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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1948
Page
6
In a Manhattan park near the Hudson a boy and a girl share a tense moment as a liner chugs away. Soldiers say goodbye to home while a weary city swirls around a sunlit bench. The scene ends with the boy aided by a girl who holds his remnants of battle worn life.
Carl W Ryman 27 Port Arthur Texas fined 100 dollars and ordered 100 days in jail for drunken driving by Judge W M Harper. Joe Reddick 38 Rayville fined 80 dollars and 75 days jail for speeding and running a red light. Melvin Thomas 24 Monroe Negro fined 57 50 and 50 days jail for drunken and disorderly conduct and fighting. Pane Whitt 43 Monroe forfeited 25 bond for fighting. Sidney Redgly 20 1115 Washington street jailed 60 days for drawing and displaying a dangerous weapon. Ruth Covington Gaw and four others cited for drunkenness and disorderly conduct with fines 7 50 each.
Baton Rouge Louisiana delegates at the 103rd annual Louisiana Methodists conference were urged to avoid pessimism despite looming doom for civilization. Ray Nichols of Vernon Texas, president of the general board of Lay Activities, cautioned that pessimism is unwarranted by history. About 20 delegates joined ministerial training classes as preparations neared a session by Bishop J. W. Ernst Sommer of Germany. The event, with 488 ministers and lay delegates, is hosted at Louisiana State University campus and concludes Sunday.
Washington reports Congress races to complete work by June 19 ahead of conventions. While 52 minor bills pass, major fights endure on civil rights and displaced persons. Southern Democrats oppose the 200000 DP intake. Eastland and Pepper debate. balanced party lines blur in a split nation. Money was first milled to deter fraud and coin wear.
Canberra June 4 A high cabinet source said Australia will end the current fiscal year with a deficit of about 150 million dollars between earnings and expenditures The cabinet set the dollar budget for 1948 1949 at about 63 million pounds while the previous year’s authorized total was 80 5 million pounds actual expenditures exceeded the limit and raised the shortfall.
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