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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
10
The committee voiced unalterable opposition to a budget proposal that would place municipal, school, levee boards and state police juries under centralized state administration in Baton Rouge. Mayor Bernstein warned the measure would strip elected representatives of their duties. Legislative committee plans to voice opposition during hearings on municipal bills in Baton Rouge.
The Mississippi River Fuel receivers plan a compressor station at Perryville with four 1,250 hp units and a foundation for a fifth. An auxiliary building will house a 165 hp generator, plus meters and stations. The facility will be part of Southern Natural Gas system serving 750,000 people across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. A seven-home employee village and 75 construction workers are planned. Whittelsey, ex Ford, Bacon and Davis, leads construction. John Williams from Birmingham will be auditor.
Baton Rouge June 1 Preservation of Louisiana s old state house and beautification of the old capitol grounds is proposed in a bill by Rep George W Lester West Feliciana. It calls for a 30000 appropriation from the general fund and a new Old Capitol Park Commission to oversee repairs. The commission would include the governor Baton Rouge mayor and leaders from the Louisiana Historical Society the state museum United Daughters of the Confederacy the Daughters of the American Revolution and three others chosen by the group.
Labor Administrator Johnson discusses grounds for invoking federal bargaining laws, notes no White House talks with steel leaders, compares to automobile settlements, and supports the 25 percent production curtailment as justified to prevent lay-offs while denying a 30 hour week due to price fears. Pope Joan reference ends the note.
God has been good to His people in recent weeks and calls for active service. This Sunday marks the first Sunday of June as the year’s half passes, urging readiness for a future halt. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Earnest Bacle superintendent. Morning worship at 10:50 a.m. Pastor speaks on What is our Hearing. 8B. Y. P. U. at 6:55 p.m. Evening worship at 8:00 p.m. Other services follow the regular weekly times.
Final plans are made for a Sunday morning campaign at Immanuel Baptist Church with an evangelist arriving from Selma Alabama. The event includes Sunday school and B Y P U training, nightly prayer services at the Tabernacle, and preaching by Rev Starnes. The month long meetings feature Rev Thomas Reagan and wife leading training and soul winning.
Thus F Jett minister delivers a sermon and church life notice urging attendance. The schedule lists Sunday church school at 9 30 a m morning worship at 10 50 a m communion at 11 30 a m youth group at 6 45 p m and evening worship at 7 45 p m. Board meeting Monday at 7 45 p m and church night Wednesday at 7 45 p m. Also a note on alcohol and sunburn from the Berlin Institute of Research.
Contractors T. L. James and Cochran Paving set to finish dirt work this week on two gaps in the Monroe Sterlington road and begin concrete pouring next week. About two miles remain unpaved from the original laying, delayed by prior requirements.
The contract notes about 15,000 square yards of dirt were moved as part of the fills to settle. The statement outlines the scope of earthwork completed within the project timeline and contract terms.
Mrs. Perry of Fairbanks received emergency treatment at St. Francis sanitarium Friday morning for severe cuts on both hands after a beer bottle she held exploded. Shards of glass flew in various directions and some fragments struck the ceiling before she was treated and returned home.
In Houston on June 1 an unidentified elderly man and woman were found dead in a small grove near Harrisburg Boulevard. Investigators suspect a death by own action pact. A satchel by the bodies held sedatives, cotton, a spoon and a glass. the bottles carried Meyenberg drug store labels from LaGrange.
A colorful contest listing prizes from a Duesenberg Racer to bikes radios and dolls. It notes 50 grand prizes with top rewards for girls and boys and says all participants coloring ten Sally Myles pictures according to rules win a prize.
Prizes awarded for best colorings of Sally helping coax dinner. First prizes for boys and girls are Union Adjustable Ballbearing Skates. Second prizes for both sexes are two Capitol theater tickets. Send picture to News-Star before June 8 to be eligible.
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