Hoover Returns To West Branch For Birthday
Former president Herbert Hoover plans a return to West Branch on August 10 for a birthday program honoring state youth groups. The event includes a song, invocations, remarks from college leaders, honors, and tributes from Hoover’s Iowa connections.
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Hoover
West Branch
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Forest Brown
Russell Clark
Cornell College
William J. Peterson
W. B. Anderson
Byron Hollinshead
Coe College
Iowa
W. W. Weatherwal
Robert B. Blue
Herbert Hoover
Refinery Cooling Water Additives Cut Bacteria Slime
Peak output of gasoline and fuel can be maintained by adding an to refinery cooling water. Chemicals prevent the formation of slime by water borne bacteria.
German Crisis Lies at UN as Powers Face Collective Threat
A U N debate heated over a German crisis lie and the risk of arms races. Leaders warned that no single ideology will dominate the world and urged unity to curb the production of biological and chemical weapons amid rising global tension.
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Lie
United Nations
Seaman Prentice Flansburgh Aboard USS Missouri
Seaman apprentice Robert Z. Flansburgh, son of Robert Flansburgh of Bridgeport Wisconsin, travels with the USS Missouri on a three week cruise visiting Lisbon Nice and Algiers and due in Guantanamo Bay Cuba July 22. The Mighty Mo sails in a 13 ship cruise squadron under Adm Richard L Conolly in the European African phase of the voyage.
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Bridgeport
Wis
Robert Z. Flansburgh
Prentice
USN
Robert Flansburgh
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Lisbon
Portugal
Nice
France
Algiers
Algeri
Adm
Richard L. Conolly
U. S. Naval Forces
Eastern
Atlantic
Mediterranean
City weighs eviction relief and parking plan for 12 tenants
La Crosse officials consider postponing evictions while exploring a housing solution. Aldermen Schultz Pamperin Throne Lueth push using the Fifth Avenue Cass Street building for low cost housing with repairs, then housing authority take over before potential demolition for a parking lot. Mayor notes mounting eviction cases and scarce options, while Albert Wolfe cites Fifth and Cass building as solid and improvable with new stairways wiring and a fire escape to meet code.
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Schultz
la Crosse
Grant Throne
Edward Lueth
Schulte
Lueth
Fifth Avenue
Cass Street
Oedeleer Field
Wolfe
Fifth and
Cass
Industrial Commission
Fair moves midway to Wausau fairgrounds for weekend
The Gem City carnival will not tear down until after midnight and will relocate to the fair at Wausau for the weekend. Sunday is children’s day with coupons distributed by the association. The La Crosse Tribune editions will honor the printed coupons and the fair’s midway shows and rides. Winners in the horse pulling include Lightweight Francis Werlein Mondovi first Buford Miller Soldiers Grove second Osmond Olson Reedstown third Marshall Grass Gilman fourth. Medium weight winner Bill Rosenthal Menomonie first John Stout La Farge second Earl Kyon Richland Center third Paul Sersch Spencer fourth. Heavyweight Darren Miller Soldiers Grove first Kenneth Huffman Blue River second Floyd Perkins Richland Center third.
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Wausau
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Buford Miller
Soldiers Grove
Wis
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Reedstown
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Gilman
Bill Rosenthal
Menomonie
John Stout
la Farge
Earl Kenyon
Richland Center
Paul Sersch
Spencer
Darren Miller
Congress clears housing bill and anti inflation measure
Congress moved to pass the housing act and the anti inflation program as the Senate backed the Barkley proposal before joining the House in final approval. President Truman urged adoption to avoid economic harm and protect national security while Taft warned of peacetime dangers. A Minnesota note reports Ralph Welch family trip and a tidbit on muskrats in Louisiana.
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Taft
Ohio
America
Senate
Barkley
House
Nudists Launch Buttonhole Drive at Ocean Park Event
Nudists at a 150 acre park in Mays Landing New Jersey staged a playful dress free event with a buttonhole campaign to boost local membership. Organizer Dr Lisley Booner and president Mrs Margaret A B Pulis urged 400 delegates to recruit in neighborhoods while national totals cited 1500 members and 15000 affiliates.
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N. J
Shine
Lisley Booner
Thoring
Nomina Committee
Margaret A. B. Pulis
Oakland
Boone
Pulis
Buttons
Des
Labor union purge and anti Communist drive across CIO
Wingers led by Joseph Curran swept a union election freeing the seamen's group of leftist officials for 12 years. Similar partisan fights hit the CIO Gas Coke and Chemical Workers convention in Milwaukee where Communists were barred and leftists from office, including Charles A. Doyle, faced removal. Other CIO unions with Reds pressure include Auto Workers, Newspaper Guild, Transport Workers, Farm Equipment Workers and Woodworkers. A radar warning instrument helps pilots detect terrain obstacles and pull up to avoid them.
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Joseph Curran
Seamen
CIO Gas, Coke and Chemical
Milwaukee
Charles A. Doyle
CIO
Auto Workers
Newspaper Guild
Transport Workers
Obituary of Joseph Nuber 68 of Winnebago Street
Joseph Nuber age 68 of 1626 Winnebago Street died at home Saturday evening. Survived by wife two sisters Christina Nuber Marshfield Wis and Mrs Herbert Aschold Milwaukee and brother John Marshfield. Rt Rev Msgr Peter Pape to officiate burial in Catholic cemetery Rosary Monday 7 30 pm funeral home call Monday.
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Joseph Nuber
Winnebago Street
Christina Nuber
Marshfield
Wis
Herbert Aschold
Milwaukee
John
Peter Pape
Ladies to Visit Naomi Wolfe in San Antonio
Mrs. J. A. Lilly and her aunt Mrs. Mabel Wolfe of La Crosse will soon depart for San Antonio Texas to visit Naomi Wolfe, daughter and niece of Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Lilly.
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LA Crescent
Minn
J. A. Lilly
Mabel Olfe
la Crosse
San Antonio
Tex
Naomi Wolfe
Wolfe
Lilly
Rosario teachers protest four months without pay
In Rosario Argentina school teachers demonstrate over a four month wage lapse. They demand full back pay and timely salaries from the provincial education authorities. The action highlights ongoing public sector payroll delays affecting educators.
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Rosario
Argentina
County Agent Begley Returns To Hospital
Sparta Wisconsin reports County Agent A. D. Begley is again hospitalized for observation after a relapse from an illness. This marks his third hospitalization in two months as he receives medical care locally.
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Begley
Sparta
Wis
A. D. Begley
Hillsboro Legion Auxiliary Rep at Wisconsin Convention
Hillsboro Wisconsin Mrs William Wolters represented the Hillsboro American Legion auxiliary at the state convention in Milwaukee in a special report.
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Hillsboro
Wis
William Wolters
Hillsboro American Legion Auxilliary
Milwaukee
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