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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1949
Page
2
A second storm phase spares Hawaii with extreme rainfall totaling 25.44 inches in a day. The system battered Oahu with winds to 60 mph, causing severe property damage estimated at 200 dollars and reporting fatalities.
The measure would set a floor of 50 dollars and base federal grants on state income and child count. Allocations would range from 5 to 25 dollars per pupil with poorer states receiving more. Senator McMahon seeks an authorization of 325 million dollars.
John Scanlan reports the death of J. Scott White born March 22 1906 in Tulsa Oklahoma who lived in La Crosse from childhood. He was head of Leeds Northrup designing department in Philadelphia and is survived by wife Mary Finch two children Kirk and Mary his mother and two sisters. Funeral services set for Thursday with rosary Wednesday night at his home. Burial in Crucifixion cemetery.
A local obituary notes the funeral for a resident with two daughters Mrs Domke and Mrs Albert Byers of La Crosse. Survived by three sisters Mrs Bertha Magin Mrs Esther Schultz of St Paul and Mrs Helen Newman of La Crosse and two brothers Herman and Otto Ewald of St Paul. Services set for Thursday at 1 30 p m at Hellwig Morris chapel. Rev Fritz Miller to preside.
Bell will discuss the Russian situation and U S chances with the Reds in the tense postwar world. He will share first hand impressions of the atom bomb and Bikini atoll tests. The speaker is an official observer who slipped through Japanese lines and earned an army citation for dramatic Manila frontline reports.
The snippet notes a marriage notice listing Tyrone and Linda with a date around January 27 in Rome. It provides limited readable details about the couple and event.
WAUKON Iowa Mrs Stella Storla is the surviving daughter of a local resident who died recently at the farm home near Decorah alongside a grandson and a sister Mrs Ben Sander. In Wisconsin Emma Gray 81 died at her son Cecil’s farm home after a short illness with funeral services led by Rev C Paul Nulton and burial in Bear Creek Baptist cemetery.
Obituaries from Elroy Viroqua and Holmen report William A. Meitzel 67 of Elroy died of a heart attack at Zion Lutheran Church. John Fortun 77 of West Prairie near Viroqua died at a La Crosse hospital. Mrs Andrew Hanson 87 died near Mindoro and services followed at Valley Lutheran Church. Burial and funeral details noted for each survivor and location.
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board said it will limit its authority to conduct bargaining elections in inter state commerce and among excla ve-agen employees. Chairman L E Gooding noted the US Supreme Court ruling denying the board election power against La Crosse Telephone Corp and said the board may still supervise elections not challenged by involved parties. The board plans to dismiss the Kieckhofer Manufacturing Cedarburg election filed by UAW AFL as its only major case pending.
Weather record notes a temperature drop from morning to morning hours with expectations of 8 to 16 degrees lower in the Thuregay morning.
The latest forecast shows no major changes in river stages in the Hastings to Guttenberg area. A small drop of about 0.1 foot is expected at La Crosse and a rise of 0.1 to 0.2 foot at the tail water of Dams 9 and 10.
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