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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1945
Page
8
The National Geographic series notes the Rhineland's long dispute history from Caesar to present Allied plans. It details geography from Koblenz to Mainz, economic strength in coal and vineyards, and the 1930s demilitarization pledge amid WWII occupations and postwar plans.
Richard Deaven elec tricians mate first class and Star Scout recalls his Boy Scout beginnings in Troop 75 Viroqua. He served with the 1045th Sea Bee detachment in Corsica Marseille and Okinawa earning two battle stars and Asiatic Pacific Victory ribbons. He returned home for Christmas and Easter before discharge at Great Lakes and settling in La Crosse with wife Pearl Brown and children Patricia Sue and Richard Joseph.
Birmingham students keep wartime slang alive in class as a teacher hears a cheerful Roger in response to readiness for exams. In a dictionary question a pupil defines satyr as a god and another compares General Patton to Beowulf in modern battle bravado.
Yvonne Brown a two month old native of Tristan da Cun and her father Cy ril Brown a British Navy member visited Estomba Argentina where she was baptized. The family recently left Tristan to reside in Liverpool and traveled via Argentina.
Rubber production in Ceylon has fallen each year and the 1945 crop will be smaller, reducing the Allied half of their total tonnage since Pearl Harbor.
Sgt. Robert R. Hevey of Eau Claire Wisconsin joins the army's eight week Warton American technical school in England to study automotive mechanics while awaiting shipment to the United States. He is a 1942 enlistee and Central High School La Crosse graduate. His wife Elaine and son Robert Jr reside at 508 McDonough Street.
Harold Flemke, a sailor aboard the USS Crescent City, writes from Port Arthur about Chinese Nationalist troops and other forces moving toward Tientsin. He recalls harsh cold, rice meals, and 4 nightly movies aboard, while noting no mail from home for months and plans to return home soon.
Akron report says tire makers will not reach capacity for passenger car tires until mid 1946 with end-1946 hopes for exact size model availability. D. E. Carson of B F Goodrich notes demand will be spaced, and tires will use petroleum or alcohol based synthetic rubber with mixed performance versus natural rubber including better wear resistance but higher tread cracking and heat generation. Inner tubes switch to butyl synthetics, while overall wear varies with speed and temperature.
The speaker notes a plan to reach 20 million tires per quarter after 1946, higher than the WPB's 17.5 million figure. He attributes the delay to training workers for idle passenger tire plants and to adjustments from the six hour work day returning to normal.
Two thirds of Germany's Reichswald trees were turned to steel-like columns by heavy shrapnel making them usable only as corduroy roads. The Beggar's Opera became the first English speaking stage to run more than fifty nights.
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