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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1958
Page
9
Aldermen aborted a four hour session on the 1959 city school district budget of 3 236 519 and adjourned without action. The meeting erupted over wage increments and salary adjustments with continuance after November 6 to align policies with the county finance committees.
Conservation wardens John Chapin and Ronald Amacher of Genoa report eight firearm violation arrests in Vernon County since the duck season opened. They urge hunters to know the migratory waterfowl regulations, which prohibit carrying loaded firearms or bows in motor driven boats with the motor running.
Cold snap continues as high pressure ridge stalls west of the upper Mississippi Valley. Readings fell to 15 at Philips, 26 at Grantsburg, with 28 in rural La Crosse and 32 in the city tonight. Other minimums: Watertown 22, Rochester 27, Mason City 28, Lone Rock 28, Waterloo 29, Cedar Rapids 32. Monday’s La Crosse mean 47, one degree above normal.
Trav elers Spiritual Aid Foundation elected three new trustees at its annual meeting. Rev. Donald Norman replaces the late Mrs. Frank Nelson, with Charles Velte and Mrs. Edmund Erickson named as new appointees. The gathering included present trustees, advisory members, and a luncheon at Hotel Stoddard.
Amos Williams recalls his long familiar telephone number No. 3, a label he has kept for 54 years in Elk City Oklahoma as an enduring local identifier.
Rhythm Boosters sponsored tag days Friday and Saturday to send the Central High School concert band of 84 members to Milwaukee for a Friday performance at the Wisconsin Education Assn. convention. Band members must master scales read concert music and sight read to pass tryouts.
Contributions should be turned in to financial chair Mrs. Carolyn Fox at 615 S. 17th St by Saturday as announced on Tuesday.
Tickets remain for the College Players production Bus Stop at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in the college little theater. Directed by Marie Toland with student director Gregory Larkin, the play follows a Kansas City bus stop during a snowstorm and the lives altered by the encounter.
A Halloween party is planned at 8 p.m. at La Crosse County Hospital West Salem with 65 to 75 guests outside and about 100 patients expected to join Friday evening activities. The event, funded once yearly by the Family Service Association of the Community Chest and Welfare Federation of La Crosse.
The Rev Michael J Boyle urges voluntary social agency support as neighborly duty and essential to American life. Private charity sustains material, moral, and spiritual welfare, aligning giving with Christian charity and keeping neighbors as keepers.
Riverland Girl Scout Council announces leadership training for new leaders and co-leaders in Onalaska La Crosse and surrounding areas. Courses run November 3 12 with sessions at Our Savior's Lutheran Wesley Methodist and Onalaska American Legion Clubrooms. Sessions cover basic leadership skills troop planning songs games ceremonies and provide babysitting.
Archie Schermerhorn reports a $500 green and white 30 horsepower Mercury outboard motor and bronze propeller stolen from a boathouse on the Mississippi River at Green Island since Oct 14. Entry gained by prying the boathouse door. Motor serial 948175.
La Crescent and La Crosse students form Le Cercle Francais with Karla Burow as president and Sybil Ginskey, Mary Jo Wolfe, and Sue Sleik as officers. Alvida Ahlstrom serves as faculty adviser. Mrs Joseph Paulson spoke on a trip to France at the October 21 meeting.
Jurors will assemble for the first time at 9 a.m. Wednesday before Judge Lincoln Neprud in the Circuit Court room on the courthouse second floor. All unexcused regular panel members and a dozen reserve panel members notified to appear will attend.
Milwaukee businessmen meet 100 strong in La Crosse for a Wednesday luncheon at Hotel Stoddard. The trade promotion committee promotes Good-Will Tours to build statewide support for Milwaukee markets. Speakers include Thomas R. Gettelman and George Tebbetts with remarks by Mayor Knutson and Joseph Cairnes.
The Travelers Protective Assn. of America posts in La Crosse continue a safety observance with plans for year round efforts. A nine pair shoe display in Hanson’s Shoe Store marks nine local auto fatalities in 1957 and promotes caution at home and on the road.
Sgt. Bernard J. Greeno and Mrs. Greeno with children Christy Bern ie Cindy and Linda visit Cur tis Greeno at 126 Usher St. before moving to London England for a three year Air Force tour following prior service in Germany Japan and Texas postings.
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