Wisconsin State Fair Beef and Livestock Surges Highlight 1962 Day
Longevity of numbers drives growth with beef cows rising from 17,000 to 150,000 in Wisconsin in a decade. Grand champions emerge from Mahogany Farms, Hickories Farm, and Griswold, while attendance hits 505,807 across six days. Milwaukee Day adds a 200-mile stock car race and top honors for Gray View Crisscross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
M AP
Robert Thayer
Partment of Agriculture
Wisconsin Livestock Breeders Association
Mahogany Farms
Kitty Kurtis Ranch
Williamston
Mich
Hales Bros. of
Clinton
Rahr Malting Co. Farm of
Manitowoc
Berkshire Barrow
Mel Walker
Kingston
James
Michael Ksinam
Kenosha
Fort Atkinson
Grayson Babcock
Gray View Crisscross
Harvey A. Nelson & Sons
Union Grove
Dean Spessard
Cary
Guernsey
La Crosse Pressed as Potential Third UW Campus Site
La Crosse is among six sites under consideration for a third University of Wisconsin campus. Regent Charles Gelatt notes limited support but suggests community effort could attract a visit from UW leaders. Other contenders include Kenosha Racine Whitewater and Fox River Valley with Lake Michigan shoreline candidates. Kenosha claims land savings and a 63 acre campus could ease Madison enrollments.
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la Crosse
University of Wisconsin
Charles Gelatt
Fred H. Harrington
Board of
Regents
Kenosha
Harrington
Gelatt
Board of Regents
Racine
Whitewater
Fox River Valley
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Janesville
Beloit
Madison
University
Legion Post to Dedicate Flag Pole at French Island
Homer Hall Jr. Post 417 American Legion will dedicate a flag pole at 2 p.m. Saturday in memory of William Barney Jr. A plaque will mark the base and attendees include Atty. Frank Schneider and the Roy L. Wingers Post 52 color guard. A steak fry follows, funded by the French Island drill team. pole donated by Mrs. Ruby Hake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Hall Jr
American Legion
French Island
William Barney Jr
Barney
Ruby Hake
Market St
Conference on Unfair Trade Practices Set
Madison reports Atty. Gen. George Thompson announced an August 22 conference to study complaints of unfair trade practices in laundry dry cleaning and linen supply. Associations of laundries dry cleaners housewives and consumer groups are invited. The aim is voluntary compliance avoiding many small prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
George Thompson
Thompson
Skeeter Schedule Spraying Near City Limits This Week
City spraying crew will finish work Thursday night along the Causeway Boulevard to the north city limits between the east and west boundaries.
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Causeway Boulevard
Six Million Spent On La Crosse State College Building Program
About six million dollars will be spent this biennium on La Crosse State College campus construction. Betty Baird dormitory furnishing is underway and will open to women students in September. A 750 thousand dollar Student Union addition will open in June 1964. Two new dormitories for men and women are planned with bids opened in July. A new physical education center is funded with bids under review after original plans proved too costly. Plans for a science building are underway with potential December bids if funds are approved. Light courts are being filled to create extra offices and classrooms for September occupancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse State College
Betty Baird
Youth, 12, Stabbed By Fellow Juvenile in La Crosse
A 12 year old La Crosse youth was stabbed in the right arm by a peer about the same age. Five stitches were required at the Medical Clinic Building after the assailant used a jack knife. Police have not caught the three youths involved.
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la Crosse
Market
S. 9Th St
9Th
Main Streets
City Dispatches Injury and Illness At Local Addresses
Aug 14 incidents report Mrs. Jack Puck 50 injured in a fall at 712 Mississippi St and taken to Lutheran Hospital. Gerald L Buchelt 26 of 608 King St is sent to St Francis Hospital in La Crescent Minnesota for illness.
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Mississippi St
Jack
Cora) Puck
Lutheran Hospital
la Crescent
Minn
Gerald L. Buchelt
King St
St. Francis Hospital
La Crosse Doctor Named to Tuberculosis Board
Dr. D M Buchman of La Crosse is named to the board of directors of the La Crosse countywide tuberculosis and public health association correcting a prior report that Dr D M Knutson was appointed in Tuesday's La Crosse Tribune.
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D. M. Buchman
la Crosse
Registration for Onalaska Students Sets Times
Onalaska Wisconsin invites all new students from kindergarten to sixth grade to register at 2 30 pm on Monday in the Irving Pertzsch building Fauver Hill pupils register Tuesday September 3 the first day of school Fifth and sixth graders new to Fauver Hill who did not attend last year register at Pertzsch School Monday These students will attend Pertzsch this year New entrants to Onalaska Elementary Schools must bring birth certificates Grades seven through twelve register at 1 30 pm Monday in the old high school main office Bring last year report cards for all registering students
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Onalaska
Wis
Irving Pertzsch
Fauver Hill
Pertzsch
Four Wisconsin Officers Named for Northwestern Traffic Course
The Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department says four law enforcement officers will attend a traffic police administration course at Northwestern University Traffic Institute in September. The group includes James Waydick of the State Traffic Patrol and Harold Meyer of Spooner, plus Robert Binter of Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and Joseph Maciejewski of Cudahy Police Department.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Northwestern University Traffic Institute
James Waydick
Tomah
Harold Meyer
Spooner
State Traffic Patrol
Robert Binter
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department
Joseph Maciejewski
Cudahy
Crossing Guard Applicants Sought in Local Traffic Bureau
Police seek female applicants for a part time crossing guard position at Losey Boulevard and King Street. The job offers about 20 hours weekly and pays 1.25 dollars per hour. Women should apply at the traffic bureau.
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Losey Boulevard
King Street
Wisconsin Farmers Price Index Rises 3 Percent in July
Madison AP says the Wisconsin index of prices received by farmers increased about 3 percent in July while remaining level with 1962. Milk rose 2 percent, meat animals 1 percent, eggs 3 percent, crops nearly 9 percent, and poultry fell 1 percent.
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Madison
Wisconsin
State Department of Agriculture
False box alarm reported in La Crosse area
At 12:18 a.m. on August 15 a false box alarm was logged near Copeland Avenue and Car Street in La Crosse. No injuries or injuries reported. responders determined the alarm was not a fire event.
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Chicago
UPI Telephoto
la Crosse
Copeland Avenue
Car Street
Board Hears Complaints On Assessments
The board of review heard eight property owners on 1963 assessments with two absent. After testimony, Strong Advertising Co. saw its 132 billboard assessment cut back to last year’s level. Several other complainants faced varying increases, while nonappearing property owners were not considered. Dahl Properties Inc. owns WKBH and WKBT TV, with assessments rising from 59,500 to 69,750.
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Board of Review
Strong Advertising Co
Jack Strong
Robert Abbott
H. P. Kircher
Farnam St
Eileen Layton
State St
Bruce Helbling
Ferry St
Robert J. Peshak
S. 28Th St
W. Downing Edwards
S. 21St St
Romeo and Delilah Ness
Cliffside Drive
Kingdom
Launderette
State Road
Dahl Properties Inc
WKBH
Wkbt-Tv
Milwaukee pastor cites slow race effort in church outreach
The Rev. Milton W. Burk of St. Philip’s Lutheran Church urged synod delegates at a Milwaukee conference to accelerate efforts to reach Milwaukee’s Negro community. He said fewer than 10 percent of the city’s 74,000 Black residents attend white churches. Delegates approved a $4.1 million next-year budget, about half for six educational institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran
Synod
Milton W. Burk
St. Philip's Lutheran Church First
Burk
Forger Arentz Returned to Green Bay Reformatory
Leonard D. Arentz Jr. a 26 year old parolee from Camp Douglas, was re sentenced in La Crosse to two five year forgery terms to run concurrently with a one year County Court sentence and the remaining three year term from a previous conviction. He was re arrested after release for eye surgery and sent to the reformatory.
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Camp Douglas
Green Bay Reformatory
la Crosse
Leonard D. Arenz Jr
Lincoln Neprud
Arentz
Dist. Atty
John Flynn
Shannon Apted
Alex Cameron
Madison Veterans Hospital
Neprud
Cameron
Law Seen As Threat To Wisconsin Dump Truck Owners
William W. Watson of the Wisconsin Dump Truck Owners Association says a 1959 state law prices independent owner operators out of work on state highway jobs. He notes the rule sets minimum rates only for single truck owners, letting fleets bid lower, and claims only 91 owner-operators who are Teamsters members have worked on state projects since 1959.
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Milwaukee
William W. Watson
Wisconsin Dump Truck Owners Association
International Teamsters Union
Wisconsin
Watson
The
Teamsters
IBM Representative Speaks To Kiwanians
Harold Anderson, IBM resident manager, spoke to the ColLee Region Kiwanis Club at the Stoddard Hotel on data processing history and advances. He predicted a leveling off in data processing equipment sales but noted ongoing demand for centralized processing and interplant communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Anderson
Coulee Region
Kiwanis Club
Stoddard
Anderson
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Park Rapids
Matthew Lindy
R. J. Potter
Hubbard County
Legion Post
Conference On Unfair Trade Practices
Skeeter Schedule
LSC
Navy
William S. Burgess
W. T. Burgess
S. 13Th St
Carrier Division 18
Caribbean
Fire Department
Board
Reynolds
John Reynolds
Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis
North American Defense
NORAD
Colorado Springs
Colo
Maj. C. H. Clark
Wee mi Avie
Eugene A. Toepel
Flynn
RCA Victor
Robinson
Stanley W. Peterson
IBM
Newamera
Polaroid
Main St
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