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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
2
Early reports from Dun and Bradstreet indicate December retail sales may reach 13 billion dollars, about three percent above 1947. Projections put 1948 total sales at roughly 1 to 10 percent higher than 1947’s record 118 billion, as the Christmas season gains momentum after a slow November.
James Barnard, a Milwaukeean formerly living at Milwaukee and Oklahoma addresses, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to an attempted cash register drawer theft at the Grant store. Judge Roy V. Ahistrom noted Barnard’s previous record influenced the severity, though the felony failed in its commission. Barnard’s FBI file spans three typewritten pages of arrests and discharges.
The agriculture department said farm real estate values on Nov 1 exceeded 1920 peaks in all states except Wisconsin and 11 others. National values rose two percent in four months ending Nov 1 to a high index of 177, 13 percent above the 1935-39 average, with sales volume down from a year earlier due to reluctance to sell and buyers unwilling to meet asking prices.
In Park Falls Wisconsin yesterday a crane borrowed from the Flambeau paper mill helped firemen save a major block. The two story building housing a tavern restaurant beauty shop and chiropractor's office burned but was not wholly destroyed due to the crane lifting framing and creating a gap from adjacent structures. Unofficial damage estimated 40000 to 50000 dollars.
Christmas gifts sit under a tree in Harrisburg as 21 year old Braget is sought nationwide for kidnapping three year old Vicki Jeanne Snyder from her foster parents. District Attorney Carl B. Shelley says a felony kidnapping warrant has been sworn for Braget and her husband John M. Braget of Tacoma Washington.
Washington Francis Sayre former assistant secretary of state says three secret documents in the Communist spy case were stolen from his office after a closed session with the House Un American Activities Committee. The committee obtained papers from Whittaker Chambers bearing the State Department stamp. Obers identified them as part of a long series of secret government papers secured by a Communist spy ring in 1937.
Grace Purcell, a four year old without hands in Lovejoy Georgia, receives Christmas gifts from Henry R. Lee on the Southland train. A bank deposit of 2325 dollars is allocated for Grace and 500 dollars more from two Atlanta bus drivers. Funds will buy new arms as she grows and fund her college education.
Berlin reports 1100 turkeys purchased for Christmas Day meals. U S air force crews will receive turkey along with trimmings during routine Dec 25 flights between Wiesbaden Rhein-Main Tegel Gatow Celle and Fassberg. British airlift personnel will join Americans for the feast as they fly several routes in western Germany.
The GOC delegations said Dutch soldiers in Jogjakarta reported heavy fighting at Soerkarta and Magelang, with both towns ablaze as the Dutch entered. Australian GOC member T. K. Critchley said Republican resistance remained in Jogjakarta despite Dutch parachutists and airborne troops seizing the city within hours of Sunday’s fighting.
Four accidents marred the city’s safety record Wednesday police reported. Nine year old Joseph Redding suffered face abrasions at 5 45 p m when struck by a truck driven by Corwin L Bredlow.
A government committee accuses unions and groups of harboring Communist influence. It lists 33 organizations including the American Labor Party and CIO Transport Workers as fronts seeking to seize control of jobs and union rights. The report warns of mass strikes to disrupt U S war production and notes widespread Communist presence in ports government offices and navy yards.
The chamber announces 16 candidates including Norman B. Bakkum Yahr Lange L J Bergerson Joseph Miller William Bonadurer Fred W Crosby M A Edleman Do N Hoff Frank Mader Roy Kumm Walter G McDougall Orval J Nelson I B Newburg R E Nietsch Erwin Perso Larry Vaaler C H Van De S op tometrist John An son Ray E Wrobel Ballots go to members in January with eight seats to fill for two-year terms. The note adds a transit statistic about New York subways and elevated lines.
Water pumps forcefully added to dissolve salt in a documented effort. The fragment hints at a project or procedure involving pressure and chemical processing to manage saline material.
Mrs. Bernard Hobson received a Christmas card mailed from Mexico City addressed to Walnut 1603 Columbus Ohio United States. The Mexican sender, hired as a guide, used the wrong telephone number, misaddressing it to Walnut 0163.
Central high school staged its annual Christmas assembly directed by Miss Eva Murly and Alvin Mikelson. The swing choir performed Fred Waring’s Song Of Christmas with soloists Gloria Clark La Vonne Melby Shirley Sayner Theo Renner Marilyn Standiford Karl Gilmeister Tom Wheeler. Richard Larson narrated. Norma Spangler played piano Jane Rader organ. A nativity tableau by Coralie Stokke Charlene Hanson Ramon Cram added realism above the choir.
The rhinoceros wields a horn on its nose as a fighting weapon. Its sight is poor but its hearing and sense of smell are highly acute.
Viterbo College celebrated the Christmas season with convocations parties caroling and radio broadcasts. Students presented Bethlehem’s story and performances directed by Sister M Francesca with accompanist Miss Rita Breuer. Caroling visited St Francis hospital St Joseph’s villa and St Rose convent as choral groups prepare a Christmas Eve broadcast on WKBH.
Nearly 50 uranium claims were staked north of Thessalon Ontario about 60 miles east of Sault Ste. Marie by a United States syndicate in the Mississagi area. The area hosts rock formations similar to Theane Point where ore was found last month.
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