Health Board Fills Sanitarian Post and Plans Meat Shop Survey
The health board endorsed Charles Trevallee as sanitarian of the city health department, with duties beginning after his June graduation from the University of Wisconsin. The board also approved a May start for a survey of retail meat shops to assess sanitary handling, along with a May 10 start for a DDT fly-control spraying program in business districts and housing areas.
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Board of Health
Charles Trevallee
Wood Street
Trevallee
University of Wisconsin
Department
Health Department
Garland Weidner
Weidner
Housing Authority
Ward Avenue
City-County Health Council
Serfdom charge leveled at Louisiana sugar planters
Catholic priest Rev. J Stanly Ormsby of New York, spokesman for the displaced persons commission, accused Louisiana sugar cane plantation owners of forcing European refugees into a serfdom-like system. He cited DP workers housed poorly and paid 2.80 to 2.90 dollars for four days weekly, with debt to plantation commissaries. Monsignor Castel denied the charges in New Orleans.
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Southern Pines
N. C
Louisiana
J. Stanly Ormsby
New York
Displaced Persons Commission
World Relief Services
Displaced Services Commission
Father Ormsby
New Orleans
William J. Castel
DP Resettlement Bureau
Governor Signs Segregation Law in Wisconsin
Governor Rennebohm signed a law prohibiting discrimination and segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard. The act bars denial of membership due to color race or creed and forbids segregation within the Guard.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin National Guard
Rennebohm
Spring Cycle Has The Gals Riding Solo
Pat Tracey, a Yonkers resident, now owns her own maroon lightweight motorcycle. She joins a growing group of women motorcycle enthusiasts totaling about 5,000 nationwide since the war. Spring drives the trend as riders like Pat embrace open road freedom, balancing skills, and social field meets with potato races where girls sprint for potatoes.
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Pat
Yonkers
Bronx
Zacchini
Road Ice Treatment Law Bets On Clarification From AG
Madison bureau reports highway ice handling remains unchanged by new Holtebeck bill. James R. Law, chairman, says the commission will seek an attorney general opinion to interpret the statute and its impact on snow removal and ice prevention. He notes cost limits prevent full sanding of the 11 000 mile trunk system and cites winter losses in fatalities.
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Tribune
Madison Bureau
Madison
Wis
Highway Commission
James R. Law
Law
Thomas E. Fairchild
Rennebohm
Noise Week Parade of Quiet Ends in Loud Week Demands
National Noise Abatement Week sparks jokes about silent governors and loud sports figures as multiple national awareness weeks collide. The piece weighs the confusion over what counts as noise and lampoons simultaneous observances and public sound measures.
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New York
Albany
Tom E. Dewey
Congress
United Nations
Leo Durocher
New York Giants
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Hale W. Hunt
Dorothy Anderson
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Syantes
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Gloucester
Mass
Gals
NEA
Pat Tracey
Pat Tracy
Ie Ae
Patrick Henr
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Gramd Rarids
THE
Lacrosse Tribune
Aire
Roebuck
Kenmore Deluxe
Kenmore
Sears
Kenmore Delux
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Homart
China
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