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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1947
Page
15
Social security officials push extending coverage beyond selected occupations. The plan would include farm workers self employed domestics and other groups, noting 23 million jobs are currently excluded. Proponents urge universal protection as retirement and death benefits hinge on coverage.
NEW YORK 4 4 percent Mrs Charles W Tillett vice chairman of the Democratic national committee and Mrs Robert W Macauley assistant chairman of the Republican national committee urged clubwomen to engage in politics. They said women must lift their share of party work at the local level and run for office. Also notes William Sale of Bladock England celebrated his 102nd birthday by cutting a cake with 102 candles.
Wayne F. Kleinertz of La Crosse has been promoted to staff sergeant in the Fifth Air Force while stationed at Yokota AAB Japan. He serves as an armorer gunner on an A-26 incident bomber with the 13th Hazardous Device Squadron of the 3rd Hazardous Device Group, the historic unit known as the Grim Reapers. The group, famed for air combat over Flanders in 1918 and post Pearl Harbor service, has logged 24 combat sorties with the Eighth Air Force and earned the Air Medal with three Oak Leaves and two European Theater battle stars. Kleinertz entered service in October 1943 and returned overseas in December 1946 to Yokota.
Labor news outlines a busy week with CIO UAWA locals 316 448 and 401 meeting times and a July 10 postponement for local 448. It notes a UAW CIO regional conference in Chicago to study Taft Hartley provisions and critiques the bill as harming democratic liberties and living standards. It highlights large White House petitions for a veto and accuses Congress of siding with big business against workers.
South Africans favor allowing immigration if newcomers pay their own passage and secure housing in advance, reflecting a preference for individual responsibility in migration.
At Mare Island California three Guam girls in a Navy rehabilitation center parade with artificial limbs. Commander Canty notes civilian amputees lack clinics like this and urges broader access while detailing cost and training efforts for prosthetics and rehabilitation.
The La Crosse Teachers College social committee under Miss Alice DeBower will start a summer program with a 7 30 to 9 p m social evening in the women's gym featuring folk games dancing and mixers with refreshments. Hans C Reuter leads the committee for an all school picnic Wednesday at Myrick Park with reservations due by Tuesday noon.
Northwest Airlines disclosed how it assembled nearly 1,000 tons of equipment and supplies for Far East service. The operation spanned air rail and sea routes with purchases in Leyte Tokyo Manila and Seoul and involved 11 months of planning and customs clearances.
Thirty four patients including five teachers from La Crosse county were screened at the Wisconsin Anti Tuberculosis Association chest clinic held at the Vocational school on Wednesday. Eighteen were adults and sixteen children. 60 tuberculin tests were given, with 46 to 4 H club members. Dr. F P Dolan of Milwaukee served as examining physician.
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