Last Member of Pioneer Family Dead
Marion G Cheney 83 lifelong Black River Falls resident and member of a pioneering family died Tuesday in a local nursing home where she had been confined for two weeks. Graveside services set for 2 p.m. Thursday with Rev Raymond Huss officiating. Family had lived in the same Black River Falls home since 1876. No immediate survivors.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Marion G. Cheney
Raymond Huss
Langlois-Galston
Abel Cheney
Mindoro
Miss Cheney
Mrs. Cheney
Deaths Robert G Kurtz longtime Western Oil geologist
Funeral services for Robert G. Kurtz 64 of Los Angeles were held in Forest Lawn Cemetery Los Angeles. He was Western Oil chief geologist and husband of Cora Schulze La Crosse. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Los Angeles after his wife died there in 1955. Survivors include a sister in Wisconsin and his mother and brother in Utah.
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Robert G. Kurtz
Los Angeles
Calif
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Kurtz
Cora Schulze
la Crosse
University Club
Western Oi
Pat
Evelyn) Davitt
Wausau
Wis
Provo, Utah
City Flushing Schedule Announced by Water Department
The City Water Department announces a flushing schedule starting 8 a.m. Wednesday with hydrants on the North Side flushed all week. Basements at risk of flooding should keep floor drains closed. The work may cause water discoloration through the week.
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The
City Water Department
Mother Ends Puppies' Missing Mystery at Tudahl Home
A litter of seven three week old toy terrier puppies reported missing from Mrs. Herman Tudahl's garage were found under the Tudahl house, believed placed there by the mother. A hunting skiff stolen from its Round Lake mooring was recovered by local boys.
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Herman Tudahl
la Crescent St
Tudahl
Tudah House
Raymond Kelley
Rose St
Round Lake
Weather Outlook Concentrates On City Temperatures
The listing shows city by city temperature readings from Billings to Winnipeg and Regina. Values range from the low 20s to mid 60s with several towns in the 50s. The section ends with Edmonton and a Weather Outlook note.
Government Cracks Bolivian Revolt in La Paz
In La Paz an armed Falange revolt was crushed after five hours of fighting. Three people died and two were seriously wounded. Rebels, who attacked homes of MNR leaders and officials, briefly seized Gov Humberto Villar before he was freed and government control was restored.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
National Revolutionary Movement
MNR
Humberto Villar
Young Hillsboro Area Farmer Dies
Robert V. Schnurr 28, a Hillsboro area farmer and mechanic, died Sunday of a heart attack at his farm home. He served two years in the Army and 18 months in Korea. Survivors include his parents of Wonewoc, four brothers and five sisters. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hart Funeral Home with burial at Millard's Prairie Cemetery.
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Hillsboro
Wis
Robert V. Schnurr
Hillsboro Area
Hart Funeral Home
Millard’s Prairie Cemetery
Korea
Fred Schnurr
Wonewoc
Schnurr
Charles
Fred
Ronald
James
Lone Park
Charles Jensen
Kendall
Jerry Ammerson
Lorane Schnurr
Wonewoe
Anton Thompson
Elroy
Roy Kaus
Medford
Private School For White Pupils Opens
In Little Rock Arkansas about 300 white high school seniors began classes at a leased red brick building run by the Little Rock Private School Corp. The opening marks a milestone in the fight to keep schools segregated with coverage restricted by the school. The NAACP pledged a legal challenge to the operation as registration took place.
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Little Rock
Ark
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Man Slays Wife and Child in Logan
Virgil Parsely Sr. 49, a coal miner and former patient at Chillicothe Veterans Hospital, fatally shot his wife during an ambulance transport and then killed his baby son in Logan West Virginia, as reported by State Police.
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Logan
W.va
Virgil Parsely Sr
Chillicothe
Ohio
Missing items reported at Seils Texaco station
Seils Texaco Service at 1203 S Lard St reports to police a $9 Crossman 22-caliber single shot pellet gun and a $1 Japanese silver plated cigarette lighter missing from the station on Monday.
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Seils
Seil
Texaco
S. Lard St
Livestock Market Report from Chicago and South St Paul
Swift & Company reports morning hog and cattle quotations with steady hog prices and fully steady cattle markets. Chicago bids show mixed lots of butchers and sows, while South St Paul notes active slaughter cattle demand and steady hogs with feeder pig prices steady.
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Chicago
USDA
South ST. Paul
Minn
Chicago Grain Prices Mixed for Wheat and Corn
Grain market report from Chicago shows No wheat and No oats or soybeans not quoted. Corn entries range from No 2 mixed yellow at about 1.00 percent to No 5 yellow near 0.99 percent, with sample grade yellow around 1.01 to 0.24 percent.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange
USDA
Chicago Grain
Barney
Dulles Seeks Trust Ties with Chiang After Quemoy Shelling
Secretary of State Dulles met Chiang Kai-shek 24 hours after Communist ceasefire ended and bombardment resumed on Quemoy. He said talks aim to reexamine and consolidate mutual trust, signaling no new agreements. Dulles pressed for a lighter garrison on Quemoy, while warning that renewed fighting would limit scope of discussions.
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Chiang
Quemoy
Alaska
Dulles
Walter Robertson
Washington
U.S
China
Quemoys
Peiping
Reynolds Pushes Sales Tax Attack by GOP Leaders
Democratic candidate for state attorney general John Reynolds, speaking in La Crosse, accuses Republicans of backing a three percent sales tax through inaction and endorsements. He cites Gov. Vernon Thomson and adviser Peter Pappas and outlines local campaign plans and a Madison meeting of his Anti-Sales Tax Committee. Reynolds notes economic impact on low income Wisconsinites and farmers, ties to La Crosse, and previous campaign appearances in Stoddard and Whitehall.
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la Crosse
Reynolds
Green Bay
Vernon Thomson
Peter Pappas
Papas
Thomson
William Proxmire
Madison
Proxmire
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Altmeyer
Congress
Wisconsin
Minnesota Farmers Union
New York
Patricia Ann Brody
Lawrence J. Brody
la Crosse County
la Follette
Stoddard
Norman Clapp
Plant Gates
Trempealeau County
Whitehall
County Vets Receive 839 In September
La Crosse County veterans received 839.03 in benefits through the County Veterans Service Commission during September. The monthly report shows 28 applications filed, 21 approved, and 7 disapproved. After spending 1206.03, the commission had 8220.15 left of its 25000 annual appropriation.
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la Crosse County
County
Veterans Service Commission
Veterans Service
Russell J Sieger
Son Of Stab Victims Emotionally Disturbed
Melvin Nimer eight confessed then denied fatally stabbing his parents. A Belle Vue Hospital report cites an emotional disturbance predating the tragedy. Attorney Harris Steinberg said the condition does not affect the boy’s culpability and that he will seek continuing psychiatric supervision in Salt Lake City. Grandparents live in Orem Utah. parents killed in Staten Island last September.
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New York
Melvin Nimer
Bellevue Hospital
Harris B. Steinberg
Steinberg
Salt Lake City
Utah
Orem
Melvin Nimer Sr
Staten Island
Farmers Milk Tanks Calibration Discussed in Wisconsin
Clair Jackson of Madison and Earl Winell of Onalaska spoke to the La Crosse Dairy Technology Society about testing and calibrating bulk milk tanks on farms. They explained tanks are often off after installation due to improper leveling and that calibration is done in pounds. A follow up meeting is planned for November 17 with location to be announced.
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Elroy
Wis
Clair Jackson
Madison
Weights and
State Department of Agriculture
Earl Winell
Onalaska
la Crosse
la Crosse Dairy Technology Society
Eisenhower Revises Nixon Praise In Address
Eisenhower altered remarks praising Nixon to make them stronger while denouncing Democrats for reckless spending and demagoguery. The televised speech, first by his new writer Malcolm Moos, urged confidence in a just world peace from Lebanon to Kuwait and defended US against aggression. In Chicago, Eisenhower planned a $10 plate dinner at the International Amphitheatre with tickets largely sold ahead of the event.
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White House
James C. Hagerty
Malcolm C. Moos
Lebanon
Quemoy
America
Chicago
International Amphitheatre
CBS
Midwest
Shovel in the Snout Routs Bear From Chicken Yard
Lotus Cooksey, a 65 year old former postman, fought a big black bear for 15 minutes in his chicken yard in Jonesboro Arkansas. He struck the animal on the nose and used an iron rod to prod its stomach. The bear climbed a tree, remained two hours as police and a game warden watched, then fled toward the Cache River bottoms. Arkansas recently imported bears from Minnesota to diversify wildlife.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Lotus Cooksey
Allies Draft Plans to Prevent Surprise Attacks
Five allied nations begin drafting proposals to the Soviet Union to guard against surprise military attack. They seek open skies aerial inspection and ground observation posts on each other’s territory, to be presented at a Geneva conference on November 10.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Geneva
Westby Girl Crowned Wisconsin Junior Stock Show Queen
Madison AP Marlene Skolas 17 of Westby was named queen of the Wisconsin Junior Live Stock Exposition at Dane County fairgrounds. She earned a $50 scholarship for her overall expo activities. Beloved entries included top hog Berkshire “I'm It” shown by Robert Bockhop 21 of Belmont and notable lambs Dayton Ellyn Richards 11 of Lodi and Ohio by Danny Harmann 11 of Mukwonago with crossbred and Southdown entries.
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Marlene Skolas
Westby
Dane County Fairgrounds
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Argyle Skolas
Robert Bockhop
Belmont
Berkshire
James Lang
Donald Lang
Beloit
Ellyn Richards
Glenn Richards
Lodi
Oscar
Danny Harmann
Clarence Harmann
Route 3
Mukwonago
Ohio
Peter the Home Office mouser still on payroll
London AP reports the last bureau-cat in the British government, Peter the Home Office mouser, is paid 6 pounds 10 shillings monthly as an expense allowance. He joined as a kitten a decade ago and remains a fixture with no mice statistics kept.
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London
Peter
Home Office
14 Year Old Girl Balks at Rejoining Married Life
A 14 year old held in Milwaukee juvenile custody says she does not want to return to a 68 year old farm husband she wed three months ago while fleeing a Lutheran children's home in Iowa. Court counsel Aaron Tilton says the marriage could be annulled and she prefers supervision by relatives in northern Wisconsin. A second 15 year old fugitive was returned to Iowa authorities.
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Iowa
Aaron Tilton
Wisconsin
Tilton
Columbia Junction
Missouri
Rebels Kidnap Nine At Texaco Refinery In Cuba
Cuban rebels seized nine hostages near the Texaco refinery at Santiago de Cuba. Two Americans and seven Cuban workers were kidnapped and taken into mountain hideouts around noon. The motives were not learned and the U S embassy sought their release.
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Texaco
Santiago de Cuba
U. S
Santiago
Mike Gartner of Preston Dies at 86
Michael Edward Gartner, long time Preston resident, postmaster, and newspaper publisher, died Monday in Rochester after a long illness. Born in 1872 in Germany, he came to America in 1881, worked as a foreign agent for International Harvester, served as Preston postmaster 1914 to 1927, and owned the Preston Republican Herald 1927 to 1934. He is survived by his wife Katherine, a son Ludwig, a daughter Mrs. James D. Frawley, and ten grandchildren. Burial at Crown Hill Cemetery after services at St. Columba Catholic Church in Preston.
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Michael Edward Gartner
Preston
Rochester
Mr. Gartner
Germany
America
Valdez College
Decorah
Iowa
Fillmore County
Gus
Internationale Harvester Company
Russia
England
South America
Katherine W. Broderick
International- Harvester
Forrestville
Preston Republican Herald
Ludwig
Gariner
James D. Frawley
Tulsa
Okla
William Sick
San Diego
Calif
Frank Kelter
National City
Cal
New Postmaster Sworn In At Buffalo Community
Clifford J. Stuber, a former auto salesman from Cochrane, was sworn in as acting postmaster at the Buffalo third class facility. He succeeds Melita Schlosstein who resigned. Stuber, a Cochrane native and World War II Army veteran, has two children.
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United States Post Office
Buffalo
Wayne W. Wilson
United States Postal
Clifford J. Stuber
Melita Schlosstein
Stuber
A C Sales Decline Milwuakee Third Quarter 1953 Figures
Allis Chalmers Mfg Co reports third quarter 1953 sales near 124 million dollars, down seven percent from a year earlier. Nine month sales total 393.75 million, behind 419.35 million in 1957. Profits for nine months 13.65 million versus 14.83 million prior. Earnings per share 1.62 versus 1.76.
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Milwaukee
Allis- Chalmers Mfg. Co
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