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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1955
Page
7
A humorous feature describes a Junior Editor figure ready for New Year celebrations. It includes assembling a cardboard cutout, coloring, and attaching movable arms. Readers are invited to submit ideas to Junior Editors with a $10 prize for accepted concepts from Violet Moore Higgins AP Newsfeatures.
The Army adds an incentive to attract medical personnel by reducing the minimum time in grade for promotion by one year for dentists and physicians. Promotions remain contingent on space in the next rank, with delays only from lack of available slots. The move follows flat 100 dollar extra pay and automatic first lieutenant commissions for medical officers.
The Army plans to raise the rank of one in nine physicians and dentists to the next grade by June 30 1956. About 800 promotions are expected. The move aims to attract career doctors and recognize the lengthy training before commission. Major Nial can be contacted via the newspaper for service problems with a stamped self addressed envelope and 20 cents.
The Catholic Popular Republican Movement led by Robert Lecourt proposes a joint program for the new National Assembly focusing on Algeria reforms, constitutional stability, a supra national European atomic community, and social reform. He invites all parties except Communists and extreme right wingers to meet after the January 2 elections as the new Assembly begins January 19.
The Vicks line introduces a new wonder drug nasal spray named with cetamium and gramicidin plus antihistamine. Advertisers claim it lets you breathe as if the cold had gone and aids sleep, from the makers of Vicks VapoRub.
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