La Crosse Community Chest Surpasses Goal in 1964 Drive
The La Crosse Community Chest raises $261 282 beating its goal of $261 121 by 9 282, the second time since 1949 and first since 1959. Co chairs Henry Funk and Robert Waller credit 13 600 contributors and pilot campaigns at Trane Co Gateway Transportation Co and William Doerflinger Co for the record total.
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la Crosse
Henry Funk
Robert Waller
Peter Pappas
Trane Co
Gateway Transportation Co
William Doerflinger Co
Funk
Community Chest
Red Cross
Harry J. Olson
La Crosse Community Chest and Welfare _ Federation
Waller
Olson
Tavern League of
River Low as Mississippi Dips to Minus 4.8 Feet
The Mississippi River reached minus 4.8 feet on Thursday, risking barge traffic at St. Louis Missouri. Bernard Timlin gives the official readings and posts them for tow pilots. He checks the level twice daily and photographs the mudded gauge reading along the riverbank.
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Mississippi River
St. Louis
Bernard Timlin
Timlin
Family Of 7 Left Homeless By Holmen Fire
A Holmen fire Thursday afternoon destroyed the Peterson home, leaving seven family members homeless. Nearby groups and Red Cross volunteers are coordinating food clothing and household item donations through local drives and cash contributions to help Harry Peterson Lois and their five children regain housing while the family seeks a new home in the Holmen area.
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Holmen
Harry Peterson
Sand Lake Coulee
Peterson
la Crosse Transit Co
Lois
Robert Hauser
Alvin Johnson
Johnson
Shirley
Jim
Douglas
Danny
Pamela
Catherine Finnegan
Pettibone Island
Finnegan
G. A. Davison
la Crosse County
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Petersons
la Crosse Jaycees
Jaycees
P. O
la Crosse
Coulee Region
Communicators Club
le Roy Meyers
S. 21St St
Record of extreme cold across the United States December 20
Bitter arctic cold gripped the nation from the Rockies to New England with no relief in sight. Be midji Minnesota registered 35 below zero while International Falls hit 26 below. Buffalo woke to 3 above as western New York faced heavy snow and stranded motorists on the Thruway. A three year old Gary Hancock died of smoke inhalation in a Chicago fire.
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Associated Press
Rockies
New England
New York
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Bemidji
Minn
International Falls
Adirondack Mountains
Wanakena
Boonville
Watertown
N.Y
Bismarck
N.C
Florida
Buffalo
New York-Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Thruway
Mississippi Valley
Gulf Region
Tampa
Fla
Pensacola
Mobile
Ala
Gary Hancock
Chicago
UPI
Record Cold Grips La Crosse with -18 and Subzero Forecasts
La Crosse posted a new low of minus 18 tied to a day dating back to 1901. Forecaster Carl Peterson warned of continued frigid nights near 20 below and weekend highs around zero, with the coldest December in La Crosse history noted. Nearby cities reported even lower readings while Bemidji and International Falls led the Midwest cold.
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la Crosse
Carl Peterson
Coulee
Peterson
Mercury
Adjourment delayed as grain sale provision stalls aid bill
Washington AP A dispute over the foreign aid appropriation bill keeps Congress from adjourning. Speaker McCormack predicts at least one more day. Key block is a House written provision barring Export-Import Bank guarantees on sales to Communist countries, rejected by the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
House
Senate
Russia
Johnson
Charles A. Halleck
PSC rejects Milwaukee Road request to drop Pewaukee depot
The Wisconsin State Public Service Commission refused Milwaukee Road’s bid to withdraw agency service and remove Pewaukee depot in Waukesha County. It ordered shared station agent duties with Hartland to maintain reasonably adequate service and cut operating costs. The commission also denied discontinuance of less than carload freight shipments and elimination of flag stops on two passenger trains through Pewaukee.
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Madison
State Public Service Commission
Milwaukee Road
Pewaukee
Waukesha County
Hartland
PSC
Governor Reynolds blocked from replacing holdover appointees
Supreme Court rules governor lacks power to replace state job holdovers without Senate confirmation. The decision preserves J. Jay Kelcher as State Auditor and four other incumbents, with further written opinion pending. The court notes declareatory judgment unani mous and cites continued tenure for listed officials from Manitowoc Madison Milwaukee and Wausau.
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Madison
State Supreme Court
Senate
J. Jay Kelcher
John W. Reynolds
Unsnar
Kelcher
Guido Bahr
Manitowoc
Charles F. Smith
Wausau
State Conservation Commission
Frank M. Graner
State Investment Board
Catherine J. O’hara
Milwaukee
State Savings and Loa Advisory Committee
Lee Reynolds
Plan Temporary Warning Signals On Overhead
The La Crosse Board of Public Works awarded a 742 contract for temporary warning signals at the Burlington Road Crossing on George Street. Clark-Bracken Electric Wiring and Contracting, 412 S. 4th St., was low bidder with two other bids. If parts are available, signals may be installed within three weeks amid six accidents, including a fatal crash last week, and the Common Council directs City Atty. Flanagan to seek PSC permission for a permanent automatic crossing signal with 10,000 dollars in tentative 1964 capital funds.
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la Crosse Board of Public Works
Burlington Road
George Street
Clark-Bracken Electric Wiring and Contracting
S. 4Th St
Common Council
John K. Flanagan
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
Greek Princess Delivers Daughter in Madrid Royal Birth
Princess Sophie of Greece, 25, gave birth in Madrid to a daughter weighing 92 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes. The child is granddaughter of Spain's pretender to the throne and Greece's royal family. If a son had been born, he would have been third in line behind Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon.
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Madrid
Spain
Sophie
Greece
Juan Carlos de Borbon
American Soldiers Bring Christmas to Truce Line Front
American troops of the First Cavalry Division held an outdoor Christmas Mass within inches of the truce line on the Korean frontier. In Panmunjom the unit lit a 20 foot Christmas tree as North Korean guards watched in Russian style uniforms and fur hats.
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Korea
First Cavalry Division
Panmunjom
Record Low December Strains Midwest and Chicago Readings
Near freezing in New Orleans contrasted by readings more than 20 below zero across the Dakotas Minnesota and Wisconsin. O'Hare logged 15 below and Chicago measured 6 below marking an eighth straight day of subzero temps for December and an all time monthly low.
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New Orleans
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
O’hare
Chicago
Postpone Launching Weather Satellite at Cape Kennedy
Problems with the safety destruct system forced a third postponement of the Tiros 8 weather satellite launch at Cape Kennedy Florida. The launch is rescheduled for 4 30 a m EST Saturday. NASA cited circuit troubles in the destruct system as the cause after earlier delays due to the rocket control system.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Wisconsin watershed projects approved for flood prevention
The House Agriculture Committee approved two watershed flood prevention developments. The Green Hills project in St. Croix and Dunn counties costs about 1.12 million dollars with 762 thousand from the federal government. A separate accelerated public works grant of 37 thousand funds a 74 thousand dollar Wolf River bridge in Menominee County near Keshena.
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Washington
Wisconsin
House Agriculture Committee
Green Hills
St. Croix
Dunn
Community Facilities Administration
Menominee County
Wolf River
Keshena
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Mike Mansfield
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Wayne Morse
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