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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1957
Page
3
In Ferriday Louisiana two sisters Lizzie Broussard and Ethel Gordon who lived 18 miles apart reunited after 39 years when both visited sick relatives in the same hospital. Their meeting revealed seven half sisters and three brothers. They plan a family reunion this week.
Two teenage youths charged with stealing an eight thousand dollar trailer truck were in FBI custody at Warren county jail. Billy Neal Johnson sixteen Memphis Tennessee and Donald C Price seventeen West Memphis Arkansas were identified as the suspects. They wrecked the truck near Onward Mississippi and fled into a wooded area before being captured by highway patrolmen.
Plans and specifications for two new educational buildings were released by state superintendent Shelly M. Jackson. One is a welding shop addition at Union Parish Trade School Farmerville and the other a farm mechanics shop at Epps in West Carroll Parish. Architects are Butler and Dobson of Natchitoches. Sealed bids for the Union Parish job are due 10 a.m. Wednesday and bids for the Ouachita Valley project are due 2 p.m. the same day.
Officials of railroad lines in Arkansas asked the Arkansas Commerce Commission for permission to raise freight rates by 22 percent. They also requested an immediate emergency five percent hike, matching a recent interstate commission approval on interstate rates.
The Spring Hill College seismograph recorded a strong quake about 1,044 miles southwest of Mobile. Rev. L. J. Eisele said the tremor, likely in south central Mexico, could cause severe damage in a populated area. First shock at 12:22 a.m. CST, second at 12:25 a.m. The reading was 6.5 on the Richter scale.
The Al Shaab newspaper reports the 17 year old daughter of Jordan's ambassador to Iran is being groomed to wed King Hussein, 22, with a royal wedding planned at the Amman palace.
Communist Huk rebels ambushed a bus in southeastern Luzon last Friday, killing three soldiers and wounding three civilians, the Manila dispatch reports dated June 22.
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