Ruston Daily Leader (Newspaper) - December 17, 1954, Ruston, Louisiana fc V I Huston 54 Follow The Leader BASKETS OK CHRISTMAS FOOD will be present ed i needy Huston families by fraternities at Louisiana Members of each of Ilie are here as Hustons Mayor Beasley gives a list of name to Veil of president of lie lornity Council and representative of iTn Chi Alpha Others looking on are left tu Hubert flua XI Ii Kappa Al pha Randy Kappa Alpha Kappa Sigma and Jesse Lake 1au Kappa Three Prisoners Removed To Penal Institutions Two men and a minor convicted in Third Judicial Court here Wed were removed to penal in Wednesday by members of Sheriff Clyde Wallace Moltmann who pleaded guilty to breaking into Willis Lain Company hardware store here several months received j a sentence of three and was taken to j His admitted ward was taken to Training Institution in Moni and Moltmann pleaded guilty to breaking into the Ruston i store and stealing a number of j knives and other Homer with a record of other received a sentence of four and a half years from Judge after he had pleaded to a charge of simple He was taken to The prisoners were taken to the penal institutions by Deputies Sheriff Front is Frasier and Wilbur Check Fails To Reveal Drought AM Work Here Although Agriculture Depart ment spokesmen say that sharecroppers in North by a linger ing may Ret help from the federal government this win no one in authority here has knowledge of such Lincoln was one of 29 Louisiana parishes from which an estimated ing families might be some of the governments surplus food A check of all state and federal agencies in Ruston failed to turn up any activity in this Some few share croppers in the parish are reported to have been hard hit by drought but the situ ation is not considered observers Canadian Charges Reds Forced Confession United Press Canadian spokes men have told how the Chinese Reds got a socalled confession j from an airman they released this A by Defense ter Ralph Campney and Foreign Affairs Minister Lester released in says the Reds held Squadron Leader Mac in solitary confinement for 16 They up on ly when he signed a statement that he invaded Chinese air The two ministers say Mac Kenzie told thorn he was not in to fly over China and did not knowingly do Mac Kenzie said his plane was shot down some five miles south of the Yalu River during the Korean THE WEATHER Official data compiled by the ech Forestry departments wea j her Tech a of the i Weather bureau for Ruston and Lincoln For the 24hour period endina at 8 today Ma Minimum S II Cloudy to partly cloudy and cooler Tumor row fair rind 2 to tomorrow 52 to Another wintry weekend is fore cast for Louisiana and Ihe weath erman says the mercury will hov er in the low in the north and Ihe high and low 10s in the The today is for partly cloudy but it will turn fair to j Showers polled most of the state yesterday with Lafayette reporting j the heaviest rainfall of of an I Raton Rouge had I Monroe Hunwood and Moisant Interj national Airport Lake Charles The slate low of 12 was noted at yesterday while the reading rose to 01 at Maximum temp ranged from 69 at Lake Charles and Alexandria to at Protests Riot Of Greek Students The United States is protest ing ant tions in The American consulate in Sa has lodged a formal pro test against Five Greek students smashed the United States information center and battled police during ihe demon The riots came after the United States announced it would op pose union of the British island of Cyprus with Agriculture Report From Secretary h Due This Afternoon i i IP The Agriculture Department is drafting a final on 1951 farm production expected to show a bumper in spite of drought and federal control The duo this give final production and acreage estimates on and revised figures on the same crops for last Controls are held responsible for the corn and wheat which currently are estimated be low last But heavy produc tion of other crops has increased 1h lion of other crops has increased the total farm The November report indicated record crops of sorghum dry sugar cane and cranber In another the depart ment estimates that farmers cash receipts from livestock and crop marketings for the first 11 months of tills year totaled Thats down four per cent for the same period last The report said prices averaged three per cent j reduced volume from wheat and other controlled crops was responsible for the rest of the December 1954 OUR SCHOOL LEADERS FACE A PROBLEM The Leader wishes to add its hearty congratulations to Morrell Emmons for his election to the influential committee that will formulate plans for equalization of available school funds in And we also want to recognize the man behind him who has worked to do the same thing on the State Board of Raymond president of the has advocated this plan for and ho and Emmons and State Superintendent Shelby Jackson have no conflict in this i Unless the plan recommended by Mr and en by most other superintendents is adopted there are many parishes that can only teach eight months or less next Union Parish has only planned for eight and onehalf months because the plan now in operation has taken away money they Equalization funds in Louisiana are used to keep school standards on an even level in poor parishes where local money is not Lincoln is among this group and unless we have a change in the rule our board will be broke next year A good surplus from other years is the only way we were able to maintain standards this Excess bonuses and general splurging by rich par with excess populations has created a maladjustment of the whole state This must be corrected and is the problem facing Heard has been long time chairman of the finance committee of the state board and his knowledge of school problems in the poor parishes has made him a champion for just Lincoln Parish stands at the top of the state in having all its white high schools recognized by the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Louisiana Tech and Gram College have grown to be the powerful institutions they are with the assistance of Heard and we are confident he will continue to work for our interest as well as fair and equal attention to all state j We are glad at this time to thank Heard for his acI of an invitation to have the entire State Board of Education attend the annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet i in This will be the first time the state group has met j and we are hopeful it may have a significant meaning for j our Ruston We pledge Emmons our support in his fight to keep our schools oil good with no favoritism and we know he will have good friends on the Price Five NATO Nations Okay Use Of American Atomic Weapons Jury Case This Sheppard Morning Osteopath Could Gel Electric Chair In Death Of His Wife Cl Th Photographers Show Their Work Ilmi SI the Council I Robert if e til e lor 1 been with its former is viee 1 UN Chief WIN Make Visit To Red China On December 26 Episcopal Childrens Festival Is Sunday The annual childrens Christmas sponsored each year by Ruston Episcopal Church will lie held on Sunday afternoon at 1 The Nativity Scene will be as during the service and the children are to bring their white gifts to the creche as an offering of thanksgiving for the birth of the Christ The church in presents each child with a religious The scriptural narrative of the Nativity will be Children of all ages arc invited as are their MAYS CHAPEL CHOIR TO PAGEANT The junior adults and senior choir of Mays Chapel Church wiU present a It Happened in Bethlehem Sunday night at oclock at the The junior adults of the church will portray the Biblical charac ters while the senior choir will furnish the background The public is invited to be pre sent to see this pageant and share in the spirit of the advent Johnson is A from the Louisiana yam industry to the New York convention of the nations largest produce industry organization is Miss Alma student at Grayson High School in Caldwell She won the 1954 statewide sweet potato contest for home As an the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission is sending her to The convention of the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable By Prem The United Nations Secretary General will make his mission to Peiping next week on behalf of imprisoned Americans in Red Dag Hammarskjold says he will leave UN headquarters in New York Tuesday or Wednesday for talks with Chinese Communist Pre mier Chou En The UN Assembly has given Hammarskjold instructions to try to win tho release of imprisoned particularly the 11 air men jailed as Hammarskjold cabled Peiping last requesting a conference with Premier Chou En he got an plus some Chou sent one cable blasting the United Nations for what he called interference in the affairs of Com munist The message insist ed that the American airmen were It charged that the United not had violated the Korean A second cable was much short It said merely that Chou is willing to meet with Hammarsk jold in sometime after December 26 to discuss what the Red premier called pertinent Chou said Red China is interested in what he called peace and relaxation of interna tional Some observers believe Chous cable mean there may be hope for the releas of four Unit ed States airmen and several Continued on 8 Slate VFW Official Pays Flying Visit To Ruslon Today of Veterans of Foreign paid a flying visit to Ruston this morning on a tour of the Commander Baker is using a VFW plane to pick up VFW membership He was met at Stuckey Airport by Henry commander of Edwin Parnell Post 3615 of the and other members of the organization in There are 35 posts of the VFW in cities and towns with airports that Baker will visit on the Baker has explained that Lou is now in ninth place in membership in the nation and a special drive is being made to bring the state into one of the top three Coast Guard Gives Up Hope For Missing New Orleans Ship NEW Coast Guard has abandon I UI ed its search for a converted LST by the Kiwanis and other service frail or Kiwanians Raise In Annual Auction For Good Cheer Fund Three hundred and thirtysix dollars was raised by the Kiwanis Club Thursday in their annual Christmas auction for the Good Cheer Jack has vol his services for the past several years in this cause and kept the bidding fast and interest Each member had brought some small gift that cost less than and placed it in the pile for auction to the Gifts that were not wanted at home or needed for other holiday purposes were left to be put into the Good Cheer baskets prepared by the city organization for dis to unfortunate families on Christmas Good chair said the yearly auction held Baton Special i land living in and a round will have an to i how photographs iii the Art Commissions phot j ic in hich opens 10 tin inib i lie H through Kt lru ir JS ii the ihl Slate in Baton i ommission lor Jay Broussard announced to j Any Louisiana s tu submit lour bricK and hite Die elw and They be on the ny JiJ and Mitst in exhibited in any of the Art There no cost I the man i tj and the and all exhibitors are asked to include the of postage in stamps fnr the return ing of the prints afei the The jury I a io be of na artists and photographers wil ilie j open jury session ui Sunday in tlv House j Chamber of the Old Slate Everyone is invited to 5 Broussard j The session will begin prompt i ly at 1 i All works must be received in the Commissions oil ice not later than 5 on Jan Broussard urged everyone plan ning to send to the show to con sider the possibility of time last in tho and to scad in their prints All work must be ac companied with official entry blank which can be secured by writing the Art Old Rouge President To Light Christmas Tree Today 17 UIl President Christmas message to the nation will be about 5 White House Christ mas ceremonies include lightin of the 7fool a for Americans to light other trees the nation and military bases Popes Relapse Brings Concern To Physicians I The doctors of Pope Pius openly are almut his The pontiff developed an abnormally fast 104 beats to ihe compared with the normal The Pope also has suffered a recurrence of the hic cups that have plagued him on and And he spent a very restless His doctors are concerned be cause he has been steadily weak ening for the past few The chief papal The general condition of the Holy Father still is very He is The doctor was considerably more outspoken than the official Vatican medical It said the pontiff spent a passable The Vatican deputy tary of state had an audience with the Pope and reported later that he seemed very tired after all the medical examinations and The tests showed the Pope is suffering from gastritis and a hernia of the between the chest and the TT nn Sheppard murder cast m to lie this morning al and Samuel Shep l up from his chair at table to watch the y o live and seven men to Mart Die Inal nine I a ul guilty could send lo Ihe electric Mdward the charge In this The jurors ill decide the osteopaths fate 111 room directly above the They have five possible iside from the possibility of a hung They can find the 10 yearold bone doctor guilty of first decree with the death required under They ran find him or guilty if first degree murder with a recommendation of This would mean a life And Sheppard also can be found of second degree which provides a life sentence with a possible parole after 10 The jury also could find Ihe defendant guilty of first de cree That would mean a prison term of one to 20 The charge to the jury this morning after six hours declamation by counsel yesterday which was marked by free bor rowing from the Shakes Father Flanagan and Cla rence The jury spent last night in a downtown Only one of the many reporters on the scene will be permitted to the courtroom when the ver dict comes Speculation is that the jury will be out for many Sheppards pregnant was found bludgeoned to death in her Lake Erie shore home on the morning of July The young osteopath hag contended that he feel asleep on a living room sofa and was awakened by a noise in his wifes His defense was that when a he rushed to his wifes only to be struck down by a man who fie dto ward the freighter missing since it left Port Sulphur December but the wife of one of the crewmen is confident her husband will be home for their first January The Southern has not been heard from since it left with a cargo of sulphur for It was due to make Rockport last Madeline Carder of New Orleans says she expects that her 38yearold will call her that he will be home for Says he said be fore he sailed he would be home for Christmas and for our first an I still believe he The Carders planned their first anniversary celebration as part of his vacation while the ship went into drydock for Carder a ship that size just doesnt completely disap Three other Louisiana men are among the missing crew of clubs and from the annual Thanks giving service was the only source of income they had and urged the members to be A limit of was placed on any gift of A feature of the meal was steak dinner for the winning team that sold the most tickets to the pan cake breakfast while the losers ate Christmas Holidays For Parish Students Announced The more than children in Lincoln Parish begin the 1954 Christmas holidays on December while the Lou Tech students begins theirs at noon this The vacation for the parish school students continues until January as does that for the Tech Tech students had their tradi tional Christmas dinner of turkey and all the fixings in the dining halls last RADIO HIGHLIGHTS 1490 ke kc Saturday Home tion Listen for a special Christmas program by Bertha Kiddie Saturdays program is a i Christmas Cavalcade holi day songs and Once Upon A Time Dont miss this wonderful story tor Coincidence Saves Miner Trapped In Winnfield Sail Mine A coincidence saved 40yearold Julius Smith from a seemingly hopeless predicament in An explosion trapped him 800 feet in a salt mine yester day Because there was no way to cope with lethal gas from the mine officials would let no one try to rescue But they learned the Navy hap to be demonstrating new types of oxygen masks for the fire department of 30 miles Navy Lieutenant Billy Scroggins rushed to the mine and with miner Chester each wearing a rescued He was tak j en to a hospital where his condition was described as fairly Around the Corner You can take our word for it a steady of diet of Christmas carol ing will sure get you Colvin says if you want to find Ward 2 get up high and holler and the place it bounces back from is Ward McBrides son sent him a dog from France now daughter Kathy is studying French so she can understand the new But the Colonel says the puppy is catching on fast if you offer him a bone in American he will eat Judging from Conley ad he has been eating bass off a chug ger and a river Whats the i matter with the old wig Igler operator of Manner Venetian Blind who goes by the name of The has been fishing for many years trying to make a big bass This privilege came to him last weekend when he caught this large mouth bass which weighed five 14 soaking The catch was made in Choudrant Creek in Tremont Bottoms on a white and Hamner is having it mounted by a Shreve port Staff photo i Society editor June Post arrived j by truck from California yesterday and this morning she is taking her phone calls standing i Linda and Track Kavanaugh in j Clay are raising Christmas money selling Give the kids a ring and dress up the
