Veterans Lead Wisconsin Class in Veterans Among Graduates
Wisconsin's 3400 degree recipients include 87 percent veterans among seniors and six percent among women. The class features 25 married couples and 10 foreign students. Honorary degrees will go to 14 individuals including Trygve Lie and Lucia Briggs for notable achievements in law science and literature.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
University
David Lilien
Atomic Energy Commission
Trygve H. Lie
The
United Nations
Lucia R. Briggs
Milwaukee Downer College
Kenneth Burgess
Esther Forbes
Harry J. Grant
Milpie Journal Co
Edwin B. Hart
Howard M. Jones
Harvard
Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler, Wis. Co
Walter J. Meek
I Y
Wisconsin Medical School
William Schuman
Juilliard School of Music
Frank J. Sensenbrenner
Kimberly-Clark Co
Wisconsin Board of Regents
Sumner H. Slichter
Harvar
Eugene P. Wigner
Princeton University
Darlington Carrier Wins Rockford Scholarship
Fred Ruf aged 14 son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Ruf of 704 Washington street has been named one of four winners of a Rockford newspaper carrier scholarship receiving 150 dollars for college. He ranked second with 97 percent. top winner was H Daniel Green Beloit with 99.33 percent. Ruf, a ninth grader with a 94 percent average, participated in football basketball band glee club staff yearbook and forensics and is active in the Boy Scouts and church youth groups. He also mows lawns and caddies at Darlington golf course.
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Darlington
Fred Ruf
Ernest Ruf
Washington Street
Rockford
United States
Canada
H. Daniel Green
Beloit
Ruf
Boy Scouts
Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church
Monroe Life Guards Attend Red Cross Aquatic School
Grace Anderson and Robert Wells, life guards at Recreation Park pool in Monroe, are among students in a 10 day water safety and accident prevention course at Red Cross national aquatic school at Camp Hefferman near Bloomington Lake Towanda Illinois. They arrived last Wednesday and will stay through week’s end. The camp is one of 50 Red Cross schools in the country and Hawaii training new instructors in swimming life saving canoeing and first aid. Upon completion they will receive Red Cross teachers certificates.
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Grace Anderson
Robert Wells
Recreation Park
Red Cross National Aquatic School
Camp Hefferman
Bloomington Lake
Towanda
Ill
Red Cross
Hawaii
Boy Scouts Lower Entrance Ages in Three Programs
W R Stribley of Freeport announces minimum ages are cut effective September 1 1949. Cub Scouts 8, Boy Scouts 11, Explorers 14. Senior Scouting becomes Exploring with broader land sea and air activities plus life exploration. Explorer ships and Explorer squadrons may specialize in seamanship or aviation.
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Boy Scouts of America
W. R. Stribley
Freeport
U. S. Grant Council
Explorer
Browntown Telephone Rate Hearing Scheduled for July 6
A public hearing on Browntown Telephone Co. request to raise rates is set for Wednesday July 6 at 1 30 p m in the Public Service Commission office in Madison The commission filed the notice on June 8 to investigate the companys books accounts practices and activities and to appraise its property with expenses to be assessed against the company under statute.
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Browntown Telephone Co
Public Service Commission
Madison
Browntown Company
N D Thorpe To Enter Garrett In September
Nathan D Thorp of South Wayne a 1945 Monroe High School graduate and Northwestern University alumnus will enter Garrett Biblical Seminary in Evanston in September for graduate study in theology. He served on Westminster Foundation executive board represented student religious council sang with Northwestern glee club and acted in Wan Mu show. He was assistant pastor to youth at Arlington Heights Methodist Church and active in political religious groups.
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Nathan D. Thorp
Donald S. Thorp
South Wayne
Monroe High School
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Monay
Northwestern
Glee Club
Westminster Foundation
Arlington Heights
Oneida Vilas Voters Dissolve Lakeland School District
Rhinelander Wisconsin voters dissolved the Lakeland school district spanning Oneida and Vilas counties. In eight towns residents cast 1,239 for dissolution and 394 against, ending the district’s large regional span.
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Oneida
Vilas
Rhinelander
Wisconsin
Lakeland
Northwoods towns resist consolidation across two counties
Seven months after consolidation began, public protests spread across the Northwoods. Legal actions reached both the circuit and supreme courts as Minocqua Hazelhurst Woodruff Lake Tomahawk in Oneida county and Arbor Vitae Boulder Junction Lac du Flambeau Manitowish Waters in Vilas county rejected the plan.
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Northwoods
Circuit
Supreme Court
Minocqua
Hazelhurst
Woodruff
Lake Tomahawk
Oneidas County
Arbor Vitae
Boulder Junction
Lac du Flambeau
Manitowish
Vilas County
Divorce action against U S Senator Harry P Cain dismissed
Tacoma court yesterday dismissed a divorce case filed by Mrs. Cain against U S Senator Harry P Cain. The dismissal followed a request from the plaintiff dated February 9.
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Tacoma
U. S
Harry P. Cain
Seoul census shows 20,184,000 residents
The first census of the Republic of Korea reports a population of 20,184,000. The government announces the total as the national population count for the new republic.
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Seoul
Republic of Korea
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