Grandad Bluff Develops Into Popular Park Center
La Crosse park improvements under Park Superintendent Harold Schick expand Grandad Bluff as a tourist site and picnic area. New picnics, parking for about 200 cars, rustic fencing, two new trails Bittersweet and Burr Oak, a lookout, and planned nature maps and shelter improvements boost visitor amenities and access.
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Grandad Bluff
Harold Schick
Grandad
Park Department
Main Street
Burr Oak
Schick
Tribune
la Crosse
Robert Padesky
Hoeschler
Edward
John Laphner
Ben Silver
Ruins Of Rome And Tombstone Bar Inspire Youth Art
Fifteen public school youngsters in La Crosse study art under Miss Helen Patton at State College. Sixty five adults observe to learn teaching methods as they explore designs, mobiles, wire sculpture, papier mache, and clay using inexpensive materials. Exhibits planned for the last week of the summer session will showcase jungle scenes and a horse head sculpture.
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la Crosse State College
Helen Patton
Patton
Miss Patton
Drake University
Racine
Jack Anderson
Barbara Gabrielson
Mary Glue
Lynne Varco
Emerson
Bobby Boisvert
Shirley Nelson
Rita Colby
Sara Portsmith
Washburn
Ann Waggle
Elaine Nelson
Washington
William Dobbs
Neil Doresky
Gordon Luhman
Jeanette Stevens
Robert Temte
Jefferson
Versatile actress hailed during La Crosse summer theater run
The summer theater in La Crosse reduced prices due to lighter crowds amid good weather. The finale of Blithe Spirit at Vocational auditorium opens tonight at 8 30 p m and King Lady debuts Tuesday. Season-ticket holders may double engagements from 10 to 20. Praised is Irenne Webster a versatile character actress from a theatrical family with radio stage and film credits.
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la Crosse
Vocational Auditorium
King Lady
Junior Chamber of Commerce
The
Tribune
Irenne Webster
Stevenson Declines Comment on Possible Democratic Draft
Springfield Ill Gov Adlai E Stevenson again refused to answer whether he would accept a Democratic draft for the Presidential nomination. A reporter asked if he would consider the draft, and Stevenson said I have no comment on that subject which is getting mighty tiresome I still want to be governor of Illinois as much as ever. He seeks re election.
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Springfield
Ill
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois
South Milwaukee Girl Heads Badger State
Mary Ellen Demet 17 of South Milwaukee was elected governor of Badger Girls State. Her Nationalist party teammates captured most state and county offices with Dorothy Krepsky 17 of Kohler named lieutenant governor and other officers Jean Kulas Kath leen Peese and Mary Herman also elected. New officers took oaths and will attend sessions at the Capitol. Franz Schubert used a guitar to work on compositions due to poverty.
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Madison
Mary Ellen Demet
South
Milwaukee
Badger
Miss Demet
Dorothy Krepsky
Kohler
Jean Kulas
Tomahawk
Kathleen Peese
Chippewa Falls
Mary Herman
Capitol
Merrill Lion Named Director at Lions International Meeting
Merrill Wisconsin resident P Ray Gal lipeau nominated as a director of Lions International during the meeting held in Mexico City. The report notes pumpkins do not mix with watermelon and muskmelon crops may be planted safely side by side.
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Mexico City
P—Ray. A. Gallipeau
Merrill, Wis
Lions International
Twenty First Century Horseshoes Found at Somerton Hill
Archaeologists report discovery of twenty horseshoes dating to the twenty first century at Somerton Hill in England. The find prompts questions about local history and possible equestrian activity in the area.
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Somerton Hill
England
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