Pastor Muedeking Dies After 43-Year Arcadia Ministry
ARCADIA Wis Special The Rev George F Muedeking 78 longtime pastor of St John s Lutheran Arcadia died Saturday in Rochester He led the church for 48 years and also served Cataract and Montana Ridge churches His funeral Tuesday at 1030 a m at St John s with Dr Theodore Ohirogge and pastors Walter Schultheiss John Worth officiating Survivors include wife Rosalie son George H Muedeking Jr daughter Milton Fruch three grandchildren four sisters and three brothers Lying in state from 8 am until funeral time Arcadia business places closed 10 am until after services.
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Pepin
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Menomonie
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Tracy, Minn
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el Cerrito
Calif
Milton Fruch
Gamada
Texas
Sanders Ludemann
Bertha Muedeking
St. Paul
Minn
Ruth Hill
Trout Creek
Mont
Louis Allan
Des Moines
Iowa
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Herbert
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Lansing, Mich
Pioneer Blair merchant C J Gibson dies at 83
Charles J. Gibson 83, Blair pioneer businessman in furniture and undertak ing, died Saturday at Whitehall hospital. Services Tuesday at Zion Lutheran Church with Rev E E Olson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Born June 24 1872 in Cleveland Ohio, he moved to Preston Township at age five. Survived by four daughters Milton Frederixon Blair Evelyn Johnson Minneapolis Leitha Durabnik Stillwater Virginia Petersburg Minneapolis nine grandchildren eight great grandchildren. a son and daughter preceded him.
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Charles J. Gibson
Whitehall
Zion Lutheran Church
E.E. Olson
Church
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Cleveland
Ohio
James
Katherine Gibson
Preston Township
Mae Ellison
Gibson
Union Bank
Blair Canning Company
National Mutual Benefit Insurance Company
Madison
Wisconsin Funeral Directors Assn
Polio vaccine debate on transmission and safety sparks caution
Dr Salk and Bodian discuss vaccination blocking polio spread by interrupting human to human transmission. Vaccination may reduce carrier states by boosting antibodies and shortening infection duration. Dr Scheele reports no unsafe vaccine lots since last May with one suspicious case among 40 million inoculations, nearly 70 million shots released and supply rising.
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Scheele
Proposal to aid self employed pension deductions
The speaker urged reform to permit self employed individuals to deduct annually up to 10 percent of earned income or five thousand dollars for pension plan contributions, arguing retirement costs and pension funding should be supported by tax incentives.
Wisconsin weekend road toll reaches 374 in 1955
Fourteen people died in traffic crashes over the weekend raising Wisconsin’s annual highway fatality tally to 374. Names and ages span rural towns and cities including Vir volunteers, Beaver Dam, La Crosse County, and Milwaukee area. Multiple weekend crashes occurred on highways 14 51 and 105.
Court expands FELA scope to more railroad workers
The court issued two split opinions on broadening the Federal Employers' Liability Act. One 7-2 decision allows railroad employees harmed in new car and wheel manufacture and in building a freight yard to sue under the act. A second 5-4 ruling extends the act to a woman file clerk injured on the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia.
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By Shearson Hammill Co Members New York Stock Exchange
A brief line noting membership and affiliation with the New York Stock Exchange.
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New York Stock Exchange
Winona Livestock Market Report Highlights Prices
Market notes from Winona and Chicago show cattle hogs and calves with steady to higher quotes. Prices list hogs by weight and type, steers and heifers in mid to high ranges, with recalls on receipts and hours. Chicago reports slow hog demand, mixed slaughter prices, and grain and produce quotes.
Cattle and hog market rounds up in South St Paul auction
In South St Paul Minnesota cattle and hog sale results show steady cattle with fed steers at 19.00 to 20.50 per hundredweight for good and choice. hogs 7,000 head fairly active with prices 25 to 50 higher across classes. Lighter weights and feeder pigs saw gains, with various USDA price ranges for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and sows reported.
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Chicago Livestock Chicago
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Disabled American Veterans Meet In Wisconsin Cities
The 8th DAV district convention drew 312 official delegates and about 625 attendees at Hotel Stoddard. Officers elected included Harold Wellnitz and Robert Polanski, with district commanders named for eight districts. A memorial service honored Sgt Joyce Kilmer, author of Trees, with Kilmer’s elm dedication and poems read by members. New registrations came from Superior, Waukesha, Beloit, and others. Lynxville and Black River Falls were absent.
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West Bend
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la Crosse
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Beloit
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Chippewa Falls
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Burns Park
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Eau Claire
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Lfe
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Heath
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Staatz
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Veteran S. Sgt. Barkley Takes Reserve Center Post
S. Sgt. Roy F. Barkley, a 25 year old veteran with nine USAF years, reports May 15 to the La Crosse Air Reserve Center to take over as liaison noncommissioned officer from T. Sgt. E. A. Faby. Barkley, a Be midji Minn. native and Cass Lake High School graduate, has served in multiple bases including Panama Canal Zone and Scott Field Ill. He plans a 20 year career and will oversee about 90 officers and enlisted men across La Crosse and allied units while living in a Krause Kabin trailer with his wife Eileene and two children.
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Ill
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Calif
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Miss
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Ind
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Hand Blown Off Clown Finishes Act With A Smile
Lawrence Anderson of Chicago blew off three fingers of his left hand during a firecracker mishap at the Jimmy Lynch Thrill Show in Shreveport. Despite severe injury he finished the act with a grease painted smile as spectators joked. He was taken to a nearby hospital. physicians called his condition not serious.
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Fisherman Witnesses Boy Thrown Into St Lawrence River
An elderly fisherman told provincial police he saw two men toss a 14 year old boy named Yvon La France alive into the swift St. Lawrence River near Caughnawaga. The body was recovered and authorities hunt the two suspects.
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Inquest Planned In Highway 53 Death
Whitehall Wisconsin special report: Sheriff Axness and District Attorney Quinn say Gary Fitzpatrick 17 Black River Falls drove the car in which Elmwood Babcock 23 Black River Falls was fatally injured when the vehicle rolled on the shoulder after passing another car near the junction of U.S. Highway 53 and State Highway 54 southeast of Galesville. Keith Fitzpatrick 18 and Jack Taylor 15 were hospitalized in La Crosse, and an inquest will be held once the other youths are discharged.
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Wis
Ernest Axness
John C. Quinn
Galesville
Gary Fitzpatrick
Black River Falls
Elmwood Babcock
la Crosse
Keith
Jack Taylor
Axness
British Actress Dana Wynter Marries Gregson Bautzer
Carmel California report states 23 year old British actress Dana Wynter wed 45 year old Hollywood lawyer Gregson Bautzer in a late night ceremony. Bautzer described as a society figure and man-about-town, with ties to the entertainment business.
Green Bay Man Heads Wisconsin Purple Heart Order
Clifford Roberts of Green Bay elected department commander of Wisconsin Military Order of the Purple Heart at three day convention. Roberts succeeds William Markhoff of Milwaukee. Katherine Witte of Madison elected auxiliary president. Fort Howard post of Green Bay wins department membership trophy.
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Clifford Roberts
Wisconsin Department of the Military Order of the Purple Heart
Roberts
William Markhoff
Milwaukee
Katherine Witte
Madison
Women’s Auxiliary
A. Valentine Drew
Sheboygan
Gordon McCann
Peter Weltenbach
Ernest L. Ihbe
William Stemmering
Fred A. Fenner
Alice Schmidt
Wausau
William Baumbach
Ted Healy
Fort Howard Post
Weather Record For Midwest States
Weather summary from the Commerce Department covers Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Wisconsin expects partly cloudy conditions with warm temperatures and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon through Tuesday. Minnesota forecasts hot conditions with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and continuing Tuesday. Iowa shows mostly fair and warmer tonight with a few thunderstorms in the extreme north and scattered thundershowers west and north on Tuesday.
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Iowa
River Readings Forecast For Hastings To Guttenberg
The river forecast shows only minor fluctuations ahead for the next two hours with a gradually decreasing stream flow. Sunrise Tuesday is 4:22 am and sunset Tuesday is 7:48 pm.
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Two Hurt in Caledonia Head On Crash Involving Sickles Family
A Lansing Iowa man Fred Sickles 64 and his son William 25 of Cedar Rapids are in critical condition after a head on collision on Cabbage Ridge Road near Martin Deters farm. Beneke 17 suffered a broken leg. Walter Bechtel Cedar Rapids drove the other car. All were hospitalized in Caledonia.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Caledonia Hospital
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William Sickles
Owen Beneke
Louis Beneke
Cabbage Ridge Road
Martin Deters
Burl Kerrigan
Byron Whitehouse
Walter Bechtel
Bechtel
Beneke
Sickles
Eisenhower Begins Steps After Emergency Intestinal Surgery
President Eisenhower, operated on for a potentially fatal small intestinal obstruction, began walking in his hospital room 30 hours after surgery. Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton said the second-term decision should remain intact, with recovery to normal duties expected in 4 to 6 weeks.
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Army
John Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Viroqua Man Dies In Bosstown Crash
VIROQUA Wis Special Al ban L Matson 42 of R4 Viroqua was killed instantly Sunday when his car left the road and hit an embankment on Highway 14 near Bosstown in Richland County. Deputy Crone said the car went out of control and he was alone. The scene is about 15 miles northwest of Richland Center. Funeral services are still incomplete.
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Viroqua
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Rosstown
Richland County
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Charles Puterbaugh
Montello Corners
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Beaver Dam
Loretta Miller
St. Paul
Minn
Luck
Polk County
John F. Wieczyk
Preble
Brown
Albert Rodney Henn
Rock Springs
Wausau
John Martineau
Highland Park
Wautoma
Michael John Walsh
Oliver
Douglas County
Julian R. Levi
Edgerton
Wis
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