La Crosse Civic Center Drive Faces County Board Dissent
Editorial argues six city supervisors oppose sale of Fourth and Vine County property for a Civic Center, despite a majority view favoring the project. It notes earlier council action and a low assessed cost, urging timely acquisition with library and parking use until construction begins. The piece urges unity in this city county effort and cites Psalms 118:2.
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la Crosse
County of la Crosse
Fourth
Vine
City of la Crosse
Civic Center
Common Council
Pamperin
County Board
Fourth and Vine
America refutes Marxist thesis with economic contrasts
The piece argues that American workers, farmers, small business people, and professionals have gained substantial income over two decades while Marxist prophecy of capitalist collapse fails. It cites U S wage growth, Wall Street dividends, and a stark contrast with alleged Soviet claims and Russian propaganda. It notes large urban poverty figures as foreign counterpoints.
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Manhattan
Broadway
America
Karl Marx
Russia
Wall Street
Cooperation Made Air Lift Possible
The article notes United States airlines including Eastern Pan American United American Capital and TWA joined a coordinated Pacific airlift for the Korean war, sharing equipment and expertise. It argues this cooperation demonstrates the strength and health of America’s economic system and contrasts it with Soviet ideology.
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Tokyo
U. S
American Airlines
Pacific
U.S
Eastern
Pan American
United
American
Capital
TWA
America
No long guerrilla war in Korea, say US observers
George Fielding Eliot reports that U S officers and correspondents in Korea doubt a large scale guerrilla war after UN forces clear organized resistance They cite need for popular support hiding places and food and say Oriental prestige favors the winner over Reds The piece argues Korea will build a strong army and police with UN aid and that red guerrilla efforts would be unlikely to succeed.
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Korea
Red
Moscow
Peale
North Korea
China
United Nations Commission For Korea
Republic of Korea
Kremlin
Peiping
Balkans
Greece
Bulgaria
Albania
Yugoslavia
U. S
Language of Jets and a Global Peace Plea
An air force officer notes jet jargon emerging as jets become common. Trygve Lie urges timely UN action for a peace based on collective security and human rights, hoping for enduring global stability. An Indiana driver hits dynamite-laden truck. rail crossing danger is warned. a day delayed is a day lost.
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Christian Science Monitor
Air Force
Pentagon
Mars
Trygve
Chicago
United Nations
Korea
Rent Hikes Push Senators Toward Rent Ceilings
Drew Pearson reports a wave of rent increases among elite hotels and lawmakers including Senators Bricker Brewster Byrd George Holland Malone Cain and Capehart as the rent control question rises in wartime policy. The piece also covers Capehart’s fundraising appeal and a Gwinn bank fraud backdrop tied to Penney and Miami depositors. The Kefauver committee probes diary leads in a broader crime nexus linking Dragna Smiley Siegel and Ricca.
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Mayflower
Owen Brewster
Harry Byrd
Shoreham
Virginia Apple Pearson
Gruff Walter George
Georgia
Spessard Holland
Florida
George Malone
Nevada
Harry Cain
Washington
Cain
Harry Truman
Gwinn
City National of
Miami
J. C. Penney
New York
Penney
John Clark Knox
Southern District
Penney-Gwinn
Kefauver Committee
William Drury
Chicago
Senate
Drury
Harry Russell
Russell
Jack Dragna
al Capone
California
Kefauver
Los Angeles
Senate Probers
Dragna
Allan Smiley
Bugsy Siegel
Illinois Sports News
Paul
Ricca
Charles Baran
Chicago Police
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Age of Science dispels old security and belief
The piece notes Scientific American's 105th year and reviews the era 1900 to 1950. It cites a cover view from 20,000 miles showing Earth looking the same in 1950 and 1900, yet warns that while appearance may stay, knowledge and beliefs have radically changed. It discusses how science reshaped life, challenged faith, and altered comfort and security.
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Scientific American
Leading Scientists Review
Age of Science
Earth
North Carolina
Great Lakes
Bailiwick
Bert Ingalls
Seneca
Soap drive for European orphans gains unlikely fame
Sparta park and recreation chief Hank Sauerman tells how Hallowe'en soap donations by Sparta children, routed through schools, reached Milwaukees novelty of charity. A Recreation magazine in New York published a photo of soap arriving at an orphanage in Freising Germany, though Sparta's project was not named.
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Hank Sauerman
Sparta
Hallowe’en
Recreation
New York City
Sangrman
Freising
Germany
Milwaukee
Hallowe'en
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Hollywood
George Fielding Eliot
General Features Corp
ELIOT
Indiana
Drew Pearson
Ohio
John Bricker
Taft
Sary
Bricker
Homer Capehart
Capehart
Justice B. Detwiler
Detwiler
Republic
Republican Finance Committee
Stevens Hotel
Ralph Gwinn
Westchester County
Bronxville
Tury
Crosse Tribune
W. T. Burgess
W. B. Parson
Salvation Army Red Shield Serviceman’s Club
Washington, D. C
Parsons
Westby
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