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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1949
Page
4
Hollywood gossip weighs in on Quo Vadis likely being scrapped or delayed. M G M faced high production costs and Italy’s tempers with local crews, with experts fearing a white elephant unless costs drop. Rod Cameron trap tale and other notes mix into a broad Hollywood chatter column.
A fragmented OCR item lists hours and contact roles for a daily office, referencing a full business office editorial room and a managing editor. Details are garbled but imply scheduling and department contacts within a newspaper or similar publication.
Washington reports clash between Senator Hickenlooper and David Lilienthal over AEC turnover rates, with Lilienthal contesting higher figures. Hoover commission findings show annual federal turnover around 25 percent, 6.7 million departures in three years, and surveys of students and former workers reveal low interest in government careers due to pay, promotion, and development concerns.
Congress faces a July deadline to vacate the Capitol due to unsafe skylights and long-delayed repairs. The Senate will convene in the old chamber used from 1819 to 1857, with limited space and press access. The House plans to meet in the Ways and Means hearing room in the new office building, reducing bench space and activity but preserving air conditioning.
A New York peace and culture conference scene prompts debate on free information exchange. Western voices face a Kremlin led limit on Russian listeners as Voice of America and BBC push through a wall of Soviet broadcasts. Despite calls for freedom from Americans, Moscow bars visitors and censors news, creating an iron curtain.
A humorous narrator from New York outlines a lifelong wish to visit the city without a mile long shopping list. He details sample errands for Macy’s, Gimbels, curtains, stockings, a dye job, and Saks, noting price targets and shopping mayhem.
Angelo Patri argues that mentioning God in classrooms need not threaten separation of church and state. He contends that acknowledging divine influence in science and world affairs can enrich intellect and character, citing religious background and advocating broader inclusion in education.
The speaker recalls avoiding sports debates with old friends and instead seeks out Macy’s basement to join bargain hunters at the stocking sale. He reflects on discarding old lists during his return and notes the months after as dismal, preferring the bustle of shopping to quiet talk.
A collection of 30 life sized miniature rooms created by Mrs James Ward Thorne, with help from international artists, is shown in Washington to benefit the American Hospital at St Lo France. The displays, acquired by Thomas J Watson for IBM, include authentic details from period interiors and feature movable drawers curtains and blinds. Sponsored by American Aid to France with Gen Omar Bradley and Mrs Bradley as guests at the opening luncheon.
A compact Q and A page covers Bermuda’s status as a British island in the Atlantic, gorilla sleeping habits to avoid leopards, the 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Olympic sites, the 1949 Gettysburg address sale at $54,000 to a Havana buyer, debate over the first steamboat with Fulton credited for Clermont in 1807, and the lunar rainbow nature and rarity due to moonlight limits.
DeWitt Mackenzie and Gen. Lucius D. Clay warn that world war fears recede but the struggle between democracy and communism endures. They trace Communist influence in Germany and globally, noting Soviet control in the bloc and underground activity in the United States, and argue democracy must meet the challenge with concrete ideals.
Hal Boyle reflects on shifting notions of security in America from the urge for equal opportunity to a risk insured career. He cites Fortune magazine data on 1919 graduates preferring large companies, contrasts individualism with herd-like security, and argues lasting safety comes from self-improvement and inner peace rather than dollars or health.
Junior Red Cross members are invited to a picnic on Monday June 6 Reservations can be made by calling 6780.
POPULARVILLE Miss June 3 Tung oil producers eyed a parity price bill introduced by Representative Colmer to insure parity for tung oil. Marshall Ballard Jr secretary of the American Tung Oil Association said the bill was introduced yesterday and would add tung oil to a parity tariff on principal vegetable oils and fats. When wholesale tung oil price falls below parity the difference would be added to imports as a tariff.
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