Familiar Sewage Plan for La Crosse in 1951
La Crosse plans a $561,500 citywide sewage system upgrade to modernize the disposal plant and add new digester capacity, sludge beds, and clarifier. The project aims to cover through 1970 with bond funding likely, following a study by Jerry Donohue Engineering Co. and industrial waste reductions.
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Common Council
la Crosse
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Jerry Donohue Engineering Co
Sheboygan
Moore Street
Logan Street
Hagar Street
La Crosse City Recreation Department Since 1938
La Crosse’s recreation department, formed in 1943 with an $11 600 appropriation, now runs winter social centers skating rinks youth centers and summer playgrounds and sports. By 1950 improvements added fields equipment and fencing while plans include ice hockey rinks a ski slide and a public golf course.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Common Council
Board of Education
Ezra P. Hart
Lincoln Junior High School
Pettibone Beach
North Side Beach
Verdota
Hartl
Dorothy Evenson
Ann Brenner
Everett Dodd
William Bush
la Crosse State Teachers College
Alice DeBower
West Avenue
Swanson Fields
Memorial Field
Howard Fredricks
Industrial Recreation Council
Industrial Safety Council
City Recreation Department
James Durland
Aviation Board
Louth Playfield
Poultry thieves use gas to stupefy turkeys in Suffolk
Suffolk police report poultry thieves gas turkeys to stun them before stealing. The streets and farms face a new risk as investigators seek patterns in the bizarre crime wave. In New York a separate note discusses adoption prompting childless couples to bear a baby, Dr. Abraham Stone of the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau cites that about 20 percent of seeking advice couples have no medical issues, and adoption may ease tension and shift to a maternal role.
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Suffolk
England
New York
Abraham Stone
Margaret Sanger
La Crosse Army Air Force Office Recruits 249 in 1950
Nearly 250 men enlisted at the La Crosse Army and Air Force Recruiting Office in 1950 per Lieut. Frank B. Kepner Jr. The Air Force drew 159 recruits, with 46 in the regular Army unassigned and 26 in other Army branches. seven women joined the WAC. Station staff include M Sgt Irvin W Schildknecht T Sgt Howard J Langlois and Sgt Todd N Sheldon, all in the Air Force.
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Army
Air Force
la Crosse
Frank B. Kepner
Wac
la Crosse Station
Federal Building
Regular Army
Corps of Engineers
Airborne
Irvin W. Schildknecht
Onalaska
Howard J. Langlois
Wisconsin Rapids
Todd N. Sheldon
Rhinelander
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Alf H. Gundersen
A. E. Teachout
L. F. Kilian
Tribune
Sinclair
Clyde Bourret
Sinclair Products
Jessie Claxton
John. F. Sills
Japan
John P. Mitrega
Camp Carson
Colo
Charles C. Cotton
Field Artillery
Alaska
Ray Tompkins
Viroqua
Edith Kemp Green
Robert W. MacSwain
Brazil
Whitebreast Coal CO
King St
UCR Tse
the National Bank OF LA Crosse
North Fourth Street
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