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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
3
Joe Lynch, 17, of 214 South Tenth street, was slightly hurt when his bicycle was struck by an automobile at the North Fourth street and Stubbs avenue intersection. He was taken by Mulhearn ambulance to St. Francis sanitarium with minor bruises to the left thigh.
In Miami Florida Mr and Mrs Billie Harvey and husband William Harvey radio announcer relinquished all seven children aged nine months to eight years to adoption. The parents said they did it so the children will have things they could not provide. AP wirephoto shows the family.
The aviation cadet recruiting team from Kelly Field Texas will visit Monroe to interview unmarried men ages 20 to 26 and a half for the July 1948 air cadet class. Applicants must meet education and exam requirements and provide birth records transcripts and three letters of recommendation. Interviews run June 25 to 26 daily nine to five at 101 North Grand with other eligibility details available at recruiting offices.
Hollywood reports Walter Wanger plans a long range program of American history themed films. He will produce So Gallantly Gleaming about John Fremont and Tulsa on the oil boom, with Susan Hayward starring, plus Anne of the Indies about Anne Bonny.
In Rayville Louisiana a 9 year old girl named Josephine Duke was seriously injured after stepping from behind a parked mail truck into a oncoming car on highway 80. The vehicle driven by C. C. Friedrichs of Houston struck her, flinging her to the pavement. She was taken to Conway Memorial Hospital with a broken right leg and other injuries. State police called the incident unavoidable.
Johnnie Simmons and his wife with their young daughter Patricia depart Monroe for Gulfport Mississippi for a short rest. Simmons recently won election as commissioner of streets and parks and says they will return in about ten days.
An old advertisement proclaims a fast acting Athletes Foot germ killer called TEOL made with 90 percent alcohol. It claims to penetrate and kill more germs faster. Available today at Sandman’s Pharmacy and Josey’s Drug Store, offered as a 35 cent back deal.
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