Borer Threat Less Severe In Illinois
Illinois corn borers pose a lighter threat overall this year if weather and crop conditions stay favorable. University entomologist Dr. G C Decker notes some early plantings could need insecticide despite low overall infestation. moth flight is underway in the south and early sweet corn may see eggs within a week.
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Iroquois County
Willard Hermanson Joins City Police Force
Willard W Hermanson was appointed to the city police department, reaching a full strength of 63 with 49 patrolmen and 14 officers. Born June 1 1929 in La Crosse he lives at 1225 Redfield St and is a Central High School and Vocational School alumnus who served 18 months in the Army including 10 months as a paratrooper in Japan. he is married with one daughter.
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George Long
Hermanson
Redfield St
la Crosse
Central High School
Japan
Re Elects All Officers at West La Crosse Civic League
West La Crosse Civic League held its annual meeting at the League Clubrooms with Z I Urban presiding due to J W Jennings illness. Officers were unanimously re elected Jennings as president Urban as vice president Marge Staats secretary and Donald Dagendesh treasurer. Three new directors were elected Earl Kiefner Arno Luce and Mrs Cliff Hammond. The group expressed appreciation for tireless flood emergency efforts by several individuals.
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West la Crosse Civic League
Z. I. Urban
J. W. Jennings
Jennings
Urban
Marge Staats
Donald Dagendesh
Earl Kiefner
Arno Luce
Cliff Hammond
Truck Crash Fatal Near Milwaukee City Limits
Stanley S. Smith, 58, of Milwaukee, was fatally injured Saturday night when the pickup truck he was riding in left the road and struck a tree in the Town of Wauwatosa.
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Stanley S. Smith
Sckup
Wauwatosa
Weather Outlook for La Crosse and Tri-State Area
Forecast for the week calls for partly sunny skies with above normal temperatures across the La Crosse region and Tri-State area. No precise dates or values are given in the readable text.
Fall term ban for 19 UW rioters outlined
Madison reports 19 University of Wisconsin students who entered girls dormitories in a campus raid will not be allowed to start fall term. Five faces a full year plus four on probation. 14 delayed until February after restitution. Four reinstated, others suspended or cleared. university president calls for citizenship and obedience to law.
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University of Wisconsin
Daniel Aceto
Racine
John Oustrude
Hartland
Jerome Sticker
Marathon
Don Trawiaki
Edgar
David Knuth
Hortonville
The
University News Service
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Waukesha
Leo Bourcier
Marshfield
Sam Costanza
Chicago
Richard Dance
Wauwatosa
Phillip Elbert
May
Arrested For Beating Mother And Stepfather
Leslie Howell 33 of Royalton arrested Saturday on assault with intent to murder his mother 55 and stepfather 70 Frank Singleton after a Friday night shovel attack at the Singleton farm home north of Cambria Both victims hospitalized in Carbondale in serious condition Howell reportedly argued with Singleton over dinner and then struck them with a shovel He was arrested around midnight in a Zeigler tavern and jailed in Marion Williamson County
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Herrin
Ill
Leslie Howell
Royalton
Lyn Franklin
Frank Singleton
Singleton
Cambria
Carbondale
Franklin
Howell
Zeigler
Williamson County
Marion
City Clerk Warns Licenses Due Before June 2
Alice A. Dickson warns tavern license renewals must be paid before June 2 under state law limits. The clerk urges deposits by June 1 for license fee compliance and protection. Italy fears a motorscooter surplus.
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Obituary for Theresa R. Holmes of South St. Paul
Theresa R. Holmes, formerly of La Crosse, died at home in South St. Paul after months of illness. Born in La Crosse, she lived in South St. Paul since 1912 and ran the Ideal Restaurant before working at the St Paul Letter Company. Survived by mother Mrs. Ole Swenson, four sisters Mabel Rooney Hazel Halde man Gertude Wilson Ruth Crawford, three brothers Henry Swenson Oscar and George. Funeral Monday 11 a.m. English and Meeker Funeral Home and 2 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial Acacia Park Cemetery Mendota.
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South St. Paul
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Ideal
St. Paul
Curtis E. Jorstad
Burrial
Acacia Park Cemetery
Mendota
Ettrick
Wis
Anna O. Bergerson
South Beaver Creek
Black River Falls
Ole Britton
Anton Bergeson
Arthur
Millard
Olger Knutson
Frank Blumenthaler
Barberton, O
Ray Thompson
Edward Hulberg
Northfield
Joseph Volk
Madison
Jo- Walter Schneyer
Chicago
Wallace Wilcox
Milwaukee
Thomas Lokken
Blair
Henry Thorson
Whitehall
South Beaver Creek Lutheran Church
George C. Strum
Zion Cemetery
Runnestrand Funeral Home
Death Notices Anna Ott Dalton of St Helena
Word reached relatives of the May 1 death in St Helena California of Anna Ott Dalton 57 a former La Crosse resident. Funeral services were May 3 at Hans Jensen Memorial Chapel and St Helena Catholic Church with Rev Maurice Hannigan officiating. Burial followed at Holy Cross Cemetery. She was the foster mother of Mrs Mario Vasconi formerly Gertrude Weidemann of La Crosse now of St Helena. A native of La Crosse she came to California 18 years ago living in Napa before moving to St Helena about a year ago. She belonged to the Ladies Society of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers Forward Lodge 451 La Crosse and long worked as bookkeeper at People's Ice and Fuel Company.
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la Crosse
Hans Jensen
St. Helena Catholic Church
Maurice Hannigan
Holy Cross Cemetery
Mario Vasconi
Gertrude Weidemann
Dalton
California
Napa
Ladies’Society
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Forward
The
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Ladies Night at St. Paul Brotherhood Meeting
The St. Paul Lutheran Church Brotherhood holds its last meeting of the season inviting ladies as special guests. The 8 p.m. program features Arvid Olson vocal numbers two films and a brief talk by Rev. S. D. Sorgen. Refreshments committee includes Clifford Bakkum chairman Lawrence Larson Robert Boland and Verne Peacock.
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St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Brotherhood
Arvid Olson
Death of Mrs Arch ie Alexander in Wisconsin
Mrs Archie Alexander 36 died May 21 at Black River Falls where she had been a clinic patient one day Funeral services were set for Saturday at Indian Mission Church Rev Mitchell Whiterabbit officiated and burial was in Decorah Indian Cemetery Survivors include husband mother Edna and Eugene all of Black River Falls and sister Bertha Thompson Wisconsin Rapids with sister Susan Climer prior name in Alma Center Wisconsin小
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Archie Alexander
Black River Falls
Susan Climer
Indian Mission Church
Mitchell. Whiterabbit
Decorah Indian Cemetery
Franklin Climer
Edna
Eugene
Bertha Thompson
Wisconsin Rapids
Obituaries and death notices from Wisconsin communities
Notices report the deaths of Raymond M. Beers 69 former county home superintendent and Ingeborg Nelson 93 with service details. Also Anna O Bergerson died, with extensive survivors listed and services in Ettrick and Blair. A final note observes platinum’s defense role as a catalyst.
60 UW Women Students Feted At Swingout
Madison event honors 60 University of Wisconsin women students at the 32nd annual Senior Swingout during Parents Weekend. Mothers and fathers witnessed the ceremony with speeches by Mrs. Louis Troxell and Dr. E. B. Fred, and numerous campus scholastic awards announced to recipients from Wisconsin communities and beyond.
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University of Wisconsin
Louis Troxell
E. B. Fred
Women’s Self-Government Association
Joan Bunke
West Bend
Lois Erdmann
Delafield
June Hartell
Evanston, Ill
Patricia Krebs
Webster Groves
Arona Siev
Sigma Epsilon Sigma
Emily Smith
Kenosha
Women’s Athletic Association
Jean Babler
Monroe
Anna May Doudlah
Brooklyn
Mary Singer
Manitowoc
Riot at Prison Ends in Tense Standoff
Prison on edge as inmates seize recreation hall armed with knives and wrecking tools. Warden Clapp orders surrender. tear gas threatened if violence continues. Five ringleaders named: James Samuel Miller, Horace Everett Munge, Merle Roxie Kerby, Robert Murland, and Donald Leroy Schoonover, with varied sentences for armed robbery forgery and related crimes.
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Clap
James Samuel Miller
Horace Everett Munge
Merle Roxie Kerby
Robert Murland
Donald Leroy Schoonover
Falsifies Accounts Of Eccentric Club
London a year old typist Derek Walker was sentenced to one year in jail for falsifying accounts and stealing 40 pounds from his employers the Eccentric Club.
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Derek Walker
Treaty terms spark tense talks over West Berlin
Western foreign ministers led by Eden Adenauer Schuman and Acheson hold a night session after a formal dinner as they press for a six nation defense plan and a Bonn peace treaty. Russians widen road and air blockades threatening West Berlin economy and imports.
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Anthony Eden
Robert Schuman
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Paris
Schuman
West Germany
Western Defense Partnership
Berlin
West Berlin
Parade colors and guard march with area veterans units
Aquinas High School band leads a parade with Spanish American War Veterans in cars and multiple veterans groups including Catholic Veterans, Disabled American Veterans, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and auxiliary units. Local students from St Johns, St James, Mary's, St Joseph, St Wenceslaus, Blessed Sacrament, Holy Cross, Holy Trinity, St Michael's Orphanage and St Thomas More School participate.
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Bishop McGavick
American Legion
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St. James
Mary’s
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St. Wenceslaus
Blessed Sacrament
Holy Cross
Holy Trinity
Body sought of angler Woodrow Baldwin in Lake Superior
In Duluth Minnesota on Saturday Coast Guardsmen and National Park Service workers searched near Tile Royale in Lake Superior for Woodrow Baldwin 39 of Bayfield Wisconsin believed missing after an angling incident.
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Minn
Woodrow Baldwin
Bayfield
Wis
Coast
Roosevelt Approved Selling Battleship Plans to Russia
Long secret State Department papers released Saturday show President Roosevelt in 1938 sanctioned transferring 62,000 ton battleship plans to the Soviet Union via Gibbs and Cox. A Moscow mission negotiated but the Soviets declined. Roosevelt insisted the ship stay within a 45,000 ton limit to fit a treaty.
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Roosevelt
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Moscow
State Department
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New York
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Cox
Hull
Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison
Russia
Snate
Ridgway Says Manchuria Bombing Could Drag In Red Air Force
Gen. Matthew Ridgway told senators that U N bombing of Manchurian bases might trigger greater risk of Soviet air power entering the Korean War. He made the remark in a heavily censored transcript of his closed hearing before the Senate armed services committee.
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Matthew B. Ridgway
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Russell
D-Ga
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Sen. Morse
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Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Far Eastern Command
Minnesota and Eisenhower Backers Dominate Delegates
Minnesota's March 18 primary produced three at large delegates likely to back Eisenhower, with talk of instructing all 24 to vote for the general after meeting legal obligations to Stassen. Eisenhower claimed four delegate votes in the primary as Anderson backs Gov C Elmer Anderson and opposes Roy Dunn. Dunn, Taft's state manager, loses ground as Etzell also supports Eisenhower.
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Chicago
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Keystone States
Taft
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Tennessee
California
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Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Brown
Washington
Sam Rayburn
Bigamist Arrested in Show Low Arizona Case
George Merlin Dutson, 47, sought on bigamy charges in Mesa, Arizona, since six women claimed him as their husband on December 31, 1951, was arrested Saturday at Show Low, Arizona, 47 miles south of Holbrook.
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Ariz
George Merlin Dutson
Mesa
Duttson
Show Low
Here
Truman rides Williamsburg after naval visit ends with flat eyeball tale
President Truman left the naval academy aboard the Williamsburg at 3 45 p m CST after a calm visit. He explained he almost joined Annapolis as a youth but could not due to defective vision described as a flat eyeball. He attended a luncheon with midshipmen and watched Army Navy events while neutral on minor offenses.
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Most Wanted Woman Bad Check Passer Arrested On Coast
Mrs. Elizabeth Winans Astin, 42, described by police as the nation s most wanted woman bad check passer, was arrested Saturday in Pasadena California. Maryland claims it has the only virgin hemlock forest in the Eastern United States.
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Calif
Elizabeth Winans Astin
Maryland
United States
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