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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1957
Page
3
Joseph Oscar Sheffield, 28, ex convict from Winnsboro, was convicted for the killing of Deputy Sheriff John L. Waller in Franklin Parish. He has twice been sentenced to die and awaits Gov Long to sign a death warrant for the electric chair.
The Mayflower II crew and Captain Alan Villiers begin unloading 92 casks of enigmatic cargo after a 5000 mile voyage. Visitors aboard are banned with a catwalk view planned in New York. cabin boy Graham Noon voices disbelief at Plymouth Rock. Nearly 50,000 tourists witnessed the ship’s arrival.
Northeast State will host a music and art training camp for junior and senior high students from June 17 to July 3. The Fine Arts Department sponsors the event, drawing attendees from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas with private lessons, band and chorus, painting and sketching, dorm lodging, meals, and Wednesday religious activities guided by college faculty.
Surgeons at the Costa Buerro clinic transplanted kidneys from a dead infant into a teenage patient with acute nephritis in a last ditch effort. Officials said the boy was in satisfactory condition but medical experts warned the chance of survival remains fair, noting kidney transplants rarely succeed unless the donor is a twin.
Three people were killed and four seriously injured in a head on collision on US 82 seven miles south of Guthrie Texas. The deceased were Mr and Mrs Joe L Warren of Portland Arkansas and Mrs Leora Bachman of Dumont Texas. Injured were Mrs Bachman’s two children, Joe L Warren Jr age 19 and Emilie Warren 16.
Business Mirror notes no panic as recession fears fade yet inflation and costs rise. Banks report loans below year start but 3% billion dollars higher than a year ago, with demand for funds driven by new plant and equipment spending expectations.
New York reports bars around Madison Square Garden suffer a slack season as Billy Graham preaches nightly. 17,000 attend the sermon with 441 moving to accept Christ and total decisions reaching 17,670. church leaders say many will join existing city congregations.
British virus expert Norman W. Pirie of Rothamsted Experimental Station suggested in Lancet that Asian influenza may result from British and Soviet H bomb tests. He noted viruses mutate under radiation and that East Asia has suffered most from fallout, implying a broader nuclear influence on epidemics.
A double decker bus jumped the curb in midtown London and struck a crowd of shoppers on Oxford Street. Seven died, 19 injured with 11 serious. Most victims were women awaiting the Queen Elizabeth birthday parade. The driver collapsed at the wheel before fading into hospital care.
Al Sherman, Giants backfield coach from 1949 to 1953, returns to supervise the club’s talent scouts. A former Eagles quarterback, he previously coached Canada’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1954 to 1956.
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