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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1944
Page
13
In Daytona Beach soldiers' trousers are cut into trunks and cushions for beds, used as typewriter covers, and to patch gym mattresses at Welch Army Hospital. The frayed fabric finds new life helping nursing and recreation spaces.
Mrs. Mathea Halverson of Independence, aged 83, died at Whitehall community hospital after a two week stay. Funeral services are planned for Thursday at the Albert Hanson home and Lutheran church in Independence, with burial in Bethel cemetery. She was born in Varmland Sweden on November 12 1861 and came to America at 21. Surviving children include Helmer Halverson Oscar Lawrence and Helen Hanson, Mrs. Mathilda Dyer and Hilda, and Mrs. Norman Torgerson along with five grandchildren and four great grandchildren and a sister Mrs John Wold of Victoria Canada.
Gustav Gilbertson 71 died at his Elk Creek home after a yearlong heart illness. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Rhode Funeral Home Whitehall and 2 p.m. at United Lutheran Church Pigeon Falls, with burial in the church cemetery. He was born August 30, 1873, in Chimney Rock and spent his life there, last 11 years as Elk Creek Telephone line man. Surviving are his wife, two children Richard Back of Pigeon Falls and Gordon Gilbertson at home, plus two grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Pierce will be conducted Wednesday at Lanham's mortuary at 2 p.m. by the Rev. E. E. Clarke with burial in Mount Hope cemetery.
In Sparta Wisconsin funeral services for Mrs L S Johnson will be held Wednesday at 1 p m from Plummer's funeral home. The notice records a local obsequial arrangement with timing and location.
Mrs. Charles O. Hanson aged 82 died Sunday morning at an Eau Claire hospital from a heart ailment after several months illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Eau Claire with burial in an Eau Claire cemetery. She was a cousin of the late Mrs. Halvor Arneson of Whitehall, whose daughters are in Whitehall.
Milner Bekkum of Viroqua died Sunday in a La Crosse hospital. Born January 24 1912 in Westby she was married in 1933 and belonged to the Upper Coon Valley Lutheran church. Surviving are her husband a daughter Marion four brothers and two sisters. Funeral Friday at 2 p m from the Upper Coon Valley church with Rev H O Bach officiating burial in the church cemetery.
Sailors covered with fuel oil are now washed with a new soap praised for cleaning men burned or injured. The campaign promotes safer crew care and recovery following shipwrecks, highlighting quick wash routines and recovery potential.
Second Lieut. Paul Peterson Grove attached to the 7th army was wounded twice during an attack on a town. He was hit in the left leg, then a sniper struck his right arm and cut a groove in his stomach. He enlisted in 1942, trained at Fort Benning and Camp Roberts, and went overseas in August 1944. He is a 1936 graduate of Soldiers Grove High School and resides with his wife Virginia Bohonek and two children in Prairie du Chien.
New York report from the Better Vision Institute states that aging dulls blue perception. It notes older eyes develop a yellow lens tint filtering blue light, with lens absorption reaching half of blue rays after age fifty.
In Jacksonville Florida Navy Chaplain Paul R Hoover officiated a double proxy wedding pairing partners in separate locations one elsewhere in the United States and the other in the Pacific He traveled around the world three times to obtain the required legal papers for the unattended ceremony marking a first of its kind.
SIMONA Florida W F Haynes receives a Silver Star medal for World War I meritorious service twenty five years after the action at St Mihiel France earned him a communications citation He learned he needed to apply for the decoration and contacted the War Department before receiving the medal.
A battered piano, bought at a Honolulu auction, arrived in sections to the 7th AAF base in the Marianas. Pilots carried pieces in their pockets and now the instrument, despite missing keys and warped parts, is prized by flyers busy in the war against Japan.
Paris notes sixty trucks sent to Norway in 1940 have returned to France after the retreat. The vehicles were brought back to England with the withdrawal of the brief invasion and later rolled into Paris amid the recent advance. Some trucks carried foods bought by French officers in Britain, paid for with ration points.
Francisco Pizarro demanded a record ransom from Inca leader Atahualpa, a sum stated as seventeen and a half million dollars, highlighting one of history’s largest extortion payments.
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