Two New City Youth Centers Named by Local Students
La Crosse students select from five names for north and south side youth centers as $25 war bond prizes go to Gordon Peterson and Miss Parker. The north center will be in the old library building with a planned open schedule and a $3,000 fundraising goal to be reached with local business support.
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New City
la Crosse
E. P. Hartl
Pretouise Parker
Central High School
North Side
Bovs and Guns
Miss Parker
South Side
Diggers
Fantle
Verity Ann Kotinek
Maynard Goldstien
Gordon Peterson
City Recreation Department
Tribune
la Crosse City
North Side South Side Youth Center
Louis Parker
Central
South Side Center
Women at War Plant Swapping Cigarettes for Cigars
Four women working in men’s war plant positions in East Peoria ran out of cigarettes. They switched to cigars and reported feeling dizzy yet undeterred. One quipped that girls don’t know what they’ve been missing.
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East Peoria
Hartley Receives Oak Leaf Cluster for Air Medal
First Lieut. J. R. Hartley, 24, of Onalaska, pilot of the B-17 "Stinkin' from Drinkin'," has earned an oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal for meritorious achievements during Eighth Air Force bombing raids on Nazi targets. He serves with the 34th Bomb Group, Third Bombardment Division, famed for the Regensburg Me-262 plant raid.
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Eighth Air Force
England
J. R. Hartley
Onalaska
Stinkin
Drinkin
Wisconsin
34Th
Third Bombardment Division
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
Germany
Lieut
Hartley
Hartley Leaves College for Army Air Forces
T Hartley of Onalaska left La Crosse State Teachers College to enter the Army Air Forces in February 1943 while a student there.
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T. Hartley
R. 1
Onalaska
Army Air Forces
la Crosse
Monmouthshire Teams Forge Airborne Containers
Blind residents leave home at 5 am and travel fifteen miles to work at workshops making containers for airborne troops in Monmouthshire England. The long journey highlights wartime mobilization and civilian support activities during the period.
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Monmouthshire
England
Took Tact but Rosie Learned Her Place Is Home Front
Detroit notes from the first national UAW CIO women's conference on maternity leave equal pay and rest periods. Delegate Pat Telenig urged telegrams to Churchill and Stalin but the chair limited actions to the national executive committee while Ann La Mont and others pressed for broader action. A telegram to Stalin was framed but redirected to UAW-CIO president R. J. Thomas. Hawaiians pursued statehood as early as 1896.
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Detroit
Rosie
National Women's Conference of the United Automobile Workers (Cio
Pat Telenig
Winston Churchill
Victor G. Reuther
Union
Telenig
Executive Committee
Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Ann la Mont
New York
UAW
Poland
Reuther
Great Britain
U.S.S.R
R. J. Thomas
Uaw-Cio
Bong's Medal List Grows With Highest Honor Award
Maj. Richard S. Bong, famed ace from Poplar Wisconsin, receives the Congressional Medal of Honor after tallying 38 Japanese planes in air combat. He already earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with four clusters, the Air Medal with 12, the Silver Star with one cluster, the Distinguished Service Cross, and two unit citations for his 49th Fighter Group. Maj. Gerald R. Johnson of Eugene Oregon credited with the 600th victory for the 49th, as Bong added his 38th kill during a battle over Ormoc Bay Philippines.
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Washington
Richard S. Bong
Army Air Forces
Bong
Poplar
Wis
49Th
Maj
Gerald R. Johnson
Eugene
Oregon
Johnson
Ormoc Bay
Philippines
Milwaukee Nurse Transfers to Caledonia Hospital
Ruth Rapp, former supervisor of pediatrics at a Milwaukee hospital, becomes a nurse at Caledonia hospital and will reside with Dr. and Mrs. Nell T. Norris. Margie Bouquet, a nurse there for a year, resigned and plans to live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bouquet.
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Caledonia, Minn
Ruth Rapp
Milwaukee
Caledonia Hospital
Nell T. Norris
Margie Bouquet
Philip Bouquet
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Citizens’ Advisory Board
Hans C. Reuter
Albert J. Bates
George W. Hall
Frank Fancher
Murphy
C. A. Dittman
H. J. Marcotte
P. E. Hutson
Owen Jackson
Gaze Staats
Rich Newburg
Minnette Sprain
A. W. Rice
Howard Dahl
Parad
Carl “Kutz” Kutzborsky
la Crosse Supply Company
Chrysler
Plymouth
Mack Trucks
R. C. Cheney CO
Housewives
United States
Sears
Or, Sears, Roebuck and CO
Fifth Avenue South
Caledonia
Prescription Pharmacy
Fourth and
Jay Streets
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