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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1955
Page
5
Phyllis McGuire of the McGuire sisters was nursing a fractured jaw after playful roughhousing with her husband and a French poodle. Murray Kane, their manager, said she was recuperating in a New York hospital.
A proposal outlines federal action to improve crop pest poisons quality and advocate balanced policy across agriculture labor social security and national defense. It supports farm wage limits, opposes broader minimum increases, seeks farm worker exemptions from social security, and backs conservation and natural resources development. It urges cooperation on national unity foreign relations economy veterans and health through legislative measures across numerous departments.
Cong Passman pledges to seek full parity for cotton and higher flood-control funding for the lower Mississippi Valley, while pressing drastic cuts in foreign aid. He opposes federal mass road-building debt and education federalization, and favors fiscal restraint. He will push for Old River closure, Bayou Macon work, Boeuf River projects, and the New Orleans to Gulf ship channel.
Police pursued Johnny Williams a 40 year old Black man suspected in the fatal shooting of Julius Jones 28 at Jack's Bar on Oak Street about 9 45 p m Friday Witnesses identified Williams as the shooter Jones died from a left side neck wound. Bar owner Gene Bortomaschi 47 was arrested on gambling charges and later released on bonds.
The Associated Press reports three deaths from fires and six from traffic accidents across Louisiana. Victims include woodcutters R. L. Wright and Percy Strickland, baby Philip Wallace in Delhi, and several adults in wrecks near Houma LaPlace Oakdale Zwolle Lafayette and New Orleans.
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