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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1950
Page
18
The plea urges readers to donate to the Community Chest to fund essential services for the crippled child elderly and recruits. It frames giving as a personal difference boosting health happiness and dignity while offering pride from unselfish support. The message cites Jeremiah 27 5 as a moral anchor and calls for immediate action.
A column urges Indian Prime Minister Nehru to visit Seoul to witness North Korean Red rule and the killings by curbstone courts. It argues his view of communism underplays its brutality versus colonialism and calls his travel a broadening lesson. The piece contrasts Reds with UN forces and insists Seoul residents reveal the truth about oppression and murder.
Reporters note a mystery in the fighting as substantial North Korean units retreat or vanish after pressuring the Pusan bridgehead. Thousands of conscripted South Koreans may have fled into civilians, abandoning weapons and uniforms to blend into the population.
The upcoming Legion convention in Los Angeles aims to end the demand for a large veteran bonus, a plan nearly cleared Congress last session. The Legion now requires a fresh set of goals each convention, and a bonus request is unlikely this year amid the Korean crisis.
Wisconsin veterans faces a renewed public dispute over a state treasury veterans bonus as the 1950 campaigns shape control of state government. Republicans back a pay as you go endowment plan while Democrats largely stay silent, with Walter J. Kohler Jr. driving the GOP stance.
Roger Babson notes a shift from large urban centers as populations peak in big cities since 1945 and suburbs grow. He cites government calls for decentralized plants and a proposed Capitol relocation plan, urging small cities to form decentralization committees and lure manufacturers.
Washington reports John L. Lewis UMW leader wars with Roosevelt Truman and others, shaping labor history. Reader recalls opinions on his impact, leadership, and relationship to Taft Hartley while noting a 1949 prank about a Moscow ambassadorship and a dog catcher joke.
Lambda Sigma Chi at the teachers college fine arts sorority elected Betty Lutiger president Marjorie Hughes vice president and Janet de Ranitz secretary at a Monday meeting Esther Domke called a Wednesday 8 pm session to arrange selective service registration for Oct 16 limited to city of Onalaska county supervisors and area towns and villages.
Washington column by Drew Pearson alleges Ohio Congressman Walter Brehm took back payroll kickbacks from Clara Soliday, a former office clerk, totaling about 7300 dollars over 37 months from January 1945 to January 1948. The payoffs were framed as funds for a GOP committee and included a staged final repayment incident.
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