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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1950
Page
6
The La Crosse city wards show severe disparities in registered voters with Ward 12 at 273 and Ward 21 at 2,161. A fair plan would place about 1,100 registrants per ward, suggesting realignment by precise map drawing or shifting to citywide at large elections subject to a referendum.
A seasoned call to mobilize the U S economy for possible war with Russia. The piece argues for partial or total mobilization, higher military shares, and sweeping national sacrifice to deter aggression. It warns allies cannot be counted on and urges rapid planning to deter, or avoid, all‑out conflict.
Paul Hoffman leaves the Economic Cooperation Administration with praise from President Truman. He cites continued usefulness ahead and will be replaced by William C. Foster. Hoffman plans to direct postwar policy messaging and may join the Ford Foundation. He urged sustained US efforts to bolster democracy and military strength, proposing significant future spending in both areas.
Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge praises Arthur H. Vandenberg for his nonpartisan internationalism while noting his illness may force retirement in 1952 Michigan Republicans lean isolationist and risk losing a wide outlook if a less capable successor steps in.
George Fielding Eliot argues the Soviet risk in Korea failed, risking a united anti-Communist Korea and loss of control over the Sea of Japan. He notes strategic gains, potential threats to Japan, and the possible pullback toward wider war, while contrasting with the Berlin airlift resolved by American resolve.
Washington affair places Stuart Symington at center of a bitter clash involving Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan and Allan Kline of the Farm Bureau federation. Symington's committee move sparks fury from Illinois leaders and Brannan loyalists, while defense and hospital policy debates unfold around postwar planning and hospital bed shortages.
Elmira hosted its fifth annual Police Benevolent summer event at Eldridge Park drawing about 25 000 children and 20 000 parents from the city and suburbs. The day featured free rides treats and prizes with 91 grand prizes including bicycles and tricycles plus a Red Cross tent for minor injuries. Police chief and mayor joined the festivities while the event touted as a major community success aims to foster goodwill toward law enforcement and future citizenship.
In a repurposed 1883 Los Angeles style page a fragment says a Boston child in Denver refused milk after seeing grandpa squeeze it from a cow. It notes Mrs Burt No 1 seeks to halt bigamy case proceedings and promotes White Beavers Cough Cream. It also cites London masher critique and moonlit rabbit hunting in Illinois. A dead skunk on a road and a traffic light joke close the item with local humor.
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