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CRACKER BARREL NEWS (Tribune Feb. ISM Del. en HFD Fob 25 By JOSEPH K. KIDDER Editor's Noir: A review of news 60 and 75 years ago that famished conversation material for La Crosse. FEBRUARY 6.

IKM Debate runs high among sportsmen over drastic changes in Wis- cousin fish and game laws pro-1 posed during Hie week in Madison would require licenses for nearly! by Senator Green. His proposal all kinds of for ducks and snipe. Hill loses before Circuit! Court jury suit for $1,000 against Patrolman Lawrence Dugan for false arrest and imprisonment and injuries he claimed to have i received while was finn of 10,000 with 30 pages in German. Little Missionary Society of Congregational Church purchases a State Bank draft for 8 pounds sterling for support of other little girls at mission school at Aintab, Turkey. In celebration of past favors, ladies of the Clio Club were treated to a banquet at the Warner House by their gentlemen escorts.

Tile ladies of the club are Mines. L. M. Palmer, O. J.

Newton. M. A Thayer. H. Foster.

G. A. Richardson and G. W. Mi began.

The gentlemen were Messrs. Thayer, Foster. Richardson and Millegan. N. B.

Holway and firm of Sierman Techmer elected members Regents Seek Option lo Buy Downer Land Crosse Iretary. Calvert FIRST OCCUPANTS HERE Friday was a red letter dav for Charles D. and Marilyn Abeyta and their 2V son, Charles, when the family became the initial residents of the new Scil uh Homes Addition on the North Side. At the upper left are the Abe.v- tas and the Rev. Thomas Mullen, chairman of the Housing Authority which is in charge of the units, as the keys of the new' apartment are turned over to the couple.

Watching the welcoming and at the rear are Charles Kelly, maintenance supervisor; Jack Schenk, WMG superintendent; Harry H. Huber, HA commissioner; John Barth, project inspector; Robert Des Jardins, public housing administrator and project engineer; and Frank Grover, HA counsel. In the upper right photo, 22-year-old Abeyta. an Army vetern and former resident of California, and his wife, the former Marilyn Lawrence of La Crosse, look over terms of the lease. Rent for the two-bedroom unit is based on income (he is an employe of the La Crosse Rubber Mills).

The Abevtas lived in Germany until November. At left, the couple begins the exciting work of unpacking some of their belongings. The Housing Authority currently is screening applicants for the remaining 19 units. Almost IOO families have asked to be Photos. a satisfactory growth.

There is banks instaled. They are Bats- auk JFC in treasury. A. Hirsh- vian E. E.

Bentley, president; iii heimer is president and G. R. Hyde, vice president; M. B. 1 Montague, vice president.

Direc- Greenwood, cashier; Louis Ben- rn Ti I tors are: G. C. Hixon, J. S. Menett, assistant cashier.

National: dary, J. M. Holley, C. F. Klein, 1 W.

A. Roosevelt, S. L. Pettingill, MADISON The trustees of Milwaukee Downer Seminary were asked Saturday to grant the University of Wisconsin an option to purchase the seminary campus for $1,550,000 The regents, at their monthly meeting, voted to seek an option on the 8.6-acre property. The Regents and the Downer trustees have held preliminary meetings of Board of Trade.

Report of Sec- to discuss the proposed purchase. The property is located adjacent to the University of Wisconsin- MiIwaukee Kenwood campus. It does not include the campus of Milwaukee Downer College. of C. NOTICE Regular meeting Monday night, February 9, 8 P.M.

Paul Marcotte, Grand Knight La Crosse Chapter No. 22 O.E.S. Tuesday, Fab IO. 1959, 8 OO NU Masonic Program. welcome.

MARY JANE ROELLIG, it ftfVDf Of US WEATHER Ruff AU fOIECAST to 700 PM EST I 9 it Afrit BIRTHS LA CROSSE Crosse Hospital Feb. 6. son to Mr, and Mrs. Eldon L. MiAdema, FL 2.

Holmen. (June Fellows) SMYRNA, TENN. Feb. 7, son to Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Munson. Mr. Munson is formerly of La Crosse, Calls His Bluff DETROIT Colts. 32. went to a Detroit Hospital and told an attendant he had been ordered to pick up a cigaret machine.

He told the skeptical attendant to with the company if you believe The attendant did. Colts was sentenced to 30 days for attempting to obtain property under false pretenses-. First, highest ye; tiff. second, lo west last night. Anchorage 24 19 Atlanta 57 32 Bismarck 7, 5 Chicago42 27 Cleveland 44 21 Denver 53 24 Fort Worth 6h43 Jacksonville 67 SO Kansas City 5637 LA CROSSE 37 6232 Miami 76 72 Milwaukee 14 a Mpls Paul 22 rn New Orleans 62 49 New York 39 ll Phoenix 72 44 San Diego 64 54 San Francisco 53 sa Winnipeg --IO John Paul, president; F.

on, vice president; George W. Burton, cashier; F. H. Hankerson. assistant cashier.

State: George H. Ray. president; A. Platz, vice president; J. M.

Holley, cashier. Security Savings: L. W. Foster, president; E. R.

Burke, vice president; Henry P. McGill, cashier; C. W. Knapp, assistant cashier. Exchange State: J.

E. Wheeler, president; Orlando Holway, vice president; J. O. Storey, cashier. Genrnan American: Adam Kroner, president; D.

H. Palmer, vice president; Joseph Boschert, cashier; J. A. Bayer, assistant cashier Publisher of tile Republican A Leader is W. Finch.

Willis L. Osborne is managing editor. Franc A. E. Van Meter is city editor and Arthur P.

Hankerson. 41 it The seminary site includes four brick buildings which the regents said could be remodeled for classroom use. The purchase offer calls for occupancy on July 1961. Prof. Charles D.

Goff, 43, was granted a 16-month leave of absence by Hie regents to serve as technical director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Study Commission. Controversy over locating a new building in a wooded campus area was ended when the regents voted was turned over to Houston Colin- to approve the site. The proposal ty Sheriff Walter Georgan who I to erect the new aociology-econo- took him to Caledonia. mics building there brought pro- Norwegian Workingmen's Soci- tests from alumni and others. Op- ety celebrates 10th anniversary at ponents of the proposal claim the Hall.

Speech by Presi- building would impair beauty of dent Ole Nyhus. Founders of the I the Madison campus, society are Ole Nyhus, Chris Ny- John Pamperin, George Saber, F. A. Copeland, F. Tillman, George A.

Pierce. Joseph -Marco, suspect in the murder of French Joe and his wife, was re-arrested at his home on French Island by Sheriff Scott, I upon a warrant charging him with the murder of the woman and a requisition from the governor of Minnesota. On former trial he was acquitted of the kill- ing of French Joe. Mr. La Crosse Commandery No.

9 T. Stated Conclave, Monday. Feb. 9 at 7 30 p.m. HAROLD ZIMMERMAN.

RC. Cord of THonks I I WISH TO THANK everyone that Amt flowers, Rifts and I was nj hospital md snce I have Hrlen Ntgro. ost end Found LOSI Filark rim child Wednesday St Joseph Church, Pine and St. Phone 3-6688. ost red Hereulea bicycle? Reward.

Call 2-7681 St SA Stray Dogs hus, E. Evenson, Peter Olson. L. MIGHT ST CLOUD FORECAST CORR TDW I A wa GNU WI AT QI OC AST SHOWERS SNOW £3 iMUNDMfZTZTj orms E2222 I SII I I PtSlilSUDD sr UNITED PRISS cashier. Ellis Usher is publisher pp Vangen and John O.

My- of the Morning Chronicle. hrp Local Democrats complete or- crpw wag at thf ganization of Jefferson Club and strm dppot week everything within Hie pal is npw system of payment by check sweet and serene. The ices having established, tins sought the men. Took less or their last visit. to get, them in than to keep oth- guests ers out.

Norris Batteler.prest- Hotel as many dent of club, represents the Old Line while all other officers, and practically all of the membership, are of the Bryan cut and color, At the Campbell Hall meeting, which was not very largely attended. the first subject discussed was a public market for La Crosse. at the Cameron House. Readers are urged to notice of the advertisement of Pryor, the artistic photographer, which will from time to time ornament the columns of the Chronicle, Rev. Robert Nourse delivered his new lecture at the Fifth Ward Tile regents boosted the university student loan fund to $450,000 with a $50,000 transfer from a trust fund set up by the late Kemper K.

Knapp. Knapp, a Chicago attorney and university alumnus, died in 1944. A similar transfer of $100,000 was made late in 1957 when the loan fund ran low. The trust and loan funds are managed by the regents. Gifts and grants totaling $210,000 were accepted.

They included $60,000 from the National Science Foundation, to be used by the geology department to process Mr. Markle was very enthusiastic church, half the pro- data Antarctica dur- FOR. LENT THE COULEE COFFEE HOUSE Mom will love not having to cook and clean up afterwards everyone will love our superb food, our courteous service SERVED ll A M. To 1:30 M. 5 P.M.

To 8 P.M. Hotel Stoddard LA CROSSE'S LARGEST 6 FINEST HOTEL LA CROSSE, WIS. John A. ftr WEATHER OUTLOOK Some welcome moderation in temperature is on tap for the eastern third of the nation on Sunday, as warming southerly winds sweep across the area. Subzero conditions will prevail over the Upper Lakes and the Northern Plains, while most of the remainder of the country will again be on the cold side, although extreme southern Florida will be seasonably mild.

Skies will range from cloudv to partly cloudy over the entire nation, and practically all of the country will receive some form of precipitation during the to have it. His idea was for a two- story building, the upper floor to be a puhlic hall or for offices. Ev! erybody tbit spoke was in favor of it. Secondhand Caligraph typewriter for sale at the A N.W. Ry.

freight office coeds going to the church. Mrs. Riedel, the midwife, had four stalwart knocking on her door at the identical moment one night this week She was equal to the emergency and the following morning the quartette of eigni on ice. Papas came downtown with their mriucl Urns Meyer of Indianapolis, of hpads pj((hl up thp titles. Mover Bros controlling agents mg the International Geophysical Year.

Steps were completed giving the university full ownership of the Sukov collection, one of the largest of little magazines in existence. The collection includes 10,617 under 715 for chewing gum. here on business as is George F. King, fireworks king of New who is getting orders from local dealers for this year's ght up boys! The parties were: George A A Stangl, the 3rd street furniture The university has called it one dealer; Joe Riese, cigarmarker: 0f mogt important collections John painter, and Em- 0f rP8earch materials acquired in est Kramer, plasterer. Any lady or gentleman who Heart Fund Campaign To Begin This Week This week marks the opening of the 1959 Heart Fund campaign in 10.000 communities across the nation, according to Philip S.

Davy, who heads the drive here. A goal of $13,383 has been set for the campaign in La Crosse, Davy said, adding that the committee has every expectation of reaching and surpassing this goal. First activity during the month-long drive will be the larger gifts and business solicitation. Bernard Decheine is chairman of the larger gifts division and Edward G. Kevin of the business solicitation division.

These divisions plan to make their calls Feb. IO through 17, Pledge cards will be used. Davy said the Wisconsin Heart Assn. has set a statewide goal of $530,000 for the 1959 campaign That is the amount that the association tentatively has budgeted to carry out its research, community service and educational program for the next fiscal year. "We must intensify these programs.

especially heart research, for each new scientific discovery, each drug or surgical technique adds to the likelihood of an eventual victory over cardiovascular the chairman continued. am sure the residents of La Crosse will bear these facts in mind during the 1959 Heart Fund campaign and contribute to help fight against America's number one health of the heart and blood Davy concluded. TINY RUT TOUGH MENTONE, Ind. (AP)-Officials of the Farmers State Bank had no need for a repairman hen they managed to open their large vault door 24 hours after it became jammed shut. They found a kernel of popcorn had caused the door to stick im Red Foil He orts filled with a pound of the finest $4 95 chocolates 6 oz heoM lb.

boort A3.t© Fancy hi Heorts to MO I lb boat Assorted Chocokrtet I TRISTATE DEATHS K4RL BEHNING WAUKON. Iowa-Karl W. ang. 69, died Friday night in a Waukon hospital. He was born June 13.

1389. in Hopkinton, Iowa, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Behning. Fifty years ago he moved to Allamakee County and settled on a farm near Harpers Ferry.

He married Mary Ward Feb. 19, 1930 He is survived by his wife; two sons, John and Carl, both of Harpers Ferry; one daughter, Mrs. John (Florence) Jones. Harpers Ferry; four grandchildren; four brothers. Max of Harpers Ferry, Walter of Ryan, Iowa.

Fred Strawberry Point, Iowa. and Frank of Coggon. Iowa; seven sisters, Mrs. Lester Haynes. Ryan, Iowa, Mrs.

Al Palmqiust of Dubuque. Mrs. Carl Witt of Bellview, Iowa. Mrs. Carl Helm, Waukon, Mrs.

Dee Ryan, Strawberry Point. Mrs. Emil Wendling of Waterloo and Miss Laura Behning. Dubuque Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St.

Joseph Catholic Church at Paint Rock, the Rev. John Peters officiating, and burial will be in the church cemetery. supply of 4th of July IntCTpsted th. John Stevenson adds an lmport- ant new line at. his mercantile establishment at George and Rublee by putting the Republican Leader on sale.

Warnmger A Houthmaker completely overhaul their pop factory. Putting in new machinery. Jim Trane gets tile heating job. new machinery in motion at the La Crosse Steam Laundry, 119 Front are invited to call. For the next 30 days Marcus Anderson will sell his entire stock of and childrens' underwear at cost.

Semsch Brothers at 98 Main St. have wholesale and retail stocks Twenty at Onalaska crockery and makes it necessary for the La I Crosse Telephone Company to put in a new and bigger switchboard I in A. Milbright's store. Willey Brothers af Halfway drove enough hogs from their farm to the station at Midway to load three cars. Insurgents in large force opened attack on our soldiers in the ippmes, said dispatches to Wash lngton from Admiral Dewey and General Otis.

Rumored msurrec- to Aguinaldo asks for conference. Harry J. Hirshheimer was elected president at 31st annual meeting of Crosse Board of Trade. Second annual banquet fol- lowed. J.

Ole Storey chosen vice president and Robert Calvert I elected secretary-treasurer with pay increased to $600 per year. The Rev. J. J. Wilkins and George Frey elected to membership.

it it a large variety of lamps. The school board ordered payment of an accumulation of $585.04 in bills. Present were Commissioners Burton, Morris, Pamperin, Steinlein and Tillman. Drs. McArthur and Hoegh find 49-year-old Norwegian laborer insane.

His malady accompanied by religious excitement. Taken to asylum. last three insane the past IO years. Most of the deal with politics, philosophy and modern literature. Pay increases for the coming year for graduate teaching and I research assistances, fellows and scholars were approved by the regents.

The raises range from $5 to $15 a month. Under the new pay plan, starting salary of a I graduate teaching assistant would lie $375 a month. The regents appointed Professors Rafael LaPesa, 8 member 1 of the faculty of the University of Madrid in Spain, and Merritt Y. Hughes to the staff of the new I institute for research in the humanities. Hughes has been a member of the Wisconsin English faculty since 1936.

Both appointments are for one year, beginning rn September. cases have been so alike that one -rn record would have done for either LSC Instructor Talks of the others; middle-aged Nor- FEBRl ARY 8. 1884 Snow stops all Southern Minnesota trains. Salzer new catalogue is 64 pages He will also issue an edi- wegians, with families, gone crazy on religion Dr. Ball of Brownsville to locate and practice in La Crosse with offices on Main street, between 5th and 6th.

Mrs. F. H. Lloyd entertained the Nineteenth Century Club. Louis Meister purchased Hotel.

La Crosse Business College, J. L. Wallace, proprietor, offers life scholarships for $40. In Maine, Virginia Mauree Applegate Clack, La Crosse State College instructor, made talks in Maine and Virginia during the semester recess. Mrs.

Clack, the author of several books and articles on the teaching of creative writing in the schools, spoke to teachers of the Portland, Maine, area on reading and to the Assn. for Childhood Education International of the Richmond, area on Secretary Robert Calvert of the creative writing. Board of Trade suggests a Mu -1 Mrs. Clack is also the origina- by BARKER Tho biggest best and the most complete selection of Greeting Cards in the Tri-State area! YOUR HOME OWNED REX A LL DRUG STORE BODEGA MAJOR DRUG Fourth and Pearl La Crosse JACKSON PLAZA GUZMAN ROOM Summer School Basic School Subjects 1705 Badger St. INQUIRE AFTER 7:00 P.M.

tual Manufacturing Assn. Suggests it have $500,000 capital stock rn 5,000 shares at HOO each, as not exceeding IO per cent rn any one year. The IO per cent would raise $50,000 and that amount, rightly applied, would establish an industry with double that amount of capital every year. It would enable all classes of people to subscribe for the stock and tor of the WHA radio program for children, Brown Concedes He May Be Favorite Son SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Gov. Edmund G.

Brown said Saturday it was he would be a favorite son candidate raise a large annual sum without for the Democratic nomination drawing heavily upon any one per- for President next year. son, Mr. Calvert believes La could be developed that way. BLASCHKE uneral ome TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS 228 No. 6th St.

933 Rose St. A Service Within Means of All He made it clear, however, that his favorite son role as head of the California delegation mean he was seeking the nomination. Brown made the statements in answer to questioning at a press conference he held for journalism students. Two Men Arrested For Gold Conspiracy WASHINGTON (AP) The Service Friday announced the arrest of two Salt Lake City, Utah, men accused of taking part Schedule Announced in a conspiracy to steal gold from ni Aa I Cf" the Kennecott Copper Co. and sell OT I edging At it on the black market.

Pledging activities for social The arrests were made Thurs- sororities and fraternities will day night in Salt Lake City. get under way soon after the start The men were to be arraigned of the second semester. in federal court there on charges The following schedule has been of acquiring and holding gold approved Feb. 13, organizations! without authority. Secret Service headquarters I here said about $2,100 (rf stolen gold seized from a Salt Lake I City assayer.

A spokesman said the investigation is continuing, He indicated I there might be more arrests. must have checked on the grade points of those they expect to Feb, 18, invitations to events go out; of Feb. 23, popcorn parties; March sorority teas; March 4, invitations to be mailed; and March 9-13, pledge week LOST: 8mal! blerk Labrador and pan. Corker to Children's pet Phone 2-1800 Business Services SPECIALIZED BUSINESS SERVICES OFFERED 8 PROZKN POOP LOCKERS fop rent ti SO per month. Wholesale for home custom Polar Locker.

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