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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1958
Page
10
The construction industry shows improvement with payroll gains and higher housing starts above one million units as government spending fuels activity. Public projects and highway work rise, while federal and local financing flows into roads and utilities. industrial building slows after a strong 1958 start.
The Louisiana House approved two bills by Rep. Bert Adams permitting special census counts to place cities under the state tobacco tax distributing formula upon governor ordered proof of need.
Industries report excess capacity as demand wavers. Commercial building slows yet remains active in erecting offices in major cities and supplying stores to support new housing in suburbs and the rise of industrial communities nationwide.
The article outlines modern built in kitchen trends with straight line styling for ranges ovens and other appliances. It highlights modular packaged kitchens wall hung refrigerators color choices and flexible placement options to maximize space and livability.
Baton Rouge AP reports the Louisiana House voted 51 for and 49 against a constitutional proposal to raise the state gas gathering tax by two cents. The roll call names legislators in support and opposition, with For Angelle Adams Albro Alford Allen Altmyer Becnel Belisle Bernard Bertrand Bossetta Brennan Brignac Campagna Cashio Cefalu Cheves F Clark Collier Crane Daigre Delony Deaux Diesi C F Donald son H E Donaldson Dugas Dupont Fontenot Gaudin Gibbs Gleason Haynes Holt Jewell Lapara Lewis McGilligan McLain Myrick Peck Ray Roberts Sanders Seaman Shows B Smith Steen Sutton Sylvester Teekell Against Aycock Babineaux Barranger Beeson Broussard A D Brown J M Brown W P Clark Deshotel Downes Dyson Faulk Fields Fremeaux Falco Gaharan Garrett Gouaux Grav ol et Gregson Grizzaffi Hawkins Jack Jones Kirkpatrick Lancaster Leake LeBreton Lehmann Martin Mattassa Munson Martes Napper Nelson Percy Rambo Regan Rousseil J K Smith Stinson Sullivan Tessier Triche Tyndall Vesich Vetter Vivien Wilson.
In New Orleans Harold Smith, 28, admitted robbing a finance company twice in two weeks, totaling 2465 dollars. He fled the last hold up at the State Finance Co with a toy pistol and was arrested within two hours. Smith, a unemployed father of five, said he needed the money to pay debts.
A man driving a 1951 auto with a woman companion plowed into a West Dallas tavern causing about 3000 dollars in damage. He backed in then drove through the bar breaking walls and plate glass windows, as owner Fred Wheeler described the incident and previous trouble with customers.
About seventy percent of adults over 40 have eye defects and approximately 67 of every 100 adult Americans wear glasses.
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