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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1961
Page
15
A patchy session left the market uneven with the Dow Jones 60-stock average up 0.30 to 252.40 near its record close. Industrials and rails rose while steels fell and several leaders advanced or retreated in modest moves.
P. J. Scalia of Monroe is the new Lakeshore Area Lions Club president succeeding Walter J. Pierron Jr. at a banquet at Italian Village. New officers include Aaron Seamster and Graham as vice presidents, R. B. Martin and Tom Wafer, secretary, Dalton Yeager, treasurer, and Beeson as lion tamer with four new board members. Pierron highlighted the club’s mosquito program Troop 222 summer camp for crippled children and community projects like a campus center and baseball backstop, noting about 25 members in the third year.
Delegates from the West Monroe Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee met with the Ouachita Parish Farm Bureau Federation board to establish a liaison. A. B. Smith said the aim is to assist agriculture and develop a chamber program to boost farming efforts with an informal July gathering tentatively planned. Agriculture members Hobson Norris and Bert Hatten joined Smith.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Fullerton 82 died in a Ruston hospital will be held at 3 p m Tuesday at Beech Spring Baptist Church with Rev Ray Baird officiating Interment in the church cemetery under Kilpatrick Funeral Home Ruston Survivors include husband John B Fullerton two daughters Mrs J B Culpepper Vienna and Mrs C B Fullerton Quitman one son Bob Fullerton Guthree Okla one brother Luther Smith China Tex three sisters Mrs Nettie Dowies Oak Dale Mrs Nellie Stagg and Mrs Clare Hebert both of Beaumont Tex 20 grandchildren and 47 great grandchildren
BRIGHTON England AP Sarah Churchill daughter of Sir Winston Churchill was fined two pounds five sixty for drunken and disorderly behavior in a Brighton pub. It was her eighth such offense in two years and she pleaded guilty stating I regret it.
Two people suffered minor injuries when their car ran off the road and hit a utility pole at Lee Avenue and Forest Avenue. Both were hospitalized at S. Francis Hospital. Injured were Tracy Guerriero, 61, of 510 Avoyelles Avenue, and Mary G. Jones, 151242 College Avenue, Monroe. Police say Guerriero fainted at the wheel before the crash.
Cape Canaveral NASA dedicated an $11 million Saturn launch complex as the first step in a program to surpass the Soviet lead. The 45 acre site features a 30 story service tower and ground support for the C1 rocket with 10 ton payload capability. a second complex will host the more powerful C2 vehicle.
Formosa imposes a temporary ban on gold imports claiming excess stock. Previously investors could import gold and sell it through Central Trust for investment purposes.
The Rev. Richard Gleason a 24 year old Baptist from Chicago who worked with Negro delinquents quit the Freedom Riders after hearing talks of atheism communism and police records He criticized the group saying he would not knowingly associate with any questionable people Gleason was among 13 riders arrested for breach of peace on arrival from Atlanta later convicted fined $200 and given 60 day suspended sentences
Police said several protesters at the party carry records from prior arrests while one rider faced 1948 theft charges and another served five months of sentence. The trio’s histories were disclosed as the event drew scrutiny.
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