Ruston Daily Leader (Newspaper) - August 31, 1953, Ruston, Louisiana 53 Follow The Leader VFW Chief Mines Plans For Drive eorge command erof the 13th district VFW de of and a of the Hustons Edwin Post spoke at it last regular monthly meet Mabry outlined the com in membership drive of the VFW that will soon get un de way throughout the A reminded the Huston post of iti responsibilities along this line aid urged that they get lined up fcr an extensive membership Mabry said that Huston was better represented with office jobs in the 13th district thin at any other time in the organizations He said hare are nine men from Huston office in the district waich are as follows George Mabry Howard Davis judge Howard Wrigh Hogan color Rhinehart dis Ralph Smelly civil defense vet training chair Continued on Page Six APPROPRIATIONS New Authority August 1953 1950 195 1953 f 1954 on chart Is the crux of he administrations drive to balance the It represents new which mostly means appropriations ft also includes unused 1953 which are Note for the time since the start of the Korean estimated new obligations are now estimated re and If this down trend is the can be no la when that will The revised Eisenhower estimates WJ llon less than Trumans January estimate lor fiscal 1954 and million Forestry Festival Will Crown Queen In October a new queen will be crowned to reign over Louisi ana forests for a A Louisi ana will be chosen from scores of contestants in this years forest festival in Winn field 30 through Miss Betty Seabolt of Shreve port has held the scepter since when she was chosen forest Invitations have gone out to major industry n the state inviting them to nake an entry in this years La Verne of said Plans Outlined for Visit c President To New Orleans on 17 for Festival When President Eisenhower tennial celebration of the Lou visits New Orleans he will review a combined military and carnival take part in a reenactment of the signing of the Louisiana Pur chase treaty with a high French Purchase came today from of the Louisiana Pur chase 150th Anniversary associa The presidents visit climaxes two weeks of From and make a nationwide j 4 through New Or leans and the state of Louisiana Announcement of the Presi dents participation in the cere monies climaxing the Erskine is president of the FW sponsoring group the statewide forest queen We are expecting scores of tries this said The forest has grown legislative Council Will Hold Hearings The legislative process com of the Louisiana legislature council is preparing to hold a series of public hearings through out the state on the session laws and procedures of the legisla This consisting of David chair and Koorie and is in in obtaining legislative and public reaction on certain Bernice Man Freed in Korea Mother Almost Is Overcome by News families and friends Ber anxiously awaited the mes sage she received When 51 Airmen Are in Exchange Parley Scheduled By The United Press I Fiftyone American the largest number of Air Force I personnel so moved through freedom gate at Panmunjom last night in the latest round of Operation Big Ninetynine other Americans also were repatriated by the Reds who handed over a total 400 allied Another 400 will be returned in round of the prisoner including 100 Some of the returning airmen say the Reds may hand over more than the 3313 Americans they promised to return in Big j They say from 1000 to 1200 British and other prisoners are wait ing to be freed at Up to 500 of these may be In other developments The first Indian officers who will guard prisoners who refuse to go home arrived at the UN base camp at The United Nations command said all communist captives who want to be freed will be repatri The communists charged that agents of Nationalist China were to visit an Chinese Western are scheduled to meet in Wash ington this week to determine will wind up a year of oration with an intensified proj newsman that her Clyde a prisoner of the i seemed tf site and date of tne confer wonderful that will decide Korea Kennedy was told by a Milton Howard i Marine corps fighter has hern released from a Chinese Cm munist prison to information released over tin who wont o Korea in had been listed released th c as missing in action MUY sued of 1932 and no official word haii been received since that his wife in Earlier this year in the Barbara Einir MISSING in action since May j tro the fat fWD fate of Howard Baugh above standing civic of Ruston came over the weekend I annual session iy here who was sponsored bv the Ruston Kiwanis and he heard of the r Alice sponsored bv the brother thro Ruston Kiwanis received phy awards at the conclusion stationed Pelican Girls State for out corps in during the inon i when he was released from a camp in the Big Switch exchange of war prisoners under the terms of the Communists for over two and a gram to attract untold thousands of visitors to New Or leans for the Headquarters of the Louisiana Its too wonderful to Ibe Purchase 150th Anniversary asj Kennedy told the reporter sociation gave the following thats exactly what Ive been of the allied nations whose troops fought in Korea will attend the Washing had been the 7 United States has an onen gram for the day of the presi dents visit explaining that further details would be ed as they become known At President Eisen hower will review a combined wanting to who has been in tha army since the exception of one year spent in ci the United States military and parade 20 1950 bX Desti from a reviewing stand in his atlon Within 32 hours has an open mind on where the Korean con ference should be held but other UN countries are known to favor tu Bauh had that Baugn had received last spring from some repatriated PWs sent home Little Switch but attended by some er here that he had 500 high school a phone call Conducted by the auxiliary of in California Legion as course in cil Pelican Girls State was seen in a in Baton While there the prison was delegates from throughout Ln elected their own parish and state to ihe and ami Baugh of i The Korean truce provides that the HSSi c was reported to be in tory health and will return to the by surface transit must begin by 23 but there are indications that the west will press for an earlier agreement No date was set for conference Tht voune Ruston delegation of six i gram was d women achieved numerous urn trip to city and parish in said Continued on Page Six be one of the biggest celebra Of is of its kind in the 1 there is a lot of interest n outside the forest products We urge the industries In February of this year the stail of the legislative council released its Report Louisiana to enter their conj 1 entitled The Legislative Pro ants as soon as ules of the contest are the e as last Only girls from 16 to 28 s of age are eligible to par ate and they must not be divorced or have had a They must Continued on Page Six f sials of Stale To for on Prison Ward Charity Hospital Py The United Press parish and state officials a meeting in New ss this week to discuss the of a prison ward hospital in New Or four convicts have i out to freedom in the last pressure of convict pa bn the hospital was ex to with of a resident Jin at Angola assistant director I has an I this appointment of a graduate of medical school in to the The Resident died in July and the las been sending more than usual to New Or l Maurice Sig li that a certain prisoners will still be Sew Sigler says y favors a prison ward to prevent any cess in and on April 15 the council authorized the holding of the forthcoming hear The report to the council gave detailed consideration to the session laws and to the pro of the The report outlines the state legislatures face in two major problem areas 1 the increasing difficulty of the legislature in effectively per forming its functions of fiscal re view and of maintaining a check on the administration and 2 McCarthy Questions Six Witnesses About Rsds m Armed Forces By The United Press Joseph McCarthy ques six witnesses at New York today into possible communist infiltration of a military branch of the federal government McCarthy refused to name the witnesses or the military agency He questioned the wit nesses in private and said he would continue the closed hear ings McCarthy said the military in was an outgrowth of his recent inquiry into alleged communist espionage in the gov printing There are reports that he is checking he went into On lie was taken prisoner by the The last letter Kennedy re from her May now 32yearold soldier reported that he was doing as well as could be expected under possibly in the middle of Octo the existing He wrote that he weighed 157 pounds Urged To Use laboratory lis return j addition to the ewis Legion Convert ion Hunter first vice com mander of the lum post 2 of the American Louisiana is in Louis this week attending national convention of the have been invited to make use of the new diagnostic laboratory his mother is about jat Louisiana his normal Kennedy served in the Far East during World War the growing burden being placed the activities of civilian em on the as indicated by the hasty the lack of time to secure expert advice on complex and the lack of oppor to reconsider legislation vetoed by the The report discusses the possi for changing the session laws to permit annual sessions or biennial sessions with legisla tive power to control special Continued on Page Six WEATHER data compiled by the departments wea Tech of the Bureau for Ruston and I at 8 24hour period Saturday Southern Democrats Plan To Boycott Meet By The United Press Several Southern Democrats who came out for President Eis last year say they wont attend a Democratic rally next Followers of Adlai Stevenson hope to see the defeated presi nominee consolidate his position as leader of the Demo crats at the rally in Allan Shivers of who split with Stevenson on the Tidelands oil says he wont attend the rally and Democratic Price Daniel of who also came out for has turned thumbs down on the the southern boycott is not A good number of Dixie Democrats have already promised to attend or have ex their ployees of the a union leader ac of swearing falsely that he was not a communist sur rendered today to authorities in The official is Ben president of the Interna tional Fur and Leather workers He was indicted last Gold posted bond after surrendering at the office of United States Attorney Leo Ro 2 Graham Wei Flowing Into Pits By HARRY TAYLOR Special to The Leader SHREVEPORT Lincoln par ish fields have one well which should be completed within the next week to lead the currently slim activity in the Arkansas Louisiana Gas comi pany is allowing the 2 John in the Rus ton to clean itself after drilling to 9110 perforat ing 907074 and swabbing the well in to flow to Also in the Ruston Mur phy corporation is coring below 9600 feet in the 1 Only recently placed in oper ation under the direction of The annual conclave of the Le auxiliary and other sponsor civic service a in the next of wards presented to Barbara and Howard is a Continued on Page Six ton high school aiv v ti He entered ilv corps in 1942 and training at for officers candidate From OCS ho H ond lieutenant and a year later entered the By United Press I arm and saw service in Some Southwestern Bell and Japan during Telephone company workers Choosing to remain in the KT ed an 11day strike in six states end of thr today and prepared to return and make the Marines his 16 in Six States is Ended Rubber Workers Bask James the v dUU got under way i Jobs A union spokesman Howard again was and will announced m Louis that the arriving in Korea in today and will continue through tory is equipped for diagnosis of poultry to determine ways of preventing them an to recommend All types of will be ex in the is the second such establishment in the The other diagnostic laboratory for poultry is located at Baton Assistant to Patterson is laboratory technician Jack Ham ilton of J ii i LUtr 1WllLlrtUL to attend the parley aci for wage increases and Communists Trying to Enter West Germany To By United Press Part of the West German e lection campaign is taking place at the East German Murphy corporation also is Western police have arrested drilling below 8536 feet in the 3 in the Simsboro Ma ML 8 I Raf Sunday Mil Mi STATE FAIR ANNOUNCES 97 ADMISSION FEE FOR ADULTS 68 By The United Press 72 The Louisiana state fair will charge an admission fee for j adults this due to rising 97 operational 70 j The admission charge will be 73 50 cents for adults but children j under 16 wil Ibe admitted A spokesman for the fair said the principal of a pay gate will 68 apply to everyone and there will 80be no passes of any some 3000 Communists whp cross ed the border to try to upset next Sundays general On the other side of the the Communists are stepping up their drive against the free A merican food for hungry East Some members of the Le gion and its auxiliaries are ex CIO Communication Workers and the company had reached a set Subsequent news received from Korea via a news service He said the contract provides i that Baugh to his enemy in of service He of appearances arranged by lu 25 miles around booked Joseph McCarthy R will speak before a joint court for tnat the wili not I Communists I with the workers right ture on May to The company says it will have j news release from his cip cpn avs w rom session of the Legions foreign to boost phone rats to cover the that the had Americanism and of th increased i eci him for a tional security commissioners toj In New aircraft batteries in North day on The Defense of a of the unions lol lineg division his was shot Highlight of the convention and the American Telephone and They took me before one Telegraph company resumed their crew and said it the speeches will be a major policy j old negotiations on team that had shot me speech Wednesday by Secretary said of State John Foster Vice President Nixon ed plans for the speech yesterday after two White House meetings at which Dulles reviewed inter national New Rale System for Automobile Liability Insurance Announced By United Press Automobile liability insurance rates will be revised to reduce premiums for pleasure drivers Some workers also reThe Marine flier said turned to their jobs today at was disabled by End eight Firestone Tire and gunners while ho making a company seven strafing run at about ending a The and he made a belly landing in a j CIO Rubber Workers union rei rice paddy near the another of j toward which he was to its members may strike at unless a settlement is reached with the Goodrich The Firestone workers settled for a wage hike plus fringe benefits amounting to an additional seven cents an A negotiator for the Goodrich workers says they want generally It was tha best I ever Continued on Page Sj Automobile liability insurance have announced they In the government of Premier Laniel has announced a 10 per cent reduction in meat prices in an effort to improve nave announced tney French living Later have on the new rate according to there will be cuts in the price of margarine and CHEAP AT HALF THE it was George the Sign Kisses 3 for 5 a Clev could blame was behind the Th en te The bargain smooches were sold to aid the Foundation for Infantile which i from v proceeds of the entire The reduction in meat prices j becomes effective in the Paris district Robert 57 Is Buried in Dubach Robert of New father of Glen Lee Corrigan of was buried today at Bennett died in Bastrop Satur day Funeral services were held from the chapel of Darby Funer al home in with pastor of the First Presbyterian church assist ed by the conduct ing the final Interment structure which will reduce rates for about half the nations drivers for the first time since World War every woman racial and child in the nation a state on Insurance Rating PaPer senting 213 mutual and stock in Tax Collections Are Averaged by Bureau By The United Press The way the census bureau comes from rhat Around the Comer This is the last week before school folks so just hold your breath a few more days and then parents vacation will please watch the lights down town and dont t info such an conver sation while waiting on Ihe rd surance said the re in the more than vised structure will go into state governments collected as soon as it can be filed with jin taxes during the last business state insurance year by the nations The new insurance plan making a few drivers in seven groups inThe bureau also says stead of the present tax collections for the same to win be designed to increase the tailed That comes premium for young mo out to about a and encourage city drivers to use public transportation to get to The new insurance plan will cut premiums for some drivers as as 15 per cent and nearly triple the basic rate for The present Class covering Radio Highlight was under j nonbusiness use of will Ayers 1490 kc KRUS 1490 kc PERRY COMO SHOW Be on hand for tonights premiere broadcast with the Fontaine t h e Hay Charles Singers and Mitchell In addition to Bennett is survived by a Bennett of South and two Neill of Bastrop and broken three p M LOMBARDO SHOW Lei Kenny the Twin and all the Royal Can broadcast at this new Cars used solely for less than 10 miles to j 10 miles to Kaufman of I Premiums will be lowest time beginning has another sale which starts on first of the month it be a he says Daily is the now manager of the and like to acquainted while you shop a round his Glenda Eloise are all rested up and ready to start back trying to teach sister to dance this Ed Chandler and Hubert said they didnt could cut prices at the but they tried hard and hope you will read their All you guys that were to ask your about those hirJi school football tickets should know by now where she want to sit so go around and tell the man so he will stop worrying about