Local Girl to Sing at Wisconsin State Fair
La Crosse soprano Miss Mary Dawn Hoff will perform in the Wisconsin State Fair Little Theater program August 23. She is joined by Carter Denniston, Janice Wiecki, and Karla Zander in a Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs event featuring 500 performers across choral groups instruments and varied acts during August 20 23. Miss Hoff a 1955 Aquinas High School graduate studies music education at Viterbo College and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Olaf Hoff.
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Aquinas High School
Blessed Sacrament School
M. Annaros
M. Tersilda
M. Vivian
Miss Hoff
Viterbo College
Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs
State Fair Board
Brahma Bull Escapes Slaughter House Stalked by Five Men
A 1,300-pound Brahma bull escaped from a Montgomery slaughter house and roamed free after being struck by about 20 pistol bullets. Five armed men hunted the dangerous animal until sundown and resumed at daylight. It charged a TV photographer who narrowly avoided being gored as bullets drove it back.
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Montgomery
Ala
17 Year Old Enlists in Marines From La Crosse
A 17-year-old butcher's helper, Francis A. Maack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Maack of 500% Copeland Ave., has enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for four years. He was sent to the Marine recruit depot in San Diego after enlisting August 9 in Minneapolis following local processing at the recruiting substation, 312 Federal Building.
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A la Crosse
United States Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps
Francis A. Maack
Clarence E. Maack
Copeland Ave
Marine Recruit Depot
San Diego
Calif
Maack
Minneapolis
Galloping Grandma Embarks on Appalachian Walk
Galloping Grandma Gatewood, 67, of Gallipolis Ohio, arrived in Sherburne Pass on a walking trek from Mt Oglethorpe Georgia to Mt Katahdin Maine. Since starting May 3 she has lost 24 pounds worn out five pairs of shoes and logged 1700 miles with about 350 miles remaining.
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Rutland, Vt
Emma) Gatewood
Gallipolis
Ohio
Sherburne Pass
Mt. Oglethorpe
Mt. Katahdin
Maine
July Report Highlights Unusual Weather For 1955
United States Weather Bureau figures show July 1955 with 11 fewer heating degree days than normal and a record high 101 on July 26. River stages and wind speeds varied, with flash floods on the Root River Hokah and Zum, and fog and lightning noted on several dates. Precipitation totaled 4.63 inches, above normal, while temperatures averaged 78.5 F.
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la Crosse
Theilman
Minn
Sanal
United States Weather Bureau
Hokah
USWB
Asheville
N.C
A. D
Bert) Sanial
Sanial
Samal
Mississippi
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Beloit
Burlington
Barton
Fond du Lac
Green Bay
Janesville
Kenosha
Madison
Pearson
Racine
Granton
Phillips
Marshfield
Oshkosh
Sheboy‘gan
Tomah
Waukesha
Waupun
Metropolitan
Milwaukee
Olaf Hoff
Merritt A. Edson
Guadalcanal
Ft. Myer
Arlington National Cemetery
Edson
Marine Color Guard
Unifax
Bull
Frigidaire Food Freezer
General Motors
IPL Data Bed Company
Vela
8Th ST. LA Crosse
Wis
Frigidaire
Marines
Gale
Lukich Ao
Prifer
Kentucky
OLD Sunny Brook Company
National Distillers Products Corporation
Louisville
Hight, mi
Plymouth
America
The
Society of Illustrators
Eversole Rogers
Low Motor Co
DE Soto
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