Jonesboro High Safe Burglarized
Police and sheriff deputies investigated a reported safe burglary at Jonesboro High School. The strong box in the principal’s office was damaged during last night’s incident as officers checked clues while principal W. G. Bailey denied knowledge of the burglary. Further details were not released.
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Jonesboro
Jackson Parish
Jonesboro High School
W. G. Bailey
Bailey
Sheriff Department
Monroe police log reports hubcap theft and car battery charge
Police investigated hubcap theft from a Louisville avenue vehicle valued at 15 dollars reported by James Louis Peters of South Grand Street. An attempted truck theft near Forbito's Store on Atkinson's Street failed to start the engine. A traffic count yielded 198 citations with 192 for parking. Viola Lennon of Ouachita Parish was jailed on aggravated battery charges for a razor attack on Fred Calhoun.
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Monroe
Louisville Avenue
James C. Kelly, Jr
James Louis Peters
South Grand Street
H. A. Forbito
Buckhorn Bend
Atkinson’s Street
Forbito
Kelly
Ouachita Parish
Viola Lennon
Fred C. Calhoun
Lennon
Calhoun
Ranger Troops Tackle Tough Training in Bavaria
West Germany deploys new army rangers in Schongau for airborne survival courses in the Bavarian Alps. Ernst Baeumler reports troops living in parachute tents and undergoing noiseless commando training near the Lech River.
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Schongau
Germany
West Germany
New
Munich
Ernst Baeumler
Lech River
Local Deaths: J M Kirkland Winnie Monroe and others
In Louisiana notices, J M Kirkland 72 of Baton Rouge died of a heart attack in Ruston with funeral at Trinity Methodist Church and burial at Greenwood. Effie Beatrice La Caze 69 a former Monroe resident died in Marshall Texas with services and Woodworth burial planned. Winnie Monroe 83 of Delhi died at a local hospital with funeral at Dunn Baptist Church and Crowville cemetery. Mrs James F Acree 43 of Point died in Monroe with Providence Baptist Church funeral and Wilhite Cemetery burial.
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Virgil D. Morris
Greenwood Cemetery
Kilpatricks
J. M. Kirkland
Baton Rouge
Marvin H. Corley
Kinner
Alan Blackwood
Ruston
John M. Kirkland
Shreveport
Ralph Kirkland
Andalousa
Ala
George Ragsdale
Joe Gibson
Kindall Hearn
Douglas Jenkins
W. C. Cupp
H. E. Towsend
Hale Shadow
C. E. Barham
Marshall
Texas
Effie Beatrice la Caze
Monroe
Sullivan’s Colonial Chapel
Woodworth
Joseph William la Caze
Pauline Cornwell
Urania
Genetta Quick
Beaumont
Tex
June House
Tyler
Carl Milligan
Southgate
Calif
James F. Acree
Point
Providence Baptist Church
Wilhite Cemetery
Kilpatrick
West Monroe
Three Little Rock teachers fired by board stalwarts
In Little Rock Arkansas the school board’s three segregationist members voted to fire 44 teachers amid ongoing integration tensions. Moderates Lamb Matson and Tucker argued the move illegally bypassed a quorum after walkouts, aiming to deny re opens of four closed high schools if courts order integration. The list includes Central High School leaders and Horace Mann School principals.
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Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock
Central High
Ted Lamb
Russell Matson
Everett Tucker Jr
Lamb
Central
J. W. Matthews
J. O. Powell
Eli
Two Hog Thieves Await Sentence in Fourth District
In fourth district court Judge David J. Garrett sentenced Clarence Blockson to six months in jail for attempted theft from Dr. J. W. Cummings' country home. Fellow suspect FE Worley pleaded guilty to hog theft and was remanded for presentence investigation. Another man, Jack Tuggle, was remanded yesterday for pre-sentence work in the same case.
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Fourth District
David J. Garrett
Clarence Blockson
J. W. Cummings
FE. Worley
Jack Tuggle
Letter to Pr town arrives with missing postage
Council Clerk Reginald Alp received a letter with no sixpence postage. He paid the postage then found a sixpenny stamp inside and a note from the writer apologizing for the earlier missing postage.
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Princetown, England
UPI
Reginald Alp
Urania Woman Dies Rites Set At First Baptist Church
Urania Mrs. Jim mie Arnold 64 died at home Tuesday night. Funeral set for Thursday at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church Urania with Rev. W A Massey to officiate. Interment in Holly Grove Cemetery near Wisner. Survivors include husband Dennis Arnold, a son Rev Charles Arnold Livingston six daughters Altha Johnson Crowville Rea Johnson Dorothy Ward Winnsboro Lucy Johnson Urania Ellen Armstrong Silsby Texas and Floyd Williams Tallulah two brothers E P Lynch Kirbyville Rev Steve Lynch Victor three sisters L A Travis Eunice Biscamp Kirbyville and Gussie Bird Florine 19 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Urania
Jimmie Arnold
First Baptist Church
W. A. Massey
Holly Grove
Wisner
Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home
Dennis Arnold
Charles Arnold
Livingston
Altha Johnson
Crowville
Gussie Bird
Florine
Catherine Green Dies Rites Set
Catherine Lucille Green age 45 died at her family home after a long illness in Jackson Louisiana. Funeral services are scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday at Jonesboro Baptist Church with Rev John S Hurt Chaplain Martin and Dr David Mason officiating. Interment follows at Jonesboro cemetery under Edmunds Funeral Home direction. She was a teacher at T H Harris trade school Opelousas and a graduate of Jonesboro High School and Northwestern at Natchitoches.
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George W. Green
Jonesboro
Leonard Green, Jr
Bossier City
A. W. Green
New Orleans
T. H. Harris Trade School
Opelousas
Jonesboro High School
Northwestern
Natchitoches
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Churchill
President
Dulles
John Foster Dulles
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Winston
Eisenhower
George Marshall
Jonesboro High
Monroe Office Equipment. CO
Kentucky
Bourbon DE Luxe
Bourbon DE Luxe Company
Louisville
National Distillers Products CO
Louisiana
Effie LA Caze
Winnie Monroe
Delhi
Dunn Baptist Church
J. B. Gray
Sardis Beaver
Old
Gay
Willis
Columbus
J. D
Winnsboro
Doc
Jennie
Ark
Ethel Monroe
Myrtle Monroe
Maudie Brinson
Florence Grahm
Creston
Tennie Franks
Winnfield
Pearl Grahm
Inez Emmerson
Janie Pierce
Goldonna
Anna Pierce
Tigers
L. Rock
Catherine Green
Ioan
Finance Thrift
Hotel Frances Corner
Hall Life Insurance Co., Inc
Box
Monroe, la
Missouri Pacific
Ouachita Ave
Vuaseatee
North 5Th St
Singer
R. F
Appliance & Furniture Co., Inc
Trenton St
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