Officers Wives Club Schedule For June Activities
Army wives clubs announce a series of events from Wednesday to Friday including golf at municipal course and Selman Field bowling and driving-range instruction. Tennis at American Legion Home and Cadet Wives Club meeting at Advanced Cadet Club 208 South Grand Street are listed with times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Golf Course
Selman Field Bowling Alley
American Legion Home
Selman Field
Cadet Wives’ Club
Advanced Cadet Club
South Grand Street
Fantastic era outlook from postwar luncheon talk
Ron Campbell addressed the Lions Club at Hotel Frances, sketching postwar dream inventions and fantastic devices. He cited dream machines like self ice skating ice, radiator wallpaper, voice transcription typewriters, and a multi‑deck bus concept, plus energy dreams from fusion and wind power, warning many ideas may never come to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Campbell
Lions Club
Hotel Frances
Mr. Campbell
Bailey announces birth of Bennie Breese Grant daughter
Sgt and Mrs Emmett Bailey Grant announce the arrival of Bennie Breese June 11. Paternal grandmother Mrs T A Grant and maternal grandfather Mr F W Breese. Sgt Grant now serving in the Pacific. Other notes include several visits and travels of local residents and relatives with mentions of Camp Sequoya and Neville High School events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Bailey Grant
Bennie Breese
T. A. Grant
F. W. Breese
Sergeant Grant
Pacific
Jackie Walker
W. A. Walker Jr
Camp Sequoya
Bristol, Va
Barbara McKenzie
Center Calendar Highlights and Club Schedule
Thursday night reserved for private parties. Friday lists W W G and Gi Bo clubs with times for children and adult gatherings. Saturday offers Save and Sew for Girls eight to thirteen, with open evening events and the 15 20 Club scheduled through the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Theater
Airplane Club
Cherrie Club
USS Funship Club
Save & Sew
Raiford to be Admitted to Post After Pacific Service
Raiford, returning from service in the southwest Pacific, will be admitted to the post Thursday night. A tank truck was first used for shipping milk in 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nal Raiford
Southwest Pacific
The
Post
Summer Camps Draw Monroe Girls and Families to Outings
Summer plans fill Monroe with camp enrollments as Camp Windywood attracts a larger female cohort for eight and four week sessions. A list of campers and counselors is noted alongside trips to Camp Joyzelle in the Ozarks. Residents anticipate swimming, parks, and river life as alternatives for those remaining home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windywood
Gertrude Rodriguez
Charlene Hill
Ginger
Jane Coates
Barbara Buce
Martha McDonald
Patsy Saeger
Joan Crawford
Ann Joyce Coates
Jean Phelps
Cornelia McHenry
Margaret Ann Harper
Gregga Thompson
Bennie Hughes
Ann Mallett
Marjorie Martin
Maida Halstead
Graham Breard
Camp Joyzelle
Ozarks
Ann Menefee
Maurine Linquist
Billy Saeger
Carolyn Jo Goodwin
Ann Crandall
Mary Evelyn Johnson
Coming Events and Nuptial Notes From Local Society
Friday events include Officers' wives day at Selman Field Officers' Club at 2 p m and Junior Matrons' League meeting at the Advanced Cadet Club on South Grand Street at 7 30 p m New arrivals wives of cadets are invited to join the league The Rainbow will meet at Masonic Temple at 1 30 p m Sunday’s gathering at the Masonic Temple features a 2 p m session The article also covers Miss Sue McBride wedding activities detailing a reception and linen shower with Mrs Frank Spivey and Mrs Charles Phelps plus gifts and menu notes It notes marriage announcements for Blanche Pryor Desha and Chester Winfield Young at Port-au-Prince Haiti and observes National Flag Day with a patriotic tribute and flag salute remarks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selman Field Officers’ Club
League of Selman Field Cadet Club
Advanced Cadet Club
South Grand Street
Order of the Rainbow
Masonic Temple
Sue McBride
3. W. Cummins
First Methodist Church
Miss McBride
Frank Spivey
Charles Phelps
Red Cross Surgical Dressing Calendar
Red Cross schedule lists sewing nights at headquarters with sessions Monday 6 30 to 9 p m Wednesday 1 to 5 p m and Thursday 1 to 5 p m at the central office
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Youth Admits Shooting of Carolyn in Park
The story reports that a youth confessed to fatally shooting Carolyn in the park after police tracked him from her disappearance. He spoke with police at headquarters with Capt. William Lonergan present, and the body was found by two officers about ninety minutes after the missing-child alert. The arrest followed quick police work after the park discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallagher
William F. Lonergan
Carolyn
Forest Park Junior High School
Wilkinson in legal fight over marriages and child support
Wilkinson abandoned a child from his first marriage and left a second wife after one day. He married Margaret Gonzales while still married to her, then wed Rennie Murphy mother of his May born child. Police arrested him April 24 after Caprice Capron’s mother filed a statutory rape charge. Major Duvall labeled the prosecution flimsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Gonzales
Wilkinson
Caprice Capron
Jesse C. Duvall
Tides of Fundy Energy Frame Luncheon Guests
At a luncheon discussing tidal power, remarks highlighted how Fundy tides could power North America. Attendees included Allen Lewis Smith Jr., Guy Jones, Capt. Don ald McGee, Roscoe Hail, E. J. Foster, Ben Downing, J. Arthur Smith, Lion Charlie Wall, and Lt. Sam Walker Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay of Fundy
North America
Allen Lewis Smith Jr
Guy Jones
Capt
Donald McGee
Roscoe Hail
E. J. Foster
Ben Downing
J. Arthur Smith
Lion Charlie Wall
West Monroe Lions Club
Sam Walker Jr
Important V F W Meeting Slated
The Rod J. Hobbs Post VFW will hold its June meeting Thursday night at the post home at Sixth and Oak streets. Commander D M Carroll urges all members to attend as there will be important business and a delegation will discuss the department encampment in New Iberia on June 16 17 and 18, with Com C E Woodhouse Steve Cock and Rayville noted from Bastrop and Rayville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rod J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V. F. W. Post
Sixth
Oak Streets
Com
D. M. Carroll
Post
New Iberia
C. E. Woodhouse
Steve Cock
Bastrop and
Rayville
Black and White Ointment Advertises Skin Remedy
An old advertisement promotes Black and White Ointment 6 for acne eczema ringworm and pimples with claims of instant action antiseptic healing and a money back guarantee. It lists 25 50 cent sizes and a daily use skin soap.
Veterans share plans and posts details in district meeting
Delegates from posts will attend with S R Montcalm selected as commander of the Fifth district. Harold W Parnell on sick furlough from the southwest Pacific and John Leon Boswell in New Guinea join the post at the last gathering. Boswell is the nephew of Mrs C A Hunt of Medina Tennessee. Don E Wilkins has returned with a medical discharge after service in Africa and Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. R. Montcalm
Boone McDowell
Bastrop
Fifth
Harold W. Parnell
Swartz
Southwest Pacific
John Leon Boswell
New Guinea
C. A. Hunt
Adj
Adj. C. A. Hunt, and Lives At Medina, Tenn
Don E. Wilkins
Africa
Italy
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Campbell
American Car & Foundry Company
Henry Guerriero
Henry Jr
Dickie
Roger White
New Orleans
Ben Eubanks of
Alexandria
Jack Rogers
Eleanor Humble
St. Francis Sanitarium
Joan Boardman
University of Wisconsin
C. C. Boardman
Island Drive
Sara Clayton Griffith
Mary Virginia Gregory
Houston
Tex
R. F. Bain
Louise C. Bain
Charlotte Marie
W. M. Cooper
Bain
Lincoln
Neb
Virgian Harper
William Harper
Sophie Newcomb College
Girl Scout Leaders Association
Rhetti Robison
Los Angeles
Calif
Ernest Breard
E. B. Johnson
Florida
Mas
John Snelling
Patsy Snelling
Neville High School
Louisville
Snelling
James C. Liner
Asher Whitley
Jane
Dan
Baton Rouge
Springfield
Monroe
OPA
Camp
Jean Pickens
Carolyn Strauss
Peggy Strauss
Jean Strauss
Sara Terzia
Diane Decote
Mary Ann Smith
Cleta Godfrey
June Lewis
Gwen Walker
Margo Strauss
Patsy Ziegan
Clayton Knowles
Cherry Bernstein
Ann Brown
Shelby Meek
Mamie Jo Drouett
Joan Ransom
Linda Hair
Martha Pritchard
Minnie Madden
Ann Sartain
Barbara Ann Kelso
Felicia Mallett
Arab
Charles Nelms
West Monroe
Selfridge Field
Mich
Greensboro
N. C
Annie Lee West Stahl
Gulf Coast
Lydia E. Pinkham
William Spencer Desha
Blanche Pryor
Mr. Chester Winfield Young
Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
West Indies
Sans Souci
Hait
John Paul Jones
Betsy Ross
Congress
America
American Legion
Sterlington-Fairbanks
Sterlington
Batiste
Jersey
Wilverstein
Louisiana
Aller
Ler
Stanley J. Cope
Sanitary Feather Works
Boxer
Shreveport
Allied van Lines, Inc
Faulk-Collier
Bonded Warehouses, Inc
N. 2Nd St
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Fathers
Father
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Dunhill
Gourielli
Mil
Monroe Merchants
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