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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1946
Page
5
Rev. Guy Howard known as the Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks told a Louisiana Tech audience that America must return to Christian fundamentals and practice peaceful living or risk destruction. He warned of growing societal divisions by education, class and social lines.
An old advertisement claims nagging backache stems from tired kidneys and promotes Doan's Pills as a stimulant diuretic. It asserts kidneys remove acids and waste, and that products aid flushing waste from blood, promising relief with a long history of use.
Rev. Howard has spent 12 years walking about 4,000 miles annually to preach teach and aid the Ozark hill people. He works on a monthly $14 salary and uses income from his best seller and lectures for welfare efforts among the hills.
The second meeting of the Red Cross first aid instructors course for Boy Scout leaders is planned for tonight on the college library top floor. Instructor Alva Hoffman will lead, and central district scout leaders are urged to attend, announced Scout executive Floyd D. Huddleston.
Sheet Metal Works gains permit to extend a one story frame and sheet iron building at 411 North Fifth Street for a workshop and warehouse with cost not above 500 dollars and day labor. Alan West approved to remodel front of a one story concrete block building at 211 Louisville Avenue for Delta Motor Company cost not above 1000 dollars with day labor. Jesse Heard to supervise.
A school bus carrying students collided with an 8:15 passenger train in Arcadia resulting in a wrecked bus but no injuries. Driver L M Brantley, with 20 years of experience, did not see the oncoming train at a busy town crossing. The incident recalls a fatal accident at the same site four years ago and prompts a civic club drive for a traffic signal at the crossing.
The Big Four set six items for Moscow including German demilitarization denazification democratization and reparations reports from Berlin. They will study provisional political structures for Germany prepare a peace treaty and draft a disarmament pact while appointing deputies for London hearings on small nations. Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary discussed participation and final decisions.
The forum reached agreement on three international sessions with a Paris meeting set for February 10 to sign five satellite pacts. Byrnes and other foreign ministers may skip the Paris event, leaving open whether smaller allied nations will sign in Paris or later. Ratification can begin once signed by the big four and former enemy states, enabling the Senate submission by late February.
The California Company announced that its Lafourche swamp oil test eight miles east of Monroe was abandoned as unsuccessful. The Breece Lumber Company unit No. 1 yielded no production after a Schumberger electric test at 3 271 feet. No plan for further exploration in east Ouachita parish was stated.
The Monroe News Star reports Molotov and a Soviet delegation discussed Germany during a morning radio broadcast. A class toured Monroe on a school bus while the talk covered international requests to be heard on Germany. Nations listed include Belgium
Sixty two Calhoun seventh and eighth graders visit city plant facilities as part of an educational field trip. The visit aims to show students how local utilities operate and support urban services.
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