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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1950
Page
4
Daily except Sunday guidance lists phone numbers for departments. It provides Business Office Editorial Room Mail Room and Managing Editor contacts with specific 4800, 4802, 4803, and 4601 extensions. The text compiles dialing instructions and department references for morning newspaper operations.
Clarke Beach highlights how the European recovery program redirects colonial policy toward benefiting native populations. He notes ECA spending, counterfunds, and UN FAO calls for education, health, and rural development, contrasting old colonial exploitation with TVA like projects at Owen Falls and Volta River and mass resettlement in northern Nigeria.
The piece weighs Soviet interest in a Europe wide grain pact against Cold War tensions. It argues Moscow may use the agreement as a tactical maneuver while urging Western openness. It cautions the burden of proof lies with the Soviet Union to prove genuine intent. The essay notes West and East seek economic balance amid mutual distrust.
Henry M LeMore proposes a humorous plan to fix airport farewells by tethering an old ship at the airport. Friends would attend a predeparture party aboard the landlocked liner with champagne and canapes, while staged shore-side activities mimic a sea voyage. The piece playfully imagines a bustling mock ship with crew, cargo, and child performers to celebrate departures.
Jimmie Fidler notes warm crew praise for Bette Davis at 20th Century Fox and contrasts Hollywood respect with past Warner Brothers tensions. He recalls on set dedication, tolerance under intense lighting, and a humorous scene with fur coats in a snow scene, plus a Phoenix location anecdote about a cowboy extra.
The piece urges long summer camps as a cure for idle youth, arguing that schools, churches, and communities should provide supervised programs. It stresses exposing city children to country life, plants, and field life, with research on benefits to health and understanding. It also notes parental relief and calls for public education budgets to fund such programs.
The writer muses that ships used as farewell vessels may become a standard feature at airports within two to three centuries, noting how much weight his ideas carry. The prose reflects speculative travel culture distributed by a syndicate.
A Washington farmer writes Senator Manguson asking how epileptics can lessen attacks. Dr. Edwin Daily of the Children’s Bureau says programs ignore epilepsy, many are ineligible for care, and new drugs can greatly reduce seizures. With proper treatment, epileptics can lead normal lives. epilepsy is not hereditary.
A Q and A column explores how a rubber ball bounces due to elasticity, confirms orchids grow in tropics with many species, notes natural gas use began with a 1821 Fredonia well, explains lake fish survive winter under slightly above freezing water, and describes the lost wax casting process credited to Collini with wax pattern to metal replacement in plaster molds.
Hal Boyle warns against artificial vacations with a mocked patent room that traps a family in a bogus resort inside their house. The gag describes fake beach pine cones and wind blasts while pests, snakes, and a sunlamp torment the family, ending with the doctor’s return and a lesson on appreciating home. The piece cites a 1949 boll weevil pest damage figure from the National Cotton Council.
Washington June 12 President Truman’s Point Four program remains unstarted in effect with $35 million approved but not funded yet. Congress will decide annual funding as the plan aims to aid about 60 nations through experts, investment, and policy guidance, testing whether the initiative can halt communism’s appeal in backward countries.
Hollywood gossip and film notes detail Claude Jarman Jr., former Montgomery Bell Academy student from Nashville, now 18 in John Ford's Rio Bravo. His father praises the role while Claude jokes about action scenes, sports, and future plans. Also notes on MGM, studio schooling, and a capsule review of Duchess of Idaho.
Archibald MacLeish former assistant secretary of state criticized Senate investigations into Communist activity. He warned about the public’s readiness to tolerate smear campaigns by uninformed officials and the danger to democratic processes.
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