Workers to vote on bargaining agent at Laurel plant
Masonite Corporation plant workers at Laurel Mississippi will vote Thursday on a union representational choice or no agent at all. The election follows a labor dispute that kept the plant closed since Friday night with about 2,000 eligible voters.
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Firehouse No. 4
Paul Barker
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Homer Humble
A. F. of L. Union
Robert W. Starnes
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Holt Montgomery
Barker
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Negro Ex Sailor Seen World Among Monroe Pioneers
William McKay, 84, a former sailor living in Monroe since 192, claims to have visited every port in the world. Born 1862 in Virginia to slave parents he sailed from youth, later serving as AB on steamers and enduring shipwrecks near Tierra del Fuego and the English Channel before settling ashore for pension and odd jobs.
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Northumberland County
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Maine
New Orleans
Compromise Draft Approval Expected In Draft Extension
The House, amid a push to extend the draft, prepares a compromise extending the law for 19-year-olds while barring 18-year-olds. Conferees from both chambers anticipate overwhelming support despite Representative Dewey Short opposing the plan. The measure aims to save the expiring draft statute before Sunday.
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Missouri
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Senate
Catahoula Lake Fund Receives Preliminary House Approval
The Louisiana House approved a bill to appropriate 150000 dollars to dam Catahoula Lake for a game and fish preserve. Support from Rep E W Sehon and Rep G C Womack noted state land flooding to create a 28000 acre lake while opponents cited harm to fishing and pasture land. The measure passed 55 to 12 on engrossment and third reading.
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LaSalle
Appropriations Committee
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Alexandria
Carl Close
Rapides
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Caldwell
G. C. Womack
Catahoula
Lions Club Banquet Tonight Names Col Hyer Guest Speaker
Col Julien C Hyer of Dallas former congressman and WWI WWII veteran will be guest of honour at Monroe Lions Club annual banquet and ladies night at Hotel Frances Street. Newly elected officers to be installed. Australian Labor Women's Central Council members report queuing for meat potatoes and other food causing swollen legs ankles varicose veins and knock knees.
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Dallas
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Congress
Monroe
Australian Labor Women's Central Council
Markets at a Glance: Stocks, Bonds, Cotton Mixed
New York markets show irregular stocks with light selling restraining leaders. Bonds fall while rails decline and cotton remains firm. Chicago oats show ceiling and short covering amid scattered selling. Hogs steady and active with top at 14.05. cattle active with top 18.00 for choice fed steers and heifers, others weak.
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Chicago
Market drifts in slow session amid uneven gains and losses
New York stocks drifted in a slow session with rails and industrials sliding at the start while favorites edged up on timid bids. Transfers ran about 900,000 shares as bonds moved mixed. Chicago grains held steady and cotton rose late on favorable Washington news.
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Chicago
Senate House
New Orleans
Grain futures close at ceiling prices in Chicago
Chicago grain futures held at ceiling prices with corn at 1.46 1/2, oats at 1.88 and barley at 1.35 1/2 at the close. The report notes a steady market in Chicago on June 25.
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Potatoes Prices and Arrivals Across States
Potatoes arrive 112 on track 203 total U S shipments 1 164 with California Long Whites U S No 1 priced 3 80 to 3 95 Pontiacs commercial 3 85 Arizona Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 3 70 to 3 75 Missouri Cobblers fair to generally good 2 00 to 2 50 Redwarbas generally good 3 10 Kansas Cobblers generally good 2 45 to 2 55.
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Market Ticker of Gas Stocks Curbs Cities Service
Curbs Cities Service trades at 37 3/4 while Electric Bond and Share sits at 24 1/8. Niagara Hudson moves to 13 and United Gas to 19 1/4 as trading continues.
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United Gas
Fort Frances storm injures 11 including 10 children
A three minute wind storm in Fort Frances Ontario tore through the town with gusts of 60 miles an hour. Eleven people were injured, ten of them children from Dan Mainville's family whose home on an Indian reserve was destroyed. Trees were uprooted and houses lifted from foundations as poles were snapped. A stray line about eggs warns of rapid loss of freshness.
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Dan Mainville
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