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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1961
Page
2
Lincoln Parish Govs at Ruston regular meeting re-elected John A. Mitchell as president W D DeLaney as vice president Regan Sutton as secretary treasurer Eddie Evans parish manager and engineer Fred Duggan road superintendent Buck Hammonds assistant road superintendent.
A July blackout hit Manhattan and parts of Queens and Brooklyn as a West 65th Street circuit breaker fire triggered substations on East 63rd Street and in Long Island City. Power returned by 9:27 p.m. after 3,500 police and civil defense workers aided restoration.
Huckaby urged a 1962 program and called for minimum subdivision standards outside city limits. Jury approved six inch base and two inches hotmix asphalt and required preconstruction drainage street plans. Also adopted memorial for C A Kincaid, heard Cooley Sanitarium bid for retarded children, sought paving for Gordon Avenue Church driveway, and accepted Montgomery year 1961 62 appointments.
The radio claimed Cuba seeks 300 heavy bulldozers and 200 lighter farm tractors in exchange for exiled prisoners. Talks in eastern Cuba described as cordial and hopeful with Duane Greathouse saying discussions were good. Castro had suggested 500 tractors, with Cuba now demanding 500 heavy units while the Americans propose 500 lighter tractors.
A storage shed housing ten go karts and gear burned to the ground near Ruston City limits just before 3 a.m. Tuesday. The building was valued at about $2 000, with the ten go karts originally at $300 each. Firefighters from the Ruston Fire Department battled the blaze for about an hour and a half after the roof collapsed. Manager Warren Taylor could not estimate total losses or future plans for Friday races.
North Louisiana Reading Conference will be held at Louisiana Tech on Thursday and Friday. Principal speaker is Dr Gaither McConnell head of education at Newcomb College New Orleans. First general session begins at 7 30 p m Thursday.
Four Monroe police officers were elected to the pension fund board at a city hall meeting yesterday. They join Chief James C. Kelly, Mayor W. L. Howard and the city treasurer on the board. Elected were Capt. L. C. Taylor and Officers E. W. Smith, E. D. Ottwell and James H. Deal.
Electric rockets, small and efficient, could become the propulsion core for space ships, possibly enabling lunar and planetary missions within the decade. Experts at the Institute of Aerospace Sciences and the American Rocket Society report the tech works in labs and may advance with large missiles in 3 to 5 years.
Alexandria Louisiana based sheriff Grady L Kelley already facing two grand jury indictments on 29 counts learns of a possible third probe. State official J B Lancaster found new irregularities in the Rapides parish sheriff s office to be presented to a June 26 grand jury. The 1960 indictment includes 18 counts of malfeasance and a single illegal use of an official vehicle. A separate battery charge against Kelley is to go to trial Thursday with June 30 deadlines for further motions in the case.
Twelve people were injured in a head-on collision on U.S. Hwy. 190 near Eunice Louisiana. Three were listed in critical condition Martha K. Powell 12 from Houston Texas Martin Walker 52 of Houston Erskine Powell 52 of Selma Alabama. Others remained in serious condition including Mrs Henry Morrison 43 of Hialeah Florida Henry Morrison 45 Julie Morrison 14 and Gloria Goodlet 14 riding with the Morrisons.
The Western walkout last Wednesday rejected talks under gunpoint and vowed to stay away until a cease-fire is real. Western delegates returned Monday as Britain and the Soviet Union urged Pathet Lao and royal forces to observe the cease-fire. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko blamed U S airdrops to royal units in Communist-held territory for cease-fire violations.
A Shreveport man, L Roy Matthias, became a member of the water pollution control advisory board Tuesday. The board advises the U S surgeon general about safe water supplies. Matthias, executive vice president of the Red River Valley Association, took his oath of office Tuesday in the office of Sen. Russell B Long D La.
Leon Horne 24 a Jackson area native and ordained Methodist minister says he joined a freedom ride for transport back home not ideology. He was jailed after breaching the peace with five others in a white only waiting room and plans to stay in Jackson after four months to find work.
An executive meeting of the Monroe Deanery of the Alexand ria Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women will be held Saturday June 17 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Louis Lock Room of the Ouachita Public Library. The purpose is to acquaint chairmen with duties and plan a program for the coming year.
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