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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1948
Page
5
The L. B. Faulk Post will honor C. B. Braun for 20 years as adjutant and Robert Cowden as finance officer for about 20 years at a Monday 8 p m meeting in the memorial home Forsythe Park. They retire to allow others to carry on these duties while discussing animal-based medicines in Europe is noted.
A 35 year delayed reunion brought together five daughters and three sons of the late Rev. and Mrs. O. B. Hundley. The group, with members in Louisiana and California, recalled early life in Caldwell parish and visited San Francisco landmarks during trips across the state.
Eight year old William C. Brodie slipped while climbing an iron picket fence in New York and was impaled on a spike that pierced his chin and exited his mouth. Three men aided him until hospital help arrived ten blocks away. Police freed him by sawing off the picket after thirty minutes. The boy, still conscious, was given morphine and later had the spike removed. he wrote his name and address at Flushing Hospital, where his condition was listed as fair.
Four decades after planes entered farming lore, air dusting fights boll weevils and leaf-hoppers on Monroe cotton. An experimental dry ice rain near Oak Ridge produced a light shower from 12,000 feet, piloted by Red Alby. New flying students and soloists flock to local airports as seaplane activity grows and pilots complete private licenses amid rising gas taxes. Local aviators note plane dusting is safe when pilots are skilled.
In Mt Carmel Pennsylvania on June 19 authorities report the grim effort to identify 20 plane crash victims. Forty three people died in the DC 6 disaster after a Thursday afternoon plunge on a coal hillside. Investigators sift through disintegrated wreckage as Civil Aeronautics Board expert Joseph Fluet says disintegration is nearly complete and hopes to determine the cause.
New York Mayor William O Dwyer, seeking rest from the city bustle, sailed yesterday on a Caribbean bound freighter solo. Contact will be by carrier pigeon as the ship lacks a radio telephone.
The Knights of Columbus will hold exemplification of the first three degrees for a large class on Sunday June 27 at 206 Hart Street. Registration at 8 a.m. precedes a 9 a.m. Mass at St. Matthew's Church, with breakfast after. Degrees start at 10:30 a.m. Attendees include Shreveport Natchitoches Vicksburg and Alexandria councils. Edward A. Winter and Albert A. Quinn will be distinguished dignitaries.
Joseph Mickel Jr. and Virginia Anne Foster, both 21 from Monroe, are on a trip to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and are set to return July 5. Reports say the mayor may cut the journey short and fly back if his presence is needed.
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