Employment Drops in County as Supply Catches Demand
In Waukesha County the Wisconsin unemployment department reports a sharp rise in new unemployment claims in late November, with layoffs across multiple sectors. Hein-Werner Corp laid off about 70 workers over several weeks, the first such cut since 1936, while other plants shifted staff to keep operations running. Some workers have been recalled, with most back by January 16 as demand recovers.
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Waukesha County
Wisconsin
Elmer Jackson
Unemployment Compensation Department
Alocken
Roy
thin-Wernet Corp
Wauke
Omanufactures Auto Gach
G A Hein
Ite
Hein
Hess
Bein
Qeason
Two Named to Solicit Special Polio Gifts in Waukesha
Rev N Glenn Cloninger announced appointing Oran Emerson and Harry Miller to lead Waukesha March of Dimes gift solicitation. both Lions Club members, they head a committee advancing business and industry outreach before the city campaign opens January 14. half the local funds stay in Waukesha, the rest to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Oran Emerson
Harry Miller
Waukaha
Glenn Cloninger
Miller
Waukeabe
Em @raon
Lions Club
Wan- Sethe
Ape Aia
Artion
Waukesha
Pelle
National Foundation For
Waukesha Sunty
Fragmented Notice From Aged Newspaper Column
Fragments describe a Monday event with Beem and Sonia in a northern area. Mentions Temgerainre, Ser yer novmy ywists fourc me yee, and a query about properties yesterday. The text is garbled but centers on a local notice or column item with unclear specifics.
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Sianay Tontgnet
Stoudty Ferrie Beem
Sonia Vertiena
Man Quits Drinking, So Wife Divorces Him
In Cleveland West Virginia Mrs. Elsie Douglas aged 55 divorced her husband Robert aged 66 after he quit drinking on New Year’s Eve. Judge Burt Griffen ruled the couple obviously mismated as he refused to reverse the divorce. The incident centered on him pouring liquor down the drain and leaving to “pray for the poor.”
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Nation
Cleveland
Elsie Douglas
Burt Griffen
Okauchee to Get Highway Park for Recreation Area
Okauchee will gain a new recreational park with the next section of highway. Waukesha Gravel Co has sold 10 acres of land for $42,000 to the state for highway use and fire department needs. Remaining plots will be donated or bought as plans call for spring construction and an athletic facility.
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Okauchee
Okwuchee
Joan Tweeden
Tweeden
Waukesha Washed Land and Gravel Co
Ita
Grover Dobbertin
Waukesha Highway Committee
State Highway Commission
Chauches
Mant. Tweeden
Florida
J. M. Cilcquennel
Iindnean
Ohauechee
Okanehes
Ckarwiss
Dobbertin
Nationwide layoff trends dim in holiday season survey
A nationwide survey from the census bureau shows total employment dipping below 60 million for the first time since May, with November counts at 89,803,000 and the prior month at 60,134,000. United Press reports localized factory curtailments, noting both declines and some gains. Major layoffs hit clothing, watchmaking, home appliance and steel industries across cities like Philadelphia Stamford Waterbury Cleveland Clyde Pittsburgh, with several plants trimming weeks and hours amid government restrictions and weak demand.
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United Frees
Census Bureau
Waa
United Press
Pennsylvania
Burogu
Philadelphia
Aesson
Stamford
Conn
Manufacturers Council
Greenwich
Watterbury
U. S. Tim
Apex Electric Co
Cleveland and Bandusky
Plante
Clyde
Clyde Porcelain Steel Corp
Bendix Home Appliance Co
Pittsburgh
Deap
Order Menomonee Falls to Improve Phone Service
The public service commission ordered Menomonee Falls Telephone Co. to upgrade service in Waukesha County after complaints by Jerome B. Schultz and others that service was inadequate. The company must improve the plant, add facilities, and hire more staff to meet applications it cannot currently fill.
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Ware Phone
Commession
Menomonee Falla Tabephone Co
Waukashi County
P&c
Cor Plainte
Jerome B. Schults
Menomonse
Mra
Erie Gruetsmacher
Lenton
PSC
Sndia
Parking Meters Pay Well Piling Up Funds for Lots
Waukesta residents see meters yield about 100 dollars daily driving the Municipal Parking System. About 40,900 dollars spent on off-street lots, 33,162 dollars in the fund for future parking initiatives. Meters aimed to finance lots and ease downtown congestion by reducing all-day parking. Extensions to Wisconsin Avenue discussed. opposition noted in nearby cities. Original meters cost just over 25,000 dollars with a revenue bond issue of 200,000 dollars. cash payment saved 750 dollars in discounts. Police collect the cash weekly. few complaints since installation as out-of-town drivers adjust.
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Waukesta
Wisconsin Avenue
Clinton
Maple Avenue
Bawin H. Honayager
Harold Owens
Truckre
Lawrence Warner
Common Council
Winconals Ue
Broadway
Maple
Honayager
Wiecomsin Avenue
West Bend
Owens
Russia uses Santa and glamour to lure Berliners
Berlin dispatch reports Soviet sector propaganda carnival using Father Christmas imagery to entice residents toward communist control. Festive rides and displays draw crowds at the boundary near Western sectors, with banners touting a better life under Soviet rule while rationed fare highlights contrast with Western zones.
Weekend Weather Outlook From Federal Forecast
The forecast predicts a cloudy and cold weekend with snow flurries in the north and central areas. Temperatures range from a low near seven degrees yesterday to highs around the upper thirties, with melting snow and thawing ponds as milder air returns.
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M Nice
Eunny
Maxi
Mini
Hearing on TM Runs to Resume Here Dec 22
The state public service commission announced the continuance of the Milwaukee Waukeha rapid transit hearing. The rate and schedule change case will resume at 10 a.m. December 37 in the courthouse, after investigation found sufficient grounds for a formal hearing. City official Richard Hippenmeyer filed the complaint on November 10. TM testified that reducing delays would cut operating expenses.
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State Public Service Commission
Milwaukee Waukeah
Wlea
Courthoue
Edward Kaveny
Alty
Richard Hippenmeyer
TM of Delate
Local CAP units mobilize for maneuvers at Aar o Park
Civil Air Patrol squadrons from Group One including Waukesha West Allis West Bend and Milwaukee are ordered to mobilize Sunday morning at Aar o Park. Waukesha members will bring airplanes walkie talkies rifles first aid gear and field telephones. Some will travel by car and truck to the sites.
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Civil Air Patro
Waukesha
West Ailis
West Band
Milwaukee
Aaro
Soviet Move Abolishes German Factory Worker Councils in Berlin
The Soviet zone in Germany ends factory worker councils formed under allied control by transferring functions to Communist unions. Taegliche Rundschau says the measure aims to ensure two year Plan success and uniform labor deployment while downsizing anti Communist opposition. Mail and rail links between sectors partially reopen as Berlin tensions ease.
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Berlin
Russia
Germany
Allied Control Council
Workers Council
Taegische Bundechay
Allied Council
Central Council
Rundschau
Draftees Reprieved as Wisconsin Inductions Delayed
County draftees in Waukesha will not report this Christmas as scheduled. Washington halted state inductees during December, deferring to January. Courtenay said only half would be taken on the 13th and 14th with others postponed to the mid January draft. A Milwaukee driver escaped injury after a ditch rollover on Highway 5 near Brookfield. Edneain G. Thomas, 47, cited slick roads and a curve as causes.
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Waukesha County
Selective Service
Yeat Orday
Army
Ufa
Milwaukee
Dnc
Wisconsin
Bantley Court
Washington
Courtenay
Edneain G. Thomas
Brookfield
Thomas
Stuhldreher resigns as Wisconsin head coach to stay as athletic director
MADISON Wisconsin. Harry Stuhldreher submitted his resignation as head coach effective immediately ending a 2 1 year tenure. He will remain athletic director earning 12000 a year. His teams posted two wins and seven defeats this season and Wisconsin finished last in the Big Nine. The university trustees agreed to seek a successor while retaining Stuhldreher in the athletic director role.
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Madison
U.P
Harry Stuhldreher
Uniersity of
Wisconsin
Stuhldreher
Notre Dame
Four Horsemen
Wolent
University of Winconein
Atte Henty
Bin
Regenta
Prem
Fred Theregenta
Fred
Stuhidrehes
Record Ag
Seare
Intercollemiate Athletic Pioriam
Stubidreher
Gamez
Arve JT MtUhidrehes
Pigman Arrives for Spy Probe in Grand Jury Hearing
William Ward Pigman 38 a chemist formerly with the National Bureau of Standards arrived in New York to testify before a grand jury amid the Chambers Hiss spying case. He joined Whittaker Chambers Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh as summoned witnesses. Pigman refused to talk to reporters as he entered the court, marking a notable moment in the investigations.
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New York
William Ward Pigman
National Bureau of Standards
Pigman
Witnhernen J
Grand Jury
Whittaker Chambers
Mesaton
Alger Hiss
State Department
Chambara
Ammuntat
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Chambers
Grand Fung Ranma
Chemiatat Appleton
Win
Alger Hive
House Committee
Bureau of Standards
House
Antivings Committee
Washington
Home Committee
Pit
Hias
Donald Bias
Hoare
Hiss
Resignation of Wisconsin Head Coach Stuhldrener Recalled
An old report recalls the 1936 Wisconsin football season and the coaching changes surrounding Harry A. Stuhldrener's resignation. It notes how John Golemgeske, a Waukesha athlete, influenced events as captain during that era, with Carroll College’s Glenn Thistlethwaite later joining in a pivotal upheaval linked to Badger leadership.
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Harry A. Stuhldrener
University of Wisconsin
Waukesha
John Golemgeake
Dlamia
Stuldreher
Clarence W. Spears
LA. W
Carroll College
Glenn Thistlathwaite
Badgers
Doc” Speary
U. W
Golkkogeski
Badger
Avalon
Golamgeske
John
Madison
Carrell
Carroll
Thistlethwaite
Norma Armstrong
University
Speare
Wisconsin
Drunk Driver Fined After Collision With Parked Car
Louis Kosss man 62 of Lannon was fined $60 in municipal court for driving while intoxicated after crashing into a parked car on Highway 74. The vehicle sustained front headlight and fender damage. An earlier incident involved another driver, Roxaman Weet, hitting EB J Rehulty’s car, with further penalties listed for bar conduct and related charges.
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Aberitis
Lannon
Louis Kosssman
Wan
Municipa Court
Roxaman
Highway 74
EB J Rehulty
Te Road
Schultya
Muncipal
Hridge Beott Lowry
Mong Keesman
Itewaa
Costes
Children Warned River Ice Is Dangerous
Police Chief Martin Owens cautioned parents to keep children off the river ice. He warned the ice is not thick enough to walk on and urged children to refrain from throwing rocks as they can embed in the ice and cause danger.
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Martin Owens
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Menomonee Falls
Kenosha
Santa Claus
Glamor
Hebert
Ruasis
Mamte Clare
Nikolaus
Sateen Onda
Tempel of
Russ
Swhidreher'a Critien
Harry Stuhl Greher
Stuhidreher
Winconsin
Villanova College
Daving Hia
Daya Stuhidreher
Harry
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