Tour Of Plants Chamber Plan In La Crosse
A visiting day program for La Crosse plants will start soon under the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce manufacturing committee. Members and companies including Allis-Chalmers, Trane, Dairyland Power, 7-Up, Northern States Power and La Crosse Tribune will participate. regular meetings were set for the first Monday of each month.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Chamber of
Comfe Manufacturers
G. Heileman Brewing Co
F. J. Papenfuss
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co
George, Hoel
the Trane Co
Fred Ren la Crosse Rubber Mills
La Crosse Man's Car Tips Over Near Sparta
A La Crosse man’s car overturned two miles west of Sparta causing major damage. Minor damage was reported on Main Street in Sparta to vehicles driven by Irene Miller and Eugene Poor.
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Sparta
Wis
Robert Suter
North Sixth Street
la Crosse
Willis Oung
Colon Main Street
Irene Miller
Eugene Poor
Victim Of Holdup Follows Orders Reports The Holdup
Sheriff deputies questioned a young man after holdups at a Nashotah tavern and an Okauchee liquor store in Waukesha County. Ira Butler, bartender at George Poetzel tavern, said a gunman held him up and fled with an undetermined amount. Bernard Kielich reported $25 and cigarettes taken after a man entered the A and B liquor store with a hand in a coat pocket and demanded money.
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Waukesha
Wis
Ira Butler
George Poetzel
Nashotah
Bernard Kielich
A and B
Okauchee
Kielich
Po- Rietich
Cleveland Fire Ravages Five Story Brick Building
Firemen battled dense smoke and poured water into a smoldering five story brick building in downtown Cleveland. Officials estimate $300,000 in damage after the blaze began on the first floor of a Lombardo grocery and required five alarms to bring under control.
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Cleveland
Elmer M. Cain
Se We Lombaro
Augusta Sewage Plant Aided By Federal Grant
The General Services Administration approved $101 380 in loans to Ona California and Wisconsin communities to plan $2 217 706 in public works projects including Augusta Wisconsin for a 1358 sewage treatment plant. Interest free loans repayable when construction begins.
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Washington
General Services Administration
Ona
California
Wisconsin
U. S. Treasury
Augusta
Wis
Gen Chen nominated premier by Chiang Kai-shek
Gen Chen Cheng, 52, described as a stout foe of communism, is nominated premier of Nationalist China by President Chiang Kai-shek. Early opposition had formed but he is seen as likely to win the legislative yuan veto.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chen Cheng
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Chen
Legislative Yuan
Madsen Trial Exposes Temper Over Southern Drawl
A prosecution witness at the murder trial of Yvette Madsen testified she let her temper flare in a verbal clash over accents described as a civil war before she allegedly shot her Army husband Andrew Madsen. Other witnesses described slaps and emotional outbursts, as the court heard the details of the evening.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Yvette Madsen
Madsen
Brooklyn
Wilfred C. Hinman
Rhein—Main
Andrew Madsen
Laude W. Shelverton
Macon
Emily M. Swinder
Padeen
Elverton
Lieut. Madsen
Internal Revenue Man Locked Up No Reason Given
St Louis police locked up Justin M Stein 36 a collector in the internal revenue office. Booking Sgt Albert Dallas had no reason or details. Internal Revenue Collector James P Finnegan said he had been informed but offered no explanation. Stein a former baseball player whose career ended in 1941 after a leg break with Milwaukee.
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ST. Louis
Justin M. Stein
Internal Revenue Office
Albert Dallas
Internal Revenue
James P. Finnegan
Stein
Milwaukee
Finnegan
Explosion Cuts Off Gas Supply in Springfield City
An explosion and fire destroyed a pumping station relay plant and a nearby gasoline service station in Springfield leaving 75 000 residents without natural gas. About 7300 homes and 50 industries rely on gas though many can switch to standby equipment. No injuries were reported. City utilities chief C Nick Sprong said repairs could take hours but full gas flow may take days.
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Springfield
Nick Sprong
City Utilities
Lew Lehr Dies at 54 Veteran Newsreel Comedian
Lew Lehr 54 of Brookline Massachusetts and New Canaan Connecticut died Monday after a career as a musical comedy and vaudeville performer before becoming a Fox Movietone newsreel commentator. He was born in Philadelphia and was known for his remark monkeys is the craziest people.
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Brookline
Mass
Lew Lehr
Philadelphia
Lehr
New Canaan
Subways Operate Despite Red Strike in Paris
Paris reports all subway lines running on Tuesday despite a Communist strike called by transport workers. Ministry said traffic was slow and service only about 55 percent of normal as not all cars were in operation.
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Paris
Works and Transport
Horicon Mayor Salary Attracts Candidates
The next Horicon mayor is to be paid a monthly salary for full time work while a large field is expected to contest the post. Previously the position was part time and paid 45 dollars monthly.
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Horicon
Wis
Parking Study Calls for Tougher Time Limits in Downtown
A La Crosse traffic report urges three hour limits in residential districts and intensified enforcement in the one hour metered zone. It notes 59 percent of day long parking occurs in the one hour zone and 15 cars plus two trucks overstay daily in the business district. The plan shifts trucks to alleys, proposes higher fines, loading zones, and expands Market Square from 121 to 216 spaces with a possible three hour limit for some meters.
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Parker
Loop
Rkers
Parkers
Eageensee
la Crosse
Market Square
Dowtown
Trempealeau Pioneers Feared Indian Uprising
Arcadia area history notes that in Meyers Valley and nearby areas Indians visited settlers but caused no crimes before the 1862 Minnesota massacre. Settlers armed for defense, markets at Trempealeau and Fountain City, first homesteaders Frank J and Carl Zeller and Nic and Casper Meyers, migration from Roxbury, St. Joseph church roots, Hartman cemetery marker, first death Philip Hartman Sr. in 1868.
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Arcadia
Wis
Meyers Valley
Minnesota
House of Memories
Trempealeau County
Whitehall
Rempealeau
Fountain City
Winona
Mississippi
Frank J
Carl Zeller
Nic
Casper Meyers
Roxbury
Dane County
Trempesleau County
Meyers
Trempesleau Village
Prairie
Whistler Pass
Bishop Settlement
Man Arrested After Claim Of Abducting Boy
Houston deputies seized a suspect after an excited woman reported seeing a man stuff a boy into a car trunk. The man confessed he planned a drive-in movie trip and put the boy in the trunk to avoid payment.
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Houston
House Votes For Hawaii Statehood Amid Mixed Debate
The House passed a bill to grant statehood to Hawaii amid skepticism about national defense and Communist influence claims. Alaska statehood also advanced in the House with a 186 to 146 vote, while Senate action on both measures remained uncertain.
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Washington
House
Hawaii
Senate
Senate Interior Committee
Alaska
Ep. Cox
D-Ga
Harry Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen's Union
Rep
Cooley
D-Nc
Farrington
Royal Australian air force bomber crashes in Queensland
A Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln bomber crashed and burned in southeast Queensland near Rosewood Ipswich killing four aboard. The nose first impact occurred Tuesday in a rural field.
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Brisbane
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Queensland
Rosewood
Ipswich
Myrtle the Turtle Fertile at Brookfield Zoo
Myrtle the Turtle a 28 year old 300 pound Galapagos giant tortoise at Brookfield Zoo is pregnant and expected to hatch the first American zoo offspring of her species. Zoo Director Robert Bean said the eggs laid on Valentine’s Day will hatch in six to ten weeks in a special incubator.
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Chicago
Myrtle
Brookfield Zoo
Robert Bean
Galapagos Islands
South America
Bean
Seney Bean
Robert Snedigar
Pla
Deniist
Ediger
Jobless payments drop in February in Wisconsin
Madison report shows unemployment benefits totaling 2.368 million dollars in February, down 434000 from January. The state industrial commission also paid 2.263 million to unemployed civilians and 105000 in federal allowances to jobless veterans last month.
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Madison
Wis
Unemooe
State Industrial Commission
Arrange Public Relations Meet in La Crosse Clinic
The Community Chest and Welfare Federation of La Crosse sponsors a public relations clinic next Monday at 4 p.m. in the Vocational School apartment. About 75 welfare agencies are invited to discuss agency PR, with panelists including Mrs. A. E. Hebberd and R. L. Bangsberg.
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Community Chest and Welfare Federation of la Crosse
Red Feather
A. E. Hebberd
R. L. Bangsberg
la Crosse Tribune
Leonard Anderson
WKBH
Alf Gundersen
Norway to Send Fifty Vessels to Greenland Fisheries
Norway announces plans to deploy 50 fishing boats to the Greenland cod and halibut fisheries this year, an increase from 30 boats used in 1949, reflecting expanded Arctic fishing operations and government support for the sector.
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Norway
Greenland
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Lacrosse
South Third St
By Richard K. C. Malley
Madsens
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Frau
Emme Baer
Mrs. Madsen
W. Fred Johnson
St. Louis, Mo
Trempealeau
State Bank
Rose St
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Hawai
Delibe
Helvinator
Kelvinator
Steneno Oy
Northern States Power Company
NCO
Ced
Chest Organization
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