Special City Council Meets Monday Over School Costs
Mayor Henry Ahrens calls a special Common Council meeting Monday night to review information on the planned southeastern area school and possibly revisit the June 13 contract approvals. Council members balk at the high cost and delay signing due to annexation legalities and bond approval delays. Contracts were sent to Minneapolis for signatures. bidders include Standard Construction Company Minneapolis Clark Bracken La Crosse and George Koskey La Crosse. Meeting set for 7:30 p.m. with a committee session beforehand.
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Henry Ahrens
Common Council
Thorson and Cerny
Minneapolis
Board of Education
Standard Construction Company
Clark-Bracken, Inc
la Crosse
George McKoskey
Tomah Shops May Be Closed
The Milwaukee Road shops in Tomah face an extended vacation due to the national steel strike. Shops will close for two weeks starting July 7 with possible extension if steel supplies do not arrive. Housing unit construction stalls as Indiana factory products halt. Mayor Curry urged timely deliveries to avert water main and service extension shortages.
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Tomah
Wis
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
Indiana
L. E. Curry
About To Be Drafted Take Your Choice
The Defense Department made permanent a policy allowing men to join any service before induction. Previously, inter-service rules paused volunteers after pre-induction exams. The Army relies on the draft, while the Air Force Navy and Marine Corps favor volunteers.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Air Force
Navy
Marine Corps
Twenty More New York City Policemen Suspended
Twenty more New York City policemen including five captains are suspended for allegedly protecting Brooklyn boss bookie Harry Gross. All 20 face departmental trials after Gross identified officers at a mass line up. Fourteen others suspended on similar charges await trials as Gross named more than 100 officers in recent hearings.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bookie
Harry Gross
Gross
Weather forecast for La Crosse area remains cool and cloudy
Cloudy and continued cool tonight and Sunday with a chance of showers late Sunday afternoon or night. Low tonight 55, high Sunday 65.
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la Crosse
Spring Grove Festival Becomes Wet Centennial Event
Rain washed out many events of the Spring Grove centennial and homecoming, but beard-growing and queen contests proceeded. Jacqueline Joerg, Spring Grove High School student, was crowned centennial queen from 12 candidates with Leone Wilhelmson and Dorothy Sylling as attendants. Saturday planned a grand parade and baseball games, with a Square Dance Club showing and a fireworks display. The 100 Years of Music Review was postponed to fit Saturday’s schedule. Winners in whisker contests included best groomed Herbet Staven and Ellsworth Tweite, longest mustache Amost Swenson, oldest beard Christ Skaaden, youngest Gerald Myhre and Wayne Bunge, and many others.
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Spring Grove
Minn
Jacqueline Joerg
H. J. Joerg
Spring Grove High School
Joerg
Leone Wilhelmson
W. J. Wilhelmson
Dorothy Sylling
O. J. Sylg
Springs Grove
Black Hammer
Music Review
Herbert Staven
Ellsworth Tweite
Elmer Solie
Alden Walhus
Amost Swenson
Glennys Tollefsrud
Obert Staven
Christ Skaaden
Gerald Myhre
Wayne Bunge
Martinus Glascoe
Walter Bergsrud
Junior Wirth
Howard Moen
USSR Favored POW Screening Warns UN Delegates
MUNSAN Korea United Nations truce negotiators claimed Russia favored voluntary repatriation of prisoners in World War II. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison cited Soviet Army plans at Stalingrad and Budapest as humanitarian guarantees, challenging Communist demand for all Allied-held returns.
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Ussr
Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Russia
William K. Harrison
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Harrison
Germany
Stalingrad
Red Army
Budapest
Institute of Law of
Academy of Sciences
Michel to Rochester in care after serious crash
Carl Michel of 1432 Cass Street sustained a skull fracture in an accident near Shamrock Jackson County Wednesday night. He remains in serious but improving condition. He was to be moved by ambulance to Rochester Minnesota from Krohn Clinic Black River Falls after a consultation with a Rochester surgeon. The car overturned while returning to La Crosse after visiting at Clear Lake cottage owned by his father C F Michel president of La Crosse Breweries. The son is secretary treasurer of the company.
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Carl Michel
Cass St
Shamrock
Jackson County
Krohn
Black River Falls
Rochester
Michel
la Crosse
Clear Lake
C. F. Michel
la Crosse Breweries, Inc
Taft Sees Pact On Foreign Policy Near In Chicago
Sen. Robert A. Taft predicts a unified Republican stand on foreign policy at the Chicago convention. He cites John Foster Dulles as a key to drafting a plank acceptable to both camps and claims no real policy gulf with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Taft accuses Eisenhower forces of pressuring New York and New Jersey Taft delegates to back the general.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Dulles
GOP
Government Bars Lattimore From Leaving U S
The State Department ordered customs exits barred to Owen Lattimore while it investigates an alleged plan for a visit behind the Iron Curtain. McCarthy has singled him out as a Red spy and key architect of Far East policy. The department cited an official tip and said Lattimore, lacking a validated passport, should not be permitted to leave the United States.
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Washington
State Department
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
McCarthy
Institute of Pacific Relations
U.S. Far East
Baltimore Sun
United States
Department
Ussr
Customs Bureau
U.S
Michael McDermott
McDermott
Congress
Capitol Hill
Sen. McCarthy
Joseph J. Flynn
Customs
Forest visits hit record 29 million in 1951
Washington reports that twenty nine million people visited National Forests last year for hunting, fishing, hiking and winter sports, according to the Agriculture Department. The figure marks an all time high.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Stassen Still Sees Chance For GOP Nomination
Philadelphia with Harold E Stassen expressing disappointment in Eisenhowers conservatism and predicting Tafts path to the nomination hinges on a first ballot win. He believes a compromise option could be Gov Earl Warren or Gen Douglas MacArthur, while pledging to stay in the race until Ike returns from Europe.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Taft
Eisenhower
Stassen
Earl) Warren
California
Douglas
MacArthur
Europe
Philadelphia
GOP
Saban
Britain Charges Marshall With Four Additional Espionage Counts
William Martin Marshall, a 24 year old Foreign Office radio operator, faces four new violations of Britain's official secrets act. Prosecutors say three counts allege disclosures to the Soviets in April, May, and June, the fourth charging information gathering. Marshall, jailed without bail, was arrested June 13 after a park meeting with Pavel Kuznetsov of the Soviet Embassy and has yet to enter a formal plea.
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London
Britain
William Martin Marshall
Foreign Office
Russia
J. S. Bass
Marshall
Bass
Clyde T. Wilson
King George’s Park
Wandsworth
Pavel Kuznetsov
Perrot State Park Road Rebuild Okayed
Madison Wisconsin Gov Kohler signed a Trempealeau County highway contract approving a 6.4 mile Perrot State Park road rebuilding project with the county. The state will pay $10,320 of the cost.
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Perrot State Park
Madison
Wis
Kohler
Trempealeau County
Region 5 Chooses Jeannie Huston Alice in Dairyland
Jeannie Huston, 19, of La Crosse is selected Regional entrant for Region 5 in the 1952 Alice in Dairyland contest. She defeated five rivals from Vernon through Chippewa counties at the Stoddard Hotel. Finals are June 27 at Seymour. Huston will be a state employee promoting Wisconsin dairy products.
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Tribune
la Crosse
Jeannie Huston
Seymour
Huston
Stoddard Hotel
S. 19Th St
Vernon North
St. Croix
Dunn
Chippewa
Wis
Wisconsin
Norma_ Schaefer
Onalaska Ave
Bonnie Lou Dustin
Viola
Carol Jean Becker
Jane Pronschinske
Mondovi
Helen Olson
Colfax
Menomonie
Schaefer
Dustin
Viroqua
Central High School
Miss Huston
Gundersen Clinic
New York City
Cindy
William Groves
Lodi
Cliff Hutchinson
Madison
State Department of Agriculture
Neilus Larson
Westby
Tri-State Breeders Co-operative
Don Wilkinson
Alice
Arthur Tabbert
E. J. Coughlin
Rural Affairs Committee
House Would Kill Controls Revamp WSB
The House tentatively voted to lift price controls on most consumer goods and to drastically reorganize the Wage Stabilization Board. A big next vote will consider invoking Taft Hartley law in the steel strike. Absences weakened administration support as Republicans and Southern Democrats push the measure.
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Washington
House
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Senate
Rep
Talle
Browa
Spence
D-Ky
Ellis Arnall
Eastern Labor Press Conference
Isson
WSB
Bee Controls
Solons Fame As Truman Spurns TH Solons Fame As Truman Spurns TH ey
Washington reports the 20 day steel strike drags on despite Truman administration denials of disruption to production. Congress pushes for Taft Hartley injunction while industry leaders and CIO Steelworkers meet quietly in New York without progress. Pittsburgh talks aim to reopen facilities as steel shortages bite defense needs.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
New York
CIO Steelworkers Union
Pittsburgh
Proposal Laid Before U.N. Security Council
The United States urged a U.N. sponsored inquiry into Soviet germ warfare charges at the Security Council. The move, likely to win broad support, risks a veto by Russia or a refusal by North Korea to allow access to its territory. The Red Cross involvement was singled out as a contentious provision.
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United Nations
N. Y.P
United States
Russia
U. N
U. N. Security Council
Council
China
North Korea
Malik
Jacob A. Malik
U. S
International Red Cross
Security Council
Ernest A. Gross
Missing Fairchild 24 Plane Searched Across Midwest
An intensive search covers Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Illinois for a Fairchild 24 reported missing June 12 on a Austin Minnesota to Danville Michigan flight. Occupants are Mr and Mrs Negle C Humble of Danville. CAP and U S Army planes join ground teams with sightings near Prairie du Chien and a slough find.
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Wisconsin
Austin
la Crosse
Enos Howell
Paul Stitzer
Millville
Grant County
Crawford County
Sheriff's Office
Bitter Pennsy GOP split eyed by Gov Fine in Chicago
Governor John S Fine of Pennsylvania warns of sharp bitterness within the state's 70 member delegation to the Chicago Republican National Convention. Polls show 20 backing Eisenhower 18 for Taft and 32 uncommitted. Fine remains uncommitted and doubt remains for harmony after the convention as he plans hopes for a unified count in November.
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Gov. Fine
Pennsy Gop
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Fine
Associated Press
Eisenhower
Taft
Gettysburg
Gen
Crash Victims In Critical Condition In Wisconsin
Miss Mary Ann Adelle Berga 36 of 2522 S 14th St remained unconscious in a Berlin Wisconsin hospital after an auto crash at the junction of Highway 21 and County EE near Redgranite at 10 30 a m Friday. Mrs Viola Dunn Zein 326 N 8th St was killed instantly. Bernard Zein 38 and a Waushara County highway department truck were involved. Zein and Berga were en route to Two Rivers to attend a wedding using a car loaned by county clerk Miss Esther M Domke. Berga’s condition was listed as critical. Zein’s injuries were serious but reported better. Domke and Chief Ivan A Wright of the county highway police left for Redgranite and Berlin. Zein and Berga were employees of William Doerflinger Co. An inquest into Zein’s death would be delayed until Berga could testify.
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Mary Ann Adelle Berga
S. 14Th St
Berlin
Wis
Highway 21
County EE
Redgranite
Viola Dunn Zein
8Th St
Bernard
Waushara County
Zeins
Miss Bergh
Two Rivers
Esther M. Domke
Waushara
Zein
Miss Domke
Ivan A. Wright
County Highway Police Department
William Doerflinger
Wisconsin Retains Beer Guzzling Title in 1952 Almanac
Wisconsin led the nation in per capita beer consumption in 1951 with 26.6 gallons, per the Brewers Almanac 1952 edition. Maryland followed at 24.8, Michigan 24.7, Nevada 24.5, Rhode Island 24.2, New Jersey and DC 23.6, and Pennsylvania 22.9. The U.S. total was 82,973,054 barrels, the third highest year on record.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Brewers’ Almanac
United States Brewers Foundation
Maryland
Michigan
Nevada
Rhode Island
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
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Warren Rogers JR
Lee Linder
Harold E
Ike
Charming la Crosse
Alice In Dairyland
Francis J. Kelly
Solons
Truman Spurns
Rowland Evans JR
Steel Pantry
U.N
Max Harrelson
Sen. Taft
Douglas MacArthur
Jim Duff
James H. Duff
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