Weekend Violent Deaths Push Louisiana Toll Higher
Four people died in Northeast Louisiana over the weekend boosting the state toll to twelve. Fatal crashes near Mound in Madison Parish and Monroe claimed several lives, including Mrs. W. H. Hale and James B. Tauntam, while a separate 3rd Street collision killed Morris Smith and injured his family. Drowning and other accidents across the state added more names to the grim tally with victims in Vidalia, Winnfield, Bastrop, Natchez, and Grand Isle, among others.
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Louisiana
Mound
Madison Parish
Tallulah
U. S. Hwy. 80
L. L. Smith
James Allen Smith
Mary S. Newton
Bastrop
Haile
Tallulah Methodist Church
Crothers Funeral Home
Hale
Ruth Hale
Leonard Kennedy
Lake Providence
W. H. Hale Jr
U. S. Marine Corps
Foster Funeral Home
Natchez
Coldwater Baptist Church
Meadville
Miss
Dan Crenshaw
Michael Dodd
Russell Rushing
Yuma, Ariz
Jeri Crenshaw
Robin Rushing
Yuma
Ariz
G. W. Thompson
Lake Charles
Vinton
George Wilson Sr
New Orleans
Kathy Prine
New
Mississippi River Bridge
Lawrence Seymour Jr
U. S. 99
Houma
James C. Short Jr
Wardline
Hammond
Pontchatoula
Burglary Probed By City Police
Monroe police investigate a safe burglary at Montgomery Ward on North Third Street in which eight radios and about 37 dollars were taken from a petty cash box and vending machine. Entry is believed by some to have occurred after being locked in during Saturday night. Separate burglary at D M Auto Sales on Louisville Avenue yielded about six dollars from a vending machine. Police also pursue a car theft case involving Clyde Craft and a man linked to Robert Finney as Shreveport officers report a vehicle stop and confession.
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Monroe Police Department
Montgomery Ward
North Third Street
James C. Kelly Jr
Louisville Avenue
Helioport expansion planned on Coast Guard cutter Reliance
The 210 foot Coast Guard cutter Reliance will serve as a floating heliport and refueling base in the Gulf of Mexico extending rescue helicopter range from Belle Chasse. Commissioned in Galveston, it will base at Corpus Christi and begin a four month shakedown after sea trial, with eight such ships planned by 1974. Capt. Cascini said the vessel signals a fleet expansion to eight Gulf heliport ships by 1974.
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Coast Guard
Gulf
Galveston
Tex
Naval Air Station
Belle Chasse
Reliance
Eighth Coast Guard District
Corpus Christi
Ernest A. Cascini
The
Miss Louisiana contestants to be honored at Monroe dinner
Beauties entered in the Miss Louisiana Pageant, July 2-4, will be feted Thursday evening at a Monore Chamber of Commerce dinner. The event at Bayou DeSiard Country Club begins at 5 p.m. with chaperones, ahead of the 7 p.m. pageant opening at Neville High School. Tickets are available through the Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monare Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Bayou DeSiard Country Club
Chamber
George Moses
Moses
Louisiana
Neville High School
Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce
Real Estate Transfers From Ouachita Parish Clerk Office
A record of numerous property transfers in Ouachita Parish listing buyers, sellers, parcels, and prices. Notable entries include Bert Lee selling to Lee Realty Inc for 8742.03. Mary Goss Chapel Baptist Church transferring to its church inc for 100. and Raymond Perkins to Emory Joiner for 200 cash with mortgage assumptions totaling 7,835.84. Other transfers cover subdivisions such as Ridgecrest and Bayou Oaks with amounts from 9,500 to 35,000 and mortgage assumptions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Bert Lee
Lee Realty, Inc
D. A. Breard Sr
Mary Goss Chapel Baptist Church
Mary Goss Chapel Baptist Church, Inc
Washington
William H. Hogan
Alvis & Gossett Et Ux
Sun Valley Estates
Sadie Estelle Gilrey
Ramona Louise Williamson
Harvey Belle McLaughlin
Splane Place
Mertie Smith Crawford
Leon Crawford
Lloyd M. Butler
Raymond Carlton Perkins
Emery
Ouachita Cotton Millis
James O. Dye
Nannie Jane Dye
Newton Edgar Wilson
Alexander Land Co
William H. Chambliss
Eugene Edward Gayne
Ques Cotton Mills
Purvis Earl Lewis
Vivian Howard Lewis
Henry Long
Ouachita Cotton Mills
Benjamin J. McGuffey
State of
Highland
Jamar W. Adcock
Bradford Built Homes, Inc
Pargoud Place
Louisville Construction Co., Inc
Franklyn O. Hurst Etux
Bayou Oaks
George W. Boorer
Buttitta, Inc
Hudson
Riverside
Clarence Evans Hoganet Ax
Joseph Allen Teets Jr
Hinkle
Annie
Luckett
Jack L. Smith
Welzie L. Garrett
Dolley
Arthur Lane Strahan
Sam OD
Scott
Lee Avenue
Theft Reported After License Purchase Call to Headquarters
A license was purchased and the holder called headquarters to report a theft. Police are reviewing the incident and tracking the missing item through official channels. Investigators emphasize proper reporting procedures and prompt action to recover the asset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cense
Changes Planned In City Buses
Monroe's bus system will undergo a complete revamping starting Wednesday. The changeover will take about 99 days and aim to provide faster service at peak hours. The Lover's Lane line will be discontinued and routes merged into a single southbound service with 30 minute intervals from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. A team including H. W. McSherry Rex Ensminger and W. O. Cornett will ride each line to finalize details over the three month planning phase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
H. W. McSherry
South Grand
Catalpa
Ouachita
Jackson
Lee
Vernon
Charity Hospital
McSherry
Rex Ensminger
W. O. Cornett
New Orleans
Keating pushes conditional congress pay raise fairness
Senator Kenneth B Keating of New York proposes a conditional public disclosure of finances for members to qualify for the Congress pay increase He announced on a radio TV program that he will offer an amendment when the Senate debates its version of the pay raise bill possibly this week
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Congress
New York
Keating
Senate
NAACP May Seek Federal Takeover of Mississippi
Cincinnati CAP report: NAACP board chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood said NAACP lawyers will urge the federal government to assume control of Mississippi, citing Article IV, Section 4, to enforce a republican form of government. He criticized Southern terrorism and urged President Johnson to act for civil rights and safety of Black citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
CAP
Mississippi
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Stephen Gill Spottswood
NAACP
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
Spottswood
Guild To Strike In Hollywood Over TV Film Talks
AP reports the Screen Actors Guild announces broken contract negotiations with television film producers and plans to strike. Ballots have been sent to 15 000 members of the AFL CIO union. 75 percent authorization triggers a walkout after midnight Tuesday. The union seeks higher pay for reruns and foreign exhibition, while producers call proposals excessive as profits mainly come from reruns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild
Aflcio
Blended Canadian Whisky Imported by Hiram Walker
A 6 year old blended Canadian whisky imported in bottle from Canada by Hiram Walker Importers in Detroit Michigan. The label notes 86.8 proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Hiram Walker
Detroit
Mich
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Philadelphia
FBI
W. H. Hale
James B. Tauntam
Strong
Ark
Emily
Kenneth Wade
Sandra Lynn
St. Francis Hospital
Mrs. Smith
Kenneth
Lynn
Smith
Robert R. Allen
S. 12Th St
David Anthony Dodd
Laura Rushing
Hubert Rushing
Vidalia
Rushing
David
Winnfield
Glenn Gorham
J. FE. Reeves
Gorham
Mon
Gary Warlick
Mike Brakefield
Lloyd Ray Smith
Carl Wisener
Harold Smith
Carlton McDowell
Christine Pillman
Lakeland
Grande Isle
Lance Paul Fite
Marrero
Goose Bayou
Lafitte
John McMahon
Lake Pontchartrain
UPS
U. S. Coast Guard
Gulf of Mexico
Chamber States
Louis Thomas
Bruce Terminix
Monroe, LA
Cal
Anna Mary Fuller
Employer's Life Ins. Co of America
Calles
Ahi
Sheera
Aristocrat
Martin 404
Memphis
Baton Rouge
Southern Airways
Bourbon
Yo EO Maery
Hiram Walker & Sons Limited
Walkerville, Canada
A. Sta
Canadian Oil
Bond
Polartex
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