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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1962
Page
13
Across clues include white metal and that thing, with entries like grandson of Esau and legal claim. Down clues cover small swallow under obligation and haggard, plus terms for specified and move to and fro. Puzzle lists many short answers, including Eng letters and state in Brazil, with several nautical and linguistic hints.
Infant Tony Lynn O Mary died Saturday morning in a Monroe hospital at seven days old Funeral services were set for 2 00 p m today at Campbell Chapel Cemetery Pioneer Reverend Richard Meeks to officiate Kidder Cox Funeral Home of Delhi to handle arrangements Survivors include parents Mr and Mrs W H O Mary a brother Donald Richards O Mary a sister Belinda Dariene O Mary all of 310 Woodrow St West Monroe paternal grandmother Mrs Katie O Mary Pioneer and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Chester L Hough
The Tax Foundation reports the income tax, which raised 28 million dollars in 1913, is expected to contribute about 50 billion dollars to the government this year.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Russell 62 of Kelly were to be held at 3 p m in the Kelly Baptist Church with burial in Olla Cemetery. Survivors include husband N R Russell two sisters and a brother. In Winnsboro Calvin Luther Laird 69, a retired farmer, dies at a clinic. Burial is at Chase Cemetery with six daughters three sons and other relatives listed. Pallbearers named.
C L Jones, 88, a former Monroe machinist, died Sunday after a long illness at a local nursing home. Funeral services are set for 10 am Tuesday at New Hope Baptist Church in El Dorado, Ark, with burial in Jolley Cemetery near Junction City. Kilpatrick's Funeral Home of West Monroe arranged the services and said the body will go to El Dorado for lying in state at Young's Funeral Home. He was a Homer La. native who resided in Monroe for years, and is survived by three sons R L Jones N W Jones of Junction City and Wallace Jones of Haynesville, one sister Mrs A E Adams of Junction City, six grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
The Associated Press reports two fatalities in Louisiana over the weekend. A 10 month old New Orleans infant, Donna Marie Giovingo, died from asphyxia after swallowing plastic flowers. Another victim, Edgar Davis, about 60, of Marshall Texas, drowned when two boats collided on Cross Lake near Shreveport.
Police found a blood covered razor they believe was used to slash the throat of 17 year old Gerald D Fontenot. The victim was found nude floating in a canal near Kinder Louisiana with hands and feet bound by an ironing cord and sexually mutilated. Fontenot worked as a tree cutter in Beaumont and was the son of Wesley Fontenot of Port Arthur Texas and Mrs Max Reed of Kinder. Two suspects last seen with Fontenot near a Kinder case around 4 am Sunday are being sought. The slaying occurred between 4 and 7 am Sunday.
An American climbing team nearing the unconquered 25 910 foot Mt Gya Chungkang near Everest reached within 1000 feet of the summit. Roger A. Hart of Lynn Massachusetts reported a 100 foot fall into a gully injuring Hart and Woodrow Wilson Sayre the team leader. Sayre and Hart remain hospitalized for chest injuries and exhaustion. Hans Peter Duttle of Basel Switzerland was to be flown in later from Khunjung village.
Ouachita Parish Farm Bureau members meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Agricultural Building in West Monroe to elect three delegates for the annual convention and adopt resolutions to be sent to the July Baton Rouge gathering led by president Joe Dixon.
The Public Affairs Research Council questions the equalization formula claiming it lets poorer parishes receive up to 50 percent more state and local funds per pupil than wealthier areas. PAR urges a real effort to reform distribution while noting declines in enrollment but higher staffing in certain parishes. It cites nine parishes losing 2,494 pupils yet adding 94 teachers over 1955-56 to 1960-61 and higher median costs there.
Funeral services for William T. Lord Sr. 76 of Newellton were planned for 3 p.m. in First National Funeral Chapel with Rev. James Smith and Rev. Billy Kirksey officiating. Burial followed at Masonic Cemetery in Crowville. Lord died Sunday in a Sterlington clinic after four weeks illness. Survived by widow Lacey Roan Lord of Newellton, two sons George B. Lord and William T. Lord Jr. of Newellton, daughter Mrs. J E Barton of Sterlington, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers included Clifton Lord Major M D Lord Alvin E Lord Henry Cryceol Jr Lt Whitney R Mundt Beon Russell.
Penrith England AP reports farmer William Young learned why his water bills rose. For six years he supplied the town's public swimming pool and animals drank from the same line. Council workers found the pool water passed through his meter, leading to refunds of all payments since 1957.
Four charter filings are listed including three domestic charters and one dissolution. Domestic charters cover Rayville Rayartway Inc at Rayville for a small car track business with 1000 capital, Sterling Manor Nursing Home Inc at Monroe with 400 shares none with car value, and Tidy Tiles Corp at Monroe with real estate and 25000 shares no par value. The dissolution is for Frank Walker of Shreveport Monroe Inc.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Herman D. Cathey 72 of North Hodge at Assembly of God Church with Rev. F C Chamberlain and Rev J D Wagonon officiating. She died Sunday after a lengthy illness. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery Arcadia directed by Edmonds Funeral Home. Surviving are her husband H D Cathey three sons Garland N Cathey Loris D Cathey Wilbur Cathey three daughters Eva Dale Daerwitz Mary Fern Winter and additional relatives.
Mrs Phyllis Woods of Jonesboro has two brothers three sisters fifteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren noted in the family record.
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