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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1952
Page
7
Hal Boyle recalls his mother who prefers staying home on Mother's Day. The family plans dinner yet she organizes the meal and chores herself. She resists gifts, saves money, and imparts advice subtly, insisting each child must lead their own life.
Dr. James G. Endicott, a former Canadian missionary now leading a leftist peace congress in Toronto, said he witnessed in China the impact of large-scale U.S. germ warfare. His claim counters repeated U S and U N denials amid Communist refusals to permit a neutral Red Cross inquiry. Endicott spoke to about 8 000 people.
At a three day Canadian Peace Council congress closing rally the leader described a trip to Northeast China where he saw insects carrying germs and containers for dropping them. Disruptions followed as about a hundred teenagers heckled and were removed while firecrackers and bouncers interrupted the event and photographers were manhandled.
Robert Stellflue, 12, received four stitches in his forehead after being struck by a bat while playing ball in a school yard in Ettrick Wisconsin on Thursday. The Motion Picture Association of America reports about 60 million admissions weekly to U S theaters.
The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau provides brief factual Q A items on topics from taxes per capita in 1951 to bicycle design, sun tan, sand depth in the Sahara, Caucasian origin, and light speed. Officials include details on aircraft flights, hydraulic brakes, and common curiosities like honeycomb cells.
A joint performance by Viterbo College vocal ensemble and Sinfonietta opens Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Vi terbo Music Hall as the Fine Arts Week third program. The vocal ensemble directed by Sister M. Pierre features varied choral works and a duet by Shana Scott and Therese Potaracke. The Sinfonietta under Sister M. Leota performs semi classical to classical pieces including Tschaikowsky, Bohm, Bach Ormandy, and Ravel. Twenty three students and faculty form the Sinfonietta ensemble. A follow up vocal recital by Miss Bette Lewinski is set for Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Mrs Martha Miller 57 fell from a second floor porch while attempting to enter her Hartford apartment through a window. She slipped through a wooden door into a basement hatchway, suffering internal injuries and possible skull fracture as police identified her from her purse.
In El Salvador the congressional election enters its second day with government backed candidates unopposed. Opposition parties withdrew accusing President Osorio's Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification of rigging elections. Fifty four deputies and an equal number of alternates will be chosen for two year terms in the unicameral legislature.
Pacific Greyhound reaches a five day work week with an immediate 4.6 percent wage increase and 24 improvements across California Oregon Arizona Nevada New Mexico parts of Utah Texas. Automatic cost of living raises planned for March 1953 and March 1954, contingent on union ratification by AFL riders.
Delegates from Norwalk to the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention in Wausau were Mrs. Elizabeth Karis and Mrs. L. F. Heilman.
A formation of 12 F4U planes from Minneapolis NAS will fly over La Crosse on Armed Forces Day, joining scheduled passes for Twin Cities Duluth and Superior between noon and 5 p.m. A parade and Brig. Gen. Eugene L. Harrison of Camp McCoy will speak on Unity Strength Freedom.
The new regulations in Spain target the bread black market aiming to enforce fair trade. Greenland remains the world's largest island at about 825000 square miles, largely ice capped with slim border corridors.
Ivan A. Wright, chief of La Crosse County highway police, cites the National Safety Council on vehicle defects causing one in nine traffic deaths. He urges periodic car checks for brakes, lights, and tires and notes local police cooperation in Wisconsin through a motor vehicle and driver license spot-check campaign.
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