19 Aug 1960
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1960
Page
1
The commission orders filing of new tariffs in triplicate for approval and sets an effective date for rates. A maximum average of 35 cents per Mcf is referenced, with rates to apply to gas consumed ten days after the order date.
Judge W M Harper fined R E Hicks of Monroe 50 dollars and court costs or 30 days in jail for battery on Murl O Hicks. Hicks peace warrant was discharged. Moody of Monroe received six month suspended sentence for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Other defendants faced various traffic and disorder charges.
A. E. Robinson the Louisiana Vocations Education Conference speaker warned of Africa’s political fragility after advising Germany’s schools and Uganda missions. He traced decades of education reform and cautioned Congo’s governance risks while stressing vocational education as vital to national work life.
Four persons suffered burns in a vacant Alexandria building explosion and fire. Hospital attendants described all four as serious: Mr. and Mrs. Merit O Braskey and brothers Leo and Francis Boucher, all of Alexandria.
O Braskeys owners of the Lee Street building showed the structure to prospective tenants the Boucher brothers when the blast occurred. Walls blew outward, roof settled on debris, four escaped then were trapped outside as debris fell. A post explosion fire caused burns of undetermined extent. Cause of the blast undetermined.
TRENTON New Jersey UPI reports inmates at the state home for girls smash quarter inch plywood doors daily. The facility requests installation of 24 solid core birch doors at 150 dollars each to improve security.
Powers was sentenced for a May 1 arrest during a three day trial in the Soviet Union. The verdict condemns U S foreign policy amid the Cold War, and the judge announced the sentence began May 1. The courtroom crowd applauded as Powers and his family faced the verdict, with a brief reunion afterward.
Shreveport Mayor Clyde Fant joined three other glass producing city chiefs to warn that rising imports threaten regional producers and risk mass unemployment. They urged a sliding scale of import quotas to cap foreign glass while preserving trade, noting most imports come from Belgium and Japan.
Richard M. Clark, longtime Texas Western College theatre figure, is named executive director of the Little Theatre of Monroe. He and his wife will move to Monroe to start the year. Clark succeeds Ivan Uttal who resigned. Clark holds a MFA and has directed and acted in major productions at TWC and Texas University.
Comedian actor Carl Reiner and his wife Estelle welcomed their son Lucas James on Thursday at UCLA Medical Center. Lucas weighs 7 pounds 14 ounces. Reiner, known for his Sid Caesar era work, adds a new child to his family.
Officials say if the out law is denied the U S government lacks a strong legal basis to prosecute Powers. They note routine contract issues could arise but the priority is not to keep the case alive or impose new pressure on the flier.
The Louisiana Vocational Association elected new officers across homemaking and trade sections at a recent conference session. Officers include Helen Scott president Haynesville High School Eunice V Stacy vice president Sammy Waklrip secretary Maxine Sledge treasurer Lola T St Romain representative Section Y Donnie Robinson president Ringgold Trade School Douglas Stevenson vice president Northeast Louisiana Vocational Technical School Opelousas Trade School secretary Lloyd Lloyd Ponder treasurer Stacy C Thigpen executive committeeman Section B Lillian Koett Amite High School treasurer Elizabeth Woodard state education consultant two-year LVA committee appointment Marriary Canniday LaGrange High School Lake Charles and L D Ferguson state director distributive education oversaw section leadership.
In Columbus Mississippi authorities pursued two youths who allegedly tried to break into the Lowndes County jail before dawn Thursday. They had said they wanted to free a friend from detention.
The body of William Savoie, 47, was recovered from the Atchafalaya swamp two days after he died of an apparent heart attack while working for the Keystone Exploration Co. of Houston, Texas.
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