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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1948
Page
2
Estimates show yields and production tonnage for corn oats barley flaxseed soybeans dry beans tobacco sugar beets apples and potatoes across Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota. Figures list per acre values and total production in pounds bushels and tons for each state.
Don Strait, 23, of Sparta is hospitalized after his car left State Highway 27 south of Sparta at 12:30 am crashed and rolled over twice. The vehicle stopped about 50 feet from the roadside.
Governor Dewey denounced the president with terms like miserable helpless unwitting and pusillanimous to describe his conduct at home and abroad. A large Pittsburgh crowd at Hunt Armory heard Dewey defend the Taft Hartley act admitting it is not perfect and will be changed if needed. He planned further stops in Irvington Owensboro Mcleansboro Beau coup East St. Louis and Oklahoma.
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules counties may not earmark surplus tax funds except for preexisting or lawful purposes. The ruling overturns a lower decision and remands for new trials in two cases including a Walworth county surplus dispute and Palmer assault case.
A civil aeronautics board examiner set December 13 as the tentative hearing date for Beloit and Beloit Wisconsin’s plea to obtain long haul air line service. Deadline for exhibits is December 23 with rebuttals due December 3. The Beloit and Janesville area seeks inclusion on Northwest Airlines or J J Phillips and R B Gilbertson backed by a local committee. Parksair currently serves Janesville on its Chicago and Twin Cities route but has not begun service to Beloit or Janesville.
Wisconsin grafts on race and agriculture tale hash. Progressive Party candidate Henry J. Berquist told a Marshfield rally that tumbling farm prices put the two major parties in a quandary and urged votes for his ticket. He decried housing denial to Black spiritual singers in Marshfield and Wausau as a shameful record for central Wisconsin.
Edwardsville Kansas churches debate who should pay for steeple painting after both congregations renovated. Two Kansas City steeplejacks painted the Christian church spire while Methodists faced questions about paying for work on a different church.
Eire aims to secure 1,000,000 tons of coal from the United States within 1947 under the full allocation approved for that year. The target reflects postwar trade ties and energy needs as the year closes.
Bulgarian diplomat Karaghouzov who vanished after being recalled to Sofia appeared in the United States. He arrived last Friday and was paroled yesterday to an army intelligence officer. He had served as acting Bulgarian consul in Istanbul and vanished after missing a social event on September 9. Turkish papers said he was spirited out after four days hiding from Soviet satellite agents.
The Wisconsin conservation commission set short trapping seasons for muskrat mink and otter. Muskrat and mink will be legal November 1 to 10 in all counties except Pepin Dunn Taylor Sauk and Door. A second mink season November 11 to December 10 with dry sets applies to all counties including Winnebago and Outagamie. Otter season runs concurrent with muskrat.
The third in the Mr. Jaycee series will air tonight at 7 p.m. on WLCX. Topics include the city smoke ordinance and enforcement, aims of the Jaycee program, and whether left turns at street and Fifth Avenue should be prohibited. Citizens may send gripes and complaints for future material.
Walter Hunt conceived the safety pin in 1849 and quickly produced a model from scrap wire, selling his rights for 400 dollars within three hours.
Lena M Lagas of 1015 St Paul Street died early Tuesday after a lingering illness. She is survived by son William of La Crosse three brothers Eoe John Lagas of Serene and George of La Crosse. Services Thursday at 8 am at the funeral home and 8 30 am at St James Catholic church Reverend Joseph Marx officiating. Burial in Catholic cemetery. Rosary Wednesday at 7 30 pm at the funeral home.
Sister M Aurelia Schuler born December 6 1867 in Iowa taught at St Rose convent from age 16 and served Holy Trinity St Josephs Odanah and others. She celebrated her diamond anniversary last year and will be buried in the Catholic cemetery after funeral at Maria Angelorum chapel.
The CIO president and AFL spokesman urged unity within American labor. Resolutions condemned internal division and backed the International Typographical Union amid Taft Hartley act tensions. Delegates, 3,000 strong, approved measures on unemployment protection, a shorter work week with higher pay, and higher dues for miners from $2 to $4 and union fees from $10 to higher levels.
The U S air force will recall several hundred volunteer reserve officers including pilots co pilots and flight engineers for duty and training at Great Falls Montana. It also plans regular service use of Douglas Globemaster transports between Westover Massachusetts and Frankfurt to move high priority cargo for the Berlin airlift though not on the final leg into Berlin.
Glen Heal, 40, of Gays Mills, Wisconsin, died Saturday after his truck collided with a concrete truck at a highway intersection. Funeral services are planned Wednesday at Sylvan with Rev. Roy Williams officiating. Heal, a former Greenland construction foreman, had lived in Gays Mills five years and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heal of Readstown. He was born in Crawford County on February 7.
A weather briefing notes that tornadoes can move collectively as a group at speeds reaching around 60 miles per hour, increasing their potential reach and danger during severe storms.
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