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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
9
London sent twenty thousand schoolchildren by train toward the safer west country as part of a six day rush expected to move 120000 youngsters out of the capital. Masks and packed lunches accompanied the departure, with named labels on each child. British golf courses are repurposed as rifle ranges for civilian defense volunteers.
Guy C. Gaar, jailed on $1,000 bond for embezzling $238.44 from Ouachita Baking, was released on $350 bond after a judge reduced the bail. A 13 or 14 year employee, he will face the next Ouachita parish grand jury session in November. Kill Devil Hill has shifted 50 yards since the Wright brothers’ flight but is now stabilized by vegetation.
Rosalie Sherman and Ginger Bubb were named Miss Ideal Monroe and Sir Ideal Monroe in the bathing beach show at the Paramount theater. They advance to a Biloxi Dixie contest June 20 and depart for the Gulf Coast Saturday for a week’s vacation. Sherman heads to Biloxi and Bubb to Gulfport.
Baton Rouge June 13. A house committee on elections and registration approved the administration's proposed constitutional amendment to require voting machines in New Orleans and make their use optional in other parishes. The plan would split machine costs between city and state if approved in the fall. Any parish could obtain machines by voter approval.
In Baton Rouge on June 13 the House and Ways and Means committee held two sessions on oil and gas bills. They amended several measures, rejected a tightening tax clause, and moved a major repeal of a 3 percent evaporation allowance for gasoline to a layover. Industry figures warned of economic harm from tax changes, and a proposed severance tax on pulp wood, heating gas, and distillate prompted further debate.
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