Flower Power Brightens La Crosse Parks
Gordon Van Akkeren designs all city park floral displays in La Crosse after a career spanning public accounting, greenhouse work, and military service. At 59 he blends horticulture with a touch of commercial art training to shape beds and displays at Myrick Park Pumping Station and the Isle la Plume Disposal Plant.
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Gordon van Akkeren
la Crosse
Sheboygan
van Akkeren
Carroll College
Waukesha
Myrick Park
Isle la Plume
Riverside Park
Riverside
State and
Main Sts
Fred Panke
New Test Saves Time Money Clinic Aids Cancer Check
A La Crosse clinic uses colposcopy with a stereoscopic microscope to detect uterine cancer, avoiding conization and shorter visits. Drs. Da Costa and Gundersen staff the clinic, funded by the Wisconsin Regional Medical Program, with about 60 patients seen since February and 10 cancers detected.
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la Crosse
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
Wanir da Costa
Skemp-Grandview
Jerome H. Gundersen
Gundersen Clinic
Adolph Staff
Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Regional Medical Program
Gundersen
Europe
da Costa
Logan junior high civics program invites local speakers
Mrs. Beatrice Small at Logan Junior High builds a civics program where five ninth grade classes hear from urban planners, recreation and law officials, clergy, and state representatives. Speakers cover community building, self protection, welfare, and resource use with films and demos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse Tribune
Beatrice Small
Logan Junior High
Paying Bus Riders To Get Coupons Says Petruccelli
D J Petruccelli, manager of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday that coupons will be issued to pay bus riders to assure that only bus users get privately financed bus tokens. The coupons were proposed by the chamber's retail division.
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Petruccelli
D. J. Petruccelli
Greater la
la Crosse Transit Co
Chamber
la Crosse Transit
Bers
St. Francis Hospital
Masons Begin Cornerstone Ceremony for New Temple
Masons in the Tri-State Area join local members on Saturday June 5 at 3 p.m. for the cornerstone laying of a new 350000 dollar Masonic Temple at 724 Main St La Crosse. Grand Master Charles E. White of River Falls to preside with Knights Templar escort. the public may observe and attend refreshments afterward.
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Tri-State
Charles E. White
River Falls
Masonic Temple
Main St
la Crosse
Prairie du Chien
Nathan Myrick
Grand Lodge of
Wisconsin
Frontier Lodge 45
Thomas E. Stoddard
Blue Lodge Masons
Knights Templar
8Th Street
Union Agrees To Withdraw Motor Pickets
Pickets at the Midway Motor Lodge Hoffmann House construction site on 1835 Rose Street were withdrawn Wednesday after an agreement between Local 140 AFL-CIO Laborers and the contractor. Details were not disclosed. Negotiations with the La Crosse Employers Association began Thursday regarding wages as the old contract expired March 31. Local 140 has about 450 members.
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Midway Motor Lodge
Hoffman House
Rose St
North America
Afl-Cio
Darrel Lee
la Crosse Employers Association
Lee
Dairyland Co-Op Sets Annual Meet
Dairyland Power Cooperative prepares for its 30th annual meeting in La Crosse on Wednesday June 2 with James K. Smith of Washington D C serving as keynote speaker. Smith heads the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp a new private lending entity for rural electrics. About 500 rural electric leaders from the Upper Midwest are expected to attend at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute Coleman Auditorium. John E Olson of Chetek Dairyland president will open the session at 10 a m. Smith helped organize CFC two years ago the banking arm funded by private capital to back REA loan program and expand rural electric financing. Morning reports from General Manager John P Madgett and officers Olson Hoel Jerrett will follow with officer elections and other business after Smith’s address.
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James K. Smith
Washington, D.C
Dairyland Power Cooperative
la Crosse
Smith
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp
Upper Midwest
Coleman
Western Wisconsin Technical Institute
John E. Olson
Chetek
Dairyland
Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp
CFC
Dairyland Power
John P. Madgett
Pres. Olson
Allen E. Hoel
Cornell, Wis
Clarence J. Jerrett
Livingston
Wis
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Donald W. Affolter
She
Tribune
Aids
By Robin Thompson
Logan
David Truckenbrod
Harborview Plaza
Riverside Shopping Center
Eugene Fry
John Bilbro
Hixon Flouse
la Crosse County
Baron Gideon Hixon
Masons
George A. Ellis
The
United Temple Association
Phillip J. Bouffleur
Frontier Lodge
David Hogue
Badger Lodge
Duane Moore
Carl W. Schubert & Associates
Peter Nelson and Son, Inc
J. M. Fremlin
Lorraine A. Struxness
N. 10Th St
Badger Mutual
John W. Wateski
S. 6Th St
Struxness
Wateski
Donald L. Kowalke
Onalaska Ave
Gerald Jansky
Mesa Road
George Ellis
Dairyland Co-Op
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