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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1949
Page
4
The rise in U S family numbers over two decades boosts employment and consumer demand. Census trends show families growing from 30 million in 1930 to an expected 43 million, while total population nears 150 million, promising expansion in housing, public works, schools and goods markets. The reflection ends with a biblical verse from Galatians.
Speaker Sam Rayburn and Rep. Mary Norton push limits on travel funds. They insist committees justify trips and end broad free-hitch inspections. Defense officials also restrict military invites to inspect posts abroad or at home.
Flying low Agger airplanes remain a persistent annoyance to city and suburban residents. Accidents caused by such craft deepen fear among ground dwellers when planes skim past homes. During low flights it’s hard to converse or hear the radio.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration enforces rules while local communities have their own laws to shield residents from noise and danger. Enforcement challenges persist as pilots pushing altitude limits risk confrontation by authorities emerging from unseen skies.
Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer leads a six city road trip to study unemployment with state officials and industry groups. The effort seeks direct Washington help to shift orders to distressed areas, improve payrolls, and ease looming benefit gaps as 26 week limits approach. Local areas like New Bedford, Bridgeport, Providence, Utica Roma and Muskegon are highlighted amid rising unemployment in textiles, metals, chemical and manufacturing.
Nathan Leopold hopes Gov. Stevenson will permit release this year as the state parole board weighs reducing his two sentences. If the 99 year term drops to 75 years, he could go free on Sept. 11, while the life term allows parole eligibility then. The board split on reductions with a fifth member noncommittal. Critics argue Leopold’s crime merits ongoing punishment and caution against unsafe release.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette quotes Robinson arguing the American public errs by linking radicalism to any specific minority. He contends that radicalism often arises from the white majority, not a targeted group, underscoring a call for broader introspection.
Union leader Daniel W. Tracy warns of a possible shorter work week as the Marshall plan and rearmament prove insufficient. Katherine St George urges focusing on strong, measured Western defense while the Red Dean cautions against a pushbutton war and urges self-control. John Foster Dulles comments on smaller nations seeking strength in a self-assured power.
Madison columnist John Wyngaard outlines how Wisconsin taxpayers paid over a billion dollars in 1945. He notes 69 percent to the federal government, 16 percent to the state, and 15 percent to local governments. He warns social security funds function as hidden taxes and argues withholding taxes obscure true take home pay.
A La Crosse Tribune question and answer column explains that government licensing affects most small businesses and highlights catnip as a European mint plant and its trapping oil use. It also notes there were no February full moons in 1866 1885 1915 and 1934 and identifies the US Canada boundary as the longest border at 3897 miles.
Fort McHenry is described as having five bastions forming a star shape. The fort sits about three miles from the city center and lies within the city limits, near the center of Baltimore.
In 1784 the Maryland General Assembly granted Lafayette and his male heirs perpetual citizenship as a token of gratitude for his Revolutionary War service. The second question asks which years February had no full days.
A wartime era promotion describes a booklet by US experts on indoor and outdoor pests with illustrations and a four page section on DDT as a household insecticide. Readers are urged to order the booklet for 15 cents using the supplied coupon.
A brief postal directive appears indicating a street or rural route destination in a city state with routing instructions to Washington DC. The fragment suggests standard mail addressing but lacks clear names or dates for fuller context.
Gen Omar Bradley told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Americans expect years of tension with Russia as plans to arm Western Europe advance. Defense Secretary Johnson projected armament by 1953 or 1954, with atomic strike capability looming and questions of Russian response.
Washington report shows intraparty rift as GOP factions clash over the likely chairman candidate Guy Gabrielson of New Jersey. Opposition from New Jersey congressmen and Dewey supporters grows, with Harry Darby named as an alternative. Also mentions John Foster Dulles’s D C committee role and ties to local utilities.
Letters to this column cover general interest topics and may be condensed or withheld. Submissions must include names and addresses, or provide a pen name if withheld, with author identifications available upon request for persons, organizations, or causes mentioned. Personal religious political content is excluded.
Mrs C J McKillip urges fellow citizens to back Barth and Roellig in seeking a public referendum on water chlorination. She argues prior reports claimed water purity, but now supporters push chlorination, calling for scrutiny of city officials and policy affecting all residents.
In Jerusalem Josoph Rivlin works on the first Hebrew edition of the 700 year old Arabian Nights. The project aims for a 15 volume complete Hebrew edition detailing the legendary tales from Bagdad and Harun al Rashid era.
The Soviet Union presents a new ballet Bronze Horseman based on Pushkin's poem about the statue of Peter the Great. Bolshoi Theatre produces the work with performances in Moscow and Leningrad.
At the Omaha GOP gathering Mrs Reeve Schley of New Jersey sought a seat on the executive committee replacing Mrs Worthington Scranton of Scranton Pennsylvania. Scranton agreed to resign but Gabrielson kept the prize, stirring discontent as backers move to push him forward aided by Pryor and a New York PR firm.
Rich Jungen, 22, of La Crosse, tied for second in a 36 hole state amateur golf event at Appleton with a 71 after a 71. Medalist Wilford Wehrle shot 68 71 for 139. A political note recalls Gen. Alden Waitt’s suspension over a memorandum drafted with lobbyist James Hunt to influence General Vaughan.
Newell Holley, son of Mr and Mrs J M Holley of 217 South 15th street, expected in the city today then to Madison for his office after time in Des Moines. Mrs J C Murrie of 1607 Market street leaves Wednesday for Chicago to visit her son Glenn and then to Grosse Pointe Michigan to visit daughter Mrs F A Clark. Mr and Mrs Andrew Christiansen of Anaconda Montana visiting Mr and Mrs J A Reburn at 525 North Seventh street. Mrs E Elstad of 920 South Fifth street wins first prize in local amateur garden contest. La Crosse Plow Co partially closed two weeks for repairs. Bert Nelson, north side merchant, leaves for Milwaukee to attend Wisconsin Retail Clothiers' convention.
Forty years ago Judge John Brindley joined Miss Effie Goodwin and Walter Boyette in matrimony in this city. A dry spell raises concern among farmers as no rain has fallen in the Black River region for 10 days.
In Prague citizens still carry identification cards stamped with the Nazi swastika. Officials promise these will be junked and replaced by end of 1950. After that date all papers with German Czech text and cam a insignia will be invalid.
Five hundred Italian children will vacation in Denmark under the International Union for the Protection of Children. Miss Claire Wenner of the Italian delegation said the union aids children not covered by other schemes. This is the third batch, following 1,000 in 1947 and 500 last year.
Ed Burgess and A E Teachout are listed as assistant business manager and retail advertising manager respectively, indicating their roles in the newspaper's organizational byline.
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