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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1958
Page
1
A weather map shows scattered showers across the Midwest and Northeast with southern Florida and the northern Rockies also receiving some rain. No major temperature shifts are anticipated.
The Agriculture Department reports 1957 averages show investment per farm from 10 530 on peanut cotton farms to 177 000 on sheep ranches in the southwest. Corn belt investments range from under 40 000 to over 100 000 with machinery costs from about 41 800 to 17 000. Net income per farm averaged 2 500, up about 7 percent from 1956, with higher nets on most livestock farms and many wheat farm classes.
Wilmer Walter Evans testified in GLOBE Arizona that bad brakes caused an auto plunge into San Carlos Lake killing his wife Frances. He denied arranging the death to collect $100 000 life insurance bought the day before.
Eugenia Jones will retire July 1 from her longtime role as secretary to Ouachita Parish juvenile probation. A Monroe resident, she served 10 years and was praised by juvenile officer Buster Crowley for building and supporting the office’s success. Previously she worked as a secretary for the local Boy Scout organization.
In Brooklyn a feud over church administration at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church erupted into violence outside the locked building. Cameron Readle, vestry senior warden allied with anti Melish leadership, was treated for a cut hand after a chain and padlock attempt to enter the church. Reverend Howard L. M. Cowan produced a Supreme Court order granting control to anti Melish forces.
Baton Rouge AP reports Highway Director R B Richardson issued bids due June 25 for 27 road projects across numerous parishes. Plans include blacktopping concrete pavement overlays bridges and widenings on U S 90 state routes 7 22 and 36 with multiple county and parish roads listed and readvertisement noted. Two thirds of South Dakota ranchers rent land they operate or part of it.
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