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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
2
Fourteen youngsters, one from each elementary school in Lincoln Parish, have been secretly chosen to be announced as a feature of the second annual Christmas Festival to be held in Ruston.
At 2 p m Friday in Howard auditorium Louisi ana Tech the civic project by the Chamber of Commerce retail merchants committee will honor 14 pupils selected as ideal. Santa Claus will present Spirit of Christmas certificates as schools share $5 for participation and highest attendance.
A special feature of the next lecture at the Monroe Town Hall in Northeast Junior College is family night on December 11 at 8 p m with Carl J. Hambro noted Norwegian statesman as speaker. Family members without Town Hall membership may attend with a ticket holder and tickets are transferable to others. Also notes that a surplus milk purchase was made by the administration between March and September totaling about 200 million pounds in dried skim milk.
A new approach to infantile paralysis centers on mind over matter and freeing paralyzed limbs. Sister Elizabeth Kenny of Australia, now at Minneapolis General, popularized hot packs and mental movement focus to relieve muscular rigidity, with researchers like Steindler and Solandt supporting the approach.
The Monroe Civitan club met at Hotel Frances Wednesday night for a business session. Committees were named and plans for the future were discussed.
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes signs on the Russian battlefield suggesting Nazi forces show fatigue and retreat while Soviet counters gain momentum. Weather, supply strains, and strategic missteps compound German difficulties as the Red Army eyes a possible spring offensive. In America, 1939 alcohol production totals exceed three billion pounds of grain products and sugar, with molasses contributing to distilling.
Louis A. Breard Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Breard of 710 Riverside, has been commissioned an ensign in the U S naval reserve at Pensacola on November 14. He is assigned to the U S S Colorado for observation scout duty and will fly daily from a catapult. Breard spoke of a broad training program covering scouting, observation, piloting, dive bombing, and radio work, after graduating from Northeast Junior College in 1936 and working at Ouachita National Bank in Monroe.
Cleveland reports a surge in senior high students abandoning classrooms for work, with the monthly quits nearing five hundred. L. C. Bain of the board of education bureau of statistics notes the trend and its growth.
Report notes enrollment fall of 1017 percent in the past year with 2,905 leaving for work. Charles H. Lake, superintendent of schools, says many jobs are offered to pupils at wages up to 35 dollars weekly or more.
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