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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1947
Page
2
The piece explains how you can work after 65 and when to file for benefits to maximize payments. It cites Joe Kearney’s missed opportunity with a 34 month window and outlines tests for coverage, spousal and widow benefits, and rules on remarriage and working after filing.
E. P. Hartl director of the city recreation department announced Saturday night that the lavatory facilities at the new north side bathing beach were completed and would operate Sunday. The Black River beach has drawn crowds since opening this year with about 800 persons at the beach Saturday.
A 1947 La Crosse survey outlines housing demand and employment by occupation with weekly earnings, noting city population about 49,600 plus 5,500 suburban residents. It cites historic census figures, immigration, expansion limits north and south of La Crosse, land availability, and planned infrastructure including three new schools and sewer and water mains extensions.
The army renames three postwar troop transports honoring Medal of Honor winners. The Sergeant Charles F E Mower formerly the Tryon was named for Chippewa Falls Wisconsin, fallen November 13 1944 near Leyte. Mower led a squad under mortal wounds and heavy fire, daughter of Gilbert and Mrs. Mower of Chippewa Falls. Conversions to peacetime ships will finish late July or August.
AFL counsel Joseph Padway said after a 100 attorney conference that all AFL unions would be advised not to sign wage contracts with no strike clauses and to affirmatively violate the Taft Hartley ban on union political expenditures to seek a constitutional test of the law and defeat supporters of the act.
New staff details include Dennis Murphy Bud Lynott and Francis Brey as WLCX announcers and operators. Murphy served at Superior Central High and Superior State Teachers College, worked at WDSM and radio overseas. Lynott, ex WEBC Arrowhead network, Duluth graduate, US Navy veteran, has radio production training and WHA auditions. Engineers Joe Gohres and Richard Kelley bring TV radio tech and military transmitter experience. Feminine staff include Anne Snyder and Dorothy Smith with USO and local schooling backgrounds.
Vernon county reports light tobacco damage as branches fall in Westby and storms spare most fields. Ontario and Cashton suffer outages while La Crosse area faces heavy winds and darkened streets. Rochester Minnesota records an 80 mph gust that darkens the city and damages two planes at the airport. Debris cleanup begins across the Coulee Region.
Mrs. Mary Schmidt aged 62 of 1719 Farnam Street died Saturday in a local hospital. Survived by husband Nicholas, three daughters Helen Sokolik Irene Larkin Marie of La Crosse, three sons George Arthur Nicholas Jr of Winona, seven grandchildren, sister Anna Albrecht, brother John Lepsch. Funeral from Blaschke Funeral Home Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. to St. Wenceslaus Church for 9 a.m. mass. Burial in Catholic cemetery. Rosary Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Blaschke home. friends may call Monday afternoon and evening.
Tel Aviv and Haifa were struck by Jewish underground violence Saturday night. British personnel were killed and five wounded, three seriously, and a Jewish civilian was injured. The report notes Israel’s strategic airfields and road networks as context.
In remarks echoed from page one, Eisenhower cites the Soviet Union as the stronger force and says United States military power is thinly deployed and largely made up of young volunteers. He argues that this weakness reduces America’s influence in deterring aggression and that wartime capability must be restored.
London crowds lined Piccadilly Circus to greet the restored Eros statue after years of war time removal. The figure, symbols of peace and prosperity, was carefully safeguarded and is now reinstalled to mark a hopeful return to normalcy for Britain.
The principal crops listed for Arkansas are cotton wheat corn oats white and sweet potatoes hay and fruit reflecting diverse agriculture across the state.
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