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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1952
Page
3
AP analysis notes Americans enjoy higher living standards and greater consumption in mid-1952. Despite steel strikes and war scares, food and clothing prices ease while housing and furnishings stay firm. Employment remains near record highs with wage growth, but take home pay is tempered by high taxes and shorter work weeks.
Sunday services mark Loyalty Day with a pledge to fund an 18500 budget for the new conference year. A dinner-on-the-ground follows the morning service at W. A. Cotton house on Gilbert street. A 15-voice men’s choir will perform at 11 am, with the youth choir directed by Mrs. Amrose at 8:30 am. Evening worship is at 8 pm.
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana House failed to pass Rep. Jasper Smith’s measure to curb unemployment benefits for those deemed to avoid work. The bill, defeated 45 to 34, would disqualify claimants until they earn ten times their benefit for quitting without good cause or for misconduct, while requiring suitable employment.
The Burnette-Downs Post 201 American Legion in West Monroe elected officers including Robert A. McNeely as post commander and J. C. Wilks as first vice commander. Delegates to the state convention July 25 26 27 in Monroe are McNeely Wilks and Earl Hicks with alternates Zeagler Woodcock Powell and Morris.
The Air Force base at Biloxi Mississippi is cited to a House subcommittee as an example of excess costs from cost-plus fixed-fee contracts versus negotiated lump-sum deals. Figures from John J. Donnelly Jr show academic buildings and dormitories costing more under cost-plus, with Keesler described as a pioneer in rapid technical training contracts.
Mechanical pickers planters and cultivators are used more in Western states than in the Southeast for raising cotton, reflecting regional differences in farming practices and technology adoption.
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