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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1961
Page
3
Almanac notes for June 2 recounts historical events from 1840 Thomas Hardy birth to 1960 Broadway closing for a day. It lists celestial bodies Jupiter Saturn Venus by morning and Mercury Mars by evening with a thought from Thomas Hardy about war and peace.
Jackson Parish Junior Chamber of Commerce presents its third Miss Jackson Parish pageant at Jonesboro-Hodge High School auditorium beginning 1 30 p m with a parade and crowning at 7 30 p m Wilbur C McDonald Jr is chairman Billy Baker is Jaycee president contestants include Linda Wells Patricia Arender Patricia Hearon Linda Lee Gunter Patricia Hearon Linda Lee Gunter Patricia McConathy Devanna Gimber Dianne Hobson Paula Tudor Virginia Stewart Barbara Pitre and Ronnie Brumley
Funeral services for Evie Evelyn Holley 74 who died Thursday at her Sterlington home set for 2 30 pm Friday at Mount Union Baptist near Lillie with Revs Matthews and Jones officiating. Sister of Elmer Neal Monroe, she was a former Sterlington resident. Interment in Mount Union cemetery by Gay Funeral Home Oak Grove. Surviving: four sons L W of Lillie J W Collinston Woodrow Rayville Horace E Sterlington. two daughters R C Moffke Kansas City Mo Betty McMillan Sterlington. two brothers Jonas Neal Farmerville Elmer Neal Monroe. one sister Pearl Harper EF Dorado Ark. 12 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
President Kennedy will receive a new bubbletop Lincoln limousine with an elevating rear seat and footrest for ceremonial events to better allow him and visiting dignitaries to be seen. The current plastic-domed car, issued in 1953, dates to the Truman era and is over a decade old.
Caltech biologists teach monkeys to perform conflicting tasks with each brain operating independently after brain lobes are severed. Sperry notes potential for two personalities in a double brain, while warning human brains are too complex for similar results.
In New Orleans three Negroes and three white men faced trial for allegedly running a theft ring that stole more than $90,000 in goods from Brown's Velvet Ice Cream Company over the past year. Charged were Victor Thomas 45 Arthur Durel 20 Cecil Furlow 20 and Calaway Thomas 44 Norman Cohn 29 and Charles Henderson. Stolen items included ice cream gasoline and auto parts.
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