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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
20
Wisconsin issues guidance as vacation period nears to prevent fires and injuries from gasoline kerosene and related products. Data from 1947 shows 391100 property loss 19 deaths 89 severe burns. Tips include no ignition near vapors avoid open containers and proper red marked metal containers for gasoline and kerosene.
A Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla named Saeaan turns 20 as a six foot three, 550 pound male. He eats 20 pounds of apples daily with bread milk and vitamins, and concludes with a guava dessert from Africa. He is prized as the zoo’s most valuable animal.
Washington Huskies coach Art McLarney moves from basketball to baseball with nine players from the Pacific Coast Conference champions. Starters Sam White Bill Taylor and Bob Jorgensen shift to baseball roles with White at catcher Taylor in center field and Jorgensen as a pitcher. Six other former court stars join the baseball plans.
Houston dispatch notes a Gulf of Mexico offshore oil boom as engineers and geologists drill in tidelands off Louisiana Texas Mississippi Alabama and Florida. Four wells already yield rich results and seismograph gravity meter teams map potential oil traps while Congress debates state versus federal ownership and royalty rights.
Fred V. Pargeter plans a $1300 Lone Star cemetery tombstone inscribed with praise for himself and his wife. The couple, aged 79 and his health permitting, intend a summer England trip. The inscription lauds him as a good and honest citizen and a good wife and much loved woman appears on the stone.
Enjoy a relaxed picnic with crackers and jars of spreads. Include tomatoes eggs cold cuts pickles carrot sticks celery, cole slaw or potato salad and iced drinks. Simple recipes for Peanut Butter De Luxe and Corned Beef Spread provide quick party dishes.
U S public schools ran an average of 135 days per year in 1890 rising to 175 days by 1940 reflecting longer school terms across the period.
La Crosse Council of Church Women announce a May Fellowship observance featuring Christine J. McPherson, YWCA executive secretary, as speaker. McPherson, BS in education from Kansas State Teachers College and MA from Columbia, will discuss God’s Design for Children and push for youth recreation and character programs in La Crosse.
The Philadelphia Nationals rise from the cellar this spring as Bob Carpenter reshapes the roster. Only Emil Verban remains at second base from last year with Dick Sisler at first and Eddie Miller at short. Burt Haas at third and two new outfielders Richie Ashburn and Bama Rowell join the lineup.
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