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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
4
Teen dating questions run from social dances to late-night arrivals. A boy consoles a rejected suitor while advising clear communication with the girl involved. A young man wonders about a shared relationship and how to proceed with two suitors and a mother’s suspicions.
Six simple rules to double reading speed are offered with a booklet titled How to Read Faster and Better. The piece promotes critical reading, warns about propaganda, and cites Mills College president White and anthropologist Loren Eiseley. Readers are urged to send 15 cents plus a self addressed stamped envelope to obtain the booklet.
Advice column excerpt advises disclosure of a past offense from age 15 before marriage. It suggests honesty if the fiancé would be hurt, and minimizes or justifies the offense as needed. The note is distributed by Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate and features Ann Landers.
Meek heads nine parishes across the 2nd 3rd and 4th and 28th judicial districts. Milam will manage all juvenile matters in Webster parish and oversee Louisiana Training Institute paroles for three parishes. Caddo and Bossier parishes operate separate juvenile departments. He will conduct investigations for Webster parish court. Meek has two assistants A C Lewis and Raines, with another to be added August 1.
A Ruston man S A Womack about 47 was released on a 750 bond after being charged with aggravated battery against F E Atkins president of Atkins Construction Co. Atkins reported Womack called and lured him to a vacant garage then assaulted him with an unidentified instrument. The case will go before the Lincoln parish grand jury in the fall term. Atkins remains in hospital.
The state probation and parole officer for Monroe James D Milam is promoted to state juvenile officer overseeing Caddo Webster and Bossier parishes. Rabin D Baines, new in the department, will assume Milams former duties handling adult paroles and probations. Louis Meek, chief of probation, announced the change.
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