French Scouts Plan 10 Month American Expedition
Four 24 year old French Boy Scouts plan a 10 month journey across the United States and Canada. Led by B W Ingli in Gateway area, they will travel from New York to Trois Rivieres and sail down via Ontario and Michigan lakes to the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The project is accredited by French Scout headquarters with a $1000 government grant. The group will camp, send articles to French papers, and obtain visas while staying in touch with U S and Canadian correspondents.
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United Tes
B. W. Ingli
Gateway Area
Ingli
France
New York
Trois-Rivieres
Sonne
Ontario
Michigan Lake
Mississippi
Illinois River
New Orleans
United States
U. S
Canada
Hospital Space Urges Faster Discharges To Ease Crowding
The Lancet calls for Britons to leave ordinary hospital beds as soon as fit, sending patients to convalescent homes rehabilitation centres hostels for the old or home care to relieve overcrowding amid postwar strain. The report cites a 1948 locust plague context.
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London
The
Lancet
British Journal of Medicine
Portrait Art Work Is Aim Of La Crosse Navy Veteran
La Crosse navy veteran Thomas McKinny, 19, plans to finish high school by 1950 credits and enroll in Minneapolis art school to specialize in portrait work. He served in 1946 to 1948 as a seaman on salvage duty, saw China Japan and the Admiralty Islands, then worked in the mailing room of The La Crosse Tribune. He began sketching at age 11 and painted many navy portraits for friends and family. His family supports his art career though he has no formal training.
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Aim
la Crosse
Thomas McKinny
North 16Th Street
Navy
China
Japan
Admiralty Islands
McKinny
la Crosse Tribune
Minneapolis
Richard
Lionhearted
Army School Graduate Robert C Brown at Scott AFB Illinois
Pfc Robert C Brown 18 son of Mr and Mrs Pearl L Brown completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas and graduated as radio operator from the Scott AFB communications school Illinois announced by Brig Gen Emil C Kiel The La Crosse Wisconsin native attended Logan High School and enlisted August 8 1947 in the U S Air Force
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Scott Air Force Base
Robert C. Brown
Air Force Communications
Ill
Emil C. Kiel
Pfc
Brown
Pfc. Brown
Pearl L. Brown
Prospect Street
la Crosse
Wis
Logan High School
Air Force
Pic. Brown
Lockland Air Force Base
Texas
Smallest swifts produce edible nests prized in soup
The smallest swifts or swiftlets build edible nests valued by the Chinese for their use in bird's nest soup.
Bumper 1948 crops boost farm incomes over year prior
The 1948 U S farm income reached 16 5 billion dollars down about 8 percent from the year before amid record grain and cotton outputs. Overseas demand fell late in the year while home food supplies rose 14 percent above pre war levels. The Agriculture Department urged lower 1949 wheat and potato plantings and a push for poultry milk vegetables sheep and lambs with a 17 percent rise in the spring pig crop to increase pork supplies.
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Department of Agriculture
Crit Eisai
Enlistments Highlight La Crosse Marine Corps Recruiting
The La Crosse office reports 54 men enlisted in January 1948 and sent to Marine Corps technical schools or posts worldwide. Capt. Carl Walker heads Wisconsin Michigan recruiting with NCOs T. Sgt. John McDonald and S. Sgt. Ralph Lewis. The area covers Crawford Vernon Monroe and La Crosse counties with future trips planned to Viroqua Tomah Sparta and Prairie du Chien. A 173rd Marine Corps anniversary banquet at the VFW club highlighted the year.
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U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting Office
Federal Building
la Crosse
Marine Corps
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Carl Walker
USMC
Michigan
Crosse
John McDonald
Ralph Lewis
Lewis
Parris Island
S. C
McDonald
San Diego
Calif
Crawford
Leo Amundson
Marine Corps League
VFW Club
Francis S. Lorbecki
Minnesota Leads Lake States in 1947 Utility Pole Output
A Lake States survey shows Minnesota produced about 220000 utility poles in 1947, 73 percent of regional output, with Michigan at 64000 and Wisconsin at 16500. Pine poles, mainly jack and red pine from central and northeastern Minnesota, boosted the cedar-dominated region.
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Lake States Forest Experiment Station
St. Paul
Minnesota
Lake States
Michigan
Wisconsin
Rainy River
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America
Emer
Army School
Timken
Ad Air-Conditioning CO
South Third Street
LA Crosse, Wis
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