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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1948
Page
4
La Crosse Vocational and Adult schools invite the public to an open house on Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8 p m. Visitors will see finished projects across gymnasium room 129 college of commerce room 103 and homemaking room 303 and may learn about day and evening classes.
D B Robertson president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen told a presidential fact finding board hearing in Cleveland that railroad employees are entitled to a combination of the second and third rounds of wage increases. The board seeks to resolve a dispute over a 30 percent raise and working rules changes with three small unions including Alvaniey Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Switchmen's Union of North America.
A circular letter distributed to Kaiser-Frazer employees accuses Cyrus S. Eaton of Otis and Co. Cleveland of attempting to coerce Kaiser-Frazer into canceling a stock sale contract. The Kaiser letter, signed by Henry J. Kaiser, outlines expansion plans and the need for additional capital. Representatives from Otis and Co. declined to comment in Cleveland.
The Rev. Harold N. Stoffel of the English Lutheran Church will be the main speaker at the Trinity Lutheran Brotherhood meeting Thursday. The event starts at 8 p.m. A hymn sing and lunch will follow.
Native communities in New Guinea fashion large fishing nets from spider silk and spider webs, turning delicate strands into functional gear for catching fish.
Clann na Poblachta hosts the completion of a training program for young political speakers in Dublin. Sean McBride, a party leader, outlined aims and objects of the republican group which pledges to reintegrate Ireland as a free republic. The party, described as democratically controlled and independent, has over seventy affiliated branches in the Twenty Six Counties.
Interior Department spokesman Don L. Carroll warned at the Wisconsin Petroleum Association convention that a severe Midwest gasoline shortage is developing with tight supply in weeks ahead. He said essential transportation and agricultural users would be prioritized. K. C. King of Madison noted this summer's supply could be 20 percent below last year.
Stockholm reports a small 24 blade turbine wheel weighing 10 grams and three feet across. driven by air jets on either side it can rotate in either direction. At 10 000 revolutions per minute it reverses in a fraction of a second due to its light wheel and smooth bearing. Buy Savings Bonds.
Navy medical note warns the venomous Black Widow can mimic acute abdominal illness leading to unnecessary surgery. It cites reports from 1936 noting rising bites in cities and states female venom is far more potent than rattlesnake venom.
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