Senate Appropriations Panel Certifies Agriculture Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 3.668 billion dollar bill to run the Agriculture Department for the coming year, backing the soil bank programs. It trimmed 24 million from House totals, keeping 600 million for annual payments and adjusting conservation reserve funding to 350 million while raising the state cap to 7.50 dollars per acre nationwide.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Soil Bank
Senate Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Congress
Senate Committee
Byan
Church Officer Warns TV Damages Moral Health
Fountain Head Tennessee June 7 A Seventh Day Adventist official Erwin E Roenfelt of Washington D C warned that excessive television viewing creates a guilt complex in many Americans He urged limiting TV use and selecting specific programs as a personal rule to watch only those shows.
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Fountain Head
Tenn
Erwin E. Roenfelt
Washington, D. C
Kentucky- Tennessee
Seventh- Day Adventists
General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists
Roenfelt
Sutphin Heads Wood College Sutphin Heads Wood College
Aberdeen Miss June 7 The 87th annual North Mississippi Methodist Conference appointed Dr Felix A Sutphin president of Wood Junior College at Mathiston No other major changes were made in conference assignments for 1957 58 The conference voted to hold the 1958 annual meeting at First Methodist Church in Greenville Dr Sutphin who received his doctorate from Millsaps College Monday was promoted from pastor of First Methodist Church at Grenada He was succeeded by the Rev John McCay pastor of Belzoni Methodist Church All district superintendents were returned to their posts
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Aberdeen
Miss
Felix A. Sutphin
Wood Junior College
Mathiston
First Methodist Church
Greenville
Sutphin
Millsaps Colege
Grenada
John McCay
Belzoni Methodist Church
Ross Elected To Head Firemen
Ross of Hattiesburg was elected president of the Mississippi State Firemen's Assn at the final session in Greenville. VPs named were H H Moore Clarksdale Thomas R Smith Columbus J E Terry Merid ian and George Stinespring Natchez with R E Laughlin Jackson as secretary treasurer. Natchez chosen for 1958 convention.
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Greenville
Miss
P. A. Ross
Hattiesburg
Mississippi State Firemen’s Assn
H. H. Moore
Clarksdale
Thomas R. Smith
Columbus
J. E. Terry
Meridian
George Stinespring
Natchez
R. E. Laughlin
Jackson
Deaths in Northeast Louisiana State Notes
Funeral services are set for Dave Franklin Joy 59 of Ferriday at Blade Pentecostal Church with Rev. De witt Breithaupt officiating. Survivors include wife Sally Joy four sons three daughters eight grandchildren and several siblings. Also reported are funeral notices for Kermit Edwards 45 of Oak Grove fatally injured in a truck wreck and William J. Farber Baton Rouge executive secretary of the Louisiana State Insurance Rating Commission, with burial in Winnfield Cemetery. John Wesley Jordan 77 of Winnsboro died after a long illness with services at the Family Cemetery near Columbia.
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Ferriday
Dave Franklin Joy
Blade Pentecostal Church
Dewitt Breithaupt
Pine Grove
Young
Mary Bates
Galveston
Tex
Hazel Heitman
Lamar
Laverne Taylor
Jonesville
Woodrow
H. L
Jim
Jena
Ollie Whittington
Davey McLaughlin
Texana Whittington
Oak Grove
Kermit Edwards
West Carrol Parish
Oak Grove Methodist Church
E. L. Tatum
Oak Grove Cemetery
Kidder - Cox Funeral Home
Doc Brown
Donnie Brown
James Dumas
Arnold Kuykendall
Claude Moore
David McIntosh
Joe Kelly
Winnfield
William J. Farber
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State Insurance Rating Commission
Winnfield Baptist Church
J. Norris Palmer
W. L. Holcomb
Winnfield Cemetery
Southern Funeral Home
Farber
Charles FE. Bates
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Caldwell Parish
First Baptist Church
Grayson
Ivy
Caton Doughty
Welcome Home Cemetery
Riser and Son Funeral Home
Columbia
Creece Bates
John Wesley Jordan
Oak Grove Man Lee D. Sanders Dies in Monroe
A 51-year-old Oak Grove man identified as Lee Davis Sanders died in a downtown Monroe hotel. Coroner Dr J T French ruled a heart attack, noting Sanders signed the register at 2 45 p m, went to his room, and was found dead across the bed. The body was taken to Hixson Brothers Funeral Home, with arrangements incomplete late last night.
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Oak Grove
City Nolice
Ouachita Parish
J. T. French
Lee Davis Sanders
French
Sanders
Hixson Brothers Funeral Home
Radio Station Permit Sought At Jonesboro
A H Colvin Jr and T L Colvin Sr of Jonesboro filed for a new daytime radio station on 920 kilocycles 500 watts to serve Jackson parish and surrounding towns. They will co own the Jackson Independent and plan a 10 acre site with two towers and a remote unit at the newspaper office. Construction awaits a commission permit and a 1958 launch is anticipated.
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Jonesboro
A. T H. Colvin
T. L. Colvin
Jonesboro Brothers
Jackson Parish
Communications Commission
Washington
Jackson Parish Broadcasters
Colvins
Jackson Independent
A. H. Colvin
Monroe
Dubaci
Columbia
Natchitoches
Minden
Winnfield
The
Colvin
Methodist Group Opposes Forced Racial Mingling
In Columbus Georgia on June 7 South Georgia Methodists rejected any move to compel racial integration in their jurisdiction. A conference resolution backed a local option provision of an integration amendment approved yesterday. The change requires action by other annual conferences and ratification at the next general conference to take effect.
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Columbus
South Georgia Methodists
Boy Drowns While Swimming on Mississippi Farm Pond
In Jackson Mississippi a coroner's jury found ten year old Sammie Lee Gaines drowned while swimming in a farm pond on the A C Griffin Jr. farm. Sammie and Griffin's son Ken were swimming when Sammie sank.
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Jackson, Miss
Sammie Lee Gaines
A. C. Griffin Jr
Griffin
Ken
Sammie
Father Found Hanged In Home
Houston dispatch reports Dr I J Farb 33 an optometrist and new father was found hanged at his home by his father in law A L Frosch. Farb had been despondent for several years and relatives gave no reason. He and his wife welcomed a daughter Sunday, their second child. The family’s other child Stacey is three.
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Houston
I. J. Farb
A. L. Frosch
Farb
Ouachita Security Life Insurance to Meet Stockholders
Pursuant to a May 27 1957 board resolution the Ouachita Security Life Insurance Company will hold a special stockholders meeting at 2400 Louisville Avenue Monroe Louisiana on Thursday June 27 1997 at 730 p m to ratify the board action. Nick Mantrozos president Sybil Mantrozos secretary.
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Ouachita Security Life Insurance Company
Louisville Avenue
Monroe
Louisiana
Nick Mantrozos
Sybil Mantrozos
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van Olds-Cadillac
Walnut
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Nord
Monroe Auto Mart
Dodge
Plymouth
Olcott Motors, Inc
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N. 2Nd St
Jackson St
Milner-Fuller
Walnut St
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Powell Ave
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Cr. N
2Nd & Breard
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W. M. Dial
Chevrolet
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Louisville
Edwards & Sons Garage
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Dial
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Tutone
Good Motor
Filbiol Ave
Mcbride Hoo Jonesboro Rd
Monroe Tire Exchange
DeSiard St. Dial
Oldsmobile
South Std
Nash
Ryan-Polk
Chevrolet CO
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