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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1973
Page
5
Renowned actress Main gained lasting recognition for portraying Tug Boat Annie, a role that defined her career and popularized the nautical heroine in American theater and film.
Hollywood veteran Marjorie Main aged 83 talks about reduced interviews and public appearances. She notes three homes in Los Angeles Palm Springs and Idyllwild and recent painting carpentry work. Friends say metaphysics and meditation attract her while she cared for her late husband and faced career highs and hard scenes with Bogart and Runyon.
Ouachita Parish Sheriff's deputies investigated the theft of automobile parts from A Auto Parts on Winnsboro Road Monroe with no value estimate available at press time. The motorcycle theft case involved John Waxley of Sterlington reporting a 1972 Honda CL125 taken from his home, as pulp wood theft on Swartz area land reported by Nenuties JC Platt also remained under investigation.
Eddie H. Edwards of 205 Conrad Street and Northeast Louisiana University received an Army Commendation Medal for service in Vietnam from September 1968 to September 1969. He served in the artillery and along the Cambodian border during his tour before his discharge.
A singing fellowship will be conducted at 7 30 p m Saturday at Brownville United Methodist Church in West Monroe Alvin Street. The event opens to gospel singers and listeners, said James Hightower president of the fellowship.
Funeral services for J. M. Odom 76 brother of Monroe City Schools former superintendent Van D. Odom will be at 10 30 a m Friday at First Baptist Church Norphlet burial in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens under Young's Funeral Home El Dorado Odom died Wednesday while vacationing in Rutherfordton North Carolina He was a Union Parish Louisiana native resident of Union County Arkansas for 45 years retired petroleum company employee and a church member He is survived by his widow Lillian Ramsey Odom three sons Grayden Odom Alvin Texas John Lee Odom Atlanta Georgia Dale W Odom Norphlet four daughters Sue Tuggle Bossier City Virginia McKenzie Boulder Colorado Eloise Casper Regalwood North Carolina Melva Thompson Ruston one brother J Y Odom Tulsa Oklahoma three sisters Morriss Foster Nacogdoches Texas Joe Oliphant Shreveport Bill Haley Baton Rouge.
An 18 year old Winnsboro youth received a suspended five year prison term for simple robbery in Fourth Judicial District Court. Ricky Dale Allen of Winnsboro was given the suspended sentence and placed on supervised probation with three years in jail as the first condition. Judge Fred Fudickar Jr. presided.
A Monroe resident Charles E. Ware of Room 707 Barron Hotel Monroe was sentenced by Judge Fred Fudickar to six months in jail for possession of marijuana in Fourth Judicial District Court.
Dist Atty Johnny Parkerson has 38 days to seek State Supreme Court review of Judge Robert Farr’s quash ruling that dismissed 29 indictments against former Monroe Mayor W. L. Howard and Commissioner H. W. McSherry. A Sept 4 hearing will address other defense motions.
A formal peace announcement in Indochina marked the end of the seven year war with France on August 11, 1954.
Happy Land opens with five rides near Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo. Do Do the Clown greets visitors on Saturday and Sunday. Rides include a merry go round helicopter boat auto Tub O Fun under a steel shed. Tickets allow all five rides for $1 with one free ride for each child under 12.
Two motorists were fined $400 or 85 days in jail for driving while under the influence in Monroe City Court. Judge Elvis Stout fined Richard Irwin Brown of 56 January Drive, Monroe, and Ezra Lee Warner of Foster Homes, Monroe, each for DWI. Brown and Warner received suspended fines for speeding and negligent driving respectively.
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