Cheese Days Button Drive Boosts Parade Event
Cheese Days activities promote button sales for entry to the Drum and Bugle Corps Contest at the high school Saturday 7 p.m. Buttons cost 1.00, gate admission 1.50, with T shirts 0.50 and a 1.00 beanie also sold. The Monroe Chamber of Commerce hours and parade events are noted, along with Swiss entertainment, float participants, and 10 000 parade route copies funded by local sponsors.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Kohli Office Supply Inc
First National Bank of
Monroe
Gordee
Zuercher Insurance Agency
Cheese Days Grand Opening Lights Up Monroe Event
Fans pack Green County as Cheese Days launches on Saturday in Monroe with a pioneer Swiss cheese making replica, parades on Saturday and Sunday, a street dance, Drum and Bugle Corps contest, a church service, and Chamber hours, led by organizer Mrs. Carol Nipple and supporting crew from Warren Illinois and local volunteers.
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Green County
Monroe
Courthouse
Channel 3 Farm
Home Hour
Rockford
Dubuque
Iowa
Carol Nipple
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
John Bussman
Warren
Ill
Bussman
Cease-fire Ordered as Guerrilla Surrender Sought in Jordan
Field Marshal Habis Majali ordered a temporary cease-fire to allow guerrillas to surrender without bloodshed amid heavy fighting. Amman, Zarqa controlled by loyalist forces. 54 hostages from a recent hijacking still unaccounted. The U.S. and Britain weighed intervention while Jordan braces under curfew and power cuts. George Goetz of Monroe Manor turns 101 with a birthday party and visitors.
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Lebanon
Habis Majali
Jordan
Amman
Zarqa
Hussein
Wahdat
Majali
Mandos
Radio
Damascus
Yasir Arafat
Irbid
Iraq
Baath Party
U.S
Washington
State Department
United States
George Goetz
Monroe Manor
George
Carl Museback
Knoxville
Tenn
Charlotte Young
Elsa Foesch
William Burkhard
Monroe
Muriel Goetz
Moon rocks likened to cheese by British geologist
British geologist Professor George Malcolm Brown told the British Association that moon rocks show similarities to Swiss Emmental cheese in seismic transmission. The remark followed analysis of lunar samples brought back by American Apollo astronauts, suggesting close earth cheese analogies.
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Durham
England
Earth
George Malcolm Brown
British Association Today
Ky to attend U.S. rally amid Saigon trip plans
A senior aide to Nguyen Cao Ky confirmed the South Vietnamese vice president will not reconsider his trip to the United States for a March for Victory rally. Ky plans to depart Saigon next Tuesday, stop in Paris for peace talks, then fly to Washington arriving Oct. 1 for the Oct. 3 rally.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
United States
Col
Phan van Minh
Paris
Washington
Pistol Packer Caught At Freeport Airport
A new antihijack security net nabbed a gun carrier at Freeport International Airport. Paul Stephen, 24, of Port Chester New York, was sentenced to three months hard labor by Magistrate John Cronin for attempting to board a Pan American jet with a gun in his pocket.
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Grand Bahama
Freeport International Airport
Paul Stephen
Port Chester
N.Y
John Cronin
UW Security Measures Reviewed and Guard On Standby
National Guard troops will be mobilized if needed to keep the University of Wisconsin campus open this fall. Acting Gov. Jack Olson, in meetings with Chancellor Edwin Young and local police, outlined a master plan and said authorities are more prepared than ever to cope with any trouble.
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Edwin Young
Madison
Wilbur Emery
Ralph Hanson
National Guard
Warren P. Knowles
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Emery
State Capitol
UAW Strike Expands. GM Lays Off More Exempted Workers
The nationwide UAW strike against General Motors enters its fourth day with Michigan hardest hit as GM reports 3,151 more laid off at nine exempt plants. Total layoffs reach 11,988, about 16 percent of workers there. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield says a second vote on direct presidential election could come next week after a 54 36 cloture failure. In Madison, Wisconsin, the state supreme court rejects Mark Knops bid for habeas relief, while reviewing contempt appeal.
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United States
Canada
General Motors
UAW
Washington
Mike Mansfield
Senate
Mansfield
Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mark Knops
Knops
Cambodian capital bombarded as warplanes strike north of Phnom Penh
Reports from Phnom Penh say repeated air strikes hit North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who blocked the government’s first offensive about 50 miles north of the city. Enemy forces were seen operating to the rear of the front.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Cambodian Front Orders Ban on Foreign Newsmen
The government reports its forward line holds as the enemy reinforces and resupplies. For the first time Cambodian command orders field commanders not to allow foreign journalists to cover the action today. An officer in Skoun suspects the move aims to hide strikes by American jets. No confirmation.
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Skoun
Toledo Police Killings Spark Siege and Shootout
Patrolman William Miscannon was shot in his patrol car in Toledo Ohio as a six hour siege followed a gunman fired at the officer and fled. An armed teenager was critically wounded during the exchange while others fled from nearby buildings. One suspect was arrested and charged with the patrolman's death.
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Black Panther
William Miscannon
Walter Shaw
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Martha) Bernet
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Anna) Gempler
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