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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1958
Page
5
Multiple brief notices report deaths in Monroe and Columbia for Mrs Frannia Pilcher Cicero Bridger and James Houston Long. Funeral details include venues Hall Funeral Home Chapel Columbia Methodist Church Liberty Baptist Church and Kilpatrick Funeral Home with various survivors listed.
House Labor and Capital Committee holds a second hearing on five unemployment and workmen's compensation bills. Speaker Angelle ordered a fair hearing after protests from businessmen. Bills would raise max weekly benefits from 25 to 48, remove the one week waiting period, and adjust employer definitions and disqualification rules.
Paul R Allerup named features editor and director of special news projects for United Press International. Former IN S journalist and editor brings 24 years of experience and will push greater INS UP consolidation with exclusive dispatches and big-name writers. He previously served in Cincinnati Columbus Pittsburgh and Chicago bureaus before New York.
Honduras relies on bananas as its major export, with most shipments heading to the United States. The trade underpins the economy, shaping labor, pricing, and regional market relations.
Funeral services for Mrs J M Hicks aged 80 were conducted yesterday at Kilpatrick's Funeral Home Chapel Farmerville. Burial followed in Taylor Cemetery. She died Monday after a lengthy illness. Survivors include a brother J M Wiley of Shreveport and a sister Mrs G A Cox of Los Angeles California.
The world’s largest cultivated pecan grove, begun in 1933 near Las Cruces New Mexico, now numbers 75 000 trees across 4 000 acres.
General Electric has developed an airborne digital computer intended to automate modern fighter bombers. At a military electronics meeting in Washington, GE described how the system navigates to targets, selects and prepares weapons, controls approach runs, times releases, optimizes return flight, and directs aircraft home.
A 22 year old Air Force wife and mother of two confessed to robbing Springs National Bank of 1000 dollars in a noon heist on May 23 to pay bills. She said she was pregnant with her third child and could not pay her debts. The husband, stationed at MacDill Air Force Base, was not implicated. The suspect awaited bond under minimum terms while living with her mother in Altha, Florida.
Washington AP reports the 1959 soil bank plan may force thousands of farmers out of production. Averages pay $13.50 an acre for most cultivated land and 10 percent extra if all land enters the program, with up to 10 year contracts and priority to larger acreages. Officials say small, inefficient farms suffer low incomes, prompting retirements.
The New Orleans Dock Board said the port moved 90 more ships in the first five months of 1958 than the same period in 1957. If the trend continues, total traffic could reach about 4,500 vessels in 1958, up from 4,333 last year.
Rainfall in the Sahara Desert averages less than eight inches per year. The article notes the extreme aridity of the region and highlights its rarity and variability across years.
Dublin obituary reports historian and former Irish film censor Dr Richard F Hayes died at age 76. The noted scholar and public figure was remembered for his decades of work in Irish film history and censorship.
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