Logan High Grad Dick Koepcke Heads to Northwestern in Engineering
Logan high school senior Dick Koepcke son of William and Mrs Koepcke of 2415 Loomis will enter Northwestern University as a freshman to study electrical engineering after graduating from Logan on June 11 He ranks seventh in a class of 93 and holds two scholarships one from Northwestern and the Dr Gundersen fund He played football basketball and baseball and was sports editor for the Logan paper and yearbook His back up plan includes possible draft plans and a preference for the air corps if called into service He is joining Northwestern without ROTC and hopes for a future job he enjoys
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Dick Koepcke
William W
Loomis Street
la Crosse Tribune
Koepcke
War
Logan
Trical Engineering
Dane University
Northwestern
Oo Gundersen
Koepe
Air Corps
Navy Air Corps
Palestine
Funchos
Trien
Ken
Core
Logan High School
Brooklyn Sees Postwar School Ready in Brooklyn
New York report details Stephen Decatur junior high in Brooklyn the citys first postwar school with a $2 5 million plant featuring a television receiver radio loudspeakers a music room and $5 000 in instruments including a likely jukebox setup the facility will soon open for students.
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New York
Stephen Decatur Junior High
Brooklyn
Tomah VA Hospital seminar to discuss new program
Dr G D Rice manager of the Tomah VA hospital leads a June 9 seminar at the Veterans Administration office to review neuropsychiatric hospital activities and the Mendota transfer. Leslie Dix notes expanded services, residency plans with University of Wisconsin and consultants, plus new buildings and patient care improvements.
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Tomah VA
G. D. Rice
Veterans Administration Office
South Fourth Street
Leslie V. Dix
Mendota
Tomah
N. C. Mace
Mendota Hospital
University of Isconsin
W. F. Lorenz
Lorenz
University of Wisconsin
Tomah Hospital
Navy
la Crosse
Ita
Rice
Dix
Crosse VA
H. M. Baxley
Milwaukee
Willard W. Hield
Chicago
U. S. Department of Labor
James Burns
American Legion
Field
Burns
Lake Tomahawk
Wisconsin
C. A. Beranek
Guy S. Williams
Donkeys Cost Worcester Insurance Firms Dearly
A Worcester garage man says the city’s donkeys cost insurers at least 4000 rands yearly as cars damaged in collisions with strays arrive for repairs, with no week passing free of such incidents.
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Worcester
North Western Historical Train To Spend Monday In La Crosse
A rolling museum visiting La Crosse showcases a century of Midwest rail expansion led by the North Western and the Galena and Chicago Union. Exhibits cover pre Civil War era to Pullman sleepers and early railway firsts, with items from St. Paul and other Midwest sources and endorsements by historians.
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William Butler Ogden
Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway
North Western
Ogden
North Western Historical
la Crosse
Midwest
North Western Railroad
Third and Vine Streets
North Western Railway
Galena and
Chicago Union Railroad Company
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas
Milwaukee
Pullman
Galena
George M. Pullman
St. Paul
Red Cross volunteers discuss conference plans in Chicago
J. H. Sheldon and Mrs. Sheldon chaired a May 2021 conference in Chicago with 35 Midwestern chapters represented. Speakers from the American Red Cross national and Chicago area outlined volunteer services, noting the historical shift from auxiliary to volunteer services and detailing local canteen, gray ladies, nurse aides, production, staff, and veteran hospital work in La Crosse County.
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J. H. Sheldon
Red Cross Volunteer Services
la Crosse County
Red Cross
Veterans Hospital
Trane Engineers to Hold Two Day City Meeting in La Crosse
One hundred Trane sales engineers from the Midwest and far West arrive in La Crosse for a two day work meet beginning Thursday. The program includes more than 15 illustrated talks on new products and selling methods, plus a tour of Trane factories. Local sessions are at the VFW club rooms before continuing to ten where similar meetings occur for eastern and southern personnel.
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Trane
Midwest
Far West
la Crosse
Scranton
VFW
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Allis-Chalmers
Northwestern University
Lacrosse Bottling Works, Inc
Brooklyn Readies Post
Fronzer Furs
North Third Street
Smithel
Hyde Park
Jim Seys
Jim
Jim Smithel
Smithel Jewelers
Newburg
Marie Holland Smith
Minneapolis College of Music
Ender
Peter D. Thock
G.I
Nations Association of Schools of Music
LaSalle
Ith Street
Minneapolis 2
Mina
North American Life & Casualty Co
Hoeschler
Trane Company
Maynard
Ferry
Maynard Oberg
Forrest Elliott
S&l
Wes
Vee
Mal Kalamazoo
Immil
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Heating & Home Appliance Co
North Seventh Street
Gecraic
Ancas
Lamazoo
Repargsa
Aroas
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