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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1961
Page
9
Parks Director Eugene Fry says heavy snow delays opening of city ice rinks and the Lagoon. Flooding builds ice after six to seven floods and six to eight inches of ice are needed. rinks will open with limited hours and warming houses may adjust for holidays.
The La Crosse Common Council elected Leonard Chojnacki municipal justice and four others to the La Crosse Board of Education. Edward L. Lund and Mrs. Geneva Ragland were reappointed. Irving Cooley and O. R. Nessius won seats, replacing Ringquist and Hawkins after a contentious caucus.
La Crosse action notes a 16 to 5 defeat of Alderman Harold Lee's motion to expand the board of public works. The council also discusses chair presiding at committee meetings and sets bond rules for plumbers, with utilities seeking bond clarification.
Richard Beggs earned two Toastmasters honors at Tuesday’s meeting at Henninger’s restaurant. Best table topic speaker and best evaluator went to Beggs, with Harvey Branch as general evaluator and John Smola topicmaster. Eric McCaleb served as toastmaster.
Our Redeemer Lutheran Sunday school presents two Christmas programs with the tiny tots through third grade at 9 p.m and Behold the Lamb by grades four through seven at 7 p.m. A Christmas party for College Co op residents at 401 West Ave S runs Friday 9 p.m. to 12 30 a.m chaired by Richard Flynn and Richard Perri with Santa and helpers. John Johnson of Milwaukee heads the house and Mr and Mrs David Hogue chaperone.
In La Crosse and Eau Claire area session CPA's heard Lawrence Hotvedt, Wisconsin Department of Taxation income assessor, discuss taxation of individual incomes under Wisconsin law. He explained the net worth method for determining tax liability. David D. Baptie moderated the meeting at the Hotel Eau Claire. A seminar by the AICPA on tax problems for closely held corporations followed with Bernard Kubale leading the course.
The Williams Construction Co. will widen Weston Street from Losey Boulevard to Strong Avenue. The Common Council accepted a bid of 749.98, about half the engineer estimate, with work to begin within 10 days and finish in about a month. Other bids ranged up to 1,731. Russ Hamre Electric, Inc. won a 776 contract for La Crosse Airport T hangar wiring with completion by February 15. other bids went to Clark Bracken, 909, Conrad Chambers, 965, and Westphal & Co. 1,780.
After hearings the Common Council declined to end alternate side parking overnight. The 12 to 9 vote kept motorists on alternate sides and backed the rule for street cleaning. The body also denied Cass Street Apartments access to two sided parking and eyed a 2 am start for downtown one hour limits.
Hoeschler Properties Inc approved by the Common Council to install sewers and curb and gutter in Cliffwood Terrace Addition north of Jackson Street and east of the Burlington tracks at city expense. Bids to be taken for field event runways and pits at Swanson Field as final site work.
Gov. Andersen said a $2.7 million loan request for a peat development in the Toivola-Meadowlands area near Hibbing was sent to Washington for Area Redevelopment Act approval. The project seeks $3.989 million total with $835,000 from private sources and would create about 90 full time jobs.
Norbert Nuttelman, dairy farmer and state assemblyman from La Crosse District, described a personally financed Wisconsin livestock leaders tour to Russia and Iron Curtain nations. He noted dated Russian agriculture, West East Berlin contrasts, and that border restrictions were imminent. He spoke with German fluency and used color slides. A Christmas party for Emerson Orthopedic students was announced.
A La Crosse woman identified as Mrs Leif Knutson was found barefoot in a snowbank on the Causeway. She had frozen hands and feet and was taken to Lutheran Hospital where doctors reported she was in much improved condition. Police found her shoes later on Liberty Street between her home and the site.
At 8 p.m. in the Mary E Sawyer Auditorium Aquinas faces Logan in a lacrosse style listing. At 9 p.m. Ray McKinley leads the Glenn Miller Orchestra at the Avalon Ballroom in the same venue district.
The Logan Senior High School Business Education Club held its Christmas party on Wednesday. Entertainment came from the Loganettes a new vocal group featuring Mary Anne Sammons Lorrayne Lennox Barbara Johnson Bonnie Johnson Alice Lorenz Donna Thorton and pianist Loyd Mieden.
Fifteen civil matters, including two divorce hearings, are set before Judge Lincoln Nep rud in La Crosse Circuit Court motion day starting at 9 a.m. Monday. Clerk Carl F. Schnick notes no criminal matters are scheduled.
A mother Mrs John Larkin 22 and her four children John Jr 5 David 4 Lori Ann 2 and Susan perished in a house fire six miles south of Ely Minnesota The father John Larkin found the ruins at 7 20 a m after returning from a shift at Reserve Mining Co The blaze started in a wooded area near Big Pine Lake with an overheated oil burner suspected but not confirmed The single story home built about a year ago was unoccupied by neighbors over a mile away.
In Claremont California Mrs Sarah E Hickman Taylor 82 wife of scientist Albert Hoyt Taylor dies three hours after her husband a radar pioneer and researcher. The couple died Tuesday in a span of three hours in the same obituary report from AP.
WKTY-broadcasts at 8 p m feature Logan versus Aquinas in a basketball minors night. WKBH plans 8 p m coverage of Logan game as well.
A La Crosse Circuit Court jury found Helen Thorud 90 percent responsible for a May 30 1960 collision with Riley N. Penner. Penner was awarded 90 percent of his damages from Thorud and her insurer, with totals including medical costs 896.01 future 570 wage losses 936.25 and pain suffering and disability 4100, for a 6100 total.
The main Post Office offers parcel post window service and stamp sales Saturday noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 5 p.m. Money orders for the weekend stop at noon Saturday. North Side Station operates Saturday afternoon to 5 p.m. but is closed Sunday afternoon. Contract stations provide parcel post, stamp service, and other offerings.
Mrs. Ann Hempfner of 213 S 9th St was reported in satisfactory condition Friday after a Thursday afternoon collision at 6th and Main. She suffered head bruises and was undergoing X rays at St Francis Hospital. the driver, 80 year old Anton Neumeier of 130 S 21st St, was starting from a stop sign as the accident occurred.
Margaret Wittenberg 39 of 1312 Caledonia St. was severely cut and her left ring finger partly crushed after her hand was caught in a sponge rubber roller at about 8 am Friday. She was taken by police ambulance to St Francis Hospital.
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