State Budget Requests Exceed Wisconsin Revenue Projections
Gov. Walter Goodland's budget summary shows state departments seek 169 million dollars for the next two years while estimated tax receipts total about 91 million. The $78 million gap implies approved requests will be trimmed or new taxes imposed, with local aid rising to 61.5 million and building proposals totaling 41.5 million.
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Walter S. Goodland
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City Budget Face-off Hikes Mill Rate and Salaries
The common council will pass the 1947 city budget at Friday night’s meeting amid pressure from CIO and AFL unions for a $360 salary increase for about 650 city workers. A mill rate around 36 to 40 is expected, influenced by bonding for several proposed projects including storm sewers and a south side library.
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Fire Department
South Side
Peiping Proposed to Become China's Capital by Delegates
Shanghai and The Evening Post report a strong group at the Nanking national assembly moved to alter Chiang Kai shek’s constitution draft to designate Peiping as the capital instead of Nanking.
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Evening Post
National Assembly
Nanking
Chiang Kaishek
Peiping
China
Increases Prices by Standard Oil of New Jersey
Standard Oil of New Jersey announced price hikes for fuel kerosene distillate and home heating oil effective Saturday November with impact on households and businesses across New York.
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New York
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Weather forecast for La Crosse tonight into Saturday
Considerable cloudiness and very cold tonight with a low around 22 to 24 degrees. Clearing skies and a bit warmer Saturday with a high near 42 degrees.
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British Court Rejects Plea For Refugee Jews
The Palestine high court rejected an effort to stop the deportation of nearly 4,000 uncertified Jewish immigrants to Cyprus. Three British troop ships would depart with the refugees, prompting calls for a day of silence in Jerusalem at 3 pm. The Palestine government criticized the action as painful but necessary to prevent illegal entry and preserve order.
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Palestine
High Court
Cyprus
Palestine Government
Office of Defense Transportation
Keller Sees Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
London reports Miss Helen Keller held a lengthy audience with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on Friday. Keller is touring Europe to visit the war blinded.
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Helen Keller
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Miss Keller
Europe
Thanksgiving Scramble Inside 182-Foot Chimney
A 23 year old man Thomas Dowling of Orange New Jersey spent Thanksgiving morning inside a 182 foot chimney at the Pennsylvania Railroad heat plant in Newark. He climbed from bottom to top after waking trapped and could not descend the outside route. an attendant in a nearby parking lot released the large doors allowing his rescue.
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N. J
Thomas Dowling
Dowling
Orange
Andrew Perkins
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Salesad
Bank Robbery at Edgar State Bank Nets $3500 to $4000
An unknown man robbed Edgar State Bank at 8:50 this morning, stealing about $3,500 to $4,000 in cash from the teller area while three clerks, Lucy Shortner, Esther Schmit and Donna Ucker, watched. He fled with an accomplice in an International truck heading toward Marshfield, sheriff alerted.
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W. C. Seim
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Seim
Lucy Shortner
Esther Schmit
Donna Ucker
Marathon County Sheriff's Office
Scouts Gather Paper Saturday in La Crosse
La Crosse residents are urged to prepare waste paper including newspapers magazines and wrappings for a Boy Scout paper collection on Saturday. Tie bundles in sizes manageable by the scouts and place them visible from the sidewalk for pickup. Funds from paper sales support the scouts character building program.
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Thomas Urges CIO Fight Of Its Life For Allis-Chalmers
Vice-President R. J. Thomas of the CIO United Auto Workers calls on all UAW-CIO locals to back the Allis-Chalmers strike in West Allis Wisconsin with resolutions, funds, and mobilized sound trucks. The plant workers have been on strike 215 days seeking 184 cents an hour raise plus concessions. He accuses powerful interests of battling the union to crush the local and threaten the CIO as a whole.
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CIO
R. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers Today
Allis-Chalmers Co
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Thomas
Allis-Chalmers Company
Chalmers
West Allis
Wis
Allis-Chalmers
U S Plans To End Controls Over Use Of Flour
President Truman announced new agriculture department measures to loosen grain use rules. Distillers and brewers gain grain flexibility with quotas relaxed. flour distribution limits are lifted domestically. Officials cite strong grain crops and freight shortages as key factors guiding policy.
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U.S
Washington
Truman
Agriculture Department
White House
Anderson
T of Agriculture
Car Plunges Into Camp Creek Near Viola
Four of five La Crosse bound passengers were injured when the Milwaukee party’s car left a road east of Viola and plunged head first into Camp Creek while en route to La Crosse for Thanksgiving. Albert Sherkow suffered arm and facial injuries. his wife Mrs. Sherkow was unhurt. the two Sherkow sons and niece sustained cuts and bruises.
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la Crosse
Milwaukee
Lester M Gorenstein
Winnebago Street
Sherkow
Albert Sherkow
Eight Men to Face Trial for Escaping Prison Camp
GREEN BAY Wis Oct 6 eight inmates from the Oneida honor camp of the Wisconsin state reformatory will face municipal court trial December 5 and 6 for escape. They allegedly overpowered a night guard severed lines fled in the guard’s car and were later recaptured in Missouri. Named defendants include Johnson 19 Green Bay Davis 19 Fond du Lac Jarolime 19 Milan Milanovich 21 Skendaore 19 Ondreschko 21 Sheeks 23 and Steinfeld 21 all Milwaukee or central Wisconsin residents serving one to five years.
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Wisconsin State Reformatory
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Missouri
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Clair Davis
Fond du Lac
Raymond Jarolime
Milan Milanovich
Ronald D. Skendaore
Milwaukee
Clifford Ondreschko
Antigo
Daniel Sheeks
Portage
James Steinfeld
Washburn County
Holiday Traffic Toll Tops Early Estimates in 1946
Traffic deaths during the Thanksgiving holiday reached 67 with 13 additional fatalities from other violent causes, higher than the Safety Council’s forecast. California led with seven deaths. Illinois, New York and Michigan had five each. The council also notes a roughly 25 percent rise in fatalities for the first ten months of 1946 versus 1945 and projects about 34,000 for the year.
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Former Green Bay Businessman Killed in Chicago Shooting
Fred eric E. Burrall, 67, a Green Bay native who founded the McIntyre Burrall Co. saddlery firm and led the local Chamber of Commerce, died in Chicago when a shotgun discharged while he climbed a fence. Funeral services set for Monday in Green Bay.
Hunger Striker Banned From Country After Prison Release
Irish Hunger Striker David Fleming, former leader of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, was released on medical grounds and ordered to leave Northern Ireland. The 28 year old prisoner, who served four years of a 12 year treason felony sentence, was taken to the border by ambulance and barred from Ulster for at least eight years.
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Poland Studies U S and British Messages
Warsaw reports the foreign ministry is studying British and American notes urging guarantees of equal rights for parties in the January 19 general elections. The spokesman declined to say when or if Poland would respond and did not know why the notes were not published in the Polish press.
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Foreign Ministry
Corpse Moves At Detroit Funeral Parlor Court Case
In Detroit an incident at Wright funeral parlors prompted a recorder's court appearance. Sharon King admitted drinking and entering the empty mortuary casket area where an arm moved and a snore sounded. He was fined 10 dollars and warned to avoid places like that to avoid embalming.
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Wright Funeral
Recorder’s Court
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Paul E. Krause
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Nehru Accepts Parley Bid For London Talks
A source says Nehru accepted an invitation to attend British cabinet discussions on India’s Hindu Muslim stalemate. Nehru and Baldev Singh will travel from Delhi to Karachi then to London, while Patel will not attend.
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Mahomed Ali Jinnah
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Karachi
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Java Peace Short-Lived Ends as Fighting Breaks Out
Indonesian Republicans and Dutch forces clash in Java ending a brief truce in the East Indies revolution. Dutch tanks move toward Bekassi as Indonesian forces cancel leaves. Dutch denies widespread fighting and any amphibious landing near Batavia harbor.
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East Indies
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Netherlands
Indonesian Information Ministry
Bekassi
Here
Danish Court Orders Execution of Woman
In Aarhus Jutland the first woman sentenced to death by a Danish court was 22 year old Grethe Bart ram. She faces execution by firing squad unless clemency appeals are granted for reporting 47 Danish patriots to the Gestapo during the German occupation.
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Arizona Old-Time Cowhands oppose pink fox hunt in Tucson
In Phoenix readers report cattlemen form the Arizona Old-Time Cowhands Anti-High toned Fox Hunting association after plans for an English style fox hunt at Tucson. They deride pink coats and discuss forming an Arizona Brahma Steer-Chasing club with a Braymer chase and a ribbon prize.
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John Edward Dalton
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Warren Peterson
Lewis pleads not guilty as court upholds restraint order
Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough rules the contempt case against United Mine Workers President John L Lewis may proceed. Lewis waives advisory jury. government presents Navy Captain Collisson as first witness in the dispute over his unit’s government coal contract.
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