Louisiana House Debates Gas Tax Plan and School Funds
Baton Rouge reports detail Senate cooperation to raise wellhead gas prices, plus House committee votes on New Orleans charter reports. Lawmakers discuss a substitute sales tax for education, potential living wages, and a $9,000,000 education funding plan while resisting new tax increases.
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Baton Rouge
Ambrose Smith
House Committee On
New Orleans
House
Joe Blasi
House Journal
W. J. Cleveland
Acadia
Fred Heintz
Heintz
Ways and Means Committee
State Department
Ivy Hair
Rapides Parish
Carl Close
C. H. Downs
John R. Hunter
Rapides
Allen Dam
Black Lake Fish and Game Preserve
Natchitoches Parish
11Th Judicial District
DeSoto
Sabine
Vernon Parishes
Essae M. Culver
Louisiana Library Commission
Hollywood Gossip Moments and Celebrity Conduct Tales
Hollywood columnist recalls celebs handling temptations and rumors with humor and restraint. Notes Basil Rathbone’s divorce letters to Neil and Rita Hayworth’s name dispute with Rita Haywood. Includes anecdotes from Loretta Young and a gag about a “quickie” film expose. concludes with Gypsy Rose Lee on glamour.
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Basil Rathbone
Neil Hamiltons
Hollywood
Loretta Young
Ramona
Ralph Forbes
Ruth Chatterton
George Brent
Nuclear blast fear and trivia from a past era
A compact Q A list covers atomic radiation effects and medical outcomes, a note on Japan’s wartime tests, a proposed national flower, parliamentary customs, Transylvania’s size, South Tyrol naming, Pribilof Islands seals, 1941 motor year, lire value, and Burns authorship.
Broadcast of Bikini test could sponsor a soap opera event
The piece argues for a sponsor for Operation Crossroads broadcast with dramatic buildup. It debates who would pay and how to handle the presentation, noting unknowns about sound, impact on naval power, and potential future installments as a cliffhanger for civilization. Portia-like narration frames it as a real life drama selling soap flakes.
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Bikini
Crossley
Navy
Orson Welles
United Nations
Norman Corwin
Portia
Man
Montreal
Canada
Bikini Atoll
Army-Navy
Washington
Pennsylvania
Atomic Bomb Authority
America
Inviolate Phrase Meets Grammar Debate in Editorial
A literate editor rails at writers who invoke We the People in labor disputes and other contexts. He mocks the over reverence for the Constitution that ignores grammar and pronoun inflections while praising the document as the bulwark of rights.
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We, the People
Atomic bomb party invitation曝光的历史讽刺
亨利麦克莱莫报道一则荒诞邀请函 由美国海军陆军对 一号任务组在比基尼环礁投下原子弹后 记者拟以娱乐方式举行庆祝聚会 介绍广播爆炸声 将以Pennsylvania号战列舰为实验对象 参与者被鼓励穿着自选服装 还提议以类似神经的娱乐活动和迷信式广告来制造紧张气氛 文章以讽刺口吻揭示新闻报道与民众消费文化的荒诞。
Our Children By Angelo Patri Encourages planned cultural growth
In a forward looking piece Angelo Patri argues for expansive education and cultural programs to enrich children and society. He urges strengthening primary and secondary schools, teacher quality, and access to arts and sciences to raise national progress. He also notes a leaflet on spelling and how to obtain a copy via Monroe News-Star.
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National Pictorial
California
Patri
c/o
Monroe News-Star
P. O
Station
New York 19
N. Y
The
Bell Syndicate Inc
Radio Schedule Listing with NBC ABCNBC Local Programs
A dense schedule listing radio programs and times across KNOE 1450 and affiliated stations. It details news, music shows, comedy, sports, audience requests, and regional/local broadcasts with multiple networks and hosts.
Deaths Ernest Saunders Services Held at First Baptist
Ernest Saunders 41 died suddenly at his home in De Ridder. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m. Friday. He was a brother of Mrs. Homer S. Chilton of Monroe. The obituary notes a saying about vision.
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Ernest Saunders
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First Baptist
Homer S. Chilton
Monroe
Radio Schedule Highlights From KWKH Shreveport
A dense listing of KWKH Shreveport programming across the day with local and CBS segments. The lineup includes "Yawn Patrol" and "Patsy & Her Buckeroos" in the afternoon, Harmie Smith local, various dramas, country and western acts, and multiple news and music programs through midnight, concluding with SINE.
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Patsy & Her Buckeroos
Harmie
CBS
Kate Smith
Helen Trent
Dr. Malone
Mrs. Burton
Allen Jackson
The
News
Clayton
Harmie Smith
Aldrich
Durante Moore
Ann Sothern
Maisie
Lanny Ross
Jack Smith
Tommy Riggs
Betty Lou
Geo. Paxton
Buddy Rich
Harry Cool
Lee Castle
West Monroe Fianc\u00e9 Declared Dead After Missing Flight Officer
Miss Gracie Byrd of West Monroe learns from the government that her fianc\u00e9, Flight Officer H. S. Smith known as Smitty, reported missing on April 10 1945 is officially dead.
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Gracie Byrd
West Monroe
H. S. (Smitty) Smith
Threats Loom as Strike Strategy Muddle Grows
Union militants gather around a $1,000,000 strike chest with six allied unions in the Committee for Maritime Unity as conciliation stalls eight days before a planned CMU strike. Rival CIO A F of L tensions flare after stop work protests in multiple cities with talks of immediate wage tasks and renewed meetings in San Francisco Los Angeles and Seattle. Harry Lundeberg warns of a three ring political circus as employers prepare to negotiate in Washington.
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Committee For Maritime Unity
A. F. of L
New York
A. F. of L. Seafarers International Union
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Lundeberg
UN Information Push Called to Widen World Reach
Publicizing and aiding national and international bodies to spread UN information gains traction. A proposal suggests a United Nations broadcasting station at headquarters to beam information globally. Fernand Dehousse urges the human rights commission to require member states to include UN supplied information in their press data and allow free comment on the supplied facts.
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United Nations
The
Economic and Social Council
Fernand Dehousse
Commission On Human Rights
Jurors Cite Workers in Fire Deaths at Hotel
Jurors found workers contributed to the loss of life in a hotel blaze. Witnesses said the fire was seen 15 to 20 minutes before the fire department arrived and spread rapidly. The 22 story hotel will be closed for three months while rebuilding plans advance and government agencies pledge top priority.
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Eckhardt
Conference Talks Seek Ceasefire and Unified Army Plan
The article describes proposals for cessation of hostilities on a fixed schedule and a detailed program to merge Government and Communist forces into a single Nationalized army. It warns that renewed propaganda could revive distrust and hinder negotiators.
Deluxe hospital train astonishes troops with luxury aboard
In Tokyo on June 7 a ten car hospital train used by the 361st station hospital gathers sick soldiers from across Japan. Commanded by Lt. Charles E. Dungard of Canton Ohio, it offers showers, four patient cars with berths, and an observation car stocked with a radio phonograph books and games for GI members.
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Tokyo
Japan
Charles E. Dungard
Canton
Ohio
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Art van Damme
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Ted Malone
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Jack Berch
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Hop Harrigan
Terry and the Pirates
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Dick Tracy
Jack Armstrong
Dixie Blue Boys
Frankie Carie
Joe Reichman
Alan Young
Sheriff
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Elmer Davis
Cavalcade of Sports
Woody Herman
Ehow
News of Tomorrow
Harkness
Three Suns
Lee Sims
Shrednik
Thomas Anthony
Shreveport
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Gladys Parker
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