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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1951
Page
8
Traffic controls at Fifth avenue and Main street are manually directed by an officer to ease northbound approaches. After three weeks the plan shows satisfactory results with driver cooperation and prior schemes on Third and Seventh streets similarly easing rush hour movement.
The late Judge Goldsborough, a New Deal Democrat and Roosevelt appointee in 1938 at age 61, balanced firm rulings in labor cases with a fondness for humor. He earned a reputation for plain spoken, commonsense judgments in Washington.
The seation department presents a weekly screen lineup headlined by Wide Open Faces featuring Joe E Brown. Short subjects include Hitting the Baseball and Trout Factory along with So Much for so Little and Wild and Woozy West. Texas Masquerade closes the program each night at 8 p.m. at Hood Street playground Monday through Friday at Hood Street, South Avenue, Washington, St Andrew, and Roosevelt locations.
A prisoner escaped a Berlin work gang, went home for money, drank, and returned to jail by taxi.
A bee swarm darkened aBrooksy’s bar in Cleveland on a sunny Friday afternoon. Bees landed on the exterior sign and some entered the tavern, troubling customers before most left with their queen as the sky cleared. Local staff sought help from authorities and bee handlers but could not reach them in time.
Ernest G. Zimmick, a farmer near Algonquin in Elgin Illinois, found a sudden 16 foot deep crater with an eight foot opening while working his field. The cone shaped hole, first noticed after a mysterious crash reported a week earlier, prompted examination by farm advisors who could not explain its origin.
Philadelphia report details an incident in West Philadelphia where a bolt failed on a wagon. Thom as Smith was driving when the horse bolted, causing him to fall and vegetables roll across the ground. The horse fled four blocks away, slipping between two trees before Smith pursued another wagon.
Chicago report says a three year old Daniel Gorman fell through a sky roof into an undertaker’s garage from a third floor porch then walked into the chapel with only two small head cuts. He was not kept overnight according to witnesses.
Reports say UN patrols faced little contact as Allied cannon and searchlights pounded Reds from the front. Two large Red concentrations moved toward Allied lines near Yonchon and north of parallel 38 as Chinese and Korean forces withdrew. The Thompson and Walke suffered damage from shore battery and enemy action.
Torger Larson 71 of Coon Valley Wisconsin died suddenly Saturday noon following a heart attack. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 1 30 p m at Gilbertson funeral home and 2 p m at Vang Lutheran church with Rev H O Aasen officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include brothers Ole and Einar in Coon Valley and two brothers and two sisters in Norway.
A federal jury acquitted Richard Tamborski, 24, on aggravated bank robbery charges tied to the June 25, 1949 South Chicago Savings heist in which two Brinks guards were killed. Prosecutors sought the death penalty. Tamborski had prior acquittals in state court for one guard’s murder. A co-defendant, Joseph Jakalski, 32, received a 199 year sentence after two acquittals in the guard murders.
Elmer W. Sims, owner of Sims Motor Transport Co., paid a 911 overload fine for driver John W. Lewis. He paid in cash to Hammond city clerk and released Lewis from Lake County Jail in Crown Point after eight days.
The report notes ongoing inquiries by combined armed services and foreign relations committees into General MacArthur's dismissal. A joint senate committee plans to trim witnesses and push the probe toward a June 30 end, with six to ten additional hearings including W Averell Harriman as the first witness.
Home Owners union will hold its regular monthly meeting June 19 at 7 30 p m in room 8 city hall. An out of town speaker has been arranged and her subject will be of vital importance to every property owner.
Stroud farmer Dee Cook reported pigs froze to death in mid June after a severe Oklahoma storm. Hail the size of baseballs coated fields and drifted, leaving young pigs stranded near a pasture fence and found two hours later with frozen injuries.
The national security council, led by the president with Vice President Barkley, Secretary Acheson, and Secretary Marshall, suspended the wartime aid ban for 90 days in the interest of national security. Congress earlier voted to cut off aid to countries shipping war goods to Russia or its satellites, but Truman signed the measure to fund urgent needs, using the security council’s exception authority.
The Milwaukee Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church will name an assistant bishop next October to aid Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins in the 19 county diocese. The appointee would automatically succeed Ivins on retirement, with Ivins agreeing to remain past the planned 1952 retirement age.
Milwaukee Road laborer B. Hoggs of Chicago, 34, was killed in Muskego freight yards on Saturday when struck by a moving freight train as police say he apparently crawled under or near the cars. He lived in a Milwaukee road camp.
William H. Parry, 73, a University of Michigan alumnus and former cross country runner, ran two miles before breakfast in 17 minutes 45 seconds and cooled off with a half mile at campus. He has logged over 36,500 miles since graduation, once joked about wearing out four police dogs while running in a local park.
The convention in Danville Illinois is set for June 30 with local officials and naval visitors in attendance. Sheboygan will host the 1952 convention, officers from La Crosse to Milwaukee are listed, and the HoneyBees auxiliary chose new officers. Also noted is a Dunlop Rubber plant closure at Shahganj India with 4000 workers paid during the month off.
NEW ORLEANS police battled a dawn gun fight in the French Quarter as ex-con Wear stabbed Sheila Ryan 22, a nightclub performer, when she refused to hand over $3,000. Officer Morris was wounded. Wear faced four counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery and was on parole from New York for armed robbery.
A Navy patrol bomber overshot the Kodiak naval air station runway and crashed beyond the field. Ten aboard, one pilot died and three crewmen were seriously injured. Six escaped unharmed as the craft burst into flames. Names were withheld pending next of kin notices.
The Rev. Robert Kingdon of Wisconsin Rapids will be guest speaker at First Congregational church services at the Washburn school Sunday morning. His sermon titled If a Stone Should Fall will be delivered at 10 45 a m with no church school or children's church but kinder- During the service.
Mrs Earl will move from a two room to a four room apartment after Renfrow and the family welcomed twins, a boy and a girl, born Saturday.
In 2,767 patients a reviewer, Dr. T, said 210 of the 14,254 persons admitted last year were suffering from the disease.
Funeral services for Louis Epstein, noted Hebrew scholar, will be held Sunday at 1 30 p m in La Crosse with burial in Milwaukee. Epstein died suddenly in Milwaukee and had lived in La Crosse for 41 years directing a Hebrew tonal er for the Jewish community. Survived by his wife sister Dora Sigm and brother Morris in Milwaukee.
Dr. John B. Johnson Jr., dean at Missouri, is named to a Milwaukee-Downer appointment. The announcement places him within university leadership circles and notes previous roles with Dan and Bradstreet as part of his career background.
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