Lutheran School Concert At Onalaska
A festival concert and program of Firsts will be presented by 11 area Lutheran elementary schools in Luther High Onalaska at 315 p m Sunday. Selections come from seven choirs six schools two bands and an orchestra with 18 students winners from a March 3 contest and 11 merit awards. Fred W Hagedorn festival chairman will present. Seven hundred attended the March 3 event and more are expected. The program features many named choirs bands and individuals from La Crosse First Lutheran Mt Calvary St Paul Sparta Caledonia etc with Henry Aronson of La Crosse to evaluate the music and Gerhard Schapebahm chairing the concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther High
Onalaska
Fred W. Hagedorn
Mt. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran
Susan Berg
Charles Bonow
Kathy Ragner
Darlene Sprain
Debra Hogan
John Hefti
Mary Tauscher
Mary Stellick
Kathryn Lukasek
David Christianson
Linda Jenkins
Lynn Miller
Renee Pfaff
Mary Ellen Backer
Lola Hanke
la Crosse
First Lutheran Choir
Lester A. Raabe
Bangor
R. A. Siegler
St. John’s School Choir
Sparta
Silas
Henry Aronson
Gerhard Schapebahm
St. Matthew’s School
Winona
Deaths: Mrs Phyllis R Fanning 37 Oconomowoc Minn
Mrs Phyllis R Fanning 37 of Oconomowoc and formerly of La Crescent Minnesota died Thursday in an Oconomowoc hospital. She is survived by her husband Charles her mother and father Mr and Mrs Frank Bielski of Milwaukee and one brother Daniel of Milwaukee. Services set for 9:30 a.m. Monday at St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Okauchi and burial in St Marys Cemetery Milton Junction. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday at Luke Clasen Funeral Home Oconomowoc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis R. Fanning
Oconomowoc
la Crescent, Minn
Charles
Frank Bielski
Milwaukee
Daniel
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church
Okauchi
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Milton Junction
Luke-Clasen
Board Honors Dr Wakefield for 52 Years of Service
The La Crosse County Board honors Dr Guy F Wakefield a County Hospital doctor from West Salem who is leaving after 52 years at the institution. A resolution by Institutions Committee Chairman Charles Guenther was adopted on Thursday morning praising his splendid and devoted service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse County
Guy F. Wakefield
West Salem
Charles Guenther
Onalaska
Wakefield
Revised bid for county home land sale explored
William W. Morrison of 2001 Losey Blvd. has revised his bid for part of the La Crosse County Home and Infirmary grounds. He now seeks to buy the entire hillside east of the Home, offering $375 per acre for a 3 acre tract, in a proposal referred to the institutions committee for study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse County
William W. Morrison
Losey Blvd
Institutions Committee
Charles Guenther
Onalaska 2Nd Ward
County
Morrison
Guenther
Typhus Like Epidemic Kills 170 in Bolivian Town
An outbreak described as typhus like has caused 170 deaths in San Joaquin Bolivia near the Bolivia Brazil border. Earlier reports estimated up to 400 deaths in Juajarama Brazil. A US medical mission says rats displaced by jungle settlements spread the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolivia
San Joaquin
Juajarameria
United States
Toynbee Warns at Decorah on Atomic Era Extinction
British historian Arnold Toynbee warned Decorah that each era is unique yet faces grave peril from atomic war and human folly. He argued since 1945 humanity risks extinction, with microbes and self destructive power as major threats, urging action to abolish war and share civilization’s benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Iowa
Arnold Toynbee
Dr. Toynbee
Gundersen
Adolf Gundersen
Toynbee
Castro Criticizes Satellites Over Moscow Line
Paris AP report quotes Fidel Castro branding satellite Communist parties as bureaucrats and satellites that blindly follow Moscow. He rejects Khrushchev's edict on abstract art and questions Western support during October’s blockade while stressing Cuba’s view that only capitalism and imperialism threaten it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Communist Party
Moscow
Khrushchev
Castro
Claude Julien
le Monde
Today
Wv On
Europe
Latin America
Kennedy
Ann Landers Advice Columns From 1963
A trio of Ann Landers letters from 1963 cover child biting behavior guidance for an 18 month old, sharing parental responsibility in aging care, and gratitude for neighborly child entertaining. The column offers practical solutions and urges private nonpunitive discipline, shared duties, and appreciation for generosity.
Death services held for Mrs Jessie Johnson Schneider
Mrs Jessie Johnson Schnei der, 76, died March 11 in a Tomah hospital. Services were March 13 at Hare Funeral Home New Lisbon with Revs Leland and Ellen Shaw officiating. Burial followed in Oakwood Cemetery Manston. Survived by daughter Mrs James Melendrez of New Lisbon, brother Roscoe Johnston of Ontario, and one grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lisbon
Wis
Jessie Johnson Schneider
Tomah
Hare
Leland
Ellen Shaw
Oakwood Cemetery
Manston
James Melendrez
New ‘Lisbon
Roscoe Johnson
Ontario
Waukon Woman 91 Dies. Services Set at Zion Church
Mrs Charles Siekmeier 91 former Mathilda Huene mann died Thursday in a Waukon hospital. Born Feb 1 1872 in Norwood Minn she moved to Waukon in 1898 and married Aaron Shindall who preceded her in death. Survived by son Aaron Shindall Jr one brother Rev Henry Huenemann and nine grandchildren 19 great grandchildren. Services 1 30 p m Saturday Zion Reformed Church Waukon Rev William Odenbach officiating burial Oakland Cemetery. Martin's Funeral Home in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
Lorn
Charles Siekmeier
Mathilda Huenemann
Norwood
Minn
Gerhardt Huenemann
Aaron Shindall
Charles Sickmeier
Aaron Shindall Jr
Henry Huenemann
Lynden
Wash
Zion Reformed Church
William Odenbach
Oakland Cemetery
Martin
Mabel Man Ole M Peterson 91 Dies at Green Lea Manor
Ole M Peterson died Wednesday at Green Lea Manor in Mabel Minnesota aged 90. Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Hesper Lutheran Church with Rev. Allen Heremeier officiating. Burial in Hesper Lutheran Cemetery. Born March 23 1871 in Allamakee County Iowa to Mikkel Peterson and wife. Married Maria Larson March 27 1894. She died October 1951. Survived by daughters Myrtle Hagen Harmony and Palma Dykeman Hesper Iowa, son Orrin Mabel, five grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. Mengis Funeral Home Mabel in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel, Minn
Hesper Lutheran Church
Ole M. Peterson
Green Lea Manor
Mabel
Allen Heremeier
Hesper Lutheran Cemetery
Peterson
Allamakee County
Iowa
Mikkel Pederson
Maria Larson
Myrtle Hagen
Harmony
Minn
Palma Dykeman
Hesper
Orrin
Mengis
Merrillan and Sparta Obituaries Two War Vets Die Within Days
Samuel G Finn 65 dies in Madison hospital after WWI service. Funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday Methodist Church Merrillan with military rites. burial East Lawn Cemetery. Survivors include wife Mabel, two daughters in Alma Center and Madison, a son in California, a brother and three sisters. Lillian Pearl Hinds 66, Sparta widow of John Hinds Sr, dies Thursday. Funeral Sunday Lanham Mortuary, burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Survived by two sons, two grandchildren, three sisters, two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel
Ray Waters
Alma Center
Dorothy Doherty
Madison
George
Ojai
Calif
Everett
Phillipsburg
Mont
Hazel Finn
Sparta
Wis
Lillian Pearl Hinds
John Hinds
Lanham
H. Raymond Voss
Woodlawn
Hinds
Leon
William la Due
John
Spencer
Harry Johnson
Janesville
Martin Toohey
Robert Ehle
Rockford, Ill
Spencer la Due
Glenn la Due
West Salem
Local figures listed in community notice
Kee Mrs Frank Burke Beaver Dam and Mrs Ben Lennon Piedmont Calif and eight grand Mr Finn was custodian of the school here and sexton of the cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kee
Frank Burke
Beaver Dam
Ben Lennon
Piedmont
Calif
Finn
Neat obituary notices for Robert H. Zimmerman
Robert H. Zimmerman 77 died Wednesday evening at his home from a stroke. Rev. L. Keith Hanley will officiate at the Methodist Church with burial in Riverside Cemetery. He was born December 18 1886 moved to Garden Valley as a boy farmed then worked 15 years for Midland Oil Co retired a year ago. Surviving Ella his widow two daughters Mrs John Pester and Dorothy Black River Falls two sons Everett Humbird Vernon Winona and six grandchildren. Friends may call Friday at Langlois Galston Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Falls
Wis
Robert H. Zimmerman
Methodist ‘Church
L. Keith Hanley
Riverside Cemetery
Langlois- Galston
Mr. Zimmerman
Garden Valley
Midland Oil Co
Ella
John
Evelyn) Pester
Dorothy
Everett
Humbird
Vernon
Winona
Von Haden Gilbert J. obituary at Blair Wisconsin
Gilbert J. Von Haden 54 died of a heart attack at his Blair home. Services at Zion Lutheran Church pending. He was born November 7, 1908 in Clifton and married Lorene Schirmer in 1936. Survived by his widow two sons Frederick and Robert two grandchildren and several siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair
Wis
Gilbert J. von Haden
Zion Lutheran Church
Frederixon Funeral Home
Clifton
Gilbert von Haden
Lorene Schirmer
New Lisbon
von Haden
Preston Cooperative Creamery
Frederick
U.S. Army
Germany
Robert
Villa Park
Ill
Lester
Floyd
Boscobel
Myron
Tomah
Russell Ellingson
Tomah man Glenn Quacken Bush Dies At 71
Glenn Quacken Bush 71 died Wednesday in a Tomah hospital. The funeral will be Saturday at White Funeral Home with Rev. Thomas Jarrell officiating. Burial will be at Mound Cemetery.
Market tickers and fund quotes from March 22 1963 page
A dense list of stock prices and ratios for corporations such as Pepsi-Cola American Can RCA Ford General Motors and General Electric. Also includes bond and mutual fund quotes with price ranges and percentage figures from Bell & Farrell Inc and Fidelity Boston fund and other funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific
Allis-Chalmers
Olin Mathieson
Phillips Pete
American Motors
RCA
Amer. Tel. & Tel
Republic Steel
Rexall Drug
Avco
Reynolds Metals
Boeing
Royal Dutch
Boston Capital
Safeway
Brunswick
G. D. Searle
Chrysler
Sears Roebuck
Celanese
Sinclair Oil
Columbia Gas
Socony
Consolidated Food
Sperry Rand
Curtiss Wright
Standard Oil
Ind
DuPont
N.J
Eastman Kodak
Stud.Packard
Financial Fed
Sunray
Ford
Swift
Texaco
General Dynamics
Trane
General Electric
United Airlines
General Motors
U.S. Freight
General Telephone
U.S. Rubber
Glass Tire, Inc
U.S. Steel
Great Northern R. NS Wallace Press
Greyhound
Westinghouse Elec
Illinois Central
Western Union
Intl
Harvester
White Motor
Interstate Power
Woolworth
Jones & Laughlin
Zenith
la Crosse Cooler
Mack Trucks
Montgomery Ward
Monsanto Chemical
Prairie Cemetery Notice of Survivors Listing
Surviving are two sons Oliver and Harry in Milwaukee and a daughter Mrs Dorothy Gerke of Tomah. Also two brothers Raleigh of Seattle Washington and Harry of Anti go, a sister Mrs Roy McCom ber of Auburn Washington and five more relatives referenced in the fragment.
Three youths enlisted for four years in Navy at Great Lakes
A former naval reservist joins two other youths in four year Navy enlistments and training at Great Lakes Ill Dean J Hall son of Dean J Hall Jr 2103 Prospect St Gary D Gonyea son of Gerald Gonyea 1717 Loomis St and Arland L Nordin son of Mrs Selma Nordin rural Viroqua comprise the trio in this Navy program
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Great Lakes, Ill
Dean J. Hall
Dean J. Hall Jr
Prospect St
Gary D. Gonyea
Gerald Gonyea
Loomis St
Arland L. Nordin
Selma Nordin
Viroqua
Milwaukee Livestock Market Report AP
Milwaukee livestock market report shows hogs with receipts near 200 and steady trade, cattle receipts around 300 with steady to weak cows, calves receipts 300 with prices ranging for heavyweights 30 to 34 dollars and lighter stock 18 to 28 dollars, markets noted as steady to higher in parts and mixed across categories. Top hogs reached 14.25 dollars per hundredweight with sows mostly 12 to 13 dollars and boars 10.50 to 11.50. Cattle quotes included dairy bred heifers 17.50 to 20.50, steers 20 to 23.50, heifers 19 to 22.50, with various canners to utilities and bulls noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell & Farrell, Inc
Clark Oil
First
Gateway
Godfrey Co
Hamilton Mfg
Heileman Brw
Koehring Co
Rubber Mills
la Crosse Tel
Bid
Marine Cap
McQuay, Inc
Nekoosa
North Plastics
North States
Pyroil
Rap-In-Wax
Roy
Dutch N.Y
Trane Co
Warner Elec
Western Tool
Western Power
Tausche Bonds
Mutual Funds
Boston Fund
Chem
Eaton & Howard Bal. Fund
Eaton & Howard Stock Fund
Fidelity Fund
Incorp. Invest
Mass. Inv. T
Mass. Investors
South ST. Paul
South ST. Paul, Minn
USDA
Winona Livestock Market Prices and Police Ambulance Notices
Winona livestock report from Swift & Company shows hog and cattle pricing with steady to higher markets. Also records police ambulance calls in City and county for March 21 with names ages and addresses.
Gale Couples Club Hosts Work Night at Church
GALESVILLE Wis The Gale Couples Club of the Presbyterian Church will hold a work night Saturday starting at 8 p.m. Members volunteered to paint the church interior. Committee in charge are Mr. and Mrs Robert Hilton and Mr. and Mrs Robert Sacia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galesville
Wis
The
Presbyterian Church
Robert Hilton
Robert Sacia
Mississippi River Forecast and Stage Readings
River readings list flood stage measurements for Winona La Crosse and surrounding dams with daily changes and forecasts. Tributaries Trempealeau Black Root and Mississippis forecast show continued slow fall toward weekend readings in McGregor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona
C.P
Es Dam
T.W
Dakota
Lacrosse
Lansing
Pr. du Chien
Trempealeau
Dodge
Black
Weather Summary for La Crosse and Midwest Regions
Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday with lows in the 30s and highs around 50s. Wisconsin and Iowa expect mostly fair conditions and rising temperatures, while Minnesota shows cloudy north and fair south. Five day outlook forecasts above normal temperatures, light precipitation midweek, and mild conditions into next week. Sunrise and sunset times given for Saturday. Degree days totals and shipping forecast projection noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Atomic Power Is Topic Of Rotary Talk
At a Thursday noon Rotary meeting in the Stoddard Hotel Clinton Seaquist and Sam Dean of Northern States Power Co presented Electricity From The Atom. The Pathfinder atomic power plant at Sioux Falls S D was described as an NSP owned research project operating with nine other utilities and the Atomic Energy Commission to study economical power production with atomic fuel as fossil fuels dwindle. The United States leads in electric power production, underscoring rapid fuel depletion. The film showed the Pathfinder installation and power production process. Phillip Quillin joined as a new member with visiting Rotarians Pat Trahan and James Erickson and guests L J Renneberg and Roger Griffin in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Seaquist
Sam Dean
Northern States Power Co
Rotary
Stoddard Hotel
Seaquist
Pathfinder Atomic Power
Sioux Falls
S.D
NSP
Atomic Energy Commission
Pathfinder
United States
Phillip Quillin
Pat Trahan
Bay City
Mich
James Erickson
Onalaska
L. J. Renneberg
Madison
Roger Griffin
Two From Waukon Injured In Falls
WAUKON Iowa Two Waukon business people were injured on the last day of winter in 1963 both hospitalized with hip injuries. Paul Bakke local mortician fell on ice near his garage and suffered a crushed hip at the Waukon hospital. Mrs P H LeTourneau fell near her porch fracturing her hip and was taken to a La Crosse hospital for surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukon
Iowa
Paul Bakke
Waukon Hospital
P. H. LeTourneau
la Crosse
Sunnyside Community Club Card Party in Blair Wisconsin
Sunnyside Community Club will hold a public card party Friday at 8 15 p m at Sunnyside School Blair Wis. joins residents for a social evening with games and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair
Wis
Sunnyside Community Club
Sunnyside
Reckless Driver Is Fined 204 by Municipal Judge
Allan M. Friedman of Minneapolis was fined 204 for reckless driving. Police say his car was clocked at 62 mph on 3rd Street, then reached 75 mph during a chase before crashing in the 2600 block of South Avenue. He was slightly injured and his car was a total loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Chojnacki
Chojnacki
Allan M. Friedman
Minneapolis
Minn
Friedman
South 3Rd Street
South Avenue
Senate panel roils Air Force memo clash over fraud claims
Jerome Adlerman on the defense contract probe says charges are harassment aimed at a aide who exposed major errors in Defense Department figures. McClellan demands Senate action to end hearings, while Gilpatric and McNamara testify amid heated exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Adlerman
Subcommittee
Adlerman
Defense Department
Senate
McClellan
Deuty
Roswell L. Gilpatric
McNamara
Largest American cat Jaguar rivals tiger in size
The jaguar is the largest and most powerful cat in America. It can, on rare occasions, reach a size comparable to an ordinary tiger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Births listed for multiple families across Wisconsin towns
March births reported from Lutheran Hospital Grandview Hospital St Francis Hospital and Black River Falls area noting newborns a mix of daughters and sons to various parents with names and addresses including Raymond Abraham Diersen Barlows and others in Hou ston Caledonia Ona laska Galesville Lansing and Alma Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell L. Raymond
S. 30Th St
Sally K. Eckart
Arlon C. Abraham
Houston
Minn
Inez P. Gunem
Donald P. Diersen
Caledonia
Alice M. Bolduan
Dr Otis Negard Veteran Dentist Dies at 78
Dr Otis Negard 78 area dentist with more than 50 years practice died Thursday in a Black River Falls nursing home He was born January 28 1885 in Wisconsin and worked in Fairchild Merrillan before moving to Hixton and retiring last year Surviving: son Joe Whitewater sister Mrs John Taylor Whitehall two brothers W B Negard New Richmond J R Negard Black River Falls Funeral service Sunday Jensen Funeral Home Hixton with Rev E Harvey Buxton of Sparta Episcopal Church officiating burial at East Lawn Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Center
Wis
Otis Negard
Black River Falls
Negard
Wisconsin
Fairchild
Merrillan
Charlotte
Joe
Whitewater
John Taylor
Whitehall
W. B. Negard
New
Besakih Festival Ghost Purge Tied to Volcano Anger
Besakih on Bali hosts a centennial festival to purify the island of roaming ghosts after Agung’s eruption. Locals link divine anger to not seeking permission for the festival. Agung is part of a volcanic chain across Indonesia, 600 miles from Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption that produced world spanning dust clouds and 35,000 fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Besakih
Agung
Krakatoa
Sunda Strait
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Lutheran
Phyllis Fanning
Dr. Wakefield
County Home Land
Wvow
E. D. Farwell
Luther College
Gunnar A. Gundersen
Ann Landers
Olathe
Kansas
Field Enterprise, Inc
Mrs
Jessie Schneider
Ole Peterson
Samuel Finn
Samuel G. Finn
Richard Schriver
East Lawn Cemetery
Jensen Funeral Home
Hixton
Lillian Hinds
Robert Zimmerman
Glenn Quackenbush
Dow Jones
Great Lakes
Milwaukee Livestock
Swift & Company
Chicago
Idaho
Minnesota-North Dakota
Red River Valley
Chicago Produce
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Grain Chicago
S. 10Th St
Cheryl Gonyea
St. Francis Hospital
Main St
Sally Ceman
Robert Hoffman
Wet Coulee Road
Gale Couples Club
Shippers
Carvan Drug Stores
Siroil Laboratories
Dept
Santa Monica
California
Grandview Hospital
Gordon Bakalars
Travis St
Lois Severson
Merle Peterson
Jo Collins
Sally Ann
Fred Barge
Audrey Thompson
Barbara
Dennis Nuckles
Oak Drive
Betty Schmidt
Stephan F. Gasper
Rockland
Sharon A. Muenzenberger
Donald T. Bruning
Hyde Ave
Betty A. Smith
George D. Christiansen
Marion J. Rohrer
Virgil F. Buchner
Victory Ave
Phyllis M. Ideker
Kenneth J. Wing
1St Ave. E
French Island
Patricia E. Haugen
Carlos A. Alvarez
Copeland Ave
Susan M. Skemp
Hilary J. Hammes
S. 26Th St
Marilyn D. Holter
Patrick J. Burke
Corrine K. Schultz
Black River Falls, Wis
Phyllis Kay
John Turnmire
Edith Christian
Lawrence Truman
Lawrence Snowball
Ellen Wilson
Robin Rae
Gordon Turnmire
Helen Netzel
Kathleen
Ann
John Depp
Ettrick
Ann Witte
Stanley Christopherson
June Quast
Gordon Bruce
George Nigbor
Letha Carley
Victor Johnson
Betty Gehring
LaCrosse Symphony
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