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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1949
Page
4
Jimmie Fidler notes fan reaction to Ramon Navarro in The Big Steal at a preview. Cards praise Navarro as a new discovery and recall his 1920s box office fame, now aged but still capable, while industry shifts favor younger talents and producer decisions.
The Monroe News-Star states its second class matter filing in June 1908 at Monroe Louisiana under the 1878 act. It lists Associated Press membership and republication rights, national advertising representatives, and office contact details. It proclaims independence and impartial reporting without party bias.
The editor notes the ongoing, phased effort to streamline the U S government. It outlines Hoover's commission background, congressional actions, and President Truman's seven reorganization proposals including elevating the national security council and national security resources board. The piece cites changes to the State Department and the armed services unification debate.
Prominent Americans weigh whether large enterprises breed social evils. Charles E. Wilson argues bigness can be economically good and not inherently bad, while Justice William O. Douglas condemns the loss of independent leadership under big trusts. The piece notes decentralized cases and urges balancing economic gains with social remedies, then shifts to atomic bomb guidance as a separate public notice.
Henry M'LeMORE reflects on wedding invitations causing financial angst. He catalogs costly modern toasters, longs for a post office stamp reading Returned-Insufficient Address, and imagines a Sterling stamp to ease gift budgets.
Angelo Patri argues children should play freely and get dirty to build life skills while preserving clean furniture through practical habits like overalls and designated play areas. He urges architects to consider family needs and notes a record book for baby growth as a valuable tool.
A humorous take on wedding gifts and timing. June weddings flood with silverware and fragile keepsakes as postmen strike for a perfect delivery, while the writer recalls his own June marriage and asks why June remains the popular wedding month.
Jane Eads reports in Washington that Anna Mary Robertson Moses known as Grandma Moses, 88, painter from Eagle Bridge New York, received the Presidential honor for outstanding achievement from President Truman on behalf of the Women's National Press Club. She later attended tea at Blair House with Eleanor Roosevelt and others, where she playfully defied a sugar heavy coffee order and teased the President about his piano skill.
The Ouachita Parish Home Demonstration council led by Mrs Hilton Owens will hold a special meeting in the agriculture building in West Monroe on Saturday at 10 a.m. Urgent matters to be considered and all members urged to attend.
Charles Mathes aged 18 and Margaret Joan Sandlin aged 16, both of West Monroe, applied for marriage licenses.
A series of Q and A covering eligibility for the presidency by birth status with debate notes on natural born citizens. It includes a 1913 Notre Dame against Army game result and notes on mahogany tree maturity and railroad slang terms shiner snake and shack. It also distinguishes radio signal from radio wave definitions.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst John Foster Dulles says events may shape a new intense struggle within the Soviet Union and satellites as resistance grows against Moscow. He cites Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland where people refuse conformity and religion resists Communist control amid purges and religious persecution.
John Bailey and S C Nettles address Sheriff Bailey Grant and District Attorney Fred Fudickar, asking why curb service laws against selling beer and whiskey to minors are deemed almost unenforceable. They recount the 1948 urgent action by Monroe and West Monroe officials to ban curb service and request a public explanation for repealing or weakening such ordinances.
Los Angeles date June 24 A screenwriter's wife seeks court permission to name her own daughter as co respondent in an alimony and adultery case. Mrs Leah Ruth Fowler 47 alleges her husband Frank Gilmin Fowler 49 engaged in adultery with her daughter Patricia Stamm 24. Evidence includes wire recordings and photos. Hearing set July 1 on amendment of cruelty filing. The Fowlers married in 1930 and have a 15 year old son Barrie. Mrs Fowler is a concert pianist known as Lee Keith.
A list of across and down clues with definitions and a few partial entries for a newspaper style crossword puzzle. Includes hints for words like coagulate, biblical character, river in Poland, and other thematic terms, plus a few example answers and filler lines.
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