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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1958
Page
5
The U.S. Kresge Company honors veteran staff during Service Recognition Week with ceremonies and pins for 15 year recipients like Ruth Anderson. 25 year members are celebrated with parties or trips, now over 1,900 members strong.
Mrs Rose Bellevue director La Crosse Day Nursery attended the Wisconsin Day Care Workshop at the Mayflower Nursery Green Bay The event sponsored by the State Division for Children and Youth day care advisory committee centered on Family Centered Day Care Miss Ethel Kawin University of Chicago was keynote speaker and author of two works on toys and preschool age children luncheon speaker was Miss Mary Minnie former Wisconsin state supervisor of nurseries now with the Child Guidance Clinic in Grand Rapids Michigan Workshops included discussion groups demonstrations and exhibits Helen Dawe chaired the advisory committee as general workshop chair
Temple Baptist will show "Proclaim Liberty" at 7:30 p.m. led by Rev. George E. Hollingshead, general missionary. The gospel film highlights rural Sunday school needs and the Gospel's reach to unreached rural America through American Sunday School Union missionaries.
La Crosse County Court lists numerous traffic violations from La Crosse area residents and others. Defendants include Douglas D. Stone Earl D. Pierce Emil L. Grasse Jr Mary Alice Wolfe LeRoy F. Jacobson Bernard Murphy Arthur Schroeder Salley Sobkowiak Harland Domke Durance Nastvold Severson Bros Lander Steel Division Lee and Sloan Co William Bryden Walter Thornd Viola Boucher Richard Brendum Ralph Roellich Arthur Rose Dan Rouches Stanley Russell Robert Sargent Joseph Schrabeck James Shannon Roy Skaff Geraldine Snapp Earl Starch Myron Stapf Conrad Steele Matt Strasser Walter Thornd Robert Tryggestad Gary Wakefield Emery Wrobel Robert Langstad and Alvin Fredrickson. Detentions include divorces Verona Butler and William Butler. Local juveniles in Sparta involved in car theft case. Additional notes cover false fire alarm, hospitalizations, and obituaries for Julia Dean Kathryn Cowie with funeral details.
Clarence R. Ray of Elgin Hotel died Saturday in a La Crosse hospital. George J. Burbach, 56, of 126 S 9th St Onalaska died Saturday at home. Anton Graffer, 82, of 323 S 6th St died Thursday in a local hospital. Funeral details provided by Dickinson and Schumacher Funeral Homes with services and burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. calls Sunday evening.
The Rev. Donald K. Skaggs of First Assembly of God Church urges readers to support the Community Chest drive. He cites the biblical line that charity is greatest and asks Americans to give to help a deserving neighbor in the hometown.
The La Crosse chapter of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses plans a regular meeting Tuesday at the St. Francis Hospital nurses home. A question and answer session with Rev. James Coke, the group’s spiritual adviser and Holy Cross Seminary instructor, will follow the business portion.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson called Twin Cities papers claims he would not aid Sen. Edward J. Thye’s re election a vicious distortion. He urged voters to see Thye as a statesman and said differences on farm policy were honest and do not affect his regard. Benson noted he did not visit Minnesota on the trip due to time and spoke only at the Minnesota committee’s choice.
Sheriff reports damage to herb Turner equipment parked on state highway 61 north of state 60. Fourteen batteries stolen from caterpillars carryalls and graders. Three hundred gallons of gasoline stolen from Shockley Hill Quarry near Boscobel with about half spilled.
Jim Hoeft, 3, son of Sparta High School football coach Emil Hoeft, was released from St. Mary's Hospital after pneumonia and complications. He will return for X rays and may need further treatment.
John Olstad 84 died Thursday at his daughter Mrs. Martin Jacobson’s home in Coon Valley. He leaves seven sons Milner Kenneth Obert Alf Leonard Glenn Norman and two daughters Mrs. Jacobson and Mrs. Melvin Bekkum and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. at the rural Skogdalen Lutheran Church with Rev. J O Paulsrud officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Martin Zerbel 73 a Jackson County farmer died of a heart attack on Highway 12 near Humbird. Services set for Sunday 2 p.m. at Evangelical and Reformed Church with Rev Carl Serv officiating. Burial in Mentor Cemetery. Survivors include brother Paul Humbird and sister Mrs Reinhart Zimmerman Black River Falls. Friends may call Jensen Funeral Home Hixton after 4 p.m. Saturday and at church Sunday from noon.
Rabbi Aaron Paperman of Cleveland Ohio will address members of Sons of Abraham Congregation at 8 p.m. Sunday in the synagogue at 1820 Main St. This kickoff event opens the season for the Jewish community. Paperman, former vice president of the Telshe Yeshiva, has served as rabbi in Gardner Massachusetts Plainfield New York Young Israel Scranton Pennsylvania and held World War II Jewish chaplain duties with the 5th Army earning four battle stars the bronze star and the Order of the Crown of Italy. Rabbi Dov Schwarcz leads the local congregation.
Dan Anderson a Ripon College senior in liberal arts received a staff appointment to the college ROTC unit with the rank of cadet captain. Lt. Col. B F Delamater III professor of military science and tactics announced the appointment with Dr. Fred O Pinkham the college president concurring. Anderson majors in chemistry and mathematics and is the son of Mr and Mrs Carl Anderson of La Crosse Wisconsin.
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson announced Thomas E. Hamilton of Wisconsin will become director of the USDA soil bank program after November 1. Hamilton has directed operations of a Marquette County farm and has long service in Wisconsin agriculture groups and education.
Birth notices list several newborns with the birth dates and parental names across St Ann's Maternity Annex and nearby towns including Onalaska Westby Decorah Waukon Lansing and Milwaukee. Names include Glenn E Schmidt Harley M Berg Vernal Dahl Odin Haskell Orris Oliver and many others with addresses and hospital details.
Genoa Wis Special John Blumer suffered a severe leg injury while chopping a tree. An ax struck a branch and broke both bones, leaving only ligament. Gerald Stillwell carried him to a La Crosse hospital for treatment.
A car owned by Harry Caven of La Crescent was stolen Thursday and later found by police in Hammond Indiana. The thief remains at large.
Norman M. Clapp the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 3rd District told a Sparta audience that the Republican administration has cut cancer research funds and jeopardized virus research hospital construction. He noted Democrats in the 5th Congress rejected these cuts and increased funding by 83 million dollars.
Tomah police probe the breaking of a large thermo glass window at Mrs. Herbert Schultz home. The act occurred Tuesday around 7 30 p m. Schultz saw a person flee. Officer Hurley suspects a .22 caliber slug or .22 caliber air rifle pellet caused the damage.
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