Judge's Son Goes On Trial For Car Deaths
Gareth Martinis, 26, son of State Supreme Court Justice Joseph A. Martinis, faces five vehicular homicide counts in a Henry Hudson Parkway crash on May 19, 1963 that killed five and left a sixth critically hurt. The trial before Justice Samuel J. Silverman is expected to last over a month amid prior appeals over double jeopardy and prior acquittals.
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NEW York
Gareth Martinis
State Supreme Court
Joseph A. Martinis
Samuel J. Silverman
Young Martinis
Henry Hudson Parkway
Bookmobile Friday Route Is Announced
The Our ehita Parish Public Library bookmobile announces a Friday route in Ward 9 with six dates including June 25 and August 20. Stops begin at 7:00 a.m. at the Truman Wright home and proceed along Red Cut Road to multiple residences and Cypress community locations, returning to the library by 4:00 p.m.
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Our Ehita Parish
Frances Landers
Truman Wright
Red Cut Road
Eva Gewin
Tom KR. Jones
Red Cut Loop Road
Red Cut
Thomas
Archie Murphy
Line Road
Crafton May
S. J. Hendrix
Cypress
J. N. Wink
W. DD. Proffer
Wilson Owens
Robby Murphy
WR. Golsby
Roy McCandlish
Monroe
Blakeney
Arnold Bough
Reno Ray
Real Estate Transfers Record From Ouachita Clerk
Real estate transfers include parcels sold to Louis J Costanze Mary Elizabeth Adams Howell 4 a one half interest in sections and townships in Pine Forest Homes Subdivision transfers for 15500 and 14250 dollars to various buyers such as Dewey Horotof Eugene Fortner and Jack Hoveret with details of lots blocks and sections in additions and subdivisions in Crescent Bend Sun Valley and Walta Monroe area by entities including the Crescent Bend Anguillan and Sun Valley Real Estate firms.
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Ouachita
Areuaies
Ue Wold
Lous Ee Pesense
Mary Elizebeth Adams
On TV
Washington Adaition
Nev
Louis J. Costanze Mery Elizabety Adams
FC Tertia
George Eae
Pine Forest Homes Co
Vea Fie Liberia Sylvestre
Tom Sun Valley
Lownstop
Odie Lindsey
Jerome
Worth
Dewey W
Walt Monroe
Auarter
Forthwest
Wortheast
Adelle Lei Burnett Hamilton
Karhare Smith
Brantley Abley
Johnny Millon Smitty
WAC
Sading
Kenzie Johnson
Oavere
Renwick
James JF. Wigels
Mra Zelaw Ronenteon Pav
Ea Investment Co. Inc
Wat
DAV Group Elects Stepro Historian at State Convention
Carl E. Stepro of West Monroe was chosen historian of the state chapter of the Disabled American Veterans at the recent Shreveport convention. National DAV Commander William G. Dwyer of San Diego was honor guest. Stepro serves as adjutant treasurer of the J. H. McClendon chapter No. 8 Monroe.
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Carl E. Stepro
West Monroe
The
Disabled American Veterans
Shreveport
Wee National Dav
William G. Dwyer
San Diego
Calif
Stepro
J. H. McClendon
Monra
Spring Semester Honor Roll For Northeast Louisiana
Northeast Louisiana State College announced the spring honor roll led by 427 students with at least 12 credit hours and a 3.0 GPA. Perfect averages (4.0) were earned by 12 students, including Antela Pringos Box of Little Rock and Myra Myers Adams of Columbia, plus a long list of honorees from Bastrop Monroe and West Monroe among others.
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Northeast Louisiana State College
Lake Oxford
Antela Pringos Box
Little Rock
Ark
Myra Myers Adams
Columbia
Edith Elaine Bags
Donovan Wilbur Bailey
Marshall C. Baker Jr
Karen Bauer
Thomas Louis Baxtey
Thomas Ray Beaube
Linda Mebecca Blair
Floyd Allan Borden
Mary Martin Brooks
Susan K. Broomfield
Lynne Bryce
Doll P. Burgoyne
Jacqueline Burris
Alice E. Butler
Margaret EB. Butler
Richard M. Campbell
Charlotte O. Carter
Charles A. Catching
Donald M Causey
Marion del Chapman
Alma Claridge
Kathleen N. Cochran
Judy Carel Cooper
James Lows
Cromwell Carol Sue Crotwell
Linda Joy Crow
Connie Lee Davis
Marshall W. Douglas
Virginia A. Dupree
Warren J. Eberts
Jo Anne Emerson
Martha E Foster
Carlyn Fotos
Gerrie E Frazier
Beverly B. Fritz
Gary VM. Gannaway
JoAnn Genusa
Brenda Mae Gill
Betty Jane A Givens
Jeanne James
Eugene C. Jenkins
Evelyn B. Jenkins
Glynn J. Johnston
Kristina EF. Kahmer
William Hixson Lamb
Wanda Dean Langley
Linda Kay Lawrence
Rose Lynne Liljeberg
Jackie S. Livingston
Linda Ann May
Cecilia A. McCandlish
Dayton Clay McCann Jr
Vicki Lynn MecCullin
Mary L. McGough
Martha Gail Meeks
Jay Leonard Merten
M. Suzanne Messina
Anna
City Accepts Bids On Three New Vehicles
West Monroe aldermen accepted low bids from Rivers Ford for three new municipal trucks in a three hour meeting. Two pickup trucks cost 1 504 49 each and a larger two ton unit 2 363 62. Budget discussions were tabled until next week with Joyce T Smith to attend.
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West Monroe
J. O. Fleming
W. R. Townsend
Joyce T Smith
Toledo Swords Tempered in Tagus River Legend
Archaeologists note that prized swords purportedly tempered in the Tagus River at Toledo date back to the First Century B C with some sources claiming ceremonial or practical weapon making linked to early Iberian smiths.
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Tagus River
Toledo
Spain
Civic Center Work Set About Monday in Monroe
Monroe officials accept a 4.34 million bid to complete the civic center complex including arena, convention center, and theatre with 1,800 parking spaces. Jesse F Heard and Son Contractors will move equipment in about Monday as the city plans an accompanying overpass project with the state.
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Civic Center
Jesse F. Heard and Son Contractors
Monroe Civic Center
State Department of Highway
Illinois Central Railroad
DeSiard
Lou Heard
Howard
Heard
Jury Acquits Negro Woman in Manslaughter Case
A 12‑man jury in Fourth District Court acquitted a 36 year old Negro woman of manslaughter in the March 27 death of Luther Gamble. Judge Mack FE Barham presided as the jury, including Reuben Camp and other members, returned the verdict after testimony began near noon following panel selection.
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Fourth District Court
Mack FE. Barham
Johnnie Lee Perry
Goldman Sr
Luther Gamble
Reuben C. Camp
Guy Campbell Jr
S. O. Brooks
Warren Randell
Roosevelt Collins
N. McQuiston
Earnest L. Womack
John D Mullens
T. C. Hembree
Will Mac Jones
O. C. Roddy
A. M. Frost
Louisiana House backs 100 million tidelands move to retire debt
In Baton Rouge the House approved 91 4 a resolution dedicating 100 million from tidelands settlements to retire bonded indebtedness Gov McKeithen expected today to hear a recommendation on taking 21 million from the federal government as a tidelands windfall The administration opposed earlier uses of tidelands funds but backed a Tesier measure A Senate debate over the Sovereignty Commission featured Duplantier quoting Singelmann but the bid to retract failed 1917 Also McKeithen signed bills authorizing a Shreveport medical school and a ninth district judge The higher education needs committee led by Sen Eagan Friedman and Rayburn will study state colleges and universities
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News-Star Legislative Bureau
Baton Rouge
House
Tidelands
John J. McKeithen
Monroe
Thomas W Leigh
Adrain Duplantier
New Orleans
George Singelmann
UPS
McKeithen
Shreveport
Rapides Parish
UPI
Fred Eagan
Sylvan Friedman
Natchez
B. B Rayburn
Bogalusa
Senate
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Ken Garrison
Mr. Allen
Strauss Playhouse
Bookmobile
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Bel Rid
Willem G Kelly Jr
Raymond Agnewue
Solator
Monroe Home, Inc
DAV
Northeast
Linda Mangum Love
Pearl Abrough Maxey
Charlotte D. Mears
Kitty Jan Monroe
Tracy Rives Moore
Nina H. Morrison
James Doyle Orton
Johnette Osborn
Donna Claire Parker
James P. Patrick
David Ira Peske
Salley T. Purvis
Janet C. Roark
Claudia Ann Roberts
George Thurman Schultz
Oliver Wendell Schultz
Charlotte G. Shaver
Evelyn Pitts Evans
Montgomery
Leigh Gregg
Sterlington
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Calhoun
Violet Gay Little
J. Allan Norris
Haynes Street
Olin Mathieson
Charles E. Dortch
Johnny B. Mitchell
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Igo
Municipal Hall
Don A. Baxter
Granite Construction
H. A. Lott, Inc
Carter
Mer Rouge
Parey Branton
Webster Parish
George Tessier
Duplantier
Singelmann
Sen
Edwin Edwards
Crowley
Louisiana State University
Bennett Johnston Jr
Caddo Parish
Jackson B. Davis
Davis
Canal Street
Claiborne
Nylonaire Tires
Firestone
Uni-Charge
Spoksman
Trenton
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