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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1955
Page
4
An editorial warns Christmas travel brings high danger with icy roads and darkness. It cites past local and national fatality figures and urges extra caution, avoiding drink driving, and stronger penalties for driving after license revocation.
The National Safety Council warns that Christmas trees are highly combustible and can burn rapidly. Follow precautions such as buying fresh trees, keeping them cold until setup, placing them away from heat sources, using only flameproof decorations, and turning off lights when away. Dispose of old trees in fire safe outdoor areas.
La Crosse's business district and many homes display festive lights as the Junior Chamber of Commerce invites entries in its home lighting contest. Entry blanks appear in The Tribune and must be submitted by December 24. Heeded biblically inspired verse from I Kings 17:5 closes the notice.
Robert C. Ruark reflects on colonial history during a Colombo visit, noting lingering British influence, changing names, and mixed views on empire. He also imagines future air travel advances from Balchen, predicting ultra-fast jets enabling same-day transatlantic arrivals.
Massachusetts commerce brief notes a unique emergency oil boom across the Chelsea River mouth to guard Boston harbor facilities and vessels from fire. Director John F. O Halloran of the Port of Boston commission activated it, with control later handed to the Boston fire department.
The White House staff plans festive decorations for the holiday season as the first family visits Gettysburg. Cabinet members send notes reminding against alcohol on federal property, with Labor Secretary Mitchell favoring coffee and sandwiches. Commerce Secretary Weeks cites a VA party anecdote about a clumsy incident that led to a dry Christmas.
A Wisconsin legislator laments the need for a system letting members focus on lawmaking. He argues public demand, political pressure groups, and publicity shape which proposals become law, urging patience and slow steady progress over haste.
Paul Blanshard explores censorship in America noting many authors and works removed from libraries and stores. The review traces historical groups and cases shaping freedom of speech, comparing U S practices with totalitarian regimes and warning against professional enemies of nonconformist thought.
The piece notes Democrats face a crowded, rough run to the convention with Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver leading already. Governors Harriman Lausche Williams weigh candidacies while others hover, and the party shows moderate tones amid strong Republican competition.
A two horse race forms as Adlai Stevenson leads over Estes Kefauver with challengers Lausche Harriman and Williams as notable dark horses. Kefauver bets on primaries to shift momentum while Stevenson preps primaries in California Florida Minnesota Pennsylvania Illinois as the campaign heats up.
Poem expresses a lover asking what Christmas gift would make the beloved happiest and vows to give as much as possible, but the speaker’s true wish is for the beloved to be with him in enduring love. The ending notes copyright 1955 Field Enterprises Inc. All rights reserved.
Ten years ago eight members of a club meeting regularly for 15 years held an anniversary dinner Thursday night at the Commodore with plans announced for Mines Adam Pinker Earl Townsend Fred Blank Walter Blank Walter Temp Lawrence Sciborski Val Niedbalski and Vincent Troyanek Jr. Harry A Blair received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal last week for China Burma India service in the Army Air Force. Capt Walter Olson presented the awards.
In Sturgis Michigan a couple insuring household goods had a couch set afire when a cigarette dropped by an insurance agent Fred Rahn. A Hartford luncheon ended after a troupe called Memory Marvels failed to appear. Patrolman Edward Byard, two weeks into Atlantic City duty, reported his first robbery with his badge missing. A. F Gonzalez in Coronet. Ole Lee of Faribault Minnesota requests license plate 337 370 and mounts it upside down.
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