Weather Summary for Monroe and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy through Friday with widely scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoons and evenings. Temperatures stay steady with highs 94 to 98 and lows 72 to 78. Variable winds 5 to 12 mph. Louisiana Delta and Arkansas regions show similar patterns with highs in the 90s and scattered showers. Agriculture advisory notes drying conditions, 60 to 80 percent sunshine, and thundershowers mainly afternoons.
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Louisiana Delta
Arkansas
Mississippi
River Flood Stage Report with Station Readings
Daily river stage bulletin lists stations including Little Rock Shreveport Alexandria Pearl Jackson with current readings and 24 hour changes. States fall or rise at each station including Little Rock 23.61 0.1 fall Shreveport 30.88 0.3 fall Alexandria 32.23 0.2 rise Pearl Jackson 18.49 6.1 fall S Stage and P Pool stage noted yesterday morning readings.
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Little Rock
RED Shreveport
Alexandria
Pearl Jackson
Flash Floods Sweep Southern California Towns
Thunder showers lashed South ern California causing flash floods that washed out highways and submerged Victorville and Apple Valley with up to three feet of water. Residents and businesses stacked sandbags as deputies reported three men rescued from a jeep after water forced a highway washout on State Highway 18 between Victorville and Apple Valley.
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Los Angeles
California
Victorville
Apple Valley
Mojave Desert
Las Vegas
Nev
Obituaries from Winnsboro and Columbia list two funeral services
Funeral services were set for 2 p.m. today at Temple Baptist in Winnsboro for three year old Will Rogers Young Jr. who died at home, with burial at Winnsboro cemetery. In Columbia, services were to be held at 2:30 p.m. today in First Methodist for 82 year old Viola Irwin, with burial at Columbia cemetery. she died in a West Monroe nursing home.
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Winnsboro
Temple Baptist Church
Will Rogers Young
W. R. Young
Joe Mongle
Mulhearn
Nelda K. Young
Willie G. Young
Eunice
William Stitt
S. E. Lee
Columbia
First Methodist Church of
Viola Irwin
West Monroe
M.S. Robertson
Funeral rites for Billy Ray Frith in Lake Providence
Funeral rites for Billy Ray Frith 29 who was killed in a construction accident near Vicksburg Miss were set for 2 p m today at Lake Providence Assembly of God Church with Rev Paul Young officiating. Kidder Cox Funeral Home planned a Forrest Cemetery burial. Frith a welder for R G LeTourneau Co was electrocuted while welding on a Mississippi river job. Survived by widow Irene Barmley Frith three daughters Sandra Debra Beverly Frith all of Vicksburg his parents Eddie and Mrs Frith Lake Providence two brothers Virgil Lake Providence Wayne Vicksburg pallbearers Mack Dukes Billy Jack Murray A C Carlton Harold Green Doyle Hendrix and Lamar Hawkins.
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Oak Grove
Billy Ray Frith
Vicksburg
Miss
Lake Providence
Mississippi
Irene Barmley Frith
Sandra
Debra
Beverly Frith
Eddie Frith
Virgil
Wayne Frith
Mack Dukes
Billy Jack Murray
A. C Carlton
Harold Green
Doyle Hendrix
Lamar Hawkins
James C. McCurdy Jr. Funeral Arrangements Reported
James C. McCurdy Jr. 39 was killed in a Tuesday morning automobile crash in Santa Maria California. Mulhearn's Funeral Home will handle arrangements. He was a Monroe native who resided in Santa Maria for seven years, a painting contractor and World War II veteran. Surviving are his widow Marie McCurdy of Santa Maria and his father J C McCurdy Sr of
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James C
Jake) McCurdy, Jr
California
Mulhearn
Mr. McCurdy
Santa Maria
Monroe
Marie McCurdy
J. C. McCurdy, Sr
Funeral notices and survivors across several families
Mrs. M. R. Guillot of Pattenville dies after long illness. funeral Friday at Church of the Assumption for the mother of Claude M. Guillot of Monroe. she leaves husband three daughters and two sons plus many grandchildren. James L. Laseter 71 dies in Shreveport Veterans Hospital. service incomplete awaiting word from son in Austria. Howard L. Laseter of West Monroe is a brother and niece Mrs. Raymond Butler of West Monroe is mentioned. Mrs. Minnie Fisher of Monroe dies at 75. funeral held at Mulhearn Funeral Home. she leaves Walter L. Fisher in West Monroe and Annie Ward in Norwalk California, plus grandchildren and great grandchildren. pallbearers listed.
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Church of the Assumption
Pattenville
M. R. Guillot
Claude M. Guillot
Monroe
Shreveport
James L. Laseter
Santa Ana
Calif
Shreveport Veterans Hospital
Howard L. Laseter
West Monroe
Austria
U.S. Marine Corps
Laseter
California
Raymond Butler
Mulhearn
Charles Halstead
Hasley
Fisher
Alexandria
Walter L. Fisher
Annie Ward
Norwalk
J. E. Muckleroy
W. C. Salley
Hugh Balfour
M. R. Coon
W. P. Heard and
H. L. Kirby
Milk Commission price order goes into effect
In Baton Rouge Louisiana, a newly adopted Milk Commission price order for half pints sold to schools takes effect Friday. The plan for sales areas two and three uses the average price paid in the past two school sessions and applies to schools and parishes already receiving the 1963 64 milk bids. The two areas cover all parishes except Orleans Jefferson Plaquemines St Bernard and St John.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Milk Commission
Orleans
Jefferson
Plaquemines
St. Bernard
St. John
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