CARE Christmas Crusade dairy package plan explained
Local readers are urged to support CARE by sending one dollar per package of cheese butter and dried milk to designated countries. Packages for Berlin and Italy include cheese butter and dried milk while India Pakistan and Hong Kong receive dried milk and butter. Greece packages are heavy on cheese.
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Care Christmas Crusade
Berlin
West Germany
Italy
Yugoslavia
India
Pakistan
Hong Kong
Greece
USDA
CARE
Midwest
Wells ‘Street
Milwaukee
Wis
Double Parking Bites in City Driving Worsening Conditions
An editorial laments downtown double parking amid slippery streets as shoppers and drivers propose no solution beyond avoiding the practice. It argues blocked right of way raises tempers and accident risk, urging readers to simply not double park to improve safety.
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Pay Weaver
Uerweude
Eisenhower Seeks Peace in Pageant for Peace Message
President Eisenhower’s Christmas message launches a Washington Pageant for Peace. He calls for global prayers for peace and better understanding, hoping all peoples join in the spirit of the season. The piece ends with a quip about Pravda editors and Soviet leaders.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Pravda
Krushchev
Bulganin
Moscow
Patrol to Use Belts on Albany Thruway Cars
The New York States Thruway Authority plans to equip state trooper vehicles patrolling the toll highway with safety belts to enhance on road protection and officer safety.
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Albany
N.Y
New York States Thruway Authority
Monroe Christmas Echoes Through Decades of Local News
Ten year retrospective notes 1945 events include photostatic gear for the register of deeds and a tragic death from gas exposure at a college lab. Navy captaincy and Bronze Star awarded to Dr Nathan E Bear. Local obituaries, butter shortages warnings, and holiday bread advice contrast with earlier decades.
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Green County
Office of the Register of Deeds
Lois Virginia Niles
College
Nathan E. Bear
U.S. Navy
Peter Blum
Bowen Nursing Home
Monroe
Beanie’s quest to Santa Land in Gimme Children tale
Dumdiddy synopsis follows Beanie, a child in a Gimme Children world who learns sharing matters. He learns from a Glump and a mail parcel misadventure, ending with Santa discovering the Gimme Dwarf has Beanie and the Dumdiddy racing to resolve the crisis in a whimsy Christmas setting.
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Beanie
Santa Claus
Santa Land
Santa
Santa’s Disguise as Dwarf Faces Christmas Crisis
Santa frowns over a looming deadline two days before Christmas. The Dumbiddy Spirit of Getting warns of danger from the Gimme Dwarf as Santa plans disguise to save a companion. Workers protest his departure while rushing to finish toys before Eve.
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Santa
Santa Fin
Swanton Seeks End to Milk Transportation Barriers
Madison executive secretary Milo K Swanton urged the Legislative Council to pressure other states to eliminate barriers to shipping Wisconsin fluid milk and to remove discriminatory milk standards. He cited Kentucky and Ohio cost penalties and urged cross state talks so Wisconsin products can move freely. He noted that over 80 percent of manufactured dairy product output is at stake and stressed the need to remove barriers.
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Hoover
Capitol
Monroe High
Stoughton
Wisconsin
Ft. Atkinson
Watertown
Edgerton
Oscar R. Olson
Blanchardville
Senate
Harry Klueter
State Dairy Department
National Cheese Producers Federation
Madison
Legislative Council
Milo K. Swanton
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Co-operatives
Swanton
Kentucky
Mgleveland
Rat Hunter Killed In Mishap On Wisconsin Farm
Clair Harris 34 died at a hospital after being shot in the head while rats hunting on his Ellsworth area farm near Ellsworth Wisconsin. Pierce County Sheriff Simonson said Harris was shot by his .22 rifle when he fell from a ladder in a barn. Coroner Winberg ruled no inquest. His wife reported he left about 8 am Monday to shoot rats in the barn and was found later with a head wound.
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Red Wing
Minn
Clair Harris
Ellsworth
Wis
Pierce County
Roy Simonson
Harris
Ralph Winberg
Simonson
Census shows farms growing larger and machinery use rising
The Census Bureau reports 1954 farm census findings: farms are larger on average, electric service is nearly universal, and farm numbers declined nationwide by 599,769 from 1950 to 1954. Regional declines varied with the South hardest hit, while the West shows the largest average farm size.
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Census Bureau
South
United States
North
West
United
Farm Trends 1950 to 1954 Reflect Shifts in Size and Technology
The era saw larger farms in the South driven by Croppers and share tenants, with the 100 acre threshold shrinking. Overall farm numbers under 100 acres rose to 10.1 percent, aided by part time farming due to autos and roads, while land in farming stayed over three fifths of the U S total. Irrigated acreage rose to 29 million acres, with 93 percent of farms using electricity by 1954 and 4.4 million farms fully electrified. Milking machines up 11.9 percent and corn pickers up 51 percent between 1950 and 1954 as farm consolidation continued.
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Numi
Farms shift as tractors rise and horse era fades
The record shows farm machinery transforming agriculture with over a million more tractors in use. Between 1950 and 1954 about 342 million horses and mules vanished from farms while roughly 1.8 million farms adopted horseless farming.
Florence Bank Bandit Receives 7 Year Term
Jr. 24 of De Pere was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for the November 2 Florence bank holdup in which $3,083 was stolen. Willison admitted using an unloaded pistol and pleaded guilty. Robert Misey argued for probation citing a wife and two children.
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Weeeewauree
de Pere
Florence
Willison
Robert Misey
Angolan Driver Loops Ohio Turnpike at 113 MPH
Diego Villa, 23, of Angola Indiana, arrested last night on the Ohio Turnpike near Stony Ridge. State patrol ticket shows 68 miles in 36 minutes from Westgate entrance. Villa fined 50 dollars plus costs.
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Toledo
Ohio
Diego Villa
State Highway Patrol
Villa
Angola
Ind
Stony Ridge
Westgate
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