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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1938
Page
6
Santa Claus wrestles with modern toy ideas as US toy spending nears 250 million dollars yearly. Parents praise rugged colorful durable designs and safe smooth edges, guiding future innovations to ensure happiness and less danger for children this holiday season.
The piece warns that an aging mind can close to new ideas and stresses staying open to new methods. It argues adults over forty are prone to mental closure, urging continual learning and resistance to resisting innovations to remain valuable and connected as the world moves forward.
Retailers and growers in Washington drafted a program to distribute this year's bumper crop of grapefruit and oranges. They proposed cutting handling and distribution costs so savings lower consumer and producer prices, eliminating third grade fruit, limiting markups to 25 percent, reducing transport charges, and creating a permanent board to advertise the product. The key aim was to share the bumper crop with households, especially the housewife, by lowering prices.
An essay argues dust fuels sunshine through light scattering and that daily cleaning aids life. It extols cleanliness as essential to physical and spiritual growth. The text then notes Iceland’s Althing as Europe’s oldest assembly, convened in 930 and mostly uninterrupted since, except 1797–1874.
A fragmentary collection features The Once Over by A L Phillips and disillusionment lines. It includes humorous similes about public figures and a Bermuda trip aside, plus notes on football and a Radio City observation about a covered stand.
Sam Michael Gevins notes a student who endures four football periods in rain and enjoys it yet balks at a brief walk to the drug store during a forecast shower. The piece contrasts stubborn student behavior with everyday duties.
A 1938 Associated Newspapers piece notes fear fueling political divisions as LaGuardia seeks party fit, mentions two trains colliding amid orders to remove interference, Clarksburg steel shop transfer, a Comanche thief in New York, and ongoing recovery efforts.
Advice column urges mothers to let an eighteen year old daughter run the household during a mother’s hospital stay. Emphasizes self reliance, experience, and preserving family harmony. Warns against overinvolvement and urges gradual independence for married daughters. Farm fires cause an average loss in the United States of $7,500 a day.
The Washington Letter argues the administration aims to amend the Neutrality Act, enabling embargoes and a move from strict neutrality toward a pro war stance. It warns this reverses long standing policy, risks war, and questions who should decide aggressor status. The piece calls for broad debate and Congress or the people to determine policy.
A State Department report notes a woman asked a court clerk if buying a passport would guarantee no war in Europe that summer. The clerk replied that there is no such guarantee.
Social notes report a tea-dansante at the Sholars home honoring Carolyn Henrietta Sholars and Alma Summers Potts from 4 to 7 p.m. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Potts and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sholars, with other local families noted.
Tia Rhodes grew up on a Oklahoma ranch and studied drama at Oklahoma City University and Pasadena Community Playhouse. She signed with Warner Bros without a screen test and starred in Secret Service of the Air avoiding typecasting as a western heroine. Born Ila Rae Curnutt in Eufaula Oklahoma she will be 20 next May 28 and stands five feet five inches tall weighing 112 pounds.
Douglas Fairbanks Sr returns to the movies as producer head of Fairbanks International under United Artists. The unit will supervise three 1939 films financed by a 2.5 million dollar initial capital from John Hay Whitney and associates, British interests led by Sir Adrian Baillie and Montagu Marks, and Swiss investors.
An article reviews why TB mortality remains high among 15 to 25 year olds, noting no link to dieting or fashion changes. Educated status shows no clear effect, while puberty-related physiological changes may be a factor. Early detection and school screenings urged to improve control. Before radium in the Canadian field, Belgian Congo supplied most radium at $70,000 per gram, later valued at $840,000 per ounce.
The western hemisphere now obtains the majority of its radium from Canada, drawing real supply from a deposit along the shores of Great Bear Lake. The shift strengthens regional access to the element used in medical and industrial applications.
New York announces the founding of the Screwballs of America a non political non sectarian club with a goal A Sense of Humor First meeting held in the catacombs of the Sixth Avenue subway site to attract attention Members include humorists and comedians Their aim a lighthearted deflation of stuffed shirts and for a laugh. Also features notes on Moriz Rosenthal golden jubilee performances at Carnegie Hall with witty anecdotes and a column about a misdirected fan letter to Mary Martin and the author’s apology for a humorous spoof.
A 16 year old Brooklyn youth Herbert Friedlander set an endurance record with a hand launched model glider staying aloft for 2 minutes and 58 seconds. The flight was timed and sent to the National Aeronautical Association for sanction.
Lions club at Hotel Frances honored members with 10 years or more of continuous Lionism. Emblems designated long service for Tom Adams, Philip Bernhardt, A. B. Clarkson, Hugh Davis, Benny Oakland, L. G. Hughes, F. L. Jones, Joe Kusin, L. P. Landry, Clifford Strauss, and Bob Ed Tucker. Additional members with previous 10-year emblems included W. H. Anders, J. K. Brothers, J. R. Burns, Sam Davis, Dr. P. L. Perot, and Courtney Oliver. Entertainment featured two saxophone solos by S C Wimbish with Lowey Jefferson at piano.
Across NBC WEAF WABC and NBC WJZ networks a dense array of time blocks, station codes, and regional notes outline programs from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Listings include Jack Armstrong and Tom Mix sketches, News periods, orchestras, vaudeville acts, and serialized dramas.
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