Louisiana Joins 1 Percent Sales Tax Shift
Baton Rouge bill signs into law converting a 2 percent luxury tax to a 1 percent general sales tax across the state. Governor Lewh signature places the levy at midnight starting the new fiscal year. Merchants must absorb or pass the tax. projected revenue supports welfare programs. Legislative bodies plan Fourth of July adjournment with reconvening Tuesday.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Lewhe
State Department of Revenue
Louisiana
Federal relief drive in full swing to aid 8.5 billion fiscal year
The Roosevelt administration launches a major relief push totaling about 8.5 billion dollars for the new fiscal year. WPA will expand to aid up to 3 million people with 1.425 billion allotted over eight months. PWA and other agencies plan substantial outlays as unemployment nears 10.5 million.
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Army and Navy
Public Works Departments
Treasury
Administration
Federal Reserve Board
WPA
PWA
Veterans blame Longstreet for defeat at Gettysburg reunion
At Gettysburg 75th reunion two aged veterans fault General James Longstreet for delaying Pickett’s charge and allowing Meade to deploy 22,000 fresh Union troops. One says Longstreet betrayed them. another says he would have won with earlier help. Longstreet’s widow defends him, praising his judgment.
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Ettysburg
James E. Longstreet
Longstreet
O. R. Gilette
Shreveport
Pickett
Meade
Oody
Lee
Richmond
Charles S. Riggin
Vaughan
N. C
Rhodes
Gilette
Sloldiers
Seven Men Die in Rock Fall at Praco Mine Alabama
Seven miners were killed and several others injured when a rock fall trapped workers 3,000 feet underground at the Praco coal mine near Birmingham Alabama. Rescue crews from Birmingham and surrounding areas rushed to the site as officials reported two injured men brought out of the affected section and demanded additional doctors and helpers.
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Birmingham
Ala
Praco
Alabama
C. E. Elgin
We Rock Ledge
Elgin
Birr
Hillise
Budge Wins All England Title Again at Wimbledon
Red-headed Don Budge defeated Henry Wilfred Bunny Austin 6 1 6 0 3 to capture the All England singles championship for the second straight year. Rain delayed play as Budge led 4 3 in the third set before closing out in the ninth game. This victory caps Budge’s run of major titles, completing the set of British American Australian and French championships and aiding America's Davis Cup rebound.
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Wimbledon
Eng
Don Budge
Henry Wilfred
Bunny) Austin
England
Austin
Bunny
Budge
United States
America
Wimbleden
Increase in Building Noted in Monroe June Permits
Monroe building activity rose in June with 34 permits totaling 44 840 dollars, up from 21 permits valued at 28 618 in May. Six new residences, eleven small dwellings, and sixteen alterations and repairs were approved, with no commercial permits issued in May and expectations of further PWA orders.
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Monroe
Sam H. Awl
Mr. Awl
Awl
PWA
Both Houses Adopt Resolutions Condemning Orleans Outbreaks
The article notes a federal court hearing in New Orleans on a CIO campaign and police actions. The Louisiana legislature in Baton Rouge adopted a concurrent resolution condemning alien emissaries and agitators connected to the outbreak context.
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Orleans
Baton Rouge, la
Louisiana
Ouachita School Board Adopts Budget And Plans
A tentative budget of 525 000 dollars for next year was adopted by the Ouachita parish school board. An ordinance set the three mill constitutional tax and four mill special tax for 1958 59. The superintendent said funds from the government are received and gymnasiums will be built with grants. Additional negro schools are authorized at five sites costing about 20 000 dollars.
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Ouachita Parish
T. O. Brown
Parish
Fondale School
Sterlington
Okaloosa
Watson
Providing Jobs Costs Nation Less Than Allowing Mass Unemployment
WPA official John A. Kingsbury argues it costs the nation more to leave the unemployed idle than to hire them on federal projects. He cites fourteen billion spent on work and two hundred billion lost by not employing. Aubrey Williams notes relief as pivotal in Depression policy.
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Seattle
John A. Kingsbury
WPA
Washington, D. C
United States
National Conference of Social Work
Paul Kellogg
New York
Kingsbury
Aubrey Williams
Oro
Williams
Roosevelt
Parish Farm Agent Arrives in Ouachita Parish
David L. Bornman Jr., newly appointed parish agricultural agent for Ouachita, assumed duties Friday in the courthouse offices. He comes from Washington parish where he served 3.5 years and previously taught vocational agriculture at Gilbert and led Centerville High School’s agricultural department.
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David L. Bornman, Jr
Quachita Parish
E. R. Strahan
Mr. Strahan
Bornman
Agricultural Extension Department
Baton Rouge
Ouachita Parish
Washington Parish
Gilbert
Centerville
St. Mary's Parish
Louisiana State University
Mr. Bornman
Flying Fortress Arrives for Navigation Training in New Orleans
The four motored bomber landed at Shushan airport at 4 30 p m on a navigation training run from Brownsville Texas after departing Miami at 1 26 a m EST. Major Stanley Umstead commands a six man crew and reports the mission proceeded in great style as the aircraft continues its Gulf crossing training.
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New Orleans
Flying Fortress
Shushan
Brownsville
Tex
Miami
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Stanley Umstead
Martin Takes Presidency of Stock Market
William McChesney Martin becomes the stock exchange’s first paid president at 34, pledged to treat the NYSE as a public service. He succeeds amid a push for closer cooperation with the federal government led by SEC Chairman William O Douglas, and aims to continue round table talks on market problems.
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Martin
Stock Market
New York
New York Stock Exchange
William McChesney Martin
William O Douglas
Securities and Exchange Commission
Bill Martin
Exchange
Douglas
Wall Street
St. Louis
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
St Louis
A. G. Edwards and Sons
The
Stock Exchange
Almont
Roosevelt wears bodyguard hat on New York motor trip
President Roosevelt wore his body guard Tom Qualters’s floppy hat during a motor trip to New York. He searched for his Panama hat before leaving Hyde Park for two speeches at the world fair grounds.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Roosevelt
New York
Tom Qualters
Kagt
Turkey gobbler hatches 22 young, 1 egg left to go
Mrs. Mary Federchuck of Stafford Springs says her turkey tom hatched 22 poults a month ago and now has one more brood under him. In San Francisco the Marina fire station dedication ran smoothly until the master of ceremonies diverged from the script.
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Stafford Springs. Conn
Mary Federchuck
San Francisco
Marina Fire Station
James Cale
Cale
New Model Home to Open Sunday in Monroe
Monroe's new model duplex apartment home at North Fifth and K streets will be completed and open for public inspection Sunday. The project is sponsored by Silagle-Johnson Lumber company JohnManville and the Federal Housing administration with cooperation from local builders. Final finishing touches and furniture installation wrap up Saturday night.
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Monroe
North Fifth
K Streets
Silagle-Johnson Lumber Company
Johns-Manville Company
Federal Housing Administration
South Survey on Economics to Study Southern Conditions
President Roosevelt sacks the national emergency council to report on southern economic conditions. The success of the survey will decide whether similar studies are held in New England the industrial East the Far West the farm belt and other regions with common interests. An advisory southern committee will meet next Tuesday to prepare the study using data supplied by federal experts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
South
New England
Industrial East
Far Wear
Farm Belt
Lowell Mallett
South Inn
Mellett
Carl Bailey
Arkettas
Lawyers
F. of L
C. SO
Abolition of Devil's Island Prison Colony by French government
Foreign affairs writer DeWitt MacKenzie notes Paris will abandon the notorious French Guiana settlement including Devil's Island. He recalls harsh past punishments but says reforms in the administration changed conditions after 1925 and that the era of literal torture is in the distant past.
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Devil's Island
New York
Edgar Alen
French Guiana
Penel
Indians Find Body Near Sandia Peak in Search for Missing McCormick
Indian climbers and U.S. Forest Service crews found a body on a cliff north of Sandia Peak confirming the death of Medill McCormick, son of the publishing family, after days of effort and renewed hope by his mother Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. The discovery ended a long, intensive search in the mile high mountains near Albuquerque.
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Albuquerque
Indiana
Medill McCormick
McCormick
Ruth Hanna McCormick Sima
Tlinow
Chicago Tribune
Medill
Sandia Prok
Johnny
Merchants Outline Plan for One Cent Sales Tax
A Friday morning meeting of the merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce, with representatives from all retail lines, discussed the new one cent general sales tax effective July 1. A fair schedule was adopted outlining tax rates by sale amount, from no tax on low charges to higher cents on larger purchases, with specific brackets for various ranges.
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Chamber of Commerce
Tate
July Branded Slaughter Month Warns Public Health Service
Washington reports the Public Health Service labeling July a month of slaughter urging caution especially on Independence Day. It cites 10.9 thousand deaths and 1 million disabling accidents in July last year, with fireworks causing three deaths and about 1,200 injuries on the Fourth.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Independence
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