Teachers urged to know pupils physically as well as mentally
Emphasis on teacher responsibility for student health and reading problems. Miss Rodgers will demonstrate telebinocular testing for reading difficulties. Classes include students from city, West Monroe, Bastrop, Epps, Baskin, Winnsboro and Calhoun. Also notes that South Seas grass skirts are made from pandanus leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Instrucwr
Herth
Rodgers
West Monroe
Bastrop
Epps
Baskin
Winnsboro
Calhoun
A Units Stress Health Program in PTA Effort
The National Press of Parents and Teachers urges a summer health program to prepare children for school. Local PTA units cooperate during vacation to implement medical screening, relying on home care and family physicians for examinations due to physician shortages from the war. Ensign William B. Junod, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Junod, graduates from Naval Reserve Midshipman School and begins Atlantic fleet assignment after Dartmouth and Oklahoma coursework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Press of
P.T. A
Parin
Dhisentering
Twin Cities
Ray L. Junod
New York City
William B. Junod
United States Naval Reserve Midshipman School
Hudson
William S. Pye
Columbia University
Ensign Junod
Dartmouth College
Petroleum Engineering College
University of Oklahoma
New York
Children enjoy a Bayou DeSiard picnic on school grounds
About forty Sherrouse grade school children spent a day picnicking along Bayou DeSiard on the local college campus. They played games, fished, and roasted wieners, with an afternoon of awards for perfect attendance and patriotic shields. Special recognition went to seven two week attendance honorees, and local staff assisted. A guest, Miss Monica Liles, left Bastrop for a journalism post, while others updated on military and family moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherrouse
Bayou DeSiard
Patsy Hendrickson
Billy White
Pete Kendrick
John Lou Fluitt
Billy Stevens
John Hunt
Daddy Joe Roach
Freddie Norris
Recreation Department
W. Vincent
Mary Edith Breard
Ann Young
Miss Norris
Guy DuPriest
The
Sherrouse PT. A
Hopson Norris
Red Cross Calendar Surgical Dressing Closure Schedule
All Red Cross surgical dressings units will close a half day from May 11 through summer. Listing weekly hours at West Monroe and Sterlington sites includes Red Cross headquarters, community centers, American Legion homes, Northeast Junior College and Ridge Avenue sites with evening and weekend shifts for service members wives and general volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
West Monroe
American Legion Home
Northeast Junior College
Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
Sterlington Fairbanks
Sterlington American Legion Home
Sterlington-Fairbanks
Sterlington
American Legion
Local Clubs Schedule Meetings and Honors
The Y W C A board meets Thursday at the Y at 10 00 a m Thompson Wood Lee auxiliary plans a 3 p m club room gathering Tuesday sees a Friday card party for wives of officers of Seiman field at the Virginia hotel at 2 p m Miss Ella Paine of Mandeville La visits the Masonic Temple Friday at 8 p m as worthy grand matron Tuesday the Stone Avenue Methodist church women meet at 2 30 p m Miss Betty Ruth Crow from Beaumont Texas earns spring semester honor at Mary Hardin Baylor college with a B or better average. she plans to graduate next May Mrs Clarence Frost hosts the Cheniere Demonstration club meeting noting vegetables in gardens and discusses the black market donation to the cigarette fund for men in service Aviation Cadet Charles Sheffield Brown of Wisner La completes training at Pensacola Fl and is commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps Reserve Mr and Mrs John Ingouf sell their home at 4112 Blanks street moving to Shreveport Miss Dorothy Cailton of Sterlington La is a patient at St Francis sanitarium convalescing from an appendectomy.
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Seiman Field
Camico Room
Virginia
Ella Paine
Mandeville
Masonic Temple
Betty Ruth Crow
Linton Crow
Beaumont
Texas
Mary Hardin- Baylor College
Charles Sheffield Brown
Wisner
United States Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
United States Marine Corps Reserve
Brown
Georgie S Brown
Northeast Junior College
Youth Arrested on Theft Charge in Monroe
Monroe police arrested 17 year old Bill Hopkins for allegedly stealing a pickup truck from E C Nichols of Brownville where Hopkins had worked as a delivery boy. Police found the truck near Northeast Junior College and booked Hopkins, who was later sent to parish jail. Nichols was notified and the truck returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Sheriff's Department
Bill Hopkins
Brownville
E. C. Nichols
Young Hopkins
Route 4
West Monroe
Mr. Nichols
Northeast Junior College
Nichols
Uncle Sam to Hit Pay Check
Washington reports a new pay as you go income tax system will deduct about 500 million dollars monthly from pay envelopes. The 20 percent tax applies over personal exemptions of 12 weekly for single, 24 for married, plus 6 per week per dependant, starting after today with some timing delays for weekly payrolls. Exemptions include service members and clergy. By September 15 filers earning 2700 dollars yearly or married at 3500 must file a declaration to settle any shortfall, with annual returns due March 15 thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sam
Congress
Treasury
Knox predicts war lasting several years at San Diego meeting
Navy Secretary Frank Knox told high ranking officials and San Diego leaders that the war may last three to four more years before the axis is crushed. He urged preparing plans for victory and warned security and world economy depend on postwar efforts by the United States and its allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coronado
Calif
United States
Navy
Frank Knox
Army
Marine
San Diego
Knox
Ceiling prices on fish established
Washington June 30. The Office of Price Administration set maximum prices for 48 fresh fish species in producer and wholesale sales marking a substantial rollback from current levels. A companion retail price rule will follow. Prices vary by category and species with increases tied to port of entry plus transport costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Haddock
Sole
Refresher Courses Expand Teacher Training in Louisiana
Students in Northeast Junior College summer term show high interest as Miss Myrtle Rodgers of Georgia Tucker Grade School notes strong participation. The Louisiana State University extension division led by Dr. Marion B. Smith offers courses for non regularly teaching or returning educators, including Education 171-e and Education 163-e focusing on elementary teaching and language arts methods. Rodgers stresses outside reading to build units of study for winter classes and enhances library resources with her own volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monica Liles
Bastrop
Shreveport Journal
Louisiana State University
Reveille
Miss Liles
Northeast Junior College
Pow Wow
News-Star— World Publishing Company
Intervale
Myrtle Rodgers
Georgia Tucker
Marion B. Smith
Mexsana Medicated Powder Cited for Skin Relief
An old advertisement touts Mexsana medicated powder for minor rashes, diaper rash, sunburn itching, and mosquito bites. It claims the product, once Mexican Heat Powder, is inexpensive, urging customers to seek genuine Mexsana from specialists.
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South Seas
T. A. Units Stress Health Program
Sur
A. L. Peters
Gainesville
Peters
Camp Howze
Corpors
William Earl Andrews
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Indman’s Pharmacy
DeStard St
Monroe, la
Paul Jacobs
Fort Jackson
S.C
Dessye E. Shell
Alien L. Shell
Chatham. la
Clifton J. Greenler
Selman Field
Lockheed-Vega
Burbank
Josephine Parise
Joe, Jr
Gary
Ind
Charles Randazzo
Chicago
Lilia Samithing
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
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Coca-Cola
Community
Coca-Cola Company
Ouachita Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Thompson Wood Lee
Georgia Tucker School
Woman's Society of Christian
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
Clarence Frost
Cheniere
Jewell McQuiller
Mesdames Howard Carter
D. K. Aldridge
Miller Shelby
Edna Reach
Herman Rhodes
Oder Fowler
Bill Calloway
W. F. Davis
Bertie Greer
Herman Pace
Herman Frost Little
Mrs. Sheppard
Sid Knowles
John Ingouf
Blanks Street
Shreveport
Dorothy Cailton
Sterlington, la
St. Francis Sanitarium
Uncle Sam
A & Stor, Ray
Secretary OF the
U.S. Treasury
J. C. Penney Company
Vey
Uslhy
Esterd Gion
Evel
Bond
Giant de
Servu Grocery
Dixter
Ndocehdi LF
OPTE
America
Dessard ST
J. C. Penney
Penney’s
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