European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Heavy duty roller bearings can carry a three million Pound Load support Mammoth rollers which flatten steel ingots into Sheet steel reduce friction friction fighters _. C.7this year 250,000,000 u. S. Produced Ball and roller bearings jul go to american Consumers steel bolls for Ball bearings head for final polishing operations have just come from a rough grinding process will go through hot Oil Bath next. Boxes or grooves in which bearings run must be ground accurately to one 10,000th. Of an Inch. There Are 18.000 sizes types of anti friction bearings. On Wisconsin on Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin the Dairyland of the nation and vacation land of the Midwest is celebrating its Centennial of state Hood this year a Century packed with Progress and robust activity. The nation s Leader in the Dairy Industry is boasting about that accomplishment and also Point ing to itself with Pride As the Birthplace of the Republican party workmen s compensation Vitamin d. Regulation of utilities and a score of other things. Although May 29 was the for Mal anniversary Date for the last state to be Cut from the old Northwest territory Wisconsin is making it an All year Celebration. Everybody s in the act school children big businessmen Farmers and Public servants. The. State legislature appropriated x3so.oou Foi the anniversary parly but that is Only Small part of what is being spent. The slate fait Park exposition Board is pouring in another so. 500,000. Industry is adding a least two million and agriculture is contributing a considerable sum. An exposition this summer tops the state s celebrations. It will be held at the state fail grounds in Milwaukee August 1 through 29 and is expected to at. Tract two million visitors. It vill be a show that depicts wisc on a in s Progress in agriculture in do try. Education and legislation Down through the last Hundred years. Two Complete farms will be Buill on the exposition will be a farm of 1348. The other will be the farm of today with ail its modern conveniences. Industry will install Complete workshops of a Hundred years of and of today. Business plants will do the same to show their growth. The state will transplant some 01 the North Woods to thu huge show grounds to give the visitors a look at some of the things lha make the state one of the favored spots of vacation lists. Schools an scores of other agencies will have similar exhibits to depict. 100years of Progress. The Celebration started last january in Madison the state capital and on May 29 there were special observances in All parts of the state to Mark the Day Wisconsin was admitted into the " lion in 1848. Jean Nicolet a Hardy French Man was the first White Man to set foot on what is now Wisconsin soil. In 1634 he visited the Green Bay Vicinity on an exploring Mission for governor Cham Plain of new France hoping to find the Orient beyond Lake Huron. First settled in 1670 by traders and missionaries Wisconsin was part of new France from1634 until surrendered to the British in 1763. It was a part of Tho Northwest territory after that area was ceded to the United suites in 1783. In 1836 if became in Terri if by. Of Wisconsin with boundaries embracing what is now and part of the Dako tas. A Constitution was ratified i March 1848 and two months later Wisconsin was admitted to the Union As the 301h state. Wisconsin boasts that it instituted the first state wide Pri Mary election Law one of the earliest and Best corrupt practices acts developed and Valorme Taxa Tion of Railroad property and the first modern income tax Law. Theban Sci state claims National leadership in effective regulation of railroads and Public utilities and was one of the first to adopt state civil service system and to set up a budget system and centralized purchasing office. It. Initiated the first legislative reference and Bill drafting service. Labor and Industrial legislation Laws relating to the Industrial commission workmen s compe nation unemployment compensation and fair labor practices were milestones in Progress. The National Republican part was founded at Ripon. Wisconsin in 1854 in a one room school House. It still stands As a shrine on Ripon College in legislative matters is Wisconsin s regulation which provides that Public hearings must be held on All proposed Laws. Com missions of non political exports safeguard the people s interest Sand As part of the famed wis Consin idea scientific investigations precede drafting of important the notables whom Wisconsin claims because of birth or residence arc general Douglas Macarthur Admiral Marc Secretary of the Inte rior Julius Krug David Lilien Thal head of the atomic Energy commission Lloyd k. Garrison nationally recognized labor relations expert authors Thornton Wilder. Eden Ferber. And Zona Gale architect Frank Lloyd rights former russian Ambas Sador Joseph Davics Industrial executive Lio t. Crow Fey Fred Crick March. Alfred Lunt. Spencer Tracy. Fred Macmurray Pat o Brien. Don am Chc. Ofsik Welles Jack Carson. Gale Sondergaard and Hildegard. Characters Wisconsin has been unwillingly associated with in big headlines include John Dillinger and Al Capone. Dillinger shot his Way out of his North Woods hide out and Capone annually vacationed in the North Timber coun try where he owned a showplace summer Home Canada Maine. Minnesota. Michigan and other Points claim to be the Birthplace of Paul Bun. Van As Well As his Bovine assistant. Babe the Blue of. But Wisconsin asserts that the Mythi Cal giant put in his Best and colourful experiences in wis Consin. Wisconsin shows of its thousands of lakes and would those lakes have come from if Paul had no tracked around in the Woods in the Spring when the ground was soft. Fred Snyder weekend a or be rep Puii of by Drc cd tire tape weekend june of
