Monroe Park Recreation Sees 162241 Attendances
A year end report to the park board shows 162 241 people participated in Monroe park and recreation programs. The swimming pool drew 24 150, handi crafts 2 925, and combined totals reached 122 640. Various summer and winter activities were offered with youth dances and a moved youth center renamed the community center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Park and Recreation
Park Board
L. L. Kitchen
Lee Mitchell
7Th Street
J. A. Schindler
22Nd Avenue
Nell W. Cunningham
11Th Street
W. L. Dodge
9Th Street
Floyd W. Matzke
L. F. Blanc
8Th Avenue
R. P. Reger
14Th Avenue
Monroe
Red Cross
Eugene Davis
American Legion
Rockford
Monroe Park
Park and Recreation Department
Kitchen’s Group
Light vote expected in Minnesota races primary day
In Saint Paul rain threatened turnout as only two races drew attention. The Democratic Farmer-Labor nomination for governor featured a six candidate field, while the Republican ticket included a two man race for lieutenant governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
Minnesota
Democratic Farmer-Labor
DFL
Cautious Steps Taken To Avoid Mobilizing Chaos
The article outlines early moves to restrain the postwar shortage and curb consumer spending with new limits on installment buying and higher taxes. It reports meetings in Washington where Secretary Sawyer and new NPA head William Harrison discuss boosting steel and other critical production, with Industry groups pressed to outline expansion capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Harrison
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Washington
National Production Authority
America
Truman
Big
Ecommerce Department
Sawyer
Fred H Pinnow Dies at Brodhead
Fred H Pinnow 70 died of a heart attack yesterday while working in the Brodhead cheese factory. He was born February 24 1880 in Spring Grove township Green County and moved to Brodhead in 1928. He leaves a widow two daughters a son six grandchildren and numerous relatives. Services Thursday at 230 pm at Newcomer Funeral Home Brodhead with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brodhead
Fred H. Pinnow
Spring Grove Township
Green County
Mr. Pinnow
Henry
Hannah Nix Pinnow
Martha Montefelt
Hazel Dunwiddie
Ralph Pengra
Vernon
Dubuque
Edward
California
George
Herman
Oscar
John
Ellen Roenneburg
Madison
Clayton Roby
Durand
Ill
Lena Laurie
Janesville
Rep Smith and Club File Campaign Report
Two reports on campaign expenditures for Rep Lawrence H. Smith of Racine for the First district congressman were filed with the secretary of state today. The Rep Lawrence Smith for Congress club reported 8443 in receipts and 5234 in expenditures. Smith himself reported receipts of 823 and expenditures of 559. Other reports filed today did not involve candidates in state or district contests from this area.
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Lawrence H. Smith
Racine
Secretary of State
Lawrence Smith
Congress Club
Smith
Dependents to Start Receiving Military Allowances in December
Washington reports dependents of enlisted service members under the new allowance laws will begin receiving payments early in December. The law sets government allowances ranging from 345 to 85 dollars per month, with servicemen signing over a portion of their pay to their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Armed Forces
First Cavalry Troopers Capture Peak In Drive To Block Reds
College students from Monroe and area begin returning to campus as heaviest traffic heads toward the University of Wisconsin. Read lists of students from local towns attending UW, Whitewater, Marquette, Notre Dame, Mount Mary, and other colleges, along with moves to secretarial schools and Christian colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
Ruth Foulker
Browntown
Marquette University
Edward Jordan
Juda
Eugene Mason
Edwin Andereck
Kenneth Hartwig
John Calder
Gerald Thompson
Robert Kessler
Platteville State Teachers College
William Schmitz
Notre Dame University
South Bend
Ind
Margaret Ann Share
Mary Catherin Share
Mount Mary College
Milwaukee
Mary Brennan
St. Louis University
Mildred
Virginia Krauss
Otterbein College
Westerville
Kathryn
Milton
Monroe
Prospect Hall Secretarial School
Mary Hess
Judith Madden
Barbara Stauffacher
Sonja Trickel
Fred Huber
Loras College
Connie Johnson
Rockford College
Robert Wells
Lois Speich
Eugene Davis
LaCrosse
Ann Orton
Eau Claire
Alan Prisk
Kendall College
Evanston
Ill
William Hardell
Western Reserve
Cleveland
Karen Bender
Clark College
Dubuque
Carroll College
Margaret Stauffacher
North
Disaster Shelter Facilities Listed in Red Cross Survey
A Green county Red Cross survey shows 9,001 people could be cared for in shelters across the area. Co chairmen Arthur C Benkert and Fred Feutz Jr. sent the detailed survey to St Louis with a local duplicate, noting schools churches and lodge rooms could serve as temporary care sites. Monroe would house 3,967, Brodhead 982, Albany 684, Brown town 200, Juda 624, Monticello 1,520, New Glarus 1,024, plus additional outlying spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
American Red Cross
Arthur C Benkert
Fred Feutz Jr
St. Louis
Monroe
Brodhead
Albany
Browntown
Juta
Monticello
New Glarus
Benkett
Henry Tschudy
John Andereck
Ray Wurgler
Leo Flanagan
C. M. Stauffer
Eight Die In Powder Plant Blast At Eldred
An explosion at the National Powder Company dynamite mix house in Eldred Pennsylvania killed eight workers and injured five or six others. The blast was heard ten miles away and shattered windows within a two mile radius. company officials barred reporters and photographers from the plant grounds. National Powder is Eldred’s largest industry near the New York border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldred
National Powder Co
National Powder
New York
Wisconsin Regent Daniel Grady III Hospitalized
Daniel H Grady III a 78 year old attorney and University of Wisconsin regent was reported in a hospital today with a severe attack of hiccups the condition said to have resulted from a cold about a week ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Grady III
Portage
Daniel H. Grady
University of Wisconsin
Hurricane grazes New England coast and turns seaward
A powerful Atlantic hurricane brushed the New England coast with winds to 70 mph then moved seaward about 80 miles east of Nantucket. It battered beaches and toppled trees while minor property damage appeared. A fishing vessel was in trouble off Massachusetts and another sought Provincetown for port, as center winds stayed near 100 mph and the storm moved toward Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
Nantucket Island
Massachusetts
Provincetown
Dane County DA to Seek Probe of Campaign Violations
Dane County district attorney Robert W. Arthur said he received complaints of alleged violations of the state corrupt practice act by a political candidate. He asked the county board for more funds to investigate the charge and noted indications of possible violations in an expense report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Robert W. Arthur
Dane County
Arthur
Five Cuba City Men Die in East Dubuque Crash
Five Cuba City men perished when their car collided with a truck on Highway 35 at the foot of a steep East Dubuque hill around 11:30 p.m. Local victims include Clinton E. Watters and Virgil Watters from Cuba City. Glenn Segerstrom died later in Mercy Hospital Dubuque. Driver Leroy Walker of Shakopee Minn. escaped with minor injuries. the truck carried freezing equipment for an ice show. Funeral home in Dubuque awaiting family arrangements.
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Cuba City
Dubuque
Clinton E. Watters
Freeport
Virgil Laverne Watters
Byron Willy
Delos Robert Gille
Glenn
Tony) Segerstrom
Segerstrom
Mercy
Haudenschield Funeral Home
Clinton Watters
Wisconsin Cheese Market Steady to Firm Trade Active
Federal market news reports Wisconsin American cheese prices steady to firm with active demand. State assembly prices show single daisies 34 to 35 percent, long horns 35 to 44, square prints 34 to 35, midgets 36 to 38 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wisconsin
Le.l
Army Major Held For Questioning On Loss of $250000
Maj Harold Dean Banning 39 finance officer in a Berlin post was jailed for questioning over alleged misapplication of public funds exceeding $250,000. He arrived on 60 day leave to divorce his wife in Germany and insisted he possessed only his own funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Germany
Harold Dean Banning
Berlin
Willie Lee Ramsey Banning
Arkansas
Banning
Defense Department
Army
U. S
Sixth Army
San Francisco
Six in Speedboat Rescued After Winnebago Uproar
An evening on Lake Winnebago ended with six people rescued from a stricken speedboat and a second boat. Six surface craft and an airplane assisted, with safety secured by midnight. Leo Schmidt of Fond du Lac was identified as the speed boat’s owner and driver.
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Oshkosh
Lake
Winnebago
Fond du Lac
Nile Schloesser
Stony Beach
Naval Reserve
Orville Weber
Leo Schmidt
Henry Aebly Sr Hurt In Adams Township Accident
Henry Aebly Sr a 76 year old man was struck by a pickup in Adams township while checking gravel for a Green county highway project. He suffered a double fracture of his right leg and back lacerations and was taken to St. Clare hospital. The driver Joyce Berg Moen from Argyle lost control on loose gravel. Edward Bidlingmaier witness and Adams town chairman escaped danger. The elder Aebly works for Green county highway department on the Adams job contracted by Ryan Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Aebly Jr
Monroe
St. Clare
Adams Township
Biggs Cheese Factory
Joyce Berg Moen
Argyle
Green County
Aebly
Edward Bidlingmaier
Adams
Green County Highway Commission
Henry Rebly Jr
Jordan Town
Green County Highway Department
Ryan Sons Contracting
Janesville
Emil H Erickson Trane Official Dies at 74
Emil H. Erickson 74 civic leader and Trane Co director and vice president died after a long illness. He helped form the city aviation commission and served as chairman of draft board No 1 in World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaCrosse
Emil H. Erickson
The
Trane Co
City Aviation Commission
Wreck Toll 33 Probes Began After Troop Train Crash
Three investigations opened into a West Lafayette Ohio wreck that killed 33 soldiers and injured at least 50. The Spirit of St Louis collided with a stalled troop train as dawn fog lingered near the Pennsylvania line. A nationwide rail safety inquiry was urged by a U S senator as Ohio authorities identify victims and move bodies to Wilkes Barre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of St. Louis
Coshocton
Ohio
Pennsylvania National Guard
United States
West Lafayette
Ohio Military District
National Guard
Army
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Pennsylvania
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base Hospital
Dayton
Cotshtocton Memorial Hospital
Americans Grab Hill in Violent Day-Long Battle
American First cavalrymen stormed uphill against heavy Red Korean fire and captured a key hill north of Taegu after a long siege. The fight involved 1 000-won hill 314 and a night assault as UN forces press a multi-pronged drive to disrupt Communist positions near Pohang Angang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Taegu
Eighth Division
Early Resigns As Defense Aide From White House
Stephen Early resigned today as deputy secretary of defense. President Truman accepted the resignation effective Sept 30, citing reluctance. Early planned to return to Pullman Inc as vice president after completing a one year duty begun May 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stephen Early
Truman
White House
Early
Pullman, Inc
Charles G. Ross
Defense
Johnson
Ross
Leukemia Claims Marlys Jean Olson in Wisconsin
Marlys Jean Olson a 15 year old South Wayne high school junior dies of acute leukemia after a five week illness at Wisconsin General Hospital. She served as class treasurer and was active at St John s Catholic church. Services set for 8:30 a m tomorrow at Hans on funeral home and 9:30 a m at St Joseph s church Gratiot with pallbearers from the junior class. Burial in St Joseph s cemetery Gratiot. Rosary tonight at 8:30 in the funeral home. She is survived by her mother Mrs Olson stepfather Mr Marty and father Fred Olson of Chicago and sister Catherine Carol Olson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Wayne
Marlys Jean Olson
South Wayne High School
Wisconsin General Hospital
Madison Hospital
John Marty
Dill Cheese Factory
Route 1
Browntown
St. John’s Catholic Church
Hanson
St. Joseph’s Church
Gratiot
Gilbert E. Carleton
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Miss Olson
Fred Olson
Chicago
Catherine Carol Olson
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Lincoln Park
Claire Goodrich
Hiedi Pfaeffli
Evelyn Rufi
Ellen Rubi
Cathleen Feldt
Jane Anderson
Dorothy Davitte
Recreation Park
Donna Wenger
Commerce Department
Rep. Smith and Club File
Allen Wenger
David Ruehlman Jr
Eugene Massharadt
John F. Kundert
Donald Ivey
Rudolf Maurer
Virginia Hartman
John Maurer
Dan Nafzger
Charles Niles
Mildred Cotherman
Gordon Orians
James Forbes
Jean Babler
Hans Sulzer
James Hardell
Virgil Rabe
Albert Stauffacher
Marleah Prien
Mildred Rieder
Donna Lois Olson
Robert W. Black
Martha Dobbs
Ernest Vogler
Eleanor Streiff
Barbara Kane
Margaret Angliker
Lois Burgy
Marilyn Lanz
Fred Stauffacher
Sybil Blumer
Lester Bishop
Joel Solomon
Merlin Cook
Robert Ableman
Robert Bienema
Norman Johnson
Carol Schindler
France
Whitewater State Teachers College
James
JoAnne
Nancy Moldenhauer
Leo Hilfiker
Janice Dye
Darlene Adelman
Joan Davis
Ruth Severson
Betty Kundert
Richard Rupnow
George Er
Boston Weather Bureau
Canada
Maritime Provinces
Dane
East Dubuque
Willy
Rita Fawcett
Gille
Reno Jount
Jack Goss
Henry Aebly Sr
Trane
Wilkes-Barre
Carbondale
28Th Infantry Guard Division
Republic
By Leif Erickson
Pohang
West Point
Leukemia
Marlys
Jean Olson
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