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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1935
Page
14
Louisiana Tech announces a nine week summer term from June to August. Registration opens Monday with classes starting Wednesday. a late fee applies from the first day. Practicing teachers in demand exceed capacity and two short courses will be offered on campus including women’s studies and cotton grading.
Monroe firemen answered 17 alarms in May with almost negligible fire loss. Alarms by category included 2 business, 2 residence, 1 garage, 2 automobile, 4 miscellaneous fires, 4 service calls, and 2 false alarms per the alarm room monthly report.
Thurman Newton a 22 year old Negro of Pine Bluff Arkansas was turned over to parish authorities after confessing to a break in at 206 South Eighth Street The owner Aubrey Brunner caught him red handed hiding under a counter Police Sgt J D Busby and Officer L S Meek arrested Newton who came to Monroe from Powell Texas on May 30 He told police he was hungry
Forty one marriages were recorded in May at the parish clerk of court with twenty three white couples and eighteen Negro couples. The oldest groom was 56 with a 49 year old bride. youngest brides were 18. The widest age gap was 23 years in two Negro marriages. four years was the typical maximum gap among husbands and wives. Gnats herald drumfish schools off the South Carolina coast each spring.
In Quetta India after a deadly earthquake that killed thousands, fires burned out as doctors and relief workers rush in by air. Water from fissures floods streets while martial law and looting fears complicate relief. Troops report 3 000 bodies recovered. cholera fears persist amid mass casualties.
William Atwill vice-president of Illinois Central presented the Monroe fire department with a $100 check for its Christmas fund in appreciation of its service at a freight train fire caused by a derailment of gasoline tanks and box cars on the Illinois Central tracks near Monroe. Letters of thanks came from Mt Atwill T J Quigley and J T Stanford praising the firemen's cooperation during the extensive blaze.
The Neville High School senior play titled The Charm School will take place June 5 at 8 p m in the school auditorium. The farce promises clever humor with cast members including Claude Oakland Fred Green Charles Payne Tommy Nicholson and Charles.
A report notes tensions amid Catholic communities including North and Scherck Bogen, Anna Nichols, Neva Worthington, Dorothy Lively, Janet Rosenberg, Joyce Feinstein, Maureen Gill, and Aline Freret as concerns about religious strife emerge among local groups.
The senior chair of the Tabernacle Baptist Church for Negroes will lead a get-together program at Triumph Baptist Church for Negroes this afternoon. The meeting invites the Negro public to attend and participate. Hawaii’s Filipino population is estimated at 60,000.
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