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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1961
Page
15
Scattered showers and thundershowers are expected Friday night over the lower Lakes western Pennsylvania eastern Oregon Utah and the northern Great Basin. Cooler weather is expected.
Partly cloudy and warm through tomorrow with highs 85 to 90 and lows 65 to 70. Louisiana and Mississippi share similar warm conditions, while Arkansas shows clouds and a chance of showers.
Vidalia special reports Eugene Nopper assistant area engineer of Vidalia has been named head of the new McGehee Ark resident office Col Warren S Everett district engineer says the office will be established about July 1 and Hopper will serve as resident engineer there with the corps for over 21 years
Washington secretary of state Dean Rusk and Mrs. Rusk lead a host of top Washington officials invited to a June 8 reception in the Congressional Room at the Statler Hotel for United Press International editors and publishers. Other dignitaries include Luther Hodges Edward Murrow Newton Minow Pierre Salinger Lincoln White Walter Heller and Merriman Smith. The event precedes the June 8 9 UPI editors conference with remarks by President Kennedy Vice President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy. A White House tour for delegates spouses and a Lady Bird Johnson reception close the week.
Three Natchez girls died in a log truck car crash just outside Natchez. Christy Hayles 18 months and Wanda Johnson 3 were killed. Kathleen, 5, died later at a hospital. The Hayles car, driven by Mrs. Hayles 25, pulled into the truck’s path to left turn. W. J. Bates 30 of Jonesville La drove the truck. he was uninjured. Several others were listed in critical condition. Funeral plans were tentatively set for Cloverdale Baptist church.
Alexandria Labor Council chief Clarence Martin demanded that AFL-CIO leaders Walter Reuther and James B Carey personally repay funds donated to CORE for the defense of freedom riders. He claimed no union money was given by the parent AFL-CIO and noted similar actions by Shreveport and Monroe officials.
In April gambling rose in Jefferson and Orleans parishes while other Louisiana parishes declined. The IRS collected 22 098 52 dollars in wagering tax statewide, a 4 273 20 increase from March. Jefferson Parish led with 16 978 06, district IRS director Chester Usry said, and New Orleans reported 1 549 11.
A 22-year-old Fay Mayfield of Springhill died in a crash near the Arkansas border. Her male companion W. D. Payne, 20, of Taylors Creek Arkansas, was hospitalized with facial injuries and could not speak for details.
About 4.75 million New York residents live in houses or apartments financed by savings banks. The figure highlights the banks' reach in state housing markets and consumer lending.
W M Tatum of Newellton was named district commander at the Fifth District Spring Conference in Ferriday Post 148. The event elected officers including Diehlmann Bernhardt Monroe as vice commander and Tallulah’s Talmadge Green as vice commander.
A statewide gathering of the Presbyterian Church U S Southern men from Louisiana will be held at Camp Alabama five miles north of Choudrant on Saturday and Sunday. Registration starts at 9 a m. The theme is Faith of Our Fathers Our Compelling Challenge with representatives from Presbyterian men's groups statewide expected.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower underwent a routine checkup at Walter Reed Army Hospital and was pronounced in excellent physical condition. The UPI report notes no immediate health concerns following the examination.
William Lester Wooley died after a short illness in a local hospital. A Clifton Ohio native who moved here in 1946 he was purchasing agent for Southwest Gas Producing Co and a former president of the Northeast Louisiana Purchasing Agents Association. Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery by Mulhearn's. Survived by daughter Mrs Julie Pedeen of Salt Lake City and sister Mrs Gertrude Lordal of Huntington West Virginia.
In Houma Louisiana a 28 year old construction worker Wesley J Morvant of Chackbay was electrocuted on Thursday afternoon when his arm touched a 13 000 volt power line. Police said he was on a pole fitting a sleeve over a high tension line when the live wire contacted him. He is survived by his widow and two children.
Minnie Burns 85 a Tallulah native and Baptist Church member died Wednesday night at her sister Mamie Hutchinsons home in Pascagoula Mississippi Funeral services will be at Crothers Funeral Chapel in Tallulah with burial in Silver Cross cemetery Survivors include brothers W L Myrick George Myrick of Little Rock Ark and D Myrick of Kosciusko Miss sisters Mrs Edwards of Jackson and Mrs Hutchinson of Pascagoula and many nieces and nephews
About 117 young people from the United States and 125 foreign youths will take part in the 1961 International Farm Youth Exchange program.
Culver City doctors said actor Jeff Chandler has shown steady improvement since his second emergency abdominal operation and has been taken off the critical list at Culver City Hospital.
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