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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1966
Page
5
Firefighters at Station No 5 follow a Friday routine from breakfast to training and kitchen duty. A major blaze on Elysian Fields triggers a quick two-alarm response, with Engine 5 and other units battling the warehouse fire before returning to the home station.
Twin Cities Chit Chat reports the June Monroe Magazine from the Monroe Chamber of Commerce will mail today as announced by executive director Jim Williams. The column also highlights a prison inmate’s cash gift to the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home in Monroe to fund fishing tackle for boys, and includes brief local updates on residents Verna Daniels, Edward Hill, and the Awl family with a note on military service and honors.
Election of voting delegates will highlight the meeting Monday in the Agriculture Building Cypress Street West Monroe. The meeting begins at 7 30 p m All Farm Bureau members have been notified to attend and express opinions on bureau policies. Fire crews returned to the station around 10 p m after battling at Elysian Field until 2 30 a m.
An advertisement touts Caroid and Bile Salts Tablets as a gentle remedy for irregular bowel habits and indigestion caused by modern living. It claims improved digestion, better absorption of nutrients, increased bile flow, and relaxed laxation without prescription, selling at drug counters for 100 $. Third St.
Northeast Louisiana and surrounding areas remain partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with widely scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoons and evenings. Highs in the mid 80s to low 90s, lows in the 60s, and rain chances around 30 percent afternoons and evenings.
Kenneth Earl Henley, famed for aiding "Trash Can" Dan Robertson in 1960, was recaptured by Bienville Parish deputies at Arcadia home. Henley, with prior Angola escapes, yielded without resistance and was sent back to Angola to serve a five year term linked to Robertson’s 1960 armed robbery at Monroe’s Orange Street 7 11 store.
River stages shift through a 24 hour period with higher readings in the afternoon and evening as water levels rise and fall. Hydrologists monitor gauges for warnings and potential impacts along riverbanks and nearby communities.
SHREVEPORT, La. UPI The State Board of Education adopted a resolution opposing legislation to create a single statewide higher education council. It argued current constitutional powers would be violated by transferring authority to another agency. Two bills seek centralized control. one constitutional amendment failed in the Senate, the other would establish an advisory coordinating council. The board also deferred action on a U S L branch at New Iberia, noted a judge’s ruling, and reported on a $4 million Louisiana Tech plan and a first-stage drawing for Southern University in Shreveport.
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