New Extension Agent Dorothy Balfanz Starts War Service
Dorothy Balfanz began duties as emergency extension assistant in La Crosse county under the War Food Administration program. She joins Anita Gundlach in expanding county home agent support to educate on preservation conservation and production, coordinating with 4 H Homemakers OCD and county nutrition others. Balfanz, a Stout Institute graduate, formerly taught home economics in St Croix Falls and Edgerton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Balfanz
la Crosse
Balfanz
Wisconsin
War Food Administration
WFA
Anita Gundlach
la Crosse County
OCD
Stout Institute
St. Croix Falls
Edgerton
Three Galesville Children Treated After Local Accidents
Three Galesville children were treated by local doctors after accidents Monday night. Francis Gilsdorf sustained head wounds from a trailer against a support. lights failed during treatment due to the storm. Larry Zenke and Donna Gilberg also suffered injuries after a dog bite and a riding accident respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesville
Wis
Francis
Irvine Gilsdorf
Oe Valley
Galerville
Farm and Labor Delegates Adopt Six Price Resolutions
Farm and city workers meeting in La Crosse with cooperatives passed six resolutions to strengthen price control. The plan calls for local cost-of-living committees and extension of the wartime price control act, with a 27 million dollar enforcement budget and wider wartime profits publication. Delegates urged cooperative growth and broader education to defend economic interests postwar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Jesse D.gg
Magy Nnarro
Adv
George W. Hall
Pat Toland
L. R. Flanagan
CPA
Cea Educationa
Congress
OPA
Conference
Apof
Sparta Man Owns Fee Schedule Used By Bar Members In 1864
The Associated Press reports a Sparta document owned by Attorney Lambert Hansen details Monroe County bar fees dated January 21, 1864. The schedule sets retainer and hourly style charges, percentages on sums, foreclosure, manslaughter and felony defenses, tax title cases, divorces, torts, bankruptcy, wills and deeds, and miscellaneous items with specific amounts and percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Associated Press
Wis
Lambert Hansen
Monroe County
Graves
Morrow
Rice and
Justice Court
USO Workers Meet in Sparta Conference Plans Rain Delay
Fourteen USO staffers attended the regular staff conference of the Tomah La Crosse and Sparta USO centers in Sparta Wisconsin Tuesday afternoon. A picnic plans fell through due to rain as the semi monthly conferences set to meet on the second Tuesday of each month. Adjutant John Trout of Sparta will chair and appoint a three member committee with Miss Stella Heffernan of La Crosse to handle problems between sessions.
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Sparta
Wis
USO
Tomah
la Crosse
Sparta Uso
John Trout
Stella Heffernan
Rural Lines Extend $40,000 Loan For Jackson County REA
BLACK RIVER FALLS Wisconsin Special The Jackson County REA has arranged a new loan of 40000 dollars to extend its rural electrification lines. Present operating costs and amortization payments on previous loans are being met by receipts. A wartime production comparison shows a 19 percent rise in the fourth year versus a 1 percent gain in the fourth year of World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Falls
Wis
Jackson County
REA
Galesville Man Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
Lieut. Col. Lloyd Rall advanced to the rank on June 1 and informed his parents by letter received Monday. Stationed in the Central Pacific with headquarters in Hawaii, he has served in the Army Air Forces engineers since 1940. Rall’s service began as a second lieutenant in 1940 and included Pacific duty before the war. He has not had a furlough since going there and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rall.
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Galesville
Wis
Lloyd Ball
Central Pacific
Hawaii
Engineers
Army Air Forces
Rall
Pacific
Louis Rall
Gale solicitors aid fifth war loan drive effort
Thirty solicitors in the Galesville area work to sell government bonds worth 126000 dollars for the fifth war loan drive. They began Friday and some finished before Monday as invasion momentum is expected to push the drive beyond its quota.
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Galesville
Wis
USO Hostesses At Sparta Hear Speaker
About 75 Sparta USO hostesses heard Mrs. James Bergstrom of Neenah and William J. McLaughlin discuss the value of senior USO hostess work. Adjutant John Trout introduced the speakers as Lucretia Acker supervised a tea. The cookie jar project brings in dozens of cookies weekly for service men.
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Sparta
Wis
Sparta Uso Club
James Bergstrom
Neenah
State
William J. McLaughlin
USO
John Trout
Sparta Uso
Oo Lucretia Acker
Parabolic Canine Parachutists In Alaska Wing Test
The Air Transport Command in Alaska trains sled dog pairs for troop supply drops to crash sites. Lt. David Irwin and Major Joseph Westover oversee Jiggs and Maggie, two 100 pound huskies, as they learn to descend from a Norseman plane in parachute harnesses. The dogs adapt after initial fights, then complete 75 mile treks in 18 hours, with lighter dogs performing better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaskan
AIR Transport Command
Far
Wilds
Fort Nelson
British Columbia
Joseph F. Westover
Winnetka
Ill
David Irwin
Grand Rapids
Mich
Irwin
G. I
Maggie
Jiggs
Lieut
Curtailment Plan For Dairy Industry Sent To Washington
Trempealeau County Dairy Industry Advisory committee sent its transportation curtailment plan to Washington for approval by the Office of Defense Transportation. The plan aims to save 120 truck miles daily, 43,800 per year, and 262,800 tire miles yearly. Twenty one processing plants toll the plan, including Holmen Cooperative Creamery and Osseo Cooperative Creamery among others.
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Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County
Holmen Cooperative Creamery
Rochester Dairy and
Marigold Dairies
Winona
Gilmanton Cooperative Creamery
Pet Milk Company
Sparta
Fountain City Cooperative Creamery
North Bend Cooperative
Ettrick Creamery Company
Osseo Condensary
Osseo Cooperative Creamery
Whitehall Creamery Association
New American 50 Caliber Bullet Wreaks Aerial Devastation
A new incendiary .50 caliber machine gun round, touted as the most devastating for air combat, causes enemy aircraft to burst into flame on impact, leaving self sealing tanks powerless against its effects.
Youth Drowns In Angelo Pond
Raymond H. Dahl Jr. 14, of Angelo, Wisconsin, drowned Tuesday night after being pulled under by a whirlpool current while swimming with two companions. Rescue efforts by Camp McCoy fire and military personnel failed. no inquest will be held. He is survived by parents Raymond Dahl Sr. and a sister Jean in Milwaukee.
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Tribune
Sparta Bureau
Sparta
Wis
Raymond H. Dahl, Jr
Angelo
Angelo Pond
Wayne Dutton
Norman Hansen
Raymond
Bert O. Johnson
Camp McCoy
H. H. Williams
M. J. Lanham
A. R. Simpson
Fehring
Earl Blank
William Peterson
McCoy
H. E. Fillinger
T. H. Ebbert
L. J. Goodman
Willis Young
Fred Schell
Trafic
Raymond Dahl, Sr
Jean
Milwaukee
Dahl
Miss Violet Fruechte Joins Caledonia Farm Bureau Office
Miss Violet Fruechte of Bjitzen Minnesota and daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Fruechte has been employed as clerk at the Farm Bureau office succeeding Miss Luella Flatten of Black Hammer. A Caledonia high school graduate she began her new duties Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caledonia, Minn
Violet Fruechte
Bjitzen
Minn
Herbert Fruechte
Farm Bureau
Miss Fruechte
Luella Flatten
Black Hammer
Caledonia High School
Patriotic Puiturrs Petroleum Plea Against Black Market Gasoline
Public service plea urges citizens to refuse Black Market gasoline and endorse all ration coupons. It argues every illicit purchase shrinks the supply for essential transportation and calls drivers to use legal gasoline only for necessary trips.
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Larry
Arfour Zenke
Donna Jean
Martin Gilberg
West Prairie
Groves
Stein
Your Cleaners
E Freckles
BY Merhill Blosser
Red Ryder
Ryder Will
Fred Harman
O. S. Paulson
H. S. Halvorsen
Labor and
Church
Washington, D. C
Glenn R. Atkinson
National Labor Policy Committee
Atkinson
Ac Crosse
Kentucky
Phillips & Sons Distributing Cort
Tribune Sparta
Gale Solicitors Working
Washington
Raymond Dahl
Eagle Vox Home Insulation
Phillips
Puiturrs Petroleum Co
Bartlesville, Oklo
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