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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1964
Page
2
Readers submit personal problems about family dance plans workplace demands and relationship age gaps. Ann Landers counsels on avoiding public dance with mother managing home office boundaries and weighing marriage timing while urging clear communication.
Sparta area man Clare Schwarz, 42, had his right hand and forearm mangled in a hay baler late Thursday. His son James, 13, turned off the machine, minimizing injury. After emergency care in Sparta he was transferred to Madison. amputation unlikely barring complications.
Michael J. Killalea of 405 N. 8th St. began his 37th year of retirement on Saturday and celebrated his 87th birthday. He came to the United States from Ireland in 1901, farmed in Jackson County, retired in 1927, and moved to La Crosse. He is the father of John Killalea, Myrick Park Zoo director.
Local notice invites customers to leave films at Universal Photo Service 514 State Street with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Also advertises African Violet plants for sale and provides a call number 4-0916.
Local notices announce numerous births on June 24 to June 26 at St Francis and Lutheran hospitals, with parents named in Dakota Minn, La Crescent Minn, West Salem Wis, Bos cobel, Trempealeau Wis, Stoddard Wis, and Vienna VA. Names include Flanigan Lehmann Jepsen Halaska Gersch Kalodrich Kenyon Welda and Skaggs among others.
Notices report Paul Leroy Grange 63 longtime Swift & Co. manager dies in Lexington after a long illness. Services were held there. Sister M Merita 64, Lottie Renner 78 and Elizabeth Lutz 93 also die with funeral plans in Wisconsin and Illinois. Survivors and religious orders named. Services scheduled in Kentucky and Wisconsin. burial arrangements noted.
A string of property transfers covers multiple locales including Shelby Town, Holmen Village, Onalaska City, and West Salem. Transfers list buyers and sellers such as Mary Heller, the Halliday family, Dahl, Taggart, Lamkins, Loefflers, Bubbers, Hayes, Parizek, Atchison, Breuer, and multiple additions and streets like Winnebago, 13th to 14th, Pettibone Island, George Street, and 21st Street.
Sparta debuts natural gas service becoming the first in the area east of La Crosse. Wisconsin Gas Co. official Robert Kirchoff and Mayor Ralph Osborne opened the valve at a gate station near Putman Ridge. The system serves 890 customers as lines extend from La Crosse through Medary to Sparta and beyond with more communities planned.
La Crosse Amateur Radio Club will participate in the American Radio Relay League 24 hour field day starting at 4 p.m. Saturday. The group will set up a portable generator near WHLA FM at West Salem to test emergency powered stations for disaster readiness. Amateurs from the United States, West Indies, Canada, and the Canal Zone may join, with public access.
In Sasser Georgia three new Negro churches rebuilt after 1962 arson will be dedicated Sunday. More than $100,000 was raised from people and organizations nationwide. The Mount Olive Baptist church hosts the ceremony, with Shady Grove Baptist and St Mary Baptist also rebuilt nearby.
Uncle Rays Corner explains early timekeeping from Sumeria Babylonia and Egypt. It notes counting moons summers and shadows to track a year and mentions the Nile flood and tribal calendars. The piece invites readers to join the Scrapbook Club with a coupon.
A nighttime crash at the Silverdale Night Club driveway on STH 21 east of Sparta injures Robert Melton, 48, of South Bend Indiana. He is taken to St Mary's Hospital after Dorsie Stivers, 40, of Manchester Kentucky, turns left into Melton's path.
The Citizens Education Committee will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday in Room 2 Campus School to discuss Logan Junior High School and the new high school plans and specifications the long range building program and reports on plans for TV programs on education
The address of Benjamin E. Pulver who pleaded guilty in U S District Court Thursday to two federal firearms act charges is 1912 Farnam St not 1620 Ferry St as reported. Pulver formerly lived at that address.
Ruby Peterson approved for reappointment to Nigeria by Assemblies of God Foreign Missions Board will speak at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at First Assembly of God Church 16th and Ferry Streets. She will show slides on life in Nigeria and mission plans. Peterson will help Irene Crane reduce the Bette language to writing and translate Bible portions.
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at 2135 Weston St will lay the cornerstone for its new sanctuary at 9 a.m. Sunday between worship hours. A tea for Pastor Norman Nelson and wife on Sunday 2 to 4 p.m. marks their 25th anniversary with church members. Dedication is planned for early September. The cornerstone box includes church history, anniversary booklets, constitutions, photos, and a copy of The La Crosse Tribune among other items.
Swedish Protestant preacher Eric Gronlund criticizes current pulpits as boring and unclear. He urges down to earth language, more Sunday services, varied formats, and better minister congregation communication. He publishes Can We Preach Better to push reform.
A compiled directory of local churches with pastors, service times, Sunday schools and prayer meetings across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox parishes in La Crosse and Onalaska. Entries include First Assembly of God, St Joseph's Cathedral, Holy Trinity, St James, and many others with weekday programs and nursery care noted.
Harlow K. Liasenfeld of Great Falls Montana revisited La Crosse for a return trip tied to his past with the Tribune. This visit marks his third return to La Crosse since leaving in 1908 as relatives accompany him on the journey.
Peter F. Meyer of Coon Valley and Nancy J. Betz of Jackson Street are to wed July 4 in La Crosse. Richard A. Headington of Decorah Iowa and Mary L. Hulberg of West Salem Route 1 are set to marry July 25 in West Salem.
Mrs. Robert Light of 233 West Ave S attended with 5,000 United Presbyterian Women at Purdue University for a Christian freedom conference this week.
The La Crosse Seventh day Adventist Church contributed to American Indian work as Frank J. Daugherty, principal of the Navajo Mission School near Holbrook Arizona, reported on the final of 13 weekly summaries. Funds supported a medical mission boat for British Columbia coast Indians a boys dormitory at the Navajo Mission School Arizona and a Lumbee Indian mission school in North Carolina.
Herbert G. Hoelzer on the executive board will represent the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod at the Lutheran Church in America second biennial convention in Pittsburgh on July 29. About 700 delegates from the United States Canada and the Caribbean will review policy amendments to the denomination constitution. Topics include race relations marriage and family life ministerial standards Holy Communion school prayer and a master plan for theological education plus a proposed 1965 1966 budget of 58 863 500 and pension plans.
Sparta Wisconsin Mrs Z S Rice had her request to rezone property on N Water Street from residential to commercial denied by the Sparta Planning Commission Thursday night.
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