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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1960
Page
1
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Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel pled for prayers and a peaceful solution to the New Orleans school desegregation conflict. Mayor Morrison and the city attorney voiced doubts about the governor’s plan, while federal orders push for compliance amid ongoing court actions and protests by NAACP and white resistance.
Five members of the Morehouse Parish General Hospital Board resign following a Bastrop Daily Enterprise report on party expenditures. The article cites two staff parties, one for white personnel costing 336.74 and another for Negro hospital ages, with funds drawn from surplus hospital treasury and not from parish or federal money.
An Arkansas woman died here and last rites were conducted at Grace Baptist Church El Dorado. Services under Hail Young Funeral Home directions. Survived by two sons Burton and L J Burton, three sisters Mrs Johnnie Walford Pine Bluff Ark Mrs L J Willis Sr Benton Ark and Mrs Mabel Dewell Carrick Benton Ark a brother T G Coyle Memphis and one grandchild.
The Beet Sugar Association reported 1960 first seven months sales at 22.8 million bags, a record for the period and $42,000 bags above the 1938 high. July sales were 3.4 million bags, the highest for the month in a decade, per President Robert H. Shields.
The three Gulf states Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama seek to extend the boundary three leagues into the Gulf arguing the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty and old maps confirm U S water boundary. The map backs up the claim and supports proposed amendments to submerged lands legislation.
J S M Rolfe writes in the Sunday Express about a sad-faced woman in white overalls who enters a London pub after leaving a factory across the road. She orders two sandwiches and explains there is nothing left to eat. When urged to complain she asks, Who's the manager? Answer: Team.
Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrested three youths over thefts at Norris Syrup Co on Milhaven Road. Two suspects named Willie Bishop and Levell Brown, both 18, and a 14 year old juvenile were held after owner William Norris Jr. reported the saddle and syrup stolen months earlier.
An organizational meeting of the Women Realtors of Monroe and West Monroe established a local chapter of the Women’s Council of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Paula Landry elected president. Leia Breard vice president. Louise Gilliland secretary. Bobbye Galloway treasurer. Lillian Davis named program chairman. KK A Porter parliamentarian. Shreveport officials W Roberts and Bertha Sweeney spoke.
Fires roared through Truckee and Donner regions, severing four power lines to Reno and Lake Tahoe as they moved northeast. One blaze burned 7,000 acres near North San Juan while residents, including women and children, rushed to save homes. About 1,200 firefighters fought the Foresthill fire with 1,200 more on Donner, with 900 additional expected today.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 39, sister of Senator John F. Kennedy, will pinch hit for Jacqueline Kennedy as the campaign goes full swing. The former social worker has previously stumped for Kennedy in 1952 and participated in the 1956 Democratic convention backing his bid for vice president.
In a two week cycle the U N council failed to approve a resolution on Congo. The Soviet Union pressed for Belgian troop withdrawal and accused NATO of colonial aims while Hammarskjold resisted calling the Congo a NATO sphere. He proposed an advisory committee to aid the U N force but at headquarters, not in Leopoldville, and not reporting to the Congo government.
NASA chief Glennan says the United States has launched 23 satellites with 13 in orbit and two around the sun, outstripping Soviet efforts and laying groundwork for benefits from better TV to weather control. He cautions that secrecy makes full Russia comparisons difficult.
River stages show a rise over 24 hours with the level changing across monitoring sites. Authorities warn residents near flood plains to prepare and monitor updates from the weather service and local emergency management.
Monroe police arrested two men for driving under the influence on Sunday. Willie Snowden, 20, of West Monroe and Charles Milhorn, 48, of 328 N. 3th, were jailed. A third man, Thomas Marley, 48, from 8FB Foster Home, was booked for being drunk and trespassing.
Bridgeport health officials report a doped food campaign in downtown areas has felled pigeons. Workers capture birds for disposal while the now captured stock includes many diseased or deformed birds. Carbon monoxide is used to kill the fowl and the healthy ones are sold to squad raisers. The humane society approves the drive, though a Fairfield critic objects.
Building permits issued over the past three weeks in West Monroe total 108 300. Inspector C J E Frost released the list noting permits for a food store at 208 Montgomery St and multiple frame and brick veneer projects by various contractors and residents including W O Fisher T K Sandlin Bill s Variety Center Joe Kern and Butler Lumber Co.
Austrian customs officer Josef Haider 34 on the Austrian Hungary border near Halbthurn clambered up a pear tree, tossing fruit across barbed wire. A Hungarian militia volley prompted his escape as two Hungarians crossed back into Hungary with his bicycle and rifle. The event sparks a protest and possible disciplinary action.
Funeral services are planned for 4 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Bastrop for Judge Fred M. Odom 69 who died Sunday at St Joseph Home for the Aged. A Bastrop resident and retired jurist, he served on the Sixth District Court bench from 1918 to 1924 and on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals from 1931 to 1935.
A Alabama Baptist leader Dr. A Hamilton Reid questioned if Senator John Kennedy can remain free from Catholic hierarchy influence. He cited Kennedy avoiding a WW II four chaplains ceremony after a bishop allegedly forbade his appearance.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon instructed his campaign workers and volunteers to keep the religious issue completely out of campaign efforts. He ordered that no groups conditioning support on religion be recognized and that no religious content appear in literature or at campaign centers. These directives were reiterated to all campaign affiliates in a confidential memo signed by Leonard W. Hall and Robert H. Finch.
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