World Peace Rosary Procession Draws Thousands in City
Catholic community holds first ro sary procession in local history with 5000 to 6000 participants from Roosevelt school to Our Lady of Fatima shrine. Holy Cross seminary boys lead the rosary as 15 Mary prayers echo along Wood Street to the outdoor altar where Bishop Treacy and clergy conduct benediction.
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Roosevelt School
Our Lady of Fatima Shrine
St. Dominic's Monastery
Wood Street
George
Holy Cross Seminary
Cassock
Seminarians
St. James
St. John’s
Virgin Mary
Aquinas
Knights of Columbus
The
WLCX
Mary
Iowa
Fatima
Portugal
Russia
John P. Treacy
L. B. Keegan
Stanley Andrzejewski
Holy Cross
James Finucan
St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Bernard McGarty
la Crosse
Matthew J. Molinaro
Chicago
Robert D. Platt
Detroit
Donald J. Boyarski
Wisconsin Rapids
Paul Schmitt
Ellsworth
Wis
Norbert J. Wilger
Athens
Aquinas Chorus
North Side
16Th Street
North Salem Road
Charles Buchmann
Fourth
Main Streets
Buchman
State Aeronautics Commission
Memorial Field
Wisconsin lawmakers approve 137 million two year budget
Wisconsin assembly passes a 137 905 055 budget bill for the next two years after defeating 10 amendments aimed at adding 3 657 853 to the finance committee plan. Gov Rennebohm sought 1 863 587 more. Major items include welfare, university raises, and various state programs.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
Senate
House
Joint Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Rennebohm
Department of Public Welfare
University of Wisconsin
Youth Service Division
Department of Taxation
Industrial Commission
Anti-Trust Division
Attorney General's Office
U. S. Scientific Research
Library Commission
Price-Fixing Action Started Against Bakers
Wisconsin Attorney General Fairchild announced price fixing actions against two corporations and 13 bakers in Manitowoc County. The suit in Manitowoc Circuit Court seeks injunctions, $5,000 fines for most defendants, and charter cancellations for the two corporations. Dick Brothers Bakery Co. Inc. of Manitowoc and Molan's Baker Co. Inc. of Sheboygan are named firms.
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Madison
Wis
Thomas E. Fairchild
Anti-Trust
Manitowoc County
Manitowoc
Dick Brothers Bakery Co., Inc
Molan’s Baker Co., Inc
Sheboygan
City considers fluoridation and downtown traffic survey
Aldermen debate fluoridation to curb tooth decay with a health department budget rise from 44000 to 71000 yearly. They back a traffic and parking survey for downtown and discuss Market Square multi deck plans, delaying a concrete decision pending expert input.
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Health Department
Emil Shultz
New York
Franklin Pamperin
Roth
Board of Public Works
Henry J. Ahrens
Lyle Gilbert
J. N. Cribben
Citizens’ Parking Committee
Cribben
Market Square
Weidner
State Board of Health
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
la Crosse Transit Co
Police Department Reorganization Plan To Add Two Sergeants
A council committee proposes a reorganization of the police department to address insufficient chief of police powers in promotions. It recommends creating traffic sergeant and detective sergeant positions and expands department responsibilities. The steering panel includes administration, ways and means, and safety council members with added representation from CIO AFL and Broth erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers.
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Eeg
Ways and Means
Safety Council
CIO
AFL
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Common Council
William Hanson
William Davis obituary notices local services
William Davis age 82 of 1012 Fifth Avenue South died in a local hospital on Thursday. He leaves son Charles sister Mrs Blanche Haggerty and brother Charles of Ferryville. Funeral services Saturday at 10 a m at Hellwig Morris chapel with Rev H N Stoffel officiating. Burial in Woodlawn cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening.
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William
Nick) Davis
Fifth Avenue South
Charles
Blanche Haggerty
Ferryville
Hellwig-Morris
Spring Rally Set for Lutherans at Hardies Creek Church
Lutheran men hold annual spring rally Sunday May 15 at Hardies Creek Lutheran Church east of Galesville on highway 54. Registration 2:30 pm. program starts 3 pm with hymn and devotions led by Joseph Rindahl Ettrick. Meet includes welcomes by Rev S E Verang and talks by Gordon Selbo and Rev Gerald Frost. Supper at 5:30 pm. Ralph S Lund presides circuit. other officers named.
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Hardies Creek Lutheran Church
Galesville
Highway 54
la Crosse
Gordon Selbo
Luther Theological Seminary
St. Paul
Selbo
Gerald Frost
Luther College
Decorah
Brotherhood of the Hardies Creek
Ralph S. Lund
Black River Falls
Circuit Brotherhood
H. O. Anderson
O. C. Olson
Holmen
Joel Underheim
Maurice Enge
Onalaska
Russell B. Hetland
Boys’ Work
West German Constitution Approved by Allies with Reservations
Western allies approved the draft West German constitution with reservations aimed at limiting armament and policy powers. The move clears the path for a Western German civil government ahead of May peace talks, with ratification by 11 state parliaments and ongoing occupation safeguards.
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Germany
Paris
Russia
America
Lucius D. Clay
United States
Brian Robertson
Britain
Pierre Koenig
France
Ruhr
Ford Refuses To Open Labor Talks Amid Strike
Ford Motor Co. will not begin 1949 labor contract negotiations until its workers end the current strike, an unnamed authoritative source told CIO United Auto Workers. The union had urged opening talks at least a Monday before the pact expires while Ford targets a $100 monthly pension and expanded health benefits and wages.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Cio-United Auto Workers
UAW
Fire destroys Racine storage warehouse. losses exceed 100000
A storage warehouse of the W. C. Pugh Coal Co. on Racine Wisconsin’s Root River bank burned Thursday night. Estimated losses exceed 100000 with damage spilling to J I Case Co. works across the street. Eleven cars and one truck were also damaged. Fire Chief Rudolph Andersen cited an undetermined cause and possible dust explosion. In New Zealand a Wellington reunion noted seven brothers totaling 465 years.
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Racine
Wis
W. C. Pugh Coal Co
J. I. Case Co
Rudolph Andersen
Wellington
New Zealand
Chemicals Explode In N Y Tunnel
Drums of chemicals exploded on a truck in the Holland tunnel causing carbon disulphide fumes. The blast at 7 55 a m disrupted cables from New York to the West and disabled AP wires west of Philadelphia for about two hours. About 18 cars were in the eastbound tube during the explosions with 30 people overcome. The incident affects toll circuits from La Crosse to New York City and possibly New England.
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New York
Holland Tunnel
Jersey City
Manhattan
Associated Press
Philadelphia
la Crosse Telephone Corp
la Crosse
New York City
New England
Pickets halt Packard plan to remove dies at Bendix plant
South Bend, Ind. pickets blocked removal of seven Packard brake dies and auto parts from the Bendix Aviation plant. Sheriff Hipsak and deputies secured a circuit court order while 60 protesters refused to move. About 7,500 CIO UAW members have been on strike since April 20.
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South Bend
Ind
Packard Motor Co
Bendix Aviation
Stephen C. Hipsak
Bendix
Packhard
Cio-United Auto
Nathan Levy
Packard
Indiana man jailed for vandalism during county break attempt
Melvin Shaffer, an Indiana resident, was ordered to serve 90 days in the county jail after a failed break from county jail on Nov 28 1948. He had been serving six months for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was charged with defacing and mutilating a county building during the attempted escape on the third floor.
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Roy Ahlstrom
Melvin Shaffer
Indiana
Shaffer
Local quake rattles LA area with no damage
Los Angeles was shaken early Friday by a local earthquake that woke residents but caused no damage. San Bernardino Lancaster Indio and other southern California cities did not feel it.
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Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Lancaster
Indio
California
Jury Returns Land Verdict After Highway Land Taking
A circuit court jury set damages at 6500 in the Townsend land taking case. They valued the property at 29000 before the highway take and 22500 after, with unanimous verdict. Townsends' farm valued 33000 pre take and 20000 post take.
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R. C. Townsend, Sr
Edna Townsend
Townsend
Frances Lienlokken
Forelady
E. G. Dohlby
Minnie Kinney
Paul Druschke
Dorothy M. Larson
Helen Gunderson
John Larson
Fred S. Chicken
D. W
Hague's Records Guarded At City Hall In New Jersey
In Jersey City guards stood watch at city hall on Friday to protect the records of Frank Hague's 32 year tenure as mayor.
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Hague
Jersey City
N. J
City Hall
Frank Hague
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Lerum
Dorothy
Bolstad
Julia Bolstad
Readstown
Serum Farm
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Edward Lerum
Viroqua
Lyder Gulbrandsen
Halbert Gulbrandsen
Dorothy Anderson
Charles Anderson
Floyd Potter
Norman Mellum
Otto Jeison
Vernon County
Norma Lee Callaway
Viroqua Hospital
L. A
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