Survival Likely for County School Committees Despite Reduced Powers
Wisconsin legislative action signals the 1947 law will preserve county school committees but limit their authority. A referendum requirement and other restrictive provisions loom as debates continue over a new school aid bill to spur rural consolidation. If aid fails or powers stay curtailed, rural reorganization may fade.
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Madison
Wis
County School Committee
Wisconsin Commission For the Improvement
State Senate
Assembly
Conservation Display Dressed For State Fair
The Wisconsin conservation department unveils a new outdoor exhibit for the Milwaukee state fair August 20 to 28. The display will include six to eight bear cubs, three to four months old, brought from the north woods, and is dubbed Cub Park by C. L. Zip Coon.
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Wisconsin Conservation Department
Milwaukee
Badger State
Middle West
Wisconsin
North Woods
C. L
Zip” Coon
Rememet
Initialed Ring Found. Tragedy Linked to Missing Engineer
In Wyndham Australia two men caught a 14 foot crocodile and found a man’s gold signet ring with initials J. T. In 1948 John Thompson, a refrigeration engineer, vanished after falling from a wharf at Wyndham and his body was never recovered. Police tie the loss to the ring.
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Sydney
Wyndham
Australia
J. T
John Thompson
Muskellunge Nomenclature Clarified in Webster’s Guide
Dictionary notes confirm muskie preferred spelling but muskel lunge, muskellunge, and muskel lunge are also acceptable variants. The entry emphasizes flexible orthography for the famed fish, with no change to meaning or pronunciation.
Tots To Attend Summer Class At University
Wisconsin University hosts its 16th Summer Laboratory school from July 5 to August 12 in Washington School Madison for nursery through sixth grade pupils. The program blends art music and speech with center based learning and social studies science and math projects.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Washington School
School of Education
Mexico
Teachers Open Eyes to Community Resources Lab
The college summer session runs a social studies lab guided by Walter P. Thoresen to help teachers learn by seeing and doing. Students tour La Crosse institutions from churches to banks and government offices, studying social agencies, industry, and services for future classroom use.
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Walter P. Thoresen
la Crosse
Thoresen
County Detention Home
St. Michael’s
la Crosse Home
Congregational Church
Cathedral
Emerson School
Viterbo College
Child Center
Sparta
Ostrich Mistakes Grapefruits for Eggs on Farm
A farm near Uitenhage South Africa reported an odd scene as an ostrich incubated what it believed were eggs but turned out to be grapefruit. In other news the grandchildren of Japanese atomic bomb survivors may exhibit radiation effects.
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Alaska
South America
Uitenhage
South Africa
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