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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
6
President Truman returns from a Christmas visit to Independence to confront labor and economic crises. He plans a state of the nation message to the new Congress and will submit budget and employment reports. Delegates urge clear legislation on Wagner Act reforms and labor policy.
Washington dispatch outlines the January 3 1949 opening of the 80th Congress. The Senate will be called to order by Secretary Leslie Biffle with 37 vacancies and 59 members present. New members will be sworn in and Bailey's death noted before Umstead of Durham takes oath later. The House will mirror procedures as 453 non sworn members elect a speaker, likely Martin of Massachusetts, with officers then sworn in.
In Fayetteville two Catholic priests died in a rectory fire at St. Joseph's Church. The Rev. Charles A. Mc Cauley 42 and the Rev. Francis X. Dollarton 55 perished on the second floor after a blaze swept the frame residence. The housekeeper and a guest escaped. Father Mc Cauley hailed from Malvern Pennsylvania and Father Dollarton from Philadelphia.
At noon Thursday engine company 3 answered an alarm and put out a grass fire in the 1700 block of Park Avenue.
Mrs Laura K Patterson 66 died at her Swartz home Thursday morning. Funeral held at Lock Arbor Church Thursday at 4 pm with interment in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Herbert Steed J B Boone A C Hare F L O Neal R T McQuiston and Fred Hill honorary pallbearers were friends of the family. She leaves two sons two sisters and three brothers.
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