Wisconsin Cheese Week Hostesses Trained for Promotions
A morning training in the Green County courthouse prepared girls to serve in the Wisconsin Cheese Week demonstrations. Helen Schafer, nutritionist for the State Department of Agriculture, led sessions forADA and state teams promoting Swiss cheese ahead of Cheese Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Senafer
State Department of Agriculture
Green County
Phyllis Scharnweber
Marcia Smith
State
ADA
Times
First to swim Straits of Mackinac completes four mile crossing
Barbara Leonard 21 of Los Altos California swam the Straits of Mackinac today and reportedly became the first person to complete the four mile crossing in this historic feat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackinaw City
Mich
Slim Barbara Leonard
Los Altos
Calif
Straits of Mackinac
No Labor Day Edition To Be Published Monday
The Evening Times will not publish an edition on Monday following a 40 year custom. Staff will enjoy the holiday weekend and the regular schedule resumes with Tuesday's edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Times
Cheese Day Bulletin Plans National NBC Feature
The 1955 Green County Cheese Day program will be picked up on NBCs Monitor for two four minute breaks. Arrangements were made by Kenneth W. Stuart and Grant Ritter of WEKZ and confirmed with James Fleming in New York. D A Crandall and Robert E Tschudy urged wearing Cheese Day hats throughout Green County and next week in stores. Cheese Day headquarters opens 9 to 11 am and 1 to 4 pm daily at the Commercial and Savings Bank quarters. Mrs Victor Severson handles supplies and volunteers for cheese sandwich making next Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Swiss Colony plant starting 7 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green County
Monitor
NBC
Kenneth W. Stuart
Grant Ritter
WEKZ
James Fleming
New York
Fleming
Baraboo
Ritter
D. A. Crandall
Robert E. Tschudy
Tschudy
Monroe
Cheese Day
Commercial and Savings Bank
Blum and Blum Law
Victor Severson
Wisconsin Cheese Week
Fred Feutz Jr
Monroe Volunteer Fire Department earns Class 5 rating
Fire Chief Josef J. Benkert praises Monroe for raising its volunteer department to Class 5 after targeted training, new equipment, and coordinated city planning. The move reduces insurance premiums for industrial areas and boosts morale, with ongoing exams and courses to maintain progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Wisconsin Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Wisconsin
Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
New Glarus Labor Day Parade Opens Weekend Festivities
Crowds line a warm September route as New Glarus starts the 110th anniversary celebration with a parade of 50 plus units. The village hosts Wilhelm Tell pageants, Alpine performances, and a gala park program ending with a dance. Brooklyn and Mineral Point events run parallel over a busy holiday period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Glarus
Monroe Area
American Legion
Brooklyn
Mineral Point
New Glarus Park
Lakers
Lynn F. B. Tschudy
Swiss Evangelical and Reformed Church of
Gilbert Hoesly
Oconomowoc Legion
John A. Schindler
Glarus
Switzerland
Wilhelm Tell Guild
New
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Albany
de Forest
Monticello
Stoughton
Schlitz
Milwaukee
Great Lakes
Legion Park
New York Black Yankees
Indianapolis Clowns
Union
Joey Tantillo
Iowa
Burkhard
Roscoe Youth Dies In Route 2 Crash
Ronald Patch 19 of Roscoe died when his car plunged off Route 2 near Roscoe, hit two utility poles and overturned. Ronald Crouch 19 of Rockton and James Schroeder 20 of South Beloit were injured riding with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockford
Ronald Patch
Roscoe
Ronald Crouch
Rockton
James Schroeder
South Beloit
Patch
Ministers Demand Retrial After Heresy Verdict
Two Milwaukee pastors on a church trial board repudiate the verdict in a Northwest Synod heresy case. Rev. John Gerberding, 33, Holy Cross, Waukesha County, was found innocent of seven charges. Revs. Christian Breest and William Niebling vow retrial or witness role. board members cannot decide reopening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
John Gerberding
Holy Cross Church
Waukesha County
Northwest Synod
United Lutheran Church
Christian Breest
William Niebling
Gerberding
Jersey Executes Three in Slaying
In New Jersey the three men Alfred Stokes Harry Wise and Albert Wise were executed in the electric chair at the State Prison for the February 12 1954 holdup and slaying of Union police sergeant Clinton E Bond at the Tuscan Dairy Farm Inc. The trio entered the chamber calmly with Wise and Wise smiling as the masks were placed and Stokes described as the triggerman faced the chair for the death sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Alfred Stokes
Harry
Albert Wise
Harry Wise
Albert
Stokes
Sgt
Clinton E. Bond
Tuscan Dairy Farm, Inc
Union
Cheese Day souvenir edition for Green County 1955 event
The Evening Times publishes three extra sections for Cheese Day commemorating Cheese Week in Green County. The 22 pages feature past and present Cheese Days, Swiss and cheese atmosphere, business messages, and photos. Copies mailed nationwide to cheese firms, dairies, institutes, and ad agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Times
Green County
MacArthur Praises Emperor Hirohito on Surrender Anniversary
Gen Douglas MacArthur says he saved Emperor Hirohito from trial after Hirohito was named among accused war criminals. He cited Washington protests and noted Hirohito took full responsibility for Japan’s wartime conduct. Shigemitsu and MacArthur reunited at Waldorf Towers on the ten year surrender anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Japan
United States
MacArthur
Nomoru Shigemitsu
Washington
Peron Creates State of Siege in Capital and Country
President Juan D. Peron signed a bill enforcing a state of siege in Buenos Aires and extending a nationwide state of internal war. The measure suspends constitutional guarantees, allows indefinite detention without trial, and abolishes habeas corpus, intensifying his drive to suppress opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Peron
County Plowing Contest Set By Grassland Watershed Groups
Grassland and Watershed Associations plan a county plowing contest with demonstrations and judging. A chair is not yet named. site proposed at Lehr Bros. farm west of Monroe. Event aims to send champions to Deerfield on Sept 22 and then to the state contest at Waupaca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron E. Jeglum
Deerfield
Jeglum
Lehr Bros
Monroe
Highway 11
Smock Valley Watershed Association
Green County Soil Conservation and Grassland Association
Waupaca
J. Ivan Elmer
New Glarus
Melchior Denny
Coroner Rules Negligence In Brodhead Auto Death
A six member coroner jury ruled Edwin William Vincent died July 30 southwest of Brodhead due to ordinary negligence by driver John Samuelson. District Attorney Franz Brand said no charges will be filed. Samuelson testified he dozed off before the crash that killed the 27 year old Freeport man on leave from the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin William Vincent
Brodhead
John Samuelson
Dist. Atty
Franz W. Brand
Samuelson
Vincent
Freeport
Brand
M. W. Stuessy
Raymond Malcock
A. Lee Mitchell
Matt Eraser
James Quinn
Arnold Albright
Ernest Spring
George Armstrong
Herman A. Stuessy
TRACE TEAMS REDUCED IN KOREA INSPECTION
The United States and South Korea will cut back neutral nation inspection teams in South Korea with the changes taking effect next Tuesday. The announcement today notes fewer teams will operate in the area and stresses continued monitoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
South Korea
Egypt Charges Raid by Israeli On Strip Outpost
Violence surged on the Gaza frontier as Israeli armored forces reportedly attacked an Egyptian post in the northern Gaza Strip. The Egyptian spokesman tallies 22 Israelis killed with no Egyptian casualties, while Israel cites shelling by Egyptian outposts near Beeri and Yad Mordechai.
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Egypt
Jerusalem
Gaza
Cairo
Gaza Strip
Beeri
Yad Mordechai
Israel
U. N
Damascus
Galia
Frank Klemm Dies at 62 in Monroe Area
Frank H. Klemm aged 62 of 1329 19th street died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night at 11 15 in St. Clare hospital where he had been a patient since Aug. 23 He was born June 21 1893 in Cadiz Township and married to Hulda Maaske on Feb. 24 1919 They farmed 22 years and moved to Monroe ten years ago Survivors include his wife a son Robert two brothers Otto and John two sisters Mrs Augusta Loomis and Mrs Frank Foulker a half brother Milton Busjahn and four grandchildren He was predeceased by a son Chester and a sister Services are Tuesday at 130 p m at Shriner Neushwander funeral home Rev Paul C Kehle will officiate with burial in Cadiz cemetery.
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Frank H. Klemm
19Th Street
St. Clare Hospital
Mr. Klemm
August
Augusta Stabenow Klemm
Cadiz Township
Cadiz
Hulda Maaske
Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church
Browntown
Monroe
Robert
Otto
John
Chicago
Augusta Loomis
Beloit
Frank Foulker
Winslow
Ill
Milton Busjahn
Chester
Anna
Shriner-Neushwander Funeral Home
Paul C. Kehle
Cadiz Cemetery
Adenauer Sees Unity Issue for Big Four Talks
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told 10 000 in Bochum that his Moscow mission would not settle German reunification. He said no final decision on unity could be reached in Moscow as the issue rests with the Big Four powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOM
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Adenauer
Bochum
Also Mentioned on This Page
Helen Shafer
State Department
American Dairy Association
Sheldon C. Wilcox
Miss Schafer
Margaret Stracka
County Home
Otto Lund
Friso
Schafer
Pewaukee
Cambridge
Westby
Roy E. Dunne
Central Press and
International News
Mrs. Dunne
Central Press
VIP
Dan Nero
Associated Press
Fire Department
Benkert
Green County Board of Supervisors
State Vocational and Adult Education Board
Roscoe Youth
Ludlow
Jersey
Salute To Cheese
Waldorf Towers
Shigemitsu
Missouri
Palestine
E. L. M. Burns
U.N
Wells
Frank Klemm
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