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FAGE TWO THE MONROE (LAO NEWS-STAR OCTOBER 24, 1950 CUB GROUP 131 IN IST REGULAR MEET er which they had made. The next meeting of Pack 131 will he November 21 at Georgia Tucker School. newly organized Pack 131 met for their first regular meeting Tuesday night. October IT. at Geor- gia Tucker School Promptly at $93,000 RADIO seven the cubmaster.

V. Barnett opened the meeting by having the Cub Scout Promise read. Following, den No. 3. under the direction of Mrs.

Albin Lassiter, den mother, and Perry Lassiter, den chief, presented a most Impressive flag ceremony Boyg participating were George Riser, Charles Garretson, Warren Lassiter, Raymond Armstrong and Billy Cobb. Two new boys, Richard Olsen and Raymond Armstrong were inducted and had the privilege of having their Bobcat pins awarded by their parents. A song service was conducted by den No I under the direction of Mrs. Wiley Harrell Songs were led by Rob Harrell, Vie Barnett and Ray Coats Jones Huskey. Scout executive, presented the Charter of Pack 131 to Mrs.

Darwin Nichols, president of Georgia Tucker the sponsoring institution. After registration cards were presented and den mothers were installed. the meeting was closed with den No. 2 under leadership of Mrs. George Weaks.

making the Living Circle. These boys were George Teaks. H. D. Weaks.

Allan Foster. Richard Olsen, and Ted Aldrich. During the meeting den No 3 had a very clever display of weath- ONE NAME to remember WHEN YOU BUY ASPIRIN. IT'S StJoseph ASPIRIN TOWER COLLAPSES Spokane, Wash. Oct.

24. A transmission tower being built for radio station RHQ of Spo- kane crashed to the ground yes; terday, just two days before it I was to have been completed. The steel tower collapsed less than a year after another tower it was to replace had been snapped in half by a windstorm The new tower had been constructed to a height of 608 feet, almost three-fourths of the planned 826 feet. Workmen were fastening guy wires to brace the structure when ii bent at the midway mark and began lo topple. Two workmen were knocked to I he ground by flying cables, but no serious injuries veer exported.

Cause of the collapse was not known. SOUTHERN AIRWAYS MAIL RATE UPPED Washington, Oct. civ ii aeronautics board announced today a new mail rate for Southern Airways. which will give it additional mail rate of approximately $268,000 for the 18 months ending next Dec. 31.

The new rate also will provide an estimated annual mail pay of $1,415,000 beginning Jan. I. All of the rates are temporary. In another order. CAB approved Southern's plan to start service at Clarksdale, Greenville, Jackson and Vicksburg.

Miss. TWO PILOTS KNOCK OUT LOCOMOTIVE Wonsan Airfield. Korea, Oct. 24. stubborn locomotive didn't have chance with two pilots of the first marine air wing.

The two leathernecks. Maj. D. IL Davis, Itta Bena. and Lt.

Pat Dugan. Costa Mesa. were flying today over a rail line near Kanggye. They saw steam pouring out both ends of a tunnel. The fliers dropped two 500-pound bombs on the tracks.

That blocked the tunnel. Then they fired rockets into the tunnel mouth. Still more steam Diving lo tree top level, the pilots fired their machineguns into the tunnel. No more steam, To round out that day. the marines destroyed IO of 30 boxcars in the area Marine fliers destroyed two locomotives, 12 trucks, three large trailers and one artillery piece Sunday.

CRUSADER AGAINST DISEASE DIES AT 84 New Orleans, Oct. PA Regina Ported, for 57 years a crusader against disease and a personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, died today at De Paul Sanitarium at the age of 84. A sister of the Daughters of St, Vincent De Paul, she served in the Spanish-American war ministering to the members of Col. Teddy rough riders, laier fought an influenza epidemic in Austin, battled typhoid in Huntsville, Ala and served at the Carville, national leprosarium. She was transferred here a weeks ago when Providence Infirmary at Mobile, was demolished.

She was born Nellie Purtell at COWPUNCHERS DILEMMA Scientists Hit McCarthy Charge Of "infiltration' Dean Asserts No Person', Employed By AEC Ever Arrested Gene Ritter, all duded up in his nattiest western duds for the part of Larry Toms, cowboy star in opening of Meets Girl" at the Little Theatre playhouse, faces a dilemma. Which to choose the tiny Sicilian donkey or the huge Clydesdale? Both seem a little extreme for use as a cowpony. The horse is one the Anheuser-Busch champion Clydesdales, which will parade with the big red wagon in the Twin Cities today and tomorrow. (News-Star staff photo by Marvin DuBos. i Monches, Nov.

14. 1866, and 1 entered the Daughters of Charity in 1893. She was among the first to volunteer five years later when President McKinley appealed for nurses to serve in the Spanish-American war. President Roosevelt, who had Before You Decide Take an Airflyte Ride In the Most Modem Car The Distinguished 1951 Nash Ambassador. Hydra-Matic Drive available in Ambassador and Statesman Series.

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learned of her work among his Rough Riders, chose St. Hospital in Indianapolis. for an operation in order that he might have the benefit of her excellent nursing care. It was in 1918 that she battled influenza in Austin, where I hundreds of students at Austin Uni- versity were stricken. She quickly I set up a temporary hospital in a I large fraternity house which soon became known as "Sister I Hospital." MARKETS NEW YORK STOCKS New York, Oct.

Heavy trading at higher prices in I f.Ti i unwashed; Wisconsin Chip- pewas unwashed. overnight by the department of agriculture. Gains extended to $2 a bale, but the market thereafter moved lower on recurrent flurries of hedge selling and profit takVg. About 20.000 bales of C. C.

C. cotton were hedged in futures up to the early afternoon. Late afternoon prices were 70 cents to $1.55 a bale higher than the previous close. December 39.52, March 39.60 and May 39.52. ---------o--------Potatoes Chicago, Get.

A' arrivals 114 on track 371; total shipments 500; supplies and demand moderate: market firm; Colorado McClures unquoted; Idaho Russets S2.60 to $2.65 washed; Minnesota-North Dakota Red River Valley Pontiacs $1.75 to $2.00 lighted today's market General Motors and Chrysler 50 cents or more a share each in a rapid-fire series of trans- ations. The balance of the market elled off after a wide variety of shares had drifted low eer. Losses I were confined to less than $1 a share for the most part LIVESTOCK Chicago, Oct. AI hogs 11.000, lop 19 75 sparingly; most good and choice 180-300 lh butchers 19.50-19.65; sows under 400 lbs. 18.25-19 00; 400-500 lbs.

17.25-18.25. Salable cattle I OOO calves; a few loads choice 1025-1300 steers 32.50-33.25; bulk good and choice steers 29.50-32.25; a load of high choice 1050 lbs. fed heifers 32.50; most good to choice heifers 30.00-31.75; medium to choice vealers 28.00-34.00. BUTTER EGGS Chicago, Oct. -Butter steady; receipts wholesale selling prices unchanged.

Eggs steady to firm; receipts 8293; wholesale prices unchanged. RIVER STAGES Flood Present 24-Hour Stations Stage Stage Change MISSISSIPPI St. Louis 30 2.7 0.5 Fall Memphis 34 5.4 3.0 Fall Helena ls 44 30.7 0 8 Fall Ark. City 42 9.9 0.2 Fall Vicksburg 43 9.5 0.1 Fall Natchez 48 33.0 0.3 Fall Baton Rouge 35 8.0 0.6 Fall OUACHITA Camden 26 9.0 0.8 Rise 40 34.0 0.3 Fall BLACK Jo. 50 S23.90.7 Fall OHIO Cincinnati 52 pl2.5 0.1 Rise Cairo 40 34.0 0.1 Rise TENNESSEE Chattanooga 30 13.10.4 Rise Pittsburgh 25 pl6.8 0.2 Rise CUMBERLAND Nashville 40 10.0 OO ARKANSAS Little Rock 233.7 OO RED I Shreveport 39 9.70.1 Rise i S-Stage yesterday morning; P-; Alexandria 328 0 0.8 Fall NEW PAIN KILLER FASTER THAN SHOT Chicago, Oct.

A A new pain killer credited with bringing almost instanteous tablets that dissolve beneath your described today in the illinois Dental Journal. Dr. Murray M. Hoffman, researcher and former instructor at the University of Illinois School of Dentistry, said the tablets killed the pain of toothache, facial neuralgias, post tooth extractions and other mouth disorders. In some persons, he said, complete relief came within 45 seconds.

The longest period required for 315 persons tested was five and a haif- minutes. The tablets contain aspirin mixed with saccharin. But they are not swallowed like plain aspirin. Dr Hoffman said their rapid action comes from sublingual (under the tongue absorption through the mucous membrane redly into the bloodstream This is the mechanism whereby cyanide poisoning causes instant death and nitroglycerine tablets halt some types of heart seizures. "The rapidity of action is greater than tan be obtained with hypodermic injections," he vaid.

---------o---------START STUDENTS HAVE HOMECOMING A gala time was reported by those who attended Start High School's homecoming festivities 0.1 Fail Friday night. Pearl Alford, a senior, reigned as queen and was crowned with all due ceremony by School Principal G. Fleischmann. who is also coach. In her regal court was Helotse Twiner, Carolyn Sue Cumpton, hie Stringfellow and Nell Washington, Oct.

a dozen scientists last night assailed an assertion by Senator McCarthy that the ranks of U. S. scientists "have behn infiltrated to an alarming degree by the Communist enemies" of this country. Calling for "a relentless of the attitude of the atomic energy commission with respect to communism, the Wiscon sin Republican said in a statement in the congressional record: "Tins real ihreat to the nation security is a matter which eithei has been ignored by the atomic energy commission or treated tar too lightly by this vital administrative agency of the government." For the commission. Chairman Gordon Dean replied In a statement that since the A.

E. C. took 1 over control of the atomic program on Jan. I. 1947.

"no person employed by the commission I or its contractors nor any of the 1 consultants or advisers has ever been arrested or indicted much loss convicted of any act of "It is deplorable," Dean continued. "that statements of the type made by Senator McCarthy tend to undermine confidence in the atomic energy program in defiance of the facts of a security record which speaks for McCarthy said it is "a shocking fact that in the cases of many of the most eminent atomic scientists in the United States, there is a presumption of security risks As one example of what he called Communist infiltration into scientific ranks, he cited election of Prof. Kirtley Fletcher Mather of Harvard as 1951 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. McCarthy said "very few men in the academic world have a more flagrant record of supporting the I causes of Stalin's fifth column in this country." Mather replied at Cambridge, that McCarthy's statements were erroneous He said that "as far as my personal activity is concerned Mr. McCarthy and the country may fee! quite safe." fie noted also that he had never been connected with the government atomic program.

McCarthy said, too, that the Federation of American Scientists is "heavily infiltrated with Communist fellow travelers." He said it is headed by W. A. Higinbotham. a member of the A Brook- haven laboratory staff And he said Lyle Borst, another Brookhaven i staff member, lent his name to what McCarthy called a Commun- 1st gathering in York last year. Higginbornam and Borst had no comment.

Dr. Clifford Grobstein, a member of federation's ex- I ecutive committee, commented: "McCarthy is right in one thing, I Higinbotham is chairman of our HUSBAND FEELS GOOD NOW WITHOUT HARSH LAXATIVES my husband, it pi.la and medicines every night for 6 years! Then he began eating ALL-BEAN for breakfast. ondcrful, it keeps him regular!" Thyra Nelson, Star Route Box 651, Union, ash. Just one of mony unsolicited ters from ALL-BRAN users. You, too, may expect amazing re-1 suits for constipation due to of dietary hulk.

Eat an ounce of tasty ALL-BRAN daily, drink plenty of water! If not completely satisfied after IO days, send empty carton to Battle Creek, Mich. Get DOUBLE YOUK MONEY BACK! I deration. The rest is fantastic McCarthy also accused Philip Morrison. Cornell University professor, of affiliation with subversive organizations. He said Morrison took part in design of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, N.

M. "I belong to no subversive organizations and I maintain my right to write, speak and act independently and publicly, whatever Senator McCarthy thinks, Morrison retorted at Ithaca, N. "When Senator McCarthy approves of my activities I shall have reason to be concerned about my Prof. Harold C. Urey of the versity of Chicago, a Nobel Prize winner, was accused by McCarthy I of past affiliation "with numerous Communist front He said Urey is administrator of the A.

E. Argonne laboratory in Chicago. Urey replied: I "As usual, Senator McCarthy doesn't know his facts. Up to the 1 end of the war. I orked on the bomi).

Since 1945 I have had nothing to do with secret work on the AEL "One reason I haven't is that 'here are too many ignorant politicians cf the McCarthy kind whc hide behind immunity to abuse slander those engaged in secret research." McCarthy said Prof Linus Car Paulina ol the California Institute of Technology, president of the American Chemical year, has a record Communist causes Pauiing said a' Pa he has been working of the international would lead to peace a atomic war, and I ass what the senator is re Wadena thai in support policy that id avert an lime that ii fu rring to." McCarthy's remarks brought thli comment from Robert M. Hutchins. chancellor of the University ol Chicago: "I should think Senator McCarthy would want to prove some of the charges he already has rn ase before making any more," MARRIAGE LICENSES Willie Sims Lambert, 50. Monroe, and Bessie Eitel, 48, Dallas, Tex is. David Frank Pobst.

25, Munroe, and Alma Jean Linquist, 12, Monroe, Ellenburg, former Ml- Amerfca end from Michigan now with the Detroit Lions is a announcer for WFR a Detroit radio station during off-seascu. Mrs. Quentin Reynolds Compares Blue Bonnet Likes It Best! nt from Reynolds. Compare Yellow Bi onnet Margarine with any spread at any price. Like the noted journalist's wife, you'll love Bt ce onnet fresh, sweet flavor! Rich nutrition! Real economy! Bt.

UK BONNET is America's fine-quuiuy all vegetable margarine. But costs only about half its much as the high-priced spread for bread! Use lue onnet in cooking, and as a delicious spread. Buy Blub Bonnet and get "ail Flavor! Nutrition! Econom-e-e! Sue Cartlidge, Mr. and Mrs. bearer was daughter of Cartlidge.

The ball game. Start Pool stage. New York COTTON New Oct. 24. futures moved higher today on trade buying and short covering.

An early flurry of buying developde on the increase of 146,000 bales in their first defeat of the season. ter the, game in the cafeteria. ----------HELD FOR DRUNK DRIVING Sherman Johnson, Bastrop. or vehicle while under the i drivers license. He bond.

Public favorites during Yonkers summer meeting fin- ished first 29 times in 96 races cotton export allocations announced for a percentage of .331. CHRISTMAS SPECIAL jill Give Portraits This Christmas 11111 Bring This Coupon To Our Studio and Receive a DISCOUNT ON YOUR PORTRAITS It Is Smart to Be EURI MONROE nil I KA i IST MONROE I RED Potatoes IO lbs. 25c i OO lbs. S2.45 I MESH BAG Oranges 33c Oleo lb. 25c PURE EARLY BIRD Coffee lb.

65c I K. C. Pork Chops lb. 49c K. C.

Beefsteaks lb. 49c 1 1.

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