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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1961
Page
5
Local Red Cross workers plan their annual Christmas visit to patients at the Veterans Hospital in Alexandria this Sunday. The event aims to bring cheer and support to veterans through volunteer-led activities and greetings.
A new Glenwood Hospital electric distribution center and two 13 800 volt feeders near West Monroe will ensure dual power sources. The facility, built by LP and L crew led by Dewey Sisson, links to two transformers and transmission lines, with one feeder from Sterlington and the other from Standard near Olla. If one feeder fails, the other automatically supplies power to the hospital.
Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi, a former Hungarian finance minister and expert on Soviet affairs, will address Monroe Executives' Dinner Club at the Paragon Tuesday evening. He recently returned from Europe and is a Bradley University economist and director of the Institute of International Studies.
John H. Walfe of Highland Park celebrated his 90th birthday by ice skating for two hours the day before retiring after 20 years as a bass viol player with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
A historical fiction vignette follows Mary and Joseph traveling from Nazareth toward the Jordan Valley. The couple, nearing childbirth, face austere travel and spiritual reflections in a sparse journey marked by modest meals, shared longing, and quiet resolve as they rest by the river.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will stop in Madrid on December 16 on his way home from the Paris Western foreign ministers meeting. He will meet briefly with General Franco and Spain's foreign minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, per State Department notice.
Lincoln Neb. police say Derrold Keys 26 admitted shooting Kathy Ristine 20 and burying the body in a shallow grave after she broke up with him. The ex fiancee had been missing since Wednesday evening. County to rule later on murder charges.
State DAV commander Earl G. Cantrell of Shreveport will attend the J. H. McClendon Chapter No. 8 meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Ouachita Parish Courthouse police jury room. Also attending are J. H. Bonner, national deputy chief of staff, and local officers James A. Swanson and Carl E. Stepro.
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