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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
7
At Pearl Harbor Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser of Britain and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz of the United States conferred to extend sea and air power in the Pacific. The British fleet, recent Melbourne reports say, could challenge the Japanese fleet.
In Springfield Missouri the Spring Geld high school students sought an electric area at their corner. They presented a survey showing traffic during school hours. The mayor responded with a police survey indicating 435 students walked against the signal in one day, prompting change.
The event marked the first U S automobile road race, held in 1895 as a 100 mile round trip from Chicago to Libertyville and back.
A state plan to expand school health education may place La Crosse among 30 communities hosting demonstration health centers in public schools. Dr. Warren H. Southworth leads the initiative with funding from Kellogg Foundation. Mrs. Catherine Campbell also participates. The program aims to teach healthy daily living, prevent illness, and train teachers in health education across Wisconsin schools. Dr. R. W. Bardwell presided at the meeting.
Washington reports the Army Radio Hour will broadcast holiday greetings from GIs around the world on NBC stations. Messages come from the Arctic, South Pacific, China, Germany, the United States, and other nations. Wounded soldiers will speak from a hospital train in the U.S. and the program aims to hear the sole American on Norfolk Island, Technical Sgt. Wilbur V. Lynam of Renesselaer Indiana.
The British gyro gun sight system enables pilots to target enemy planes traveling over 400 mph with only two adjustments, range and plane type, as the sight handles the rest.
La Crosse Kiwanis celebrate 25th anniversary at Hotel Stoddard with Dr A F Branton of Willmar as speaker. He reviews club history since 1915 and Kiwanis International growth, outlines 1945 goals, youth guidance and postwar rehabilitation as key aims. Local officials and visiting Kiwanis guests attend, with remarks from Mayor Verda and Red Cross director Emmert.
In Indianapolis Mrs. Sarah Barnes discovered pumpkins growing from a pumpkin vine that climbed a mulberry tree in her backyard. She had not planted pumpkins or mulberries, yet the tree now bears both, a surprising home garden oddity.
Estimates for accidents in 1944 in the United States indicate 94,000 accidental deaths and about 9,000,000 disabling injuries.
A study by I Newton Kugelmass reports that improving nutrition before age four raises IQ in malnourished and normally healthy children. Ill nourished youngsters showed an average IQ rise of 10 points, healthy peers 18, with gains most pronounced before age four.
The Office of Price Administration announced an eight percent rise in rifle price ceilings and nine percent for shotguns. Manufacturers and jobbers will absorb most costs, with retail prices up about 1.4 percent for rifles and 2.3 percent for shotguns.
In Portland Joe Hardy, a legless news vendor, faced police threats but later received a new leather jacket from the police department as a Christmas gesture. The officers summoned him back to his stand and offered the gift, restoring his warmth and cheer.
Surface canals and pipelines supplying city water are increasingly exposed to danger as bombing techniques advance, with these critical lines easily visible from aircraft.
Moscow reports four Red army columns converging on the city of Kassa in eastern Czechoslovakia. Soviet troops reached within artillery range as Senya village fell, with 400 Germans and Hungarians killed and over 2,000 captured. operations extend across an 80 mile front near Slovakia and northern Hungary.
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