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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1955
Page
2
Gov. Kohler enacted 16 more measures as the 1955 Legislature recessed, bringing total signed to 618 with 28 vetoes. The bills include a new moving violation point system, driver license updates, higher education and criminal code revisions, and county court expansions.
Mrs. Esther Quigley, leading organizer among 45 striking wives, said no pickets appeared at her West Side home. Union officials said a line of wives was being organized to pressure her husband Andrew and the Harrison Sheet Steel Co. The dispute began Aug. 13 with about 450 workers involved, and a company meeting with union reps and federal mediators was set for Saturday.
An investigations committee of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church questioned Rev. Victor K. Wrigley for three hours behind closed doors. Wrigley, 35, has led Gethsemane Lutheran Church at Brookfield, Waukesha county, for seven years. No charges were filed, with another meeting likely later.
The report increases receipts to about 62.1 to 82.1 billion and lowers the 1956 deficit to roughly 1.7 billion, noting a potential path to balance as the year unfolds. Humphrey and Hughes urge restraint and consider tax cuts only with a clear surplus forecast. The budget raises atomic energy outlays to a record 1.9 billion while defense spending falls to 38.75 billion.
Faure seeks to curb Moroccan violence by replacing Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa and Grandval with an interim regency to negotiate home rule. Koenig signals factional support, while plans described include moving exile figures to France and calming nationalist pressures led by Istiqlal as 6,000 Smaala Berbers flee after the Oued Zem massacre.
The Springfield Terrors softball team challenged a local Navy crew to win to avoid enlistment. The Navy squad won 9 1 at home, and captain J T Flahive led the Terrors into the recruiting station to enlist. The sailors, led by Cmdr D K Davidson, will ship to Bainbridge Md for basic training.
Mrs Carl Colbornson 82 died Wednesday at a nursing home near Victor Iowa born Anna Elizabeth Aldrich in Village Creek January 6 1873 she married Carl Colbornson June 12 1894 survived by daughter Eva Lawton son Leslie four grandchildren and sister Mrs John Johnson funeral Saturday First Presbyterian Church Lansing burial Oak Hill Cemetery Mrs Nellie Sweeney former local resident died Tuesday Miles City Montana burial Calvary Cemetery Caledonia Minnesota Friday Rosary Thursday Blaschke Funeral Home
Mrs. C. J. Smith, widow of Atty. C. J. Smith, formerly lived in Viroqua and taught in local schools before moving to California four years ago. Her son Kenneth, an attorney, resides in La Jolla, where she died.
President Eisenhower travels to Bal F Swan’s Pine Colorado ranch for trout fishing with friends. The trip continues a pattern of leisure alongside recovery aid, as he approves up to 900 million dollars in federal loans to defense plants damaged by floods in Northeastern states and backs a tax amortization speedup to speed repairs.
A Kohler Co official testified under cross examination that the firm had a holiday pay policy for employees on leaves to join the Kohler village police. The pay master Joseph Huely said general leavees received no pay, while those serving as police faced continued holiday pay under orders from Lyman Conger the Kohler Co chief.
David Young of West Collingswood visited Fort Dix New Jersey as the Army's guest and was inducted with a uniform and helmet liner marked corporal. He was named honorary aide to Maj. Gen. John W. Harmony after his mother requested information about visiting hours. He toured training ranges rode in a tank and sat on the post mascot burro before a roast beef dinner.
9 500 members of A C Workers United Auto Workers resumed work in Milwaukee La Crosse Wis and Gadsden Ala as mediation is arranged for a master contract The strike actions in Pittsburgh Springfield and Terre Haute were halted or continued on local issues and a nationally known mediator Dr Nathan Feinsinger agreed to mediate with the company and union aiming for a new wage scale and layoff pay plan over three years
Ice Show arrives in La Crosse for Sunday and Wednesday performances. A 2 1 2 hour program features Storybook Village with Red Riding Hood and Dorothy among others, plus elaborate numbers like The Merry Widow overture and East Indian Rhythms. Special sound system and top ballet skating talent promise a memorable production at Mary Sawyer Auditorium. Doors open 7 p m for ticket holders.
Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman warns that America must close the gap between rapid technological progress and human relations to avoid disaster. He cites advances in physical sciences medicine and tech and notes the nation lacks the social framework to guide atomic power use.
A list of marriage licenses filed in La Crosse area naming couples from La Crosse Onalaska Whitehall Arcadia Blair Ettrick Osseo Sparta Bangor Hayward Little Falls Tomah and Lincoln with fiancé names and upcoming ceremony dates in August September 1940s era.
Sixteen year old Gail P. Schloemer, a junior at Madison East High School, died today of polio becoming Madison's third victim of the year. The outbreak spreads with new cases across Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, and Dane County. Local hospitals report rising polio patient totals and expanded respirator availability.
South St Paul and Chicago markets show hogs steady to mixed with plant delivered prices and sows steady. Cattle and calves remain steady with varied ranges for dry fed steers, yearlings, and cows. lambs steady with prime to choice meat prices. Chicago produce and grain prices show steady butter eggs and soymeal with reported carlot sales and receipts.
Dun & Bradstreet reported a small rise in weekly retail trade despite regional floods and heat. Dollar volume for the week ended Wednesday was 1 to 5 percent higher than a year earlier with electronics and white goods leading, fall clothing up, men's suits down, and back to school wear advancing. regional changes ranged from down 5 to up 10 percent.
James MacArthur adopted son of Helen Hayes, 17, stars in CBS drama Deal a Blow about juvenile delinquency. He attends Solebury School New Hope Pennsylvania with prior stage work and radio bits. Charles MacArthur is his father and Hayes mentored his career watching from CBS New York.
Ralph Culbertson, 40, of Madison, named Wisconsin's new chief engineer by Gov. Kohler, succeeding Charles A. Halbert who retires after 48 years in state service. Culbertson, division engineer for the Chicago and North Western railway, will take over Sept. 16. the post pays $11,000 annually.
An American SA16 amphibian plane with five crew was reported to explode Thursday night seven miles north of Lajens Airdrome in the Azores. Early reports gave no death toll. The wreckage fell into a valley en route to the La jens base.
Three inmates from Jackson County jail escaped by sawing through a rear cell bar between midnight and 7:30 am and fled seven blocks to steal a 190 sedan from a dealer. Suspects Lee L. Curtis 29 Black River Falls John R. Stewart 21 Canton Ohio Fred A. Frederick 19 Cleve island Ohio, face prior charges including breaking and entering and grand larceny. A statewide alert followed.
President Eisenhower released the midyear mutual security report noting that in six years the United States shipped 11.4 billion dollars in military equipment to over 25 allied nations. He argued the outlays have produced greater security domestically than spending in any other way.
Wadena Minnesota faced a downpour of 5.25 inches in about five hours Thursday night. Crews worked to restore crippled power and communications lines and pump out basements as lightning damaged insulators and left lines sagging.
Weather bulletins from the US Department of Commerce note considerable cloudiness and locally thundershowers in Wisconsin north and central regions. Minnesota expects partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers mainly in central areas tonight and Saturday. Iowa foresees fair warm conditions in the northeast and continued hot in the southwest with a few thundershowers in the extreme northwest tonight and Saturday.
The Mississippi River is expected to gradually rise for several days with slight increases in the upper Black and Chippewa Rivers due to heavy rainfall in the north. Sunrise Saturday is 6 22 a.m. and sunset 6 62 p.m.
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