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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
11
Federal recruitment program adds a county agent office assistant and stenographer to manage worker data and openings. Employers seek enough men to harvest crops this season. experienced laborers can contribute significantly as the month progresses.
Eagar Pederson received word his nephew Lieut Clarence Frones was killed after being missing in action in Italy since January 11. Parents Mr and Mrs Hans Frones of Duluth were told body found in his plane that crashed into water. he was buried last November. Lieut Frones flew a Liberator over Ettrick and dipped near his uncle’s home before going overseas again.
The La Crosse county taxpayers oppose the West Salem asylum’s 1943 figures. Trustees report total operation costs of 91619.91 for the year ending June 30 1943, with 14609 weeks of care at 629 per inmate weekly. They critique the exclusion of farm costs in cost comparisons with other county asylums.
Wisconsin households numbered 827 265 could save enough paper daily to make 43 047 containers by saving one bag per day. Director Coonley of the conservation division warns this daily saving equals 136 pounds and supports securing bags through reuse and carrying unwrapped items. The effort aims to ease wartime shortages affecting groceries and shipments and is framed within reduced pulp allocations and labor constraints.
Confirmation services will be held Sunday at the North Beaver Creek Lutheran church in Ettrick Wisconsin at 10 30 a m Rev T E Sweger presiding Special music will be given by a women s trio Mesd Orrin Bue Lloyd Quammen and Elvin Rognes The offering supports home missions An afternoon communion service will follow Members of the confirmation class include Walter Sanford Whitlock Jean Ardell Tranmel Donald LaVern Foss Richard Thomas Vehrenkamp Anna Dean Mae Dusso Douglas Garth Herreid June Beverley Otterson Donald Helmer Strand and David Hulberg.
Mrs. Vera Nystrom was appointed treasurer of the city of Viroqua at the council meeting Tuesday evening. She succeeds Jens H. Sterry who died April 18. The appointment is for one year. Miss Bennett, new castes eee: eeews council for the first time.
A rabbit believed buried alive after a raid in England has been dug up alive after fifteen days. Authorities confirm the unusual recovery and note the animal shows signs of life despite the long confinement.
Radio listings outline NBC CBS and BLU networks with a dense slate of programs from morning through late night. Dinah Shore, Joe E Brown, and The Coast Guard Band are among marquee acts, with news casts, dramatic serials, musical variety, and game shows noted across many time blocks.
Maj. James Stewart received the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the February 20 raid on Nazi aircraft factories at Brunswick Germany. The former Hollywood star piloted the first bomber over the target and is now operations officer of a Liberator bomber group, already holding the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster.
Professor Dwight E. Minnich chair of zoology at the University of Minnesota will speak at the La Crosse State Teachers College honors assembly on May 9 in the training school auditorium. He will also address the AAUP dinner on May 8.
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