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Newspaper

La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1946

Page

2

Nominees named for La Cri Chamber board election

A La Crosse chamber nominating committee released a slate for eight board seats to be filled in January. The list includes Glenn Bowman J C Penney Edmund Erickson Onalagka Dr Tarmes Fox Thomas Hancock George Hemingway and others. Holdovers and retirees are named along with election terms and succession details. John Masefield is noted for early work in New York before becoming poet laureate.

George W. Hoel Robert Farnam Everett Ver+ly Fred Steele John Ward Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Glenn H. Bowman J. C. Penney Co Edmund K. Erickson Ericksom Bros Onalagka Tarmes C. Fox Thomas Hancock Trane Company George D. Hemingway Convenient Credit Jewelers E. C. Horst- Tenn Gateway Motor and Auto Supply Robert D. Johns H. J. Marcotte Northern States Power Company Pavul Morris Hellwig and Morris R. D. Morse Tri-State Credit Bureau Carl Noelke Carl B. Noelke Co. Marahail William T. Burgess Frank J. Funke J. F. Greer George Hotel J. J. Lickovec Norman J. Longfellow Allan Schilling Fred EF. Steele

Michigan Police Begin Using Roadside Intoximeter Tests

Michigan state police will equip patrol cars with the Intoximeter a roadside test device to assess intoxication on the scene. Capt Caesar J Scavarda says by mid March all districts will be trained and the device used to supplement officer judgment and later verified in a lab. The test involves a balloon breath sample and timing a fluid color change to gauge alcohol level.

Jack I. Green East Lansing Mich Michigan State Police Caesar J. Scavarda Scavarda Glenn C. Forrester Nievara Fills

Postwar Unified Command Roles Outlined

The article lists seven wartime commands and the officers likely to lead them under a new unified system. MacArthur would head the Far East command, McNarney Europe, Towers Pacific, Craig Alaskan, a commander for the Northeast to be named, Mitscher Atlantic fleet, and Crittenberger Caribbean.

MacArthur Paite Joseph T. McNarney Europe Ieast MaccArthur McNarney Pacific John J. Towers Alaskan H. A. Craig

Reorganization Meeting for Hogan Cub Pack Forty-Six

Cub Pack Forty-six held a reorganization meeting at Hogan school Monday evening with 20 to 25 boys expected in two duos. Cubmaster Lurt Hulsz announced the plan, while Mrs. Robert Miner and Mrs. Millon Hogland served as mothers assistors. John Sleik, Cubbing commissioner, explained the program and its value for boys and the community as groundwork for the Scouting movement. The pack committee includes Milton Hoglund as chairman, Manford Hanson, Robert Miner, and Raymond J. Devine.

Hogan School Lurt Hulsz Robert Miner Millon Hogland Ng den John Sleik Cibbing Milton Hoglund Manford Hanson Raymond J. Devlne

Seasonal Rent Units Excluded From Controls

Seasonal rent exemptions will continue for 1947 summer season in Wisconsin areas. To qualify, units must be in a resort community and have been rented seasonally before Oct 1, 1944 and not rented between Nov 1, 1943 and Feb 29, 1944. The 1947 season runs June 1 to Sept 30 with advance notice to landlords.

Renay Winconsin Office of Price Administration

Dairy Improvement Seen From Wartime Research

Dr. H A Ruehe of the University of Illinois says wartime dairy research will raise production and quality at lower prices. Ray Alberts of the American Butter Institute notes a 25 percent cream rejection rate could cut farm income by about 200 million dollars annually, urging tighter standards while aiming for higher quality cream.

Chicago H. A. Ruehe University of Trnois

Army Will Launch Man Made Meteors Tonight

White Sands New Mexico reports scientists expect a night launch of a German V-2 rocket to release dome sized iron fragments at speeds over six miles per second. The test aims to observe a 300 mile wide sky display to study meteor size and behavior.

White Sands N. M Aany Ordnance S. T White Sands’ Proving Ground

Prisons Freed for Christmas by Army and Navy

The army and navy departments jointly announce clemency releasing 1,700 prisoners for Christmas. All slated for release have good conduct records and would have completed sentences early next year. The report also notes Canada’s first major tur-bearing animal raised in captivity.

Washington Army Navy War and Navy Departments Canada

County Deer Hunting Data Sought By State Officers

State and federal game officials request data on La Crosse county deer hunting for the 1940 season. Reports cover Nov 23 to Dec 1 with shotgun and bull carridges allowed. Seek names of hunters, destinations near McGilvary public grounds, and contact numbers for quick compilation.

la Crosse County McGilvary George Bachay Mer Lange LeRoyally Roy Ferguson

Atomic energy controls in focus of disarmament push

The general assembly emphasizes controlling atomic energy as the first step to arms limitation. Baruch stresses prompt fulfilment of this goal noting that solving the energy problem would ease other tasks. The American proposal for international controls faced rejection by Gromyko last summer, though Molotov later agreed to inspections outside the veto framework.

Pare 1 Paani General Assembly Baruchauld Kia Andrei A. Gromyko Russia Molotov

Gromyko Baruch plan debate shadows Security Council

The conference weighs whether Gromyko will back the Baruch plan or push his own proposal. Baruch urges rapid action, pressing the commission to report to the Security Council by December as discussions continue. A separate note mentions the 1,000 year old St Mary Abbey near Bedford for sale, with its famed hooded monk ghost not part of the sale after a lightning strike.

Gromyko Baruch Commission Security Council St. Mary Abbey Bedford England

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