Common Council Divided Over School and Highway Plans
The council deadlocked on school construction while committees favored a state highway program through 1954. The plan, shaped by a April 18 meeting with the State Highway Commission, envisions projects on highways 53 33 and related routes with possible earlier execution if funds and underground utilities allow.
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State Highway Commission
Zenno Gorder
Rose Street
Copeland Avenue
Monitor Street
17Th Street
Losey Boulevard
Third
17Th Streets
Seventh Street
la Crosse River
Gillette’ ‘Street
Gorder
Taft Wins All 56 Ohio Delegates In GOP Primary
Senator Taft swept Ohio Republican delegates in the state primary while Estes Kefauver won at least 24 of 54 Democratic nominating votes. Charles P. Taft captured the GOP governorship nomination as Lausche faced re election. Taft led Eisenhower by 401 to 271 in AP tally including all 56 Ohio delegates.
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Columbus
O. i
Robert A Taft
Ohio
Estes Kefauver
Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stasse
Dwight R. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kefauver
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Florida
Robert K. Bulkley
Chicago
Bulkley
Charles P. Taft
Frank J. Lausche
Sen
Eisenhower
Associated Press
John W. Bricker
GOP Executive Committee
Holland
Senate
Russell
Charles E.compton
Miami Beach
Carroll S. Shaw
Miami
Shaw
Compton
iGen
Dade County
Kefauver Crime Committee
Feinsinger Warns of Chaos If WSB Loses Authority
Nathan P. Feinsinger told Congress that stripping the Wage Stabilization Board of power to set settlements could trigger widespread labor unrest and chaos. He testified amid a House Labor Committee probe, opposing a fully public WSB and arguing the current 18 member mix helps curb wage hikes and preserve peace.
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Washington
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Congress
Wage Stabilization Board
Feinsinger
WSB
House Labor Committee
Charles E. Wilson
Mobilization
Wilson
Russell Holds Narrow Florida Lead Over Kefauver
In Florida's presidential primary Russell leads Kefauver by a slim margin as farm counties push the Georgia senator ahead. With 1,311 of 1,682 precincts reporting Russell has 263,925 votes to Kefauver's 245,150, strong in rural areas and in Dade, Pinellas, Volusia, and Monroe.
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Russell
Kefauver
Florida
Miami
Fila
Sen
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Tennessean
George Smathers
D-Fla
Smathers
Holland
Fuller Warren
Nancy
Dade
Pinellas
St.Petersburg
Volusia
Daytona Beach
Monroe
Key West
Russell - Kefauver
Senate to Hear Benton Accusations Against McCarthy
The Senate Elections Subcommittee voted to hold public hearings starting next Monday on Sen. Benton's charges against Sen. McCarthy including perjury fraud and deceit. The first Benton charge concerns the Lustron case with a $10 000 fee alleged for a 1948 article in a Lustron Corp advertising booklet.
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Washington
Senate Subcommittee On Elections
Sen
Benton
D— Conn
McCarthy
R—Wis
Congress
Elections Subcommittee
Gillette
Iowa
Lustron
Sen. Benton
Sen. McCarthy
Lustron Corporation
Sens. Monroney
Oklahoma
Hennings
Missouri
Hendrickson
New Jersey
Welker
Idaho
Alma Woman Heads Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
Mrs Harvey Schweitzer of Alma was named president of the La Crosse Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at a board meeting. Mrs James Fox and Mrs R E Nietsch of La Crosse were named vice president and treasurer. About 2 000 delegates were expected at today’s sessions with the theme The Catholic home in the midst of general state socialism.
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Wausau
Harvey Schweitzer
Alma
la Crosse
James Fox
R. E. Nietsch
Marshfield Assemblyman Clark announces bid for 24th district Senate
Assemblyman W. W. Clark of Vesper declares his candidacy for the 24th district state senate seat now held by Melvin Laird Jr. of Marshfield. Some Seventh District groups urge Laird to run for the seat left vacant by the death of Reid Murray of Ogdensburg.
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Marshfield
W. W. Clark
Vesper
Melvin Laird Jr
Seventh
Laird
Reid Murray
Ogdensburg
Fairless Names New Chairman at U S Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless takes full direction of the United States Steel Corp succeeding Irving S Olds as chairman of the board. Olds retires after earning 211000 a year and Fairless becomes chairman president and chief executive officer, the first to hold all posts in the 50 year history.
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New York
Benjamin F. Fairless
Irving S. Olds
United States Steel Corp
Olds
Fairless
U.S. Steel
Weather Outlook for La Crosse Area
Cloudy with rain ending by Thursday morning and clearing later Thursday. Temperatures steady with a low of 52 tonight and a high of 60 Thursday. Not quite as cool tonight and Thursday as earlier.
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la Crosse
Russia Ready to A-Bomb U S by 1954 Vandenberg Says
Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg warned senators that within two years the Soviet Union would possess the means to launch a long range atomic attack on the United States. He cautioned that without countermeasures this could neutralize U S retaliation and cripple key industrial centers.
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Russia
U.S
Vandenberg
Washington
Air Force
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Defense Department
Doctors Hospital
Nathan F. Twining
Soviet Union
Pentagon
House
United
Congress
Union
Senate
United States offers final truce proposal to Communists in Korea
Washington and Panmunjom reports detail a US and UN backed three point armistice package. The plan seeks prisoner exchange 70 000 of 132 000 captured with 12 000 Allied troops held by Reds. It allows airfield repairs and drops mention of Russia as neutral overseer.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Korea
William C. Foster
United Nations
Foster
China
Acheson
Gen. Ridgway
U. N
Red
Panmunjom
Leven
TheAllies
Matthew Ridgway
U.N
Reds
Truman
U. S
Munsan
United Nations Command
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Russia
Ridgway
Drizzling Rain Benefits La Crosse Coulee Area
Light rain fell across Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and Illinois easing drought conditions. Forecaster A D Sanial of the La Crosse Weather Bureau predicted continued showers through Wednesday with less than half an inch likely. The Mississippi River fell to 10.7 feet as dams at Hastings Fountain City and Dresbach prepared to hold back minor flows.
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la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Samal
Mississippi
Hastings
Fountain City
Dresbach
Samali
Oil Unions Agree to Parley with Wage Board May 13
The coordinating committee of 22 oil workers unions on strike agrees to attend a Wage Stabilization Board session on May 13 in Washington to give background on the dispute and discuss possible mediation. Ongoing talks could shift to President Truman or Taft Hartley Act considerations as a settlement path.
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Denver
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Washington
Truman
O. A. Knight
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
AFL
Independent
Wired Feinsinger
Trans-World Airlines
Secretary of the Interior
Chapman
Atomic blast lights pre dawn sky over Yucca Flat test area
In Las Vegas a tower fired atomic test at Yucca Flat, brightening predawn skies for spectators on hotel roofs and lawns. The flash illuminated buildings briefly, while an ash cloud rose along the mountains before fading. The event was seen from Los Angeles as a quick blink over 1250 miles away.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Yucca Flat
Los Angeles
Here
Truman to wage whistle stop tour against opponents
President Truman, nearing 68, plans whistle stop campaigning against budget cutters and the real estate lobby he blames for hindering his foreign and domestic program. He urged stopping efforts he says align with Stalin and revived old charges from his 1948 housing fight to push for public housing.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
Truman
National Housing Conference
Stalin
Robert A. ‘Taft
Ohio
Senate
Gee Truman
Council deadlocks on school bonds over Emerson addition
The Common Council could not reach a three fourths majority to approve a $875000 bond program for three school projects including a 10 room Emerson addition. A six aldermen bloc opposed approving the projects individually, risking a fall referendum.
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Board of Education
Emerson
Southeastern Area
French Island
Emil Schultz
Harry Blair
Harry Newburg
Walter Roth
Lynden
Hubert Schleiter
C. M. Heth
Elm Grove
Campbell
Virgil Arneson
Ways and Means Committee
Schultz
Blair
Schleiter
State Industrial Commission
Federal Reserve ends time buying curbs on installment plans
The Federal Reserve Board suspended controls on installment buying, removing caps on down payments and repayment times for autos appliances and many other goods. Officials said current supplies are ample enough to ease inflation fears and cited action to relax prior limits while inflation risk subsided.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
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John Piltz
T.M. Reynolds
Henry Ahrens
Donald Lyden
Frank Kaufman
Melvin Olson
M. R. Birnbaum
Fred Steele
Carl Wahlstrom
Ahrens
Lyden
Murphy
Ohashi
Japan
Haneda
Gen. Clark
By Jack Bell
Kefauver Rebounds
All-Public
GOP
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
U.S. Steel Corp
By Edwin B. Harkinson
U.N. Policy Group
Imn
By Robert B. Tuckman
Coulee
Oil Union
Hal Boyle
Chu
Tri-Sta Dea
HST
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