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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1957
Page
11
Oklahoma City police piece together clues in the black scarf murder of 40 year old Mrs. Allen S. Perkins a drugstore cosmetics saleswoman found dead in her duplex. Neighbors reported a suspicious car seen near her home after she finished work at 10 p.m. and later hours. An autopsy was expected.
Louisiana land office holds a $36,113.50 royalty check from Cities Service and Skelly Oil for a 1 250 acre tract near Breton Island as the state awaits the Supreme Court ruling on tidal zone ownership. Funds go to escrow pending dispute resolution between state and federal government.
Three additional Soviet warships, including motor torpedo boats, joined a cruiser and two destroyer escorts as they crossed the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean. The arrival coincides with Western NATO exercise plans and reports Moscow sold submarines to Egypt for security. Western analysts speculate on possible goodwill visits or observer roles in the NATO maneuvers.
Kenneth Littens aged 19 was rearrested in Kalamazoo Michigan as a parole violator. Police had searched for him for three months and only found him after his name appeared in a newspaper. He had become a father.
Radio and television schedules from KNOE K C run through a dense list of programs. Johnny Mitchell Mike Shannon Farm News Jubilee Esso Reporter News Garden Gate Elvis Presley Show Gunsmoke Popeye Show and more are shown with times, stations KNOE KMAR KNOB KRBB KAGH KRBB KALB and others across channels, with caveat about accuracy.
In Sacramento on June 21 Governor Goodwin presented Mrs. Gladys M. Burrows of the Board of Equalization with a 3086 award for a suggestion that helped California save or earn 88191. The announcement capped the highest state employee award to date.
The 45,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt headed for Norfolk for drydock repairs after a pump room explosion off Florida killed two seamen and injured five. A Navy board could not determine the blast cause and will reconvene in Norfolk. FDR expected back in Jacksonville in about three weeks.
CHICAGO Nearly a quarter of a billion books with paper covers were sold in the United States last year. Dan Lacy, managing director of the American Book Publishers Council, told librarians that demand for fiction in libraries has fallen as readers prefer owning paper cover books. He compared the shift to the rise of frozen foods in the food industry.
Farmerville will hold a special election to fill the vacancy from the death of Mayor R. L. Turnage. No date has been set. Town attorney Armand F. Rabin was notified by letter from Baton Rouge. John F. Ramsey serves as mayor pro tem. Turnage would have begun a third term in July.
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