In 1948, the Dane County Board of Supervisors had at least 78 members. Retiring Guy assumes all of them were men.

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Originally published in the 8/26/1948 Wisconsin State Journal

The Dane County Board will meet Friday night to make a final decision on construction of a joint City-County Building. 

Last July 30, supervisors approved the plan by a 44-34 vote. Supervisors will vote Friday on reconsidering that July 30 decision. 

For the life of us, we can think of no valid reason why the County Board’s approval of the joint building should be reconsidered. We hope that the 44 supervisors who voted for the project will stick to their guns and vote against reconsideration. 

For 16 years, Dane County citizens — urban and rural alike — have been discussing all possible angles of the proposal to house city of Madison and Dane County governments in a single building. There has been a lot of oratory and a lot of name-calling from both sides, and some unpleasantness that could have been avoided. There has been unjust suspicion and misunderstandings.