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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1961
Page
3
New York AP reports business outlook cheers as December activity shows rising retail sales and industrial orders. Some economists predict 1982 records in production income and profits, while others see a quick rebound after a fall lull.
Tryouts for Bye Bye Birdie, major Monroe Little Theatre production, are set for Friday evening and Sunday afternoon at the Strauss Playhouse on Lamy Lane. Richard Clark directs with Del Sawyer conducting the Northeast Louisiana State College Jazz Ensemble. rehearsals start January 2 for a late February opening.
NBC TV news special Japan East is West used clever photography and commentary to enliven a stale point. The piece offered entertaining frames and a pacey approach to brief viewers on a complex topic.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn avoids confirming a current national chair role while signaling ongoing Communist Party activity. She urged older members to step aside for new blood as the party faces indictment for failing to register as an arm of the Soviet Union, and noted she is not underground.
In Perry Georgia Stanley Sorrells was suspended for 16 days and failed all subjects after refusing to obey a school order banning a ducktail hairstyle. His father Walter Sorrells filed suit against four school officials. the case was dismissed on a technicality and an appeal to the State Board of Education seeks to bar the Houston County School Board from controlling hair grooming.
Marjorie Kruschen won an interlocutory divorce from actor Jack Kruschen in Los Angeles. She testified he kept an apartment two years earlier and came and went freely, and she asked about his whereabouts but received no answer. They wed in 1947. he earned an Oscar nomination for The Apartment.
Street Commissioner W D H Rodriguez says the Plum Street underpass should be open to traffic by Christmas with walkways and west side lanes complete and most east side cement work done. Work began last February and relies on fair weather to finish.
Funeral services set for Floyd Skinner 77 of Dubach at New Prospect Baptist Church with Rev. Carlos Rockett officiating. Skinner died after long illness. burial in Unionville. Survived by Ola Skinner. two daughters. a son Lanell. sister Lillian Milshreve. brothers Ner and Clyde. seven grandchildren. Carries similar notices for Mrs. Carrie B. McCrary 68 and Cassels family in Rosefield area.
Miss Lula Cassels aged 48 died Sunday in Pine. Last rites were scheduled in Rosefield with local clergy and funeral plans announced. Further service details await later notices.
A judge ruled Wheaton school bond issue referendum results were a tie at 2 373 to 2 373 and the proposal was defeated. A recount of the $2.3 million high school program was ordered after several ballots in favor were challenged following the initial announcement it had passed 2 374 to 2 373.
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