GOP Denies Planning Sales Tax To Finance State Budget
Madison Wis Monday Republican state legislative majority caucus spokesperson denounces Democratic claims that the administration will enact a sales tax to fund the state budget. Sen M R Laird Jr Marshfield chairs the tax committee and says the question was settled years ago. He outlines a major tax data project led by Prof W D Knight to study income tax administration and productivity with University of Wisconsin graduate assistants.
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Mississippi Flood Threat Triggers Evacuations and Rescue Efforts
Army engineers and the Red Cross ordered 12 000 people from Birds Point New Madrid floodway to evacuate as emergency plans activated. Trucks, boats and volunteers moved residents while the Ohio and Wabash rivers rose, with Vincennes and Carmi areas reporting homelessness and isolation amid rising crests and preparations for possible dynamite blasting of a levee plug.
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Heavy Snow Hits Central Wisconsin Skiing Roads Slippery
Heavy snow covered eight county divisions in north central Wisconsin as frigid temperatures lingered below zero. Rhinelander saw 23 degrees below zero early, rising to six below by morning. Milwaukee reported 19 above as warmer air arrived elsewhere. Roads were slippery with scattered ice while rural schools near Rhinelander reopened after closures.
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Power Shortage Looms Amid Coal Strike Impacts in Pittsburgh
The six state coal strike idled 79,000 miners and threatens Pittsburgh area power. Crucible Steel cuts 25 percent at Midland plant while Duquesne Light warns industries to ready plant closures by Friday if electric rationing is needed.
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Blair store owner admits arson fire in Christmas blaze
Wendell Galster, 33, operator of a Blair Wisconsin store, confessed Tuesday to setting a 24 by 60 foot brick veneer building on fire during Christmas. He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to circuit court in April after investigators linked his motives to domestic troubles and a missing stock.
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Whitehall
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H. O. Benrud
Mathilda
Lee
Taylor
Ettrick
Preston
Senate Democrats Back Formosa Stand Against Aid
Senate Democrats unite behind President Truman's hands off policy on Formosa. Senator Lucas says a party caucus supports refusing military aid to Nationalists on the island to avoid widening the war. Republicans fault the administration for not acting decisively as tensions with China rise.
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D-Ga
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Peiping
O'Connor
Maryland
Local Weather La Crosse Cloudy With Light Snow Tonight
Cloudy with light snow tonight ending early Wednesday. Becoming partly cloudy and colder Wednesday afternoon into night. Low tonight around 5 in the city and near zero in the countryside. High Wednesday not specified in fragment.
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Congress to Reopen Uranium Shipment Probe January 24
The congressional inquiry into uranium shipments to Russia will be reopened on January 24. Henry A. Wallace is named as the top witness for the session, highlighting renewed focus on the issue.
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Colorful living shapes future home design trends
At the annual home furnishings show Chicago designers push color to dominate modern living. Bold reds magentas blues and yellows fill exhibits to soften lines and create a sense of space while traditional pieces remain in the mix and fabrics show strong hues for apartment scale homes.
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Dorothy Noyes
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Novelist Frederic Prokosch Injured in Paris Crash
American writer Frederic Prokosch suffered a broken elbow when his car collided with a small truck in downtown Paris late Monday night. He is receiving medical treatment and expected to recover.
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Frederic Prokosch
Oleo Repeal Plan Clears Senate Test Vote
The Senate backed a plan to repeal oleomargarine taxes by 43 to 37 indicating the repeal measure, already passed by the House, could advance. Debate included attempts to attach civil rights amendments and to restore 1942 excise tax levels on various goods.
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Civil Rights Vote Sought Amid Summer Battle in Congress
President Truman announced plans to push civil rights legislation through this summer and opposed a house rules change to curb debate. He condemned the move as backward and spoke to a National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization delegation as a Republican Southern Democratic coalition seeks control of the rules proposal.
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Hixton Woman Grabs Second Four Week Ad Survey Win
Mrs Elvin Nerby of Hixton is named the second four week winner in The Tribune community advertising survey. She wins a 50 dollar award for the closest reader opinion during the second four weeks. First four week winner was Douglas Phillips. The survey awards 50 dollars weekly across four ad classes and three additional 50 dollar division prizes plus a 200 dollar grand prize. Entries must be postmarked by midnight Wednesday Jan 25.
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Belgium Extends Full Recognition to Israel
Belgium fully recognizes Israel in a foreign office communique. The Belgian representation in Israel will be raised to a legation with an extraordinary envoy and a minister plenipotentiary. Israel will establish a matching post in Brussels.
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French Protest Seizure Of Property By Reds
Paris voiced a firm protest over China's seizure of French property at Peiping. The foreign ministry said on Tuesday the note denounced the January 14 military use of a barracks a school and several houses in the old diplomatic quarter.
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Ex Senator Henry J Allen Dies at 81 in Kansas
Henry J. Allen, 81, former U S senator and Kansas governor, died shortly after 6 am Tuesday in Wichita after weeks of illness. A longtime newspaper editor and Beacon board chairman, he left survivors including his widow and daughter Mrs Julius Holmes, wife of U S Ambassador Lewis Douglas’s counselor in London, plus three grandchildren. He rose from Teddy Roosevelt Progressive ties to governorship in 1918 and served in the Senate from 1929 after an unexpired term.
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U. S
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La Crosse Red Cross appoints new officers at annual meeting
Mrs Horschak was re elected chairman of the La Crosse county chapter of the American Red Cross at the annual meeting in the Junior Red Cross offices. New officers include Peter G. Pappas as vice chairman William B. Johnson as treasurer and Mrs M Blair Scherich as secretary. New board members welcomed are Norman Bakkum John L Darling Oswald I Gunderson and Russell C. Rader of La Crosse and Mrs R A Ranum and Mrs Linus Roehm of West Salem.
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Russell C. Rader
la Crosse
R. A. Ranum
Linus Roehm
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