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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1950
Page
3
The piece notes rising charge accounts totaling about 3.5 billion dollars with a 2 billion rise since 1939. It describes store efforts to collect, including a New York handbook advising monthly bills, reminders, and a final step to place accounts with a collection agency or attorney.
A Wisconsin biologist warns northern lakes may suffer a heavy winter kill due to ice and snow restricting light and oxygen. Kill reports include Little Muskellunge Ballard Irving in Vilas County and Dog Lake in Oneida County. The department also begins traps for lampreys near Kewaunee Sturgeon Bay Mishicot Algoma and Cleveland to protect trout and other fish.
Police frisked 18 year old William Blake in Montgomery and recovered a .30-30 rifle six hunting knives and boxes of ammunition after the stop. The items were described as substantial and unusual for a mobile theft case.
A Detroit dispatcher sent a Garton Toy Co. load to Cheboygan Michigan by mistake. The driver sought Garton Toy Co. in Sheboygan and faced an extra 500 miles added to the 8s load arriving Thursday.
In England and Wales tithe rents yield about 15000000 dollars annually. About two thirds goes to ecclesiastical authorities and the remaining share to laymen.
Chicago coroner considers social agency placement after six year old Leon Moskal, orphaned by a family mass killing, receives offers of care from his uncle, aunt, and cousin. An inquest into the deaths is continued to April 6 while investigators review the family tragedy and embezzlement note left by Leon's father.
Galeville Wisconsin special: Women of the Rowles-McBridge post American Legion auxiliary plan a public old time square dance at city hall on Monday evening April 10 as a benefit for the clubhouse fund. The Scarseth brothers will prove the event with a floor show by high school girls and general dancing on the program.
Madison official Gordon Huseby told the Eau Claire Taxpayers Association that Wisconsin aims for long term rehabilitation rather than blanket bonuses. He argued merit gratuity depends on need and is unreliable in emergencies, undermining state responsibility to veterans. James P. McDonnell of Minnesota Taxpayers Association warned taxpayer vigilance is vital against broad handouts.
In Tokyo the Japanese shipping industry was returned to private ownership on Friday after eight years of government control. General MacArthur ordered the vessels returned to their owners as the government winded down operations that had managed about 1.3 million tons since 1942.
Thousands of wild buffalo roam northern Australia between Darwin and Alligator River. About 17 000 buffalo are shot this year in the region. A factory is being built to process the meat for export to Britain.
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