Ten Scout Units Compete in State Teaches College Rally
Ten Scout units competed at the State Teachers College rally on Thursday evening. Troop 13 Indians won multiple events including knot tying and signaling, while Troop 9 and 13-A excelled in fire by friction and rope climbing. Awards favored Our Savior's Lutheran Indians Frontier and Les Amundsen Explorer post, with Troop 17 Bethel Lutheran earning B honors.
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State Teaches College
Longfellow School
Methodist Church
Bat
Our Savior'’s Lutheran Church
Frontier
Les Amundsen
Hogan School
Bethel Lutheran
First Presbyterian Church
St. Wenceslaus No
Blessed Sacrament Church
Teachers College
Congregational Church
Troop 13
Troop 9
13-A
Troop 13-A
Tribune
la Crosse
State Teachers College
Donald Mannstedt
Douglas Krause
Paul Youngdale
Smaller War Plants aids firms in Eau Claire district
The Smaller War Plants corporation loaned $596 600 to four Eau Claire firms and leased machinery worth $82 779 to four more, totaling $679 379 in SWPC assistance for eight firms in the district. In the six state region loans reached $18 826 135 to 199 firms with $2 798 391 in equipment leases to 72 firms, totaling $21 624 525.83. The SWPC notes that many more firms benefited via loans arranged through local channels and outlines policy to avoid competing with local banks and to verify credit unavailability before participating.
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War Plants Corporation
Eau Claire
J. A. Baldwin
SWPC
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Iowa
Baldwin
Rise in U S life insurance in force since wartime
The United States now has 158 million life insurance policies and certificates in force, averaging over five per family, an increase of 18 million from the number at the start of the war.
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U. S
Radio listings mix NBC CBS and Blue network schedule
Radio program guide for Friday December 9 1944 and Saturday December 12 shows NBC CBS and Blue networks with Paul Lavalle Amos and Andy Gang Busters People Are Funny and more including Sinfonietta Freedom of Opportunity and Don Giovanni performances.
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NBC
Paul Lavalle
Waitz
Amos and Andy
Frank Morgan
CBS
Moore and Durante
Stage Door Canteen
Ed Wynn
Lew Brown
Earl Godwin
MBS
Sinfonietta
Wendell Willkie
Tami Mauriello
Lee Oma
Grantland Rice
Gen. Marshall
Nation
Philadelphia Orchestra
Future Farmers
Don Giovanni
John W. Davis
Helio
Halloran
WKH
Dan Dunn
News
Smith
Uncle Josh
Martin Agronski
Alex Dreier
Horyshakers
Horace Heidi
Orchestras of the Nation
Grand Hotel
John Vandercook
Music Room
Portia
Evelyn Winters
Bill
Terry Allen
Ross Sisters
Jack Armstrong
Basic
Prom Page Farrell
Wilderness Road
Cbe
Captain Midnight
Bdiu
Hop Harrigan
Quincy Howe
Ben Hound
Bdlu
Terry
Lyn Murray
Chick Carter
Sally Moore
Biu- West
Lowell Thomas
Nbe World News
Henry J. Taynor
Biu-West
West
Palton Lewis, Jr
Carolinn Gilbert
Basic Dancing Music Orchestra
Blu
H. V. Kaltenborn
Paul Lavalie
Henry Aldrich
Cbs Broadcast
Bilu
Cecil Brown
Sunny Skylar
Ed Gardner
Dbs
Freedom of
Abe Lyman
Nbec
Cbs Gang Buster
Gabriel Heatter
Biu
Amos-Andy
Garry Moore
Jimmy Durante
Karl Goodwin
Ted Malone
Bill Svern
Andrinini
Retail sales rise 10 to 14 percent year over year
Dun and Bradstreet reports this week retail sales average 10 to 14 percent higher than a year ago as Christmas shopping gains momentum. In the Midwest gains run 12 to 15 percent. Jewelry cosmetic lingerie books stationary and toys were especially brisk.
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New York
Dun and
Bradstreet
Midwest
American Adviser Nelson Meets Australian Officials on Mutual Economic Ties
Donald M Nelson and US Minister Nelson Johnson conferred with Australian officials in Canberra on economic matters of mutual interest. The meeting followed Nelson's return from China. One hundredweight is defined as 112 pounds.
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Canberra
Australia
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
United States
China
Nelson Johnson
Pests a re intel SYNOPSIS and Whitehall Air Medal notice
A fantasy snippet follows Louis and Ruth as they seek the Magic Music Box to cure the Princess with a gnome encounter in a garden and a later Whitehall dispatch reports Second Lieutenant Arthur H. Galstad earning the Air Medal for meritorious service with a B 24 group in Italy. It notes Regensburg Steyr Munich Wiener Neustadt Vienna targets and oil work. Galstad is a navigator from Whitehall now married to Janet Evenson.
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Ruth
Cameroon
Louis
Whitehall
Wis
Arthur H. Galstad
15Th Aaf
Italy
Regensburg
Steyr
Munich
Wiener Neustadt
Vienna
Loestt
Romania
Germany
France
Balkans
Galstad
Whitehall Mill & Power Co
Main Street
Advanced Flying School
Hondo
Tex
Janet Evenson
Blair
Orville Evenson
O. J. Galstad
Taylor
Hoppy
Santa Land
Mr. Meriman
Leaves From a War Correspondent Notebook
Paris dispatch reports coal shortages and cold with front line troops and rear areas suffering from fuel lack. Paris hotels lack hot water while beef and vegetables appear in stores. Life editor Elmer Lane notes French workers seek food as pay. Five air corps men seize a Nazi apartment for warmth and privacy.
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Paris
France
Germany
Elmer Lane
Life Magazine
Air Corps
The Distant Star’s Sudden Burnout Might Reach Us by 1949
The nearest star remains so far away that if it suddenly went dark, astronomers would not detect the event until 1949. This note reflects early astronomical timing estimates on stellar light travel.
Veronica Lake to Wed Andre De Toth in Coming Marriage
Veronica Lake, now free after a final divorce from Maj. John S. Detlie, intends to marry film writer director Andre De Toth. Lake and Detlie wed September 26, 1940, and she said the marriage to De Toth would take place Monday.
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Los Angeles
Veronica Lake
Andre de Toth
John S. Detlie
Miss Lake
de Toth
Plague Decimated Europe in 14th Century
About 25 million Europeans perished from bubonic plague in the 14th century as fleas on rats spread the fatal illness across the continent.
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Boy Scout
R. J. Kraft
C. Weigel
Frank Smith
Phil Hackneym
Recorders
J. Liskovec
Harold Fletcher
J. D. Kelly
R. R. Keller
John Clarkin
Frank Renner
Ted Mannstedt
R. Kerrigan
Emery Leamer
H. L. Kraus
A. W. Bartheld
W. E. Zuhe
L. J. Boylan
Chex
Ralph H
Merican Gem Society
U.S
Aids Industry
The
Associated Press
Cbs & Blu
Bdiu Hodges
Dancing Music
Halloran Hospital
Washington
Philadelphia Orches
Cbs News
Stopak
Nbe
Curt Massey
Vagabonds
Nancy Martin
Nelson
LA Crosse Tribune
SAS
Intel
Louis Agrees
Oreo
Hal Boyle
Pollow
Bond
Stitzel-Weller OF
Sthlery
ONC
Shively, R
Kellogg's
Famous Cereal
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Kellogg’s
Kellogg S
America
Battle Creek
Katherine V. Newsome
West Street
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