Tucker Receives Plate Bar Honor in Louisiana Legal Circle
Col Tucker, a Shreveport legal figure and civil law reform advocate, is honored with the French Legion of Honor and Hatton W. Summers Award. He donated his Civil Law Library to LSU Law School and helped create the Louisiana State Institute. The Baton Rouge conference highlights include panels on cross examination and law reform with leaders from New Orleans Baton Rouge and Monroe.
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The
Southwest Legal Foundation
Hatton W. Summers
Talley
Col. Tucker
Louisiana State University Law School
Tucker
Louisiana State Law Institute
Law Institute
Institute
Union
Pine Bluff
Ark
Washington & Lee
Louisiana State University
L.S.A
Tulane University
Tulane
Louisiana Law
Law Review
Junior Bar Association
Lawyers
Edward G. Long
Monroe
Frederick J. Gisevius Jr
Breard Snellings Jr
New Orleans
William V. Redmann
Edward B. Benjamin Jr
Jules Lizarrago
Baton Rouge
City Judges Association
Bar
Board Elects Monroyan As Vice President
The State Board of Education named W. E. Whetstone of Monroe as new vice president, to take office January 1, succeeding Dr. Boyd Woodard, named president for 1964. The board also advanced about $12.5 million in operating budget increases and approved $69.6 million in proposed spending for public education, colleges, and special schools for the coming year.
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Baton Rouge
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Monroe
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Lake Charles
William J. Dodd
Associated Press
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Legislative Budget Committee
United School Committee
Institutions of Higher
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McNeese
Nicholls State
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Northwestern State
Southeastern
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Grambling
Southern University
New Orleans
Job Training Measure Sent To LBJ Political Fight Over Private Aid
The measure broadens federal support for vocational education with a $731 million four year program emphasizing job readiness for an automated economy. It extends aid to impacted areas through June 30, 1965 at an estimated $527 million and renews the National DoE Act with $204 million to boost science and mathematics in elementary and secondary schools.
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Congress
Kennedy
House
Monroe Police Probe Theft At Local Hospital
Monroe police filed one theft count on Friday and investigated a large sum missing from St. Francis Hospital administration offices. Hospital administrator James Hice reported the early morning theft, with several strong suspects identified.
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Safeway
Eastgate
Wyatt
Monroe
Bossier City
James B. Walker
S. 8Th St
Nickey
Winnsboro Road
John Henry Lee
Rt. 1
Dixie Lunch Room
DeSiard St
Jim Boyd
12Th St
Charity Hospital
Post Offices Extend Hours for Christmas Mailings
Mayor Ramblin elected police juror of ward one notes extended hours today at all local post offices for parcel acceptance and stamp sales. Postmasters Wooddrow W. Hathorn of Monroe and Homer B. Roark of West Monroe state offices will stay open as long as needed with late hours at Monroe and West Monroe main offices plus Louisville and Ouachita branches.
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Wooddrow W. Hathorn
Monroe
Homer B. Roark
West Monroe
Louisville
Ouachita
Family avoids serious injuries after car hits horse
A Hot Springs family of six escaped serious harm when their 1956 sedan struck a stray horse five miles south of Lake Providence on U S Highway 65. Driver Silas Adamson, 24, recently recovering from back surgery, and passengers including two children received only minor bruises. One horse was killed. Police described the 5:25 am crash as unavoidable.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Florida
Here
U. S. Hwy. 65
Lillian Sorrells
Silas Adamson
Auberdale, Fla
Adamson
Tracy
Mike
Divorce Action Filed By Wife Of Young Davis
The wife of James W. Davis adopted son of Gov. Jimmie H. Davis filed for divorce Friday. The couple married Jan 9 with him 18 and her 17. She cites adultery and abandonment and seeks protection of community property and half of his $1,500 monthly income, plus potential child support for their unborn baby due Jan 25.
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Baton Rouge
James W. Davis
Jimmie H. Davis
Young Davis
Betty Loretta Cotten
Davis
Miners Die in Gas Explosion at Fukuoka Coal Mine
Three miners were killed and another injured in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Fukuoka on Friday night, Kyodo News Service reported.
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Fukuoka
Kyodo News Service
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