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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1939
Page
4
A Dies committee moment warns against rumor and fear. Citizens should demand sources and motives, asking who says so and where information comes from. The piece favors reading newspapers for open, fact checked reporting and urges critical thinking.
A school prize winner urges all adults and children to heed match and smoking dangers. The article cites fires from matches and smoking as leading causes, causing deaths and vast property loss. It calls for proper disposal, avoiding bed with a cigarette, and careful ash handling to prevent preventable fires.
The piece notes that marketing cooperatives transformed farming by adhering to sound business principles and strong management. It cites failures due to poor financing, inexperienced leadership, lack of producer support, or straying into noncore fields like purchasing. Success rests on staying true to core marketing goals.
An oddly phrased clipping mixes a nostalgic reflection by Estella Christina Freeman with a hostile note about liquor tax in bars and a job ad. It cites a stenographer wanted with 75 wpm and a weekly $15 wage, asking for a raise to $15.25. The items read like a garbled facade of midcentury paper humor and classifieds.
A verse about spring with birds flowers and bone eating dogfish. Germany restricts cream on strawberries and butter rations. A jab about dictatorship and a remark on dollars moving workers. Elmer Twitchell boasts his dollars are active and fast.
A humorous wartime verse extols Argentine corned beef for sailors and starches, praising hash as a better break. It notes laboratory work at Massachusetts State College summer school and Bucknell golf as part of a sports course, and asks which college offers a degree in kite flying.
A mother asks how to keep a fifteen year old daughter at home as she seeks independence. Patri notes teens seek growth and choice, advising parents to adjust discipline and give a voice in clothes and education. He argues mothers must accept maturity and guide development while avoiding treating children as perpetual infants. Send for his booklet Obedience with ten cents to New York address.
The Interior Department eyes a cheaper Antarctic expedition under Captain Richard Black with Admiral Byrd backing the effort. Black, Byrd's associate on earlier ventures, seeks congressional approval and use of government ships and planes to cut costs. He's a University of North Dakota graduate who has long served Canton and Enberbury island operations and was recalled from Honolulu in February to develop the plan.
Postmaster J T Bryant reports Monroe's post office revenue for January through May 1924 totals 40085 22 dollars, up 4752 27 from 1923, signaling solid city growth. Also notes weddings social events and Cumberland Telephone Co construction with 15 workers on West Monroe plant project costing about 30000 dollars. completion expected in two months.
Rev I C Pounds head of Seventh Day Adventist work in Arkansas and Louisiana, based in Little Rock, spends Monday in Monroe for a conference with local pastor Dr Verne Kelsey. Pounds has many Monroe friends from previous tenure. Kelsey plans a short Ozarks vacation and Mrs Kelsey will visit relatives in Nashville Tennessee.
Frank Bernard, a radio performer, apologized after singing a song mentioning submarines that sink on Saturday night. The BBC faced complaints for broadcasting the line as the nation mourned nine deaths on the sunken submarine Thetis.
George Meeske, 41, fell from a three story apartment building in Coffeyville Kansas and was impaled on a 2x4 scaffold brace. Physicians needed two hours to remove the plank from his abdomen and chest. His condition is critical. The report notes that the first six cylinder cars were introduced in America in 1905.
A health piece explains how intense boxing drains red blood cells and how the body regenerates them. It notes average red cell counts for men and women, white cell roles, blood volume in fat versus thin people, and how exercise concentrates blood and improves circulation when the heart functions well.
The Louisiana State Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association opened its annual convention in Alexandria with a Twin Cities delegation including Louis Peters and Mrs Peters Tom Mulhearn and Robert Mulhearn among others. A dummy in a new car tested windshield vision using two electric light bulbs for eyes.
Hollywood chatter notes that MGM and Father Flanagan see a backlash from the Boys Town film as donations fall, while Flanagan explains the emergency and MGM fulfills its pledges. The column also cites industry tidbits about stars and a Shirley Temple trailer idea.
Lawrence Tibbett arrived in New York from Hollywood amid anecdotes about a gun tied to his family history. His father, Bakersfield sheriff Bert Tibbett, once killed the outlaw Jim McKinney with a six shooter, a gun later given to the singer. The piece also notes a hair shortage in Europe affecting toupee makers and a burless show story involving Jerry Wald.
A polished gelatin mold delights the eye and palate. Dip the mold briefly in hot water to loosen evenly then turn it side to side to free the edges. Invert onto a service plate and rinse the mold with cold water before unmolding.
Radio Eastern schedules adjust for CST subtract one hour and MT two hours daylight shifts plus last minute network corrections. Programs span science news music news sports talk dramas and dance orchestras with numerous show titles and performers listed across time slots from 6:00 to 12:00 am including Amos & Andy and Lone Ranger finales.
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