Storm Warning Set For 1949 Hurricane Season
Navy USAF CAA and Weather Bureau pool radar seismographs and planes for a 24 hour watch across 3000 by 1500 miles off the U S southeastern coast Gulf area. Warnings to residents come from Miami coordinated center with base teams in Miami Pensacola Corpus Christi Ada and Puerto Rico. New flight procedures include a square-around technique and diagonal mapping to fix the eye for advance landfall alerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
USAF
CAA
Washington
NEA
Uncle Sam
Air Force
Civil Aeronautics Administration
U. S. Weather Bureau
U. S
Gulf of Mexico
Miami
Pensacola
Fla
Corpus Christi
Tex
Ada
Puerto Rico
Weather Bureau
Local Soldier Drives In Japan
Pvt. Donald L. Swartz of La Crosse Wisconsin serves with the First cavalry division on occupational duty in the Tokyo Yokohama area. Stationed at Camp King Omiya Japan he drives a jeep for C company 8th cavalry regiment. Enlisted December 1948 he worked as an auto mechanic before joining the army.
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Eighth U. S. Army
Omiya
Japan
Donald L. Swartz
Bert Swartz
la Crosse
Wis
First Cavalry Division
Tokyo- Yokohama
Camp King
Swartz
8Th Cavalry Regiment
Pvt. Swartz
Army
Camp Breckenridge By
A Crosse Auto Supply Co
Ore Consumption Drops During July
Iron ore use fell to 5,258,321 tons in July from 6,248,535 in June. Stocks on hand rose to 35,063,647 tons on August 1 from 32,610,785 a year earlier. The 142 blast furnaces in the United States and Canada on August 1 were seven fewer than July 1, with about 10 more idle this month. For 1949, ore consumption totaled 48,423,087 tons versus 44,820,566 in 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lake Superior
Train Engineer Pilot Exchange High Signs
Denver readers recount a long running nightly signal between a train engineer and his son, a plane pilot. Clarence Chapman, 46, on the Colorado and Southern line, flashes his headlight and uses a red flare to greet his son, 31 year old Captain Leroy Chapman, in the United Airlines flight from Denver to Cheyenne.
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Denver
Colo
United Airlines
Cheyenne
Colorado
Southern
Clarence Chapman
Capt
Leroy Chapman
Chapman
Clarence
Madison considers appeal over Wisconsin Telephone rate rise
Madison is weighing an appeal to the Dane County circuit court after the Wisconsin Public Service Commission denied a rehearing and granted the company over 2.3 million dollars in extra annual revenue. City Atty. Harold Hanson says factual grounds must exist before filing. Local governments and labor groups have protested the hike affecting 60 000 subscribers.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Harold Hanson
Dane County Circuit Court
Green Bay
Neenah-Menasha Trades and Labor Council
Accet
Six Physicians Staff La Crosse Clinic
Six physicians and specialists are assigned to the La Crosse clinic staff. The clinic operates for several years in the Batavian Bank Building on the fifth floor. Core staff includes Drs. James C. Fox J F Egan G I Uhrich Bernard J Monschein Paul W Phillips and Charles M Kelly Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse Clinic
Batavian Bank
James C. Fox
J. F. Egan
G. I. Uhrich
Bernard J. Monsheim
Paul W. Phillips
Charles M. Kelly, Jr
Pullman Car Plants Use 12 Million Feet Lumber Monthly
Chicago box car plants consume about 12 000 000 feet of lumber each month equaling roughly 2273 miles of timber used to construct freight cars.
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Pullman
Chicago
Hamburger birthday nostalgia and safety on the road
A humorous retrospective notes Ameri can hamburgers turning 45 since 1904 at St. Louis World’s Fair. It blends satire on luxury foods with a safety PSA urging caution for families planning summer travels and noting highway traffic. A California man’s odd chicken-raising attempt is also mentioned before praising Mule-Hide roofing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Germany
U.S
St. Louis
St. Louie
U. S
Calif
Wisconsin Population Expected to Grow for 40 Years Findings
Madison reports Wisconsin will continue to grow for four decades though more slowly than the nation. State health official Werner Mattersdorff estimates 1950 population at 3,316,488 and 1990 at 3,620,870 with a higher share of older residents. He notes migration patterns and health factors shape the state’s aging growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Board of Health
Werner R. Mattersdorff
Health Department
United States
Standard Oil Retirement Plan Promises Lifetime Pensions
A Standard Oil employee begins a "permanent vacation" as retirement payments start in 1903. The article notes life insurance, hospital and surgical insurance, sickness and disability benefits, vacations, and a secure future as key features of the company benefit program.
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Harry Workhoven
Standard Oil
Roberta Slamp
Chicago
Eileen O'Loughlin
Roberta
Standard
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By Douglas Larsen
Earth
Caribbean
Florida
U. S. Naval Air Station
Key West
Marie Holland
Minneapo S College of Music
G. I
Notions Association of Schools of Music
LaSalle
Ith Street
HH Keefis
Hilson
South Third Street
Lacrosse, Wis
Pilot Exchange
Capitol City
Tribune Madison
L. H. Seemann
Agriculture Department
Tribune
Madison Bureau
A. & C. Johnson
Fifth Ave
Ashworth Ll.b
OptometaAt
Main ST
Arrow
Mason City
Iowa
Linda Sue Jackson
Standard Oil Group Hospital
Surgical Operation Insurance
Linda
C. F. Jackson
St. Joseph
Missouri
Standard Oilers
Art Krauss
al Abeyta
William F. Launtz
Decatur
Illinois
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