Dirksen Lie In State In Rotunda Honor At Capitol
The Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen lies in state in the Capitol rotunda with a military honor guard. His casket rests on the Lincoln era catafalque and will move to National Presbyterian Church after noon Wednesday. Nixon declines burial attendance. Vice President Agnew will attend in his stead. Dirksen’s is the fourth lie in state at the Capitol, joining Sumner Logan and Taft.
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Dirksen
Senate
Nixon
Lincoln
National Presbyterian Church
Ilinois Prairie
Spiro T. Agnew
Capitol
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
John A. Logan
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Logan
Sen
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Sen. Smith
John F. Kennedy
CROP Campaign Set for Sept 15 Aids Hungry in Green County
Green County Ministerial Association met at Grace Lutheran to plan a countywide CROP hunger campaign starting September 15 led by Rev. Larry Pinnow. A CROP Sunday on Sept 14 urged area churches to emphasize aid in sermons.
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Green County Ministerial Association
Grace Lutheran Church
Larry Pinnow
Grace Lutheran
Pinnow
Ted Scheffer
Monroe
Scheffer
Highway Toll Reaches 750 in Wisconsin Traffic Deaths
Wisconsin traffic toll rose to 750 after three two vehicle crashes. Wayne Swanson 37 from Duluth and Gordon Thorsen 49 from Proctor were killed on Highway 105 between Superior and Oliver. Reinhart Radant 71 of Wausau died in a Weston intersection crash. Theodore Horton 19 of rural Waupun died in a Fond du Lac County highway collision near Waupun.
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Wisconsin
Wayne Swanson
Duluth
Minn
Gordon Thorsen
Proctor, Minn
Superior
Oliver
Wausau
Reinhart Radant
Weston
Theodore Horton
Waupun
Fond du Lac
Modern Square Dancing Classes Scheduled Here September Fifteen
The State Line Squares offer lessons or social dancing from 8 30 to 10 30 p m in the Monroe Community Room City Hall starting Monday September 15 with Joe McKeown as instructor. Dancers will learn calls build physical mental and social skills and join the World Daily Expo 1969 Mid America Square Jubilee in Madison October 5.
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Monroe
City Hall
State Line Squares
Joe McKeown
Janesville
Juda
Madison Coliseum
Sam Mitchell
Don Chestnut
Route 2
Verona
Milt Thorpe
Madison
Juta State Line Squares
Square ‘Dance Association of
Wisconsin
SDAW
Art Weisensel
Dale Manson
McKeown
Vern Clark
Gene Knutson
Ray Quade
Joe McKown
Will Felderer
Bulding
Pata
Bill Wilde
Special Appeal For Blood For Heart Surgery
The Badger Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison asks for blood for open heart surgery. Eight units of positive blood are needed for a 39 year old Racine man and four pints of negative blood for a 4 year old Sheboygan Falls boy. Bloodmobile hours are 4:30 p.m. at Turner Hall. Donors must never have had a transfusion, must not have been pregnant, and must have no allergies.
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Badger Red Cross
Madison
Sheboygan Falls
Turner Hall
Referendum Set For Orangeville Vote on Bond for Sewage Project
Orangeville voters will decide on a 35000 general obligation bond at a special election on Tuesday Oct 14 to ensure completion of the sewage project. The village board also rehired accountant Jack D Huggins and approved safety measures on Rock Grove Blacktop near Illinois 26.
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Unaanunville
Ciimes
Jack D. Huggins
Belleville
Ill
Rock Grove
Illinois
Sephenson County
Rieder Is Honored By City of Monroe
William R. Rieder Jr. received the Key To The City tie clasp from Monroe Mayor Walter Ekum at a Sept. 6 dinner at Monroe Fire House. The honor marked 25 years of service as a Monroe volunteer firefighter before his move to Madison where he is employed as a federal meat.
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William R. Rieder Jr
Madison
Monroe
Walter Ekum
Monroe Fire House
Rieder
William Rieder Sr
East Coast Braces for Hurricane Gerda’s Onslaught
Residents along New England shores rush to brace as Hurricane Gerda strengthens off Cape Hatteras. Warnings extend from Block Island to Eastport with high winds, 30-40 foot seas, and likely major flooding. Cape Cod prepares for noon landfall as Newport and Otis AFB shift assets and dozens of vessels seek safe moorings.
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Boston
New England
Atlantic
Gerda
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Cape Cod
Block Island
R.I
Eastport
Maine
Weather Bureau
Cape
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket
Otis Afb
Newport RL
Massachusetts
Edgartown
Martha's Vineyard
Dominick J. Arena
New York
New Jersey
John V. Lindsay
New York City
Wisconsin leaders split on Dirksen plea amid ailing time
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Froehlich dismisses Dirksen proposed constitutional convention as a dead issue after the Indiana senator's death. Lovell a Milwaukee native meets Wisconsin GOP chairman amid exploratory talks about a possible Senate bid after the moon mission, with decision expected postflight. Bud Collyer, famed radio TV host of Break the Bank and Superman era, dies at 61 in Greenwich Hospital. Ten Wisconsin municipalities receive 16,230 dollars in federal disaster aid for public property damage from recent flooding.
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Madison
Assembly
Harold Froehlich
Dirksen
Wisconsin
Froehlich
Everett M. Dirksen
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Ody J. Fish
U.S. Senate
Lovell
Liam Proxmire
D- Wis
Fish
James
St. John’s Military Academy
Delafield
Pewaukee
Greenwich, Conn
Bud Collyer
Greenwich Hospital
Collyer
Gregbusters
Pretty _ Kelly
New York
Fordham University Law School
Marion
Division of Emergency Government
Farmers View Test Plots In Monroe County Event
Farmers toured a corn rootworm test plot at Delbert Indergand’s rural Monroe farm and a weed control plot at Bill Hartwig’s farm. The Watershed Funday included a lunch, games, prizes, and contests with several winners and a bushel corn prize.
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George Hartman
Delbert Indergand
Monroe
Bill Hartwig
Hartman
Virgil Pick
Richland Creek
Raymond and Cergand
Skinner Creek
Werner Vogel
Steve Digman
Smock Valley
Clarence
Ted Falk
Ken Allen
Norman Ritschard
Joyce Smith
Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization Service
ASCS
Lydia Gilman
United Fund Sets Plan for 69 Drive
Directors of the United Fund met at the Commercial and Savings bank to set a plan for the 1969 drive. A further meeting of fund presidents was scheduled for 4 30 p m today in the First National Bank Community Room.
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United Fund
Immune United Fund
Commercial and Savings Bank
Ene Ig Alost
First National Bank
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Richard Carroll
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First Methods: Church
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St. John’s
THE
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Orangeville
City of
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Rhode Island
Civil Defense
Darlington
Bart Legler
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Warren
Dorothy Legler
AP News
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James A. Lovell Jr
Republican Party
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Steve Mitschele
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