Monroe business shows mixed gains in May report
A Chamber of Commerce summary by secretary George D. Holland lists seven positive and three negative factors for last month versus the prior month, and eight positive and two negative factors versus May 1940. Gains include telephones in service up 5 percent and motor vehicle registrations up 34.5 percent, while postal receipts fall 12.2 percent and freight shipments drop 9.4 percent. Also notes a 4.9 percent rise in postal receipts and 133 percent in new motor vehicle registrations for May 1941 compared with a year earlier. The passage adds a note on plantigrades, animals that walk with the heel down.
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Monroe
George D. Holland
Chamber of Commerce
Military Units to Visit Monroe for Fourth of July Weekend
Two groups, the 1 000 infantry from the 32nd division and 400 soldiers from the 106th cavalry of Camp Livingston, will visit Monroe over the holiday weekend. Cavalry arrive Thursday and depart Sunday. infantry arrive Friday and stay through the weekend. Some bivouac near Neville High School. others use local hotels with special rates. Major Burlingame and Lt Cleary will confer with the Junior Chamber of Commerce public relations committee.
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Monroe
L. E. Mathis
Junior Chamber of Commerce
106Th Cavalry
Camp Livingston
Twin Cities
Mathis
Junior Chamber
Neville High School
Livingston
Harnett Burlingame
James J. Cleary
Louisiana Defenses Drive to Expand Contracts Initiated
Washington reports a Louisiana defense contracts drive by the Defense Contracts Service to raise local participation. Officials note only 3.7 percent of state manufacturing firms held contracts in ten months, with 69 firms affected. aims include more subcontracting and wider distribution of orders to Louisiana plants.
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J. Lacey Reynolds
World's Washington
Washington
Louisiana
QO. P. M
Defense
New Orleans
Defense Contracts Service
A. B. Paterson
R. E. Judd
Federal Reserve District
Monroe Warning World
Paterson
Judd
Office of Government Reports
Northeast
OG. P. M
Entertain Mexican Group Arrives for LSU Event
Thirty seven Mexican educators musicians and dancers arrived in Baton Rouge for a weekend of educational discussions and entertainment. Guests of Louisiana State University they dined at the Faculty club and will tour the capitol and city and attend a dinner open house reception. They will join a conference on educational problems tea with Governor Sam Jones and present a fiesta at the LSU Greek Theater before leaving for the University of Illinois.
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Sam Jones
L. S. U. Greek Theater
University of Illinois
Farm labor standards proposal eyed by administration
The administration weighs a bold bill to authorize the secretary of agriculture to set and enforce labor and leasing standards for day workers and sharecroppers. It would allow withholding federal subsidies and crop loans from operators not meeting standards, with timing uncertain amid current industrial labor tensions.
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Washington
The
World Special News Service
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Farm Security Administration
Great Britain
Administration
Twin sisters 71 visit in West Monroe after long moves
Reading from left to right Mrs. Hal Stancil and Mrs. Ollie Stancil of Marion Louisiana visit in the West Monroe home of Mrs. Floyce Elliott at 401 Mill Street. The twins Eula and Zula Westbrook married brothers Hal and Ollie Stancil. Both husbands are deceased.
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Hal Stancil
Ollie Stancil
Marion
Floyce Elliott
Mill Street
West Monroe
Eula
Zula Westbrook
Alexandria
Old Trenton
Ouachita Parish
Union Parish
Hugh Parker
Haile, la
Jessie Roan
Ruston
Doll Day Observed At Four Monroe Playgrounds
Doll Day was observed on the four Monroe Municipal Recreation Association playgrounds on Friday. Dolls of all ages entered with prizes awarded for best oldest or cutest specimens. Prize winners included Betty Braswell Anne Marie Delarot Bertie Mahoney Rai Fergus at Georgia Tucker. Lida Benton dolls owned by Jewel Cantrell LaTrelle Katz won prizes. Barkdull Faulk doll owners Mary McLaughin Paula Gudger Frieda Brandon Philip Gudger Patsy Gudger Betty Joe Fernandez and Lora Mae Brandon also received prizes. At Sherrouse school prize winners were Evelyn Mangham Betty Joe Roach Ann Wesley Allen Georgia Bickham Elizabeth Ann Doone and Betty Ellis. The four playgrounds operate 9 am to noon and 4 pm to 6 pm daily, with a call for more children to attend.
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Monroe Municipal Recreation Association
Georgia Tucker
Betty Braswell
Anne Marie Delarot
Bertie Mahoney
Rai Fergus
Lida Benton
Jewel Cantrell
LaTrelle Katz
Barkdull Faulk
Mary McLaughin
Paula Gudger
Frieda Brandon
Philip Gudger
Patsy Gudger
Betty Joe Fernandez
Lora Mae Brandon
Sherrouse School
Evelyn Mangham
Betty Joe Roach
Ann Wesley Allen
Georgia Bickham
Elizabeth Ann Doone
Betty Ellis
Ruling Denies Payment on Claim with Attorney General Opinion
The firm refused payment and attached Bertrand I. Cahn's opinion that the claim should be declined. The report notes that rounded stones were used as projectiles in an early cannon.
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Bertrand I. Cahn
Museum declines $40,000 fee for restoration work
Stanley C. Arthur, president of the Louisiana state museum board, announced the board will not pay Weiss Dreyfous and Seiferth more than $40,000 in professional fees tied to repairs and restoration of museum buildings, a claim stemming from work done several years ago.
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New Orleans
Stanley C. Arthur
Louisiana State Museum
Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth
Arthur
Agricultural lenders and tenants fair rent clause cited
All or any portion of agricultural subsidies or commodity loans to a producer are withheld if tenants sharecroppers or wage hands on the farm are not working under a fair renting cropping or labor agreement or do not share equitably in farming proceeds.
West Monroe Vehicle Parade Promotes Playground Activities
The city with the Civic league and West Monroe PTAs sponsors a 4:30 p.m. Monday parade to showcase recreation at West Monroe school playgrounds. Crosley Mitchell Millsaps Ransom playgrounds list hours and supervisors. parade includes police escort and a Wood Street route ending at city hall.
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City of
West Monroe
Civic League
Parent-Teacher Associations
Crosley
QO. M. Green
Mitchell
Freda Banister
Millsaps
Lillie M. Kilgore
Ransom School
Helen Frederick
George Lawn
Wood Street
Crosley School
Pine Street
Cypress
Bridge Street
Cotton Street
Trenton
City Hall
Crosley School Playground
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Haarlem
OPM
America
U. S
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Arlington
W. E. Chester
Hotel Esc
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