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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1958
Page
8
The Louisiana House rejected the first reapportionment bill. It would have added seats for Calcasieu Parish and East Baton Rouge, with a 34 to 41 vote. Rural lawmakers opposed the move, arguing for current proportions.
Mrs Jeamiann Carter of West Monroe sustained injuries in a two car crash yesterday while riding with her husband Earl Carter on Trenton and Natchitoches. Miss Mary Colson of Monroe ran a red light and collided with the Carters car. Colson faces charges of reckless driving and causing a wreck.
E. L. Buddy Harrison was installed as president at the ninth annual installation night. New officers include Roy Gates, George Stamper, Walter Ernest, Virgil Crawford, Gilmer Addison, Riley Williams, Frank Smith, Art Johnson, Herbert Breard, Herschel Hanline, Perry White, and Harold Hill. Louis Landry awarded pins. Perry White earned Outstanding Lion of the Year.
The term Arkansas is a French variant of Kansas, a Sioux Indian name meaning south wind people according to historical linguistic notes.
Baton Rouge report lists five Monroe area sponsored bills advanced or withdrawn. Titles include authorizing a suit against highways, adding a fifth district judge, funding gravel road work and student aid, plus a gas tax refund proposal, with actions by the House and Senate.
M. B. Weaver of 3405 DeSiard Road, Monroe, faces municipal court action for meter jumping. He was arrested by Monroe police on a warrant and posted a $500 bond. Judge W. M. Harper will preside as the case goes to trial Friday.
A fresh outbreak of tornadoes touched down in Kansas near Wichita and east of Salina with no serious damage or injuries reported. Earlier, a tornado ripped trees and power lines north of Elkhart Indiana as storms extended from Wyoming and Colorado through Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri into the lower Great Lakes.
An amended bill blocking sheriff pay raises in Franklin and La Salle parishes heads to a Senate floor vote. Sen. Ralph E. King and Sen. Speedy O. Long added amendments reducing boosts for Sheriff Hiram B. Waller of Winnsboro and Sheriff D. Floyd, while changing tax share for LaSalle. The Northeast Louisiana parishes listed include Caldwell, Madison, Texas, West Carroll, Morehouse with raises from seven to nine percent.
Dr C H Webb of Shreveport announces release of a summary report on the Louisiana Youth Commission. He notes nine appointed members with expenses only and a two person paid staff unused since 1950, and cites achievements like statewide juvenile probation, annual training for officers, juvenile police bureaus, and publications drawing international attention. Members include Mrs Dent Tisdale Monroe Judge Chris Barnett Shreveport Dr Harrison A Dobbs Baton Rouge Mr Herbert Heymann Lafayette Mrs G W Pomeroy Monroe Mr J S Pratt Natchitoches Judge Frank Voelker Lake Providence.
The U S Court of Appeals in St Louis received a motion to stay a district court order delaying integration at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas for 242 years. The motion arrived by mail with an appeal notice from U S District Judge Harry J Lemley. If Lemley's order stands, Negro students who attended Central this year may not return next fall.
Construction has started on Tulane University’s infirmary, a $375000 project. President Dr. Rufus C. Harris says completion is planned for the summer of 1959.
Four Negroes attempted to qualify in the national public links event at Jacksonville, two on Brentwood and Hyde Park courses. City officials refused to sell tickets, though Negroes had played there under a 1954 ordinance. Golf official Ralph Ghioto noted the course was playable and observed the men halted after 27 of 36 holes.
Houston is described as the largest city in the South and the nation’s second largest port by tonnage, highlighting its geographic and economic significance.
Ghioto reports Harris and Hampton were denied tickets at Brentwood and again at Hyde Park. Harris signed for 27 holes while Hampton refused. One needed 30 on the last nine to tie last place, the other 31. They shot 81 and 80 on the first 18, 37 and 39 on the next nine.
Ernest F. Hollings, a Charleston lawyer and campaigner, won South Carolina’s governor race by about 45,000 votes over Donald S. Russell. At 36 he becomes the state’s youngest modern governor. turnout favored Hollings 190,163 to 145,263 with the Democratic designation effectively sealing the result.
A Monroe Negro, Emmett Jack Son, accused of killing two women, asked for a mental examination at arraignment in Fourth District Court. He says he has not been right in the head lately. Jackson is charged with the shotgun slaying of his common law wife Susie Robertson and her mother Annie Mitchell earlier this year. He pleaded not guilty. trial set for November.
Elm er Neely a 36 year old father of three sons died in a Shreveport hospital from a temple gunshot wound. Relatives noted recent unemployment-related despondency. A .32 caliber pistol was found near his body.
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