Housing for defense workers offered in Selmanfield plan
A government backed housing project in Selmanfield aims to ease the wartime shortage. After 60 days, if a unit is not rented to a defense worker it goes to a civilian, with five to six room homes and furnished duplex apartments priced from 48 to 62 dollars monthly, including yard work. Applications are at the Pecan street office. Bernstein park buses will shuttle prospective tenants. A resting human needs about 1680 calories daily.
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Public Invited to Hear Talk at Selman Field
Residents of Monroe and West Monroe may attend the Class 438 graduation address by Lieutenant Pernell Larson at Selman Field post theater at 10 AM Saturday. Larson, a nine month B-24 navigator, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, and participated in 32 combat missions over Bengazi Tobruk Sousse Sfax Gabes Tripoli Messina and Naples.
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Pernell Larson
Middle East
Selman Field
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Tobruk
Sousse
Sfax
Gabes
Tripoli
Messina
Naples
Clifton D. Wright
Navigatinn School
Earl L. Neiden
Selmanfield
Selman Field Band
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Refinery near Houston shuts down after worker dispute
The Shell refinery at Deer Park near Houston began closing today after hundreds refused to work over a firing dispute. Manager R H Waser said 300 to 400 midnight shift workers did not enter the gates, despite union officers' earlier guidance. Union local 367 had not commented. The plant supplies aviation gasoline for the army, navy, and lend-lease.
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Shell
Deer Park
R. H. Waser
Oil Workers International Union
Army
Navy
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Playtime in Wartime A Red Cross director guides recreation units abroad
A Red Cross field director of recreation travels in Africa with his unit carrying 18 tables 4 chairs 10 portable phonographs 200 records two radios and 1500 pounds of books magazines writing paper card games checker chess and badminton sets all loaded into one truck. A man’s eye weighs one ten thousandth of his total weight.
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Red Cross
Africa
House Wrecked by 7 Spanish Youths
Sterling Colorado June 11 seven Spanish-Americans were hired to work in beet fields. They occupied themselves by digging for treasure and fighting ghosts at night. The farmhouse was wrecked with broken windows and torn doors. They claimed to hear eerie noises and saw ghostly figures. The seven, about 17, were from Dallas Texas and now transferred to a railroad section gang.
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Sterling
Colo
Colorado
Charles Curtis
E. M. Brown
Frank Long
Brown
Dallas
Tex
Mississippi River Vessels Urged To Reduce Speed
The New Orleans engineers office advised vessels on the Mississippi between the Standard Oil plant above Baton Rouge and the Jump near Venice to slow to the lowest practical speed that maintains steerage way. The move aims to prevent damage to revetments and levees along the stretch.
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Mississippi River
Standard Oil
Baton Rouge
Venice
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