Sheboygan Man Draws Five Year Term for Fraud
MILWAUKEE -( )- Harry Petashnick, 53, of Sheboygan, Wis., received a five year federal sentence after Tehan called the case of fraud remarkable. He faced 20 counts for forging notes on fictitious roof contracts at the Bank of Sheboygan, with investigators saying he forged about 75 notes totaling nearly $200,000. The indictment cited forged customer and other signatures on promissory notes and housing administration loan applications. Petashnick surrendered June 21 and was ordered placed on probation after prison.
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Robert Tehan
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Eagle Roofing and Insurance Co
Bank of Sheboygan
J.udge Tehan
Governor appeals to Wisconsin motorists for safety drive
Governor Rennebohm urged Wisconsin motorists to cooperate in reducing highway accidents by backing National Car Safety Month. He cited increased summer driving and the need to check vehicles for mechanical safety.
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Wisconsin
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Biographies On Exhibit At Public Library This Week
Multiple new books and memoirs feature prominent figures from world war two to Maine fiction. Elisabeth Ogilvie's My World is an Island profiles Gay's Island life while Yay Panlilio known as Colonel Yay recounts guerilla fighting in Luzon. King Doctor of Ulithi by Marshall Wees details health work in the Pacific. Aul's How to Beautify and Improve Your Home Ground and Bromfield Out of the Earth offer country living notes. John Masefield On the Hill collects new poems. Religious titles include Schweitzer The Mystery of the Kingdom of God and Growth in Prayer.
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Maine
Rowan Head
Little Gay’s
New England
Yay Panlilio
Yay
Crucible
Manila
Luzon
Marshall Wees
Ulithi
Pacific
David Divine
Fassarai
Dick Grace
Out of the Earth
Louis Bromfield
Elswyth Thane
Vermont Hills
William Beebe
Henry Aul
John Masefield
Albert Schweitzer
Constance Garrett
Archie Robinson
House OKs Aid Bill For Non Commie Areas
The House passed a $3 120 550 000 program of economic aid to Europe and other non-Communist areas sending the bill to the Senate. The vote was 247 to 88. It authorizes a third year of the Marshall plan for European recovery and a separate bill for the cash to fund the program is being prepared by the House Appropriations Committee.
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Europe
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Newsprint Shortage Concerns Midwest Newspapers
Chicago delegates at the Inland Daily Press association 66th Spring meeting heard a potential newsprint shortage could hinder midwest papers amid rising demand and advertising growth. Schurz noted a letter to the Newsprint Association of Canada seeking long term plans to meet increased demand, with limited Scandinavian supply cited.
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Ind
Tribune
Inland Daily Press Association
Midwest
Schurz
R. M. Fowler
Newsprint Association of Canada
Association
Navy Crewman From Avon Street Serves Aboard Carrier
James R vones class member Mrs Walter Roget of Avon Street is listed as crew on escort aircraft carrier USS Palau with two attached air squadrons. The ship recently conducted intensive around the clock operations in the western Atlantic. Roget entered naval service in September 1943 after graduating from Aquinas High School. The note adds a clarification that a starfish is a sea animal, not a fish.
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Walter J. Roget
Avonstreet
Palau
Tions
Atlantic
Navy
Roget
Naval Service
Aquinas High School
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