Riverside Park Concert Opens 14th Season
La Crosse Concert Band opens its park concert series at Riverside Park with Harmer Root as guest soloist. Root, director of music at a local high school, brings tenor songs including I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen and Roses of Picardy. The program features light pieces and descriptive numbers, continuing a series funded by the park board and city council since Anderson Memorial dedication.
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la Crosse
Rivgside Park
Board of Park
Anderson Memorial
Riverside
Harmer Root
Root
la Crosse Vocational Civic Orchestra
St. Thomas College of
St. Paul
University of Minnesota
Arcadia
la Grosse School
Kathleen
Roses
Picardy
True Blue
Pavanne
Concert Programme Notes for American Symphonette Gould
A fragment lists pieces including Overture Fountain of Youth by King and Mexican Dance Manzanillo by Robyn, with entries for Plantation Patrol Ole and other selections in a symphonic program. Performance details and conductor not provided.
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Gould
Mairzy Coats
King
Robyn
Ole
South Zamecnik and Popular Music Selections Listing
A listing of musical items includes South Zamecnik and a Popular group with selections such as Hallelujah from Hit the Deck, Pennsylvania Polka, and My Heart Tells Me. vocal solos feature Mr. Hermer Root and Kathleen Westendorf with I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen and Roses of Picardy. A March titled The Footlifter is also noted.
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South
Fillmore
Army Field Hospitals Ready For Casualties
An Army field hospital on the Southern Coast of England readies to treat war casualties as invasion begins. Capt. Dee Daily of Elcho Wisconsin orders his unit to stand by, while nurses and officers await the first injuries from the assault.
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U. S. Army Field Hospital
England
Army Field Hospital
Dee Daily
Elcho
Wis
Price Control Week Observed In La Crosse District
The city marks Price Control Week with a labor advisory committee chaired observance sponsored by the La Crosse district OPA. Groups from Farmers Union CIO AFL Railway Brotherhoods and their auxiliaries push for a stronger price control program ahead of an economic conference next Tuesday. Phil H. Griffin of the OPA says inflation threats grow and praises labor and farmer initiative in La Crosse.
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la Crosse
OPA
Farmers’ Union
CIO
AFL
Phil H. Griffin
Office of Price Administration
Griffin
United States
Sparta Churches Open For D-Day Services
Sparta Wisconsin amid invasion coverage churches held special prayers and rosaries for servicemen. St Patrick's church mass at 8 am and 7 30 pm service. bells tolled at noon and 6 pm. Camp McCoy chaplains led Catholic Jewish and Protestant services with 60 percent of personnel related to service members. Real McCoy distributed twenty thousand copies with invasion news.
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Sparta
Wis
St. Patrick’s Church
E. E. Clarke
Camp McCoy
McCoy
Arthur F. Ewert
Wayne M. Daubenspeck
William R. Schmidt
Allen Cohan
Sparta Area Youths Register For Draft
Eighteen year olds in Sparta area towns listed for May registration include Martin Mahnke Wilton William Kiefer Jr Robert Christopherson Harley Jenkins Calvin Leonhardt Paul Axelson Leo Selz Leo Griffin Howard Zastoupil Louis Laufenberg Richard Running David Quinn Edward Thayer Boyd Zietlow La Vern Chapiesky and others from Cashton Kendall Norwalk Melvina and Tomah. War-time statistics show many young men marrying older women with doubles and increases in marriages in 1942. A British man in Southampton known as the human air raid warning detects planes by nerve reactions while wearing a tin hat.
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Tribune
Sparta Bureau
Sparta
Wis
Martin R. Mahnke
Wilton
William R. Kiefer, Jr
Robert C. Christopherson
Harley W. Jenkins
Calvin W. Leonhardt
Paul A. Axelson
Leo J. Selz
Leo H. Griffin
Warrens
Howard H. Zastoupil
F. Prell
Louis J. Laufenberg
Tomah
Wilmer Huber
Richard C. Running
David E. Quinn
Cashton
Edward J. Thayer
Kendall
Boyd A. Zietlow
Norwalk
la Vern Chapiesky
Melvina
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Herbert
Southampton
England
Hero thanks knitter in England for scarf gifted to RAF driver
97 year old L A Forester in Italy received a thank you letter and a box of oranges from Mrs Eliza Hall of Harpenden England after sending a scarf. Hall is noted as one of the most industrious knitters for the troops.
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L. A. Forester
Royal Air Force
Italy
Eliza Hall
Harpenden
England
Footnote Chalk Card Leads to Settlement in Car Crash
In New Britain Connecticut a driver named Frank Maase backed into W J Steward's car. With no witness, he chalked his license number on the sidewalk as a calling card. Steward found the chalked number, returned with the damaged fender, and Maase paid for the repairs.
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New Britain
Conn
Frank Maase
W. J. Steward
Maase
Steward
New Leader for 599 Engineer Topographical Battalion
CAMP MCCOY Wis Special Lieut Marcellus Wooten Jr of Detroit takes command of the Headquarters and Service Company 599 Engineer Topographical Battalion succeeding Capt Ernest Gallagher. Wooten earned his commission at Fort Belvoir and has served with the 390th and 345th Engineers and the Lake Survey branch of the Army Map Service.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
599 Engineer Topographical Battalion
Marcellus Wooten
Detroit
Charles M. Duke
Wooten
Rangs
Engineer School
Fort Belvoir
Mich
390Th Engineers
345Th Engineers
Lake Survey
Army Map Service and Co. A
599Th
Ernest Gallagher
Building Platform Worries for Chicago Stadium Conventions
Public Works Commissioner Oscar E. Hewitt says building a wooden platform for Chicago stadium involves much manipulation and worry. He sought a lumber dealer for a month, contacting 23 before success, with work to start in two weeks and finish for the Republican convention in June.
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Chicago
Public Works
Oscar E. Hewitt
Chicago Stadium
Northwestern to Put Women in Editorial Roles Next Year
In Evanston Illinois the university will appoint women as editors for all Northwestern publications including the student newspaper magazine and yearbook for the coming year. The move marks a historic first with women serving as top editors across the board. Japan led foreign nations in American Chemical Society publication subscriptions in 1941.
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Evanston
Ill
Northwestern University
Japan
American Chemical Society
Horse Steak Dinner Draws Harvard Club Patrons
Visitors at Harvard faculty club in Cambridge report horse steak with mushroom sauce, potato salad and beverage for 75 cents. Club manager Eugene H. Gieringer says the dinner is popular with members who consume between 80 and 100 horse steaks per week.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Faculty Club
Eugene H. Gieringer
Women fire crew halts forest blaze near Avon
A forest fire near Avon was confined to about one acre by a bucket brigade organized entirely of women. The incident credits the female crew with achieving a notable firefighting record for rapid containment.
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Avon, Conn
City Bans Saturday Midnight Movies After Debate
Nampa Idaho city council approves ordinance banning midnight movies on Saturdays. Backers include churches and PTA groups who say the measure will keep children home for Sunday school attendance.
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Nampa
Idaho
Diamond found intact in Pagosa Springs fire rubble
In Durango a year after a Pagosa Springs house fire Mrs. Esther Moorehead uncovered her diamond ring among the ashes. The ring survived the blaze unscathed during site clearing.
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Durango
Colo
Pagosa Springs Oo
Esther Moorehead
Seventeen Candidates File for Local Primaries June 7 1944
June 7 1944 records show 17 candidates filed for county offices with little opposition in the Republican incumbents race. Democratic filings include Charles B Varco for district attorney Melvin J Gilberg for register of deeds Bert A Jolivet for county clerk Roy E Lamb for assemblyman second district Oliver H Fritz for first district Edwin Capp y Groth for sheriff. Republican incumbents seek re election with Miller facing Storandt in the second district.
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GOP
Charles B. Varco
Melvin J. Gilberg
Register of Deeds
Bert A. Jolivette
County Clurk
Roy E. Lamb
Oliver H. Fritz
Edwin “Cappy” Groth
Frederic Crosby
Esther M. Domeke
L. G. Schafer
Marvin Johnson
Charles J. Wachs
Walter S. Woods
Stanley C. Olson
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Sparta Area
Norine Lee Peirce
Grose
LA Crosse Tribune
William Ferguson
Ritcer
Austria
Poland
Low Countries
Yugoslavia
Greece
Russia
Copp
NEA Service, Inc
U. & Pat
University Center
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H. O. Klein
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