Jordan Reports on La Crosse Schools at Rotary Meet
Arthur Jordan superintendent of La Crosse public schools spoke at the Rotary meeting on school expansion, curriculum reforms, and the growing citizen interest beyond cost. He reviewed enrollment, staff size, dropout and college trends, and urged tax sources to fund education while stressing the aim to inspire student and parent appreciation for schooling.
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la Crosse
Arthur Jordan
Rotary
Jordan
George Grenholm
Board of Education
Krt
Aee
Wisconsin colleges seek gift grant bill and new programs
The Wisconsin state college regents asked the Legislature to allow accepting gifts and grants similar to the UW system. An offer of 40000 dollars for an Oshkosh observatory prompted the move along with a study of legal restrictions. They also seek approvals for three new specialty programs in four colleges.
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Oshkosh State College
State Coordinating Committee On Higher Education
Eau Claire
Oshkosh
Stevens Point
Superior
Prowler Reported Near Tyler Street Homes
A middle aged man in dark clothing and a cap was seen prowling between two houses in the 200 block of Tyler Street late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. A witness described the person as cautious and moved along the street without incident reported to police.
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Tyler Street
Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Weather Summary
Wisconsin shows fair and cool night with Saturday sunny and pleasant. Minnesota sees generally fair and cooler today and tonight with Saturday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Iowa reports partly cloudy conditions this afternoon through Saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the south, cooler today and tonight, and extreme south Saturday.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi River Forecast and Flood Readings Update
River readings show no change in tailwater levels at Dams 2 through 10 for the next 24 hours. The forecast covers Hastings Minnesota to Gulden Berg Iowa with times for sunrise 6 09 a m and sunset 8 08 p m on Saturday and a 3 48 p m moonset.
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Winona
C.P
T.W
Dakota
Lansing
Prairie du Chien
Trempleau
Dodge
Black
Galesville
Hastings
Minn
Gulven- Berg
Iowa
Moon
Wisconsin voters weigh primary races in statewide contests
In Wis elections two Democrats total 133 138 votes while seven Republicans total 317 088 about 65 percent. Proxmire’s 1957 special victory with 60 percent inspires Democratic hopes as Thomson Nelson face no primary opposition. GOP and Dem candidates compete for lieutenant governor secretary of state treasurer attorney general and US Senate with several unopposed or lightly contested races.
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Wis
Proxmire
Walter J. Kohler
Thomson
Gaylord Nelson
Madison
Albert di Piazza
la Crosse
Jerome Grant
Milwaukee
Phillip Nash
Wisconsin Rapids
Nash
Dena A. Smith
Warren
Palmer F. Davgs
Lake Mills
Eugene M. Lamb
Stewart G. Honeck
Christ T. Seraphim
John W. Reynolds
Green Bay
Sen. Proxmire
Harry Halloway
Whitefish Bay
Arthur J. McGurn
Kenosha
Roland J. Steinle
Wauwatosa
Supreme Court
U. S. Senate
Guitar theft reported. items recovered by owner
Carl Ruhnow reported a burglary at 421 Winnebago St. early Thursday with a guitar and two banjo heads stolen. P Papenfuss found a guitar and case on his porch and helped alert police after reading of the theft in the La Crosse Tribune. Ruhnow later identified the recovered items as his.
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Carl Ruhnow
Winnebago St
P. Papenfuss
St. Ave. S
Papenfuss
la Crosse
West Allis Union Rejects Allis-Chalmers Offer
United Auto Workers representing about 13,500 workers in eight Allis-Chalmers plants in West Allis rejected a wage offer of up to 2 percent immediate and on the first anniversary of the two year pact. The contract expires midnight Friday and strike action was authorized if needed.
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United Auto Workers Council
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co
West Allis
la Crosse
Allis-Chalmers
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gadsden
Ala
la Porte
Terre Haute
Ind
Pittsburgh
Springfield
Ill
Tri State Deaths Report Norwood to Sparta Obituaries
The body of Mrs. Hilda Nichols Schafer 71 died in Pekin Illinois and returned to Black River Falls Wisconsin for burial. Surviving sons are William James Donald Joseph. services Saturday at 2 p.m. Evangelical Lutheran Church. Burial Riverside Cemetery. Another obituary notes Mrs. George Todd former Money Creek resident died in Clintonville. service Saturday. Mrs Jessie Weber 79 Spar ta widow of Frank Weber dies. service Saturday Lanham Mortuary Sparta. An Eastern Star service was planned with burial Wanderer’s Rest Norwalk.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Hilda Nichols Schafer
Pekin
Ull
Milwaukee
Donald Nichols
Freeport
Ill
Joseph Nichols
Green Bay
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Raymond Huss
Riverside Cemetery
Ness
Houston, Minn
George Todd
Money Creek
Minn
Pine Manor
Clintonville
Money Creek Methodist Church
Hill Funeral
Houston
Sparta, Wis
Jessie S. Weber
Frank Weber
Sparta
Lanham Mortuary
A. E. Frederick
Wanderer’s Rest Cemetery
Norwalk
Weber
Robert
Spraying Schedules Announced By City Park Department
Mosquito control schedules for the next two days are announced. Friday the mist sprayer and thermal fogger will operate along Lang Drive from Rose to Oak, Monitor to St. Cloud, and the Causeway area to St. Cloud between Rose and Black River. North Side areas also covered. Saturday the mist sprayer covers Rose to east city limits between St. Cloud and Logan. fogger from Rose to east city limits between Logan and Gohres. Spraying runs 11 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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City Park Dept
Lang Drive
Rose
Oak Streets
Monitor
St. Cloud
St. Cloud Street
Rose Street
Black River
North Side
Logan Streets
Logan
Gohres Streets
Teamster Official Denies Discussing Hot Money
Washington AP report says Gus Zapas an Indianapolis Teamster official and former convict denied in Senate hearings he talked in 1953 with two Chicagoans about getting rid of hot money stolen money kidnap money. Kennedy said the inquiry touches the missing ransom from the 1953 Greenlease case and the Probstein disappearance.
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Washington
Gus Zapas
Indianapolis
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Greenlease
Kansas City
Kennedy
Zapas
Dave Probstein
St. Louis
Greenlease
Probstein
Church of the Brethren heritage tour travelers return home
College age travelers from a Church of the Brethren heritage tour of Europe arrive back in the United States amid an anniversary celebration. Among them are Mrs Elfriede C Bortchen of Houston and Mr and Mrs Lee Van Wijk of Ripon California.
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Church of the Brethren
Europe
Elfriede C. Bortchen
Houston
Tex
Germany
Lee van Wijk
Ripon
Calif
Holland
Maria Humphrey
Bloomfield
N. M
Phyllis McCalmont
Pittsburgh
Keith Miller
Freeport
Ill
Standard
U. S. Army
Francesca Hawrys
Land
Cinner
Catherina Peters
Wrenville
Minn
Claus Schipper
Marienhoff
Audrey Kilheifner
Elizabethtown
John Hollinger
Manheim
Elizabethtown College
Audrey
Marriage Licenses in La Crosse Area List
La Crosse area couples listed for upcoming weddings including Billie Lee Bunker and Jean Wang to wed Aug. 25, Phillip Seep and Judith Machmeier to wed Aug. 21, Robert Atkinson and Darren Anderson to wed Aug. 16, and Hans John Maug with Vera Lorraine Baldwin to wed Aug. 20 in Hale and La Crosse Whitehall areas.
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Billie Lee Bunker
Cameron Ave
Jean Wang
Island St
la Crosse
Phillip Seep
Adams St
Judith Machmeier
Mondovi
Robert Atkinson
Mid
Darren Anderson
Pine St
Whitehall
Wis
Hans John Maug
Vera Lorraine Baldwin
Town of
Hale
Infant James A. Maciosek Graveside Service Held
Graveside services were held for James A. Maciosek infant son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Maciosek at St Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery Arcadia. The child born Aug 9 in La Crosse died Wednesday afternoon. Survived by parents maternal grandparents Joseph and Helen Slaby Arcadia paternal grandfather Frank L Maciosek Independence. Very Rev Joseph Andrzejewski officiated.
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Arcadia
Wis
James A. Maciosek
Alfred Maciosek
St. Stanislaus Catholic Cemetery
Joseph Andrzejewski
la Crosse
Joseph Slaby
Frank L. Maciosek
Independence
Maciosek
Helen Slaby
Two Local Men Die in La Crosse Area
Lawrence N Weber 63 of 6092 South 3rd Street died Wednesday at the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis He was born in La Crosse on October 23 1894 and was a member of John P Linton Lodge 27 Knights of Pythias He is survived by one brother Percy Weber Funeral services will be held Monday at 130 PM at the Sletten McKee Funeral Home Rev H N Stoffel will officiate and burial is in Fairview Cemetery at Bangor Joseph H Stenberg 68 of Holmen died at a La Crosse hospital Friday after a short illness Funeral arrangements are to be announced later by the Jostad Funeral Home.
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South 3Rd St
Veterans Hospital
Minneapolis
la Crosse
John P. Linton Lodge
Knights of Phythias
Percy Weber
Sletten-McKee
H. N. Stoffel
Fairview
Bangor
Joseph H. Stenberg
Holmen
Jostad
Missing cots and blankets from convention dormitories
The American Legion Convention Corp borrowed 1400 blankets and 700 canvas cots for its La Crosse event. Cots and blankets were used in school buildings as dormitories. A prior check showed twelve cots and 37 blankets missing and the shortage was reported to police Thursday.
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The
American Legion Convention Corp
la Crosse
Boy Admits Torture Story Was False
In Richland Center a Portage County deputy sheriff’s 13 year old son confessed he lied about being abducted and injured by two youths. He admitted fabricating the tale to cover staying out past his curfew and said he carved his initial R into his forearm to bolster the fiction.
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Richland Center
Portage County
Richard Copus
Howard Copus
Violet Beyers to work at Jafek's on select days
Violet Nelson Beyers will be working at Jafek's Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays starting Aug. 13. Phone 2-4830. Fresh Rolls available every Sunday. Cy's Liberty. Open 6:00 a.m. For finer photo finishing leave your films at Universal Photo Service 514 State Street. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
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Jafek
Cy’s
Winona Livestock Market Reports from Swift & Company
Market quotes from Winona and Chicago reports show hogs and cattle steady with varied weights and classes. Hog prices span 160 to 360 pounds with values around 18.75 to 21.75. cattle and calves range from about 15 to 25.50, while Chicago figures note mixed hogs, cattle, and produce with multiple weight bands and price points.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Livestock market prices for hogs and feeders described
The report lists price ranges for hogs and sows with weights from 330 to 550 pounds. Barrows and gilts priced around 19.75 to 21.50, with feeder pigs steady around 19.50 to 20.00.
U.N. Debates Peace Plan for Middle East Crisis
Debating Eisenhower six point plan the U N moves to place Hammarskjold in Jordan and Lebanon to supervise troop withdrawal. Rival Indian resolution gains backing while Ireland and Australia push neutralization and a Middle East commission to probe outside interference.
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Eisenhower
Middle East
Hammarskjold
Jordan
Lebanon
U.S
U.N
Frank Aiken
E. Donald Walker
Tilson Dies After 34 Years in Politics at 92
John Quillan Tilson a longtime Republican statesman with 34 years in public life died at his summer home in New London New Hampshire He served 22 years as Connecticut representative in the House and was House majority leader for six years during the Hoover Coolidge era He studied at Yale and earned a law degree in 1894 later serving as 3rd District congressman from 1914 to 1932 and advocating military preparedness after World War I.
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N.H
John Quillan Tilson
Connecticut
House of Representatives
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Hoover
Coolidge
Tilson
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Conn
Clearbranch
Tenn
Yale University
Law School
Washington
Woman finds box of stockings reported to police
A woman reported to city police on Thursday that she found a box containing stockings. The box was turned in at Doerflinger Dept Store stamp desk. William Hinkley of 117 Locust reported the loss of a leather key case with six keys.
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Doerflinger Dept
William Hinkley
TV Listings to Appear on Sunday
The seven channel schedules for the week of August 17 to 23 will be published Sunday in place of the usual Saturday La Crosse Tribune listings.
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la Crosse Tribune
Local Area Weather Holds Pleasant With Warm Weekend
The US Weather Bureau reports fair conditions continuing into Saturday with a cooler night and near normal temperatures. Forecasts call for a low around 58 and a high near 85 on Saturday as a high pressure system stays in northeast Minnesota. Local stations logged scattered rainfall from 0.03 to 0.90 inches across Wisconsin and Illinois with stronger storms in Iowa and Michigan. funnel clouds were sighted in several states.
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Minnesota
USWB
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
South Bend
Ind
Waterville
Minn
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Jacksonville
Girl Returned Violating Parole From Decorah Iowa
Local authorities returned a 16 year old La Crosse girl from Decorah Iowa on parole violation and she is jailed awaiting transfer to the State School for Girls at Oregon. Police report she broke into her parents home and stole guns clothing and rare coins valued at about $100 with some items recovered.
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Decorah
Iowa
State Department of Public Welfare
State School For Girls
Oregon
La Crosse Telephone Declares 10 Percent Stock Dividend
The La Crosse Telephone Co. received PSC authorization to declare a 10 percent stock dividend totaling $235,000. It will issue 23,500 shares from an undivided surplus of $657,056 to holders of record Sept. 15, with par value $10 per share.
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Madison
la Crosse Telephone Co
la Crosse
Public Service Commission
Federal Reserve Tightens Money Supply With Rate Increase
The Federal Reserve Board reversed its recession policy and tightens the money supply by raising the San Francisco discount rate from 1 percent to 2 percent effective today. The move signals inflation concerns and expectations of similar hikes across other banks, reflecting a shift after last year’s easing. Herman N. Mangels noted inflation fears as a key factor while observers linked the rise to a recovering economy.
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Federal Reserve Board
San Francisco Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
Reserve Board
San Francisco
Reserve Bank
Herman N. Mangels
Auto-Lite Union To Meet Friday
UAW local 39 of Electric Auto-Lite Co will discuss overtime and placing women on the second shift at a meeting Friday at 7 30 p.m. in Pioneer Labor Hall. President Alvin Danielson announced the gathering.
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UAW
The
Electric Auto-Lite Co
Pioneer Labor Hall
Alvin Danielson
Canning Crops Struggle as Rain Shortage Hits Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Canners Association reports bean and sweet corn damage from late moisture deficits. Machine picked green and wax beans yield about 2000 pounds per acre in dry areas versus 3000 pounds in adequately watered regions.
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la Crosse Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
Wisconsin Canners Assn
Order Appointing Time To Hear Administration and Heirship
Wisconsin La Crosse County probate notice sets Sept 9 1958 as hearing for Gudmund C Peterson estate with Letters of Administration sought. Creditors must file claims by Oct 31 1958 and court will examine claims on Nov 4 1958. judge Eugene A Toeple presiding.
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la Crosse County
Gudmund C. Peterson
la Crosse
City of
County of la Crosse
State of
Eugene A. Toepel
Johns, Roraff
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