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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1966
Page
12
In Ferriday on the W. T. Compton Plantation a frame house burned as Irene Hankston and Noah Hankston’s children perished. Four sisters aged 2 to 6 died after the mother saved two siblings, while the father was away and the origin of the blaze remains undetermined.
The brother of a Monroe man, Charles David Pridgen, 22, was reported missing from Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines since July 13. He is a Seaman in the Navy, former Natchitoches High School football star, and has been in service three years. The family has received nine unclaimed letters.
Los Angeles police reported sporadic racial disturbances across Watts Venice and Pacoima on Sunday and Monday. No injuries occurred as rocks bottles and car damage were recorded with four juveniles arrested for curfew violations and two adults suspected of assaulting an officer.
Jonesville lawmakers and colleagues praised Gov McKeithen for signing the junior college bill. Co authors included Senators Jones Brown Rambo and Representatives Maxwell Richardson Womack DeWitt Patten and Gilbert with others supporting the measure.
In Delhi Louisiana funeral services were held for 21 year old Robert Donald Jones of Baskin who was electrocuted while adjusting a television antenna. The service at Friendship Baptist Church was officiated by Revs Bobby Brown and Paul Kolb. Burial followed at the church cemetery. Survivors include his widow, parents Arnold and Mrs. Jones, a brother William of Tulsa, and four sisters.
Former Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams leads the Democratic Senate field in Michigan with Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh challenging in a nationwide round of primaries. The contest pits Williams against Cavanagh while other races unfold in Idaho Kansas Missouri and Tennessee with governors and senators seeking renomination amid Vietnam war debate.
Mrs. T. J. Curry 86 of Sikes died Sunday in Winnfield Hospital after a long illness. Funeral at 3 p.m. today at Hurricane Grove Baptist Church with Rev. E J Yocum and others officiating. Burial at James Cemetery near Sikes. Survivors include five sons, two daughters, one brother, three sisters, and 32 grandchildren. Burial by Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.
Funeral services for 95 year old Mrs Tommye Oden are to be held today at St John s Catholic Church in Shreveport. She died Saturday afternoon at St Joseph s Nursing Home where she had resided since 1962. Burial will follow in St Joseph s Cemetery in Shreveport assisted by Osborn Funeral Home of Shreveport.
Funeral services for William L. Taylor Jr., 15, of Route 4 in Monroe, who died Sunday at St. Francis Hospital, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Blackwell-Golden Funeral Home in Bastrop. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston. Survivors include parents William L. Taylor Sr., two brothers Thomas Edward Taylor and David Pearson Taylor, paternal grandparents Leon A. Taylor, Monroe, maternal grandfather Pearson Flowers, Jackson, Mississippi, and step-maternal grandmother Louise W. English, Houston.
Funeral services for Lewis R. Meredith aged 74 of 905 Gunn St West Monroe were held at 2 p.m. at Hixson Brothers Funeral Home with Rev K D Mills officiating. Burial followed in Columbia Cemetery. The decedent left a large surviving family including Nannie Meredith and ten pallbearers.
William Thomas Gresham age 78 died at his home in Shreveport after a long illness. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at National Funeral Home Shreveport with Rev. David Hughes Bernice and Rev. N T. Smith Monroe officiating. Burial will be Forest Park Cemetery Shreveport. He was a member of Queens Borough Baptist Church and the Senior Men's Sunday School class.
The obituary notes Mr Gresham as an honorary Colonel of the state during Earl Long’s administration. He is survived by his wife Mrs Nina Gresham of Shreveport a brother H M Gresham of Tyler Texas and two sisters Mrs Bertha Hinton of Kelly and Mrs Francis Mullins of El Dorado Arkansas.
Falmouth England. Helicopters planes and lifeboats search the Cornish coast for a 45 foot motor cruiser Darlwin with 25 aboard including children declared missing since Sunday after leaving Fowey for Falmouth at 4 p m Rescue officials cite a freak squall along the southwest coasts as the likely cause.
Mrs John F Kennedy and her children Caroline and John Jr have arrived to spend the rest of the summer at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port after attending the wedding of Mrs Kennedy's half sister in Newport.
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