Thefts Reported To Local Police In City Beach and Street
The police were told of multiple thefts including a 25 pound gas tank stolen from 303 Causeway Blvd and a silver coffee percolator with 50 feet of nylon rope from the Black River beach bathhouse guard room. A light blue coin purse placed under a towel and other missing items were reported at the beach. An odd-even street parking ordinance prompted a car gas theft claim at 921 South 11th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas C. Schober
S. 11Th St
Neil Pomroy
Causeway Blvd
William Grode
Black River
Rose Street
Karen Dew
Caledonia St
Old Style Auto Club Parade Planned in La Crosse
The La Crosse Old Style Auto Club will parade 12 to 15 old model cars at 7 p.m. Saturday starting from West Avenue and Main Street. The procession heads west to the Bavarian Bank parking lot for an exhibition of the cars and an Army missile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Auto Club
West Avenue
Main Street
Batevian Bank
Plugs To Take Part In Dairy Day Parade
The La Crosse Plugs join Sparta's Dairy Day parade at 11 am on Saturday with their float in the procession. A note lists business opportunities in the Classified section.
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la Crosse
Sparta
Weather Record for Lacrosse and Vicinity
Hot humid weather with heavy rain tonight and Saturday. Wisconsin shows showers and thunderstorms, strongest in north and central areas. Minnesota lists scattered storms and increasing heat, especially south and central tonight. Iowa expects hot humid conditions through Saturday with isolated showers or storms tonight and tomorrow.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
River readings show flood brawl across upper Mississippi basin
Forecast highlights a rising Mississippi River with crests at several dams from Haalings to Guttenberg. Key stations La Crosse and Trempealeau report elevated levels as tributaries Trempleau and Dodger feed the surge. Sunrise Saturday at 5:24 a.m. and sunset at 6:52 p.m reveal a last quarter moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haalings
Minn
Guttenberg
Iowa
Dames
Weather forecast preview for today across major cities
US Weather Bureau forecast lists temperatures for multiple cities including Bismarck Boston Chicago Denver Dubuque Duluth Galveston Huron Jacksonville Kansas City Los Angeles Madison Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans Washington with highs around 70s and 80s and notable rain chances. values shown as low and high readings are present but some entries are garbled.
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Bismarck
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Dubuque
Duluth
Galveston
Huron
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Knoxville
Lacrosse
Los Angeles
Madison
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Washington
Montana
Plateau
Great Lakes
New England
New York City
Chicago hog market closes with mixed grades and varied weights
Hogs trading at 6 500 head with steady to 26 lower in butchers, prices listed across weight classes from 160 to 550 pounds. Mixed grades 1 to 3 show 15.0 to 18.8 dollars per hundredweight, with high yield lean cuts around 17.00 and sows around 11.00 to 13.50.
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Chicago
USDA
Cattle Market Mixed Slaughter Values Amid Tight Supplies
Market notes report limited slaughter steers and heifers for a test with few head priced lower than 27.00. Holstein steers around 23.50 with mixed loads at 26.50 for heifers, and utility to standard cows at 20.50 to 24.50. Canners and cutters range 15.00 to 18.50. bulls 24 to 26.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wingna
Swift & Company
Shady Prime
Top Choice
WSES staffers attend UW training in Madison
Knute Gilbertson a La Crosse district WSES interviewer attends a four week training at the University of Wisconsin in Madison to improve and expand employment counseling. Ruth Collins and Elroy Gartner, La Crosse interviewers, join a five day session in Madison on interviewing techniques for clerical sales service and domestic workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knute Gilbertson
la Crosse
Wisconsin State Employment Service
Madison
University of Wisconsin
N. E. Schulze
WSES
Gilbertson
Galesville
Luther College
Ruth Collins
Elroy Gartner
Collins
Gartner
Power Committee Sets Hearing On Gas Lines
The Power Commission ordered oral argument for July 17 on seven proposals for added natural gas service in six Midwestern states. It will decide the case directly without the usual intermediate examiner decision. Northern Natural Gas Co. seeks authority to build facilities worth 102.4 million dollars to serve 326 communities across Iowa Minnesota South Dakota Nebraska Wisconsin and Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Power Commission
Midwestern
Northern Natural Gas Co
Omaha
Northern
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Illinois
Queen Elizabeth Opens Seaway on Royal North American Tour
The Seaway's ceremonial opening follows its April operation start. President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth sail 31 miles through locks from St Lambert to Beauharnois aboard Britannia, with dignitaries from 50 nations and a fleet of warships escorting.
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Great Lakes
Duuth
Minn
Britannia
President
Elizabeth
St. Lambert Locks
Montreal
Beauharnois Locks
Canada
St. Hubert Air Base
U. S
Eisenhower
Washington
Prince Philip
John Diefenbaker
St. Lambert
Queen
St. Lawrence
Cornwall
Ont
Massena
N. Y
Three Car Crash Injures Sausalito Motorist
A 42-year-old Sausalito man, Cy Reznek, was injured with a front end damaged 1954 two door car after a three vehicle collision at 8 17 a m at 4th and Cass streets. Edward Woodke 55 of Gillette Wis and Norbert Hammes 48 of 1405 East Ave S also involved. Woodke paid a $10 fine for running a red arterial light after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sausalito, Calif
4Th
Cass Streets
Cy Reznek
Edward A. Woodke
Gillette
Wis
Army reserve groups arrive to support war time control
The 32nd and 34th Quartermaster Groups join with headquarters in Chicago and units across Illinois and southwestern Michigan. The 354th numbers over 600 personnel while the 362nd Signal Group operates in Chicago area plus Indiana, Iowa and Milwaukee. Two CAMG units, the 363rd Civil Affairs and Military Government Group and the 309th CAMG Group, headquarter in Chicago and Detroit with units in Michigan, Illinois and Winona Minnesota. CAMG units total about 200 officers and 300 enlisted.
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Chicago
Illinois
Michigan
354Th
U.S. Army Reserve
362Nd Signal Group
Chicago Area
Indiana
Iowa
Milwaukee
363Rd Civil Affairs and
309Th
CAMG
Detroit
Winona
Veterans group opposes non essential Bong spending
Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars delegates adopted a resolution opposing non essential spending on Richard I Bong Air Force Base near Kansasville saying entertainment facilities exist in Racine Kenosha Milwaukee and Chicago. The group urged Eisenhower to seek a design for a 50 state flag, asked against higher University Hospitals charges for veterans, backed a strong civil defense program, demanded a National Guard strength of 400000, and urged a robust Navy to keep sea lanes open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wausau
Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention
Richard I. Bong Air Force Base
Kansasville
Racine
Kenosha
Milwaukee
Chicago
Eisenhower
Madison
National Guard
Laird Backs Dropping Camp McCoy Atlas Plan
Representative Melvin Laird of Wisconsin announced Defense Department plans to drop using Camp McCoy near La Crosse as an Atlas intercontinental missile launching site. He praised the decision noting McCoy would become a permanent training base instead. He also endorsed cancellation of a Bomarc missile base at Truax Field Madison, saying interiors cannot justify such bases and urging moving Bomarc funds north.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Wis
Defense Department
Camp McCoy
la Crosse
Laird
House
Military Appropriations
Army
Truax Air Force Base
Madison
Department
Wisconsin
Faubus Eases View On School Integration After Riot History
The article recalls Orval Faubus’s stance on integrating white schools, noting his claim the federal government must enforce integration and his warnings of violence if schools open to Negro students. It also recounts federal intervention at Central High after riots and National Guard deployment alongside Eisenhower’s troops during 1957 58.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faubus
National Guard
Central
Acid blast kills two at Foote Mineral Co plant
An explosion at Foote Mineral Co in Knoxville Tennessee hurled two workers Albert Hurst and Mac Cox into a 13 000 gallon vat of acid. Firemen recovered the bodies from the vat early today.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Albert Hurst
Mac Cox
Foote Mineral Co
Simple Extension of Current Tax Rates Urged in Senate House Talks
Washington AP reports House tax leaders press to extend current corporate and excise tax rates for another year while Senate amendments alter travel and dividend taxes, highway funding, and old age grants. Conferees meet to resolve differences as July 1 deadline nears.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Mills
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Congress
Eisenhower
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Green Bay Driver Chases Hit and Run Suspect
La Crosse police trace clues in a Friday hit and run on 4th Street near Main and State. Albert J. Hetue, driving a 1959 station wagon, followed a light green Plymouth north toward Winona, reported details after the pursuit. The fleeing car, a 1955 to 1957 model, left slight front damage and bumper scrapes. Hetue obtained the license number and informed authorities, noting he tried blinking his lights to stop the vehicle. A second hit and run near Gillette Street left a Wartinbee car with about $100 damage as it was struck while parked.
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Green Bay
la Crosse
4Th
Main
State
Winona
Minn
Albert J. Hetue
Hetue
4Th Street
Hettie
Hette
D. Russell Wartinbee
Wood St
Ann Wartinbee
Gillette Street
East Prospect Street
Wartinbee
Siding Left At Wrong House
Mrs. Lyle Schleifer of 635 St. Oak St Onalaska seeks to identify who delivered aluminum siding last Saturday morning. She told the sheriff she does not know the source or origin and nine bundles remain unrecovered at her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle Schleifer
St. Oak St
Onalaska
Gardens Raided on 19th Market Street Gardens
Two neighbors reported raiding vegetable plots north of Market Thursday night. Produce and leaves were scattered in the alley. Police logged the tip at 9 20 a m Friday from a caller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market
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T.W
Dakota
Lansing (Cp
Preirie du Chien
Trempleau
Dodger
Black
Fl la Crosse
W. Salemi
Root
Houston
Hokah
Caledonia Street
Nixon Waterman
Prevue
US Weather Bureau
Toda
Seattle
Wagner
United Press
Weather Outlook
By Shearson, Hammill & CO
New York Stock Exchange
Monsanto Chemicals
Dow Jones
Allis-Chalmers
Northern Pacific
American Motors
Bell & Farrell, Inc
Tel
Hamilton
Phillips Pet
Aghland Oil
RCA
Pan Am
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Clark O&r
Reynolds Metals
Jefferson Elec
Caterpillar Trac
Royal Dutch
Pig, Wiggly Bonds
Chrysler
Safeway Stores
Roehring Co
Cities Service
Bears Roebuck Racine Hyd
Columbia Gas
Sinclair Oil
Safway Steel
Cornwith
Edison
la Crosse Tel
SAN Bocony
Consolidated Foods
NS Southern Pacific
Crane
Sperry Rand
Curtiss Wright
Helleman
Dow Chemical
Elec Auto Lite
Stenderd Oi
Ford
Studebaker Packard
One Wm. Bt
Foremost Dairies
Sunray Mid
Inc
Fruthaut Tralier
Swift
Gamble Skogmo
Texas Instruments
Northw. Bane
General Dynamics
Trane
Trane Co
General Electric
20Th Century Fox
United Airlines
1St Bank
General Motors
Wis Pub. Soc
General Tel
U.S. Steel
Getty Oi Zi
Westinghouse
Elec
Northern Ry
Western Union
Greyhound
NS Woolworth
Central Tel
Nt Central
McQuay, Inc
Lake Ont
Montgomery Ward
Tausche
Bas
Chicago Livestock
ThriftsCheck
F.d.1.c
UW Institute
Seaway
Lewis L. Strauss
Commerce
Labor
U. S. Attorney General
J. William Fullbright
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Center of Eyes
St. Laimbert
Woodke
Cass
Reznik
Norbert J. Hammes
East Ave. S
Hammes
VFW
Patek
White House
By Richard P. Powers
Dodge
P.S
Chrysler Corporation
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
Russell B. Long
D-La
Richard L. Neuberger
Ore
Lawrence Welk
Abc-Tv
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