Bloodmobile to aid La Crosse County three day drive
Blood deficiency prompts three day Bloodmobile setup at American Legion club rooms starting tomorrow. La Crosse area hospitals used 2 438 pints in the year ending June 1955 with rising demand. volunteers needed to maintain Madison Red Cross Regional Blood program serving 72 hospitals including four in La Crosse.
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la Crosse County
Red Cross
Madison Red Cross
la Crosse
Madison Center
American Legion Club
Dems Fund Shape May Shake Out in 1956 Presidential Race
Governor Lausche of Ohio and Senator Kefauver of Tennessee join Adlai Stevenson as the Democratic field firms up for 1956. Lausche plans a May 8 Ohio primary and positions himself as an available moderate, while Kefauver faces party skeptics but could influence the convention by pressuring primary wins.
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Lausche
Ohio
Kefauver
Tennessee
Adlai Stevenson
Harriman
New York
Stevenson
South
Russell
Georgia
Eisenhower
Robert Taft
Oklahoma
Kerr
Frank Tripp parodies new era for smokers and gadgets
The piece satirically envisions a future of contraptions like a duplex cigarette holder, tubing to couples, and home piping for smoking in various rooms. It contrasts fanciful designs with a grim tale of a banned hookah and a violent recall of past smoking culture.
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America
Flags at Castillo de San Marcos Spark Historic Debate
National Park Service officials debated which flag to fly over Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine Florida during the fort’s 28th anniversary ceremonies. They narrowed choices among Spanish designs and found a 210 year old English spy report showing the Cruz Aspada preferred by Spanish garrisons.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer
National Park Service
Old Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine
Fla
Spain
Old Fort
St. Andrew
Poets Unzip The Veil in One Man's Meat
E B White argues poets should reveal just enough and not overfill. He compares poetry to sailors sparing the hull, warning that excessive diligence can dull clarity and honesty. He laments many poets rush to produce before ideas mature.
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E. B. White
Caslon
Arabia Not A Pleasant Place To Live
Robert C. Ruark observes Aden as a harsh oil town where tax free consumer goods mask a volatile society. He notes gun bounty among tribes, RAF presence, and a rising Muslim world focused on oil. The piece ties Middle East tensions to Western interests and warns of future oil power shifts. The essay ends with a brisk American commercial aside on eyeglass sales.
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Aden
Arabia
Roark
Oren
Ul-Ul-Ul-Allahu-Akbar
RAF
Goodby
Kenya
North Africa
Allah
Abd el Krim
Rif
Ishmael
Muezzin
Standard
Shell
Mecca
Soviet Submarine Capabilities and NATO Baltic Security
NATO focus in Paris on anti submarine defense signals new data on Soviet submarine capabilities. Danish Chief of Staff General Kragh argues West German rearmament strengthens NATO northern flank and Danish control of the Zealand group to block Baltic approaches. Mines and guided missiles pose major Soviet threats, with Bornholm as a key detection point. A combined mine and missile strategy could threaten Western European harbors, underscoring the need for broad anti submarine efforts.
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NATO
Paris
West Germany
Elter
Erik Kragh
Danish Outlook
Kragh
Denmark
Holstein
Schleswig
Jutland
Zealand
Baltic
North Sea
Atlantic
Baltic Sea
Zealand Group
Bornholm
Sweden
Poland
Bornham
Europe
British Isles
Red-Faced Department Lighthearted Town Notes
A column recaps light town happenings from Christmas card mixups to elevator rides. Jokes about mail, local headlines from La Crosse Kansas and Tribune Kansas, and a service station chief Dee Affeldt spark humor with a snowstorm beam gag. Bangor pastor F F Parsons remembered hymn pages at 83.
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F. F. Parsons
First Baptist Church
Bangor
Parsons
Mr. Parsons
Green Lake
World hunger and surplus food waste
The piece cites Sir John Boyd Orr on feeding every person daily as essential, noting half the world goes hungry while the U.S. stores surplus. It discusses $365 million yearly storage costs, distribution needs, and current efforts by Benson and CARE to move surplus wheat, corn, rice, and beans abroad and domestically. It mentions 1956 projections of 750–800 million pounds distributable, and notes government stock figures for wheat, corn, cotton, rice, and dried beans plus a proposed International Food Community Fund to manage surpluses.
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Washington
John Boyd Orr
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Commodity Credit Corporation
CARE
Senator Capehart
R-Ind
International Food ‘Community Fund
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Portraits by James J. Metcalfe to Wipe the Slate
A reflective verse section recalls memory and youth with images of God and truth. The poem traces growing up, bitterness and sweetness, and personal responsibility as years pass.
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Field Enterprises, Inc
Public schools then and now argued by Sloan Wilson
The piece argues that 50 years ago public schools were limited to basic skills and college prep in high schools, with few students attending. It notes that remedial programs were absent and most American children received little education, challenging notions that modern education ruined the system.
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Ture
Israel
Frank Tripp
Grandpa
Junior
Gramp
Father
General Features Corp
U.S
Robert C. Ruark
Middle East
State Department
George Fielding Eliot
Wow
Che la Crosse
Sunday Tribune
Came Et Wl Burgess
Ek Bangsberkg
Jim Lund
Ed Keefe
Kan
Tribune
Letse
Dee Affeldt
Affeldt
Dee
Thomas L. Stokes
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Sloan Wilson
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