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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1949
Page
15
Postwar shift in selling turns to scientific methods and market analysis. Training expands from weeks to months with psychology, economics and public speaking guiding a new breed of salesman. Enterprises invest in testing, formal curricula, and long, structured training to build lasting customer relations.
Hollywood pundits note baseball themed films like The Stratton Story and The Babe Ruth Story drive strong box office potential. Harold Russell’s Victory in My Hands is read as veterans’ inspiration, while projects on Nordhoff Hall Lost Island and United Artists Home of the Brave stir industry chatter.
The Senate unanimously confirmed Robert E Tehan a Milwaukee state senator and Democratic national committeeman to the U S district judgeship for the eastern district of Wisconsin He plans to resign both posts before taking the oath for the 15000 a year position and the action fulfills President Trumans nomination.
Republican Senators Wiley and Mce Carthy joined the minority as the senate rejected the order to cut five percent from operating costs of the labor department and federal security agency. The Green motion passed 43 to 41 as rains affected Haiti food prices.
Pvt. Herbert E. Dummer of La Crosse Wisconsin serves with Battery C of the 865th AAA automatic weapons battalion. The unit under 138th AAA group aids the Eighth Army in occupation duties near Yokohama. Dummer entered service in 1948 and joined this unit in 1949. He is son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dummer.
Massey Harris Co announces plans to open two new branch offices in Memphis and Atlanta to handle sales service and distribution. The facilities cost about 4 million dollars. Last year the company opened similar units in Omaha Kansas City and Dallas with manufacturing plants in Fowler California Batavia New York and Racine Wisconsin.
Rumors spread of aircraft spraying fertilizers over northern England fields with authorities not identifying the source or purpose. Local residents report unusual aircraft activity and potential agricultural trials ongoing.
The La Crosse county American Red Cross executive board adopted resolutions honoring the late Mrs. Herman E. Wolf for her devoted service. They note her leadership expanding membership from 700 in 1929 to 17 000 in 1946 and her work during wartime, and extend sympathy to her family. The resolutions will be filed in minutes and sent to the family and press.
Circuit Judge Edward Gehl postponed until May 23 the hearing of motions for Hugo Goedtke 52 convicted recently of assault regardless of human life. Goedtke shot Charles Gans 26 at the home of Goedtke s former wife three days after their divorce on March 13. The state charged the assault would have been second degree murder if completed.
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