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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1963
Page
5
Nearly 500 Neville High alumni gathered at the Paragon ballroom Tuesday night for the annual banquet. Special honorees included 1938 and 1913 classes and Neville High seniors class of 1963.
Dr. J. Y. Terry announces Henry O. Butler of Mer Rouge has been chosen as Area Two Star Farmer. Butler leads the 3-B Hog Farm with his brother and father, raising about 1000 hogs, and runs corn, pasture, swine, and small grain beside his four-year vocational agriculture effort. In 1961 he borrowed 3000 dollars through the Junior Livestock Loan Program to buy 27 cattle.
Gov. Frank Clement named Harold West president of Meharry Medical College to the State Board of Education, the first Negro to hold such a Tennessee post. Earlier the administration had appointed Willard Bowden to the State Pardons and Paroles Board, making two such appointments in a week.
The 162 member Minute Man Brigade of Monroe's Chamber of Commerce urges business people to contact Louisiana legislators before the next session to block a proposed tax increase from 0.9 to 2.7 percent. The bill would cut the reserve requirement and shift to a 1.2 percent employer tax, affecting unemployment funds while not changing benefit payments. Trust fund reserves and comparative rates are discussed as8 eight key lawmakers from the trade area are named.
Ouachita Parish jurors voted to send four delegates to the National Association of County Officers convention in Denver July 28 to 31. L. B. Pettit was chosen as president. Bertha Kincaid Leslie Hamm and Jesse Wilson were drawn from a straw hat conducted by Dist. Atty. Albin P. Lassiter. No expense amount set yet.
President Kennedy called for a careful congressional review of civil defense, aiming for broad agreement with McNamara on its necessity in a balanced national security strategy. He urged federal aid for state and local shelters and highlighted a program to finish fallout shelter supplies, improving survival chances in a nuclear attack.
Illinois Central Railroads Co. informs Ouachita Parish Police Jury it cannot install Jewell Street signals in West Monroe due to only one signal crew in the territory. J. M. Trissal cites lack of highway department authorization before January and notes the LaPlace project ongoing. The jury had requested signals months earlier for the Jewell Street crossing.
West Monroe Chamber of Commerce committee chairmen reported on individual work progress at a special Wednesday meeting.
Annie May Henry 89 died Tuesday in a local convalescent home after a long illness. Services held at Kilpatricks West Monroe chapel with Rev. James Beasley officiating. Burial in Calhoun Cemetery. Survivors include five daughters and nine grandchildren plus great and great great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed as Hindman Hindman Vincent Hinton and May family members.
Bastrop special report states Morehouse Parish Police Jury selects Ben Ralph Dunn 27 as parish juvenile officer Dunn a 1958 Northeast State College graduate replaces Jack Windham who resigned last month Dunn has taught distributive education at Bastrop High School for five years and will assume duties in June.
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