Green County Board approves remap plan and closes mental hospital
In a record session the Green County Board of Supervisors approved a 31 district remap drawn by Paul Schoenike, adopted hospital trustees plans to close the mental hospital by year end, and authorized courthouse annex heating upgrades and nursing home rate changes. The plan shifts 3,402 people and awaits federal judge review. public input included a prior remap lawsuit, with the option to challenge the new plan.
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Green County Board of Supervisors
Monroe
Bob Collins
Collins
New Township
Joe Viney
Robert Rote
Ted Schmiedlin
Ray Grady
Harold Babler
Willis Riemer
Ben Cleveland
C. S. Pierce
Lloyd Iverson
Stanley Knight
Edward Kaderly
Leland Jordan
Chester Pinnow
Donald Janke
Naomi Barnard
Thomas Smith
Ronald Spielman
Jack Marty
Carl Jensen
J. Marion Lewis
Grant Allen
Sheldon Yarwood
Ernst Zentner
Robert Hoesly
Harvey Elmer
Oscar Nybroten
Edward Schneeberger
Robert Collins
Vernon Elmer
Walter Bober
Daniel Benkert
James E. Doyle
Madison
Green County Hospital
Pleasant View Nursing Home
Robert Torkelson and
Amos Johnson
Pierce
DNR
Department of Natural Resources
Sheriff’s Department
Roger Goepfert
Pleasant View
Theresa Will
County Traffic Safety Commission
Schoenike
Remodeling the St. Clare Hospital Main Entrance
Remodeling of the main entry at St. Clare Hospital is underway. A temporary entrance has been set up in the northeast corner of the building, previously used as a physicians’ door.
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St. Clare
St. Clare Hospital
Olympics resume under shadow of Munich massacre
The 1972 Games reopen after Arab militants killed 11 Israelis, a West German officer, and five terrorists in Munich. Police action at the airport ended hostage drama, while Avery Brundage declared the games must go on as Israeli team members remain in the village.
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Olympic Village
Avery Brundage
Olympic
Israel
Brundage
Golda Meir
Hang- Dietrich Genscher
Genscher
Middle East
Manfred Schreiber
Shmuel Lalkin
SEEK MISSING HELICOPTER NEAR LAKE WINNEBAGO
Air and ground units searched swampy areas east of Lake Winnebago for an Army OH58 helicopter from Camp McCoy missing since Tuesday night during a routine night training flight. Pilot CWO3 William Pickren was identified by the 5th Army. a passenger, Charles Wendell, is his father in law from New Holstein.
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Lake Winnebago
Camp McCoy
Wis
5Th Army
Ft. Sam Houston
Tex
Army
Pickren
Oshkosh
Three Mishaps Reported by Green County Sheriff
The Green County Sheriff's Department logs three separate accidents. Kristine E. Anderson 21 of Monticello lost control on a private drive 1.1 miles west of Monroe at 1:45 a.m. causing fence and telephone pole damage. George T. Ott Jr 18, driving west on CTH, collided with a truck driven by Frederick W. Frame 28 of Mt. Horeb after a tire blew out 1.1 miles southwest of New Glarus. Frame sustained scratches and bruises, passenger Tracy Frame 5 had a head bump and extensive truck damage occurred. Marian M. Streiff 44 of Blanchardville fell asleep driving west on Wis 39 2.3 miles west of New Glarus, crossed the center line, went down an embankment, and cleared a cement culvert. left front wheel and tie rods damaged, no injuries reported.
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Green County Sheriff's Department
Kristine E. Anderson
Monticello
Monroe
Harold Blum
George T. Ott, Jr
CTH
New Glarus
Frederick W. Frame
Rt. 2
Mt. Horeb
Frame
Tracy Frame
Balloon postcard mystery near Blum farm
Bill Blum of Rt. 3 found a blue balloon with a white postcard in his field on Tuesday. The card explains the balloon was released by Lisa Davis from St. Patrick's School Cedar Falls Iowa as a science air currents experiment. Blum plans to mail back the postcard and awaits the class's reply.
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Bill Blum
Rt. 3
Lisa Davis
St. Patrick's School
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Blum
Monroe
Badlands
Monticello Man Arrested in Stabbing Case
James E. Kummer, 27, of Monticello, was arrested by Green County Investigator John Lewis on aggravated assault charges connected to a Saturday stabbing of William Holz, Madison, in Monticello. Holz, stabbed in the stomach after an argument, was treated at St. Clare Hospital Monroe and listed in good condition. Kummer was arraigned in County Court before Judge Roger L. Elmer and released on a $1,000 bond.
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James E. Kummer
Monticello
Green County
John Lewis
William Holz
Madison
Holz
Kummer
St. Clare Hospital
Monroe
St. Clare
Roger L. Elmer
Israeli Press Demands Revenge After Munich Killings
Jerusalem reports show Israeli newspapers and officials calling for war against guerrillas and their protectors after 11 of 29 Olympic team members were killed. Prime Minister Golda Meir's cabinet met in emergency sessions amid shock over the massacre.
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Jerusalem
Munich
Golda Meir
Monroe studies borrowing six hundred thousand for storm sewers
Monroe City Council approved a resolution to have the finance committee study borrowing 600000 for new storm sewer facilities. Projects would extend from the east of the Fire Department to 12th Street and 22nd Avenue with branches to East School, 25th Avenue, 7th Street and 20th Avenue and another from 12th Street and 22nd Avenue to the fairgrounds via 28th and 16th Streets, with a third along 10th Street to the fairgrounds.
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Monroe
City Finance Committee
Monroe Fire Department
12Th Street
22Nd Avenue
East School
25Th Avenue
7Th Street
20Th Avenue
Fairgrounds
28Th Avenue
16Th St
10Th Street
13Th Street
Jerry Coplien
Robert Rieder
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