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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1949
Page
6
A Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance report cites nearly 180 million dollars raised in four years for highway work while roads remain inadequate. The piece argues for a system of separated lanes on major routes, notes wartime neglect, and envisions public education and toll highways as steps toward safer, modern travel.
The article urges Wisconsin to fund and expand highway projects now using motor vehicle taxes local aid and federal grants. It cites major routes like 16 12 51 13 and 53 as undersized for rising traffic and calls for a legislative and highway commission vision to begin two lane modernization soon.
The piece argues Russia rejects Western charges of rights violations in Hungary Bulgaria and Romania under UN peace treaty governance. It notes Western protests and plans to press the issue in the UN General Assembly meeting in September while Russia calls suppression of pro fascist far from violation.
A fragment laments greedy leaders who care only for themselves. It portrays unscrupulous figures as shepherds unable to understand and fix the community, each pursuing profit from their own positions.
Appreciation is voiced for the La Crosse post of the American Veterans of World War II for donating a modern iron lung to the city health center. The gesture comes amid polio outbreaks and is praised as humanitarian service and a civic enterprise of the year.
Washington argues for tightening lobbying laws to include the executive branch and White House officials. The piece notes executive spending, disclosure needs, and calls on President Truman and Congress to broaden registration and oversight beyond Capitol Hill. It highlights Vaughan and the risk of misused influence and gifts.
Raymond B. Fosdick, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, envisions a future in which postwar humanity remembers neither who caused nor who escaped responsibility after global devastation.
Secretary of State Marshall remarks that foreign policy has taken a seat at the dinner table, signaling its rising prominence in daily governance and international affairs.
Wisconsin attorney general outlines duties to district attorneys legislature and state departments. He notes staff of 15 lawyers, public lands commission role with state treasurer and secretary of state, and audits of the state life insurance fund. He discusses civil rights efforts and cooperation with the governor's commission on human rights to promote equal opportunity.
The La Crosse Tribune answers reader questions on treason convictions since 1939 nine by 13 total, President Washington residence history, cowbird parasitism, do battery boosters work, US bases in the Philippines under a 99 year pact, and monthly tide peaks at new and full moons.
The superstition links May to Maia the consort of Vulcan and his fiery elements. Another theory ties May to the Lemuria, the festival for unhappy dead, making the month seem ill fated for weddings.
The record notes 356,669,010,306 ounces of gold stored at Fort Knox Kentucky with a stated value of $12,483,415,360.28. The figures reflect the era's reported holdings and valuation.
The federal government does not charge vessels for use of the inland waterways.
The verse beginning "A common thing is a blade of grass" appears in stanza 1 of Wonderful by Julian Stearns Cutler. The lines describe a grass blade as a simple, overlooked thing crushed by passing feet, yet note that both dwarfs and giants fall, and labor continues until doomsday shadows fall.
The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau promotes Modern Manners a 32 page up to date guide to correct behavior speech attire and etiquette for social life emergencies business and occasions. Mail twenty cents with a coupon to receive a copy.
The best known American cuckoos are the yellow billed and black billed, with the note that unlike European cuckoos they build their own nests and rear their own young. a tropical species is the exception.
James Marlow reports that the U S Senate failed to finalize appropriations before the new fiscal year began on July 1 causing a cash crunch. To avert shutdowns both houses extended funding to July 31 and August 15 while agencies lacked legal authority to spend.
The column welcomes letters on general topics and reserves the right to condense or withhold publication. Debates on personal religious or political campaigns are excluded. Letters must include author names and addresses, with pen names optional, and author names may be requested if persons or groups are named.
The writer voices fear that comfort and security undermine freedom and personal responsibility in a private enterprise governed society. He warns against socialism and communism creeping into the commonwealth and invokes Genesis to emphasize human labor and accountability.
A visitor from Bismarck North Dakota urges residents to improve garbage disposal to reduce flies and unsanitary conditions. Mrs. T C Salvesen suggests wrapping trash to curb odors and health risks.
Mrs. H. L. Wilson found a key ring on the floor of a theater and gave it to an usher for safekeeping. She later discovered the keys belonged to her own car and could not be started without them.
In Houston Mississippi a 4 H club group hides quail eggs under bantam hens to raise birds and earn five dollars a pair when mature. The project aims to ease local quail scarcity.
Capt Denis M Turner an architect in Belfast was fined four dollars after knocking down Raymond Hastie a seven year old who was playing in front of Turner's house on a Sunday afternoon the incident occurred during a game described as tramping on shadows.
California Democrats swirl toward the 1950 gubernatorial race with a dozen hopefuls led by James Roosevelt and George Luckey. Washington intrigue centers on talks of a Roosevelt McLain ticket and Labor support splits while insiders speculate on White House backing and party realignments.
A mixed column notes events from ten, twenty, and forty years ago. Aquinas high school adjoining addition delayed to September 15, residents returning from Boston and San Francisco trips, and a World’s Fair visit. Also listed are plans for a fair, a drama drum corps, local officials appointing food sales, and Taft’s pending visit.
General Lawton Collins explains why he clears his desk when photographers swarm after his rise to army chief of staff. He recalls an embarrassing ETO moment during Germanys surrender when he was writing a letter to his wife as two top German generals were expected to be brought in.
In post Civil War Selma a dead man found on the Alabama riverbank was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. The city court fined him $40 and provided a pauper funeral, with the city also billed $40 for burial costs.
Nigeria's tin industry faces a postwar downturn as mines, previously overworked during wartime, exhaust easily accessible rich deposits. Production stalls weigh on local output and future prospects remain uncertain for miners and the sector overall.
Editorial staff and departments listed for the La Crosse Tribune with publication info. Circulation contact hours provided. Home and mail subscription rates outlined for La Crosse readers and surrounding zones.
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