22 Aug 1961
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1961
Page
1
A public notice in the euro area announces a real estate sale involving a named party identified as Mr Deyt. The notice outlines the action by an official authority and sets forth the date and location of the sale.
A Council Bluffs Iowa funeral home owner H S Woodring age 51 and his driver Fred Bargenquast 43 arrived nine hours late with a body for Youngs Funeral Home Winnsboro. They were jailed after police found beer cans and mixing spoons in the hearse. Bargenquast paid fines and pled guilty to driving while intoxicated and disturbing the peace. The late Alton Webb 41 of Lake Charles died in a construction accident earlier when a road grader he operated was struck by bees and overturned.
Ruston police say two 20 year old men, Bobby C. Chandler and Albert Chaplin, admitted burglaries in Ruston and Monroe. They were arrested after a 1952 model car was stopped in Ruston. Loot included jewelry, clothing, and cash with most items recovered. Delta losses in Monroe awaiting audit.
Jonesboro police reported the theft of a white 1960 ambulance from Southern Funeral Home. Cash was also taken during the ransacking of the funeral home office. About 350 dollars was missing as investigators from the Jonesboro police and Jackson sheriff's department looked into the case.
The debate centers on extending a rights focused commission and tying civil rights measures to an appropriations bill. Southern senators seek votes to block new reforms while northern liberals push amendments including poll tax abolition and school aid extensions. Senators Thurmond and Stennis challenge liberal tactics as the money bill funds State and Justice operations for the new fiscal year.
Lincoln Parish reports its fifth traffic fatality of year a 37 year old Chandrant Negro J D Samuels killed in a three car crash on U S Highway 80 ten miles east of Ruston. Passenger Jean Brantley 20 of Bossier City sustained non serious injuries in Crosby Joes accident.
The coroner reports Maynard Mike Shetley 72 was accidentally killed Monday while repairing a roof at the R. O. Mills home in Winnfield. He slipped and struck his head with hemorrhage following the fall. Surviving are two sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren, plus two sisters. Funeral arrangements pending.
Adenauer arrived in West Berlin and visited the Marienfelde refugee reception center where several hundred East German refugees cheered him. He told them Germany would reunify and Berlin would be its capital, while noting the wall as a reminder of unification.
Holleman remains in critical condition after a two vehicle crash that killed four people near Krotz Springs. Victims include John Barron and Leslie Hennigan. Charles Douthitt and his sister Rebecca died in the pickup collision.
Freshman representative Dyer sent two letters to Gov. Davis seeking action on a $700,000 mansion appropriation. He asked Atty. Gen. Gremillion to rule on legality and propriety of the governor’s methods in obtaining votes, and posed seven questions about the Aug. 8 Bond and Building Commission meeting and related procedures.
Funeral services for Mrs. C. N. Whitehead, who died at her home, will be held 4 p.m. Tuesday at Grayson Baptist Church with Rev. Don Roberts officiating. She was 77. Interment in Old Bethel Cemetery, directed by Riser and Son Funeral Home. Survived by three daughters and one son plus siblings and grandchildren.
Funeral services will honor Mr. Wright, former superintendent of education, deacon of First Baptist Church of Jonesville, and member of Four Rivers Lodge, with interment at Heard Cemetery. Survivors include wife Mrs Rowena Randall Wright, three daughters Lucyle Carter, Myrtis Thornton, Norma Braden, and three sons Howard Jr, Hiram, Randall, plus siblings, 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Cemetery near Manifest. arrangements by Kinner Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.
Moscow AP Titov offers dining tips for future space travelers based on Voskhod II experience. He notes table manners aren’t essential in zero gravity and spills float. He recalls no plates or utensils in the cabin and describes the first course of soup followed by meat and liver paste with black currant juice.
In New Orleans a hearing for Edgar Labat and Alton Peret, sentenced to death for a 1941 rape, robbery, and assault, was continued indefinitely by U.S. District Judge J Skelly Wright who cited alleged systematic jury exclusion from their 1953 state court trial.
Band rehearsals started Monday in Oak Grove as the Tigers prepare for the football season. The season opens September 8 at Columbia against Columbia.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW discussed plans to attend the district meeting in Monroe on September 11.
The Harrisonburg Rotary Club on Monday night voiced approval for a locks and dam project location south of Jonesville.
Oak Grove and Epps residents named at Pelican State gathering in West Carroll Parish. Roy Ford Epps Henry R Roberts Pione er Wayne Orr Kenneth Nix and others listed alongside local Masons Warren A Downs Homer F Downs honored for their Masonic work.
In a long standing case dating to last November, Judge Dawkins enjoined Pauline Culpepper, the parish voting registrar, from further discrimination and ordered the restoration of Negro voting rights. The suit targets the Association of Citizens Councils of Louisiana and multiple council groups plus 17 officers and members. Culpepper denied discrimination, but Dawkins cited ongoing bias through the 1956 purge and until the trial.
The former home on Maple Street where Huey and Earl Long grew up is donated to the state for a park. Mrs. Clara Knott of Sabine Parish and Mrs. Blanche Long filed the deed in Winn Parish clerk of court’s office. The site honors Earl, Huey P. Long Sr., and Caledonia Long, with Earl buried near the plot center.
Colonel Banks, a Raleigh West Virginia native and former National Guardsman, perished when an ocean beacon tower off the Atlantic collapsed during a violent storm. The Old Shaky tower held radar gear and was one of three warning structures. wreckage remains underwater. Banks served 237 combat missions in the Southwest Pacific and helped develop ship bombing techniques. He leaves a wife and two young sons.
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