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Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1962

Page

2

Rogers Funeral Rites Saturday At Funeral Home

Funeral rites will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday for Robert Rogers Sr. 75 who died Thursday in a local hospital. Services will be in the chapel of Peters Funeral Home Monroe with Rev. Pippen officiating. Burial in Memorial Park cemetery. Survivors include wife and children, siblings and grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.

Robert Rogers Sr Peters Funeral Home Monroe Pippen Memorial Park Cemetery Rogers Bastrop Gertrude Byers Robert Rogers Clyde Reneau Swartz Louis Speirs Borger Texas Sidney Rogers Lonnie Rogers Sterlington Davidson Rogers Bonita R. Love L. David Turner Randolph Jolley Billy Hinton Fank Fontana Renee Booth

Walter Horton Funeral Rites Set Tomorrow

Walter Clarence Horton age 47 of Monroe will be laid to rest after funeral services at 2 p m Saturday at College Place Baptist Church. Rev. Glenn Pippin and Rev. Lea Joyner officiate. burial at Memorial Park cemetery with Hixson Brothers Funeral Home directing. Horton died Thursday after a short illness. He was a native of Bossier City and a salesman for Ouachita Gravel Co. Survived by his widow Dorothy McGee Horton. three sons Walter Clarence Horton Jr Burrell McGee Horton and Robert Louise Horton all of Monroe. two sisters L E Fuller Welch and F J Shook Grand Prairie Texas. two brothers Cecil and Charlie Horton, both of Monroe. Pallbearers named.

College Place Baptist Church Walter Clarence Horton Diane Street Monroe Glenn Pippin Lea Joyner Hixson Brothers Funeral Home Memorial Park Horton Bossier City Ouachita Gravel Company Dorothy McGee Horton Walter Clarence Horton, Jr Burrell McGee Horton Robert Louise Horton L. E. Fuller Welch F. J. Shook Grand Prairie Texas Cecil and Charlie Horton

Five Attend Summer Camp At Corney Lake

J. A. Cobb of Monroe joins five area students from Louisiana Tech at a summer forestry camp on Corney Lake near Bernice. Other participants include E. R. Lee of Tallulah D. W. Melton of Jonesboro J. J. Talley of Newellton C. V. Thompson of Bernice and J. E. Weston of Sicily Island.

Buston J. A. Cobb Monroe Louisiana Tech Corney Lake Bernice E. R. Lee Tallulah D. W. Melton Jonesboro J. J. Talley Newellton C. V. Thompson J. E. Weston Sicily Island

Flight Engineers Debate Strike Call

President Kennedy urged Flight Engineers International Association to accept arbitration on jet crew job claims as union members debated a possible walkout against Pan American Eastern and Trans World Airlines. Kennedy warned a strike would harm the economy and pressed for a peaceful settlement through a three man arbitration panel. A TWA branch official said no strike likely before Saturday morning while union leaders prepared statements. Kennedy signaled possible government action if talks collapse, and questioned emergent legislation to seize and operate struck lines.

Washington Kansas City H. S. Dietrich TWA Dietrich Ron Brown Kennedy Congress Engineers Union Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg

Charge Homicide Filed Against Auto Salesman in Fatal Crash

BUNKIE La AP Negligent homicide charges were filed Thursday against auto salesman J B Chenevert of Bunkie in the traffic death of Mrs David T Eith 22 of Daytona Beach Fla Chenevert posted a 3000 bond He was also charged with driving while intoxicated Mrs Fitch died Wednesday night when her husband s car collided with Chenevert s auto Dr Fith a Tulane Medical School graduate was en route to New Orleans to begin his internship at Touro Infirmary He was hospitalized at Alexandria with a head injury.

Bunkie J. B. Chenevert David T. Eith Daytona Beach Fla Chenevert Fitch Fith Tulane Medical School New Orleans Touro Infirmary Alexandria

Letter Of War Victim Is Revealed

Nashua New Hampshire Army Staff Sgt Robert L Gardner 39 identified as the fourth U S serviceman killed in combat in Viet Nam wrote last week that this is a lonely hot dirty and filthy war over here In a letter to Frank Stawasz chairman of the Nashua High School class of 1941 Gardner said its a life and death struggle against communism poverty and ignorance But we will win it as we will give our lives if we have to for the struggle Gardner s parents live in a Nashua housing development for elderly persons The father is a retired carpenter and business agent for the Carpenter s Union Gardner served with the Second armored Division in World War II and with a combat unit in the Korean War He would have completed 20 years of active service this year and planned to retire The Pentagon announced that Gardner was killed in a skirmish near the Laotian border about 360 miles north of Saigon where U S Army Special Forces units are training Vietnames e troops to defend jungle villages against Viet Cong guerrillas

Nashua N.H Army Robert L. Gardner U.S Viet Nam Frank Stawasz Gardner Pentagon Saigon U.S. Army

Vote Inspection In Four Parishes Sought By Bobby

Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy asked the 5th U S Circuit Court to allow FBI access to vote registration records in four northwest Louisiana parishes Bossier Webster De Soto and Caddo The DOJ sought to overturn a judge order delaying inspections until after the September 1 runoff and to lift a time limit restricting access to records since April 1961 A hearing is scheduled for June 25 in New Orleans

New Orleans Robert F. Kennedy 5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Louisiana FBI Justice Department Appellate Court U.S. Dist Ben Dawkins Jr Bossier Webster DeSoto Caddo Appeals Court

Kennedy urges GOP votes for his major proposals

President Kennedy praised his Democratic majority while urging Republicans to set party labels aside and support key measures. He cited past bipartisan stances with Eisenhower on debt limits and aid to Poland and Yugoslavia, urged arousing airline labor disputes to arbitration, and pressed for a farm bill linking production controls with price supports. He warned against political old positions and urged focusing on real national problems.

Washington Kennedy Congress Dwight D. Eisenhower Poland Yugoslavia Senate Pan American Trans World Eastern Airlines White House Eisenhower

Sophomore Jailed For Bank Holdup In Mississippi

Senatoria Mississippi bank robbery ends with 8245 dollars taken by a 14-year-old sophomore. The youth calmly hid the pillow case and pistol, confessed weeks of planning, and was later captured after fleeing in a car he stole while the vehicle’s owner briefly left the cafe. All but 10 cents was recovered.

Senatoria Miss Larry Hawkins Senatobia E. M. Williams Williams California James H. Wilborn Wilborn

Showdown at Riverside Tests Plymouth Against Chevy Ford

The moment of truth for Chevrolet, Ford, and Plymouth arrives as the U S Testing Co. judges a standard V-8 showdown among Chevrolet Impala Ford Galaxie 500 and Plymouth Fury. Official results show Plymouth winning eight of ten events and claim the Greatest Plymouth Ever Built is at your dealer now with full Showdown details.

Plymouth Chevrolet Ford Riverside U.S

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