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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1949
Page
6
Summer work in schools spans varnished floors repainted rooms and a bright new Hogan school wing. The piece notes students and families feel anticipation as autumn leaves approach, while maintenance crews finished upgrades and districts plan budgets and schedules.
The AP reports factories and mills speeding up with steel output climbing, auto production at a record pace, and revived department store sales in New York. Federal Reserve notes August should lift industrial production toward June levels after July slump due to vacations and a steel downturn.
A year after criticizing racial and religious bans, former President Truman, once vocal about displaced persons, is now silent as the 81st Congress faces Republican attempts to liberalize the act blocked by Senator McCarran. Critics note the contrast between past passion and present restraint.
Peter Edson notes a House passed flood control bill prompts a fight between army engineers and the bureau of reclamation over the Grand Prairie Bayou Meto project in Arkansas. The dispute centers on irrigation funding, repayment rates, and which agency should build future projects.
John Wyngaard reports the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation critics against a sales tax arguing Wisconsin historically opposes such taxes and public sentiment will not reverse. The piece notes bar exam standards remain steady, and highlights proposed farm and conservation lobby efforts and Democratic party power shifts in Milwaukee and rural leadership promotions.
James Marlow explains Labor Day began with the Knights of Labor in 1882 and spread nationwide after resolutions in 1884. Oregon first recognized the day in 1887, with New York New Jersey and Colorado following, and Congress making it a federal holiday in 1894. The Knights, founded in Philadelphia in 1869, sought universal worker inclusion and grew to 700,000 by 1885 before fading by the late 1890s.
Ten years ago today two CIO leaders Michael Quill of the Transport Workers union and S. H. Dalrymple of the United Rubber Workers addressed a mass meeting at Pioneer Labor hall in La Crosse.
A collage of small town vignettes recounts slips of heavy deeds in the register of deeds office a mistaken anecdote about parking meters in the market square and a tale of Fritz Behm and his Austrian stepson Patrick meeting in Caledonia. An editorial worker Leeward Lee heads to Peru Indiana after a Chicago layover and sparrows gossip near the post office as lacrosse visitors seek a nearby restaurant back door.
Drew Pearson recalls General Harry Vaughan pressing for criminal libel prosecutions over his reporting on Maragon. Vaughan allegedly tried to push the case to J. Edgar Hoover, while Pearson defends his disclosures as under Senate committee testimony.
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