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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1947
Page
3
La Crosse Tribune offers a vacation mail service letting subscribers have papers mailed to an address of their choosing. Carriers act as agents selling the plan to maintain route earnings, with no change in subscription cost, just a wrapped mail delivery while readers are away.
Madison bureau reports Norris Maloney urged a joint finance committee to study taxing non true cooperatives while preserving exemptions for genuine cooperatives. The move accompanies a bill by the Wisconsin Implement Dealers association and a proposal for an interim tax law commission led by Assemblyman Grover Broadfoot. Cooperatives defend exemptions as essential, amid broad business concerns.
August Howard, editor of Polar Times and secretary of the American Polar Society, welcomes the USS Mount Olympus home at the Washington Navy Yard on April 14. Though never south of Miami, he supplied rapid polar details for Arctic and Antarctic claims, and he chronicled Byrd and Siple expeditions shaping public knowledge.
A national real estate firm reports a grass roots boom in small businesses across the United States led by former war workers buying farms and small ventures. Buyers pay largely in cash for properties around 6 000 dollars on the east coast and 7 000 on the west, with western sales up 66 percent over 1945. The decentralization of cities accelerates as highways and air networks expand, creating opportunities for rural living and country businesses. Divining rods are still used by some well diggers to locate water.
In Canton on Saturday a crowd of about 2,000 youths began an anti civil war demonstration planned for June 3 in Shanghai Canton. Reports say 5 students, including several Sun Yat-sen University pupils, were badly hurt with some feared dead.
The Rev A C Trante known as the Vicar of Runnymede died in Egham England. He was famed for opposing Sunday movies declaring he preferred couples in church over a cinema and inviting them to hold hands in the gallery.
La Crosse businessmen will try out a safe flying civilian plane Sunday June 8 at the municipal airport on French Island. Demonstration flights start at 10 a.m. with a licensed pilot in charge. About 10 planes will be available for free flights, with registration first. Local businessmen already fly for work or leisure and see aviation as time saving and cost effective for rapid trips to Chicago Milwaukee or the Twin Cities.
The American Automobile Association says over twenty years more than 2.25 billion dollars in state motor vehicle taxes were diverted to non highway uses. If spent on highways these funds could have built vast miles of four lane roads, with 19 states already adopting anti diversion amendments.
University of Wisconsin plans summer sessions and institutes drawing about 15,000 registrants with 5,000 students for an eight week term starting June 21. A variety of institutes and workshops are scheduled including music therapy education banking workers education writers and public service programs.
In Donna Texas the Hi Y club used a roadside fundraiser to install a school fountain. They fined jaywalkers 25 cents each and a schoolboy judge could levy up to 1 dollar. The total collected was 121 dollars to fund the fountain.
Coblenz reports Nazi era Rhine wine is being seized by the French as reparations. Grape juice will be distilled into basic alcohol for perfume production. A Rhineland vintner says about 90 percent of the vintage is being requisitioned to meet domestic needs and exports.
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