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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1961
Page
6
Chaseburg Wisconsin American Legion Post will sponsor a poultry festival Sunday December 10 at the Legion Memorial Building. Entertainment for young and old is promised throughout the afternoon and evening.
Lt. Charlene I. Suneson 27 becomes the first woman assigned to sea duty as a line officer in the U S Navy. The WAVE veteran will join the USS W A Mann for an 18 month Pacific cruise with nurse staff and dependents aboard. She says a captain at a party helped start her sea career and he assures success.
Junior and senior choirs of South Beaver Creek Lutheran Church directed by Mrs H P Walker will present their annual Christmas concert Sunday at 8 PM Rev Walker will lead devotions The Advent Candles following the processional A social hour will be sponsored by the Luther League
Wisconsin Public Service Commission in Madison authorized the Vernon Telephone Cooperative to convert the Westby Exchange to dial operation at a cost of 626,261 dollars.
Advertising NEWS issued weekly urges distributors and dealers to align promotions with national ads scheduled to appear in the newspaper. The notice invites timely tie ins for upcoming campaigns and product features.
The notice lists brands and companies to place ads in the newspaper next week. Entries include Alemite Co of Wisconsin Inc Associated Hospital Buick Dean's Pills Oldsmobile Miller Brewing Co Nash Meyer-Gronik Co Seagrams Crown Volkswagen Wall Street Journal and others.
Blair welding shop owner Ernest Borreson closes shop indefinitely to join Preston Cooperative maintenance. Mabel Cleaners opens December 4 in the former First National Bank Building with George Martin of Lansing Iowa as proprietor. Mrs Dean Austin is clerk assistant hostess and Mrs Betty Hendrickson oversees as supervisor with an organizational committee listed. A January luncheon is planned at the Holiday Inn and Welcome Wagon Club charity projects will donate net funds to charity.
Workers at Tony Downs frozen food plants in St James and Madeira rejected union representation by United Packinghouse Workers. Ballot count was 189 to 145 against. Also noted is North Central Airlines announcing a four for one stock split for shareholders of record Dec 15 1961.
The text identifies a member connected to the Elvin Olson general agency of Lutheran Brotherhood in Onalaska, listing group and individual study and examination as part of the record.
The Norsemen quartet from Luther College will present a worship service at 8 45 a.m. Sunday December 10 at Trempealeau Valley Lutheran Church and at two other area churches in Blair Wisconsin Ronald and Rolfe Johnstad of Pigeon Falls are members. Services are open to the public.
Dale Spiegler rents Shamrock Motor Co. from M. L. Connor and will run it as Spiegler Auto Repairs. Robert A. Peters elected president of Moore Motor Freight Lines in St. Paul Minneapolis. he became general manager in July and hails from White Bear Lake. Moore Motor Freight serves Minneapolis St. Paul Chicago Milwaukee and Wisconsin Illinois Iowa regions as a common carrier and is a subsidiary of Indianhead Truck Lines. Gerald J. Mouchka of Davy Engineering took part in UW Extension civil engineering refresher at the Madison campus among 30 engineers. A Welcome Wagon Club formed for La Crosse area workers with Mrs. Ralph Mathaey as chairman.
The Campus Dames will hold a Christmas luncheon Saturday at 1 p.m. in the La Crosse State College Student Union. Mrs Frederick Davies oversees arrangements and Mrs Orville Brault will present a Christmas story program.
The U.S. paper industry manufactured about four billion Christmas greeting cards for the upcoming holidays, reflecting robust card production across the sector.
The passage notes that mouse populations may rise after rat control due to reduced competition for food and differing control requirements. It emphasizes ecological responses to pest management.
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