The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 2

Friday, July 3. 1959 Monroe News-Star Peach Queen Wins Prelims where she was met by local cees. She was accompanied to last night at Lake Providence by Ja.vcee Presi- Her luggage was left Allan- dpnt pr william Harris and Pag- tic City while she was changing chairman Pearce Railev. Twin City CHIT-CHAT planes for Greenville, Officials Urge Safety On Nation's Roads From highway coffep break stands to tomorrow at 10 a.m. is a parade slow down speeding motorists and f0r all contestants and honored wake up sleepy ones.

guests in downtown Lake Provi- Connecticut, which boasts the dence. safest highways, adopted Highlighting tomorrow after- a new safety slogan and it's ap- program will he a water plicable all the time, not just this regata at 2 p.m. on Lake Provi- weekend. The slogan is dence, with about 100 boats and car behind you may 40 water skiiers participating, be a police car. q-be new queen will be crowned police tomorrow night by Mary Ann cars will be waiting for the un- Mobley, climaxing the events, wary driver on the New York (Continued From been named by the Orleans Parish school board as supervisor of a new television program to be produced over KYES-TV, channel 8 in New Orleans.

Miss Hodge will appear in 30 minute programs for five days weekly, which will be viewed by public school classes in the area. Miss Louisiana, of 1958, Alberta Futch, arrived Wednesday and is among the honored guests. program includes lunch at, Restaurant for Miss America, Miss Louisiana, judges and contestants. A dinner will be held at 5:30 p. m.

at Paperweight Restaurant for judges and contestants. Acitivities will begin at a p.m. at the American Legion Gov. Earl K. Long has announced that he will attend the festivities tomorrow night.

Slated State Thruway, Authorities feel the mere sight of a police car will cause speeders to slow down. Gov. David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania called out all state police to operate in 900 marked and unmarked cars. Massachusetts state police ordered into use all 160 patrol cars and instructed operators to keep blue-red dome beacons flashing day and night in an effort to keep drivers more alert.

Judge Agrees With Verdicts Of 2 Juries i Monroe resident John E. Zufall, a member of the city engineers office, said yesterday that he has sent a historical Republican paperweight to Sen. Barry S. Goldwater, (R- Ariz.) According to Zufall, the paperweight which contained a sepiatone picture of President William McKinley, was given to him by his father. picture was taken around commented Zufall, McKinley was assassinated in Bookshelves Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court R.

Dean Farr announced yesterday that the parish police jury has purchased two 14 foot long bookshelves for the parish clerk of office. Farr stated that his department place them in the basement directly under the first floor clerk's office, using them primarily for the storage of 224 parish Area Businesses Make 8 Filings In State Office Eight filings affecting businesses in northeast Louisiana have been received in the office of Wade O. Martin, secretary of state, it was learned today. The filings were made during the period of June 24 through June 30, both dates inclusive. Six of the filings were domestic charters.

The others are domestic amendments. The charters were: 212 Lake street, Lake Providence, store, with a capital of Louisiana Urban and Rural Appraisal Company, 1014 North Second street, Monroe, appraisal of property, 1,000 shares with no par value; Monroe Tackle Company, Bon Aire Drive, Edgewater Gardens Subdivision. P. O. Box 911, Monroe, designing, making all types of fishing bait, lures, flys, 10.000 capital; Marion Wood Company, P.

O. Box 6 Marion, own and sell timber and timberlands and other real estate, with a capital of $1.500. Federal Funds For Displaced Persons Pass Congressman Otto E. Passman yesterday announced that a federal program to finance homes displaced by the interstate highway program, which includes northeast Louisiana, has been approved in Washington. Passman, in Monroe for a brief rest, said that he is to report to my good friends of Monroe and West Monroe who will be displaced by the proposed new federal highway that FHA loans will be made available.

Interstate 20 will displace approximately 600 families when it is constructed over the Twin Cities area. Actually, Passman said the FHHA was approving a program for the elimination and prevention of slums and That would take in the FHA loan program, he explained. Ouachita Parish, however, we are faced only with the pro- Kavanaugh, 18 of Ruston, was named winner in the swim suit category Thursday night in the Miss Louisiana Beautv Pageant at Providence while Miss Cenla, Marilyn Louise Clark, of Alexandria, placed first in the talent division. Deaths Drownings Claim Two Youngsters Recall Jubilation Of Independency Back In 1776 From been reported missing about 30 ferment will follow in the Hasley hours bpforp was SIghted by Off- hj c-anrtfathor I cemetery in West Monroe, jcers Bill Tatum and M. The girl was visiting her sister, (Mickey) Rawls of the West Mon- whn v'a5 a n'' 9 at the: Mrs.

A. M. Byrd, Route 1, West roe police department. The body time, as to how the news was Monroe, and had gone to a near- was floating on the surface of received in New Brunswick, N.J. bv farm pond to swim with five the Ouachita river approximately Tbp grandfather recalled that-I other companions.

While the 200 feet from the bank. Officials was great exci ement group was swimming, some of theorized that the current had, Jherp was grPat the girls discovered the child was taken the body out into the fhe tr)wn over the news, most of missing, although they did not rner as it rose from the bottom. 'he people rejoicing that we were hear screams of help or see her The boy is survived by his free and independent, but a few go into the deep water. parents, who recently moved to looking very sour over 1 Firemen dragging the pond Monroe. WPrr or supporters of the located the body about 4:30 p.m.! Tbp Britten child is survived in approximately 10 feet of water by bpr parent5- two brothers The declaration was brought by The Sparks child, who had nifford and JamPS Rritten, both rider, who was at once of Monroe: two sisters.

Mias' with a fresh horse and I Bernice Britten. Long Beach, 1 despatched on his way to New and Miss Mabel declaration then was read Castro Gov't Concerned Over Activity WASH KING LAKE PROVIDENCE Funeral services for Wash King, 74, of Lake Providence, who died Thursday in a Shreveport hospital, were held at 2 p.m. Friday at Midway Baptist Church Epps. The Rev. Ira C.

Cole, pastor, officiated. Interment followed in the church cemetery under the direction of Funeral Home. Mr. King had resided in West Monroe before moving to Lake Providence 20 years ago. He is survived by his widow; four daughters, Mrs.

1 John Sullivan, Mrs. W. McPhearson, Mrs. Brady Lan- caster and Mrs. Maggie Atwood, all of Lake Providence; two step-sons, Melvin Clinton and Junior Phillip; a stepdaughter, Mrs.

Cleo Sullivan; 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. beaufort, s.c. a Farm-Banker South Carolina jurist who sentenced a white Marine and a Negro to death here in separate interracial rape cases says he agrees with both jury verdicts. Judge J. Henry Johnson of Allendale.

who will retire next year after 37 years on the bench, said if he had been a member of the jury in either of the rape trials he could have come to no other verdict. Sentenced to die Aug. 14 was Pvt. Fred G. Davis, 24, a white Marine from Atlanta, charged with raping a 47-year-old Negro woman.

If he dies in South Caro-, electric chair, he will be the first white man in recorded court history in the United States to die for raping a Negro. Judge Johnson yesterday sentenced Davis, then Israel Sharpe, 19-year-old Negro charged with at- rTOm i OSlTlOII tempted rape of a white housewife. Davis was tried by an male, white jury. There were six white men and six Negro men on the jury which tried Sharpe. Rabbi Jacob Lantz has Southside Drugs, 1514 hlem of many families being put South Second street, Monroe, op- out by this federal eration of a retail or wholesale Passman said.

means drug business, with a capital of now that they can apply for 1 HA Ritchie Gift Shop, Ruston, gifts, $30,000 capital. Coordinating the program for The two domestic amendments Ouachita Parish in Washington, are: IxHiisiana Urban and Rural Passman tipped his hat to Mayor Appraisal Company of Monroe, W. L. Howard, Mayor J. changing its corporate name to Allan Norris and both planning the Louisiana Urban and Rural Appraisal Company, and Prophit Corporation, Monroe.

Planning to attend the seventh annual Louisiana Farm- pr Banker Soil Conservation tour July 5-12 from the Monroe area are Joe Dixon, W. O. Roberts, and Tom Scott, all of Monroe; W. F. Prickett, Winnsboro; Claude Tarver, Sicily Island; Roy McIntyre, Delhi; Allen Cruse, Wisner; Roy Snider, Delhi; Walter Knotts, Sicilv Island; W.

A. Tucker. R. R. Scott, and Carl Ship, all of Wisner.

The tour will take part in parts of agricultural area of Arizona, California, and Nevada. Farmerville Vet Fatally Shot; Suicide Verdict commissions of Monroe and West Monroe. He pointed out that Twin Cities officials applied with federal authorities for the program to be brought here. Family Offers Girl Triplets For Adoption FARMERVILLE A 40 year old disabled World War II veteran and father of four shot himself in a boat on the Ouachita River near here yesterday. cWe 0 1 SSEii? Union Parish Coroner Dr.

J. Some people might consider Norris said the victim, T. P. Rep- heartless but am thinking pone' fired a .22 caliber bullet into ihe his heart about 1 p.m. Neighbors have provided cloth- No reason for the suicide was ing and other items for the new Lantz Resigns At B'Nai Israel immediately learned.

Funeral services for Mr. Reppond will he held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Dean Baptist Church with the Rev. Duff Smith officiating. Interment will follow in the Reppond Cemetery near Marion.

arrivals and there have been suggestions of an appeal for funds for the family. Miller said, however, don't want my daughters to have to rely on charity for the rest of their lives. If I could just get me a small farm somewhere, sure Survivors include his widow, could make out but 1 see Mrs. Delsie Reppond; his parents. much chancp of Mr.

and Mrs. Ellis Reppond of Marion; a son, Thomas Reppond; three daughters, Sybil, Marsha Lynn and Elizabeth, all of Marion; a brother. Perry Lee Rep- re' pond of Monroe; two half-broth- Monroe: one stepsister, Mrs Byrd of West Monroe; and a from an improvised platform and grandfather, John Simmons of at the close of the 1 there In Monroe. was prolonged I Pallbearers will be John Henry Elsewhere through the colonies Green, Jacky Lee Thompson, the declaration was made public AUlO v-OulSIOn Richard Dea Byrd. Martin Wind- in much the same manner, but; ham, Rodney Windham and with even more fanfare.

Military A two car collwion at the cor Jerry Peoples. "ifUm Jr- Carolina Both juries found the lir W.u^l.v rM' Reppond of Mamen cuiltv without a reeommen- SaturflaY Wellesley, non; tbree Mrs. Inez dation of mercv, making the death has acceplcd another of New Orleans, sentence mandatory. It is against South Carolina law to publish the name of rape vie- tims- four years ago. During his ten- establish beyond; nrp aq active in all position.

The resignation became cial yesterday. offi- Evelyn Clifford of Marion; and Mrs. Marie Tahash of Glendora. a half sister, Mrs. Bes- Rabbi Lantz came to Monroe sjp ()f Npw Orleans.

should estaonsn neyorw ure he has bcen activP in an all doubt that any person, regard-j hasps of cjvic and religious less of race, color or creed, jje SPr-ved as advis- get justice in South tQ thp 5 1 Federation of said the 70-year-old judge. Temple Youths, organized a local vuum.wn lilv There was no indication of ap- cbaptPf Monroe: is a units paraded to fife and drum, ner of Trenton and Pine in West case- hut no South bpr 0( tbp board 0f directors for riflemen fired volleys, cannons Monroe yesterday resulted in the Supreme Court ever has tbe iocai chapter of the American hospitalization of one of the occti- to review a death sen- Rpd Cross, Guidance Center, Amor bad the K07 0V Launches daV thundered from platforms and pants of the vehicles and extens- tpntce Givers and Ouachita IXUIIUV LdUlltllCa effigies of George III were burned, ive damage to both cars. Judge Johnson ordered Sharpe, ley council, Boy Scouts of fore the Cuban presT got it Af Accounts from those days also Taken to St. Francis Hospital aiso sentenced to die Aug 14. com- America; past president of the 1 Tmir 0t I mention with frequency that the was Jeanette Thompson, 15, of fitted the state mental hospi- Monr0e Ministerial Association; He accused Diaz 0 inefficiency I UUI I U.J.^ joyous citizenry repaired to the Washington Street in West Mon- ta' a 30-day observation.

chaplain for the local American and nepotism, claiming he operat- nearest taverns after the cere- roe, passenger in a late model 1 During the trial, Beaufort Coun- Iieg10n post; and a member of ed the air force for his family II flf monies. There amid numerous Anglic, driven by Patsy R.ser, 16, ty Sheriff J. E. Mcleer quoted Rotary ciuh. benefit.

I fllKS VJT naimQny and resounding toasts the zest of Route 2. West Monroe. She was Davis as saying he sometimes The family presently is vaca- Diaz. Castro said, gave the sec- The occasion was enhanced by an reportedly treated for minor cuts had overpowering sex urge tioning in Monroe, New ond highest job in the air arm to entirely different type of spirits, and bruises. and got pleasure out of using his twin brother Marcos, whom off, that both the Soviet Union without dftllbt town nf Wnr According to investigating offi- force with 79 Legal NoLces 79 the Prime Minister labeled as a and the United States have great 'cers, the Riser car, traveling: Davis was accused of raping the; win rwrtved in confident of American natural resources and made his was ine roasung remark about there being Castro declared that if Diaz, abouf Wood by Betty Hernandez, 19, seated, hut two Negro boys said who has gone into hiding, is Their conversation delved into wiik Stella Street, West Monroe, they witnessed the attack.

on nu la the Pur- caught he will face a military tri- history. Kozlov said that early in The UnTteri States of whe? car by Miss Her Shu-rpe was- charged bunal. World War 11 Stalin had been nandpz refiortcdiy ran a stop mg his way into the white worn- libit champion of all Th: Trenton was struck by woman near a cemetery, nothing A remrd a 19-14 Ford sedan driven west Davis claimed the woman con- for on Wood bv Rettv HernandP 7 19 sented. blit two Neero hovs said will be 10 a.m.. tiau with drivinR "Iffildren said she fought him for that the Sovi.t ler.

He told Merchant that West pol.ee arrived. s. 3. 7. ir America, proceeded with toasts Miss Hernandez was charged home.

The mother of three tervei to accept or reject any am I AAHrlA oehinfftnn lsj. force by stating that the Soviet Union was too far away from Cuba to exert any influence. In an obvious reference to the present Chancellor celebrators could think of, then took a hearty whack at others in 1959 Konrad Adenauer would turn out dlsfavor evPS t0 all toriP5 to be a bad leader. United States he expressed a de- lhink Wp can agree more stone and a chestnut burr for an eye- CENTRAL SAVINGS BANK TRUST CO. recent history," said Merchant.

1. Perpetual itching without the H'that exploit were equally distant. 'two'oV'Three scratching to the ene Referring to his recent troubles davs t0 falk( because I have not mirs of America, with the Dominican Republic, convinced you and you have not rejected, and liberty Castro said intervention on Cuban convinced me," Merchant added, territory by the Organization of jhe silver-haired, 50-year-old At the conclusion of the 24 toasts. American States would not be al- Kremlin official was all smiles the unnamed historian on the spot 1 he formally bade farewell to recorded tongue in the people of Washington and greatest decency and good started off on what he has joking- order was observed, and at a called his "Communist infiltra suitable time each man returned: tion" of the United States. Ito his respective house." announces the election of Trio Arrested In $8 Million Bond Theft From than $138,000 worth of Canadian bonds at a Chicago bank in September and October 1958 It furth-; pr charged him with fraud by wire in pledging $140 .000 in stolen bonds to a Swiss bank.

The others were named as principal offenders in aiding and abetting Rabin. Parsons said Rabin acted as agent for an international syndicate in which Cotroni, Mannarino and Rothman were members. The bonds were given to Rabin by the two Canadians. Rabin has denied any knowledge the bonds were stolen. The break in the case came Parsons s.iid, when a Swiss hank learned the bonds were stolen and notified police, w-ho tipped the FBI.

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