Community notes on graduations and memorial day observance
Lake Providence and nearby communities report graduations for Olive Anne Guenard, Betty Barnes, LaVerne Davis, Helen Van Fossen, and LaVerne McGee with family travel to Baton Rouge Brookhaven Nashville and Santa Monica. Memorial Day events in East Carroll led by American Legion Post 37 feature remarks by Judge Voelker and ceremonyat City cemetery. auxiliary and Boy Scouts to decorate graves.
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Powell Martin Barrett
American Legion
East Carroll Parish
Jack Wyly
Lake Providence
Legion Area
Frank Voelker
Brupbacher
Social News Roundup from Collinston and Nearby Areas
Local families host relatives from Raymondville Tulsa Monroe and Lake Providence over weekends and weeks. Vacation Bible School opens June 7 at the Methodist Church from 8 30 to 11 30 each morning with participation by area children. The Rev E W Corley and James Jeter Jr attend the Louisiana Methodist Annual Conference in Baton Rouge on June 26.
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The
Methodist Church
E. W. Corley
James Jeter, Jr
Baton Rouge
L. B. Moreland
Louisiana Methodist Conference
Local Social News Highlights From Monroe and Collinston
Mrs. Corley and son David visit in the capital city at her son Alvin Corley home. Mrs. Ralph Crews of Monroe visits with her mother Mrs. Susie Campbell recovering from surgery. Grady Patterson and infant son of Monroe visit Clyde and wife in their home. Harry Vaughan chapter 125 sent delegates to a District 4 O E S school of instruction in Monroe. Mr and Mrs Frank Boyd move from Collinston to Panama City Florida for Mr Boyd's transfer at International Paper Mill. Clyde Adams and wife visit Monroe with children. Collinston students return for summer from Louisiana Tech Northeast Junior College and LSU A at various family homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Patterson
Monroe
Clyde Adams
Harry Vaughan Chapter
Alton Norsworthy
Bernice Pratt
Helen V. Howell
Annie Spencer
Rhopayne Griffin
Frank Boyd
Collinston
Panama City
Fla
Boyd
International Paper Mill
Dorothy Anne Norsworthy
Virginia Pratt
John Lane Norsworthy
David Corley
Louisiana Tech
James Jeter
Northeast Junior College
Eloise McKeithen
Virginia David
Miss David
Dorothy DIX
Win Hawans
College students plan summer study in state colleges
Northwestern State University and Louisiana Tech link the summer plans of local students and recent grads. Franks Thomp son Watson Lindsey Charmaine Vin yard Dorothy Jones teach music at the college here. Others attend Northwestern State and Louisiana Tech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Thompson
Northwestern State
Watson Lindsey
Charmaine Vinyard
College of the Sacred Heart
Dorothy Jones
Northeast Junior College
Miss Jones
Olla-Standart High School
Patsy Lee
Elaine Harris
Paula McDaniel
Francis Elliott
Billy Clay Berry
la Vaughn Tarver
Sonny Duke
Louisiana Tech
LeRoy Caldwell
Northwestern State College
Mae West Returns From England Tour After Austerity Diet
Mae West arrives in New York after a nine month visit to England where she says she gained five pounds on the austerity diet. The Diamond Lil star reports British men reacted very well to her performances.
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Baw
England
Britain
Mae West
New York
Tel Aviv Feels Calm Amid Egyptian Threats
In Tel Aviv on a sunny Sabbath, residents treat the war as distant despite Egyptian claims of siege. Two air raid alerts produced no planes, beaches and sidewalks buzz with daily life, while four Egyptian ships exchanged fire with a Jewish Corvette offshore before withdrawing under air attacks.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Cairo
Coney Island
United Nations
Palestine
Monro e Family Visits and Weekend Guests
Weekend visitors include Marion Levert and baby from Monroe staying with E. H. Maroney family. Norma Stewart returns home from Bastrop teaching post. Fort Worth guest Marvin McCarty spends days with K. S. Thompson. Monre parents host James R. Phillips and baby. other locals host or visit from Spearsville Beaumont Houston West Monroe and Ft. Worth.
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George Levert and Baby
Monroe
E. H. Maroney
Marvin McCarty
Ft. Worth
Tex
K. S. Thompson
James R. Phillips and
Baby
A. L. Phillips
Decibel Levels Reported For Train and Lion Roar
A description notes a sub way express train reaching 100 decibels while a lion’s roar measures around 90 decibels and a rustling of leaves about 10 decibels.
Molotov Ride Earns Pass in German Bureaucracy
An editor in Darmstadt could not obtain a streetcar pass photo for six months. He used a Molotov portrait from the Russian foreign minister to attach as a photo, finally receiving a season ticket and continuing to ride. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, now Maintain Public Decency, has arrested over 5,500 people in 75 years.
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Molotov
Frankfurt
Germany
Darmstadter Echo
Darmstadt
V. L Molotov
New York Society For the Suppression of
The
Society To
Cardinal Spellman
Australia
Monsignor
New York Society
Dorothy Dix Advice Columns on Marriage and Farm Life
Dorothy Dix offers guidance on marital separation to ease long running strains and on a disabled husband seeking a country farm life for self sufficiency. She emphasizes temper control, renewed perspective, and family welfare, illustrating with a man 60 and a farm lifestyle pivot. The piece closes noting love as the greatest human virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy DIX
John D
Doles Family News From Jonesville Area
Mrs. Tom Doles of Jonesville, Wash has returned home for her father H G Crossley s illness, and will fly back to Washington. Elmo Laird and children from St Louis visit Mr and Mrs W W Doles. Lee Foster Jr and family from Clarksville Ark visit Crossleys. Mrs Fort Doles returns from Nashville. Doles family and A D Taylor family visit W F Doles Jr in Jonesville.
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Tom Doles
Wash
H. G. Crossley
Jones
Doles
T. K. Doles
Dave Doles
Washington
Elmo Laird
St. Louis
W. W. Doles
Mrs. Lee Foster, Jr
Clarksville, Ark
Harry G. Crossley
A. D. Taylor
Jonesville
W. F. Doles, Jr
New York Diary with Dr Roland Klemme in Town
Charles B. Driscoll reports Dr. Roland Klemme a noted St. Louis neurosurgeon visiting New York between planes. The piece weaves talk of world affairs, a possible audience with the pope, police restraint during riots, and a note about reader letters and syndicate release.
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New York
Roland Klemme
St. Louis
Lisbon
Portugal
Rome
Paris
London
Congress of Surgeons
Philippines adds 20000 vehicles since 1941 peak
1947 figures from the motor vehicle office show 10 060 registered vehicles in the Philippines by year end, with Manila hosting 30 318. Less than one third are passenger cars, many of the new vehicles being surplus army trucks and jeeps dispersed across Manila and the country.
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Philippines
Manila
The
Motor Vehicle Office
Three Mexicans Held For Investigation By Police
Three Mexican nationals were jailed in the parish prison after Monroe police arrested them and ordered hold without bond for immigration officials. The men were identified as Juan Espino, 23, Zacalocaz. Jose Maronas, 26, Zacalocaz. and Domingo Zalogar, with origins listed in La Bor De Ramero.
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Monroe
Juan Espino
Zaclesoz
Mex
Josi Maronas
Zacalocaz
Domengo Zalogar
la Bor de Ramero
California Gets 227-Barrel Producer In St. John Field
The Louisiana Conservation Department reports the Lake St. John Unit No. 5 well No. 1 of the California Company produced 277 barrels per day at 9 142 feet depth located 54 9 10E in Concordia parish. A second producer, C 24, owned by Arkansas Fuel & Oil and Tremont Lumber, began with 85 barrels in 33 10 1E.
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California
St. John Field
Lake St. John
Concordia Parish
Louisiana Conservation Department
Arkansas Fuel & Oil Company
Tremont Lumber Company
J. D. Trimble
E. P. Watts
Trimble Mabray Somerset
Tensas Parish
Georgetown
Grant Parish
Little Creek
LaSalle Parish
Stella Irvin
R. D. Bevill, Jr
Hester & Graham
Texan Claims Truman Missouri Officials Oppose Tideland Bill
Price Daniel says Truman and Missouri officials oppose tidelands legislation because a Kansas City oil cooperative seeks to lease 1700 miles of tidewater lands off the coast. He asserts support from the American Bar Association and American Title Association while noting House passage was followed by filibusters and Senate delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Price Daniel
Texas
Truman
Missouri
Kansas City
National Association of Attorney Generals
Price
Forest C
Donnell
United States
American Bar Association
American Title Association
Daniel
John L. Madden
Louisiana
House
Senate Judiciary
Senate
Congress
Congres
Three New Feeder Lines To State Fields Planned
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. president R H Hargrove announced three new gathering lines will run from the Little Big Inch to Texas and Louisiana gas fields. A fourth extension starts in late 1948 as FPC approves expansion raising capacity to 508 million cu ft daily by 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Little Big Inch
Texas
Louisiana Oil
R. H. Hargrove
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation
Federal Power Commission
Washington
Texas Eastern
Hargrove
Appalachian
Hargeave
Inch Line
Silsbee
Hardin County
Turtle Bay
Chambers County
Hastings
Brazoria
Harris County
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
Hastings Field
Louisiana
California Company
Southwest Gas Producing Company
Hico
Inch
Inch Lines
Allowables Hearing Set for July August Oil Rules
Baton Rouge announces a statewide public hearing to set July and August oil and gas allowables. The session will be June 15 at 10 a.m. in New Orleans at the Monteleone Hotel. Conservation Commissioner L Digby will chair and hear producer and purchaser evidence. Also on the agenda Kerr McGee Oil Industries seeks an amendment to an order for block 32 field Ship Shoal off Terrebonne parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Monteleone Hotel
L. Digby
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc
Ship Shoal
Terrebonne Parish
Oil report lists 18 new wells completed and 18 tests abandoned
Louisiana conservation adds up initial production for 18 new wells to 2,565.39 barrels. Completions span Cameron, Claiborne, Evangeline, Lafourche, St Landry, St Martin, St Mary, Tensas, Union and Vermilion parishes with gas, distillate and oil yields. Abandonments cover multiple parishes including Acadia, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caddo, Iberia and Union with dry holes and plugged wells.
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Baton Rouge
State Department of Conservation
Cameron Parish
East Mud Lake Field
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Lurcher C
Claiborne Parish
Haynesville
Arkansas Fuel Co
Lisbon E. A. Gabriel
Alex Edmonds
DeSoto
Logansport
Skelly Oil Co
Levi Burkett
Evangeline
Reddell
Continental Oil Co
Pardee Co
Lafourche
Raceland
Clifford H. Brown
Ellis Dupuy
la Salle
Tullos-Urania
Arkansas Fuel Oil Co
Lincoln
Hico-Knowles
Hunt Oil Co
Lewis Realty
St. Landry
North Cankton
A. J. Bankhead
Miller-Guidry
St. Martin
Lake Mongoulois
the Texas Co
St. Martinville
Union, Ora
Crown Central Petroleum Co
K. M. Hicks
Shell Oil Co
M. S. Futch
S. L. Smith
Vermilion, Erath
Phillips Petroleum Co
Bexley
Acadia
Egan
Nelson Bunker Hunt
Trustee
Freeland
Richie, Bates and
Cornell
Avoyelles
Eola
Amerada Petroleum Co
S. Cherami
Beauregard
Wildcat
Roeser and Pendleton
Luthher-Moore Lumber Co
Caddo
Buck Horton
Casper Gerdes
Jeems Bayou Gulf Refining Co
Levee Board N
Pine Island
L. S
Hobbs
Cameron
State Willow Bayou
Concordia
Lake St. John
California Co
Franklin
S. Delhi
Bryant and Caraway
Merritt
W. Delhi
Murphy- Sun
J. E. Holes
Iberia
Fausse Pointe
Richland
Big Creek
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co
Delta Lumber Co
J. K. Wadley
W. C. Chennault
Union
Ora
Frost Lumber Industries F
Guy Mabee Co
Frost Mabee
Pan American Production Co
Frost Lumber Co
Webster
Cotton Valley
C. H. Murphy, Jr
MacMillan Petroleum Corp
MacMillan-Gray
Noted Moral Bias and Scientific Facts in Historical Text
The excerpt makes a biased claim about Tibetans and other orientals defining morality of monogamy. It contrasts with a scientific note about helium becoming liquid at low temperatures and exhibiting strong capillary action. It also credits the 1856 open-hearth furnace invention to William and Frederick Siemens in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William and Frederick Siemens
England
Executive urges more production in oil mills
N Li Pugh Jr of New Port Ark told the Tri State Oil Mill Superintendent Association in Biloxi that rising demand for food, feed and industry will decide the oil industry’s future. He noted sesame and other oil seeds may become major crops and stressed cottonseed as a permanent, essential industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biloxi
Miss
N. Li, Pugh, Jr
New Port
Ark
Tri-State Oil Mill Superintendent Association
Pugh
Association
Oil tax rates proposed in Louisiana legislation listed
Baton Rouge June 5. Oil tax rates by gravity range from 6 to 10 1/2 cents per barrel in present and proposed House and Senate versions. Ranges include 22 gravity and below up to above 43 gravity with varying proposed rates. Also noted are a separate item aboutMaintain Public Decency seizing obscene material and historic oil-well drilling figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Senate
House
Grain Prices Edge Lower in Chicago Trade
Chicago grain prices eased slightly with wheat down 5/8 to 1 1/8 and July at 2.30 to 2.30 1/4. Corn held steady to down 7/8, oats mixed, and soybeans mixed around 3.16 for July. Lard futures climbed to as high as 23.40 for October while other fats followed varying curves.
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Chicago
Markets at a Glance in Chicago Wheat and Corn Dip
Wheat slips as Chicago markets show foreign aid cuts with a soft tone. Corn declines aided by Midwest rain while oats ease slightly. Hogs and cattle hold steady with little change in the session.
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Chicago
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L.S.A
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Brookhaven
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LaVerne Davis
Legion Auxiliary
Boy Scouts
LaVerne McGee
Transylvania
Peabody College
Nashville
A. K. Amacker
Vicksburg
Elizabeth M. Amacker
Mercy Hospital
H. T. van Fossen
Thomas L. van Fossen
T. L. van Fossen
School of Engineering
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John Russell
Laverne
Santa Monica
Calif
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Ruth Norman
Oak Ridge
Davis
Boulder Dam
Yellowstone National Park
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W. F. Trieschmann
C. B. Mitchell
J. P., Davis
Frances Jenkins
American Red Cross
Arthur Crump
Lafayette
Miss Margaret Crump
Southwestern
Lucy Titone
F. A. Babb
Memphis
Mrs. A. A. Collins
J. L. Johnson
Rotary Club
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Jack Whitehurst
Whitehead
Algea Smith
Smith
Raymondville
Windsor Pipes
J. M. Rich
Joel David
Lady Dalton Rich
Tulsa
Okla
Velma Pardue
Dorothy Trippe
St. Francis Sanitarium
John Caldwell
Rayville
L. L. Sanders
John Moore
Sam Moore
Perryville
Jerried Harper
R. A. Harper
Lena Hodges
Marie Hodges
Arcadia
J. E. Hodges
A. J. Hudson, Sr
A. J. Hudson, Jr
W. B. Norsworthy
E. E. Evans
Burns
John Norsworthy
Ralph Crews
Susie Campbell
Dessie Cruse
Bell Telephone Company
Don Wood
la Salle Parish Hospital
Bunkie
D. J. Critchett
Ferry
Mich
John Wagoner
Lake Charles
Mrs. H. R. Reitzel
Washington, D. C
Miss Annie Mae Reitzel
Woodrow Wagoner
R. L. McDuff
Dorothy Brown
Buddie Davis
Mike McMillin
Mike McMillin, Jr
Marion
Norma Stewart
Bastrop
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Lizzie Smith
J. Mat Brown
Beaumont, Tex
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Chester Barron
Spearsville
Everett Repp
Hilda Ellen Futch
Maxine Landers
Mary Grace Thompson
Ed Howard
Houston, Tex
Ralph Stripling
Noble Tillman
Jo Lynn and Noble, Jr
Ruby Jean Fife
West Monroe
Fred M. Tucker
Miss DIX
Susan B
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Charles B. Driscoll
Moscow
Kremlin
America
Roosevelt
Caesar Augustus LaGuardia
Bronx
Gailmore
Hampfstangle
Reds
McNaught Syndicate Inc
News-Star— World
Arkansas Fuel
Texan
State Fields
Little Inch
Chicago Grain
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