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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1961
Page
10
New York City sanitation patrols will use two motorscooters to speed up litter patrols. The Sanitation Department provides the scooters to help officers chase litter offenders.
A Cuban rancher comments on the economy saying the land is very rich and the people very poor, highlighting regional disparities amid Cuba's economic conditions.
Forty of 138 striking pilots form Superior Airlines, a $750000 venture with six De Havilland planes. The airline serves Atlanta to Huntsville Memphis Monroe and New Orleans and plans extensions to Columbus Greenville Moultrie Valdosta Jacksonville Panama City Tuscaloosa Ozark Fort Rucker. Superior operates under a taxi certificate from the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Mary Lee Gough Nay of Boston was elected president of the Mother Church. She succeeds Arthur W. Eckman as head of the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Nay, a native of McKinney Texas, trained at Ward Seminary University of Texas and University of Chicago, became a listed practitioner in 1918 and an authorized teacher in 1946. She urged vigilance for freedom, brotherhood and truth in her keynote.
Jonesville special report states C. Harper owner of Harper's Bar was bonded at 500 dollars for operating a poker game after Sheriff George McGee and deputies raided the establishment on a gambling complaint. Several persons were gambling and deputy J W Adams was dismissed for alleged participation.
Twenty British youths in Dovedale England pushed a bed on four rollers up a 900 foot hill in two and a half hours claiming a world record for bed transportation uphill.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Sugarman told the Bnai Brith District I convention that the Negro struggle for legal equality is over and won. He warned rioting over the Freedom Bus Riders could damage American international relations while noting some Deep South states resist federal desegregation rulings.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was named honorary chairman of the board of the American Heart Association, it was announced Sunday. The announcement elevates a noted public figure to a ceremonial leadership role within the charity.
In Los Angeles an unclaimed merchandise auction raised about $10 000 for fire and police pension funds. Thirteen year old Jim Brell bid $1 25 to win a 17 jewel wristwatch after intending to give it to his father on Father's Day. Auctioneer Leo Proctor awarded the watch to Jim.
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