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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
13
A Philippine banana plant yields Manila hemp used for strong marine rope, challenging common trade beliefs about rope sources and highlighting a surprising agricultural link in maritime supply.
Northwestern State College debaters clinched first in both senior men and senior women divisions and third in tournament sweepstakes at the East Central College Forensic tournament in Ada Oklahoma. Gill Blackburn Weldon Walker Benny Rayner earned firsts. Gerald Tilleux Mazie Dranguet took seconds. Walker added thirds in after-dinner speaking and story-telling. Poultry brings Kentucky farmers a gross of about 50 million dollars a year.
Recent improvements are expected to raise the effectiveness of polio vaccination in the future, signaling progress in disease prevention. The update highlights ongoing enhancements in delivery and coverage aimed at boosting immunity.
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission offers its 30 minute film Wildlife in Review free to groups statewide. Requests should be made two weeks in advance to the Division of Education and Publicity in New Orleans. The film covers migratory waterfowl alligators bears turkeys deer and various fish.
The 1956 cotton allotment for Catahoula parish is 12,445 acres, down 689.9 acres from 1955. Most farms will see an eight percent reduction from the 1955 allotment.
A sequence of property transfers records sales and mortgages in Monroe including Carrie Grayson to George Oswalt for lot 7 block 4 Wilson Williams addition at 3448 dollars and multiple transfers involving Humphries, Carter, Thrift, Williams, Peters, Lasuzzo, Smith, Poole, Drady, Lee, Pressley, Sherrouse Realty, Slocum, Carey, Jacobs, Vaughn Brossett, Holloway, Wallace, McGuire, Hearne and Greater Monroe Homes with prices from 400 to 18450 dollars and assorted mortgage assumptions.
A Southern Bell canvass for expanding rural facilities in Catahoula parish is nearly finished says district manager A. B. Kessler. About 140 applications have been received for telephones in rural areas including Meyers Bend Sicily Island road Manifest road Duty and Enterprise.
Mr and Mrs Ira Gates and their six children lost their Rocky Branch home Tuesday afternoon to a fire leaving them in a destitute state. Friends report the house was a total loss and call for donations of essential items via 5 1741.
Three Louisiana Tech economics faculty took part in the fifth annual economics forum at Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette. Dr. Paul T. Hendershot chaired a panel on Monetary Controls as a Means of Regulating Economic Activity. Dr. Kenneth R. Grubbs spoke on Resale Price Maintenance Laws and E. Carl Jones discussed Our Agricultural Surplus.
Marion civic club elects A. D. Ferguson president for the coming year with Daniel B. Green as vice president and C. W. Causey as secretary treasurer. Board of directors includes Zack Hodge and H. D. Green.
Alf Hallgren announced the 1956 March of Dimes kick off dinner for Ashley county workers at the Rose Inn on December 14. The event, sponsored by The Crossett Company and Rose Inn, will feature Mrs Louis K Hundley as speaker. Officials said 185 polio cases have been reported in Arkansas this year and urged Salk vaccination to reduce cases.
G Thomas Frazier of Monroe was elected treasurer at the Delta States Ice Association convention in Biloxi Mississippi. Other officers named included W L Wood Camden as president and W S Moss Baton Rouge as vice president. Three new directors were added: Guinn Gautier Pascagoula Tom Marks West Memphis Arkansas.
Brooks Jones Emmett Taylor and K S Thompson comprise the group. The club meets on the first and third Monday night in each month.
Dr. H. L. McCracken of Louisiana State University told a Grenada Mississippi audience that the American economy is not depression proof but is not as vulnerable as in 1929. He noted improvements since then and gave his outlook.
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