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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
7
Wisconsin traffic deaths reach 292 for the year so far with July counts listed. The report details victims across many professions and ages as the state motor vehicle department launches a broad public safety education drive across newspapers radio courts schools and police contacts.
Rev C K Malmin of Pigeon Falls, head of the Lutheran World Action appeal, will speak in Ettrick at 3 pm on the Lutheran World movement. An offering will support work among soldiers and sailors. the event is under Rev T E Sweger. William A Leaky is a Williamsburg roofing contractor.
Madison Wisconsin Doro thy Pope a 19 year old from Janesville and Delbert Myron an 18 year old from Eau Claire were chosen by state 4-H club leaders to represent Wisconsin at the American Youth Foundation camp at Stoney Lake Michigan The Chetek state meeting awarded Myron a watch for outstanding junior leadership while Pope an honor member in a gardening project for three years attends the camp as a top youth leader More leadership than 1 000 young people and leaders from 40 states and one Canadian province attended in 1943.
Production of steel welding wire rose about 45 percent in 1943 from 1942 to a record 1,166,400,000 pounds.
Five year old Gerald Laudenklos died from suffocation and burns after a stove explosion lit a blaze that swept the family home in Oshkosh. The child was asleep upstairs while his aunt Bernice Woldt cared for him as the mother worked in a war plant. the father serves in the army.
Sioux City air base reports Lieutenant Donald G. Younger of Beloit Wisconsin among nine flyers killed when two Flying Fortresses collided in midair near here Tuesday. The incident was announced by the base commander last night.
In Holly Ridge North Carolina only five qualified voters exist and just three cast ballots in the last election reflecting minimal civic engagement and turnout.
La Crosse and Wisconsin groups were urged to support a Go-To-School drive to combat a long term drop in high school enrollment. Four government agencies including the Office of Education and the Children's Bureau back the effort, alongside the War Manpower Commission and the Federal Security Agency. The drive aims to enroll and retain youths in school or in school and work programs as wartime labor rises.
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