Logan Junior High to Hire Architects for Addition and Pool
The Common Council approved hiring architects to design a classroom addition and an indoor outdoor swimming pool at Logan Junior High School. The vote was 15-6 in full council after a 14-7 committee of the whole approval, with Alderman Merrill Davis changing his stance amid criticism of the resolution as a political gesture.
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Logan Junior High School
Common Council
Merrill Davis
7Th Ward
Davis
Combining Of Fire, Police To Be Studied
The La Crosse Common Council approved the judiciary and administration committee study on feasibility of combining police and fire equipment and personnel. The plan covers department responsibilities, training, areas to protect, equipment needs, employee classification and command.
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la Crosse
Common Council
Judiciary and Administration
Davis
Kenneth Niedbalski
George Bonsack
5Th Ward
Louis Robinson Jr
Louis Robinson Jr. (2Nd Ward
Judiciary and Administration Committee
Niedbalski
Suburban Wedgewood Terrace Faces Water Strain
In La Crosse County and nearby Onalaska communities water use rose during the record drought. Wedgewood Terrace and First Addition near Shelby added a third well to double capacity after restrictions were imposed. Onalaska reports rising July demand with 10 days totaling over 10 million gallons, and reserves remain for emergencies. West Salem Bangor and Holmen report no restrictions.
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la Crosse County
la Crescent
Minn
Jeither
Shelby
Wedgewood Terrace
Carl Schurz
la Crosse
Schurz
Wisconsin Board of Health
Onalaska
Irl D. Cox
Cox
West Salem
Bangor
Holmen
Alex Genz
Myrick Park
Carl Wahlstrom
Public Works
Water Utility Board
Auto-Lite Building Offered On Lease
R S Denzer of La Crosse Cooler Co says the Electric Auto-Lite building has been offered to at least three out of state firms on a lease basis not for sale. He spoke to the state affairs committee of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce after a Tribune report misstated the deal.
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Electric Auto-Lite Co
R. S. Denzer
la Crosse Cooler Co
la Crosse Tribune
Denzer
Greater la Crosse Chamber of Commerce
Local Noble Fought Hospitalized in Lutheran Hospital
Noble Fought of 1502 West Ave S is hospitalized at Lutheran Hospital. The report notes the patient’s admission but provides no further condition details.
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Noble
West Ave. S
Lutheran Hospital
Artist in Our Time Discussed by Milwaukee Instructor
Harland Ristan, a Milwaukee art teacher and poet, spoke at La Crosse State College on The Artist in Our Time. He described low mood years, patrons lost, and artists like Levine Shawn Sandburg and Fearing voicing concern for fellowmen. He noted World War II writers used propaganda, poets predicting disillusionment later echoed by novelists. He discussed James Jones Norman Mailer Nelson Algren and Leopold Bloom as a last modern fiction hero, and said beat poets sick comics pure art protest against the world as it is.
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Harland Ristan
Milwaukee
la Crosse State College
Levine
Shawn
Sandburg and
Fearing
Ristan
James Jones
Norman Mailer
Nelson Algren
Leopold Bloom
Joyce
Ulysses
Milwaukeean
Logan Junior addition and pool plan stirs North South Side debate
Aldermen spar over using 1962 bond funds to hire an architect for a Logan Junior High addition and an indoor outdoor pool. Critics question site land, district impact, and funding sources while backers urge simultaneous construction to add space immediately. Six aldermen oppose the addition and pool, citing misalignment with city needs.
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Curtis Storck
William Lemke
Technicolor founder Dr Her bert T Kalmus dies at 82
Dr Her bert T Kalmus, 82, founder of Technicolor Corp., died Thursday of a heart attack. Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, he helped develop color motion pictures after founding the firm in 1912.
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Hollywood
Herbert T. Kalmus
The
Technicolor Corp
Kalmus
Chelsea
Mass
County Children Reading More Books Says Librarian
La Crosse County librarian Mrs. Lelia Showers reports a rise in summer reading among county children. Programs at Onalaska West Salem Bangor and other stations boost pleasure reading and school topic expansion, with story hours and themed reading like Treasure Hunt and Man's Conquest of Space. Main library welcomes all readers outside La Crosse City free of charge.
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Lelia Showers
la Crosse County
Onalaska
West Salem
Dorothy Ryan
PTA
Dorothy Dudley
Bangor
Mildred Bjorkman
French Island
W. Avenue N
City of
la Crosse
Public Welcome To Use The Pool At Logan Junior High
La Crosse Board of Education endorses public use of an indoor outdoor pool at Logan Junior High. Supt. John A. Bjorge says groups like Boy Scouts and YWCA may use it if a qualified lifeguard is on duty and chlorine costs are paid. public use outside school hours is free. Eugene Fry of the Park and Recreation Department cites plans for two additional pools and long-term all season access.
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Kenneth Niedbalski
Logan Junior
South Side High School
Storck
North
George Bonsack
Logan
Harold Lee
South Side
North Side
Houska Park
Goose Island
Harold Otto
Lee
Roland Solberg
Logan Junior High School
la Crosse
Eugene Fry
City Park and Recreation Department
Board For Education
Park and Recreation
Bjorge
Racial Tension Quieted By Deputies In Wisconsin Tavern
Deputies Earl Kiefner and William Boma Jr. responded to a racial disturbance at Shorty’s Beer Stube on Highway 33 in Shelby Town. Two Negro soldiers from Camp McCoy, James H. Lasley and Andrew Wilson, were present with proprietor Mrs. Eleanore Held refusing service to the men. Lasley planned to sign a complaint, but by 11 a.m. no formal filing had occurred.
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la Crosse County
Earl Kiefner
William Boma Jr
Losey Boulevard
State Road
Camp McCoy
James H. Lasley
Lasley
Shorty
Shelby
Andrew Wilson
Eleanore Held
Kiefner
Boma
Dist
John Fynn
Wisconsin Library Chief M. G. Toepel Dies at 58
Marinus G. Gus Toepel longtime director of Wisconsin's Legislative Reference Library collapsed in the Capitol rotunda and died in a Madison hospital at age 58. He led the library since 1950, advising legislators and overseeing research, bill drafting, and the Wisconsin Blue Book while previously directing government services at UW Extension. Assembly Speaker Haase called the death a terrible blow to state government.
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Madison
Marinus G
Gus) Toepel
Wisconsin
Legislative Reference Library
Capitol
Toepel
Bureau For
University ‘of Wisconsin Extension Division
Assembly
Robert Haase
R-Marinette
44 Bed Addition To Bethany Lutheran Home Dedicated
A 44 bed wing at Bethany Lutheran Home, 1315 Cass St., La Crosse, will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Sunday with Dr. Arthur J. Seegers of the American Lutheran Church serving as principal speaker. Rev. Norman Nelson will lead the ceremony. The new wing, part of a $280000 expansion, adds two four bed wards and amenities including a beauty shop, crafts area, and lounge spaces. The home, a non profit with 27 member congregations, operates with a 38 person staff and a 1956 founding history. The public may tour before and after the service, with refreshments served.
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Army Reserve Company C
757Th Transportation Battalion
Ft. Eustis
Ronald Munson
Donald Baird
Alfred Stemper
James Abegglen
Army Transportation Center
la Crosse Municipal
Bethany Lutheran Home
Cass St
Arthur J. Seegers
American Lutheran Church
Norman Nelson
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
Bethany Lutheran Home Corporation
George Alvilden
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
la Crosse
Our Savior's Lutheran Church of
West Salem
Alvilden
Alex T. Thompson
King Street
Cass Street
Thompson
Nelson
Hen
Harvey Gilbertson
Oscar Orville Hanson
Russell Hetland
Harry D. Johnson
Ward McClintock
Paul Roe
Joel Stokke
Newland Twelme
T. A. Rykiken
Arthur Zenke
Bethany Home
Sigurd E. Sivertson
University of Nebraska
Department of Charities
ALC
Seegers
Nebraska
Iowa
National Social Service
Council Last Say On Equipment: Lee
Alderman Harold Lee introduces a measure to give the Common Council final say on purchases of equipment costing more than $5000. The bill would require a formal bid procedure, bids opened by the finance committee, and council approval to accept bids, clarifying past rules from a 1955 resolution.
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Common Council
Harold Lee
8Th Ward
Finance Committee
M. R. Birnbaum
The
la Crosse Tribune
Asst. City Atty
William Sauer
Birnbaum
Sauer
Car leaves highway injures Coon Valley man
La Crosse County police took 71 year old Michael Dwyer of Coon Valley to St Francis Hospital after his car went off Highway 33 in the Town of Greenfield near St Joseph. He suffered head cuts and bruises from the crash and embankment impact.
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la Crosse County
Michael Dwyer
Coon Valley
St. Francis Hospital
Greenfield
St. Joseph
Dwyer
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