formed last year from Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson facing economic challenges post merger. Woodcock of UAW says the union will help the company meet these problems as executives note a 14 cent per hour first year package under the three year pact. Edward L. Crashman cites pay above industry levels and urges bargaining on economic facts. The plan includes a flat six to eight cent raise for all workers with another six-cent rise slated for 1956 and 1957. The UAW had estimated Ford GM and Chrysler packages above 20 cents per hour for the first year.
Israel accepted a U N cease fire proposal conditional on Egypt stopping all attacks. Israeli officials said Egyptian infiltrators blew up a well near Yad Mordechai as two Egyptian jets were claimed shot down. The toll over nine days rose to 61 killed and 91 wounded with a Khan Yunis strike reported.
A massive explosion and flash fire on the near southwest side destroyed half a square block and injured at least 34 workers with about a million dollars in damage. A Salvation Army canteen driver was killed in a separate collision en route to the scene.
A 15 year old from Winslow was treated at St. Clare hospital after a football practice incident at South Wayne yesterday afternoon. LaVerne Zimmerman sustained a brain concussion when he was stepped on and was admitted at 5 p.m. yesterday in satisfactory condition.
Max Voelkli remains in good condition at the Madison Veterans Administration Hospital 2500 Overlook Terrace Ward 4B undergoing medical treatment.
Dr. W. G. Bear buys vacant land on the south side of 10th street between 14th and 15th avenues from Geigel Hardware Co. The property remains undeveloped.
Postmaster John J. Burkhard announces Labor Day closure with no city or rural delivery. Special delivery, lock box service, and handling of incoming and outgoing mail will occur in the city.
Mrs Charles Shea aged 72 of Route 2 sustained a fractured left elbow after a fall at her residence yesterday. She is patient at St. Clare hospital in satisfactory condition.
Services for Harry C. Atherton 91 longtime president of the Bank of Albany will be held at 2 pm tomorrow in the First Baptist church Albany with Rev Burton F Moore officiating Burial will be in Hillcrest cemetery Pallbearers include Elwyn Porterfield Carlyle Porterfield M Roy Bowman A H Mienert Archie Francis and Leo Francis
Arthur Klingbeil rural mail carrier returns from National Letter Carriers convention in Buffalo New York to find 48 mail boxes painted aluminum color and flags red. The change is noted as a Decatur 4H Club project.
Congress approves a state of siege for Buenos Aires to back President Peron's drive to crush opposition. The Senate and lower house passed the measure after naval revolt and prior internal war powers, with Peron expected to sign it into law though limited to the capital.
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson of Briarcliff Manor New York was named acting principal of Milwaukee Downer seminary to replace Nat Warren Taylor who resigned. She will begin Sept 8 and has directed Windward School White Plains for four years. Previously she led Helen's Hall Portland and taught at Beaver Country Day Brookline and was dean at Holland Hall Tulsa.
The United States has about 5,000 mink farmers operating across the country, reflecting the scope of the fur industry and its regional concentrations.
FBI confirmed the body found in Mammoth Cave National Park is Lewis A. Finn 72 a Chicago chemist missing since July 20. The Milwaukee couple Leonard La Fond 20 and Jo Anne Severson 18 provided tip leading to discovery. they are held on charges of transporting a stolen automobile across state lines.
Philadelphia report lists Leonard W. Knower of Holmen Wisconsin among Air Force crew of quick change experts entering a new type of contest at the national aircraft show. The article notes the participation of mechanics in a display of innovative rapid maintenance skills.
Two teams will replace six Allison J-35 engines on Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star fighters next weekend. The first crew to finish wins the Allison trophy, aiming to beat the old record of 8 minutes 15 seconds.
In New York the pre holiday session showed slow trading with gains led by Reynolds Metals advancing over eight points and High priced Reynolds Metals uptick. Bethlehem Chrysler Boeing Allied Chemical General Motors Goodyear Douglas Curtis Wright Westinghouse and General Electric also rose while AT&T Bell System and United Airlines slipped.
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