OPA Official To Speak At Northeast College
Dean Calvert and L W Ferguson announce J C Patton an OPA education specialist will address faculty student teachers and townspeople at Northeast College in Monroe. He will speak at 9:30 a.m. Thursday on education refresher courses and later at 3 15 p m to discuss teachers aiding OPA stabilization measures and rulings. Public invitation extended to all.
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C. Cvert
L. W. Ferguson
OPA
Clifford W. Patton
Office of Priceinistration
Northeast
J. Patton
Monroe Fromington
D. C
Jon
Office of Price Admiration
Americ
Patton
Dean Calvert
Gordial
Rubber plant is completed in Charleston West Virginia
The Daily Mail reports the 70 million dollar synthetic rubber plant in Charleston is finished and inspected by rubber administrator William M. Jeffers and commerce secretary Jesse Jones. Local workers helped build the facility. after opening, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals and United States Rubber will operate it. The paper thanks Charleston residents and labor groups for cooperation, noting 23 million dollars of supplies purchased and naming Monroe associates like C. C. Whittelsey and E. H. Miller among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
News-Star
Charleston
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
United States Rubber Company
A. F. of L
West Monroe Hosts Gay Pirate Party Night
West Monroe Community Center hosted a Teenage Night pirate party with Edwin Holloway winning first prize for best costume and Andrew Lyon second. Games and refreshments featured as civic leaders from the Civic League Robashela Club and Kiwanis Club outlined an upcoming airplane contest inviting model airplane entrants to register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
Edwin Holloway
Andrew Lyon
Mra H. Bordeaux
C. E. Faulk
Alexander Morrice
R.G. Teylor
L. E Gruber, Jr
Civic League
Robashela Club
Kiwanis Club
Officer Slain In Backyard Battle In Mobile
Mobile police officer Ollie Mason died after a backyard gun battle last night as his partner Merrill Dulaney and navy employee Benjamin Bowman were wounded. Bowman, shot four times, was listed in grave condition after opening fire from his residence's garage while officers questioned him about his three year old wife Katherine. The incident occurred in Mobile Alabama on June 16.
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Mobile
Ala
Ollie Mason
Merrill F Dulaney
Mason
Benjamin H. Bowman
Dudley EB McFadyen
Bowman
Katherine
Sicily Island Woman Joins WAAC Radio Service in Portland
Jesse L McKay Auxiliary member Miss McKay, daughter of Mrs Annie McKay of Sicily Island, now stationed in Portland Oregon, trained at Daytona Beach and Fort Des Moines and attended a national conference in Salt Lake City. She will speak to men and women's clubs from headquarters in Portland and formerly taught at Sicily Island High School.
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Jesse L. McKay
Sicily Island
Annie McKay
Portland
Oregon
Miss McKay
Daytona Beach
Fla
WAAC
Fort Des Moines
Salt Lake City
Sicily Island High School
Sergeant Butler Promoted to Sergeant on June 4
Mrs. Raymond E. Butler has been advised that her husband was promoted to sergeant on June 4. Sergeant Butler entered the armed forces January 4, 193, and was stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, until April 9 when he was made a corporal. Since that time he has been stationed at Vancouver, Washington. Sergeant Butler is the son of Mrs. W. B. Camp of West Monroe.
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Raymond E. Butler
Sergeant Butler
Armed Forces
Camp San Luis Obispo
California
Vancouver
Washington
Mra. W.B. Camp
West Monroe
Ladart Completes Army Air Forces Tech Training at Island City
Louis L Ladart 21 son of Mr and Mrs Ross Ladart Monroe graduates from the depot overhaul course at the Aviation Institute of Technology here. He has been promoted to private first class for high general alertness and mechanical aptitude and is ready to join a combat crew as a specialized aircraft engine mechanic. His brother Joe serves in Houston and Ladart previously worked in a grocery business after graduating from St Matthews High School.
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Louis Ladart
Long Island City
Louis L. Ladart
Ross Ladert
DeLiard Avenue
Monroe
Nancy Laddart
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Aviation Institute of Technology
Ladart
Technical Training
Army Air Forces
Army
St. Matthew's High School
Joe
Houston
Corporal Traweek Writes Home From England
Corporal John Grayson Traweek, son of Mr and Mrs John Traweek of Mangham, reports he likes England but misses home. He enlisted in May 1942 and has been overseas about nine months.
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J. G. Traweek
John Grayson Traweek
John Traweek
Mangham
England
Traweek
Army
Navy Fireman Hines Completes Training in California
Fireman First Class Edward M. Hines of the United States Navy recently completed his course at the U S Navy Training Center in California and is now stationed at the destroyer base in San Diego. Before entering service he resided in Monroe.
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Edward M. Hines
United States Navy
United States Navy Training Center
California
San Diego
Calif
Hines
Monroe
Seaman Reynolds Reported Prisoner of War in Navy Notice
James Edward Reynolds, first class seaman in the United States Navy, is reported a prisoner of war per a Navy Department announcement via Eighth Naval District headquarters. His sister, Mrs. Nathan T. Lowery of West Monroe, has been notified. Also notes that three years ago no bombardier officers were in the Army Air Forces, now the number exceeds former officer totals. The Moon’s surface area is about 14,657,000 square miles.
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Seaman Reynolds
New Orleans
James Edward Reynolds
United States Navy
Navy Department
Eighth Naval District Headquarters
Nathan T. Lowery
West Monroe
Army Air Forces
Monroe figures in gas lines project and city roles
The text mentions R. P. Westerhoff as assistant project manager on a Southern Gas lines compressor station and notes his prior Monroe role as resident engineer. It also references John Atkinson, son of former Monroe City Commissioner W. H. Atkinson, who served as chief clerk to E. H. Miller, with Miller signaling a likely return to Monroe. The naval air transport service is described as operating hundreds of planes over extensive routes.
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Southern Gas Lines
R. P. Westerhoff
Monroe
John Atkinson
W. H. Atkinson
E. H. Miller
Miller
News-Star
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J.C
Lifford W. Patton
Institute of Synthetic Rubber
C. C. Whittelsey
Ford, Bacon and Davis
B. O. Yeldell
Louisiana State Police
R. N. Sanford
Louisiana
Southern Natural Gas Company
E. H
Bing) Miller
S. S. Cummins
F. W
Paramount
Tream Power
Anne Baxter
Dana Andrews
Opers
Bite
Tyrone Power
GOR Air Corps
Chester’ Morris
Richeré Arlen
Merce of Tome
Merrie Melody Cartece “Uebearedie Bear
Opre
Wanda McKay
George Zudte
Black Raven
Judy Caneva
Ron Miller
Betty Rhodes
Ferry Colomma
Johnnie Johnston
Uncle Sam
the Man
Bem Mo
Harold Peary
Nancy Gates
Ae Darwell
Colter
Border Patrol
Roy
Stalingrad
Ralph B. Chandler
Press and Register
United States Supreme Court
Chandler
Tisdale J. Touart
Mobile Inferior Criminal Court
GAY Pirate Party
Dove
Strand Theater
Mary Mertin
Dick Powst
Rudy Vallee
Happy GO Lucky
Rialto Theater
Mikee Berle
Mary Beth Hughes
Lyle Talbot
June Duprez
King Kong
Fay Wray
Bruce Cabot
Rembrandt
MW Bernhardt
AS Xiliary
Jesse L. Mkay
Sgt
Raymond Butler
Naval Air Transport Service
PHOEN
Aviaog
Poge Glusy
Globe
Standard and Library Globes
United Electric Furniture Store
RTH
Fourth Street
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