Trane Plant Advances Worker Training And Women's Roles
The Trane company in La Crosse expands its training program with preemployment orientation and a safety oriented acquainting process. Supervisors receive industrial psychology and management instruction, plus special classes for reading scales and blueprints. Women workers rise to roles and supervisor positions as absenteeism and efficiency are studied.
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Trane Company
R. W. Gillette
Renee Pe
Trane
Lewis Drake
University of Wisconsin
Gillette
William Boma
Vi . & Employment Service
TWI An
James Easland
Air Ayaa Se
Extension Department
U. S. Employment Service
Fish census reports boost Mississippi river area catches
Dr John Greenbank leads Sportsmen to gather creek census data on fish along the Mississippi boundary between Milwaukee and Burlington tracks. Reports distributed via Badger State Sportsmen's club outlets in La Crosse Will be collected by Green to study species supply and how fish bite under varying conditions. Recent catches include sand pike and trout streams show favorable conditions despite high water and logging impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Greenbank
Burlington
Badger State Sportsmen's Club, Inc
la Crosse
The
Tribune
Green
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Badger State Sportsmen's Club
Mississippi
Harry Packman
Goose Island
Smelts Behind Willkie Loss Say Winnipeg Writer
A Winnipeg writer blames Wisconsin smelt shortages for Willkie’s setback in the Wisconsin primary. The piece claims smelt runs trigger a festival mood that boosts Republicans and demeans opponents, and that a lack of smelts last year helped dull Willkie’s momentum.
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Winnipeg
Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Canada
America
Wisconsin
Norman L. Meir
South 21St Street
J. I. Morkin
Gumney
Paul Bunyan
Babe the
Blue Ox
Willike
God
Eese
Edward J. Toupalik dies at 65 in Sparta Wisconsin
Edward J. Toupalik, 65, of 113 Sarah Street, Sparta, died Friday night at home. Survived by wife and daughter Anna. Rosary set for Monday night at Plummer's funeral home and funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Church Tuesday at 9 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Wis
Edward J. Toupalik
Sarah Street
Anna
Plummer
Mexico's Motorless Days Wartime Rule
Under a wartime government regulation Mexican motorists must idle their cars one day weekly. Drivers choose their preferred motorless day and receive a sticker indicating the day. The caption connects the policy to U. S. morale with a playful banner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Costliest bridge in world halts rail route choice after trial
A bridge in Australia built for a railroad cost about 100000 dollars and has seen only one train pass in 55 years. Authorities chose a different route, avoiding the bridge after that initial run.
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Australia
Camp McCoy Soldiers Enroll in Vocational Classes
Soldiers from Camp McCoy with varied college backgrounds join La Crosse Vocational School courses, studying typing, machine shop, welding, bookkeeping, shorthand, and cabinet making. About half lack high school diplomas. enrollees come from numerous states, including five from the 4620 Service Unit WAC Detachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp McCoy
la Crosse
Yale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan
Columbia University
John B. Coleman
McCoy
251St Combat Engineers Battalion
251St Engineers
Coleman
Carl Michel
Carl F. Michel
Cass Street
ASTP
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New York
Vermont
Maryland
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illinois
Minnesota
Iowa
South Dakota
Kansas
Texas
Colorado
Nebraska
California
Washington
WAC
La Crosse Sailor On Jo uett Sinking German Shipping
Fire controlman Jack Schaefer of La Crosse details his destroyer Jouett’s actions in the north Atlantic. He served aboard the Omaha, Jouett, and Somers as they destroyed three blockade runners and a German submarine, and he recalls ramming a submarine earlier in service. Schaefer emphasizes the critical nature of fire control work aboard warships.
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North Atlantic
Jack Schaefer
U. S. S. Jouett
Schaefer
Carl E. Schaefer
Ferry Street
Florence Schnell
Naval Reserve
Great Lakes, Ill
Naval Training Station
Navy Department
Burgenland
Rio Grande
Weserland
Omaha
Jouett
U. S. S. Somers
Somers
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Johnson's
Lester C. Guggenbuehl
South 14Th
Wright Field
Dayton
RAF Material Command
Guggenbuehl
Trane Co
Army
Miami Beach
Sheppard Field
Stillwater
Oklo
W. H. Guggenbuehl
West Avenue South
Alfred Worice
Hitler
Hollywood
Jos. C. Bicha
Carl B. Noelke Co
Main St
Charme Karl Permanen
Karl
Hoeschlers
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virginia
Alabama
Louisiana
Missouri
Oklahoma
Norfolk
Jouette
Miss Dumke
Dairies
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