Draft Chief Too Tough On State Farmers Seek Dismissal
Wisconsin Farmers Union urges Governor Kohler to remove Col. Bentley Courtenay as state selective service director. Union claims farm youth draft policy harms Wisconsin agriculture and cites deferment data while Courtenay defends regulations and cites higher farm deferments.
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Tribune Madison Bureau
Madison
Wis
Walter J. Kohler
Wisconsin Farmers Union
Col
Bentley Courtenay
Col. Courtenay
Kenneth Hones
Hershey
Washington
Wisconsin
Selective Service
Walter Kohler
Kohler
National Draft
Oscar Rennebohm
Farmers’ Union
Marine Corps officer candidate program now open at La Crosse State
Marine Corps opens applications for its officer candidate course for college graduates or seniors under 27. Selected men will train 10 weeks at Quantico, Virginia starting July 1 and receive commissions as second lieutenants. Inquiries go to room 752 at the U S Court House Chicago. Ice hockey origins noted in Britannica.
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la Crosse State College
Marine Corps
Quantico
Marine Corps Officer Procurement Office
U.S. Court House
South Clark St
Chicago 4
Return of Norfolk airman from Persian Gulf service
William G. LaPoint, son of Mr and Mrs George LaPoint of 1638 Gillette Street, returned to Naval Operating Base Norfolk aboard the sea plane tender USS Duxbury Bay after five months with the Atlantic Fleet Air Wing Command in the Middle East Forces. While at Sharia on the Trucial Oman Coast the crew enjoyed camel races gazelles and habbara hunts, a trained falcon hunted fowl.
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William G. LaPoints
USN
George LaPoint
Gillette St
Naval Operating Base
Norfolk
Duxbury Bay
Atlantic Fleet Air Wing Command
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Sharia
Trucial Oman
Laymen Leadership In Scouting Emphasized At Logan Meeting
Gateway Area Council holds its annual Boy Scouts of America meeting in Logan highlighting lay leadership. Attendees include scouts and scouters with spouses from nine counties as Marshall G. Batho, chairman, stresses cooperation of lay leaders to reach Scouting goals. The event features a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. in the Logan gymnasium followed by the program.
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Boy Scouts of America
Gateway Area Council
Logan High 1
Marshall G. Batho
Batho
Logan Gym
Nasium
Singapore TB Clinic to Open with Large Capacity
The Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association plans a premier Far East clinic with seven X ray machines and daily treatment capacity. A July opening is planned with a large community supper and advance registration to seat attendees by district. The event features Dr G H Garlick as director and a program led by Rev Anthony Wegner and local officials.
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Singapore
Far East
Singapore Anti
Rail Road Miles by Arizona and New Mexico
The report lists Arizona with 2 205 miles of railroads and New Mexico with 2 496 miles within their state boundaries. These figures appear in a comparative route and infrastructure summary for the region.
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Arizona
New Mexico
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Louis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
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R. C. Cheney CO
la Crosse, Wis
Tribune
Pioto
Larry Wvaaler
Optimist Club of
Europe
Wanton
Underwriters Laboratories
Logan
Carl Iverson
Gateway Council
Henry Ahrens
Albert Twelme
Galesville
Iverson
John Sleik Jr
Lincoln Neprud
Camp Decorah
Aidea
B. W
Pat) Ingli
Liberty
la Crosse
Trempealeau
Buffalo
Jackson
Monroe
Juneau
Vernon
Crawford
Houston
Minnesota
Heartbum
Ealiel Sotro
Wisconsin Department of Securities
Ev Ee Citizens Loan & Finance Co
C. L. Peterson
Main
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Main Street
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