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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1940
Page
8
Office of Dean C C Rabt states that applicants must be 19 to 26 years old, completed one year of college work or two years if not enrolled, and be registered at the college. Applications are available at the office. New class begins about Jan 15 and ends June 15. primary class limited to 30 and secondary class to 10. Timber wolves have been trained to pull sleds.
The Ouachita Parish Red Cross Chapter will ship a second quota of knitted wear including sweaters skirts dresses mufflers and caps to the Red Cross warehouse in New Jersey for direct sending to England. Mrs Holstein urges women to knit and collect yarn at the old Central Savings Bank building for the next quota and notes loyal volunteers who aided the first consignments will likely continue their service.
Dave Silverstein, a prominent IOCS merchant, on Monday received his commission as boxing commissioner for the Fifth congressional district from Governor Sam H. Jones. The Louisiana State Athletic Commission, affiliated with the state safety department and the National Boxing Association, announced the action.
The West Monroe city council enacted a rigid liquor ordinance carrying a maximum penalty of nine days imprisonment and a $300 fine. The ordinance, extended by a state charter amendment, replaces the former limit of 30 days and a $100 fine.
Friends of Henry Castle grand master of the 1. O. O. F. report he was moved from St. Francis sanitarium to his home at 414 Glenmar avenue where his condition is greatly improved following treatment.
The British cruiser Berwick repelled a powerful German surface raider during a Christmas morning convoy engagement. The 10,000-ton ship damaged the raider and sank the 204-ton Baden, while one convoy vessel was lightly damaged. Berlin claimed greater losses elsewhere.
Bids opened Monday for a four room frame school building for colored students in the Booker Washington addition. Ouachita Parish School Board may award the contract at the Friday meeting. Superintendent T O Brown says the new facility is badly needed as classes now meet in a Negro church nearby. A $35000 brick veneer gym at Calhoun High School is being built, contracted to Green Haynes and due for completion in three to four months.
Mrs Verige M Cobb of 26 South Riverfront was injured in a motorcycle accident near Coleman and South Third streets. She was reported improving at St Francis Sanitarium with general contusions and two broken bones in her left foot after the Sunday 1 30 p m crash.
A wooden building in Easton Maine burned early today killing six people. Five of the dead were siblings, with three others escaping the flames.
A list of individuals in West Monroe and Monroe Louisiana names addresses and care details for questionnaire mailing on board 2 726 v. Numerous residents at multiple street addresses and Route boxes appear with colored notation and care facilities or employers indicated. Names include Morgan McClain Seameon Alphert Carter Allen Chester Gilbert Ervin Simpson I C Horton Curtis Crawford Doyle Bob Eubank Forest Frank McDonal Keith Krady Crews Jeffrey Holmes Walter Hodge Sid R Bennett Edward Marion Hill Wayne Joseph McDonald Arthur Walter William Louis Mitchell Jr Carl Jordan Pete Oliver Holcomb Lawson Awlias Taylor Melvin L Williams and others with addresses in Calhoun West Monroe and Monroe Louisiana.
With 16 members, Boy Scout Troop 28 of Monroe has been reregistered for 1941. Olan H. Black, secretary of the Ouachita Valley Boy Scout Council, announced. The troop is sponsored by the Stubbs Memorial Bible class of the Presbyterian church. W. L. Dean Jr. is scoutmaster, with committeemen W. B. Bowman J. C. Stovall J. F. Hardin Lee Hodges W. B. Matthews John Atkinson and Mr. Black. Members include Johnny Barry Danny Bradford Jack Gatlin James M. Hamilton Jack Hardin Robert L. Hardin Eugene Wridges Jack Howse John R. Humble Howard Hunter Will Matthews Neill Matthews Joseph Mickel Tommy Lanaridge and Richard B. Stewart.
Black man Elmore Getret was jailed Monday on a $1000 bond after Monroe police arrested him Friday at the request of West Monroe authorities. Officers say Beasley and another man tried to stop Getret as he drove recklessly, chased him to Drew School, where he pulled a public safety item and threatened to shoot.
Monroe firemen located three hunters after two out of town runs Sunday night. Dr. F. C. Shelton of 2609 South Grand was found five miles out on Milhaven road. Jack Meehan and Ray Hodges of Monroe were found later in Lafourche swamp on the Winnsboro road. A fire at the Tenth district colored Baptist school on Ninth and Texas streets caused little damage. A grass fire on Spurgeon drive was reported incendiary.
Miss Lillian Collins registrar of voters announces Ouachita parish registration for 1941 starts Thursday and continues through the year for all voters. A new state law requires all voters to register in 1941 and urges state parish and city employees to register promptly.
Dr and Mrs Prentice Gray Jr welcome a daughter at St Francis sanitarium. Mr and Mrs L C Green announce a son at St Francis sanitarium. Mr and Mrs I W Ray of Monroe announce a son Bobbie Iley at St Francis. Mr and Mrs J T Ryan of Monroe announce a daughter at St Francis Sanitarium. Mr and Mrs T B Southard announce a son Thomas Coleman Southard at Vaughan Wright Bendel ic. William S Farish of Standard Oil (New Jersey) urges a $30 million expansion to produce 100 octane aviation gasoline for defense and emergencies.
The New York cast presents Alice in Wonderland at Nev ile High auditorium on Tuesday January 7 at 4 00 p m The Barkdull Faulk PTA sponsors a gift drawing with a White Rabbit prize for the holder of the lucky number The play blends whimsy with satire appealing to both children and adults.
Mrs Roy Farmer 27 died at her Swartz home early Monday. Funeral at residence Tuesday 3 p.m. Rev Tom S Southard Baptist pastor officiating Interment Springhill cemetery Mulhearn Funeral Home in charge Survived by husband and one daughter Hottie Marie and parents Mr and Mrs M O Thompson with brothers and sisters Mrs Ray Royal Cargas La B J Thompson Fort Benning Ga Enos Thompson Hawaii Mrs J C White Ernest Earlene and Dottie Thompson all of Swartz
Funeral plans incomplete for 79 year old Mrs. Nannie Philpot Webb who died Saturday at her son’s home on Cypress street West Monroe. Services will be conducted by Dixie Funeral Home with relatives arriving from the west. She leaves two sons W A Webb of Alexandria and G R Webb of West Monroe and two daughters Mrs B E Snoody and Mrs A C Lecendre both in Arizona.
Across the nation state legislatures brace to shape defense measures. Governors must approve actions, with home guard plans and uniform defense laws under consideration in multiple states. New Mexico, Michigan, New York push model bills. Arizona, California, Colorado redraw lines and curb sabotage. New governors include Osborn, Adkins, Hurley, Broughton, Clark. Legislative convening dates span January to April.
Philadelphia report shows fourth graders form racial and wartime preferences. A study of 20 nationalities by Dr. H. Meher at a St Louis psychology service center for the AAAS finds Germany fell from about fourth or fifth to second, Italy dropped, while China rose to seventh due to Hitler and Nazi policies.
Fossil teeth found in Oe Oe yea' were deciphered today as added evidence suggesting humans descended from an early primate. Milo Hellman of Columbia said the teeth belonged to the mouseithecanthropus from Java, a debated possible ancestor. He argued the dentition supports Darwin on human origins and inheritance of dental patterns from fossil apes like Dryopithecus.
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