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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 08, 1936

Page

8

WPA Rally to be Held Here for Achievement Day

About 1,500 people are expected for an all day WPA NYA Achievement day rally in the fifth district. Miss Rebecca Cassel says the event will likely be at Neville or Ouachita parish high school auditoriums with talks and exhibits of sewing education projects and re indexing. A similar district two rally is set for June 12 in the fourth district with Monroe participants anticipated in Shreveport.

WPA NYA Fifth Congressional District Rebecca Cassel Neville High School Quachita Parish High School Shreveport Monroe Fourth

Termites die without their wood-digesting partners

In a pure oxygen environment termites starve despite continued eating. The termites rely on their flagellate partners to digest wood, and neither can survive apart from the other. The passage ends by asking which mammal has the slowest known heart beat.

Across Word Puzzle Clues and Jungle Encounter

A fragmented cross word section mixes clues with a vivid jungle scene. The prose follows Kali Bwana as she reels from an ape's blow and contemplates pursuit, while beasts bristle and tension rises among the group in their wild homeland.

Kali Bwana

NYA workers aid Concordia library projects in Ferriday

May activity in Concordia parish library under NYA federal aid included 20 or more youths supervised by Louise Dozier. Workers assisted Ferriday Vidalia Monterey and New Era in branch operations mend ing collections and preparing Monterey school books. They also supervised civic improvement work with the aid.

Ferriday Concordia Parish NYA Louise Dozier Concordia Vidalia Monterey New Era

Homer Planters Ship Beans and Potatoes Worth $1500

Shipment of beans and potatoes around Homer Louisiana earned farmers about $1500 this season. The three mixed carloads included 1250 bushels of beans and 379 sacks of potatoes bought by Allen Feed Company. Tomato sheds opened Monday with a good crop but reduced acreage this year. Rail line crops are satisfactory and more sheds will open within ten days. An innovation at Germany's Leipzig Fair featured an upright piano convertible into a sideboard or desk by repositioning panels.

Homer Allen Feed Company Germany

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