Nursing Home Conference Brings Nine Louisiana Cities Together
Nursing home representatives from nine Louisiana cities gathered in Monroe for the state’s first nursing home educational confab. The meeting, led by John London of Baton Rouge, aims to study standards and improve elder care with a three-person team visiting area homes indefinitely. The team includes Vera Dodd, Betty Abbott, and Dennis Jemison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nursing Home
Louisiana
Monroe
John London
Baton Rouge
State Department of Hospitals
Vera Dodd
Betty Abbott
Dennis Jemison
Funeral Rites Planned for Mrs Versice Maxine Thompson
Final rites are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Central Missionary Baptist Church Bastrop for Versice Maxine Thompson 29 formerly of Bastrop who died in Dallas. Burial will be in Christ Church Cemetery. Surviving are four daughters Windall Larrie Kerry Vosburg and Jacqueline Thompson all of Grand Prairie a brother Jack Dopson Gilmer a sister Mrs Ola Parker Shreveport and her mother Mrs J M Dopson Bastrop.
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Bastrop
Versice Maxine Thompson
Dallas
Tex
Harold Holand
Central Missionary Baptist Church
Christ Church Cemetery
Hixson Brothers
Monroe
Kerry Vosburg
Jacqueline Thompson
Grand Prairie
Ack Dopson
Gilmer
Ola Parker
Shreveport
J. M. Dopson
Study Sites For Buildings At Northeast Louisiana College
Louisiana State Board of Education authorized on site studies of two tentative locations for an 800000 library at Northeast Louisiana State College. A land sale committee was named with William Dodd Joe Waggonner and Dr Boyd Woodard. Dr George Walker said preliminary library plans are finished and a decision on the site is due at the July 23 board session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana State Board of Education
Northeast
Louisiana State College
William Dodd
Joe Waggonner
Boyd Woodard
George Walker
LSU Professor Receives Grant for Cattle Disease Research
Baton Rouge LSU veterinary science professor George J. Dimopoullos receives a $74,440 grant from the U S Public Health Service to continue research on the deadly cattle disease anaplasmosis and its economic impact on farmers and cattlemen nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
UPID
George J. Dimopoullos
LSU Association
U. S. Public Health Service
Four Railroads Ask Fare Increase in Louisiana
Four railroads in Louisiana filed with the state public service commission for a 5 percent rise in rail passenger fares. The lines seeking the increase are Illinois Central, Missouri Pacific, Texas and Pacific, and Texas and New Orleans.
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Lafayette
UPD
Louisiana
State Public Service Commission
Ilinois Central
Missouri Pacific
Texas and Pacific
Texas
New Orleans
Boredom Declared A Modern Illness At AMA Meeting
Harvard doctor Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth told the American Medical Association’s 110th annual meeting that aimlessness and boredom are a great sickness of the age. He urged doctors to help patients find meaning in life and emphasized mental health as a state of purposeful activity with responsibility to others.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
NEW York
Harvard
Dana L. Farnsworth
Harvard University Health Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Fransworth
American Medical Association
Plans For Clubhouse Considered by West Monroe Club
Officials of the West Monroe Boys' Club viewed proposed clubhouse plans near Lenwis School on five acres. Felix Gibson of Dallas noted the plans are suggestions. A report on the Volman Lake camp run with the Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce was heard. The camp enters its second week and funding will come from United Givers. Club budget hearings are set for Thursday at 4 p.m. The club received its first equipment piece a tape recorder donated by Sam Sadler of Uvalde Texas a national youth advocate.
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West Monroe Boys’ Club
Lenwis School
Volman Lake
Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce
United Givers
Sam Sadler
Uvalde
Tex
Barham Unopposed In Bastrop Judge Race
District Judge-elect Mack EK Barham runs without opposition after winning the Bastrop post created by the death of Judge David I Garrett. Qualifying deadline passed as Gov Davis plans to call off the July general election and issue Barham's commission next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack EK
Barham
Tuesay
Jimmie H. Davis
Bastrop City
David I. Garrett
Louisiana Child Dies At Pool
Angela Flowers four of Harahan Louisiana died after a heart attack at a municipal pool in Mobile Alabama Tuesday. Firemen and lifeguards worked about an hour to save her life. Her father said she had been undergoing heart treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Angela Flowers
Harahan
Agency Probes Racial Disturbance at Chicago Church
Chicago officials opened an inquiry by the Chicago Commission on Human Relations into a disturbance that forced about 100 African Americans to seek shelter at Holy Cross Lutheran Church after a hotel fire. Red Cross workers sheltered them. 30 to 40 white onlookers gathered outside, with threats reported. No injuries or arrests. Mayor Daley praised police protection and community safety while voicing regret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Marchak
Chicago Commission On Human Relations
Commission
Red Cross
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
South Side
Albert H. Costien
Richard J. Daley
Police Department
Evans Named President of Glenwood Hospital Board
A. C. Evans was named president of the Glenwood Hospital board in West Mon. Harvey McDonald becomes vice president, George Wylie secretary, and Tommy Pitts treasurer. Executive committee members include F. McConnell Kent Breard Tommy Fraser the Rev Earl Emmerich and George Harbuck from a 28 member board appointed last month by the Louisiana conference of the Methodist Church South Central jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Evans
Glenwood Hospital
West Monroe
Harvey McDonald
George Wylie
Tommy Pitts
F. €. McConnell
Kent Breard
Tommy Fraser
Earl Emmerich
George Harbuck
Louisiana
The
Methodist Church
South Central Jurisdiction
Retail Sales Hit Record High in 1960
Retail sales reached 219.8 billion dollars for 1960, surpassing 1959’s 215.4 billion. Local advertisers spent about 2.805 billion dollars in newspapers, a 3.1 percent increase from the prior year.
Freeman Accused Of Misusing Funds
Washington AP Republican National Chairman William E. Miller charges Secretary Orville L. Freeman used federal funds for publicity to back the Kennedy Freeman farm bill. Miller released a photo and June 8 letter to farm editors alleging 50 000 signatures on petitions. Leonard defends it as legitimate news and says it is not propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William E. Miller
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Congress
Miller
House
New York
Rodney E. Leonard
Freeman
Allen J. Ellender
Senate Agriculture Committe
Ment of Agriculture
Leonard
Well Known Winn Man W.E. Moore Sr Dies at 80
W. E. Moore Sr., 80, longtime Winnfield lumber salesman for Tremont Lumber Co, died at 7 a.m. Wednesday after several days illness. Native of Mississippi, he previously worked with Germain- Boyd Lumber Co. in Winn parish. Funeral services planned for Thursday at Hixson Brothers Funeral chapel with interment in Winnfield cemetery. Survivors include his widow, son W. E. Moore Jr. of Shreveport, daughters Mrs. George Tanneyhill and Mrs. Morgan Thomas, and a grandchild and great grandchild.
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Winnfield
W.E. Moore Sr
Moore
Tremont Lumber Co
Germain- Boyd Lumber Co
Winn Parish
Mississippi
Hixson Brothers
W. E. Moore Jr
Shreveport
George Tanneyhill
Morgan Thomas
Chatham
Court Handles Minor Offenses
Monroe city court yesterday fined four for speeding two for reckless driving one for following too closely nine for public drunkenness. Several minor cases mostly vagrancy were nolle pressed by Judge W M Harper.
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Monroe
W. M. Harper
Nolle
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North Monroe Lions Club
Perry White
Jesse
Hanchey
Frank Goulden
James McCoy
Davis Roane
Jack Herron
Lion Lester Carr
Herron
Nursing Home Conference
Harrisonburg
Lake Providence
Ruston
Arcadia
Rayville
Columbia
Winnsboro
Mrs. Thompson
LSU
Farnsworth
Felix Gibson
Boys’ Clubs of America
Lutheran Church
Chicago
Board of Hospital
Mitchum
Wame
Ral
Thrift Shop
Garry
Dacron and Cotton
Monrof
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