Frasier is New Lincoln Parish Sheriff in Ruston
Clyde Frasier won the sheriff race in Lincoln Parish with a plurality of about a thousand votes. He takes office Saturday alongside deputies Fred Wilder Dan R Durrett Pre Frasier and Frank Driggers. Ross C Neill begins his third term as clerk of court after defeating H Burton Aycock in the second primary. Dr J J Bennett becomes coroner, Rhodes Smith is re-elected assessor, and ward representatives to the police jury take office.
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Ruston
Lincoln Parish
Clyde Frasier
Frasier
Howard Liner
Vienna
Liner
Fred Wilder
Dan R. Durrett
Simsboro
Pre Frasier
Frank Driggers
Dubach
J. Bryan Thigpen
A. J. Thigpen
Ross C. Neill
H. Burton Aycock
J. J. Bennett
H.N. Harper
J. H. Wells
Rhodes Smith
Add Thompson
J. A. Gaar
L. I. Bennett
J. G Dowling
R. L. Terry
Radio Schedule Highlights Sunday June 2 Broadcasts
A detailed listing of daytime and evening radio programs across networks NBC CBS and MBS. Notable items include The Pilgrimage of Poetry The Democracy in Action Dancing Music Orchestra and The Catholic Service. Several program times and network changes are noted with a mix of music talks and entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aylight
Nbc-Weaf
Nbe
Wjz
Church of the Air
Cbs-Wabe
Wor
Cklw
Vass Family
Nbec
wJs
Leonore James Longolog
Mbs-Cnain
Nbc
the Democracy In Action
Communist Party
Nbcweat
Cbs
Mbs
Nbce-Wiz
Chicago
Nbc-Weat
Nbc-Wiz News
Mbs-Chain
Nbc-Wiz
Weaf
Net
Yvette
Weat Moylan
Hawaii
Ted Weems
Orch
Cbs-Midwest
Mbs-Wet
Gabriel Heatter
Wen-Wer
McCarthy
Mbs-Wer
Rich
Bill Stern
Phil Spitalny
Bob Hawk
WGN
UBS Workshop
NBC String Quartet
Irene Rich
Nbc-Blue-West
Chain
A. Mitchell
Mbs-West
Nbc-Chains
Benny
Odd Items In The News
Wallace North Carolina telegram from United States ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels congratulates Norman Y. Chambliss on the strawberry festival recalling his first earnings from berry picking and a 25 cent debt owed by workers. Pittsburgh woman pays 60 cent conscience fund for old hospital lotion and a pencil she took.
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Wallace
N. C
Josephus Daniels
United States
Mexico
Norman Y. Chambliss
Pittsburgh
City “Conscience Fund
The
Health Bureau
Robbers Loot Home After Call Fear Triggers Escape
Emma Jordan and her sister fled to a relative’s house after receiving mysterious calls. While they were away thieves broke in and looted the residence in East St. Louis NL.
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East ST. Louis
Emma Jordan
Orphanage War Turns Fatal In Chicago
Four 16 year old orphans at Guardian Angel orphanage staged a pretend war using spearlike rods from the greenhouse. The weapons struck Wilfredo Aqueros in the temple, killing him instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Guardian Angel
Wilfredo Aqueros
Lawrence boy nets disputed 16 inch alligator catfish
Don North of Lawrence baited a Kaw River catch and brought it to KU zoology staff who identified the specimen by tail clips as a 16 inch alligator, a creature they believed to be securely housed in the tanks.
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Lawrence
Kans
Don
University of Kansas Zoology Department
Lightning Strikes Man. Hole in Shoe Sole
Window Rock Arizona resident J C Du erksen was knocked out by lightning while walking home. He regained consciousness to find only a damaged shoe with a hole in the sole, and doctors expect no other injuries.
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Window Rock
Ariz
J. C. Duerksen
Gandhi says independence program to wait until after war
Mohandas K. Gandhi writes in Harijan that civil disobedience for Indian independence should be deferred until the European war ends. He argues Britain must declare India free and that the future will be clearer after the allied conflict subsides.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Harijan
Gandhi
India
Sterlington WPA Recreation Program Outlined for 1940
The Sterlington Council for the WPA Recreation unit 108 announced a summer program supervised by Mrs. Cortland F Landrau with leaders Victor Parrish Horace Carpenter and Mrs. Ollie Green. Activities include organized and playground games crafts and nature studies with separate sessions for boys and girls daily 9 30 to 11 30 am and 2 30 to 6 30 pm except Saturday.
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Sterlington
Sterlington Council
WPA
Cortland F. Landrau
Monroe
Victor Parrish
Horace Carpenter
Ollie Green
Monroe to send youths to Cotton States pageant at Paramount
Monroe will select a local boy and girl from more than 20 contestants aged 18 to 21 to compete in a bathing-beach revue at the Paramount theater on Wednesday night, June 12, for a chance to represent Monroe at the Cotton States Pageant of Pulchritude. The winners will receive an all expense paid one week Gulf Coast vacation hosted by Hotel Kham Gulfport and the White House Inn.
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Monroe
Paramount Theater
Sir Monroe
Misa Monroe
Gulf Coast
Kham
Gulfport
White Howe Mn
Shipsland
Markham
Biloxis
Eeenen
Jonnacn Studios
Iquitore
McKee Radio Shop
International Senic Unit
J. H Benott
Chamber of Commerce
Bathing Head
Morchetty
Cnoperstring
Spondering
Fave
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L. W. Gresham the
Mattress Man
Hart
Associated Press
Hot-Foot
Florida
Osceola
Hotel Osceola
Daytona Beach
Fle
Exer Bicknell
Cornen
Bo West
Atl
Wn Phone
North Third
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