Five Trouble Makers Make You Late Folder Warns Drivers
State motor department safety division issues a red black folder titled Five Trouble Makers Make You Late. It outlines delays at home and on the road causing hazards, with pages on delays at intersections, heavy traffic and weather, plus speeding and traffic law violations. Available to plant safety managers on written request to the safety division.
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Safer Division
The
State Motor Redepartment
Indusplant
Mo Vehicle Department
Madi
Housewives in Brisbane Defy Rations with Unused Tent Flys
Brisbane housewives skirt rationing by buying unused tent flys in sporting goods shops and cutting them into department sized sections. They hem the fabric to create sheets without coupons, illustrating wartime consumer improvisation.
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Brisbane
Ausare
Sporting
Leaves From A War Correspondent's Notebook Paris Report
Paris correspondence notes describe wartime life under German occupation with a contrast between idle collaboration and those who toiled for pay. The writer hints at broader social tensions and shifts in daily life during four years of Nazi rule.
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Paris
Paris Describes Daily Hardship Under Invasion
HAL BOYLE recalls life in Paris where shortages bite. Alec Greciet, a Grand Hotel waiter, details ration pain, scarce bread and milk, and German preference for food. He notes coffee revival and the price of a teapot of water, while families hide rations to survive.
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Paris
ePhis
Alex
X Ray Technician Jobs Open To Wac Recruits
WAC recruiter S Sgt R L Modeland announced opportunities for healthy high school graduate women to train as army X ray technicians. The three month course covers anatomy physics X ray units film processing and administration. Eligible applicants must have a high school education and desire to work in X ray clinics contacting the WAC recruiting office in La Crosse or postmasters at local itinerant points to arrange appointments by telephone.
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Armed Forces
R. L. Modeland
Wac
Wacs
Army
Sgt. Modeland
Federal Building
la Crosse
Prairie du Chien
Richland Center
Platteville
Viroqua
Sparta
Tomah
New Lisbon
Mauston
Whitehall high school faculty roster announced
Whitehall Wisconsin special report lists the complete faculty for Whitehall high school opening Tuesday at 9 a.m. The staff includes Jeanette Kuettner Ellen Heuser Janet Lentz Goldie Holmes Dewey Bensend Wilbur Foth J G Emerton Dorothy Ingram Adelaide Scheide Adeline Hanson Mrs Sylvan Olson Robert Forsythe Richard Lee Leon C Larson and others. Bell calls a 9 a.m. faculty meeting and a 10 30 a m general staff meeting Monday. Kindergarten registration at 2 p m Tuesday and bus notices urged to Bell or Abner Thompson.
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Whitehall
Wis
Whitehall High School
G. C. Bell
Jeanette Kuettner
St. Paul
Ellen Heuser
Cochrane
Janet Lentz
Menomonie
Goldie Holmes
Black River Falls
Dewey Bensend
E Wilbur Foth
Bell
Abner Thompson
90th Anniversary of Church Is Celebrated
Decorah Iowa special report notes the 90th anniversary of the First Lutheran congregation in Decorah with festival services at 9:00 a.m. in Norwegian and 10:45 a.m. in English. Dr. T. A. Hoff will lead the altar service and Rev. Oscar E. Engebretson will deliver sermons at both services. The congregations were founded by the late Dr. Wilhelm Koren who came from the University of Christiania in 1513 to Washington Prairie as the first Lutheran missionary west of the Mississippi.
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Decorah
T. A. Hoff
Oscar E. Engebretson
Washington Prairie
Wilhelm Koren
University of Christiania
Mississippi River
Plan Mission Festival at St Pauls Lutheran German Valley
The annual mission festival of St. Pauls Lutheran church in German Valley led by Rev. H. W. Neubauer will be held Sunday. Guest pastors Rev. H Nommensen of Fountain City and Rev. F J Werth of Eau Claire will lead the morning and afternoon services with soloists Carroll Schroeder and Ernest Sielaff Jr providing music.
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Whitehall
Wis
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
German Valley
H. W. Neubauer
H. Nommensen
Fountain City
F. J. Werth
Eau Icaire
Carroll Schroeder
Ernest Sielaff, Jr
Sgt Harold Myrick Returns From Saipan Invasion
Platoon Sgt Harold Leroy Myrick 30 of De Soto Wis has been returned to U S Naval Hospital Oakland for treatment of wounds from the Saipan invasion His unit a weapons company saw him injured on the seventh day web during a mortar and artillery barrage He recounts rescuing a comrade from a dugout with grenades and flames to help clear the emplacement He is a Riverside military academy Gainesville Ga graduate attended Wisconsin for one year and is married to Dorothy Myrick of Philadelphia His prior service included a four year enlistment 1935 1939 and work at Wycoff Drawn Steel Ambridge Pa
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U. S. Naval Hospital
Oakland
Calif
Marine Pilatoon
Harold Leroy Myrick
de Soto
Wis
Saipan
Myrick
Marshall Islands
Marine Corps
Namur
Hold Accident Hearings Here
The Wisconsin Industrial Commission will hold accident compensation hearings at the courthouse on September 13 and 14. Five cases are set for September 13 and four for September 14, with listed participants including Gahnz, Cochrane Co op Farmers Creamery, Globe Shipbuilding, Allis Chalmers, and others as scheduled.
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Wisconsin Industrial Commission
Court House
H. A. Nelson
Nelson
L. Gahnz
Cochrane Co-op Farmers Creamery Company
Ervin E. Squires
Globe Shipbuilding Company
Erma Petrosik
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Matt A. Dolezal
Lowell Daniels
Earl Schultz
Service Transfer and Storage Company
Clifford Paulson
Edward Weilep
August A. Symbek
National Builders
Fred Bachman
Cargill Coal and Equipment Company
Roy Arttus
Garvin Taxi Company
The Road To Berlin Distances From Front Lines
The report lists distances to Berlin from key fronts: Russian front 322 miles from eastern Warsaw suburbs, Northern France 450 miles from St Dizier, Southern France 545 miles from Perly, and Italian front 590 miles from Pesaro.
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Warsaw
France
St. Dizier
Perly
Pesaro
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