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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1950
Page
5
A Seattle field report portrays the Pacific Northwest as a booming postwar frontier. Rapid growth strains power and housing, with dams planned to tap mountain streams. Residents enjoy unspoiled recreation but fear crowding as millions move west, changing local life and pace.
AP analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes unlikely peace moves as France proposes pooling coal and steel under a common authority and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer calls it highly significant. The exchange signals potential Franco German amity amid broader Western European economic rehabilitation with U S support for German economic and political role but not military.
MENOMONIE Wis Air force Capt James J Janasky and wife Mary Frances bound over to circuit court for trial on arson to collect insurance on a house they rented The bond set at 2000 each The fire occurred Jan 11 and investigators found oil saturated clothing The defense contends a faulty furnace started the blaze The case heads for the September term of circuit court
Rev. Francis E. Fisher, once fully paralyzed from a 1949 swimming accident, accepts the First Baptist Milwaukee post as music director. The 108th annual meeting also calls Rev. Byron E. Kinlaw to be pastor, with Kinlaw still considering the offer after serving as interim pastor since January 1. Fisher, now wheelchair-bound with limited limb use, had resigned Easter Sunday for the church’s good.
A national appeal urges Irish home owners to house visitors as a heavy American tourist crop arrives this year. The shortage stems from British travelers occupying most available rooms in advance.
Dr. Paul B. Magnuson of the VA notes tuberculosis now affects middle aged and older veterans more than youths. He estimates peak hospital load around 1955 at about 20,000 cases, with gradual decline toward 1960 and a steady level between 15,000 and 18,000 thereafter. A VA claims service report shows World War I veterans have seven times the TB compensation rate of World War II veterans.
Gen Ben Lear born May 12 1879 in Hamilton Ontario rose from the ranks to command the U S Second Army and gained more publicity from his men shouting yoo hoo than his military record. Lear enlisted in the Spanish American War and became a notable figure in U S military history.
Nicosia Cyprus yields the origin of copper as the word copper from cyprum kupros and Cyprus. Copper has been mined on the island for more than two thousand years.
Wisconsin to name a new director of aeronautics at the state commission meeting in Madison on June 9. Chairman Howard Morey says over 100 applications were reviewed and the cream of the crop remains under consideration. Col Lester Maitland, the first director, resigned in February 1949, leaving the post vacant.
Martin Storm Jr., two, died in a Joliet hospital from burns suffered in a gasoline explosion at a bonfire Wednesday. The blast occurred in the yard of his parents home in Mazon Grundy county.
The La Porte Tribune offers reader questions with brief answers on topics from flying foxes to Tutankhamen, President Arthur birth, and Einstein relativity. A 3 cent return postage request is noted for inquiries.
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