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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1940
Page
6
New Year's party ideas by Mrs Gaynor Maddox invite a lively, no holds barred tone for 1941. The piece offers a playful centerpiece plan including a snowman made from two wire ball frames and paste to cover the frames for a festive table decoration.
A historic menu lists breakfast with tomato juice oatmeal rye toast grapefruit coffee and milk. Lunch features potato and bacon soup hard rolls raw carrot sticks nut cupcakes tea and milk. Dinner offers a casserole of dried lima beans with meat sauce buttered broccoli date pudding lemon sauce coffee and milk.
Step by step guide for building a crepe paper snowman figure. It covers frame construction with white crepe paper, mucilage coating, lining with clear cells, assembling arms and mittens, crafting a mouth from white writing paper, and decorating the hat scarf and crown with red crepe paper and silver ribbon.
In Leipzig Germany a new fashion trend features ties made from salmon skin available in 24 colors. Reported advantages include easier care, with the material claimed to resist staining compared with cotton silk or wool ties.
A vivid home recipe touts a dark moist fruit cake full of seven candied peels and fruits. It highlights brown sugar spices rich flavor and a Spry shortening mix for easy quick preparation. The guide suggests four cakes totaling ten pounds and notes gifts and keepsake value.
J. H. Brunson was elected and installed master of the W. M. Baker Lodge No. 388 in a recent meeting at Mangham. Other officers named include A. J. Traweek senior warden M. D. Pee junior warden D. B. McKay treasurer W. C. Baker secretary Rev. Hearne chaplain J. E. Ellington senior deacon E. F. Reeves junior deacon Ike McConnell master of ceremonies A. B. Beavis and A. C. Brunson assessors.
A traditional fruit cake recipe mixing Spry, salt, spices, candied fruit, and nuts. Cream sugar with fat, beat yolks until pale, fold in whites, add flour and soda, combine with fruit mix, bake in a slow oven for four hours. Decorate with candied cherries and almonds for a 10 pound loaf.
Arthur Woods admitted to police that he entered Frenchies cafe at 108 North Second and stole $60 on Christmas morning. He said he took nickels from a cigarette machine and about $23 from a compartment, dropped a pocket knife, and gave the money to his sister in Ferriday. Police recovered $4 and linked fingerprints to the suspect. He is in Parish jail awaiting grand jury action on breaking and entering.
Hollywood reports Mickey Rooney headed the 1940 list of the ten highest earning movie stars according to the Motion Picture Herald. Bette Davis ranks ninth, Judy Garland is the only other actress in the top ten, with Gene Autry and Clark Gable also high.
Deputy Lowell Rountree found a dead duck on Kelly Lake with a saddled horse and shotgun on the bank. The body of cowboy Fred Dorrence was found in the water. Rountree, reconstructing the drowning, reports Dorrance shot the duck and rode his horse into the lake to retrieve it. The horse threw him into eight feet of water and returned to shore.
The state reports a booming late year in manufacturing and prospecting for rubber and shipyard work driven by navy contracts. New investments surpass 100 million dollars, while labor shortages touch cane fields and Alexandria camp projects. Crude oil output rises and retail auto sales grow, with tax and banking reforms shaping a cautious recovery.
New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman urged manufacturers of non essential consumer products to immediately shift to defense material production. In a letter to William S. Knudsen he asked the defense commission to mobilize the industry and apply full effort, noting some firms fail to participate due to misperceptions about defense needs.
An authoritative source says President Roosevelt will outline a plan to rapidly build many merchant ships to aid Britain as Nazi air and submarine attacks threaten its lifeline. The program may be announced in a fireside chat, with engines chosen to speed production and possible leasing or loaning of vessels.
Judge Solomon Thompson presided as defendants faced charges of intoxication driving and related offenses. Names include W. M. Harper, Murphy Kennedy, E H Livingston, Juanita Wyatt, Sam Cherry, W. A. Waddell, Odell Dowdy, Lamar Evans, Anna Howe, Clarence White, Norrie Howard, Robert L. Cummings, Joe Messina, and others. Penalties ranged from fines to days in jail, bonds posted, and a few acquittals or discharges.
In Brea California two Shetland ponies owned by Ernest Allen chew tobacco and nuzzle his clothing for it during feeding times, highlighting a curious animal habit observed on the property.
The American Marketing Association heard a prediction that chain grocers would enjoy a good year in trade at the association's annual meeting in Chicago on December 27.
How to throw a big party on a tight budget with simple ideas. A molded salad filled with chicken or fish salad stretches provisions while delivering flavor for the New Year celebration. Consider budget friendly, tasty accompaniments to elevate the occasion.
Breakfast includes tomato juice whole wheat griddle cakes molasses coffee and milk. Lunch features vegetable curry with rice bread and butter gingerbread tea and milk. Dinner offers shoulder pork chops mashed potatoes stewed tomatoes and onions lettuce salad prune pie coffee and milk.
The menu offers roasted meats suitable for slicing cold such as ham shoulder pork and lamb along with rolls cakes candies and coffee for a hearty supper serving six. The recipe provides a green salad mold with gelatin almonds olives pickles and chicken or crab salad filling and a spiced coffee service with orange numeral garlands and cinnamon clove aromatics.
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