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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1961
Page
16
Ten Monroe West Monroe YWCA Y Teens will travel to Gulf Park College Long Beach Mississippi for the Mid South Y Teen conference next week. Delegates include Marguerite May Billie Crew Jackye Burris Beverly Bartlett Judy Stizall Sheila Giddings Linda Cochran Pam Jones Sandra Hootser Pat Sykes. Mrs Bess Sharp YWCA director will assist as program director for night activities.
NBC’s IFLOK Report No. 4 offered the strongest Paris conference look showing Mrs Kennedy’s Gothic Madonna hairdo and a salon sequence. The piece contrasted with ABC and CBS items focusing on Kennedy car footage and speeches, highlighting potential economic impact and media framing.
A teenage code of ethics was developed by the Monroe Council of PTA with the Junior High Student Council led by Gordon Heidorffer and four Lee Junior High students. The code covers behavior at home, school, and teen activities and will be issued in a student booklet.
A long parade of public notices, bids and sheriff sales from Ouachita Parish and the City of Monroe lists property seizures, auctions dates, bid openings, and public works projects. It includes details of the federal mortgage case, First Federal loan sale, and multiple street improvement bids.
Neville High School senior Alice Butler was awarded a four year scholarship to Northeast State College based on aptitude test results scholastic achievement and leadership and character. Fifteen statewide scholarships are awarded to Nevile Ouachita Parish and West Monroe seniors. Butler received one of thirteen pins for scholastic records and will join Glorietta New Mexico staff for six weeks.
John P. Burton Jr., Neville High School student and Key Club International trustee, will be among 16 to direct activities at the 18th annual Key Club confab July 9-12 in Philadelphia. About 2,500 youths are expected. the organization is a high school boys service group sponsored by Kiwanis International. Burton is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Burton of Monroe.
In New Orleans three self styled Storm troopers of the American Nazi Party after posting bond are freed. Rockwell previously released earlier in the week. The six others remain jailed and are to plead guilty on disturbing the peace in Criminal District Court with immediate sentences or continued trials scheduled for later dates.
A devotional note cites Matthew 9:29 and a statement that God responds to faith. It emphasizes that with God nothing shall be impossible and that healing mirrors belief. The message underscores faith as the measure of divine action.
Legal notices from Monroe Louisiana detail street widening bids and funding via special assessments with city cash plus notes. Public auctions sell stray livestock and seized property, with marshal and sheriff involvement and bid procedures. Public sale of bonds for Columbia Heights Water District announced with payment terms and deadlines.
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