Plan Program For Oil Week Observance In Wisconsin
About 50 oil men from La Crosse and La Crosse County met at the vocational school to organize a county wide Oil Progress week for October 16 to 22. The event marks the 90th anniversary of the oil industry begun by the Drake well in 1859 with displays talks films and parades. C M Simonson heads the local committee with volunteers handling speakers participation parade and displays and district rep Lars Carlson outlined plans. D J Byers of Standard Oil acts as area chairman for western Wisconsin coordinating meetings across Prairie du Chien Sparta Richland Center Wisconsin Rapids and others. State chairman W R Pate and district chair W J Gerve oversee regional coordination.
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la Crosse
la Crosse County
Simonson
C. M. Simonson
Cc. J. Olson
William C. Hoover
M. J. Quillin
George Radelley
Canfield
Walter J. Gudie
Sou
Lars Carlson
Oil Industry Information Committee
Chicago
Drake
D. J. Byers
Standard Oil Co
Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien
Sparta
Richland Center
Wisconsin Rapids
W. R. Pate
Milwaukee
W. J. Gerve
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Guide for Draftees and Veterans by Maj Nial
Questions from veterans cover part time work and pension impacts for total and permanent disability non-service connected status. It explains eligibility for widows pensions, Asiatic-Pacific ribbon rules, pre natal care limits, on the job training lists by state, and GI Bill loan options. It invites readers to send questions for future columns.
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J. C
Lowr Merion, Pa
Band
Grand Island
Nebr
Vineland
N. J
Army
P. B
Salem Depot
N. H
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
State Department of Education
Marion
S. C
Uncle Sam
Maj. Nial
Tax Collections Drop as July Revenue Declines in 1950 Start
Washington reports July federal tax collections per Internal Revenue Bureau total $2,252,660,000, down from July 1948 by $107,387,000 as fiscal 1950 begins. Individual income taxes fell more than eight percent, reducing receipts by $82,078,000 to $995,380,000.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Polio Insurance Ad Urges Immediate Coverage
L V Weisenel urges readers to take out polio insurance now before illness strikes. The ad likens polio protection to insuring a house before a fire and notes coverage lasts two years. It warns polio can hit in winter and provides phone number 225 to obtain an application.
Krug Sees Indian Affairs In Capable Hands In Wisconsin
Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug completed a five day inspection tour of Wisconsin Indian reservations and said affairs are in capable hands. He noted Wisconsin Indians are better off than in the west thanks to tourism and resources and urged action on the St. Lawrence Seaway with Midwest and New England support. He expects passage in the next Congress.
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Green Bay
Wis
Julius A. Krug
Wisconsin
New England
St. Lawrence Seaway
Congress
Krug
Armed Robbery Strikes McMaster-Carr Office in Chicago
Two armed men held up a woman cashier as she got from a taxicab in front of the McMaster-Carr Supply office at 640 West Lake Street. They fled with a $1.7 payroll after one man covered the driver with a gun and another grabbed the briefcase.
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Chicago
Tekla Johnson
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Alfred Bretten
Bretten
Miss Johnson
West Lake Street
Pedestrians Safer in 1948 Traffic Fatalities
Chicago report notes 9 850 pedestrian deaths in 1948, down six percent from 10 450 in 1947, per Accident Facts 1949. The yearbook highlights that motor vehicle deaths by type show pedestrian fatalities fell below two vehicle collision deaths for the first time.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Europe Faces Economic Ruin Without Unity Says Assembly
In Strasbourg the 12 nation Council of Europe debate warned the Marshall plan yields little long term recovery. Critics fear social upheavals or wars if Europe fails to unite before the program ends in 1952. Washington reports slower European recovery while urging coordinated effort.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Europe
Atlantic
Consultative Assembly
Council of Europe
Strasbourg
France
America
Economic Cooperation Administration
Washington
Northwest Airlines protests Uniteds route exemption bid
Northwest Airlines asked the civil aeronautics board to deny United Air Lines an exemption to operate new non stop routes Seattle to Portland and Chicago to New York. Northwest argued the board’s route structure serves all regions and should not be altered without a public hearing, noting its own rapid transcontinental service with 75 passenger Stratocruisers began September 1 and offered faster service than United could match.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Seattle
Portland
Chicago
New York
United Air Lines
Northwest Airlines
Washington, D. C
Northwest
United
Civil Aeronautics Act
Europe Faces Slower Recovery Says ECA Report
The European recovery slackened in its first year according to the Economic Cooperation Administration. The report notes European nations earned enough to cover only about one fifth of their Western Hemisphere imports.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Europe
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Byers
Bur Savings
Kenneth Coleman
Minnesota National Guardsmen
Larry
McGregor
Minn
Eminat
Maj
Thomas M. Nial
C. B
Thrope
Wash
Hamm’s
Tuto
HAMM
Theo. Hamm Brewing CO
ST. Paul Minn
Osweiler Beverage Co., Inc
Clinton Street
L. V. Weisensel
Tex
GEO. B. Rose, Inc
Jewele
Main St
ZOO Meat
Cleveland
Chevrolet
North 3Rd St
W.L.A.D
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