Radium Aid From Marshall Plan Reaches France
Since August 1948 France has received 3.5 grams of radium from the Marshall Plan, valued at $80,000. French doctors share 55 percent, with Dr. Roger Petyt in Roubaix treating cancer patients and modernizing radium therapy. Radium aids factory flaw detection and luminous instrument production, supporting a major Paris area power plant and postwar industry. 2.2 grams came from America and 1.3 from the Belgian Congo.
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Paris
France
NER
Roger Petyt
Roubaiz
Economic Cooperation Administration
Thouands
Petyt
Gennevilliers
Europe
ECA
America
Belgian Congo
Kenosha Board to Hear Call for Extended Teacher Sick Leave
The Kenosha Education Association asks the school board to extend maximum accumulated sick leave from 35 to 80 days and to broaden other sick leave provisions. A May 10 survey cites Wisconsin and Illinois cities with greater leave. Currently teachers can accumulate 10 days per year up to 35. city employees max at 52 days.
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Board of Education
Kenosha Education Association
KEA
Wisconsin
Illinois
Kenosha
Stolen Tools Found Near Western Fuel
A chest of tools stolen in the burglary of the Western Fuel and Supply company at 6635 39th Ave was found near 39th Ave and North Western railway by the coal yard Tuesday. Also taken were a loaded .32 caliber pistol and an expensive fountain pen. Detectives continued probing a series of burglaries including a 300 pound safe with $1,130 cash and checks from Holmes and Saffig filling station at 1405 60th St. the safe had not been recovered. Several men were released after questioning Tuesday.
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Western Fuel and Supply Company
39Th Ave
North Western Railway
Holmes and Saffig
60Th St
Fractured Leg Strikes Baseball Player Near Colonial Tavern
Mike Domenic aged 29 living at 4812 17th Ave suffered a fractured leg near the knee while playing baseball at a park by the Colonial tavern on Highway 31. Deputies Floyd Hughes and Chet Molinaro gave first aid and took him to St. Catherine's hospital.
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Mike Domenic
17Th Ave
Colonial Tavern
Highway 31
Floyd Hughes
Chet Molinaro
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Flower bloom display at Sheridan Road park area
Lawrence J. Gallagher of the city parks department announces peak color in Sheridan Road park as English hawthornes yellow tea roses and begonias are in full bloom. The Parks Department prepared and cultivated the display for visitors to enjoy.
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Sheridan Road Park
Lawrence J. Gallagher
Parks Department
Peterson's Ointment Promises Quick Eczema Relief
An old advertisement promotes Peterson's Ointment as a simple quick relief for itching eczema pimples and red blotches. It claims to soothe itchy skin cracks and improves appearance with a money back delight.
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Peterson
State Passes Law on White Canes in Wisconsin
Gov. Oscar Rennebohm signed a bill restricting use of white canes to those wholly or partially blind. Wisconsin becomes the 17th state to adopt such legislation per George Card of the Wisconsin Council of the Blind, head of the 1949 White Cane Week committee leading a national campaign.
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Oscar Rennebohm
Wisconsin
George Card
Wisconsin Council of the Blind
Card
White Cane Law Prompts Public Awareness Campaign
The National Federation of the Blind funds a campaign to inform the public about blind pedestrians. Wisconsin's 1949 Chapter 165 adds to the traffic code prohibiting use of nonwhite canes. drivers must stop within ten feet of a pedestrian with a white or white-trimmed cane.
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National Federation of the Blind
Wisconsin
Building Industry Board to Meet in Kenosha
The board of directors of the Kenosha Building Industry Association will meet at 7:30 this evening at the Sons of Norway hall. A discussion on reducing housing costs will be held and plans will be made for the annual summer picnic.
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Kenosha Building Industry Association
Sons of Norway Hall
Kenoshan Escapes Injury After Car Hits Pole
Vincent Ruffalo, 19, of 7524 16th Ave., escaped injury when his car struck a power pole on Highway 42 a half mile north of County Trunk T at 2 25 a m. Deputies said he lost control while traveling south. the crash occurred 150 feet before the pole. A warrant was issued charging Ruffalo with driving without a license.
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Vincent Ruffalo
16Th Ave
Highway 42
Robert Wallace
Edward Krok
Ruffalo
Buffalo
Mumps Still Top The City Illness List
City health officer Dr A J Randall reports little change in communicable diseases this week with 121 cases identified. Mumps leads the list at 77 cases among illnesses reported for the period.
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A. J. Randall
Vital Statistics of Births Deaths and Marriages
The record lists 28 cases of chickenpox, seven of whooping cough, six of rathers and three of measles. Vital statistics include 17 girls and 13 boys born, six deaths and eight marriages.
Reformatory Sentence for Local Man Indecent Liberties
Russell Crawford Jr aged 21 of 817 73rd Street received a sentence of one year to 16 months in Green Bay state re formatory after pleading guilty to taking indecent liberties with a minor. He admitted to acts with two local boys aged 10 and 11 and was held in county jail for pre sentence investigation.
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Russell Crawford, Jr
73Rd St
Green Bay State
School Safety Patrol Day Observed in Wisconsin
Gov Renne bohm proclaims June 4 as School Safety Patrol Day in honor of Wisconsin's sixth annual patrol congress at Wisconsin Dells. More than 2,000 pupils have registered for the two day sessions this weekend.
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Madison
Rennebohm
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Dells
Three Kenosha youths fined for curfew violation
Three Kenosha boys Richard Jake 17 LeRoy Gorsuch 16 and William Alphonse Bain 16 were fined five dollars and costs each in municipal court Tuesday for curfew violation. They were arrested in a car by Patrol men Melvin Knox and Lawrence Glerum at 1 20 a m on Monday.
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Kenosha
Richard Jake
32Nd Ave
LeRoy Gorsuch
37Th Ave
William Alphonse Bain
34Th Ave
Melvin Knox
Lawrence Glerum
Burglary Case Adjourned for David Harris in Ke nosha
On defense motion the burglary case against 23 year old David Jesse Harris of Ke nosha was adjourned to July 1 in municipal court. Harris was arrested May 8 for stealing 314 dollars from a local residence and the money was recovered.
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David Jesse Harris
Kenosha
Harris
Conrad Shearer Society Forms After Senator’s Death
Marie Ruffalo reports in Badger History on Bain School sixth graders forming the Conrad Shearer Historical Society, created soon after the death of the state senator last October, detailing their activities and goals.
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Marie Ruffalo
Bain
Conrad Shearer
English Court Declines Drunk Disorderly Taxi Ruling
In Cardiff a court dismissed a charge of drunken and disorderly behavior in a public place noting that after paying fare a taxicab becomes a man's castle. The ruling cited the adage that an Englishman's taxi is his castle.
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Cardiff
Wales
Kenosha 4-H Leaders Set Camp Plans Meeting
Kenosha county 4 H Leaders Council will meet at 8 p m Monday June 6 to discuss final plans for state and county camps this summer. Miss Glee Heminway county home agent said the meeting will be held in Room 106 of the courthouse.
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Kenosha County
Glee Heminway
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