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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1968
Page
1
The American Field Service Chapter invites students at Monroe High School to a 7:30 p.m. Monday meeting. The group has run the Abroad Program for five years, offering summer 8 to 10 week stays or school program 11 to 13 months abroad. Participants must be 16 by June 30, aiming to foster cross cultural understanding.
Editor notes student essays from Monroe school system for Wonderful Wisconsin Week. Lincoln and North School writers praise Wisconsin’s camping, touring, Door County cherry trees, Fort Dells Wisconsin Dells, New Glarus Swiss heritage, Monroe as Swiss Cheese Capital with guided tours, Racine and Milwaukee factories and attractions, and state capital Madison.
Final expense accounts filed with County Clerk Ray E. Kundert detail candidate spending for the Sept. 10 primary. Republican Nominee Matt Solliran reported 434.35 while incumbent Sheriff Roy Vetterli listed 327.67. Frank Wyss, winner in the county treasurer race, posted 260.23. other candidates for treasurer filed 336.64 and 354.62. Incumbents with no opposition show minimal figures: Clerk Ray Kundert 1.25, DA L A Koenig 1.50, Register of Deeds Helen Bratzke none, Coroner Richard Wagner 1.25, Clerk of Court Helen F. Myers 1.25.
University Extension presents four meetings to teach better buys. Sept. 24 Bank of Brod 8 p.m. Sept. 25 Ag Building Monroe 8 p.m. Sept. 26 Zwingli Church Monticello 8 p.m. Sept. 27 Ag Building Monroe 1 30 p.m. Questions to Extension Office. Gaylord Nelson wild rivers bill may be signed into law by Johnson within two weeks.
Monroe resident Miss Rebecca Houser has been accepted by the Peace Corps and left on Sunday for eight weeks of training at the Escondido Training Center in California. She will then proceed to Colombia for five additional weeks of training before joining a two year assignment with a team in a Colombian city. Miss Houser, a Monroe High School and University of Wisconsin Madison graduate, has prior Peace Corps internship experience in Washington, D. C., and excavation work at Aztalan State Park.
Vandalism, littering, and waste plague public recreation areas in Green and Lafayette counties with few arrests. Jim Huntoon, game manager, notes curfew helps briefly but vandalism persists. Sign losses, damaged toilets, torn shelters, and litter cost about 1,350 yearly in the Rock Green Lafayette District and slow highway work due to rain.
About 600 North Vietnamese troops attacked northwest of Saigon, with Allied forces reporting 67 enemy killed and nine South Vietnamese militiamen dead as 31 militiamen and 81 South Vietnamese were wounded in other battles across Da Nang and the Mekong Delta. US pilots also downed a MIG jet. In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan will be tried by Judge Herbert Walker starting November 1. FBI recovered a kidnapped boy unharmed in Illinois.
After work you roam home to a day not lost beside the bacon you bring home Applesauce is urged as a small blithe detail in this light verse set by Clair R. Munns
Janet Williams 17 returned Aug 26 from Mengsberg Germany after an American Field Service summer. She gained weight from Tanta Hanna’s cooking and plans to try German recipes for her family. She stayed with the Schaefer family and described life on a wood stove, no hot water, and a busy guest house operation.
Niffenegger announced at the American Legion meeting his candidacy for state commander. A Monroe man, he has held leadership roles including local post commander in 1962 and Wisconsin Third District commander in 1966-67, elected department vice commander in 1968. Zilmer Riley Post endorses him and will form a committee to promote his bid. The Fall conference will be at Cross Plains with six Monroe delegates. a parade is set for Sunday afternoon.
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