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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1929
Page
16
Baton Rouge June 14 The state treasury held 16 549 193 43 at May end per Treasurer H B Conner. The month’s primary receipt was 580 000 to the general highway fund with disbursements of 564 000. Major item in assets was 8 200 000 highway bond issue with 1 800 000 already expended for the summer school.
Louisiana State University announces two summer sessions with the first ending July 24 and the second August 31. Dean C. A. Ives directs the program aimed at high school teachers pursuing degrees. New courses include nursing education and library science. Visiting instructors include Dr. Ruhl J. Bartlette Taft College Boston Mass Prof J. W. Carter Sherman High School Tex Dr Rachel Goldberg Travis Elementary School Shreveport Prof F. C. Jenkins state high school supervisor for Mississippi. The Louisiana Library Commission distributes Jadwin plan copies for flood control in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley prepared by U S Army engineers and submitted by Major General Edgar Jadwin chief engineers.
Debate over whether a clash between fundamentalist and modernist factions would erupt at the Northern Baptist convention opened as Rev. A Avery Shaw and Bishop Francis John McConnell stirred tensions. Leaders accused McConnell of modernism and planned Shaw to deliver the keynote with McConnell following, while both kept details tightly guarded.
The race victory by Gardner becomes a flashpoint in a broader dispute between fundamentalist and modernist factions, with the mot likely to prevail and at least one convention speech planned on the topic.
Dan Jacobs assistant general freight agent for the Missouri Pacific railroad visits Monroe today. He is based in Alexandria and touring the area to review freight operations and discuss local shipping needs.
Josiah T. Newcomb counsel for national utility groups testified as exhibits were examined by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington regarding proposed congressional public power legislation. Letters from George Roberts and O M Grisham discussed lobbying against the Boulder Dam bill and Muscle Shoals government operation.
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