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Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 23

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Section Daily Gazette, Thursday, September 8, 1966 'A USO Aids Servicemen Throughout the World The United Givers Fund drive, to begin Sept. 27 in Janesville, allocates the money it receives to many agencies. Among them is the United Service Organization (USO), which serves the American Armed Services at 166 points around the globe. The USO receives no financial aid from the It is supported by voluntary gifts made principally through local United Funds and 0 nity Chests. In its 25th anniversary year, USO was chartered Feb.

4, 1941, as a federation of six volunteer agencies through which the people of the United States assist in serving the religious, spiritual, social. welfare and recreational needs of young men and women in uniform. The USO is now operating eight clubs in Viet Nam, with four more being readied as soon as war conditions permit. Prior to the increase of American forces in Viet Nam last August, the USO operated but one club, that in Saigon. In the last year it has opened seven more clubs to serve the American troops.

At a typical USO club there is a snack room where the GI can get an American hamburger and milk shake, and writing, game, tape, newspaper and hi-fi rooms. There are also USO variety shows. Each year approximately 700 entertainers are sent overseas and 3,600 performances are presented to a military audience of over 2,500,000. Stockland Will Direct Fort United Fund Drive FORT ATKINSON Richard Stockland, 607 N. Main Fort Atkinson, has been appointed United Fund drive cochairman, replacing Ron Anderson, who is moving from Fort Atkinson.

Stockland is office manager of Prospect Farms. His activity in community service includes past presidency of the local Jaycees, current Jaycee state director, and membership in tha Ambassadors Club of the Chamber of Commerce. Ife is cochairman on "RIGHT HERE, YOUR HONOR" Rebecca Lynn, Morris, 3, peers over jury box in Dallas courtroom during naturalization ceremonies. Rebecca, Korean by birth, came to this country at age of six months as ward of Dallas couple. She was adopted by them six months later.

Rebecca received her American citizenship papers after taking the oath from Judge T. Whitfield of Dallas. (AP Wirephoto) TOTAL TV OFFICE HOURS A.M. P.M. CLOSED FRI.

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754-2881 He's Versatile HODGEVILLE, Ky. (AP) was an unfamiliar face on traffic duty at a downtown intersection. It was Mayor C. Thurman, who stepped in after what he termed a policy dispute left this south central Kentucky town of 2,000 without police. PAID ADVERTISEMENT: Authorized and paid for by Citizens' for Lucey Committee, Senator Carl Thompson, Co-chairman, Wisconsin.

LUCEY f.r GOVERNOR PatLucey talks withPresident and Senator Proxmire PATRICK LUCEY, leading Democratic choice for Governor, has served his party as a forceful and effective Lieutenant Governor. Ml Step into Shade of Fall: HOT COFFEE by KUPPENHEIMER Fashion right for the season the secret of Kupp 's sensational new shades. Never too light and never dull or dated. You'll find a wide range of textures to choose from. All tailored with Kupp 's impeccable XK styling to give you a look that's always your best.

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Edmund J. Goebel, superintendent of schools for the archdiocese, said tiie network ultimately will include the 235 elementary schools and the 25 high schools of the archdiocese and will reach more tiian 120,000 students. Tlie first phase of the five- phase five-year program will include construction of a studio and central transmittmg site in the Milwaukee area. This will i)e foljowed by introduction of a two-channel network for 134 schools in the greater metropolitan Milwaukee area by the fall of 1968. In the third phase, network facilities and channel expansion will include Racme, and )5 worth counties.

Network facilities will be enlarged to include schools in the Sheboygan and Ozaukee County areas in phase four. Schools in Washmgton, Dodge and Fond du Lac counties will receive the service the final the industrial portion of the "We Like It Here Week." Stockland has been a United Fund drive solicitor for two years. The appointment was announc- manager of the Moore Seafood ed today by Scott Moore, chair- Products, and man of United Fund, of elect of the Fort Atkinson Cham- Fort Atkinson. Moore is general ber of Commerce. expansion.

The full network is expected to be completed in 1971. Estimated cost of the network will be approximately $800,000 and wLU be underwritten by the archdiocese over the five-year period. Msgr. Goebel said his office already is screening teachers to appear as television instructors. Elkhom Motorist Injured in Crash ELKHORN-Robert E.

Finley, 40, Elkhom, was taken by a sheriff's squad car to a doctor for treatment of minor Injuries suffered in a three-car collision Tuesday which resulted in extensive damage to all vehicles. Edward J. Witt, 72, Rte. 1, East Troy, was charged with failure to signal a left turn after the accident 3Vi miles northeast of East Troy on Highway 24. Witt and Finely were driving east.

The third car, traveling west, was driven by John P. Stachowski, 19, Muskego. Rose Ellis, 23, Kenosha, was charged with failure to yield the right of way after her car collided with one driven by Conrad J. Weber, 50, Genoa City, on County Trunk at N. Bloomfield Road at 4:20 p.m.

yesterday. The accident occurred at a Pell Lake intersection. A pickup truck driven by Dorothy Tonne, 19, Rte. 1, Walworth, received extensive front end damage as the result of striking a Holstein cow six miles northwest of Delavan on Highway 89 at 7:15 p.m. yesterday.

The cow was killed. Owner was Phillip Shafer, Rte. 1, Delavan. Mooney Is Cited for Leadership in School Saving Postmaster John Mooney has been commended by William H. Neal, national dij-ector of the U.S.

Savings Bonds Division, for his leadership and service to the Treasury Department's school savings program. In a letter to the postmaster, Neal said, "The mission of school savuigs is in many ways more important today than at any time since the end of World War II. Today's young people, growing up in a world whose troubles admit to no easy solutions, need grounding in the simple truths of their American heritage as preparation for the challenges they face. The lesson of thrift is important in itself; but it becomes even more so when it also involves the investment of dimes and quarters, often saved at a sacrifice, in the future of our country through savings stamps and bonds." School savings, which operates in many schools, is a part of the nationwide savings bond program. Neal told the postmaster that "the good service you render plays a major part in its success." Savings stamp in five denommation, from 10 centi $5, are on sale at all tunes At the post office and on Stamp Day in schools.

Mitby Will Be Kiwanis Speaker "Problems of Vocational Answers" was the the topic of Ralph Mitby, guidance director of Janesville public when he addressed the Kiwanis Club at its luncheon meeting this noon in Cordovan Inn. Mitby, who received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota and has done graduate work at the University of Wisconsm, works with 11,000 pupils and 500 teachers in Janesville schools. He has done considerable work in industry through numerous summers, at the Parker Pen Co. and U.S. Employment Office, served as emergency farm labor director and worked for the Rock County 4-H Fair 17 summers, 10 of them as director- business manager.

HAS ATTACK Rep. Carl Albert, D-Okla, House majority floor leader, is in Bethesda Naval Hospital, recovering from a mild heart atack. He will b6 in the hospital two or three weeks with home convalescence to follow. Strain of the long congressional session and a weekend of packing and yard work prior to moving from his home to an apartment is blamed for the attack. (AP Wirephoto) HANDY HELPMATES FOR THE HOME Cork Bulletin Boards Self-sealing cork face over sturdy warp-free heavy backing.

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