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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1957
Page
2
Sandra Berkova Mazelle a onetime child violin prodigy has been cleared of a narcotics charge. Judge Louise Burke dismissed the count on DA motion citing insufficient evidence. Mazelle was arrested May 3 when officers found a codeine prescription in a male friend’s pocket. She plans to resume her violin career.
Monroe city officials West Monroe Mayor Norris and West Monroe Police Chief Caldwell join Mrs David Agnew assistant district director and Mrs George Foreman executive secretary of district FCD at a state wide Camp Beau Regard meeting. About 200 representatives from 64 parishes and large cities will attend to brief CD personnel and city parish officials on Operation Alert 7 set for July 12 19 nationwide.
No rise in polio cases compared with 1956 as of May. Dr W C Summer notes one case by June last year and only one this year. Health unit inoculations continue with lower third injections and a May total of 12 415, 31 926 injections in first five months of 1957.
An 11 year old Monroe woman Mrs Coy Neal of 115 Kansas street fell from an automobile driven by Crawford Wayne Ezell 20 of 415 Wood street as he turned onto Breard from North Fourth street. She received brush burns bruises and was treated at St Francis hospital and released. The rear door opened causing her fall.
William A Stripling 71 of Haile died at a Ruston hospital. Funeral at Liberty Baptist Church with interment in Liberty Cemetery near Linville under Kilpatrick's Funeral Home. Maude S Alamond 60 of Lake Providence died in a local hospital. Funeral at Oak Grove Catholic Church with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery under Gay Funeral Home. Infant son of Dwight Walker, Longview born/died. graveside at Riverview Cemetery Monroe under Hixson Brothers. Willis Cullen Tucker 88 of Monroe died at St Josephs Home. Funeral at Shiloh Baptist Church Bernice with interment in church cemetery. Peters Funeral Home directing.
Authorities charged 27 year old Monroe Negro Henry Vinson with burglary after two screwdrivers and a soap dispenser were taken from two Monroe Linen Service trucks. Vinson was moved to parish jail from city jail awaiting court.
A list of marriage licenses issued to numerous couples including Henry R Taylor 23 and Gloria J Crowell 18 from Chat ham and Bros William R Coenen 35 and Elsie K McClendon 3 Monroe. Other pairs include Joe G Pepper 24 and Mamie G Wheelis 18 West Clarence Johnson Jr 20 and Delores A Gonzales 19, Hendrick Jr 34 and Deborah A Hill 21, Shumaker 32 and Mary Eggerton 17 West Monroe. Additional pairs: William A Potter 25 Winnsboro and Ethel M Canady 16 Gerald L Earl 23 and Carol A Bedgood 16 Monroe. Carlos J Ledoux 22 and Doris A West 20 Monroe.
Mrs Dora Greene Kirk 85 of Monroe died Wednesday in a Monroe hospital. Funeral services will be held in Shreveport at 10 30 a m Friday at Osborn Chapel with Rev Lawrence Plumley officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Park Cemetery. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Samuel Herold and Mrs W T Mayo both of Shreveport two sons Hal L Kirk of St Louis and Wallace E Kirk of Pittsburgh Pa and four grandchildren.
Vice President Nixon meets with Montgomery pastor amid signals he could shape civil rights bills in Congress. House debate resumes with a states rights clash as Senate reform efforts stall in Judiciary Committee.
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