Calvet asserts Confidential investigator pressured her
Hollywood report states District Attorney William Rizzi said Corinne Calvet told him an investigator for Confidential magazine threatened her to confirm its tale of her love life with two husbands. Defense counsel Arthur Crowley denied any threats while Calvet felt pressured to slant testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Dept
William Rizzi
Corinne Calvet
Confidential
Arthur Crowley
Rizzi
Miss Calvet
Crowley
Witness Testimony Slows Star Love Scene Case
Defense presents new witness dates for alleged February 1954 embrace involving Maureen O Hara at Grau man’s Chinese theater while the star’s Europe trip and Spain movie work are cited as alibis. Michael Patrick Casey, a theater employee turned TV director, testified of a February 1954 embrace, challenging the prior November 1953 sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Casey
Grauman
William L. Rizzi
Casey
Maureen O’hara
Hollywood
Maureen O'Hara
Confidential Magazine
Europe
Defense Today
Michael Patrick Casey
Miss O’hara
Miss O'Hara
United States
Charles Fitzsimons
Craig
Sheriff Wins Week's Delay In Ouster Try
Prentiss County Sheriff George W. Rutherford Jr. won another week’s delay in the ouster election attempt. Circuit Judge Raymond Jarvis heard the mandamus action after State Rep. Eck Windham argued papers were not legally served due to the coroner’s commission expiration. The judge then set Aug. 31 for the mandamus hearing and named Wendell Stacey as a disinterested party to serve papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booneville
Miss
Prentiss
George W. Rutherford Jr
County Board of Supervisors
Raymond Jarvis
Eck Windham
Prentiss County
Windham
Claude Spencer
Jarvis
Wendell Stacey
J. A. Cunningham Sr
Rutherford
Dist. Atty. N. S. Sweatt
Corinth
West Carroll Parish Leads Bond Sales in 1957
West Carroll Parish tops district six in U. S. savings bonds sales for the first seven months of 1957. J. T. Kelly serves as bond sales chairman as residents purchase $58,348, or 81 percent of the $71,850 quota. State and national averages run 51.9 and 54.2 percent respectively. More farmers die in haying accidents than in harvesting any other crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Carroll Parish
U. S
J. T. Kelly
West Carroll
Compare Louisiana and Mississippi school terms and pay
Louisiana requires nine months of schooling for nearly all children and offers higher salaries than Mississippi. In Mississippi only eight months are guaranteed with districts often paying for the ninth, while Louisiana faces a shortage of qualified teachers and lower starting salaries relative to industry. Louisiana average starting pay is 3100 dollars, Mississippi 2442 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Ione Hill
Louisiana Classroom Teachers Association
Mississippi
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Hill
A. L. Hendrick
Jackson
Miss
PTA
Investigating Texas Case Of Missing Coed
Dallas sheriff reports a conference with police from Midland Denton and a Texas Ranger to plan the inquiry into the 1948 disappearance of Texarkana coed Virginia Carpenter. They discussed the case involving Edgar Ray Zachary held on rape charges and secured information from Midland police on Zachary’s wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Bill Decker
Texarkana
Carpenter
Denton
Texas Women's University
Zachary
Decker
Wallace
Midland
Woman Charged on Manslaughter in Houma Case
In Houma Louisiana a 46 year old woman Rosa Thibodaux was charged with manslaughter after claiming she shot her cousin thinking he was a prowler Irving Thibodaux a 26 year old fisherman was found dead about 60 feet from Rosa Thibodaux s house Officers found a shotgun and cartridges hidden in a wall of her home after she said she hid them The shooting occurred around 130 am with investigators noting she had complained of prowlers and the slain man was married with two children
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houma
Irving Thibodaux
Rosa Thibodaux
A. P. Prejean
Bell Returns From Reunion Of 105th Battalion
C. C. Bell Jr, a World War II veteran with 717 combat days, has returned from Newport Tennessee after attending the seventh annual reunion of the 105th Battalion. About 70 men, mainly from Battery A, gathered. Bell, owner of a West Monroe manufacturing firm, commanded Battery A at war’s end. Next year’s convention will be in Shelby North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Bell, Jr
Newport
Tenn
105Th Battalion
Comrat
Battery A
Bell
West Monroe
Shelby
N.C
Regulations Set On Barber Shops In Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi August 23 The State Board of Barber Examiners elected officers and adopted stricter rules for Mississippi barbers. S Ross Cockerham Gloster named president to succeed L J Tucker Meridian J M Pybas Greenwood named secretary to succeed Tucker and Miller remains on the board New regulations require entrance sign identification full payment of delinquent dues for reentry to the Mississippi Independent Barbers Assn regular X ray checks for disease protection and no pets in barber shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
State Board of Barber Examiners
Mississippi
S. Ross Cockerham
Gloster
L. J. Tucker
Meridian
J.M. Pybas
Greenwood
Tucker
Pybas
R. I. Miller
Miller
New Abbreviations Aid Tech Students Returning
Returning Louisiana Tech students encounter a set of new building abbreviations on Sept 18 19. Schedules decode EB for English Building formerly Chemistry Building and CTH for Carson Taylor Hall. Old Home Economics becomes OHE while NS and DPP denote Nursery School and Dairy Processing Plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Carson-Taylor Hall
CTH
School of Home Economics
OHE
Home Economics
Bogard Hall
Keeny Hall
Dramatics Arts
Lomax Hall
Training School
Preparedness Campaign By Scouts Gains
Troop Eleven of the Boy Scouts of America reports strong response to its Be Prepared For Accidents campaign. Scoutmaster Bob Preddy notes only about one in five families owns a first aid kit. The Scouts are selling kits to West Monroe homeowners to fund activities, and offer portable first aid travel kits tucked into suitcases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of America
Bob Preddy
West Monroe
Average thought speed vs speaking pace
Reported comparison states the average person thinks at least 500 words per minute while listening, whereas the typical speaker talks around 100 words per minute. This gap highlights how mental processing outpaces spoken delivery in ordinary conversations.
Police Jury Handbook In Preparation
The Police Jury Association and its secretary treasurer group prepare a handbook to standardize parish operations. LSU government head Dr Rene Williamson will lead with police jurors, with a first meeting on campus in mid September. Participants include W A Breedlove Walter C Peters I E Legendre and others. The last edition appeared in 1928, now outdated due to changing Louisiana laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Jury Association
Rene Williamson
Louisiana State University
LSU
W.A. Breedlove
Walter C. Peters
Jennings
I.E. Legendre
Thibodaux
Louisiana
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James Craig
Grau‘man’s Chinese Theater
Man’s
Twin Cities
Grey and Nichols
Orlon
Angora
Ine
Leon
I-Verstein
W. Carroll
Hendrick
Texas
York
Hudson Lane
West Monroe Finance Company
Trenton ST
Manuel Moreno
San Francisco
Moreno
Call Fog Service, Inc
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