Emergency Oil Shipment On Way To Cashton
An 8000 gallon tank car of heater oil from Viroqua was en route to Cashton to relieve a shortage affecting at least 400 homes. Cashton distributors report depleted stocks with one firm out of oil, while another planned delivery was delayed by railroad yard holds in Chicago and New Lisbon.
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Viroqua
K. J. Hollett
Standard Oil Company
la Crosse
Cashtor
Hugh Bacon
Archie Olberg
Wadhams
Cashion
Olberg
Chicago
New Lisbon
Standard Oil
Hollett
Viro- Qua
Holtz
Mellen
Anthony E. Madier
Bureau
Fuel Oil Shortage Crisis Faces La Crosse Area
In a Thursday survey La Crosse fuel oil dealers reported varied stocks from day-to-day to 30 days with many shipments due next week and some not until mid February. Managers urged conservation and switching to coal. a noon meeting organized by Beranek gathered local officials and business representatives to discuss the crisis.
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la Crosse
C A. Beranek
Lawrence Woehrer
Milwaukee
Wadham's Oil Company
Everett Woehrmann
Chamber of Commerce
Archie Oldberg
Everett Yerly
William van Loon
City Rinks Open for Public Thursday Night
Most city skating rinks will be open to the public Thursday night, the park department announced. Only West Avenue and Roosevelt rinks are being flood-
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Park Department
West Avenue
Roosevelt
Milwaukee Man Dies Overnight From Auto Crash Injuries
Edward Sturumbere, 84, of Milwaukee died at Misericordia hospital from injuries suffered when struck by a car on Milwaukee's south side last Sunday night. He passed away last night after the crash.
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Milwaukfe
Edward Sturumbere
Milwaukee
Ced
Misericordia Hospital
Moih
Weather outlook for La Crosse and vicinity
Light snow and severe cold tonight with the city low minus 15 and rural areas minus 20. Friday brings generally fair skies and continued cold with a high near 0 degrees.
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la Crosse
Verity Ann Kotinek Crowned La Crosse Snow Queen
The 1948 La Crosse Snow Queen Verity Ann Kotinek was revealed when black light highlighted corsages at the coronation ball hosted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The event drew about 1000 attendees and featured guests from the Lakes Minneapolis and St Paul winter carnival.
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Verity Ann Kotinek
Chamber of Commerce
VFW
Verity Ann
Paula Stollenwerk
Dorothy Stavio
Alice Underdahl
Pat Conway
Lorraine Redmann
St. Paul
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Snow Queen
Miss Greene
Alice Underdehl
G. Heileman Brewing Company
la Crosse ‘Tribune
U. S. Army Air Force Recruiting Service
Helen Duffy
Allen Lindgren
George Jensen
Burt Baston
Tres Goetting
Jerry Wessels
John M. Lamb
Jerry Moriarity
Patty McLane
Charles Beranek
Moriarity
Cornel Wilde
le Crosse
Truman Pushes Seaway Project
President Truman called the St. Lawrence seaway plan vital to national defense and U S economic welfare with a possible letter to Congress next week. Senators met to discuss strategy amid divided views while proponent Wiley argued the project would boost continental power and self preservation.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
Truman
United States
Canada
Senate
House
R-Mass
Two cars collide on Welch Coulee road in La Crosse
County police report a side swipe at 7 45 a m on Welch Coulee road involving vehicles driven by Robert Wiltsie R 2 La Crosse and J L Miller R 1 La Crosse. No injuries and only minor damage to both cars.
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Robert Wiltsie
la Crosse
J. L. Miller
Welch Coulee
Dewey Urges Farmers to Pay Debts and Hold Expansion
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told the New York State Agricultural Society that farmers should pay debts now and avoid further expansion to weather a possible recession. He warned against price controls and suggested subsidies favor consumer demand over crop curtailment. He owns a Dutchess county dairy farm and urged caution if government restores distress remedies.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State Agricultural Society
Dewey
Dutchess County
GOP Leaders Move to Cut Truman Budget Battles Begin in Congress
Congressional Republicans moved to slash President Truman's budget while House Democrats plan to reshape the GOP tax cut. A Senate House committee oversees spending ceilings. Rep. Knutson and Rep. Coughton push differing tax cut plans with broad cuts and tax reshaping proposals. The Legislative Budget Committee aims to report by February 15 as the House weighs tax action.
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Truman
House
Senate
House Committee
Rep
Doughton
Ways and Means
Coughton
Knutson
R-Minn
Congress
Legislative Budget Committee
House Gop
Martin
R-Mass
Hoover Sets Conditions on Aid For European Recovery
Former president Herbert Hoover urged a six point plan to separate charity from business and cautioned against over exporting. He asked Congress define gifts versus loans and suggested reducing the first fifteen months outlay while warning the U S economy could face a near nine billion dollar burden. Senators Wiley George and Smith pledged careful study of the proposals.
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Italy
France
Germany
Willey
U. S
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Hoover
Congress
Foreign Relations
Wiley
R-Wis
George
D-Ga
Smith
RNJ
United States
County Police Turn Firefighters in Onalaska Blaze
Two Onalaska patrolmen Jerry Brieske and LaVerne Rowe spotted smoke from a house on Highway 53 and Poplar Street at 10:43 p m Wednesday. They forced entry, searched for occupants, helped control the fire with extinguishers until the fire department arrived, and found the coal stove in the kitchen caused the blaze.
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Highway 53
Poplar Street
Onalaska
Jerry Brieske
LaVerne Rowe
Leonard Baird
Guadalcanal War Dead On Way Home
Honolulu reports the army announced that 3,358 American and Australian war dead from Guadalcanal have been exhumed. The transport Cardinal O Connell arrived with the bodies and will sail for San Francisco around February 3.
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Honolulu
Guadalcanal
Army
Cardinal O'Connell
O'Connell
San Francisco
Continued Cold Weather Seen In La Crosse Area
La Crosse faces ongoing severe cold with a Thursday night and Friday forecast of 15 below in the city and 20 below in rural areas. Temperatures hit nine below at the airport and five above at 11 am Thursday as light snow is possible. The cold stretched to the Dakotas and into the lower Missouri and Ohio valleys with sub zero readings as far south as Iowa and northern Illinois. The nation’s coldest reading was 29 below at Pembina, North Dakota.
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A. D. Sanial
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Missouri
Ohio
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Illinois
Pembina
N. D
Public Library Aids In Fuel Conservation
Reading at the public library in Eighth and Main will require warm clothing and long underwear or both until early afternoon as oil shortages press heat use. The library, heated by fuel oil, will keep reading and reference rooms cool to conserve energy until 1 pm.
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Main Streets
Blast Of Anti Tank Mines Shakes Three States
A 150 ton blast at an army ordnance depot near Savanna Illinois rattled three states yesterday evening. Tremors reached northwestern Illinois southern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa. No casualties were reported though windows shattered in Savanna Bellevue Moline and Peoria. Col Fugene Regad led the depot and said cause unknown. storage magazines damaged and a nearby guard narrowly escaped injury.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Fugene Regad
Here
Mississippi River
Regad
Chicago
Fifth Army
Bellevue
Missis
Night blast at Savanna proving ground rattles La Crosse area
William Bautsch a Burlington railroad night agent recalled a loud blast at Savanna Illinois proving ground moments after the Zephyr left La Crosse 148 miles away. Neighbors reported beds rattled and Sabula eyewitnesses saw a huge fireball with a thunderous explosion. About 1000 workers are at the depot with only night patrols on duty.
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Burlington Railroad
Savanna
Proving Ground
la Crosse
Bautsch
Sabula
Soviets Might Ship Grain to Eastern Germany
AP reports in Dresden that a grain import plan could aid the starving Saxony zone. Maj. Gen. Dudarov says a decision is not final, and imports would not be gifts, with the Soviet A G firms controlling much of industry in the eastern zone.
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Saxony
Soviet Union
Germany
Timoffei Dudarov
Ivan Schinkevich
Thuringia
Dudarov
Max Seydewitz
Reds Offered To Join Axis Nations In 1940
The United States opens a major propaganda reveal showing a 1940 Soviet proposal to join the Axis with Germany Italy and Japan at a price Hitler refused. State Department releases a 362 page volume of captured German records detailing the Moscow Berlin partnership and its carve up of Poland and Europe.
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United States
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Voice of America
Europe
State Department
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Berlin
Hitler
Soviet Union
Germany
Poland
Stalin
Finland
Dardanelles
Middle East
Britain
France
Kremlin
Molotov
Italy
Japan
von Ribbentrop
Nuernberg
Ribbentrop
Wisconsin Governor Addresses National Dairy Council
Milwaukee Wis Governor Rennebohm told the National Dairy council conference that dairy is essential to America's strength. He cited Wisconsin 1946 milk output of 15.684 billion pounds and 3.164 million milking cows and heifers, about one cow per resident, urging continued dairy expansion and development.
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Milwaukee
Wis
America
Rennebohm
National Dairy Council
Wisconsin
Hospital Staff Cleared In Baby's Death
Minneapolis board of public welfare clears General hospital staff of dereliction in the death of a baby who died after physicians ruled 12 hours earlier the child was not ill enough for admission. Coroner Dr Russell Heim testifies the baby died from bronchitis of the upper respiratory system.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Board of Public Welfare
General Hospital
E. J. Huenckens
Arthur Jensen
Russell R. Heim
Hennepin County
Bevin Calls Reds’ Policies Ruthless in Commons
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons that Russia pursues a ruthless policy aimed at spreading communism across eastern Europe and, as evolution of Yalta shows, into western Europe as well. He cited Soviet use of every means to gain Communist control.
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Ernest Bevin
Russia
Eastern Europe
Yalta
Bevin
House of Commons
Soviet Union
Europe
West
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