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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1949
Page
2
Middleton Wisconsin residents gathered to honor Dr. C. E. Allen aged 76 and Dr. A. G. Rowley aged 74 for combined 350 years of service. Village President Henry Raemisch presented engraved watches to the doctors as thanks for their long community careers.
Gen. Carl Spaatz testified before the House Armed Services Committee that the B-36 bomber and the atomic bomb are the greatest forces for peace. He argued that in past wars Russia could overwhelm Europe quickly, but the bomber and bomb deter large-scale conflict by their power. He recalled decisions in 1946 47 to continue the B-36 contract, asserting the strategic value justified risk.
The United Nations will operate with a budget of 39,207,879 dollars for the coming year, up by 605,205 dollars from 1940. Secretary General Trygve Lie announced the general budget Sunday night, noting miscellaneous income of 5,106,525 dollars and a planned balance sheet impact of about 19 million additional deductions.
German Communists unhappy with Russia form a splinter group in Berlin. They claim 4,000 active members in the Russian zone and 600 in the Western sector, announcing the Free Communist Party to oppose imperialism and Soviet influence. Karl-Heinz Scholz leads the campaign.
At 12 25 p m Saturday County highway police reported Minneapolis resident David Gordon 61 lost control of his eastbound car on Highway 16 at 45 mph veered right struck retaining posts then crossed the road to hit posts 185 feet from the out of control point His wife 48 suffered slight cuts and bruises and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Milwaukee congressman Rep Biemiller defended the welfare state as democratic and Lincolnian, while President John M Eklund urged academic freedom as the top school issue at the AFL Federation 32nd annual national convention in Denver. About 500 delegates from 60,000 members attended.
The article describes early computer memory and data flow in Hinac style, with Eckert and Mauchly likening machines to humans. It notes Binac’s $500,000 cost, sale for $250,000, and Univac’s yet undetermined price, highlighting rapid operations and numeric handling capabilities.
Four girls aged 13 to 17 admitted to police on Sunday that they were runaways from the Good Shepherd home in Dubuque Tu. They were picked up while hitchhiking on Highway 16 near Pattibone Park. The runaways said they left the home Thursday night and were headed for the state of Washington.
County Clerk Esther M. Domke announces a new state bill changes license costs to six dollars and fifty cents, covering hunting fishing trapping and a deer tag, up from five dollars.
Mrs Evelyn Irons about 32 was jailed twice in 24 hours on a fraudulent check charge. While in city jail she slipped out a rear door, was spotted in a tavern two blocks away, then escaped again through a torn transom above a steel wire screen. Police recaptured her and kept her in a second floor cell.
Harvard Illinois authorities report an office safe burglary at the Harvard Federal Savings and Loan. Thieves cracked the safe on the second floor shared with the Chamber of Commerce, taking seven $5,000 government bonds and $350 in cash. The bonds are nonconvertible, officials say, making the theft unlikely to yield easy cash. City sheriff Henry Baw of McHenry County was notified.
A 22 page statement by Blaine Edgar Jones, accused rapist, found in his jail cell and locked away after his body was discovered hanging in a Kentucky jail. Jones, 32, a Navy veteran from Richlands, Virginia, faced trial on charges of the rape slaying and robbery of Lois Collins, a 19 year old newlywed, with the case set for Monday.
A 17 year old Washington DC youth described as an AWOL soldier from Camp Gordon Georgia was held in Waukesha Wisconsin after a wild weekend. Officials were deliberating charges as he traveled to Milwaukee and committed a bakery theft in Madison and a knife incident in Delafield before wrecking a bar. He stole seven hard rolls from the bakery while the till was emptied.
Milwaukee market sees a continued gasoline price drop as Standard Oil and Sinclair Oil announce exploratory one-cent cuts on tank wagon prices following Pate’s lead. Major-brand premium settles near 28.6 cents, with independents mostly at 20.9 cents as Shell Phillips and Wadhams signal a decision soon.
In Rhinelander Wisconsin a six year old boy Alfred R Nyland was shot in the neck while sleeping with his mother. The accidental discharge by a younger brother occurred in a bedroom where a rifle was left by the husband and an older son who had been hunting. The child died several hours after being rushed to hospital.
Sparta Wis Special report says a Texaco station in Sparta was entered by breaking a window. Two cartons of cigarettes and 6 dollars in cash were taken. Police were notified Saturday.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a subdued yet fiery incident involving an individual named Dennis. Details are unclear due to garbled wording, with scattered phrases about relief, tears, and intense emotion. No coherent events, dates, or locations emerge to form a concrete news item.
Raymond O Schlicht 28 of 2502 South 16th Street died in a local hospital Saturday. Born in Harmony Vernon County on September 20 1920 he was a World War I veteran. Survived by wife daughter Marlis parents Otto and Mrs. Schlicht La Crosse two sisters Hildegard Kolden Genoa and Grace Bruhn Stoddard Private funeral Tuesday at 2 pm at Sletten McKee south side chapel Rev Harold Backer officiating burial Hamburg church cemetery
In Frankfurt Germany two American youths Warren Oelsner 20 Oyster Bay NY and Peter Sellers 18 Philadelphia were reported arrested by Soviet zone police after disappearing on a bicycle tour. The U S Army said the informant claimed they were arrested Aug 4 or 5 in Doitzenburg near the British Soviet zone border while taking pictures.
President Truman outlined a wide arm aid plan linking military assistance to European economic recovery. He stressed aid to Greece, Turkey, Iran, and Latin America, and warned democracies must unite to prevent a slide into conflict. He cited UN support and the Rio pact as foundations for expanded defense cooperation. The plan includes increasing military production, transferring equipment, and dispatching training experts.
A sharp series of earthquakes rocked the Pacific Northwest Sunday night for about five minutes. No casualties or major damage were reported. The shaking centered in British Columbia's Skeena River valley and was felt as far south as Portland, Oregon.
Two accidents reported by city police left three injured. Joe A. Dechant, 35, of North Eighth, suffered a possible right knee fracture after a crash at Highth and Main as he drove north on Eighth. George Monsoor, 51,634 Copeland Avenue, skidded 60 feet before a collision, causing $150 damage to his car and $50 to the other. Richard W. Marshall, 26, Green Island, and his wife, 22, were hospitalized after their car rammed a parked vehicle at Eighth and Green Bay near South Avenue, Marshall breaking a wrist and his wife bruised. their car also sustained $200 damage.
Poland's chief of protocol and a Roman Catholic resigns from a Soviet dominated government. Adam Grabniowicz wires from Switzerland that as a Catholic and under the Vatican excommunication decree it is impossible to continue to serve the regime.
Santiago Chile troops moved in Sunday night ejecting more than 1 000 tired sit-down strikers at the Lota coal mine and arresting 35 Communist leaders accused of fomenting the trouble. Officials quoted the marchers as saying Communist spokesmen crippled the country and that revolution had broken out in Santiago.
The first degree murder trial of Mrs. Annabelle Rades, 32, began in Shawano before Judge M. G. Eberl. District Attorney Ovid Strossenreuther said she shot Levi Rades, 27, with a .20 gauge shotgun after a quarrel over support for their three children in the kitchen of their Pella Township home. A court psychiatric evaluation followed a mental exam.
How to keep false teeth from wobbling while eating or talking. A spray or powder product claims to hold teeth more firmly with no aftertaste or souring breath and is available at drug stores.
Mt Carmel high school plans an early Christmas celebration as classes reopen in Taft. They will meet their new teacher, Miss Mary Christmas, during the festive event.
Clair G. Hall a 28 year old Fort Bragg soldier from Milwaukee was ordered held in 2500 bond on charges of stealing 207.60 and 11 pistols at the fort. U S Commissioner Malle Adams Jackson bound him over for federal court after a hearing.
Philadelphia report shows Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, addressing the 75th annual convention. She urged charity blood banks to stop accepting obviously unfit blood from vagrants who peddle donated blood to fund drinking, calling it a growing practice.
Joe Schalasky stopped to remove his house shoes when a bullet ripped through a window and lodged in a wall behind him. He told Police Chief Link Rann he would have been shot in the head if not for the intervene. Rann promised to search for the marksman.
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