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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1964
Page
11
Sparta Wisconsin launches a city wide bicycle safety program for 2171 students from kindergarten to eighth grade. After a safety education, riders take a driving test for an operator license signed by Police Chief Gerald Donovan. Tests at all schools on May 23 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. include bicycle checks and equipment checks aided by VFW luminized tape reflectors.
Eight Red Cross chapters in zone four of the Badger Regional Blood Center Madison will send representatives to a meeting at the Sidney Hotel in Sparta on Thursday May 7 A Dutch treat luncheon at 12 30 p m will precede the business meeting Counties to be represented are Adams Clark Jackson Juneau and La Crosse County chapters and North Wood Sparta and Tomah chapters Crawford and Vernon County will attend the meeting for zone five at Platteville May 5
Soldiers Grove Wisconsin features a rugged unglaciated landscape with 10 000 hills and 100 000 holes. The driftless area attracts geology students, spelunkers and sightseers to caves and ridges like Haley Hill and Kissing Rocks, amid legends of deep caverns and shifting underground streams.
Public hearing in the Jackson County Junior High School dining room at 8 p.m. Thursday May 7 will discuss the county and federal funded planning program. The project aims to inventory value set goals and develop potential with a city planning company hired to conduct studies.
Viroqua Wis. The junior high school vocal music department will present its annual concert at 10 a.m. Wednesday May 6 in the school auditorium. Directors are Miss Sandra Quick and Sherman Warner. Soloists include Sherry Knudson and Robert Lawrence. A duet features Kathy Harris and another student. No admission charge.
The Chamber of Commerce will meet at City Cafe at 8 p.m. Wednesday May 6 to discuss the annual Beef and Dairy Day Celebration slated for August 21 to 23.
A jury was summoned in Sparta to hear the case of Billa Werner of West Allis versus J C Penney Co. and George and Mollie Seidel over injuries from a July 1959 fall at the Sparta Penney Store. Several related cases and transfers were noted, with multiple settlements reached prior to trial.
Bernard Wood of Galesville was elected chairman of the Trempealeau County Cancer Society nominating committee by the executive board in Arcadia. He will name two additional members from the north and central parts to present a slate at the Blair picnic July 16 and 7 p.m. Officers listed include Prosper Schank president Walter Hanson vice president Mrs G M Wiley secretary and Mrs Gary Quammen treasurer. Dressings chair Mrs John Gilbertson reported about 2200 dressings prepared for cancer patients in three months and available to county residents. Trempealeau County Farm Bureau donated 25 dollars to the campaign.
The Coon Valley American Legion Auxiliary will meet Wednesday evening May 6 at the home of Mrs Ruth Nelson with assistance from Mrs Oscar Ihle.
Sparta area elementary art from all schools will be shown in the Lakeview School multi purpose room on Friday May 9 to Sunday May 10. Open Friday 7 to 9 p.m. and 2 to 4 30 p.m. Art teacher Robert Hanson and committee chair Clara Lathrop organize puppet demos and displays of woodcuts papier mache designs and ceramics.
DECORAH IOWA Nine Coulee Region students were among 75 recipients at Luther College honors banquet May 4. Awards ranged from 50 to 500 dollars for the academic year. Recipients included David Ramsett Viroqua storagewell manufacturing company in business administration 200 dollars Helen Hoff Blair Donald Larsen memorial in music 100 dollars Gordon Eddy Spring Grove Minnesota Norsemen Enterprises 100 dollars Sheryl Melcher Harpers Ferry Iowa Decorah Lutheran Woman's Club 200 dollars Glenn Borreson Ettrick pre theological 100 dollars Marie Peterson Caston Luther College 100 dollars Sharon Y Johnson Viroqua Phi Theta 50 dollars James Hill Mindoro faculty 300 dollars Ronald Olson Rockland Lutheran Brotherhood 300 dollars. Three area students also received continuing faculty scholarships for maintaining a B average 1963-64 Sonja Anderson Mabel Minnesota 900 300 for three years Sonia Misenko La Crosse 800 400 for two years David Olson Soldiers Grove 800 400 for two years. Speaker was D Edward W Rosenheim Jr University of Chicago professor of English whose topic was Tomorrow's Scholar.
Whitehall Wisconsin Mrs Lily S Reich superintendent of Trempealeau County Schools announced seven patrolmen will attend the 21st annual School Patrol Congress in Wisconsin Dells May 15 16 They depart at 8 am Friday May 15 arriving by noon The travelers are Roger Soppa Arcadia Roger Faegen Blair Dennis Barneson Elena Renee Oftsdahl Ettrick Rodney Nelsestuen Galesville Debra Engebretson Pigeon Falls and Mark Olson Whitehall They go with Mrs Reich Miss Evelyn Kennedy and Maurice Ewing county school supervisors.
Trempealeau Wis The Trempealeau High School music department will stage a spring concert at 8 p m Thursday May 7 in the school auditorium. The band will perform eight numbers and the chorus five.
Rebecca Grimsrud, missionary nurse and midwife with World Mission Prayer League, returned to Stoddard on April 9 for a special leave to visit her ill mother Elida Grimsrud. Her Nepal service began in 1955, with early work in India and Nepal, expanding to a large rural dispensary with multiple staff and daily patient load. She notes food supply challenges, ongoing famine risk, and Nepal's monsoon cycle affecting agriculture.
Mrs. E. 0. Runnestrand reports that the Easter Seal sale for crippled children in Ettrick has received 157.80 dollars.
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