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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1946
Page
4
Instructions describe nightly telephone access with daily use except Sundays and indicate post 7 pm dialing behavior. The readable text is fragmented but implies a public notice about calling procedures for a service named S STAR or MORNING WORS with evening hours.
Jimmie Fidler critiques Hollywood practice that hypes new actors while sidelining Cathy O'Donnell under Samuel Goldwyn. He contrasts Bonita Granville's philanthropy with industry ego, notes Eric Johnston is not a censor but MPAA head, and laments club rules as Constance Bennett flouts dog policies at The Club Beverly Hills.
MOSCIA Switzerland June 11 Emil Ludwig famed biographer of Bismarck Napoleon Roosevelt Stalin and the Nile river remains among the busiest writers. He now slows to a gentler pace with two books out and a third in progress while living in a secluded Lake Maggiore villa with family staff and a menagerie. He writes in German shorthand and relies on a secretary and wife for research notes. Ludwig, exiled German now Swiss citizen, says Freud debunking in his Cuba and Ancoheg book shows him skeptical of American democracy. He praises Edison and Henry Wallace while predicting a guarded peace with Germany and jokes that German animals prefer liberty.
A Louisiana public health note urges funding to build three 100 bed chronic illness units and maintain 600 beds. Aimed at incurable kidney and heart conditions, paralysis, cancer found late, and similar diseases, the plan seeks $92,500 for 1946 47 and $457,500 for 1947 48. Monte M. Lermann leads the effort through the Louisiana League for Public Health with Wood H. Thompson as director.
The piece argues wheat conservation may revive the potato’s status. It notes potatoes are not fattening and calories rival peas, corn, or bread slices. Diet faddism pressures reduced potato use, but boiled or baked spuds with modest butter offer low calorie nourishment and even the skin can substitute bread for dieters.
By Henry McLemore from New York notes a recent St. Petersburg convention of the American Federation of Musicians reportedly planning to hire a press agent for president James C. Petrillo. The piece satirically questions the scheme and imagines a comically overstaffed publicity operation.
In every community some children struggle with education and behavior. They deserve safe, special schooling or custodial care until help or return to society is possible. Parents, costs, and political will hinder, so communities must act to protect and aid these vulnerable youths.
A narrator imagines a large team behind a typewriter, each person contributing single words to craft an article. The head writer would oversee the process, writing only a few words while others supply various terms such as the or today. He envisions a handsome salary and supervisory role as the article nears completion.
Broadcast list shows daily time slots from 6:09 am World News Roundup through 12:00 Sign off NBC Local. Program names include The Carr Brothers Honeymoon in New York AP News Music programs and various musical acts, sports scores, and news segments.
In federal court in Shreveport on June 11 a motion by American Automobile Insurance Co to set aside a jury verdict was denied. The jury awarded Cleveland Beatty 106000 dollars and John Zabcek 700 dollars against the insurer. The judge rejected the request for a new trial.
A scanned quiz lists questions with answers on foundations, USAFE, Tyrol, Bikini blasts, Mariano Ospina Perez, hosiery production, a new rocket called Moby Dick, sun origin theory, Dead Sea, Arab League population, and atom bomb blast types. It cites Rockefeller Foundation wealth, American foundation assets, and spending, plus various geopolitical notes.
Two men were injured in a pre-dawn automobile accident near Oil City on February 3, 1945. Both victims were reported to have sustained injuries of varying severity and were treated at a local hospital.
A partial listing of KMLB radio programming shows a dense timetable with segments for news, music, talks, and shows across the day from early morning to midnight. The fragmentary schedule includes hosts such as Martin Agronsky and Kellogg Home Edition, with stations and show names like News Summary, Breakfast Club, and The Listening Post.
A dense broadcast grid lists programs from early morning through late night at 1130 kilocycles in Shreveport. The lineup includes news, music shows, dramas, soap operas, variety acts, and open hearing slots with titles such as Patsy & Her Buckeroos Harmie Smith Romance of Helen Trent and Inner Sanctum.
Opal Elmore recovering at Lady of the Lake Hospital Baton Rouge learned that her fiancé Lt Royal J Bryan Kelso Washington had been killed in the West Feliciana Parish auto truck collision on May 31. His brother Donald Bryan 22 also suffered a skull fracture in the crash while traveling to New Orleans for the wedding.
War Department and Infantry Journal reports show 1.7 million decorations issued in January, with 760000 to officers and nearly a million to enlisted. Infantry dominates combat awards while air medals surge for the Air Corps. Infantry divisions lead in medals, with the 37th and Third Infantry noted. Injured youths to Vaughn Wright Bendel Clinic. funeral for Lieutenant Bryan in Kelso with mother traveling to Baton Rouge and then Monroe.
A compact word puzzle jumble listing numbered clues for across and down entries including geographical, literary, and descriptive terms such as Persia Harris and White poplar with hints like always breeze to gether again and Irish capital.
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