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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1949
Page
5
Hal Boyle recalls a humorous New Year’s vow tally from his wife Frances. She reads his 1949 resolutions off a notebook cataloging late dinners, dining out, theater trips, and other promises, then coolly notes the gap between intent and action.
AP analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes that winter conditions will test the Communist and Nationalist regimes beyond battlefield gains. Inflation, price controls, unemployment, and food shortages strain Mao's government while Chiang Kai-shek reinforces Formosa and weighs waterborne supply blocks. If Communists seize Formosa, key strategic and economic challenges would shift, with spring bringing clearer outcomes.
James H. Jonson, 19, New Richmond, stood free on $7500 bail in Balsam Lake Wisconsin on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The May 9 attack on two 15 year old girls near Deer Park left one girl with a skull fracture after a man swung a hammer from an automobile. Jonson was arrested in St Paul and waived extradition. A preliminary hearing in municipal court is planned in about two weeks per Polk County DA George Peterson.
Buttons belt buckles combs hairbrushes mirrors and several other articles can be made from casein a plastic like material derived from milk. The article notes industrial use and potential for new products in manufacturing and design.
In Marquette, Rev. David Spelgatti directs the displaced persons program and has helped resettle DP’s across the U P since July 1948. He has filled over 75 applications and maintains a backlog as he matches homeless Europeans with host employers who provide homes and jobs. Some requests seek specific individuals including a Gladstone father seeking his son in Italy and an ex-GI sponsoring a DP he met overseas.
Widow of six children to receive 25000 on a deer hunters policy bought by her husband for 13.50. Mrs Edmund Kurth of Milwaukee will get the check next week from local agent Lawrence J Ebert. The policy holder, Durth, was killed when his gun discharged while waiting for his son to drive through a swamp. The payout may be the first to a beneficiary of a hunters policy.
A new hearing device for the Deaf uses compression amplification with automatic volume control and no ear receiver or battery cords. It targets sermons, music, and conversation while reducing self conscious feelings, inviting interested individuals to request free information from Vaccine at 648 Sprague St., Madison, Wisconsin.
A reader’s question reveals Cyrano de Bergerac born in Paris on March 6, 1620. He joined a guards corps at 19 and became a romantic hero. Rostand’s play revived interest. The piece notes Leprosy hospital efforts in the Philippines and U S leper hospitals, plus Harvey restaurant origin in Topeka 1876.
Madison Wisconsin special reports that due to high demand the University of Wisconsin chorus will present a repeat performance of Handel s Messiah at Music Hall at 8 p m on December 10 Prof Leland A Coon announces The 100 voice chorus conducted by Prof Paul G Jones features soloists Christine Gunlaugson Ruth Kienholz Martell Disrud Raleigh Williams with organist Robert Erbach The group uses the Coopersmith edition aiming to restore Handel s original music published in 1947 by J M Coopersmith
In the 1947 48 season the average weekly pay for a ballerina or premier danseur was 350 dollars.
Legal death asks seven years as a typical period with proof of diligent search. Rain water varies in composition, washing in dust pollen spores and gases from air, sometimes showing traces of nitric and sulfuric acids.
The United States membership of the Christian Science church is estimated at 375000. Official figures are not issued for publication.
The Babe Ruth body lay in state for more than 24 hours after his August 16 1948 death and was viewed by more than 100 people.
Luon Theunissen of Harri Smith in South Africa claims Pearl the Guernsey cow has a record extending to 21 years of calving with 50 progeny.
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