City PTA Conference to Be Hosted in Local City
District No. 2 Wisconsin Conference of Parents and Teachers holds fall sessions with Mrs. Woods Dreyfus Milwau kee and Mrs. Joseph Born She boygan as guest speakers. Registration is free and open to PTA members with events from 9 30 a m to 2 p m including panel talks workshops and officer elections.
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Woods Dreyfus
Milwaukee
Joseph Born
Sheboygan
PTA
Wisconsin
E. R. Davis. Adams
Howard L. Orians
Immanuel Church
E. O. Evans
Monroe
Joseph Conners
Baraboo
William Benzies
Elmer Stone
Lodi
E. K. Steul
Madison Council of
Monroe High School
Grace Lutheran
First Methodist
Edwin C. Dallman
10Th Street
Ralph E. Lindsay
Methodist Church
J. Henry Tschudy
H. F. Cunningham
No Injuries Reported As County Cars Crash
County highway police logged two crashes within ten hours. At 12 45 a m a Flood Albany and Crawford Mueller Monroe driven cars collided on highway 59 near the Maple Leaf cheese factory. Flood’s car rear damaged. At 2 35 p m yesterday Lehmann Juda car badly damaged when struck by a Juda backed vehicle driven by John W Mather Juda. Lehmann car swung around per police reports.
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Green County
Donald W. Flood
Albany
Crawford Mueller
Monroe
Maple Leaf
Lena Lehmann
Juda
John W. Mather
Lehmann
Wisconsin farmer wins W. G. Skelly award
Glenn Kinsman of Sauk County Wisconsin has been named winner of the W. G. Skelly award for superior achievement in agriculture. He operates a 288 acre dairy farm north of Lime Ridge.
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Chicago
Glenn Kinsman
Sauk County
Wis
W. G. Skelly
Lime Ridge
Sixth Carrier Route Added to City Setup for Regular Delivery
The Monroe post office expands to six regular city carrier routes from five and seven carriers from six. The sixth route becomes a regular one, now north and east oriented. Two substitutes, Ralph Baltzer and Emil Klerer, promoted to regular carriers joining Otto Walter, Carl Wagner, William Rosenthal, Wayne Blackbourn, and Harry E. Williams.
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Monroe
John J. Burkhard
Ralph Baltzer
Emil Klarer
Otto Walter
Carl Wagner
William Rosenthal
Wayne Blackbourn
Harry E. Williams
Missing Manhole Found During Square Repaving Work
Workmen uncovered a missing manhole under the last poured slab of public square concrete. The manhole was located per blueprints and protected with boards and sand. Monroe Ready Mix and Ma terial Co. crews cut the slab at the Montgomer y Ward corner, after removing a strip of concrete near Hoffman Cleaners. A new power conduit for the street light was laid, and city officials discussed tests and delays at the well project while a major pour continued at the sewage plant rock digester walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Square
Monroe Ready Mix and Material Co
Montgomery Ward
Hoffman Cleaners
16Th Avenue
Monroe Clinic
O. T. Havey Co. Employes
Hoffman’s
C. M. Ward
John Strand
Madison
Z. A. Gorder
Square
George Glass
Fowl theft hits Vitali Farm as 103 chickens vanish
Green County sheriff's department probes a chicken theft at Peter Vitali farm in Attica north of Albany. The flock has dwindled to 12 after a disturbance heard at 1130 p m Sunday with a figure fleeing west into a wooded area.
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Green County Sheriff’s Department
Peter Vitali
Attica
Albany
Carl Freitag
New Glarus
Freitag
Alaska Gulf quake rattles region with strong tremor
A seismograph at John Carroll University captured a strong earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska today. The event prompted regional notices but no immediate damage reports or injuries. Authorities monitor aftershocks and coastal effects.
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Alaska
Cleveland
John Carroll University
Gulf of Alaska
Military Raises Sent to President
The House approved Senate amendments and sent to President Truman a bill raising pay for armed forces personnel. The changes were minor and a conference was not sought. The pay scale ranges from about $5 monthly for recruits to over $300 for generals. The Senate next tackles a separate executive pay bill for cabinet members and top White House aides amid ongoing compromise talks led by Senator McFarland.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Kilday
D-Tex
Rep
Hoffman
R-Mich
Barkey
Lucas
Illinois
McFarland
D-Ariz
White House
County Science Course Planned by Committee
A science planning committee meets this afternoon at the county superintendent of schools office to outline a county science program and a course of study for conservation. Attending are Robert Hendrickson Marguerite Wenger Ruth Schlicher Florence Wartenweiler Myron Jeglum and Lester Van Loon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hendrickson
Marguerite Wenger
Ruth Schlicher
Florence Wartenweiler
Myron E. Jeglum
Lester van Loon
Wisconsin Cheese Market Steady Despite Fair Demand
The Federal State market news service reports Wisconsin American cheese market steady with fair trade and demand. Selling prices show variations: single daisies 35 44 to 36 4, longhorns 36 to 36 4 2, square prints 35 34 to 36 12, midgets 37 to 38.
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Madison
Wisconsin
State Assembly Pvoints, Inc.l
Ground Breaking for Wing Hospital Addition Begins
Large workforce moves ahead on a hospital expansion as crews break ground for the Wing addition. The project proceeds amid steady progress, with officials outlining scope and expected impact on community health capacity.
Deadlock Stops Steel Peace Talks in Pension Dispute
Pittsburgh reports a stalemate as CIO united steel workers and the steel industry resume bargaining over pensions. Bethlehem Steel proposed four cents hourly for an insurance program while workers pay three cents. no pension offer. If stance persists a strike affecting 1,000,000 workers looms Saturday. Philip Murray says pensions and full industry funding are demanded. John A. Stephens offers no new plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steel Workers
Pittsburgh
Otis Brubaker
James G. Thimmel
David J. McDonald
Philip Murray
Arthur Goldberg
Murray Latimer
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel Corp
New York
Steel Capital
Steel Workers
Big
John A. Stephens
Big Steel
Murray
Senate group votes hearings for Minton
The senate judiciary committee voted to request Judge Sherman Minton appear before the panel for private questioning on his Supreme Court nomination. Acting Chairman Kilgore said Senator Ferguson moved the appearance, with a second from Senator Donnell.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sherman Minton
Supreme Court
Kilgore
Dwva
Ferguson
R-Mich
Minton
Donnell
Missouri
Bomber Crashes near Talihina Oklahoma Killing 13
A four engine B 29 bomber crashed near Talihina Oklahoma in the Ozark forest area while on a training flight from Smoky Hill base Kansas. Authorities counted 10 bodies near the wreckage and searchers reported no survivors. flames and heat hindered rescue efforts and observers heard possible midair explosions.
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Talihina
Oklahoma
Tinker Air Force Base
Oklahoma City
Smoky Hill Base
Salina
Kas
Air Force
Jack Bishop
Ozark National Forest
Fort Smith
Ark
Robert Grubb
Mid-Continent Airlines
Chicago Mother 33 Loses Three Quads After Birth
Mrs. Bernice Ecker, 33, and three of the quadruplet babies died after birth at Holy Cross hospital. A surviving infant girl, abnormally small, was kept in an incubator with a 50 50 chance of survival. The death toll followed the mother’s fatal anemia and prior labor.
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Chicago
Bernice Ecker
Holy Cross Hospital
Vernon
Ecker
Laborite Urges Stalin Conference In Atomic Debate
A Labour MP urged a face to face atom bomb conference among President Truman Prime Minister Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee in the Commons. Attlee rejected Churchill’s demand for more disclosure about the Soviet atomic explosion saying no beyond the Sept 23 joint US Canada Britain statement.
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London
Truman
Stalin
Attlee
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Russia
United States
Canada
Britain
Soviet Union
Officer Rod Brumm Receives Medal for Rescue Aid
Officer Roland Brumm of the Dane County highway department was awarded the President's Medal and a National Safety Council certificate in Madison at a Wisconsin Power and Light meeting. The honors cited his action on Aug. 24, 1948, when he assisted Roy L. Schneider after an electric shock while clearing wires. Schneider died Sept. 14, 1948, from tetanus.
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Roland Brumm
Dane County Highway Traffic Department
National Safety Council
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Madison
Roy L. Schneider
Belleville
Monroe
Brumm
Schneider
Senators Split Over Butterworth Assistant Secretary Nomination
Washington Republicans split on H Walton Butterworth's nomination as assistant secretary of state with Sen Wiley voting in favor and Sen McCarthy opposing, while Sen Ferguson of Michigan abstained.
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Wiley
McCarthy
Washington
Wisconsin
Senate
H. Walton Butterworth
Sen Wiley
Sen
Sen. Ferguson
Mich
Truman Defends Fair Deal Against Critics
President Truman ridiculed opponents who call his fair deal alien or dangerous and urged renewed Democratic support. He spoke on Democratic Women's Day from the White House with Mrs. India Edwards, pledging housing, education aid, expanded social security, and labor goals from 1948 platform. He urged progress and federal aid to education despite funding controversies.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic Party
White House
India Edwards
Democratic National Committee
Congress
House
St Agnes Order Grounds for St Clare Hospital Wing
Ground was broken at the site of the new five story north wing for St Clare hospital expansion. Ceremonies featured Mother M Angeline and George F Hutter with officials including Dr W G Bear and Mayor Frank A Buehler. Construction to employ local labor and follow a three year planning arc begun in 1947 with an $800000 fundraising target.
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St. Clare Hospital
Mother M. Angeline
Congregation of St. Agnes
Fond du Lac
Order
George F. Hutter
Theodore A. Hartman
Monroe
Merle Thalen
Hutter
W. G. Bear
Russell W. Prien
St. Agnes
M. Vera
M. Albertonia
M. Sebastian
Frank A. Buehler
John J. Burkhard
American Legion
Wesley L. Dodge
C. W. Bennett
W. C. Bender
Rodney O. Kittelsen
Michael J. McCarthy
Allce Holtshopple
St. Clare
Sisters of St. Agnes
William P. O’connor
Madison
Rome
Burkhard Completes GAR and Indiana Badges Collection
John J. Burkhard, a badge collector, received the final Grand Army of the Republic encampment badge and the Indiana department badge after the 83rd national encampment in Indiana. The GAR dissolved after the meeting, and Burkhard’s collection now includes all American Legion state convention badges except one and all national badges, plus many GAR buttons.
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John J. Burkhard
Service Organization
Grand Army of Republic
GAR Department of Indiana
Indiana
GAR
J. Burkhard
American Legion
Nationalist China Lodges U N Charge Against Russia
Nationalist China formally complained to the United Nations Assembly, accusing Russia of backing the Chinese Communist war to topple the Kuomintang government in Canton. T. F. Tsiang, chief nationalist delegate, presented the case in two letters to Assembly President Romulo and U N Secretary General Lie, with details not released immediately.
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Trygve Lie
U. N
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Richard Riedel
Fullerton
Calif
Hot Springs
Dickie
Shirley Johnson
Ellen Kay Scott
Morristown
Tenn
Vitali Farm
West
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Clearfield
Clarion County
West Virginia
Gilmer County
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Soft Coal Welfare and Pension Fund
Lewis
UMW
Southern Soft Coal
Bluefield
W. Va
Northern and Western
White Sulphur Springs
Parkland
Laborite
St. Agnes Order
Burkhard
Montgomery
Georgia
James R. Little
Austell
Little
China
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