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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1958
Page
9
An AP science overview imagines a future with memory pills, cancer cures, organ transplants, robotic households, space travel, and abundant power. It describes longer lifespans, quieter wars, and a 10 to 20 hour work week as common, with weather control and electronic life simplifying daily routines.
A House Veterans Committee report recommends laws to curb unscrupulous fund raisers soliciting in veterans names. It targets charity drives with poor donor receipts and calls for 50 percent of gross income from unordered items to go to veterans, bans mailing lists sales, and demands fuller disclosure of chartered groups and those mailing items like pens. It criticizes the Disabled American Veterans for spending funds on a failed TV venture and gifts bought through a related stockholder.
The La Crosse St Anns Maternity Annex records multiple births from Aug. 4 to Aug. 10 including Christina Magruder daughter to Hakl and family in La Crosse. Diane Kolowrat daughter to Gentzkow. Faye Strange daughter to Gilman. Helen Slaby child to Maciose k. Evelyn Jungen child to Miller. Lilah Brenengen child to Johnson. Valerie Hanson note from Black River Falls. plus other births in Arcadia Holmen Ettrick Sparta Wilton Norwalk Independence Independence and Whitehall areas.
Dr Moustatfa Kamel, new UAR ambassador, presented his credentials to President Eisenhower in Washington. He called the meeting highly productive and said he explained the Middle East situation, expressing confidence the President will pursue peace with goodwill and determination.
A Jordanian military court sentenced 12 Jordanians and 1 Syrian to death for arms smuggling linked to an attempted overthrow of King Hussein. Britain’s Communist Party losses 25 percent of its members after the Hungarian revolt. Nasser honors Soviet Air Marshal S I Rudenko with the Republic Medal during his Cairo visit. Tropical storm Becky nears the Caribbean with no land threat. Robert Murphy returns from a Middle East mission to Eisenhower. A Syrian plane fires on a Lebanese airliner near Damascus. no injuries. Princess Margaret completes a Canada tour. Canada’s largest steel plant at Hamilton halts production in a wage dispute affecting 7,500 workers.
Chief George Long emphasized on Monday that bicycle operators are subject to the same rules as motorists on the city’s one way streets. Riders must travel in the correct direction or be picked up by police.
President Eisenhower nominates Barbara Bates Gunderson from South Dakota as civil service commissioner. The 41 year old Republican official would replace Bernard L. Flanagan who resigned amid charges he falsified government employment forms.
Eureka Wisconsin sportsmen groups won reopening of the Fox River locks closed since 1951 by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Berlin Boat Club will operate the restored locks, with formal dedication ceremonies set for next Saturday.
Local notices list multiple defendants with charges including parking violations in Coon Valley and Sparta, speeding in Auburn and De forest, and drunken and disorderly conduct in Caledonia. Two Detroit reservists bound over for assault and robbery charges face $500 bond. Fines noted include 50 for speeding, 100 for drunken driving, and other small penalties.
James N. Sleppey, a 63 year old Columbus bank teller, began endurance swimming three years ago after leaving the banking world. He has swum rivers across the country including the Ohio, Mississippi, Hudson, Potomac, Colorado and Missouri and the Thames in 23 minutes. He plans future river challenges in Europe.
Several regional obituaries note deaths in Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota. Donald Jerome of Milwaukee dies after a three year illness and is survived by wife Mabel Eichstedt and daughter Carol Mae. LeRoy Palas of McGregor Iowa, Ingeman Peterson of Lindsay Montana formerly Black River Falls Wisconsin, and Teman Lee of Spring Grove Minnesota are also reported with brief funeral details and survivors.
In China tatsepao poems are legal public letters used to criticize officials and socialists in a nationwide rectification campaign. Workers at Changhsvillen rail depot and students in universities face accusations, while housewives join in airing grievances on walls and fences.
Rep. Melvin R. Laird argues inflation driven by deficit financing will dominate the 1960 elections. He cites a 12 billion dollar current deficit and predicts little near-term relief from recession measures. Laird warns against continued spending and notes wage gains and social security boosts may be wiped out.
Kenneth H Hoover of the U S Agriculture Department said Wisconsin aims for 439 000 acres in the soil bank for 1959. The maximum payment to any participant will be 5000 dollars and 25 dollars per acre, with an average around 15 dollars. About 160 000 acres have been entered in the first two years of operation.
Sir Douglas Mawson said the Nautilus voyage under Arctic ice has military value. He argued nuclear powered submarines could travel beneath the north polar ice toward the Siberian coastline to launch warheads inland, and Russian submarines could access the North American coastline.
A House Government Operations Committee report accuses the FTC of 12 years of inaction on false weight loss ads. It claims consumers lose about 100 million dollars annually to deceptive products and outlines methods used by weight-reduction hucksters.
Mrs Mathilda E Berg 78 of 1611 Rose Street formerly of West Salem died Tuesday morning in a local hospital. Survived by grandchildren Joan Berg and Wayne Berg. Funeral at 2 p m Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church West Salem Rev Richard Holleque officiating. Burial Ne shonoc Cemetery. Friends may call Jostad Funeral Home West Salem Wednesday evening.
Beirut Lebanon AP reports a U S Navy spokesman denying any American jet penetrated Syrian air space Sunday. The Damascus dispatch via Cairo Middle East News Agency claimed a Syrian antiaircraft battery drove the plane back. The Navy said no American plane was near the border and no reports of being fired on were received.
The sheriff's office received a burglary report at Olaf Benson's home on Benson Road Town of Greenfield. Missing items include a double barrel shotgun a single barrel shotgun an alarm clock two axes and about 18 or 20 empty beer bottles. The Debtors' Prison built in 1750 in Accomac Virginia remains preserved and now serves as a library.
Violet Nelson Beyers will be working at Jafek's on Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays starting August 13. Phone listing 2 4830.
In Milwaukee Cecelia Cachal aged 65 and her ex husband Anton aged 67 renewed their 35 year marriage after years apart. The couple, separated in 1947 over infidelity to fishing, remarried late last week following encouragement from their four children. They were unreachable over the weekend as they went fishing.
Thornton Wilder, 61, a three time Pulitzer winner, favors looking to the future over dwelling on the past. He is film adapting The Matchmaker, writing seven one act plays, and plans The Widow of Monterrey as a possible play or novel. He values humane comedy and lasting ideas over sharp satire.
A list of proposed marriages with names and addresses across La Crosse Onalaska and surrounding towns. Couples include Larsen and Davidson, Griffith and Yunker, Pendleton and Johnson, Steele and Hembd, Running and Silha, Lee and Subera, Zabanaski and Kile, Dixon and Schultz, Beier and Freier, Proksch and Hart, Peaslee and McGill, Hemstock and Murphy, Lutz and Vetsch, Mazola and Garbers, Jarstad and Brynildson, Smith and Higgins, Eckelberg and Westphal, Huettel and Mullin, Harrison and Fick. Some pairs listed with multiple locales and dates in August.
A Legislative Council committee voted 6-3 to recommend locating an intensive residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children in Madison to align with a medical school plan. Milwaukee opponents urged Milwaukee site. Marquette could not operate such a center.
Venetian explorers John Cabot and his son Sebastian sailed for England and landed on the Labrador coast in 1497. The historic voyage established English claims in North America.
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