Outboard Explosion Burns Trempealeau Five on Mississippi
Five Trempealeau residents were burned Sunday when a five horsepower Sea King outboard blew up on the Mississippi near Bloom's Landing. Irvin Diamond and his family, including two sons and a brother, suffered first to third degree burns. a 2 year old was described as in very serious condition. A Galesville mechanic aided rescue and Robert Clements from La Crosse transported the group to hospital in his panel truck. The boat was a 14 foot Aluma Craft. investigators cited a possible connecting rod failure due to maintenance.
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Trempealeau
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Lutherhaven Bible Camp
Dakota
LaMoille
Minn
Galesville
Sea King
Robert Clements
23Rd St
la Crosse
Peter Jorgenson
Gordon Powell
la Crescent
Basil E. Ledman
Liberty St
Businessmen To Elect New Officers In La Crosse
La Crosse Business Men's Club will elect new officers at a general luncheon. Current officers include President Gordon H Feinberg Vice President Lewis Curtis Secretary Edward Dohlby and Treasurer D H Affeldt. Incumbents' terms end in June with installation set for July. Guest speaker George Ruud of the La Crosse County Highway Police Department will discuss traffic control methods and demonstrate radar and the alcometer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Gordon H. Feinberg
Sanitary Supply Co
Lewis Curtis
Curtis Printing Co
Edward Dohlby
la Crosse Transit Co
D. H. Affeldt
Gasoline Alley
George Ruud
la Crosse County
Burglars Hit Two City Businesses Over Weekend
City detectives probe two burglaries during the weekend. Badger Hide and Fur Co. at Front and Vine streets lost about 105 dollars from a large safe opened by removing the dial. O. J. Lunde Brass Foundry at 518 S. 2nd St. reported two drills stolen valued at 29.05 and 44.95.
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Badger Hide and Fur Co
Front
Vine Streets
O. J. Lunde Brass Foundry
S. 2Nd St
Meeting Arranged by Local Committee at Knights Hall
A meeting at Knights of Pythias Hall in Clinton and Avon Streets was organized by a committee led by Carl Moen as chair, with Nels Munkeby and E C Mitton.
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Knights of Pythias Hall
Clinton and Avon Sts
Carl Moen
Nels Munkeby
E. C. Mitton
Injured In Crash Near Arcadia
A Bull's Valley youth La Verne Adank 17 was injured and taken to Arcadia hospital after a 1946 car driven by William Adank 20 struck a bridge on Lewis Valley Road near Lewis Valley School. Harrison Adank 20 and La Verne were in the car. all three were hospitalized. William and Harrison were later discharged.
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Arcadia
Wis
Bull’s Valley
Lewis Valley Road
la Verne Adank
William Adank
Harrison Adank
la Verne
Bull's Valley
Lewis Valley School
Morris Scow
Harrison
Wiliam
Immunization Clinic Slated Here Thursday
County Nurse Helen Hanson announced the final spring immunization clinic will begin at 8 30 a m Thursday. It offers shots for whooping cough diphtheria tetanus smallpox and polio for county children whose parents cannot pay. Registration is available by calling the nurse's office at 43989.
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Helen Hanson
Miss Hanson
Two Local Children Bitten By Dogs
Two local children were bitten by dogs this month. Le Roy Sandvigen, 4, of Island Street, was bitten above the right knee June 6 by a dog owned by Edward Rendler of Island Street. Dennis Amundson, 7, of Avon Street, was bitten in the right hand June 3 by a dog owned by Richard Stuhr of Liberty Street.
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le Roy Sandvigen
Island St
Edward Rendler
Dennis Amundson
Avon St
Richard Stuhr
Liberty St
Stuhr
Mass and Dinner Honor Diocesan Clergy Assembly
A parish event hosted 175 attendees at 11 a.m. with a noon dinner in the parish hall. Seventy were clergymen from the Dioceses of La Crosse Green Bay Madison Winona and Dubuque. Toastmaster Rev Urban Baer Eastman led speeches by Rev J Francis Brady Eau Claire Rev Patrick J O Con nor Savannah Ga Rev Anselm Keefe DePere and Most Rev John P Treacy bishop of La Crosse.
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la Crosse
Green Bay
Madison
Winona
Dubuque
Urban Baer
Eastman
J. Francis Brady
Eau Claire
Loras College
John P. Treacy
Patrick J. O'Connor
Savannah
St. Mary's College
Baltimore
Anselm Keefe
St. Norbert’s College
DePere
Detective Schmuck Heads Police Juvenile Dept
Detective Roger Schmuck was placed in charge of the police department's juvenile bureau by Police Chief George C. Long. He succeeds Detective Lt. Vern Weber, who led the bureau since last fall, and Schmuck recently graduated from USC's juvenile control school.
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Roger Schmuck
Police Department
George C. Long
Schmuck
Vern Weber
University of Southern California
Services Held For Slain Girl in Michigan Suburbs
The funeral rites for 6 year old Mary deCaussin were held as about 2,000 people filed past the casket at St. Ping Church Wyandotte with her parents Edmund and Gervaise deCaussin nearby. One man remained in custody among more than a dozen questioned for details of the child's mutilated death as investigators canvassed Ecorse Township and nearby communities.
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Detroit
Mary deCaussin
Ecorse Township
Edmund
Gervaise de Caussin
St. Ping Church
Wyandotte
Michigan
Ecorse
Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club Elects Officers
Mrs Ma ble R McClanahan of Appleton engineering sales firm is named president at the 37th annual Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club conven tion Other officers include Dorothy Saffod Superior first vice president Henrietta Elk strom Milwaukee second vice president Helen Neurenberger Manitowoc third vice president Lucille Schott Williams Bay recording secretary Genevieve Otto Wisconsin Rapids treasurer and Hazel Taylor Neillsville nominating chairman.
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Elkhart Lake
Mable R. McClanahan
Appleton
Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club
Dorothy Saffod
Superior
Henrietta Elkstrom
Milwaukee
Helen Neurenberger
Manitowoc
Lucille Schott
Williams Bay
Genevieve Otto
Wisconsin Rapids
Hazel Taylor
Neillsville
District Attorney Hurt In Fall From Ladder
Dist Atty George Thompson was treated in a city hospital Monday after injuring his back in a ladder fall Saturday. He was putting up screens at 172 King St when his foot slipped from a rung and a window struck him in the face. An ambulance carried him to the hospital where doctors diagnosed a cut on the right temple and damage to two spinal bones.
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George Thompson
Thompson
King St
Tragedy Strikes Green Island Dog Under Suspicious Rain Night
The Ellefson family of 306 Alexander St Green Island report their dog strangled at their residence during a June rainstorm. The animal, tied to the house trailer, was found hanging by a 10 foot rope the following morning on the opposite side of the trailer.
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Green Island
Lester Ellefson
Alexander St
Guppy birth scandal shocks Mrs Rose in Hammond
In Hammond Indiana Mrs Howard L Rose reports a guppy gave birth to nine fry then died and she delivered 21 more young fish using a paring knife tweezers and safety pins to extract them from the body in an unusual aquarium incident.
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Hammond
Ind
Howard L. Rose
FBI bullet tests fail to link gun to Buchner murder case
FBI analysis of the murder bullet and three prior shots from a stolen 9 mm Browning could not confirm they came from the same weapon. Investigators seek the owner of a 1956 two door Chevrolet Bel Air seen near the scene and continue to probe the gun's involvement.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edward Buchner
Buchner
la Crosse State College
FBI
George C. Long
Stoddard Man Receives 90 Day Jail Term
Daniel F. Bendel 27 of Stoddard was sentenced in County Court after police found a loaded revolver and a belt with 40 cartridges in his car. He received 90 days for the concealed weapon and 30 days for disorderly conduct, to run concurrently.
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E. F. K. Gansen
Daniel F. Bendel
R. 1
Stoddard
Bendel
Hub cap theft reported at 1218 South 6th Street
John Lechner reported to police that four hub caps were stolen from his vehicle Sunday. The loss was valued at fifty dollars.
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John Lechner
S. 6Th St
Mailbox vandalism: matches and cigarettes thrown into boxes
Cecil Christensen and Postmaster Henry J. Ahrens report a fourth incident in five years of outright vandalism in which lighted matches and cigarettes were dropped into corner mailboxes. The 1950s-era offenses risk fines up to 1000 dollars or three years in prison.
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Cecil Christensen
United States Postal
la Crosse
Henry J. Ahrens
Christensen
16Th
Madison
Madison Streets
Marriages Filed in La Crosse Area
La Crosse couples listed for marriage licenses with ceremonies set for June at various La Crosse addresses and nearby towns including Cashton, Trempealeau County, and Alden. Names include Beranek Shebeck Parr Schachlinger Hendrickson Swenson Polenz Schiess Goode Hoppe Briggs Noyes Mathy Wooley Netwal.
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Robert J. Beranek
S. 13Th St
Elaine Shebeck
S. 26Th St
la Crosse
Peter J. Mayer Jr
Avon St
Rose Anna Leis
Cashton
Thomas E. Parr
Adams
Mary L. Schachlinger
Travis St
Alden M. Hendrickson
Otto R. Briggs
Kane St
Goldie M. Noyes
Prospect St
Charles J. Mathy Jr
Winnebago St
Mary S. Wooley
S. 20Th St
Richard L. Schaefer
Onalaska Ave
Louise Netwal
Local Woman Hurt In Auto Crash
A 19 year old local woman, Jane Grindier of Bluff Street, was hospitalized after a two car collision at 2nd and Main Streets. She suffered a cut near the left eye and a leg bruise while riding as a passenger in a vehicle driven by Roger Betz. The Betz car was struck on the right side by a car driven by Harold Sylvester Olson.
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2Nd
Jane Grindier
Bluff St
Roger K. Betz
Main St
Harold Sylvester Olson
Oakland St
Vandalismetteers at Catholic Cemetery Damages Headstone Photo
Catholic Cemetery reports vandalism after someone chisels out a picture from a headstone. City police notified of the case of graffiti and damage at a gravesite in town.
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Irvin Diamond
Irvin Jr
Edward
James Church
Diamond
Alcometer
Carbonator
Hebberd Drug Store
Pgars
DIAL
Hoeschlers
Louis J. Paquette
St. Joseph's Cathedral Hall
August Grams Jr
Jean Jones
Frederick Kriemelmeyer
St. Joseph's School
Aquinas High School
St. Joseph's Sodality
Robert Cook
Paquette
Tribune
Det
Police Juvenile Dept
Cerise Club Lacrosse
Tizzy
By Kate Olann
Henry
City Police
Skaff
Shorty
Skaff Cleaners
America
Rapidayton
Truxton Quality House Paints
Sim Ave
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