Abolish Pollution Board Proposed in Wisconsin
The Izaak Walton League drafts a bill to dissolve the interdepartmental state committee on water pollution and transfer its duties to a pollution commissioner within the conservation commission. The move targets shifting enforcement away from multiple agencies to one body amid criticism of inaction. The conservation commission recently declined to take a position on anti pollution bills while hearings proceed on Green Bay and Fox River valley pollution.
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Tribune Madison Bureau
Madison
Wis
State Conservation Commission
Izaak Walton
Assembly
Senate
Conservation Commission
League
Fred Kaftan
Green Bay
Richard Steffens
Schneberger
The
E. W. Schneberger
State Committee On
Fox River Valley
Campbell Caucus Sets Saturday Nomination Session
Town of Campbell announces a caucus to be held Saturday at 2 p m at the town hall. Candidates will be nominated for the April 5 election.
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Town of Campbell
Town Hall
Porpoise Etymology Traces To Ancient Terms
Etymology notes that the name porpoise derives from porpisce meaning pork fish. The origin links to archaic language, reflecting how early speakers referenced this marine mammal in relation to its appearance or meat.
Fleis Seeks Alderman Post In Sixth Ward
Edward A. Fleis of 426 South 11th Street announced his candidacy for the sixth ward aldermanic seat on the April 5 ballot. A 50 year resident and real estate man with early work in retail meat and coal, he opposes higher taxes and cites current taxation as excessive. He has two children in teaching. Ruth teaches in Muskegon and John coaches and teaches in Lombard, Wisconsin, both graduates of La Crosse State Teachers College.
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Edward A. Fileis
South 11Th Street
Fleis
Ruth
Muskegon
Mich
John
Lomba
Wis
la Crosse
Colege
Girl Scouts Plan Parties Across City for 37th Birthday
Girl Scouts of La Crosse join with over a million peers for the 37th birthday of Girl Scouting in America on March 12. Five parties will run 3 PM to 6 PM at Christ Episcopal Church Trinity Lutheran Holy Cross Wesley Methodist and the Training School Gym with multiple troops and adult supervisors.
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Girl Scouts of
Paul White
D. B. Donaldson
Holy Cross
Arthur Rogge
Wesley Methodist
B. E. Delienbach
Zorn Elected to National Intercollegiate Basketball Board
W L Zorn athletic director of Wisconsin State Teachers College Eau Claire was elected Thursday to the executive committee of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball.
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Kansas City
W. L. Zorn
Wisconsin State Teachers College
Eau Claire
Wis
National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball
Library hosts poster exhibit by La Crosse children
In the main library children’s room a poster show runs through March under Louise Drumm’s art education program. Works by first through third graders include a complex design by Darlene Conner and pieces from Emerson, Roosevelt, Longfellow, Jefferson, and Franklin schools.
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Darlene Conner
Hogan
Rose Heck
Washington
Sharon Rae Kuehl
Emerson
Lynell Bailly
Longfellow
Ray Wrobel
Mary Finanger
Roosevelt
Sandra Douglas
Francis Stoker
Franklin
Barbara Johnson
Carol Chicken
Janice Lavian
Jefferson
Ann Wartinbee
Rev Schroeder to Close Fatima Novena Sermon at Dominican
The Rev Karl G Schroeder M S Oxon president of the National Catholic Theater conference and Loras College professor will deliver the closing sermon Sunday evening for the Fatima novena at the Dominican monastery The novena began in January and includes hourly adoration beginning Saturday at 9 pm with a general holy hour Sunday at 8 pm The speaker is a noted drama figure active in Catholic theater nationwide Speaker Ferron the Dominican chaplain outlined the same schedule as the prior two months inviting public participation
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Karl G. Schroeder
M. S
Oxon
National Catholic Theater Conference
Loras College
Dubuque
Dominican Monastery
Our Lady of Fatima
Iowa
Newman Club
la Crosse State Teachers College
Aquinas High School
Aquinas Chapel
Catholic Theater
United States
National Association
Jose B. Ferron
Minican
Ferron
Names Chairmen For Governor's Conference On Children
Gov Rennebohm named 18 chairmen for a Wisconsin conference on children youth to be held May 26 27 in Madison. Panel leaders will cover child welfare youth service education and health with speakers including Minnesota Governor Luther Youngdahl and Western Reserve official Leonard Mayo.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
Luther Youngdahl
Minnesota
Leonard Mayo
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
F. H. Schlichting
Sheboygan
Harry B. Nash
West Allis
A. W. Arthur
Superior
C. L. Falk
Wauwatosa
F. R. Janney
Eva Burmeister
Ruth Scannell
Joseph Baldwin
Milwaukee
Dorothy Waite
Russell Oswald
John A. Kubiak
Charles A. Walden
Carl Waller
H. H. Reese
R. L. Schumpert
H. Kent Tenney, Jr
Svend Riemer
Marvin Rife
Housewife May Head Jury In Red Trial
Thelma Dial, a Harlem housewife, may serve as foreman of the jury in the conspiracy trial of 11 defendants tied to the Communist party national committee. The selection follows a two month delay amid challenges to the federal jury system.
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New York
Effenders
Thelma Dial
Harlem
National Committee
Communist Party
Madison Woman Named PTA President in Wisconsin
Mrs. William L. Doudna of Madison was named president of the Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers at a Thursday meeting of the congress executive committee. She succeeds A. W. Zellmer of Wisconsin Rapids, who resigned to run for state superintendent of public instruction.
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Madison
Wis
William L. Doudna
Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers
Congress’ Executive Committee
A. W. Zellmer
Wisconsin Rapids
Chile to Invest 100 Million Yearly in Worker Housing
Chilean social security institutes will coordinate to invest 100 million dollars annually in building houses for workers and employees. The plan targets affordable housing and long term accommodation for labor force, aiming to improve living standards and stabilize worker welfare through coordinated funding.
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Chile
States Seek Funds for War on Sea Lamprey
Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin lawmakers and federal officials urged a House Fisheries subcommittee for 330500 more dollars starting July 1 to intensify the lamprey battle damaging Great Lakes lake trout. Michigan Wisconsin Ontario also fund lamprey efforts. officials warned Lake Superior remains the trout’s last stronghold.
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Washington
Great Lakes
Congress
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
House Fisheries Subcommittee
Ontario
Leonard Schwartz
Illinois Conservation dii
Records point to vandalized cornerstone discoveries in Racine
In Racine Wisconsin officials opened the 1890 cornerstone of the First Congregational church and found only dust and a yellowed newspaper. The stone had been rifled five days after sealing on August 5 1890. Church members bought a new building and hoped for founding documents from 1852.
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Racine
Wis
First Congregational Church
Metal Prices Slow To Rise Lead Breaks Postwar High
In a shifting market lead leads the first break in a nine year upward sweep with prices rising to 21.5 cents per pound as other metals and commodities weaken. Scrap metal markets show declines from last year’s peaks with lead scrap dropping from 29 cents to around 14 cents per pound.
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New York
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