Erickson Hardwoods Expands with $200000 Dry Kiln Plant
Onalaska firm Erickson Hardwoods announces a $200000 expansion adding the first large dry kiln plant in the region. The project includes a 30 by 45 foot aluminum paneled kiln, heat treating about 700000 board feet annually, with 10 new Onalaska jobs and 30 to 40 more in 20 regional sawmills. A new fully automatic saw mill begins as the kiln opens.
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Erickson Hardwoods
la Crosse Tribune
Erickson Hardwoods, Inc
Onalaska
Edmund R. Erickson
Minneapolis
Appleton
Chicago
Erickson
Sparta
Alfred J. Francour
la Crosse County
University of Wisconsin
Forest Products Laboratory
University of Minnesota
Sioux Falls
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Francour
U.S. Forest Service
Tri-State
la Crosse
West
Midwest
Prairie du Chien
Richland Center
United States
Tribune
Woman Dies of Burns in Minneapolis Kitchen Accident
Mrs. Ada Hughes aged 74 died in a hospital after being burned May 25 in a kitchen fire at her Minneapolis home.
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Minneapolis
Ada Hughes
Man swindles four La Crosse banks for 340 dollars
A man aged 30 to 32 with a blond crew cut and a woman accomplice swindled four La Crosse banks out of 340 dollars using a fake check drawn on Union State Bank West Salem. He asked tellers to deposit 300 into a non existent account then took 85 in cash. Police noted a dark blue old Chevrolet with Wisconsin plates.
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la Crosse
Exchange State Bank
State Bank of la Crosse
Batavian National Bank
First National Bank of
Charles Thompson
David
Joseph Davis
Davis
Batavian National
Wisconsin
First Evening Band Concert in Riverside Park
The La Crosse Concert Band opens its season with an 8 p.m. concert at Riverside Park directed by D. R. Wartinbee. Ray Olson and Richard Dannhoff will be soloists, with pieces by Morissey Jewell and Rodgers among others. Five concerts are planned this summer with city and Music Industries Trust Funds sponsorship.
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la Crosse
Riverside Park
D. R. Wartinbee
City Park and Recreation Department
Music Industries Trust Funds
Ray Olson
Richard Dannhoff
Olson
Dannhoff
Central High School Band
la Crosse State College
Missouri Bandsman
King
Anderson
Teague
Jewell
Carmichael
March
DeVries Bird Wins 208-Mile Galesburg to La Crosse Sprint
DeVries Bird, owned by Thomas DeVries of La Crosse, flew 1400 yards a minute to win the 208 mile race from Galesburg Illinois to La Crosse. The time was the year’s second fastest. Other birds in order include Smoke, Meat Head, Cheri, Pidge, and Tuffy among others. Birds flown to Galesburg in an airplane piloted by Lynn Cantwell.
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Cookie
Thomas DeVries
la Crosse
Galesburg
Ill
al Fiet
Reba
Gary Baum
Galessburg
Lynn Cantwell
Logan Junior High Addition and Pool Delayed by Board
La Crosse School Board postponed a capital improvements program and the Logan Junior High School addition and pool to a special session at 7 30 p.m. June 10. Debate centered on North Side needs versus South Side development and whether the pool is essential.
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Logan Addition
la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse City
Logan Junior High
E. R. Lund
Logan
French Island
Logan High School
Irvin Cooley Jr
Lund
O. R. Nessius
Park and Recreation Department
Logan Junior High School
Edwin L. Morgan
John A. Bjorge
Kenneth Fish
Citizens Education Committee
Trane Co
Genoa
South Side High School
Losey Boulevard
Barlow
Travis
Village
Green Bay Street
Hogan- Jefferson
Birch Street
Franklin School
Jefferson School
Cooley
City Plan Commission
Burton W. Cook
Ice Cream Store Equipment Auctioned
Personal property of Bookers Inc in an ice cream store at 319 Cass St was sold at auction for 75 dollars to Ernest George, the only bidder, as City Treasurer Wesley M. Denny sought 492.87 in delinquent taxes from 1960 and 1961. George had bought the building and believed he had bought the property as well.
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Bookers, Inc
Cass St
Wesley M. Denny
Ernest George
Bluff St
George
Denny
Arthur Rogge
La Crescent Council Deliberates Sewage Plant Bids
La Crescent Minnesota council ends a midnight meeting with bids on a sewage treatment plant held for bond approval. Low bid from Rocheste r at 189 500 plus incidentals guides 216 500 total with federal aid 30 percent. Piper Jaffray Allison Williams and J M Dain to issue 132 000 in bonds at 3 41 percent. Council defers decision on bids, reviews bonds, and faces Shore Acres road complaints while approving minor street and park improvements.
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LA Crescent
Minn
Kansas City
Keith Caswell
Caswell Engineering Co
Caswell
Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood
Allison-Williams Co
J. M. Dain & Co
Clarence Vetschi
William Mishler
Minnesota Board of Health
Caswell Engineering
Counci
Vetsch
Police and ambulance respond to medical call in Eugene
At 4 26 p m June 3 a police and ambulance response was sent to 16th and Badger Streets in Eugene for resident Eugene W Ross 59 of La Crosse R 2 to Lutheran Hospital with illness.
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16Th
Badger Streets
Eugene W. Ross
la Crosse
Lutheran Hospital
La Crosse Camera Club Trophies Awarded for 1962 63
John Zoerb and Elmer Rhode won Slide of the Year in Class A and B at the La Crosse Camera Club banquet. Orlin Gollnick and Dr C K Higgins took top black and white print awards. W E Shimanski announced new officers and officers. directors include Shimanski Sevenants and Higgins.
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Camera Club
John Zoerb
la Crosse
la Crosse Camera Club
Elmer Rhode
Cerise Club
Orlin Gollnick
C. K. Higgins
W. E. Shimanski
The
Photographic Society of America
Claire W. Johnson
Grant Bjergum
Marvin Quinn
Gollnick
Shimanski
John J. Sevenants
Zoerb
Rhode
Rock Island
Minneapolis
Rural Affairs Committee Set to Meet in Stoddard Hotel
The Rural Affairs Committee of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce will convene at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Stoddard Hotel Conference Room. John Mathison serves as chairman and announced the meeting details.
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Lincoln Neprud
Greater la Crosse
J. J. Liskovec
Herbert Hoelzer
Fred Kramer
Stoddard
WKTY
Tribune
Greater
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James C. Holmlund
Crosse Tribune
Gallery OF Sound
Danny’s
DeVries Bird
Kenneth G. Brown
Longfellow
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Central High
LA Crescent Council
Shore Acres
Mishler
Board of Appeals
Richard Gasper
2Nd Street
7Th Street South
la Crescent Home
Wayne Lottes
Sun-Steps
U.S
Klinkner & Jensen Shoe Store
Caledonia St
Hiawatha
Gamble Store
Pearl St
Nehumacher Fhunewal
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