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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1961
Page
17
Wisconsin unemployment data show the La Crosse district adding 300 jobs in November from a year earlier while mid January trends may offset gains. The Labor Market Letter reports 28 200 civil population employed across seven counties and 2 000 unemployed in November, down from 2 200 a year earlier.
Madison analysis notes Gov Nelson's tax overhaul, its divisioned support, and its impact on party fortunes. Republicans backed the bill to deny Democratic gains while Democrats faced backlash over the sales tax move. The piece projects fiscal strategy through 1962 elections with income tax withholding shaping political risk.
Five grandchildren of Mr and Mrs Philip Campman of Falconer New York were injured and their parents killed when a head on collision occurred on U S 6 seven miles west of Warren. The seven crash victims include Lloyd Palmer 45 and Kathleen Smith 37 both of Irvine along with Palmer's daughter Mary 15 and William Slocum 37 and Dorothy 33 all hospitalized. The Campmans granddaughters Judy 15 Rita 13 Mona 10 Sandra 11 and Janet 3 were listed in fair condition at Warren General Hospital awaiting release. The grandmother said the future of the children was uncertain as they recover from the Christmas Eve tragedy.
Carl Lauri of Superior assumed duties as the Wisconsin Industrial Commission member. The 36 year old Democrat resigned from the State Senate after the tax bill passage and was appointed by Gov. Gaylord Nelson to the $13 000 yearly post, succeeding John H. Rouse whose term had not yet expired.
MILWAUKEE AP Five thousand first shift workers at American Motors Corp body plant were sent home after an assembly line mishap disabled the drying oven for hours. A spokesman said a conveyor broke causing a flash fire and damage estimated at eighty thousand dollars.
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with a chilly low around 10. Wednesday mostly cloudy with a high in the lower 20s. Snow chances late tomorrow with lake region flurries and colder northwest. Minnesota and Iowa show scattered clouds and brief snow flurries, with continued cold temperatures.
Flood stage readings listed with 24 hour changes and times of sunrise sunset moonrise for Wednesday. Temperature and degree day totals provided. Shippers forecast advises protecting perishables within 150 miles of La Crosse with minimum temperatures up to 6 p.m. north and west 0 and east and south 5.
Store clerks endure the busy holiday rush and face the stress of the shop’s busiest swapping day as customers flood in. Workers navigate long lines, tight schedules, and high expectations amid seasonal demand.
Ninety Congolese troops will wear blue berets to join the U N army at Kamina base, gaining U N status as part of a 900 member conting ent. They will guard the Kamina base and conduct reconnaissance with Indian Swedish Norwegian and Canadian forces, not to be used offensively against Tshombe's Katanga secessionists. Their arrival heightens tensions as Katanga legislators prepare to enter the national parliament under U N oversight.
Eulis Collins 43 slashed his left wrist with prison hair-cutting scissors in a first floor cell. He was treated at St. Francis Hospital after the injury and remains in custody on probation violation warrants.
A six year old boy Wayne L Lackmaster of 613 Liberty Street was treated at St Francis Hospital for bruises after being struck by a car on Caledonia Street Saturday evening. He and a companion darted from between parked cars into the path of a car driven by Karen L Jensen of 1333 Charles Street.
Mataee Horn Shop at 205 South 4th repairs music instruments while Universal Photo Service at 514 State Street handles film finishing. Both advertise satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
Parks Director Eugene Fry announced all city skating rinks are being flooded Tuesday. Powell Park will stay open 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. He hopes Copeland Emerson and Trane rinks will open Wednesday. About 150 students enrolled in the Mt La Crosse ski clinic.
Nineteen members of Troop 1 Saint James Catholic Church received pins at a Christmas party as they completed Tenderfoot requirements. Junior High Troop 114 performed Norwegian dances and a Court of Awards awarded merit badges to Troop 125 members. A candlelight investiture and promise reaffirmations were held. Mothers attended and a farewell party honored Mrs. Elmer Jorgenson as her daughter Susan left for Ft. Lewis Washington. An Egyptian pantomime was performed.
Police investigate a break-in last week at the Holmen Dairy plant 1120 S 16th St. Burglars pried a storm window opened, removed a change box containing about 30 and crawled inside before exiting the same way. The storm window was later replaced.
Mrs. Roger Leithold of R 2 Ona laska reported a theft of a box containing 30 religious books. The package, delivered by mail, was left on the ground near her mailbox due to size and was stolen between 3 45 and 7 p.m. Thursday according to the La Crosse Sheriff’s Department.
Fires marred Christmas Day and night in Baltimore Nashville and North Carolina. Eight firefighters were overcome in a six story wholesale produce building blaze in Baltimore while heavy smoke shut control. The Maxwell House Hotel fire in Nashville left guests fleeing into cold air with one man unaccounted for. A log home fire in Yancey County killed five people Curt Honeycutt and family members. In Groton Irene Thayer mourns as a fire killed five in a two story farmhouse, including May Thayer and a hired hand who died trying to rescue them.
Records show several fire and medical responses: Dec. 23 heated ballast in a fluorescent fixture at Newbury's Men’s Wear 322 Pearl St. Dec. 24 Christmas decorations burning on a James Outcelt residence 1627 Avon St. Dec. 25 laths burning at Norby’s Tavern 1802 Jackson St. Also Dec. 24 and 25 multiple illness transports to St Francis and Grandview Hospitals for George Baum Mrs. Schroeder and David McMillan.
Nine infants arrived in La Crosse area hospitals on Christmas Day 1961. Seven births occurred at St Francis Hospital with one at Lutheran and one at La Crosse Hospital. Names and addresses of several families are listed along with birth times from 12:57 a.m. to 10:59 p.m. One baby born at Lutheran Hospital and multiple mothers’ maiden names are noted.
The La Crosse Vocational and Adult Schools will repeat the stock and bond investment and estate planning course in the second semester of the evening program. New enrollments start January 8 at 7 30 p m. Instructor B L Decherne and director John B Coleman note the rise of small investors and the value of learning securities.
Vernon County deputies used two bloodhounds to trace a burglary from Readstown Grocery to a nearby house. A youth in the home confessed to the Readstown burglary, and about half of the $14 cash stolen was recovered.
Bernard Zielinski of 710 N 10th St told the La Crosse Sheriff’s Department that 12 Conibear traps were stolen from his trap line Sunday. The traps were set in the marsh south of County Highway 7 and east of the Burlington Road tracks in the town of Onalaska.
A new Standard Rate and Data Service survey shows La Crosse County driven by rising incomes and improved consumer confidence in fiscal 1961. Retail sales reached 101,226,000 with per household spending at 6,403, while total income after taxes rose to 136,457,000 as savings and debt reduction increased between the year’s six months ending June 30. The pickup is strongest in soft goods and services amid solid auto sales growth.
The library highlights The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiesson and Campus U S A by David Boroff as insightful adventures into wild lands and college life. It also covers Bird of Fire about Maria Tallchief, Hannibal by Leonard Cottrell, and Anzio by Wynford Vaughn-Thompson with praise for their biographical and historical depth. Reserve lines: call 48623.
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