Amphibious Operation Then and Now
By HAL BOYLE New York a dozen years after Normandy the largest amphibious assault in history remains a towering example of success but many think future landings will not resemble the vast massed fleets of 1944. The piece weighs risks costs and the decisive role of weather and technology in historic and hypothetical modern operations.
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Philip II
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Answers to Questions from The La Crosse Tribune Bureau
Reader questions unfold brief Q and A from a 1950s Tribune Bureau. Topics include Andrew Jackson nickname Old Hickory the Federal Bank gold reserves and ownership, car longevity versus past models, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson as First Lady, and the continued Prohibition Party with its 1956 ticket nomination by Dr. Enoch A. Hollwick.
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Senate adds 58 million to bill for NIH research
The Senate approved a 2.372 billion Welfare and Labor funding bill by voice vote, adding 58 million to Eisenhower's request for continued research into cancer, heart disease, mental illness, arthritis and other diseases. The measure faces conference with the House over NIH research totals and other differences.
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Legion Listening Post Plans Picnic and Election
The Legion Listening Post lists events for June including a stag picnic set for June 20 at Barre Mills at 3 30 p.m. Members are urged to sign up for food headcount. Bob Counts chairs the committee and officers will be elected at the next post meeting with a lunch to follow.
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Bob Counts
State Firms Get Surplus Cheese Jobs
Wisconsin cheese firms receive CCC contracts to process nearly 13 million pounds of surplus cheese. The pasteurized cheddar loaves will go to school lunch and welfare groups with deliveries from June 18 to September 15. Central Cheese Co Marshfield 1 950 000 pounds Pauly Cheese Co Green Bay 8 190 000 pounds L D Schreiber Carthage Mo 2 730 000 pounds.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Pauly Cheese Co
Green Bay
L. D. Schreiber and Co., Inc
Carthage
NW Decentralizes Its Operations
Chicago and North Western Railway announces decentralization to grant each division superintendent greater authority. President Clyde J. Fitzpatrick cites streamlined operating organization effective June 1 to improve efficiency across divisions.
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Chicago and North Western Railway
Clyde J. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Birthday tribute to Ralph Campney Canadian minister of defense
Born June 6 1894 on an Ontario farm Ralph Campney served as a medical student recruit in World War I and earned a battlefield commission. He later studied law and entered the Canadian Parliament before becoming minister of defense in 1954.
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Ralph Campney
Ontario
Stevenson Truman Ticket Favored by California Attorney General
Los Angeles California Attorney General Edmund G Brown heads the state delegation at the Democratic nominating convention and suggests a ticket of Adlai Stevenson for President and Harry Truman for Vice President. He told reporters after Stevenson claimed victory in California's primary that Truman might return to Washington for the idea.
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Edmund G. Brown
Adlai Stevenson
Harry Truman
Truman
Washington
Stevenson
Mystery of the wedding cake keepsake origin debated
The custom of saving a piece of wedding cake has an obscure origin traced to early Britons and found across England and most European countries.
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Mary Holloway to Lecture on Christian Science in La Crosse
Mrs. Mary C. Holloway of Shreveport Louisiana renowned Christian Science lecturer will speak in La Crosse on June 11 at 8 15 p m in the Vocational School Auditorium Sixth and Pine Street The First Church of Christ Scientist announces the event with free admission and opposition from charges The speaker is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship in Boston and has a background in community welfare public relations and campaign management.
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Shreveport
la Crosse
First Church of Christ Scientist
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Ohio State University
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Secret Traffic Check in Saginaw by S-Men Vigi lantes
An organization of 100 secret safety vigilantes called S-Men plans to send postal cards to the Great Saginaw Safety Council listing license numbers of traffic violators and the time place and nature of violations. The Safety Council will inform owners by letter but the S-Men cannot arrest violators.
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