Litter Prevention Campaign and Other Quick Facts Quiz
Readers asked questions answered by The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau. Topics include Keep America Beautiful aims to curb litter supported by 23 national industries, Saar district density, U.S. crime cost, Budge t Director Hughes religion, Army assignments, American travel, Palo Verde as Arizona’s state tree, Gen Davis decorations, harpoon whaling details, George Junior Republic HQ, and Cunard Queen ships blue ensign size.
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Publication details and subscription rates for The La Crosse Tribune
The La Crosse Tribune Entered as second class matter June 24 1904 lists editorial and staff roles. It provides home delivery rates 40 cents per week and mail subscriptions inside 75 miles of La Crosse at one year ten dollars with various tiered options.
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the Tribune
Lee Newspaper Group
Associated Press
AP News
Tribune
Sunday Tribune
Local Bank Women gain national membership
Eunice E Johnston assistant cashier at National Bank of La Crosse has been elected to membership in the National Association of Bank Women. The La Crosse district reports strong growth with more than 2 000 women in executive bank roles nationwide.
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Eunice E. Johnston
National Bank of la
H. R. Kluth
America
Uncle Sam's Almanac 1955 multiplication table offer
A full page multiplication table in the 1955 Uncle Sam's Almanac covers products from 2x2 to 25x25. The ad invites readers to send 30 cents postpaid to Information Bureau, 1200 Eve St NW, with coins wrapped, to obtain a copy.
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New Unfair Labor Practices Charged Against Kohler Co
Four fresh NLRB complaints allege Kohler Co. provoked and prolonged the strike with unfair practices before and after April 5 194. Additional charges claim discriminatory eviction of workers from company owned housing and retaliation against union requests by firing 78 employees on March 1 1955. Hearing set for June 7 in Sheboygan with total charges now ten.
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Bound Kohler Co
Kohler
Wis
National Labor Relations Board
George Downing
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Downing
Sheboygan
NLRB
Kohler Co
Lyman C. Conger
Kohler Management Committee
Peace must not mean sellout of rights of citizens
Sen Wiley of Wisconsin declares at West Allis Central High School that peace with Russia must protect citizen rights and insist on return of imprisoned U.S. airmen. He vows support for allies, including Nationalist China, and condemns appeasement as a path to survival.
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Milwaukee
Sen
Wiley R-Wis
United States
Russia
U.S
Wisconsin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
West Allis Central High School
China
Lelse
Way To Peace Is To Stay Strong
General James Van Fleet told the Institute of Paper Chemistry executives' conference dinner that peace lies in strength and prudent use of it. He called the cold war the war to win with no certainty of a hot conflict and urged focusing efforts in the Near and Middle East as the Russian underbelly.
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Appleton
James van Fleet
Far East
van Fleet
Institute of Paper Chemistry
Near
Middle East
Europe
Southeast Asia
Tractor overturn death at Willow Springs farm
Walter Burback was killed Friday when a tractor overturned and crushed him as he operated it on his new farm in Willow Springs township. He had recently moved from Kieler in Grant county. Under Danish rule, illiteracy has been abolished in Greenland.
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Clarence Heasty
Richard Foss
C. E. van Duser
Firestone
Sparta Motor Co
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North Water Street
Roger Brandstetter
Walter Riley
Alvin
Margaret Dargel
Glyn Hyatt
Cashton
Jean Randall
Randall Wrecking Yard
Black River Falls
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Lester Tempter
Shellane
Katherine Waterman Johnson
Tempters
T. and L. Cleaners
Main Street
Jackson County Bank
Melrose
Darlington
Walter Burback
Willow Springs
Burback
Kieler
Grant County
Greenland
Goldwater predicts Tory style shift signals GOP win in 1954
Sen. Goldwater says England’s Tory gains mirror a conservative trend across the United States and expects a Republican victory in 1954. Sen. Ervin counters there is no link between Eden’s return and U.S. politics. Goldwater, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, notes laborers seek economic stability and oppose leftist schemes. He hints Eisenhower may run again to push a progressive moderate program.
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Washington
Goldwater
R-Ariz
England
Sen
Ervin
D-Nc
Eden
Eisenhower
GB Mayor Refuses To Sign Pipeline Project Checks
Green Bay Mayor Otto Rachals refuses to sign nearly 200000 in checks to the pipeline project firm and engineers citing potential personal liability if the Supreme Court voids the plan. Circuit Judge Arold Murphy had dismissed taxpayers' suit, a decision opponents say will be appealed.
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Green Bay
Otto Rachals
Lake Michigan
Rachals
Supreme Court
Arold Murphy
CIO Chief Attacks Kohler And Catlin
The Milwaukee CIO leader Charles Schultz accuses Gov Kohler and Speaker Mark Catlin Jr of using a secret caucus to push a ban on labor union political contributions. He calls the Catlin bill regimentation and fascism and says the Republican win plan relies on excluding the people from politics.
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CIO
Kohler
Republican Party
Charles Schultz
Milwaukee
AFL
Assembly
Mark Catlin Jr
Appleton
Catlin
Schultz
Tories Triumph Amid Strike Threat Looms Across Britain
Prime Minister Eden and Conservative ministers seek ways to avert disruption as a nationwide rail strike looms after a sweeping election victory. Rail workers demand pay rises. a dockside walkout slows cargo in major ports while results show Conservatives with a substantial parliamentary majority.
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Eden
House of Commons
Britain
Labor Ministry
J. G. Baty
Madison Man Heads Life Underwriters
J Hoffman of Madison was elected president of the Wisconsin State Association of Life Underwriters at its 19th annual meeting. Richard McGuire of Racine was named president elect and Sy Mannix of Eau Claire became vice president with George L. Grimm of Milwaukee chosen secretary treasurer. John Freeman of Madison was elected president of the Life Managers and General Agents Association of Wisconsin at a dinner meeting.
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Richard A. Tausche
Equitable Life Assurance Society
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Chicago
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la Crosse
North Central Department
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Melrose
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Barre Mills
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Group Insurance
Milwaukee
J. Hofmann
Madison
Wisconsin State Association of Life Underwriters
Richard McGuire
Racine
Sy Mannix
Eau Claire
George L. Grimm
John Freeman
Life Managers and General Agents Association of Wisconsin
Dog Attack Sues George Stearns for 25 000
Alfred J. Murray Jr. and wife sue in Dane Circuit Court for 25 000 seeking damages for eight year old Patricia Marie Murray injured by a husky on May 22. The dog reportedly attacked her while she played in a vacant lot beside the Stearns property and posed a risk of permanent scars.
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Dane
George Stearns
Alfred J. Murray Jr
Patricia Marie
Stearns
Catlin Battles Wine Spokesmen in Wisconsin Hearing
Madison witnesses a heated public hearing as Assembly Speaker Mark Catlin Jr. disputes a bill to create a separate liquor tax department. wine company spokesmen charge the move would soften enforcement under a new commissioner Joseph Silverberg asserts the industry seeks to regulate liquor. Catlin defends the bill saying it was drafted without input from liquor interests.
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Assembly
Mark Catlin Jr
H-Appleton
Catlin
State Tax
Joseph H. Silverberg
Freane Wine Co
David Pritchard
Pritchard
Silverberg
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune Buys Hotel Property for New Building Site
The Wisconsin Rapids Tribune Co. will purchase the Commercial Hotel property and adjacent house from Consolidated Water Power & Paper Co. for 45000 dollars. The 1858 hotel will be torn down this summer to make way for a new Tribune building, with the neighboring dwelling kept as an apartment briefly. WFHR studios and offices will share the new structure in time.
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Wisconsin Rapids Tribune Co
Consolidated Water Power & Paper Co
William Huffman Jr
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First Avenue South
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
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WFHR
Ike Proposes 10 Refugee Relief Law Changes
President Eisenhower urged Congress to liberalize refugee relief, proposing ten amendments to the 1954 law. He called for worldwide admission of orphans and said administration improvements are needed, though no total refugee cap would be revised.
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Eisenhower
America
Congress
Couple to Spend Life Savings in One Grand Spree
A Boston pair, both paper cutters, were detained by police after they flashed six thousand dollars in Charlestown. Police say the couple planned a single night of spending their life savings and were held for their own good. Names were not released.
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Charlestown
Michael F. O'Brien
Seminary Plans $250000 Expansion in Wisconsin
The Nashotah House Seminary of the Episcopal Church in Wisconsin will add a $250000 building with classrooms living quarters for 15 students and social and athletic facilities, per the board of trustees on Friday.
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Nashotah House
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Episcopal Church
Wisconsin
Board of Trustees
Republicans Rallying To Back Pierce
Legislative Republicans in Wisconsin rally to support Robert L. Pierce for election to the Republican National Committee seat representing Wisconsin from 1956 to 1960. Pierce and Henry L. Ringling are rivals. petition signatures show broad GOP backing, with Ripon convention set for June 24.
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Wis
Robert L. Pierce
Republican State Party
Pierce
Henry L. Ringling
Wisconsin
Ripon
G. H. Bakke
Ly Pierce
City Clerk Announces Liquor and Beer License Payments
City Clerk Alice A. Dickson says applicants must pay for liquor licenses and submit beer license applications at the city clerk's office. Applications are due before the first week of June, with council action set for June 9.
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Alice A. Dickson
Council
Former Senate Employee Dies in Madison
William M. Brinkley, 62, longtime Wisconsin Senate staffer from 1927 to 1951, died Thursday after retirement due to ill health in Madison.
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William M. Brinkley
Wisconsin Senate
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