La Crosse Reports Highest Employment on Record
Wisconsin State Employment Service notes La Crosse has 14 383 people employed across all industries the highest level in history. The upturn began in September after July designation as a critical labor surplus area spotlighting diversified local industry and steady employment. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago credits Midwest profit gains and above average business pickup in steel autos and railroads supporting the regional prosperity.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin State Employment Service
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Midwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Attlee’s Succession Could Shape Labour Unity and Policy
As Attlee retires as Labour leader his successor faces a noisy contest and a test of uniting moderates and leftists. Bevan presses for power while Morrison or Gaitskell emerge as possible challengers, each shaping the party’s path on welfare, nationalization, and ties to America. Leviticus 26:40 appears as a closing biblical reflection.
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Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Aneurin Bevan
Attlee
Bevan
Hugh Gaitskill
Gaitskill
Herbert Morrison
Morrison
Le May Urges Avoiding First Nuclear Blow
General Curtis Le May, head of the Strategic Air Command, says the United States should avoid the first strike if possible and build dispersed forces, warning that the decisive phase could end quickly. He discusses deterrence, warning systems, and continuous alert drills amid a 1955 interview story.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Curtis E. le May
U.S. Strategic Air Command
General LeMay
U.S. News and World Report
Lawrence
Pearl Harbor
le May
U.S
Strategic Air Command
New York Herald Tribune, Inc
Wisconsin Democrats Eye Senate Hopeful Amid Candidate Shortage
Wisconsin politics focus on 1956 Senate race as Sen. Alexander Wiley looms, with only State Senator Henry Maier signaling a possible bid. Democrats wrestle with lack of statewide contenders and weigh Maier's fit, labor ties, and party organizational strength for a contentious primary.
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Madison
Wis
United States
Democratic Party
Wisconsin
Alexander Wiley
Chippewa Falls
Henry Maier
Milwaukee
Sen
Wiley
William Proxmire
Thomas F. Fairchild
Supreme Court
Maier
CIO
McCarthy
Portraits and Potent Voices in a Mixed Echo
James J. Metcalfe documents worn shoes telling rough lives of workers and waifs while a satire on child cinema seating and a note on rubber diet in Africa closes this collage of social snippets and letters.
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Africa
Wisconsin Cheese Factories Shrink Since Early Age
From Wisconsin Magazine of History. Once Wisconsin had about 3600 cheese factories during the horse and buggy era when milk could not travel far. With motor transport and better located plants larger factories grew while many small ones closed. Today Wisconsin has about 1200 cheese factories.
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
Wisconsin
Letters From Tribune Readers Urge Fiscal Reform and Policy Shifts
Tribune letters call for a U S taxpayer stance against foreign aid to old England and urge support for Reed-Dirksen tax reform and Byrd-Bridges budget controls. Authors demand action from their congressman to cut taxes to 25 percent and end deficits, urging publication guidelines for future letters.
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Reed-Dirkson Armendment
Congress
Big Labor and Big Government in Modern America
Washington notes how mass production fostered bigness in government business and labor. The piece argues big labor emerges from AFL and CIO merger and politics, discusses rivals and supporters in the Republican Party, and credits Roosevelt era reforms for union strength and protections.
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Washington
AFL and Cio
New York
Whoop Up Country: Westward Frontier and Mounties Tale
Book review of Paul F. Sharp’s W G Rogers Literary Guidepost on Whoop Up country from Montana into Alberta and Saskatchewan. Describes whisky forts, trade with peltry, Cypress Hills massacre, Northwest Mounted Police, Sitting Bull, and frontier law enforcement contrasts between Canada and the United States.
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Paul F. Sharp
University of Minnesota
Sharp
Monetana
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Fort Benton
Great Muddy
Fort MacLeod
Oldman
Meriwether Lewis
Concord
Cypress Hills
Redman
Northwest Mounted Police
Canada
United States
Sitting Bull
Custer
New England
X. Beidler
Eisenhower Hearts and Arteries Under Health Watch
The article notes President Eisenhower, age 65, remains under doctors’ observation as to his ability to run in 1956. It explains that a blood vessel to the heart thickened and closed, causing damage and possible heart enlargement, while other arteries’ condition remains uncertain despite ongoing tests.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Ten Years Ago Facts From La Crosse Tribune
William Boma of the city police department spoke at the Business Men's Club lunch at the Knights of Pythias hall showing two sound films one on FBI bank robbery kidnapping and murder pursuits and another on saboteur downfall. Anita Gundlach and Emil Schisser county home and agricultural agents will attend the annual extension conference in Madison.
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William Boma
City Police Department
Business Men’s Club
Knights of Pythias Hall
FBI
Anita Gundlach
Emil J. Schiesser
Madison
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Winston Churchill
David Lawrence
John Wyngaard
Capitol
Senate
James J. Metcalfe
Field Enterprise, Inc
London
Che la Crosse Tribune
W. T. Burgess
R._L. BANGSBERG, Editor
Tribune
England
Yugoslavia
Philippines
Turkey
U.N. Security Council
British Commonwealth
Europe
Jesse Jones
Texas
Old England
Thomas L. Stokes
Republican Party
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
William F. Knowland
California
James P. Mitchell
Clifford Case
New Jersey
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Stokes
W. G. Rogers
Literary Guidepost
James Marlow
the World Today
Ike
Marlow
The
la Crosse Tribune
Henry Noben
Arthur Bouffleur
Carl Otto
Frank Ferries
William Fiesbie
NSBA
William Grady
Gateway City Lodge No. 153
IOOF
Odd Fellows’ Hall
H. C. Merman
French Island
A. E. Thompson
Register of Deeds
la Crosse County
H. H. Chase
Irvin
Dorothy Buttmann
Loomis St
Alma
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