Teachers Can Take Courses At Northeast Junior College
Northeast Junior College will offer refresher courses for teachers not regularly teaching or out of practice. Louisiana State University extension division, led by Dr. Marion B. Smith, offers Education 171-E and Education 163-E to meet current needs and prep for regu lar positions. Courses run Tuesdays and Thursdays, two hours weekly for 12 weeks, three semester hours credit, cost 10 dollars. Registration June 4 and 5, with a small late fee for late entry.
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Northeast Junior College
General Extension Division
Louisiana State University
Marion B. Smith
Small Trash Fire Reported at Dixie and Dick Taylor Streets
Fire companies 2 and 4 responded at 10:30 am Thursday to a trash fire at Dixie and Dick Taylor streets. The blaze was quickly extinguished with no property damage reported.
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Dixie
Dick Taylor
Ruth Shops celebrates second year with fur collection sale
Ruth Shops at 306 DeSiard street marks its second anniversary under proprietor I W Jaffe. The air cooled store offers a large fur selection and fall winter merchandise with $10 deposits to reserve fur pieces. The piece notes wartime style restrictions and mentions Sicily as a sulfur source for the Axis.
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Ruth Shops
DeSiard Street
I. W. Jaffe
Ruth
Milady
Monroe
Kursk recaptured in Russian winter offensive drives
Soviet forces retook Kursk and Belgorod during the winter drive, as the war front shifted across the Donets basin. Reports note German assault operations near Kursk and heavy air attacks, with Russian claims of rail and supply strikes at key junctions. Finnish broadcasts claim losses on both sides in clashes east of Suausari and at Kotka, while Kursk’s strategic value looms in the Ukraine conflict. The piece ties in with broader claims of air supremacy and the ongoing battle in the region.
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Kursk
Associated Press
Berlin
Sevsk
Suuarsaari
Kotka
Belgorod
Kharkov
Donets
Ukraine
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Pravda
Kuban
Planes replacing Burma Road as aerial supply route
Washington reports that cargo planes from India are delivering army goods direct from China, totaling about 40 percent of the Burma road's prior trucking volume. In a month or so they will carry nearly two thirds of the old monthly average, signaling virtual replacement of the Burma road for military value though its loss is keenly felt and its return is deemed vital to the Allies.
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Washington
Himalayas
Burma
China
India
United Nations
Edsel Ford Estate Bequeaths Ford Stock To Ford Foundation
The will of Edsel Bryant Ford filed for probate states most Ford Motor stock goes to the Ford foundation, likely minimal inheritance taxes. The estate may total about 200 million dollars, with the remainder split equally among Eleanor Clay Ford and the Ford offspring. Mrs Eleanor Clay Ford is named executrix.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Foundation
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Ford
Eleanor Clay Ford
Henry Ford I
Benson Ford
Walter Buri Ford I
William Clay Ford
Newspapers in Key Position in War Effort
Washington June 3 News papers occupy a key position in the total war effort a special report of the American Association of Teachers of journalism said today News is more necessary than ever in time of crisis The report issued through the United States office of education declared It is necessary for the proper functioning of a democracy and it is necessary for morale The journalism teachers were told that their instructions also instill in youth discipline and skill two of the important requirements for training the armed forces The report was prepared by Dr Frank Luther Mott University of Missouri Herschel M Colbert Grinnell Iowa college and W Emerson Beck of Colgate University Hamilton New York
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Washington
American Association of Teachers of Journalism
United States Office of Education
Frank Luther Mott
University of Missouri
Herschel M. Colbert
Grinnell
Iowa) College
W. Emerson Beck
Colgate University
Hamilton
New York
Lake Providence Scout Troop Seeks National Registration
Scout troop 25 of Lake Providence sponsored by the Rotary club has recently applied for re registration with the national Boy Scout headquarters in New York.
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Lake Providence
Rotary Club
National
Boy Scout
New York
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Catania
Sicily
Charles Muirhead
George W. Rundell
E. P. Schneider
Mark H. Brown
J. S. Pittman
J. H. Guenard
G. C. Whit
S.M. A
Similac
Epsom Salts
Magnesia
Burns
Rexall
Ayer
Rubinstein
Miner's
ELKAY
Griffin
Sterto
LUX Beauty Soap
Yardley
Blue Jay
Alka Seltzer
Tampax
Arrid
Panamas
Swaggers
Nadas
Sum
Mery
Seersucker
Chambray
Batiste
Bemberg
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