19 Jul 1954
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1954
Page
1
Archie E. Redden Jr., 18, son of A. F. E. Redden of 639 Tulip St., W. Monroe, finishes basic training at Lackland Air Force Base after completing his course.
Vevear Ald major ette from Arcadia High School has been chosen to represent Louisiana in the Miss America in Penn contest. The national event will be staged at Lake Erie, Ohio, in August, with Ann notified by telegram from Vic-
Ann Nichols of Arcadia, daughter of Mr and Mrs M F Nichols, wins acclaim as a top baton twirler. She attended 225 students at Tech summer camp July 5 to 17, teaches two classes, and has placed in multiple contests including first at Mississippi Southern College camp and third in a New Orleans state contest.
Senator McCarthy presided over a low key hearing on suspected communist influence in defense work. Mundt joined, labeling Wojchowski’s activity as having an old aroma of discipline while urging Allis Chalmers to remove him from defense access. McCarthy questioned Allis Chalmers’ firing rights for those who refuse to answer关于 communism, noting General Electric’s actions as a possible model. The session opened in the Senate office building caucus room with nine spectators.
Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quints, reportedly left a Montreal area convent and headed toward Ste Agathe to visit friends before possibly returning to the cloister. Her brother in law noted she seemed confused and homesick, amid questions about her vow of two years as a nun and duties at the convent.
Five Monroe area soldiers Pvt Gerald Dean Sullivan Pvt Clarence M Hatfield Pvt Clarence Ward Pvt Od ie Bassiel Lee Jr and Pvt Charles Petrus have been assigned to the Antiaircraft Artillery Replacement Training Center at Fort Bliss Texas for their second eight weeks of basic training They completed eight weeks of fundamental infantry subjects and will now learn light and medium AAA firing techniques on Fort Bliss ranges They will be graduated in a formal parade and retreat ceremony and become eligible for assignment to a permanent AAA unit.
The Ouachita W M U Association will hold its quarterly meeting at the First Baptist Church of West Monroe starting 10 a m Wednesday. The theme is Willing Witnesses Wanted with sessions from 10 to lunch and 1 15 p m for the afternoon.
Fire investigators continued to probe the cause of Sunday's blaze at the Three Mile Inn where two men were injured in a prior week incident. Officials say the inn suffered about 75 000 in damage, with most of the building uninsured. Fire crews faced heavy flames before dawn as traffic was controlled by state police and calls to report the fire disrupted a telephone line.
Private talks were arranged among chief delegates. Smith complained of lumbago and cancelled a lunch with Mendes France while Eden welcomed Vietnamese leaders. Experts from both sides drafted truce documents for signature as Molotov pressed for partition at the 14th parallel and Mendes France demanded division at the 18th parallel.
Hint delays the four year program by returning the measure to conference to restore its status. Eisenhower hails the tax revision bill as essential to his agenda but it remains in a conference committee.
Markable progress last week in resolving differences on tax reductions for shareholder dividends and a compromise farm bill. Senate Chairman Aiken will seek approval of flexible price supports between 80 and 90 percent of parity after his committee backed 90 percent for five crops. Eisenhower urged 75 to 90 percent, while the House backed 82 to 90 percent in a modified plan.
The Tennessee senator criticizes a White House order to allow private power contracts for atomic energy serving Memphis via AEC, replacing TVA lines to feed the Paducah plant in Kentucky. The issue centers on sharing secrets and the directive not being in the bill.
The victim, a 1954 Clinton High School graduate, was found dead in a Lorraine Hotel room with evidence suggesting strangled and staged death. Police suspect a strong assailant forced her into a dresser causing fatal injuries. The case recalls the unresolved Maoma Ridings murder on the next floor. Investigators sent organs to Indiana University Medical Center for chemical tests.
CAMBRIDGE Md Winnie M Jones a frugal bachelor who earned thousands from crabbing and oyster tonging but distrusted banks lay near death and penniless after neighbors found him beaten in his Bishop Head kitchen He reportedly carried between 5000 and 6000.
President Eisenhower's son Maj. John Eisenhower is being temporarily assigned to Washington to serve as a military aide. He is currently stationed at Fort Benning Georgia.
Commissioner Wayne Huckaby said rain allowed city street crews to start gravel street repairs in parched areas. Three graders were already at work Monday as temperatures cooled from the 90s to the upper 80s. The low reached 71 with scattered clouds and a chance of storms into the night.
Passage describes growing anti Communist sentiment and Paris Hanoi negotiations. About 400 priests and seminary students arrived in Saigon aboard a French carrier. Large Catholic population in the Red River delta reportedly moving away amid conflict.
Three Louisianians died in weekend accidents two by drowning and one in a auto truck crash near Terrell Texas. Mrs Watel Crumholt 51 of Baton Rouge died when a tire blew, twins Jacqueline and Joyce Faye Crumholt 25 were hospitalized in Baker Texas and later improved. Robert Crumholt 53 and Elaine Dixon 23 were seriously injured but improved. Cleveland Washington 17 of Alexandria drowned at a gravel pit near Forest Hill. Moon Kouns 42 a merchant seaman drowned when his car rolled into a bayou near New Orleans.
Robert J. L. Allen, 19, son of Mr and Mrs Luther Allen of Urania Gen Del, finishes basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
The heat wave, killing 165 last week, returned Monday with temperatures above 110 across the Central Plains. Einer Swanson, 63, of Stromburg Nebraska, died as temperatures reached 108. The Weather Bureau noted 100 degree heat across a wide swath from Texas to North Dakota. In St Louis 112 degrees marked a deadly Sunday, with Kansas City at 111 and other cities recording double-digit highs. Farmers in Mattoon seek rainmaking aid to save crops as Southern California endures lingering heat and two deaths. Beach crowds numbered about 1.1 million near Los Angeles.
The governor's office announced that Tuesday July 27 will be a state holiday to accommodate the primary elections. Officials urged residents to plan accordingly and observe the day as a nonworking holiday for government operations.
He indicated he will depart around July 22 and work with the White House liaison office. He described the role as handling assigned tasks essentially as an aide.
America's leading hearing aid manufacturer seeks a distributor for Monroe and surrounding territories. Requires an aggressive, promotionally minded man with or without hearing aid experience and the means for a modest investment. Write to Mr. H. Parker, Beltone Hearing Aid Co., 2900 West 36th Street, Chicago 32, Ill., to arrange a Monroe interview.
An industrial group and the farm located in their parishes will send delegations to Tuesday's Baton Rouge meeting. Lincoln Parish previously opposed placing the penal farm there.
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