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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1958
Page
9
Pleasant Sunday drew hearty crowds as ideal weather aided a standout Clyde Beatty Circus performance in La Crosse. Ticket sellers, concession staff, and performers appeared genuinely happy to be presenting the show to a responsive audience.
The City Park Department will spray from 11 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday. Mist sprayer operates from Gohres Street to Palace Street between Highway 53 and the east city limits. Thermal fogger covers from Palace Street to Taylor Street between Highway 53 and the east city limits and all outlying east areas.
City police received reports Sunday of prowlers in the 600 block of Copeland Avenue and the 2400 block of Onalaska Avenue.
Former La Crosse man with a PhD from the University of Iowa will serve as associate professor of music and director of bands at Platteville State College starting in the fall. He has a Navy and Army reserve background, multiple degrees in music, and previously taught at the University of Iowa and Jacksonville College of Music. He is married with three children.
The Credit Bureau of La Crosse filed a default judgment totaling 262.40 in circuit court against Winn W. Thompson of Elroy after he failed to answer a hospital bill collection suit within 20 days. The judgment covers 237.50 plus 24.90 costs.
U S S Bowers carries U S S Marc Mischer Fleet Division 916 reservists from Charleston to St Petersburg. La Crosse sailors take key posts including Rudolph Shawley boatswain mate on watch and quartermaster duties. Other personnel oversee fire control, sickbay, and combat formation centers as division trains in ship handling navigation and operations. After a weekend in St Petersburg the ship heads back for antisubmarine and gunnery drills en route to Charleston with return to La Crosse planned for Saturday August 23.
A 20 year old Holmen youth, James A. Grayburn Jr., pleaded innocent in County Court to burglary. Judge Eugene Toepel set a preliminary hearing for 2 p.m. August 25 and bond at $1,500. Deputy Harry Schafer investigated a Larson Implement Co. burglary where a window was broken and a cash register tampered with. A punch fragment and glass shards with fingerprints were found. Grayburn was located hiding behind boxes the night before and identified by Oscar M. Larson.
Police logged several thefts including a $94.50 Polaroid land camera from a car seat on North 3rd Street. A Milwaukee man reported two fender mirrors stolen from his vehicle on Pine Street. Mail theft and yard littering followed. Four hubcaps and a rod and reel were also reported stolen. Two young women were seen prowling in the 1700 block of Main Street.
Lloyd Lange of Bangor an on duty patrolman reported Saturday morning that four new auto tires were found in a roadside ditch along Highway 162 in the Town of Burns. The owner may claim them by contacting the sheriff's office and identifying the tires.
A low pressure center over Canada northeast of North Dakota moves southeast bringing thundershowers late tonight. Cool weather lingered across Wisconsin and Minnesota with near frost in cranberry bogs and several towns reporting light rainfall amounts from last night and Saturday.
Hurricane Cleo moves north in the open Atlantic with winds up to 105 mph near the center and increasing size as it travels 500 miles east northeast of Bermuda. It poses no U.S. threat, with a turn toward the north-northeast indicated and hurricane-force winds extending outward.
Hugh E. Randle 57 of Lyons Kansas received a total of three months in county jail after pleading guilty to three shoplifting counts. Judge Eugene A Toepel ordered one month on each count with sentences served consecutively for alleged thefts from Woolworth Grant and Montgomery Ward stores by city police.
They work from early to late, handling nearly every type of business. They hire staff, plan activities, and coordinate tasks. Their efforts keep the city’s commercial machinery running and underpin the welfare of local residents.
Two people were injured in separate Sunday traffic incidents. Erling Foss 19 of 221 King St sustained a left shoulder injury and lip cut after his bicycle hit a parked car on Jackson near 16th street. Foss was taken to St Francis Hospital and cited for a front light violation. Lyle Sheehan 31 of 402 Avon St suffered facial cuts when a three car collision on State near 3rd street involved the car he rode in. he declined medical aid. The driver Roger Wayne Furlong 29 of 1304 Liberty St was cited for failing to control his vehicle.
County health officials announced on Monday La Crosse County's third polio case of 1958, a young woman in her 20s living in Shelby Town. The three cases out in the county match last year's total at this point.
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