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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1961
Page
2
Judge warns Marcello faces deportation after hearing on restraining order. Zimmerman says if Marcello is detained, immigration will decide on bond and may renew or seek new orders. Johnson confirms ongoing search. attorneys have appealed the ruling pending.
U S forces move from East Coast ports to support ground units from Camp Lejeune as attack carriers Shangri La and Intrepid sail from Jacksonville and Norfolk. Boxer acts as amphibious base with Marines aboard LSTs near Morehead City while Pentagon rebuffs details, signaling a strategic show of force.
A 17-year-old Monroe youth was arrested by Monroe police for trespassing and peeping. The suspect, William A. Turpini of 302 Country Club Road, was taken into custody at 405 Wilmouth St after a complaint from Mrs. Charles Chambers of 5 Wileyouth St. She said a peeping tom had troubled them for some time and was caught once before.
Khrushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy toured Vienna with Austrian President Adolf Schaerf as hosts. The state visit featured lavish meals on imperial china, a as official guests mingled in the palace rooms with 600 attendees, enjoying coffee, banter, and an evening of ballet and opera.
West Monroe police booked 12yearold Harold Hill of 305 South 12th St on two counts of theft. He is linked to stealing an $18 watch from Saiders Jewelry and a money clip from Ramsey's Jewelry. Another youth, 17yearold Patrick Hunter of Monroe, was also booked on related charges for several items including a $2.69 metal calendar and a $15to$150 ring, with most stolen items recovered.
Miss Devanna Gimber was chosen Miss Jackson Parish in the Jackson Parish pageant in Jonesboro Hodge. First runner up Patricia Herron and second runner up Dianne Hobson. Miss Congeniality went to Patricia McConathy. Gimber will compete in Miss Louisiana at Lake Providence and receive a $100 dress and a $300 modeling-school scholarship. Judges were Carolyn Masur, David Colvin, and Lynn's Modeling School director. Gimber performed a piano solo.
British Sunday papers called Kennedy and Khrushchev talks friendly yet serious with editors noting genuine concern to address world issues. Headlines ranged from cautious optimism to warnings a clash over Berlin could arise, while Reynolds News praised a hopeful weekend for mankind.
Construction bids for the South Second Street underpass in Baton Rouge will be let June 26 at 10 am by the State Highway Department. The $1.75 million project, funded by state, city and Missouri Pacific, covers grading drainage paving and structures for a 0.678 mile segment on Louisiana Highway 15. The city will contribute $500,000 from a 1958 bond issue.
Maj. Eugene F. Moses and Lt. David F. Dickerson piloted a defense system aboard a prior record-setting bomber that flew from New York to Paris in 3 hours 19 minutes 41.5 seconds at 1095.9 mph. The aircraft exploded near Louvres, France, during an air show refueling and maneuver, as rescue workers and Gen. Leon E. Johnson led the response amid a somber scene.
Washington AP reports bids will be opened July 15 by the Post Office Department for a new post office in St James Parish Louisiana Rep Hale Boggs says the department aims to locate within a quarter mile of the current site along the river road. The building will be constructed by a private firm and leased to the department.
In Jackson Mississippi the three day hunger strike by Freedom Riders weakened as 21 of 26 inmates in Hinds County jail and a core of seven white riders in a nearby city jail continued their protest. Federal orders halted further tests of Southern segregation laws in Alabama as the strikes aimed to force desegregation or transportation changes across the Deep South.
In New Orleans AP three young white men were arrested during a picketing at Pugha's Supermarket. Abraham Bass ford 22 of Brooklyn James T McDonough 22 of Huntington and Terry J Sullivan 23 of Chicago were booked on vagrancy charges after identifying as CORE members. Negroes had picketed the store for weeks calling for equal employment.
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