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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1956
Page
6
Public notice states the Monroe Commission Council adopted a resolution at City Hall on June 12 1956.
Notice of intention to improve the city by surfacing specified streets with high type asphalt paving and incidental work within Monroe city limits Louisiana. The project seeks to surface streets located and situated within the city boundaries.
Public works crews outline sections on Orange Street North 14th to Milhaven Road and North 4th Street Pine to Louisville Avenue plus 6th Street in Lamyville from Louis ville Avenue to 160 feet east of Mc Gillie Street for upcoming repairs.
Public notices from Monroe Louisiana include road improvements for various streets with private funding through special assessments over ten years and a June 1956 hearing. Also listed are Sheriff’s Sales of vehicles and household items under FiFa actions, dissolution notice for Budco Distributing Co, and beer permit applications for Ouachita parish establishments.
Miss Annis Klie executive director of the Silver Waters Council of Girl Scouts and Mrs. S C Strausser troop leader joined Monroe guests Beverly Rushing and Charlotte Bruscato at a Lake Providence meeting. They discussed forming a troop and a fly up unit with Q A and guidance on organizational setup. A second session at Transylvania school featured Mrs. Forman and Miss Nelson on community support and nine years in Scouting.
Leo Whatley 32 received one year on the parish prison farm after pleading guilty to simple battery. He had pleaded not guilty to carrying concealed weapons but changed to guilty and drew six months on the prison farm to run concurrently. A separate charge of attempt to murder was set for October. Whatley attacked a key witness while out on bond and was jailed. the victim is aging and recovering slowly.
Real estate transfers include J. James Construction to M. L. Silman for two lots in Highland Park valued at 11 000 dollars and Bertha Bradford Anderson to Cornelious Sewell Jr for a Booker T. Washington addition lot at 250 dollars. Mabry W Savage sells lot 1 block 34 Crescent Bend resubdivision for 9 750 dollars. A Miles City Montana note mentions the Chamber of Commerce wild horse auction held annually.
President Eisenhower faces a grave showdown as the House Appropriations Committee plans a roughly 3.4 billion dollar foreign aid bill, 1.5 billion less than the president seeks. Subcommittee leaders and key Republicans push for deep cuts amid administration plans to aid Yugoslavia and Egypt, with a full vote expected next week and a likely July 10 House decision.
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