AMVET Leader Harold Russell to Visit La Crosse
Harold Russell national commander of Amvets will visit La Crosse on April 3 for a membership camper program. Russell, born 1914 in North Sydney Nova Scotia, became a paratrooper instructor and later starred in The Best Years of Our Lives. He later joined Amvets after studying on the GI Bill and now lives in Watertown Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
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Harold Russell
Amvets
la Crosse
Russell
North Sydney
Nova Scotia
Boston
Harold
Cambridge
Mass
Fort Devens
Sgt
Camp Mackall
Pinehurst
N. C
515Th Parachute Infantry Regiment
13Th Airborne Division
D-Day
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
William Wyler
Robert Sherwood
Homer Parrish
Amvers
Denver
Colo
Boston University
School of Business Administration
Tn Watertown
Ten youths rated true musicians at Coulee Region audition
At the La Crosse Vocational school the Coulee Region music audition named ten youths true musicians. Participants included Top Mary Crandall and Lenore Haefner with others from Mauston Aquinas Alma Center and Washington schools. A benefit for Darlene Anderson appeared with Dean Emerson Lynn Williams and Greg Athnos performing.
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Tribune
Coulee
la Crosse
Mary Crandall
Manston
Lenore Haefner
Loomis
Logan School
Dorothy Beck
Dick Shaw
Mauston
Barbara Bennett
Denton
Aquinas
Phil Skaff
West Avenue
Darlene Anderson
Cass
Logan
Dean Emerson
Alma
Lynn Williams
Greg Athnos
North 23Rd
Washington School
Names Of 30 College Students On Ballot For Council Voting
Thirty students at State Teachers College will appear on the ballot as Campus Controls plans its general election for 20 student government posts. Eight officer candidates survive primaries. the 22 representatives include Greta Cortney and William Cole among others.
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State Teachers College
Campus Controls Council
Charles Behnke
Milwaukee
Richard Cross
Kenosha
Behnake
Council
CCC
Robert Weiss
West Bend
James van Tassel
la Crosse
Audrey Jasiorkowski
Thomas Gunning
Eddyville
N. Y
Patricia Keating
Appleton
William Thrall
Green Lake
Resent Council
Greta ‘Ortney
Viroqua
William Cole
Madison
Robert Lagerman
Delafield
Student Health Board
C. Ashley Ellefson
Ferryville
Card Player Arrested After Fifth-Floor Window Incident
In New York a card game dispute over a $1 bill led Joseph Fogler to slash Charles Mills with a knife, push him through a glass vestibule door, and throw him from a fifth-floor window. Mills clung to a projection for 15 minutes. Fogler was arraigned on felonious assault.
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New York
Joseph Fogler
Charles Mills
Fogler
Mills
Comer
Lucas defends plan at Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Rock Island
US Senator Scott W. Lucas warned Saturday that defense spending would be doubled if opponents had scrapped the Marshall Plan. Speaking at a Jefferson-Jackson day dinner in Rock Island he said yielding to calls to end aid would have sparked a Communist surge in France Belgium and Holland.
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U. S
Scott W. Lucas
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France
Belgium
Holland
St Peter Tomb Remains Traced Under Vatican Basilica
Italian news agency Ari reports recent excavations under St Peter's Basilica traced the actual tomb of the apostle. Ari says Pope Pius XII will consecrate a new altar to St Peter under the confession altar above the tomb and plans a broadcast to announce the findings.
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Ari
Peter
St. Peter
Pius XII
Kittens sheltered by farm hen and friendly cat duo
W R McDaniel of Dillon South Carolina reports his hen acts as a foster mother for five kittens born a week ago. The kittens are kept warm in the nesting barrel, though feeding requires transferring them between hen and cat. The hen and cat appear to be friends and the arrangement is working so far.
81st Congress Hurdles Truman's Fair Deal Agenda
As the 81st Congress nears halfway, Democrats struggle to advance President Truman's program. Key items like education aid, housing, farm subsidies, FEPC, Taft Hartley reform, health insurance, and St Lawrence Seaway face setbacks or stalemate, with some items lingering on the brink of action while others recede.
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Washington
Truman
Myers
Pennsylvania
Senate
Brannan
House
FEPC
St. Lawrence Seaway
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William Spaltholz
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By Jack Bell
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Canada
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Stanley McDonald Agency
Robert D. McDonald
Hoeschler
Seven-Up Bottling Co
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Pfander
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Doerflinger
Pitzner’s Cleaners
7Th Street
George Street
Packard
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Voigt Packard Company
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