Plaintiff Wins Damage Case In Rear-End Collision
A three hour jury deliberation in Ruth and Francis McGrath v. Edwin A. Crogan resulted in a sealed verdict for the plaintiffs. Damages awarded: $2,000 for loss of wages plus $350 for pain and disability and $200 for auto damages. Francis McGrath awarded $263 for medical expenses with no loss of services. The crash occurred Aug. 26 1948 at Clinton and Caledonia streets. The plaintiffs had sought $20,000 plus costs.
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Ruth
Francis McGrath
Liberty Street
Edwin A. Crogan
South 10Th Street
Clinton
Caledonia Streets
the Tribune
Dohlby
McGrath-Cragran
Russell Peacock
Bernard Nehls
Carl Drektrah
Wisconsin Senate approves highway bill designating controlled-access highways
The Wisconsin Senate approved a bill to let the highway commission designate up to 500 miles of trunk lines as controlled-access highways with a 2000 vehicles daily minimum. The measure allows restrictions on entering roads and preserves limited access areas. Gov Rennebohm also confirmed John E Fitzgibbon to another term on the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board through May 12, 1955.
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Madison
Wis
State Highway Commission
Senate
Rennebohm
John E. Fitzgibbon
Milwaukee
Brazilian President Dutra Arrives for 10 Day Visit
President Eurico Gaspar Dutra of Brazil lands in Washington for a 10 day official visit. He marks his 64th birthday with a cake four feet high presented by President Truman and a Marine Band rendition of Happy Birthday on the steps of the District of Columbia building during a motorcade welcome.
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Washington
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Brazil
Truman
United States Marine Band
District of Columbia
Veterans State Socialist Leader Robert Buech Dies in Milwaukee
Robert Buech 79 a veteran Socialist party member and former Milwaukee County sheriff served on the county board common council and city election commission. He died at his home leaving one daughter and two sons with funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Milwaukee
Robert Buech
Socialist Party
Buech
City Election Commission
Church Nursery At St Dominick Invites Children To Rectory
Rev Ralph Perrygore aims to fill his church in the Cornish village of St Dominick by hosting morning service earlier for housewives and inviting mothers with no caregiver to bring their children to the rectory for care after the service.
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Ralph Perrygore
St. Dominick
Who Worries Most-Mice Or The Psychologists
A column questions the worry timetable from a midwestern psychology meeting. It notes 103 elderly psychologists list worries by age from 18 to 45, from ideals to health, job security, and political views, concluding psychologists resemble ordinary people. It ends by asking which group worries about white mice more.
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New York
Midwestern Psychological Association
Chicago
Henry Wallace
Larkin Named to Fill Unexpired Term on WMA Board
Milwaukee Wisconsin Manufacturers association ratified Leo J. Larkin of La Crosse Rubber Mills to fill the unexpired term of the late S G Scanlan of Madison on the board. Larkin will join two new directors R K Schreiber Jr of United States Motors Oshkosh and Fred C Doepke of Wrought Washer Milwaukee as officers remained reelected. L K Harkrider of Waukesha reelected president of the association.
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Milwaukee
L. K. Harkrider
Waukesha
Wisconsin Manufacturers Association
Harkrider
General Malleable Corporation
R. K. Schreiber, Jr
United States Motors Corp
Oshkosh
Fred C. Doepke
Wrought Washer Company
Leo J. Larkin
la Crosse
Coal for flour trade reported between China factions
Communist held China areas barter coal for flour with Nationalist China, illustrating cross faction exchanges amid wartime disruption and resource shortages.
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China
United States Leads Atomic Energy Effort in 1948 Pace
NEA dispatch notes a $3 billion, 10 year program that built 30 plants in 25 locations, with fissionable materials in 15 states and two worker towns. It highlights major facilities at Hanford Washington and Brookhaven New York plus Argonne near Chicago and Los Alamos New Mexico expansion, while acknowledging some slower progress areas. Holland plans new cellulose products to reduce US imports.
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Washington
NEA
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Commission
AEC
Hanford
Wash
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Patchogue
Long Island
N. Y
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Los Alamos
New Mexico
U. S
Atomic Workers
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Pest
Ares
WMA
Larkin
United States
Holland
America
Vach-Werner Monument CO
South Avenue
la Crosse, Wis
Mitian
Haha A
Fifth Avenue
Teenreems
SEARS
Aluminum
Sears and
Save
Homart Quality
Todeyl Selvage
Vermont
Homart
Fifth Avenue South
Pitzner’s Cleaners
Seventh Street
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