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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
12
A CCC program enrollment lists young men joining the corps. Details show names and participation in the public works effort. The file notes indicate state and local oversight with training, drilling, and community projects planned.
One hundred fifteen young men aged 18 to 28 were accepted for duty at CCC camps Thursday. They hail from various parishes in the Fifth Congressional District and will depart tonight by the 15 o clock train over the Missouri Pacific Railroad to camps at Ha and Jena in LaSalle parish. Two physicians conducted exams at the National Armory on South Grane Street. Bunker from Barksdale Field, Shreveport, led general operations. Enrollments began in New Orleans on June 15.
Sluggish blood causes weakness and poor appetite. S.S.S. Tonic claims to restore red blood cells to normal without organic disease, improving energy, digestion, and appetite. The ad urges purchase in red cel lophane packaging with a larger two week size and suggests economical value.
The government aims to enroll 3,616 unmarried unemployed young men from public relief rolls in a first wave and plans a July August second enrollment. Eligible recruits must be certified by parish FERA social service supervisors as from families on relief, with enrollments to occur in New Orleans Lafayette Lake Charles Alexandria Shreveport Monroe Winnfield Baton Rouge and Hammond.
Miss Idella Thompson and Curtis Hearne were married in a home ceremony led by Rev. J. R. Strozier in Okaloosa. Attendants included family members from Thompson, Jordan, Hearne, and Clarks communities. the couple plans to reside in Chatham.
MARION La June 27 First federal rental checks totaling 2 096 and amounting to 44 350 86 have been distributed to cotton farmers of Union parish by County Agent J W Rabb It was announced Thursday Approval of 7 000 more in loans has not been received yet but is expected shortly This will make a grand total of 51 350 86 distributed here Second rental payments are expected to be made in September making a total of 102 000 to be paid as rental to farmers in the parish in 1935.
J. J. Burroughs who fractured an arm three weeks ago and has been a patient at the Northeast Louisiana sanitarium in Shreveport returned to his home there last night.
The piece laments holiday traffic chaos on narrow obsolete roads and promotes concrete paving for lower long term costs. It argues highways should match modern traffic, warns of rising motoring costs, and invites readers to request a free copy of An Open Letter to Henry Ford.
In Tallulah Louisiana a Business Men's Luncheon club resolution urged a Madison parish drainage project using FERA funds. The plan calls for a canal between Brushy bayou and Tensas river and two bends cut south of that point. A committee will seek approval from FERA administrator Frank H. Peterman and similar resolutions will go to the town council and police jury next meeting.
The Daily Vacation Bible School of the Assembly of God in West Monroe will hold closing exercises Friday night at 8.00. About 160 have enrolled and average attendance is 135. Diplomas will be awarded. Miss Gladys Taylor of Russellville and Miss Elsie Sizemore of Paris led the school, which has been highly successful.
The senate passed the Overton bill authorizing transfer to Louisiana for highway purposes of land across the veterans administration facility at Alexandria along the Alexandria Shreveport route. The measure was sent to the house.
The Monroe First Baptist church organizes an encampment July 16 to 25 at Mandeville with 30 or more participants from Monroe and surrounding churches. L. A. Stuke coordinates education and recreation under Dr. H E Dana Dr. M E Dodd and Dr. T B Maston as speakers. Activities run 6 30 a m to 10 30 p m daily including sight seeing in New Orleans and a Mississippi River boat trip.
Miss Maud S. Gill and Miss Joyce Feinstein represent Monroe at the Shreveport Centennial. Gill is named Duchess of Monroe and Feinstein maid to the duchess for Neville High School honor students. They depart for the capital to join ceremonies and pageants through July 4 ending with the centennial ball.
All arrangements are complete for the first anniversary celebration of Fidelity Hive the Maccabees to be held Friday night at the lodge rooms 109 South Grand Street. M J Bulger state manager will install officers assisted by hive color bearers. Installation followed by entertainment refreshments and a surprise award to a hive member.
G A Johnson a Monroe negro lawyer who lectured to African American audiences in Warren Huttig and El Dorado Arkansas has returned home He will leave Saturday for Clarks to begin a new lecture series Monday night Johnson a Tuskegee Institute and Howard University Law School graduate carries recommendations from Mayor Arnold Bernstein and Sheriff Milton Coverdale and urges negroes to seize southern opportunities.
At a special meeting in Tallulah Louisiana the Madison parish school board approved a 150 appropriation to correct physical defects in indigent children entering school for the first time next session. The sum supports clinics run by the Tallulah Parent-Teacher association summer round-up committee with the American Legion auxiliary Red Cross and Madison parish health unit.
The HO L corporation offices in the Ouachita National Bank building will stay open until midnight to accommodate last minute loan applications. Reopened nationwide by act of Congress from May 27 to June 27, after midnight no further applications will be accepted.
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