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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1947
Page
2
A busy slate of church and club meetings is listed including Julius Chandler's home gathering at 2 o clock and the W S C S of First Methodist Church monthly session. Circle No 9 hosts a 7 30 p m meeting at Miss Cliffie Olmstead's home with Miss Hazel Wakefield co hosting a Christmas party.
Young audiences will view Clare Tree Major's colorful Sleeping Beauty adaptation at Neville auditorium next Thursday at 3 00 pm. The Parker Memorial class of the First Methodist Church funds the showing with Miss Juanita Porter chairing the committee. Charles Lamb would approve the fairy tale’s imagination.
Tony Martin Hurd Hatfield and Howard Duff star as Joan Crawford faces two men Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda in a tense romance. The picture blends soap opera pacing with melodrama as Crawford seeks a normal romance.
Kay Crandall Causey directs the Little Theatre production State of the Union at Georgia Tucker Auditorium next Monday and Tuesday. A central stage performance features a cast including bid Causey Elizabeth Lawrence Bill Roberts Virginia Ann Foster Douglas Schumann Kit Walters Gilbert Findlay La Verne Colvin Bert Bernheim Warren Deckert Ange Glyd and others from Monroe theatre circles. Mr and Mrs Guy P Stubbs Jr announce the birth of a son, George Romney, at Saint Francis Hospital on November 24.
The women's auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church holds an executive board at the church 3 p.m. The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist meets in the church auditorium at 3 p.m. W S C S circles at Stone Avenue Methodist meet 2 30 p.m. Circle 1 led by Mrs Ira Waldroup Circle 2 by Mrs E E Price. Monroe Pilot Club meets at Virginia Hotel 6 30 p.m. Mrs DeWitt Henry speaks on the United Nations. W wf S Parkview Baptist meets in Mrs house for regular business and program.
An unnamed woman claims Inner-Aid cured her gas bloating and daily headaches after meals. The ad describes Inner-Aid as containing 12 herbs that cleanse bowels and improve digestion, asserting relief from gas constipation and sluggish liver and kidneys. Sold at drug stores.
A pre-dawn explosion at a Muskegon river gas compression station near Temple Michigan killed 29 year old Walter Kroes and injured six other workers. The blast halted operations, causing a 250 community gas shortage and prompting Consumers Power Co to urge reduced use by industrials and residents.
Wright Bendel Clinic reports Brenda Jo born November 28 to Mr and Mrs Andrew Jackson Pennington of Crossett Ark. Floyd Vaughn Payne of West Monroe welcomes Sue Ellen born November 25. Larkin Graham Kennedy of Monroe greets Larkin Joseph born November 26. Indiana profile notes diverse agriculture minerals manufacturing and wholesale trade.
Members of the American Legion Auxiliary gathered gifts for the Veterans' Hospital in Alexandria. The project began after World War I as part of a national program and is carried out yearly. A Monroe party, led by Mrs. H. Flood Madison, traveled to Alexandria, with Mrs. S. E. Morris, Mrs. Charles Mitchell, Mrs. Sam Ruben, and Mrs. Ted Mahr joining, and Mr. Charles Mitchell representing the American Legion.
Hollywood column notes Deanna Durbin plans a Broadway show as soon as a suitable vehicle is found. It also mentions Abbott and Costello contract concerns, Charles Russell traveling to Rome for holidays with Nancy Guild, Allan Jones and a swing back to operettas, and other industry tidbits about Bette Davis, William Grant Sherry, Paulette Goddard, Fredric March, Burt Lancaster, and Yvonne Decarlo.
Tokyo reports the metropolitan hygienic laboratory warns arsenic laced soy sauce and acetic acid spiked vinegar are among potent mixtures produced by some Japanese processors. The agency also found ketchup.
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