Snapshot Contest Opens As Judges Pick Weekly Winners Soon
The La Crosse Tribune announces an amateur snapshot contest with over 10000 dollars in local and national prizes. Entries must be received by Thursday noon, with weekly winners and four local grand prize winners chosen in six weeks. Local prizes total 10 dollars per winner and national awards reach 1000 dollars grand prize. Contestants may mail prints to the contest editor. no purchases or entries by box tops required.
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Coulee Region
la Crosse
United States
Canada
Tribune
Coulee
Memorial Day Decorating Committee Plans Cemetery Flagging
Memorial day decorating committee members will meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the county courtroom to update the veterans graves list in La Crosse cemeteries. Rolf S Rynning urges members to bring grave registration books for changes. A second gathering is set for Sunday at 1 30 p m on courthouse steps to proceed to the cemeteries and place flags on graves.
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Court House
la Crosse
Rolf S. Rynning
Rynning
Church Delegates Gather for Spring Synod Meeting
Attend Church Meet John Helvig represents St John s Evangelical and Reformed at the spring synod at Peace church St Paul Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev Ralph Kuether attends and Mrs Kuether presides Northern Synodical Women s Guild sends a representative Mrs Fred Miller of Brownsville Zion s church also attends. A merger vote between Evangelical and Reformed and Congregational Christian churches to be taken. Presidents Rev Louis Goebel Chicago and Rev Allen Wehrili Webster Grove Mo speak.
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John Helvig
St. John’s
Louis Goebel
Chicago
Allen Wehrili
En Theological Seminary
Webster Grove
Morocco snail industry revival boosts exports and canning
Morocco's snail industry, started in 1928 by Italian colonists, is booming with 1,155,788 pounds exported last year worth $125,834 mostly to the United States. Two firms now can snails after shell removal and buttered preparation. Shells sold with canned product. No formal organization yet. mollusks gathered where found.
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Morocco
Rabat
United States
Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey Product Details
Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City markets Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey at 86.8 proof 65 percent grain neutral spirits. The label lists Calvert Reserve as a blended whiskey with specified proof and grain composition from the producer.
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Calvert Reserve
Calvert Distillers Corp
New York City
U S Could Build Supersonic Planes Fast If War Demanded
John Stack of the NACA says the United States could begin producing faster-than-sound combat planes under full war effort, though current fast aircraft are experimental with no armament. The transition from research to tactical fighters remains the key challenge.
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Langley Air Base
United States
John Stack
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Stack
NACA
Local Residents Injured in Minneapolis Car Mail Truck Crash
Two La Crosse women Mary Seilestad and Catherine Guillaume were injured when their car collided with a mail truck at Hennepin and Nicollet in Minneapolis. Seilestad suffered a forehead cut and Guillaume bruises and shock after accepting a rain ride from Bernard Voss en route to a railroad station. Both were treated at General Hospital. vehicle damage undetermined.
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la Crosse
Minneapolis
Mary Seilestad
Main Street
Catherine Guillaume
Market Street
Bernard Voss
Seibstad
Voss
Two Plead Guilty In Denmark Bank Robbery Case
Two Green Bay men Robert E. Cleary and Donald Miller pleaded guilty in federal court to the March 4 Denmark Wisconsin State Bank robbery. Judge F Ryan Duffy ordered presentence investigation. A third man Walter Swee was jailed for examination. trial postponed. About $38,000 was taken though most recovered.
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Milwaukee
Green Bay
Denmark, Wis
F. Ryan Duffy
Robert E. Cleary
Donald Miller
Walter Swiee
County General Hospital
New Radar Wrinkle Aids Berlin Airlift Traffic
MINEOLA N Y A new radar device developed by the airborne instruments laboratory provides traffic controllers with a moving aircraft picture. The system reduces interference from buildings trees and mountains and could improve all weather commercial aviation.
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Mineola
N. Y
Airborne Instruments Laboratory
Youth fellowship programs at two churches documented
The St. John's Evangelical and Reformed in La Crosse hosted Zion's church Brownsville youth group Sunday evening. Rev. Ralph Kuether shared a Honduras travelogue after devotion, then movies and games followed. The article notes the United States has 1,400,000 miles of improved roads.
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St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
la Crosse
Zion’s Church
Brownsville
Minn
Ralph Kuether
Honduras
United States
Staff Named to Edit Central Booster 1950 Yearbook
After spring tryouts a 39 member staff was chosen to edit the 1950 Central Booster yearbook. Editor in chief is Phyllis Gunderson with Joyce McKillip as associate editor. Olga Thiel is adviser. Staff includes artists Rollin Jansky. senior writers Jack Schoenenberger Mary Scott William Jordan Doris Meyer Joan Hanson Edward Seielstad Tomudson. faculty writers Ellie Lehman head Charles Huber Earl Webster Marlene Strauss. organization writers Molly Hale head Pat Palmquist Joyce Anderson James Weidman Mary Rekow Karl Schubert Caroline Keller. girls sports head Gayle Highberg Shirley Fontish. boys sports head Russ Johnson Ronald Love. proof readers head Margaret Schultz with Nell Hetherington Mary Nickerson Ona Ramsey Coralee Stokke. typists Beverly Jorgenson head Betty Steinmetz Charlene Hanson Phyllis Jenks. mounters head Mary Lou Johnson Ardis Denton. photographers head Robert Ward Ray Ping Lee Rozelle.
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Central High School
Phyllis Gunderson
Joyce McKillip
Olga Thiel
Rollin Jansky
Jack Schoenenberger
Mary Scott
William Jordan
Doris Meyer
Joan Hanson
Edward Seielstad
Tom Udson
Ellie Lehman
Charles Huber
Earl Webster
Marlene Strauss
Molly Hale
Pat Palmquist
Joyce Anderson
James Weidman
Mary Rekow
Karl Schubert
Caroline
Bug Assembly Line In Heavy Producer
A Wisconsin insecticide lab at the University of Wisconsin under the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation runs an assembly line producing about 8000 adult flies 1000 cockroaches 1000 clothes moths 500 pea aphids and hundreds more insects daily for testing new insecticides. Cockroaches thrive on dog biscuits and clothes moths are fed wool treated with vitamin B.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
University of Wisconsin
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