Wisconsin Forest Cutting Law Hopes Rest on Legislature
Wisconsin conservation officials, after four failed sessions, push for a forest cutting regulation law. Commissioner W J P Aberg asks the assembly to study feasibility and appoint a special committee, with hearings and reports due by 1949. He opposes a Senate advisory group backed by lumber interests and notes opposition is limited to a small minority of private forest owners.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Wisconsin
W. J. P. Aberg
Assembly
Aberg
Darren P. Knowles
New Richmond
Commission
Senate
Theislature
Nine Complete Aerial Events To Feature July 4 Air Show
The La Crosse airport hosts a July 4 air show at 1 p m featuring nine acts by an all veteran troupe. Notable performers include F O Smith Batman Boyd and Johnny Schumacher with feats from parachute jumps to aerial clown routines. Schumacher and Smith emphasize wartime service and instructional roles in aviation histories.
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Batman Boyd
la Crosse
Civil Air Patrol and Reserve Officers’ Association
America
F. O. Smith
Johnny Schumacher
Smith
Cleve
ATC
Maytag Messerschmidt
Memorial Day Service at Margraten Honored 18000 American Graves
Descriptive letter from Peter Weerts to Clerk of Court and Mrs. Oliver Hanson details memorial day services at Margraten cemetery in Holland where 18 000 American soldiers are buried. The note notes royal and ambassadorial presence and stars and stripes on each grave with flowers. It mentions Hansons son Harland who died in a prisoner of war camp and is cared for by Weerts who keeps them informed.
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Sparta
Wis
Margraten
Holland
Oliver Hanson
Peter Weerts
Hanson
Harland
England
France
Belgium
Austria
Italy
Chile
South Africa
Poland
Weerts
Hansons
New Plumbing Firm Opens In Westby
A 20x50 concrete building on Main Street near completion will house a complete modern plumbing shop. The shop opens in about a month. Owners are Vic Constalie and his two sons Stanley and Randolph. The senior Constalie has 36 years of plumbing service in Westby. his sons are licensed plumbers with years of local experience.
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Westby
Wis
Main Street
Vic Constalie
Stanley
Randolph
Constalie
Elk Creek Nurse Joins Eau Claire Hospital Staff
Martha Marsolek RN has joined Sacred Heart hospital Eau Claire after discharge from the U S Army Nurse Corps serving near Fort Lewis Illinois bases and Camp McCoy during two years of duty. She toured several southern states with three other nurses before returning west.
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Independence
Wis
Martha Marsolek
R. N
Sacred Heart Hospital
Eau Claire
Paul Marsolek
Elk Creek
U. S. Army Nurse Corps
Fort Lewis
Wash
Illinois
Camp McCoy
West
Truman signs extend fiance visa law to Dec 31
President Truman Saturday signed legislation extending the current law granting alien fiances of past or present armed forces members permission to enter the United States for marriage until December 31. The existing law would have expired Monday at midnight.
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Washington —i
President Truman
United States
Marshfield High Restored to Accredited List
Fred A. Ryner counsel for Marshfield school board announced that the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools reinstated Marshfield High School on its accredited list after an executive committee meeting. The report notes high quality protein foods remain costly and scarce during wartime.
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Marshfield
Wis
Fred A. Ryner
Marshfield School
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Marshfield High School
Red Cross representative to visit La Crosse Teachers College
Miss Eleanor Cook, Junior Red Cross field representative for Wisconsin, will spend Monday and Tuesday at La Crosse Teachers College in room 207 to discuss community services and international relations. She will display material on the topic and offer conferences on Junior Red Cross activities, and address the social recreation class of Miss Alice De Bower Tuesday afternoon.
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Eleanor Cook
Red Cross
Wisconsin
la Crosse Teachers College
Alice de Bower
Fine Flour Bad for Dogs Threatens Growing Hounds
Sir Edward Mellanby of the National Institute of Medical Research says hysteria in growing dogs results from flour bleached and treated by the Agene process. Untreated flour did not cause the malady. He notes about 90 percent of Britain’s flour is now agonized.
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Sir Edward Mellanby
London
National Institute of Medical Research
Edward
Britain
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W. G. Ripplinger
Cities Service Products
Valy
the la Crosse
ADUL
Veterans
Herb “Madman” Page
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Tommy
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