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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1957
Page
11
A dense column lists Thursday and Friday radio and television programming across stations KLIC KUZN OF THE KUZN-Ke, KWKH and more. It covers news programs, music hours, dramas, variety shows, and children's segments with times and station identifiers.
California lawmakers sent to Gov. Knight a bill to let juries fix the death penalty with a separate hearing on mercy. The measure seeks to shift determinative power from judges to juries in capital cases.
In Algiers on June 13 paratroopers patrolled the city to prevent Arab French clashes after a bombing killed eight French and injured 83. A curfew remained at 9 pm as authorities reported 12 killed and 100 injured, with 200 detained and mostly Europeans. Fighting continued elsewhere with French forces claiming several enemy fatalities.
Peggy Joyce, famed Broadway glamour figure and socialite, died of throat cancer at about 64. She entered Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases June 1 and died with her sixth husband Andrew C. Meyer at her bedside. Born Margaret Unton in Virginia, Joyce married 6 times, starred in the Ziegfeld Follies and Vanity, and covered major crime as a journalist. Survivors include a sister, Mrs Clyde L. Gerhart of Lynchburg, Virginia.
In Los Angeles, Circus Fans of America Asia chief Gil Conlinn rejects the idea the circus is dying. He notes 25 circuses on the road and profits, while 94 year veteran Jake Posey argues the end came with rail and horse era shifts. Herman Linden elected new president. Also mention of Damascus gaining automatic telephones.
The AFL C IO Commercial Telegraph Union and The Associated Press extended their contract by 194 hours to midnight tonight. Harry Leimbach said no further extensions would be made and discussed a possible one year deal with a $6.24 weekly wage rise. Prior, AP accepted an advisory arbitration award of $4.35 weekly plus 27 cents for deferred insurance. the union rejected it. The union strike vote tally was not yet completed.
Still training horses for the 73rd year, 91-year-old A Snell of Mechanic Falls Maine worked at the Oxford County Fairgrounds this spring. He drove horses in harness races until age 87.
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