Cubbers Training Class Planned by Boy Scout Cubbing Program
Cubmasters and committee members will attend Cubmasters and committeemen sessions at Camp Decorah next Sunday from 1 to 6 PM. John Sleik will direct the first half. Paul White will lead the den mothers section with several local leaders assisting. A nominal registration fee includes an evening meal and crafts demonstrations.
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Camp Decorah
John Sleik
Tewny Council
Paul White
Stanley Apel
Prairie du Chien
Kuether
la Crosse
A. G. Buhr
C. L. Goergen
Caledonia
Harvey Ott
Harold Nida
Arthur Peterson
Miles Cornell
B. W. Ingli
Gateway Council
Lincoln Arc Foundation awards scholarships to Wisconsin agr leaders
The James F Lincoln Arc Foundation Monday announced its second agricultural award and scholarship program. Two Wisconsin youths, Elgar Schroeder of Morrisonville and Robert Keuren of Greenwood, won prizes for describing low arc welding applications in farming. Schroeder earned 1000 dollars in the agricultural producers division, Keuren 292 dollars in agricultural education and services, with both receiving 250 dollar college scholarships.
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Cleveland
James F. Lincoln
Wisconsin
Elgar Schroeder
Morrisonville
Wis
Robert Keuren
Greenwood
Local Students Enroll at Falls College This Quarter
Three River Falls State Teachers college attendees are Merlin B. Eggen a freshman son of Milo and Mrs Eggen Mary J. Hunt a junior daughter of H W and Mrs Hunt and J David Johnson a sophomore son of J S and Mrs Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Falls State Teachers College
Merlin B. Eggen
Milo Eggen
Mary J. Hunt
H. W. Hunt
J. David Johnson
J. S. Johnson
Central High Junior Red Cross Names 1950 51 Representatives
Central High School Junior Red Cross starts its 1950 51 year with homeroom representative recruitment. New officers elected at first meeting include Sharon Fredricks president John Bibby vice president and Benny Erickson treasurer.
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Junior Red Cross At
Central
Central High School Junior Red Cross
Marie Roellich
Audrey Nekola
Susan Spence
Lucille Hanson
Susan Hart
Sharon Fredricks
Barbara Henn
Richard Larson
Donna McKormick
Irene Kapel
Louise Balmer
Sharor_ “Fredricks
John Bibby
Benny Erickson
Buffalo County Highway Contract Approved for $84850
Gov Rennebohm signed four highway contracts totaling 158420 for five counties. Kraemer and Sons of Plain, Wis will build a base course on state 25 from Misha Mokwa in Buffalo county to Durand city limits in Pepin county for 84850 dollars. Other projects include a bridge on U S 53 in Douglas county for 41067 dollars and blacktop surfacing on U S 51 in Dane county for 13269 dollars.
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Madison
Wis
Rennebohm
State 25
Misha Mokwa
Buffalo County
Durand
Pepin County
Kraemer and Sons
Plain
Douglas County
WU. S. 53
Superior
Arthur Peterson
Dane
U. S. 51
East Madison
Racine
Southern
Wisconsin Colony and Training School
Union Grove
UN Likely Asked to Probe German Prisoner Fate
Western powers seek UN inquiry into the fate of thousands of Russian held German POWs. Russia says repatriation largely complete with few exceptions and rebuffs direct Western demands. Western officials earlier claimed many POWs unaccounted for. Lord Henderson estimated 1.5 million vanished in Russia.
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London
United Nations
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Foreign Office
Lord Henerson
Foreign Affairs
New Auxiliary Police Convene For Community Training
La Crosse announces first training class for volunteer auxiliary police in civil defense at Vocational School 7 30 p m Oct 9. Chief George Long urges more volunteers and asks WWII society members to attend and bring a friend to join this patriotic emergency program.
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la Crosse
Saaiiiety Police
Draft Groups Given Exams In La Crosse County
More than 100 La Crosse county young men are being given selective service pre induction exams at Minneapolis Tuesday and Wednesday. The first group left the city early Tuesday and was to return late in the day. The second group of 74 will report to the federal district courtroom at 5 a.m. Wednesday. The men travel to Minneapolis by chartered buses.
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la Crosse County
Minneapolis
City
Federal District
End of Vietminh Resistance in Thai Nguyen Takes Hold
French military spokesman said Vietminh resistance in Thai Nguyen ended as attacking forces seized the delta basin around the old stronghold, 40 miles north of Hanoi. Vietminh troops fled northeast while French lines south of Hanoi were consolidated to push into north Indochina.
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Saigon
Indochina
Thai Nguyen
Hanoi
Bus Strike Paralyzes Akron Transit Union Decides to Strike
About 100000 daily riders in Akron faced disruption as 500 CIO transport workers union members voted to continue a day old wildcat strike. The action halted the privately owned Akron Transportation Co for the sixth time in as many years.
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Akron
CIO Transport Workers Union
Akron Transportation Co
The Young Shelley Genesis of a Radical Author
Kenneth Neill Cameron author of The Young Shelley Genesis of a Radical moved widely before teaching English at the University of Indiana. Born 1908 in Lancashire England he studied in Montreal and at McGill 1931 and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He became a U.S. citizen and earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. The work won the Modern Language Association award for significant literary contribution.
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Kenneth Neill Cameron
Shelley
University of Indiana
Lancashire
England
Montreal
McGill
Oxford
University of Wisconsin
Modern Language Association
Caledonia Street Merchants Plan Christmas Lighting
Caledonia Street merchants held their monthly dinner meeting at the Knights of Pythias hall to discuss Christmas lighting on Caledonia street. Runge Sletten chaired the session proposing street decorations a north side parade float and a possible Santa Claus while Larry Kress announced a football trip to Green Bay and New York.
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Caledonia Street
Knights of Pythias Hall
Runge Sletten
North Side
Larry Kress
Green Bay Packer
New York Yankee
la Crosse
Harold Grupp
Granville J. Gilbertson
The
Exchange Bank
Rex Mark Robert McCann
South Africa Awards $5.6 Million Engine Order to German Firm
South Africa awarded a German company a $5,579,000 contract for switching engines. The order highlights international industrial cooperation and German engineering participation in the country’s energy equipment sector.
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South Africa
First Choir Rehearsal Draws 85 Teachers College Students
Eighty five students from Teachers College attended the opening choir rehearsal at La last Summer. The roster lists Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Bass sections with named singers including Ethel Berg Pat Brinkley Jean Bolger Mary Daiis Gretchen Engelhard Daiis and many others along with Henry Ahrens James Gammon David Gunderson and more in tenor and bass voices.
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Teachers College
Ethel Berg
Pat Brinkley
Jean Bolger
Mary Daiis
Gretchen Engelhard Daiis
Genrich
Muriel Haase
Lois Heyn
Joan Johnson
Fay Ann Kitterow
Lois Kuibsack
Janet Landry
Bette Lewinske
Birdelle Lydahl
Pat Palmquist
Bea Peterson
Lois Pratt
Mary Rathburn
Elaine Rehwinkel
Theodore Renner
Jeannine
Henry Ahrens
James Gammon
David Gunderson
James Hamilton
Pschroer
Norman Petterson
Dwayne Schmaltz
Kenneth Beighley
Reynard Bentson
Emmett Boyce
Reid Horle
Paul Honzik
Dick Larson
Dick Leighton
Merlin Lewis
Eb Linse
Dean Murphy
Herbert Olson
Mervin Parr
Tom Wheeler
Schedule Exams For Prison Guards
MADISON Wisconsin examinations for hiring 55 more guards for the state reformatory and prison will be held October 14 and November 4 per the bureau of personnel. Guards will work a 40 hour week with salaries from 180 to 225 dollars plus a 39 dollar cost of living bonus.
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Madison
Wis
State Reformatory and
Bureau of Personnel
Board of Public Welfare
Emergency Board
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Office Equipment CO
Main St
Sarte
Sweden
Gortiens
Braard KY White Sen
Phillips & Sea Distributing Corp
la Cror
Auxiliary Police
38Th Parallel
Kansong
North Korea
Yangyang
Chunchon
Uijongbu
Seoul
South Korea
Ichon
Chechon
W. G. Rogers
Ross Tracy
John Lokken
Cleveland Browns
Me Earber Rarren
Wa. A. Rogers
Oneida Ltd
Silversmiths
Trade-Mark of Oneida Ltd
Mesa S
Folger’s
Ata Ah
Mountain Grown
J. A Fole
Ibros
Sourdeon
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