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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 09, 1961

Page

4

Paar Takes Up Tractor Issue On TV Nightly

New York based TV note reports Jack Paar uses NBC Tonight Show to support Tractors for Freedom. Guests include Eleanor Roosevelt Walter Reuther Clare Boothe Luce Barry Goldwater Nixon regrets. Paar argues for family unity while advancing an anti Communist stance.

Tractors For Freedom Paar Eleanor Roosevelt Walter Reuther Clare Boothe Luce Barry Goldwater Richard Nixon Goldwater Kennedy

Deaths Willis Aycock Dies at 95 in Union Parish

Funeral services set for Willis S. Aycock 95 a longtime Union Parish resident. He died Thursday in Junction City after months of illness. Survivors include his widow five sons and four daughters with 18 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren. Interment in Bethel Baptist Church cemetery.

Farmerville Willis S. Aycock Union Parish Bethel Baptist Church Lilie W. C. Smith Jim Gray H. B. Fuller Jr Mr. Aycock Rocky Springs Baptist Church Lisbon Junction City Church Spears Funeral Home Austin W Grady W el Dorado Ark Simons C Osby S Minor G Cornelia Aycock Carmen Taylor Nolin Wood Houston Tex Ruby Stewart

South Africa Faces Isolation Under Verwoerd Regime

In 1960s Johannesburg, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd defends apartheid as South Africa becomes increasingly isolated. White minority rule faces growing internal doubts and external condemnation amid nonwhite disenfranchisement and illegal worker stoppages.

Johannesburg South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd Britain Communist Bloc Black Africa Verwoerd Republic Republic of South Africa

Bank Alarm Mixup Triggers Police Sweep At Somerset Bank

A Somerset Trust Co bank bookkeeper called police near closing time saying burglars were in the bank. Officers swarmed the building with rifles and shotguns but found no robbers as a vault clerk had forgotten to shut off the alarm.

Somerset, Pa Somerset Trust Co

Hampton Rites Set Tomorrow At Funeral Home

Funeral services for William Jseph Hampton 88 died Thursday will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home Monroe. The Rev Leon Ivey will officiate. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Hampton a retired blacksmith for the Louisville Copper age Company died in a local convalescent home after months of illness. He resided in Monroe 46 years. Survived by four sons Oscar Arthur and Hubert Hampton of Monroe Norris Hampton of Jonesboro two daughters Dell Spell Monroe and H C Ravencraft New Orleans one sister Mrs George Jones Clarksville Tenn 17 grandchildren 25 great grandchildren.

William Jseph Hampton Hixson Brothers Funeral Home Monroe Leon Ivey Temple Baptist Church Hixson’s Memorial Park Hampton Louisville Cooperage Company Oscar Arthur Hubert Hampton Norris Hampton Jonesboro Dell Spell H. C. Ravencraft New Orleans George Jones Clarksville Tenn

Four Little Girls End School Boycott Summer Break

In New Orleans four six year old girls known only as Tessie Leona Gail and Ruby end a nine month school boycott era with summer vacation. The girls promoted to second grade resume classes as white peers and boycott events left a city stirred by desegregation actions at McDonogh and William Frantz schools.

New Orleans UPI Inti Louisiana Tessie Leona Gail Ruby McDonogh School William Frantz

Echoes Reported in Almost-Empty Frantz Building During Civil Rights Protests

A child heard echoes in the near-deserted Frantz building as picketing threats and downtown marches accompanied Judge J Shelly Wrights integration orders. Four Negro girls were unharmed despite tense demonstrations and menacing telephone calls.

J. Shelly Wright

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