State Legislators Gather Monday for Action on Vetoes
Madison Wisconsin lawmakers return for a brief session to act on Gov vetoes covering 11 bills and a partial veto of a 12th They will also consider a revisor measure updating laws on old age assistance transportation aids veterans housing and water pollution A rent control reform proposal is unlikely to advance A major appointment of Ray Jensen to the highway commission awaits senate confirmation and the new public welfare board is set for action. The session is expected to last three days with vetoes on vehicle inspection speeding at crossings and several regulatory measures among the actions.
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Arthur Bystrom
Madison
Wisconsin
Rennebohm
Ray Jensen
Chilton
The
Highway Commission
Mike Mack
Senate
Public Welfare Board
Public Service Commission
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
Milwaukee
Board of Health
Celebration Race Triumphs in Monroe Homemade Auto Derby
Gerald Jacobs won the runoff and championship with a 29.3 second dash. Dennis Goecks and Gary Hoesly placed in events, with Bruni winning best-made car in the homemade auto derby. Other entrants included Barmore, Germann, Stauffacher, Schindler, Jeglum. Timers and judges named among officials.
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Gerald Wot
Jacors
Monroe
Jacobs
Dennis Goecks
Gordon Hersel
Gary Hoesly
Billy Bauman
Allen Holtshopple
Don Martin
Peter Dannerbeck
John Bruni
Bruni- Miller
Gerald Jacobs
Gene Barmore
Don Barmore
Wary Germann
Jerry Stauffacher
John Schindler
Paul Jeglum
Dewey Dwyer
Donald Cunningham
Larry Kitchen
Nathan Goetz
Donald Ross
Donald F. Ripp
Motorist Seeks Speed Case Trial in City Boundary Confusion
Albany motorist Harry D. Reasa pleaded not guilty to a Sept. 8 speeding charge, claiming confusion over city boundary signs. He asked a non jury trial before Justice L. A. Koenig, with trial set for Sept. 17. Reasa said he was 40 mph entering from Albany on Highway 59, slowed near a population sign inside city limits, and now disputes the boundary. City council ordered proper boundary and warning signs installed on all roads into the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry D. Reasa
Albany
Justice of the Peace
L. A
Justice Koenig
Donald Barmore
Monroe
Carl M. Munz
25Th Avenue
Woodrow Wickersham
Evansville
Michael “Daley
17Th Street
Frank Webinger
Koenig
County Polio Drive To Be Set Up Monday
A green county plan for soliciting funds in the national polio drive will be announced Monday, Leland Lamboley, chairman of the county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said today. A diversified program is being worked out. After checking with several more individuals, we will into action Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland Lamboley
National Foundation For Infantile Parlysis
Lamboley
Sale Ends 30 Year Milk Route in Argyle
The Hillcrest Dairy route ends after three decades of service as the Thompson family sells the milk route to Dan O Rourke. The route began with Frank Thompson’s livery barn in Argyle and continued under Horace Thompson after the farm moved north of town. Janesville buyers purchase Argyle bus depot and restaurant from Kenneth Jones family.
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Hillcrest Dairy
Dan O'Rourke
Thompsons
Frank Thompson
Argyle
Horace
CY Argyle Busine
George Hurd
Janesville
Argyle Bus
Kenneth Jones
Gee Its Different Children React To New School Guard
Miss Mary Jacobs at North School serves as traffic patrol officer at Sth street and 15th avenue for the school year. Students react with surprise to a woman policeman while she notices heavy highway traffic and drivers cooperating. She plans to wear bright clothing and use a red flag to signal traffic as pupils adjust.
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Newis
Mary Jacobs
16Th Avenue
North School
Sth Street
15Th Avenue
Miss Jacobs
Churchill
Sam Hauser
Burgess Battery Plant
YMCA Fund Drive Start Made Here
A Eugene hotel dinner set final plans for the annual city YMCA fund drive which begins today. O N Johnson chairs six teams with cards handed out by Johnson and Chester C Welch. The drive aims to raise Monroe’s $1 600 share of the Tri County YMCA budget and should wrap in about ten days. Attending kickoff were local leaders and clergy including Rev H L Orians Rev Ralph K Kofoed Rodney Kittelsen and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene
O. N. Johnson
Chester C. Welch
Beloit
Tri-County
Johnson
Monroe
Tri- ‘County
YMCA
Thomas F. Ransdell
Evelyn Hartwig
L. L. Kitchen
New City
H. L. Orians
Welch
Ralph Kkofoed
Rodney
Kittelsen
Marshall L. Peterson
Robert J. Tracy
E. O. Evans
Robert H. Richardson
Herbert M. Ainsworth
E. R. Johnson
Harry J. Bellahan
Paul W.neubauer
Charles B. Marvin
C. O. Mahlberg
Newell Mendenhall
Herman R. Stuessy
Harold M. Whitehead
Justice Rutledge Relapses in Critical Condition
Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, 95, sick at York Hospital with a cerebral hemorrhage, has lapsed into a coma again. Dr. Elmer Brower reports his condition remains grave with left side paralysis and no clear recovery in sight.
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Ork. Me
Supreme Court
Wiley B. Rutledge
Elmer Brower
York Hospital
Justice Rutledge
Sterling Nation Financing Urged To Assist Britain
The United States Britain and Canada agreed to push World Bank and US Export-Import Bank funding to sterling area nations to help Britain overcome its economic crisis. They urged private capital flow and urged borrowers to present viable projects for World Bank financing while encouraging sterling countries to join international funding. Snyder outlined three main points and said cabinet meetings resume Monday with other committees reporting then.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
World Bank
U. S
U. S. Treasury
Snyder
International Fund and Bank
Chicago Stockyards Facing Strike Threat
Chicago stockyards face a strike threat as 400 members of Local 44 CIO stockhandlers' union authorize action to back a demand for a 10 cent hourly wage increase. Frank Monaghan, union president, announced the vote today.
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McAgo —Ury
Chicago
Frank Monaghan
CIO Stockhandlers’ Union
President Urges Steel Truce Stay
President Truman asked the steel industry and CIO steel workers union for a 10 day extension of the steel strike truce. A million workers were set to walk out at 12 01 a m Wednesday to press for a 30 cents an hour rise with pensions and insurance. The fact finding board urged a further extension until Sept 25 as bargaining continues.
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Washington
Truman
Steel Industry and
CIO Steel Workers Union
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
Army Retires Waitt Restores Feldman to Duties
The Army announces Maj Gen Alden H Waitt will retire from the chemical corps while Maj Gen Herman Feldman is restored to duty as quartermaster general. Secretary Gray cited Waitt’s honesty and Feldman’s 42 years of service, praising both and ordering Feldman back to active post.
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Army
Gen. Waitt
Feldman
Washington
Senate
Secretary of the
Gray
Alden H. Waitt
Chemical Corps
Herman Feldman
Waitt
Celebration's Cuff Notes on Monroe Square Work
William S. Vinton lauds Monroe for clean cement work and orderly tool returns after 18 years of contracting. City officials tour the square luncheon, while sidewalks reopen for firemen water battles and derby carts roll down 11th street amid flags and new storefronts.
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Monroe
William S. Vinton
11Th Street
20Th Avenue
Showers and Cooler Expected Tomorrow in Wisconsin
Weather in Monroe today tracked near 75 degrees around noon and 1 pm as warm conditions spread statewide. Forecasters warn of showers and cooler temperatures tomorrow after mild highs in the 70s and 80s and overnight lows near mid 50s.
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Wisconsin
Monroe
Hungary Charges Eight as Traitors in Treason Plot
Budapest reports that eight former high ranking communists, including former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk and Gyorgy Palffy, were indicted for treason and seeking to overthrow the government with armed help from Tito and Yugoslav leaders. Trial set for September 16, with further indictments expected.
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Budapest
Tito
Yugoslavia
Laszlo Rajk
Gyorgy Palfty
Hungarian Workers (Communist) Party
Palffy
Zoltan Horvath
Nep. Szava
Pal Justus
Rajk
Hungary
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Firemen Battle Over Ball In Water Contest
TWO tough fire teams prepared for a water contest with a steel ball hung 15 feet up. Each side would batter the ball with hundreds of pounds of water pressure aiming to send it into enemy territory. Captains Robert Stocker and Calvin Bahn led their squads with several teammates. the match was to cover about 75 feet along an overhead cable. Firemen who rigged the apparatus included Louis Blanc and Otto Steinman among others. Monroe held its first water fight of this kind in 1946.
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George Bloom
George Grant
William Burkhard
Chester Pfund
Calvin Bahn
Robert Gerber
Hugh Durgin
Sam Rubi
Fred Trickel
Josef Benkert
Monroe
Williamson Succumbs After Brief Illness at 83
William Williamson, 83, a retired Salvation Army major, died at Kenosha hospital after a brief illness. He led the Kenosha corps from 1919 until his retirement in 1926.
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Williamson
Salvation Army
Kenosha Hospital
Kenosha Corps
Dedication Event Opens City Wagon Derby Celebration
Visitors by the thousands filled Monroe’s newly repaved public square as a dedication program opened at 1 p m with a wagon derby on 11th street hill. The formal rites followed at 1 40 p m with Mayor Buehler cutting the ribbon and the band playing. Three thousand attended.
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Monroe
11Th Street
20Th Avenue
E. J. Norton
William A. Vinton
Jack
Erb
City Street Department
Zenno A. Gorder
South Side
Hal Shocky
Waddy
Joy Arkie
Cardinal
Spring Green
Shocky
Acaro
David Taylor
Basil Hartman
Suki and
Pals
Basil
Willie Carl Thorsen
Arnol Stein
Joy Orkie
Four Merrills
Spring Green Clown Band
Los Gitanos
Basil and
Willie
Carl Thorsen
Arnold Stein
Waddy and
Joy
Los Giantos
Wallie Stebbins
Madison
Billy Hartwig
Milton Johnson
Ernest E. Wenger
Shanghaied Seaman Receives Four Month AWOL Sentence
Patrick Ryan, a seaman who alleged he was shanghaied by the French Foreign Legion after missing his ship, was sentenced by a navy court martial to four months for unauthorized absence from duty.
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Jasninwwss — Vey
Patrick Ryan
French Foreign Legion
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Zuboski
Sterling
Meany
Ane Tyvs
Eugene Black
Center
Maurice Petsche
Left
Stafford Cripps
International Monetary Fund
James V. Hunt
Trukenbrod
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