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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1949
Page
4
Despite a steel shortage, 1948 saw a 25 percent rise in steel kitchen cabinet sales over 1947 with 3,500,000 units sold and retail sales reaching 138 million dollars, as the Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau reported. Undersink cabinets fell slightly while other cabinet types grew 46 percent, signaling improving steel availability into late 1949.
Hazleton Pa six month old Gale Ruth Tressler of Conyngham was celebrated at a family reunion this week with six living grandmothers present. Her great and great great grandmothers include Agnes Tressler Phoebe Miller Effie Barnhart and Charles W Robbins. Gale's parents are Mr and Mrs John W Tressler.
Hong Kong begins a ten year program aimed at doubling its water supply. The initiative will focus on expanding storage, diversifying sources, and improving distribution to meet long term demand.
Notes From Your Public Library highlights H. Allen Smith Ira L. Smith and Leo Hershfield collaborating on baseball themes in Low and Inside a collection of anecdotes and oddities proving anything can hop in a ball park.
Ira L. Smith cataloged and checked works while researching in a public library. The exhibit highlights include A Good Time on Your Birthday by Helen Stevens Fisher and Cream Hill by Lewis Gannett, with biographies of Anna Ella Carroll and Dickens.
Washington reports Rep. Marshall introduces legislation to repeal liquor laws affecting Indians except on reservations. Indians would fall under state liquor laws and any rules governing use and sale on reservations remain in force.
Four factors favoring oil burner installation in summer 1949 are cited by the Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau. Abundant fuel oil supply lower prices available burners tanks controls accessories and improved efficiency plus skilled labor for installation. Innovations include compact low pressure burners with precise fuel oil air delivery and no clogging nozzles, enabling automatic heating and lower chimneys losses.
The Wisconsin senate concurred on an assembly bill to ban identifying rape victims in any media including newspapers radio television telephone telegraph or leased wire. The current law already restricts identification by Wisconsin newspapers and periodicals. The measure now goes to the governor for approval.
All members of the Boy Scout drum and bugle corps report at the fairgrounds at 7 p m Saturday for the Boy Scout circus. Unit commander Robert Gaumer says all Scouts must bring instruments and wear full uniforms.
Stockton California reports the College of the Pacific with 1 137 students is the smallest school on the Tigers 1949 football schedule and looms as a potential early test for the team.
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