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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1949
Page
7
Government data show consumer income declined three percent from December peak, with March annual rate at 214.3 billion. Wages and farm owner receipts led losses, offset partly by unemployment benefits. payrolls hit a sharp drop amid a coal mine holiday and factory layoffs.
In Celle Germany pilots and ground crews who kept Berlin supplied during the airlift urge a V E Day style celebration. They credit the airlift with ending the blockade and seek official recognition similar to Europe and Japan victory holidays. Lieutenant Truman Lucas of Indianapolis supports a V E Day observance.
The Boy Scout finance drive enters its third and final phase with a $14 000 goal for the La Crosse portion of the Gateway council operating budget. Residential solicitors begin this weekend under Ray Fawcett and Norman Schulze with briefings set for Thursday and Friday evenings.
Milwaukee city attorney Walter J. Mattison testifies before a joint senate house expenditures sub committee on creating a national commission for intergovernmental relations. He argues cities need a forum to pool problems and seek new revenue avenues beyond property taxes and license fees to lift themselves from fiscal doldrums. Mayor Frank Zeidler was absent. Milwaukee faces state-driven financial constraints as a "step child."
No matter the suffering or itch from eczema infections or skin irritations, Wonder Salve from the War Time Government supply promises relief. The product is acid and alcohol free with no need for application, advertised as antiseptic and pain relieving. Available at Boerner Bergford Hopkins Hebberd Ruud's Drug Stores and local druggists in La Crosse.
Wisconsin Senate votes to place four state divisions under the department of budgets and accounts from July. Health, UW, state teachers colleges, and welfare would move to the state office of finance. Gov Rennebohm appoints two new board of health members. Debate over a deeds registry fee hike and housing proposals follows. Senate backs a highway measure to dust-free surfaces within 400 feet of dairy and meat plants.
Alfred L. Lathrop, 76, pioneer automobile figure in Michigan and former executive in the Waukesha Wisconsin Motor Co., died Tuesday after a six weeks illness in West Palm Beach Florida. Lathrop came to Lake Worth Florida in 1935 from Waukesha and is survived by his widow and a son.
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