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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1944
Page
10
The Family Welfare association conducts a 1944 fundraising drive from July 17 to Aug 1 to address wartime family stresses. A case worker explains how wartime employment shifts affect young couples, child care needs, and parental planning to prevent home life strain and absenteeism.
Carl 27, of Rockword Illinois, drowned yesterday while swimming in Lauderdale Lake seven miles north of Drowns. Wood jumped from a boat into rough water and called for an oar from his wife, who was aboard with another woman, before vanishing.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and running mate Gov. John W. Bricker will outline campaign responsibilities as they prepare to unseat the 12 year Democratic national administration. Bricker arrives in Albany with Mrs. Bricker for a first huddle with Dewey since Chicago.
Camp Bradfield near Black River Falls hosts 200 Methodist youth and staff for a summer fellowship conference. Miss Phyllis McCallum and Rev. Ellery J. Beal lead with Rev. R. W. Halberg as life guard. Bible class led by Rev. W. Ross Conner. Attendees include seventeen from Caledonia Street church and others from West Avenue Onalaska Stoddard First and Salter Memorial churches. Attendance expected to be the largest in years.
In Whitehall Wisconsin volunteers finished the August-September quota by folding 4x4 inch surgical sponges. Mrs H J Aleckson reports strong attendance with 22 women participating in a period folding 1700 dressings across four work rods.
Lawrence Schone, 31, a war worker, was to go home today from a hospital after two weeks of hiccoughs. The seizure ended yesterday following electrical therapy, said Dr. Lloyd Tainter. Schone spent a restful night and awoke.
Trempealeau County consolidations continue under a new state law allowing attachment of districts with valuations under 100000. Dodge No. 4 is attached to Pine No. 2 though Pine Creek has higher valuation. Dodge school remains open. Consolidations also include Sunshine with Pigeon Falls district. Lincoln Town joint with District 4 and 5. Skogstad to Brick. Larkin Valley to Carpenter. Harmon to South Branch. Sunnyside to Lone Star.
The Trempealeau county 1944 Wisconsin War Fund Drive names R. H. Holton as chairman John K. Allen as campaign director Lester Brennan as publicity director and C B Melby as treasurer All are from itprall and served in the same roles last year The Wisconsin War Fund supports the USO and other war relief groups The campaign runs in the coming fall.
Sparta report says Ahart Craig, 69, is hospitalized at St. Mary's after falling from a wagon on his Burns town farm. He suffered head and shoulder injuries while riding with grandchildren Linda and Calvin Craig. Linda slid into the wagon box and Calvin was bruised. the horses halted the wagon, preventing worse harm.
Congress may recess after August 1 with routine sessions to avoid adjournment and no major bills before November elections. Postwar reform efforts include tax plans, surplus wartime materials, and blueprints for policy. Navy expansion and air fleet ideas surface alongside steady war-bond support and postal reforms.
Miss Beverly Teske of Superior, 24, was killed when the car she rode collided with a Soo Line freight train near Hawthorne yesterday.
Coast guard officials said the 30 000 gallon toluene spill from a burst pipeline near Joliet and Kankakee ordnance plant has evaporated. River traffic between Joliet and Marseilles resumed after fire risk diminished.
WESTBY Wis Special The American Legion held its annual installation of officers. L V Bergfold is the new commander with Dr O T Nestingen adjutant C O Veldeng finance officer Ole Lean service officer Orlando Hegge sergeant at arms D M Langve chaplain and Grant Rudie historian. Judge Lincoln Neprud of Viroqua attended to discuss the Camp American Legion at Thoma hawk and this post voted to contribute 50 to it.
In Berne Switzerland composer and violinist Tiny Pasini dies. In New York Lyman Delano aged 61, first cousin of President Roosevelt, is named chairman of Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville and Nashville railroads.
A new Bulgarian edict forbids using plum seeds for any purpose other than oil production. The restriction targets non-oil uses and marks a shift in agricultural policy.
British and Greek commandos raided Simi a small island off the Turkish coast north of Rhodes during the night of July 13 14. They killed fifteen German and Italian troops and captured more than 150. All military installations and equipment on the island were destroyed and the raiders withdrew with very slight losses.
Miss Dorothy Webster of Dodgeville has been elected Vernon county nurse and will begin duties August 1. She succeeds Miss E McGrath who resigned to take a post at La Crosse State Teachers College this fall.
Washington report says the Civil Aeronautics Administration will urge a billion dollar postwar airport program for 3,000 new airports. Most new fields would serve private aviation, with improvements planned for 1,625 of 3,086 existing airports. no specific legislation yet offered.
Mr and Mrs George Wolfgram of VNROQUA Wis receive word from their son Herman a US Marine that he took part in the Saipan battle and Tarawa and remains unharmed. He enlisted after Pearl Harbor and has been overseas two years, with no word for about two months.
American forces of the Fifth Army control the southern Pisa district while driving Nazi positions along the Arno from the sea toward Empoli. Units push north from Oggibonsi toward Florence, crossing the Arno canal to occupy Cascina near Pisa as the Eighth Army advances north of the Arno Valley, clearing Terranuova.
In two years since ceasing automobile production the auto industry has delivered more than 14 billion dollars worth of war materiel.
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