Ice Cement and Gravel Firms Change Hands in Regional Buyout
Hoeschler Drug Co. announces acquisition of Peoples Ice and Fuel Co. and related units including West Channel Cement Block Co and West Channel Sand and Gravel Co totaling 52 years of operations. New structure pools three divisions under Hoeschler, with offices, expanded plants, and plans for dredging an area of almost 10 acres for growth. The press notes ice supply for refrigeration era, detailing plant capacity with 890 tanks and two wells, and highlights the Besser block machine upgrade at Hoeschler Concrete Products Co.
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Peoples Ice and Fuel Co., Inc
Jake Hoeschler
Hoeschler Drug Co
Hoeschler Realty Co
Peoples Ice and Fuel Co
West Channel Cement Block Co
West Channel Sand and Gravel Co
Elmer A. Warninger
Hoeschler
Ice and Fuel Company
Hoeschler Concrete Products Co
West Channel
Mississippi River Bridge
Pettibone Island Park
Block Plant
Sand and Gravel
Health Department
2Nd St
Cameron Ave
La Crosse Coulee Region Outdoor Living Explores Attractions
The La Crosse Tribune highlights the Coulee Region as a vacation draw with river scenery bluffs and driftless geology. It notes Grandad Bluff near La Crosse, Highway 14 61 16 access, two man-made lakes, and abundant wildlife offering a summer and winter playground for tourists and locals alike.
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la Crosse
la Crosse County
Neshonoc
West Salem
Onalaska
Mississippi
Teamster Dilemma: Beck Succession in Turmoil
The Teamsters face a leadership crisis as Dave Beck fights to stay president amid Senate Rackets Committee disclosures. Rival Sandy O’Brien has launched a clean‑up bid, Hoffa’s trials loom over succession, and Beck faces a Monday AFL-CIO Executive Council appearance after a March 29 suspension.
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Washington
Dave Beck
Senate
Miami
Beck
Teamsters
John T
Sandy) O’brien
Chicago
James R. Hoffa
Detroit
Hoffa
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Committee
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Afl-Cio
Labor
Region Six Alice Winners Named in Wonewoc Contest
Marilyn Jean Senty 18 of Independence and Ann Bohm 19 of Fountain City were named Region Six Alice in Dairyland Princesses at Wonewoc. Marilyn is a pre nursing student at Carroll College and Ann studies at the University of Wisconsin. They advance to the state contest at Beaver Dam May 31 and June 1 after competing against 13 contestants from La Crosse Jackson Monroe Trempealeau and Pepin counties.
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Wonewoc
Wis
Marilyn Jean Senty
Independence
Ann Bohri
Fountain City
Alice
Marilyn
Lester Senty
Carroll College
Waukesha
Ann
W. F. Bohm
University of Wisconsin
Beaver Dam
la Crosse
Jackson
Monroe
Trempealeau
Pepin
Inadvertently Invited Negroes Stay Away at Dinner
Richmond Virginia none of the six or more Negro invitees attended the all white Distinguished Virginians dinner. Chamber of Commerce officials said invitations slipped through screening and were withdrawn. No speaker referenced the incident and the chamber pledged courtesy if any guest arrived.
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Richmond
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Britain plans large air sea and land base in Kenya
Britain to build a major air land and sea base system in Kenya as part of a revamped global strategy. The move envisions Nairobi and Mombasa as key links in a Commonwealth defense chain with potential NATO ties, enabling long range bombers and naval access across the Indian Ocean and Pacific regions.
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Kenya
London
Asia
Pacific
France
Belgium
Portugal
South Africa
Central African Federation
Indian Ocean
Lake Victoria
Fense Chain
Middle East
Nairobi
East Leigh
Maldive Islands
Ceylon
Royal Air Force
Mombasa
Cyprus
East Mediterranean
NATO
Hammer Tapping Heard As Rescue Dig For Miner In PA
Rescue workers dig through about a ton of debris every two hours to reach David Snyder a 34 year old father of three buried 25 feet underground after a Friday mine cave in at an independent mine on Short Mountain near Lykens Pa Surface communication came via a hammer tap with Snyder estimated to have little chance of survival unless a shaft provides air.
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Mississippi Bluffs
Grandad
Cliffwood
Hedgehog
Hastings
Minn
Wisconsin Bluffs
Minnesota
la Crosse
Mississippi
Lykens
David Snyder
Short Mountain
Pennsylvania
Ter
Snyder
Poor Woman Leaves Estate Worth Over Three Million
Fresno neighbors assumed Mrs. Cora Nidever was poor, living in a modest frame house with minimal furniture. After her death at 85 without a will, eight claimants appear in court records claiming her estate valued at 3,126,488 dollars, including valuable oil property inherited from her mother.
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Fresno
Calif
Cora Nidever
Superior Court
U S Displays Military Men And Machines
Washington marked the eighth annual armed forces observance with public displays at bases nationwide. About 10 000 troops and veterans joined parades led by Pentagon officials with Secretary Wilson in attendance. At Andrews Air Force Base an estimated 100 000 spectators viewed missiles and weapons as crowds swelled toward a projected 250 000 by day’s end.
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United States
Pentagon
Andrews Air Force Base
Constitution Avenue
Defense
Wilson
Iron Curtain
America
Armed Forces
Benny Hooper’s rescue ends as pneumonia slows recovery
Benny Hooper, seven, pulled from a 24-foot well after 24 hours trapped, was reported to have a touch of pneumonia in the right lung at Bayview General Hospital. Doctors said he is kept in an oxygen tent and needs quiet as his nourishment and strength return after the perilous rescue.
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Manorville
N.Y
Benny Hooper
Benny
Bayview General Hospital
Mastic Beach
Long Island
Joseph H. Kris
Kris
Benjamin Sr
Sam Woodson
Michael
Borghild
Bay View Hospital
Unifax
Oklahoma
Roland Bullock
Lindsay
Bullock
Oklahoma Flood Brings Mass Evacuations Across State
Oklahoma floods force thousands to evacuate from Tulsa to Lindsay and Washita River towns. Nine dead as nine inches of rain fall, bridges wash out, highways flooded, trains and buses disrupted, and power plants protected amid widespread damage and sheltering.
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Tulsa
Washita River
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Cimarron River
Keystone
South Central
Washita
Lindsay
Lake Texoma
Highway Patrol
Brookside
Garden City
Public Service Co
Japan Builds Case Against U.S. Sergeant
Tokyo reports Japan assembling the Somagahara Incident case over the fatal shooting of 46 year old Naka Sakai by an empty grenade launcher cartridge on a US firing range. S. 30. William S. Girard of Ottawa Illinois faces bodily injury to death charges with 2 to 15 year possible sentence. Assistant Prosecutor Kakuichi Fujimoto says Girard remains in US custody while trial date is set. Secretary Wilson orders a full review overriding the command to surrender under the status of forces treaty.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Somagahara
Maebashi Procurator
William S. Girard
Ottawa
Ill
Naka Sakai
Kakuichi Fujimoto
Girard
Wilson
U.S. Far East
Washington
Boy Suffocates in Narrow Sewer Trench Near Cody
In Cody Wyoming a two year old boy Richard Thun was buried alive in a five foot trench near his home when earth covered him after his foot wedged between a ditch wall and a sewer pipe. Sheriff Frank Blackburn said over a hundred volunteers searched for six hours as fifty men focused on the sewer line as a last resort.
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Cody
Wyo
Frank Blackburn
Richard Thun
A.m. Blackburn
Wyoming
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