The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 22

Pece 22 The LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, La Crosse, Wisconsin Thursday, April 2, 1953 Sioux Chief Iron Hail, One Of Two Survivors Of Custer Battle If ever there was an Indian who scheduled to go to the nation's cap- tvpifies both in character and April. Present home of the chief and per, the ideal of the tribes, it his Rapid is Chief Dewey Beard, a 95-vear- they lived on the Pine Ridge In- old Sioux whose Indian name is dian Reservation. Iron Hail. Live In Rapid City His bearing is straight and proud The chief spoke in halting Eng- and his rugged face is powerful when he extended an invita- tion to visit South Dakota attrae- nd ageless. He became chief not Schubert, through descent but though the County Cham- vote of his tribesman because of tx.r 0( His witr speaks bis high morals and clean life.

more fluent)y themselvos Good Will Ambassadors the two converse in the Sioux Chief Dewey Beard and his wife tongue. Alice. 77, are good will ambassa- More than 100,000 tourists from dors for the Black Hills, the Bad- Wisconsin visit South Dakota an- lands and other attractions of their nually, according to the manager' Mtive area, South Dakota. I the Black Hills nd Badlands1 There were in La Crosse Tues- Association. Last summer the area da' with Hoadley Dean, more than 2 million visitors.

manager of the Black Hills' Dean listed as special attrac- arid Badlands Association, and tions this summc the Blaek Hills Miss Doris Sparks, assistant. Roundup, July 3, 4 and 5 at Belle Their stop was made while they Fourche; Days of '76 were on the way to the sports show July 31, Aug. 1 and 2, at Dead-j in Minneapolis after completing an wood; the Passion Play at Spear- appearance at a similar event in fish during July and August; Black Milwaukee. Hills Playhouse at Custer State The chief is one of two Sioux who Park; Sioux Indian Day, July 16, survive from the period of the at Wind Cave National Park, com-j Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, memorating the 50th anniversary! also known as Last Stand of the park. Iron Hail was 18 years old when Pres.

Eisenhower will visit South he went into the battle under Chief Dakota in June, Dean added. Sitting Bull. The other survivor, Some other attractions in addi- John Sitting Bull, a nephew of the tion to the spectacular scenery are old chief, was only a baby at the tours through Homestake gold time mine, the largest gold mine in the Chief Dewey Beard is a patri- Western Hemisphere, at Lead, arch of his tribe and as such rep- and the second largest free resents its members in tribal mat-1 ranging herd of buffalo in Northj ters in Washington, D.C A I rica, at Estes State Park. Gl Loans For Ex-Servicemen To $20 Billion, VA Reports 01 loans approved for ex-service-1GI home loans for a total men and women have topped the of $19,555,299,014. $20 billion mark.

Veterans Ad Business loans approved totalled ministration announced today. 201,730 and amounted to $544 mil- A- of Fob. 25, 1953, VA had the GI veterans proved 3.201 loans for homos. or for a variety of business pur- farms and businesses totallingsuch as loans to gtart a new $20 since the beginning. business, as well as loans to ex- of the GI loan program in 1944 jpand a goinii business.

Of that $20 billion total, VA had VA approved 64.649 loans fori guaranteed or insured more than i oterans who wanted to buy a $10 billion. These loans wore farm land, stock, feed and; by a variety of private farm machinery and Soldier Joins Korean Unit WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN KOREA (Special) Army Pvt. Herman M. Hewitt, La Crosse, recently joined the 772nd Military Police Battalion in Korea. His wife.

Carolyn, lives on R. 2, iHolmen. Wis. The 772nd is responsible for safeguarding UN supplies and material transported on railways throughout South Korea. unit is one of the few in Korea with men spread from the crowded port of Pusan in the far south, past the battered capital city of Seoul, to the front lines in the north.

ANTISEPTIC SOURCE Witch-hazel is prepared from the juice of the leaves of the shrub of the same name. Chief Iron Hail, 95, last surviving Sioux warrier of the Battle of Little Big Horn Last Stand), brought to La Crosse people Wednesday a peace pipe and an invitation to visit the Black Hills and the Badlands this season. Carl W. Schubert, president of La Crosse County Chamber of Commerce, made the acceptance and was named Big Beaver or Ta Ka Ohi Ti Ka by the chief. (A beaver is an architect and builder and so is bert).

The legal name is Chief Dewey Beard, and his xvife, 77, was Alice Lone Bear before her marriage. The necklace of bear claws is more than 300 years old. His headdress is of eagle feathers, topped by soft fluffy feathers from under the wing, dyed red to represent wounds in battle. At the side of his face and across the front and back of his buckskin are weasel tails. Photo -froWuJl WHITE AS SNOW SOFT AS DOWN Wholesale Distributors SCHILLING PAPER CO.

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Racine, president. Music teachers in La Crosse and its area who are interested in attending the convention are asked to call Mrs. Hilda New, 617 Mississippi dial 2-4515 Latimer Food Market Dial 2-6593 Corner 7th and So. Ave. OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS MONARCH SLICED PINEAPPLE JELL-O All Flavors 3pkg; SALAD DRESSING Whole Kernel or Creom Style 'orn 2 WHOLE BEETS Jar SWEET PEAS t-ib.

Tin 2 for PITTED DATES I-lb. Cello Bag FRFSH FRUITS and BEEF ROASTS BEEF SHORT Lb BEEF Lb VEAL STEW Lb VEAL ROASTS Lb VEAL POCKET ROASTS Lb PIGS FEET PORK SNOUTS Lb PORK LIVER Lb SKINLESS WIENERS Lb VEAL HEARTS Lb BACON ENDS Cello Wrapped 2 HOMEMADE PORK SAUSAGE Lb PORK END LOIN ROASTS Lb 35c LARGE ASSORTMENT EASTER HAMS TENDERIZED BAKED HAMS CANNED BONELESS HAMS SMOKED PICNICS CHICKENS STEWING HENS FRYERS BROILERS -5-6 blooms for $2.49 SWIFT'S PREMIUM or ARMOUR'S STAR I WHOU OR FULL HALF I rj FULL SWANK HALF CENTER SLICES LEFT ON TTw LB. FULL r0UTT HALF SUCES LEFT OH SMOKED-SHORT SHANKS supplies and equipment, loans amounted to $250 5 mortgage com- companies, and) qj number of loans approved as of Feb 25, 3,196.268 loans The largest number of loans amounting to $19,787,793,537 had proved was for the purchase, con- actually been reported by lending i strnotion, or improvement of institutions as closed and fully dis-i homes, VA had approved 2,997,801 Dnrsf'ct In Wisconsin a total amount of $291.812.631 in loans wai guaranteed by the Milwaukee Regional Office of the VA, Ingvar officer-in-charge of the La Crosse 1 office said today. This figure covers 40.928 home loans approved for 2,604 farm loans for and 3,590 business loans for $12,085,562 Activity in home loan applications the first two months of this year was 60 per cent above the record for the first two months of 1952, Holter said. Most World War II veterans have until July 25, 1957, in which to apply for GI loans under the original GI Bill, but veterans with service since June 27, 1950, the beginning! of the Korean conflict, have until; 110 years from the end of the current emergency in which to apply.

POOOTss. MIXED VEGETABLES FRENCH FRIES SPINACH PEAS CUT CORN CORN ON-THE-COB PEAS CARROTS FRENCH STYLE BEANS CUT BROCCOLI 64 LBS. AVERAGE Lb. OVEN-READY HEN ovt inspected 10-T4 LBS. AVERAGE U).

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READY TO EAT gL A. CANNED HAMS STAR SLICED BACON ARMOUR'S STAR PORK UNKS -55 STANDING RIB ROAST U.S. CHOICE TMfSI PARTS KIMOVC0 ISFORE WEIGHING EAD LETTUCE ICEBERG NEW SPRING CROP MEADS LARGE 48-SIZE HEADS SQUASH EXTRA WM, FANCY. large iw. HUBBARD mt Mm MEATED GRAPEFRUIT S.

FRESH ARIZONA CARROTS 2 it NEW SPRING GREEN CABBAGE FRESH GREEN ONIONS 2 19C NEW SPRING RADISHES HEAVY ORANGES National Food Stores See our "EASTER LILIES' CIVTU A Lin CT ATE PLENTY OF PARKING SPACE SIXTH AND STATE two lots CTftDE UnilDC. to 6:00 MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY riUUIIJ. 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. a.m.

to 6 p.m. SATURDAY.