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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1963
Page
2
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Editorial lauds decision to hold the State and National Corn Picking Contests Oct 23 and 24 at Willis Riemer farm. Residents and committees credit Melchior Denny for site work and urge community support to ensure a successful event drawing about 100000 attendees.
Lt. Gov. Jack Olson confirms he will seek the Republican nomination for governor in 1964 and will stay in the race. He notes he will not step aside as he did in 1960 to aid Philip Kuehn, aiming to maintain early support and unity. Knowles must decide whether to run for governor or the U.S. Senate with Olson in the field.
A Pan American World Airways DC8 jetliner overshot the runway on landing at Schiphol Airport and plowed an 800 foot furrow across the grass. Officials said no crew member or 20 passengers were injured.
Ten years ago in Lewiston Colorado R C Cummins won the contour plowing title defeating his brother Martin while Lawrence Uren placed fourth at Augusta in a national contest. Ezra Taft Benson spoke as Dr Lester Weissmiller leads Ochsner in New Orleans hopeful for Siamese twin separation. Polish diplomat Mark Korowicz seeks asylum after a dawn flight from the UN delegation. Twenty five year old items note Britain and France yielding to Germany on Czechoslovakia and rainfall totals. Fifty year ago Gov Sulzer impeachment ordeal and a crane of injuries at Warren fair round out the retro slice.
In McCall’s magazine the Dionne quints recount life with Oliva Dionne and Dr. Allan Dafoe. They describe a harsh home, secrecy over a fifth quintuplet’s epilepsy, and a legal battle over custody followed by marriages and children.
Madison governor signs a bill to require cooperatives to operate as cooperatives to qualify for state income tax exemption. Lawmakers cited abuses by entities mischaracterized as co-ops. The governor also approved measures to maintain life insurance for disabled state employees and to let counties hire more supervising teachers with state approval.
Mrs. Clara Hefty received word that Henry Hoesly aged 74 died in Emmentfuecke Switzerland on Aug 17. The New Glarus area residents for 21 years returned to Switzerland about 1930. He is survived by three daughters and two sons. his wife Mrs Hoesly died in 1959 and three children have preceded him in death.
Sixteen Green County township captains met in Monticello to challenge newspaper claims that the National Farm Organization would hurt the dairy industry. Robert Green argued the group seeks to reveal truth about milk contracts and urged unity among farmers amid price concerns and substitutes. He noted Grade A milk price and possible gains from contract utilization, while urging creameries and cheesemakers to stay in their lanes. The meeting focused on possible milk holding actions and the county’s role in such a plan.
Sixteen Gemini and Apollo program astronauts signed to tell their private stories in a Life magazine arrangement with Field Enterprises. Each will receive 65 000 dollars over four years, totaling 1 040 000 dollars as missions inch toward extended Earth orbits and orbital rendezvous rehearsals by 1967.
Mrs Mae Hood 89 plans a winter stay in Hawaii with daughter Miss Helen Hood RN after 21 years away. They booked a 10 am Monday departure from O’Hare and will land in Honolulu at 3 30 pm local time. Granny expects to accompany Helen back to Monroe next spring for Helen’s 90th birthday.
Fifty years ago opossums seldom reached north of Virginia. Now they are common in Massachusetts. Deer, moose, raccoons and badgers have also extended their ranges northward.
Miss Helen P. Goldmann a 42 year old history teacher from Monroe Junior High in the mid 1940s died unexpectedly in Boulder Colorado as she attended the University of Colorado for her master's degree Private funeral services will be held at 1 30 p m Saturday at the Lange Volkmann funeral home in Fennimore Friends may call there tomorrow She had been on leave from Green Bay West High School where she taught ten years Her career included stops in Belmont Oconomowoc Monroe and other communities Surviving are her mother and sister both of Fennimore Memorials go to the Fennimore High School scholarship fund.
Herbert Tank of Chicago purchased one of New Glarus oldest houses from Mrs. Marie Ruegsegger. The Swiss style white plaster home with wood trim is believed to be among the first built in the village. Tank, an antique dealer, will move in and conduct similar business. possession is set for Oct. 1.
The Sta-Right products Inc board raises the regular quarterly dividend from 20 cents to 25 cents per share. The increase is effective with the Oct. 15 payment to stockholders of record Sept. 30.
Prices received by Wisconsin farmers for milk sold in August averaged 3.35 dollars per hundredweight, a six cent rise from July and two cents above August 1962. The index of prices received was 248 percent of the 1910 14 average, while prices paid stood at 305 percent. Purchasing power was 19 percent below the 1910 14 average.
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Raymond B. Dinley aged 66 beloved brother of Mrs. Richard TerHark of Cedarville died yesterday morning at his Freeport home. Services set for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Walker Mortuary Freeport with burial in Grandview Cemetery. Survives wife Ruth a son Jerry two sisters three stepsdaughters a stepson and two brothers.
Byblos in Lebanon once gave its name to the Bible has become a quiet fishing village with an approximate population around 1,000. The ancient town now sustains a modest coastal community drawing on fishing and small trades.
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