Peach Festival Opens With Queen Dixie Gem Pageant
Ruston Louisiana hosts the four day Peach Festival beginning Thursday with the beauty pageant, parades, and a busy schedule. Meredith MacRae will appear as a guest, sing, and take part in events at Howard Auditorium and the Awards Luncheon.
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Ruston
Meredith MacRae
Billie Jo
Petticoat Junction
Miss MacRae
Howard Auditorium
Houston
Tex
Gordon and
Sheila MacRae
Holiday Inn
Ruston Country Club
Jonesboro-Hodge
Simsboro
Dubach
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Louisiana Tech
Merchants
Silver Spur
La. 33
Farmerville Road
Peach Orchard Tours
Monroe
Robert Speed
Aero-Nutz
Dot Ethridge
Greenville
Miss
Merle Gustafson
Aeurocopter
Marion Cole
Louisiana Draft Slated For July Induction of 266 Men
The Louisiana directorate announces 266 men to be inducted in July. Maj. Gen. Erben W. Wise states the call mirrors June figures and the draftees will be assigned to the Army.
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New Orleans
Selective Service For
Louisiana
Erben W. Wise
Army
New Football Stadium Set For Tech
Work is underway on a football stadium at Louisiana Tech, the second phase of an athletic complex. Terral Industries Inc., Farmerville, is contractor on the $1,612,214 project to build the stadium and two practice fields. Completion is set for August 3, 1968. The first phase was site preparation. Other phases include an athletic field house near the stadium.
Interstate 55 Dedicated Across Louisiana and Mississippi
A 26.5 mile stretch of Interstate 55 was formally dedicated, costing 12.3 million dollars with 18.8 miles in Louisiana and 7.7 in Mississippi. The project links Chicago to Laplace and connects with Interstate 10, with James W. Moore and John D. Smith speaking at the ceremony.
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Osyka
Miss
Louisiana
Mississippi
Chicago
Laplace
James W. Moore
Louisiana Board of Highways
John D. Smith
Moore
John J. McKeithen
State Writers Included In Anthology
Six Louisianians are among 36 Southern poets in an LSU Press anthology titled Southern Writing in the Sixties: Poetry. The collection, edited by John William Corrington and Miller Williams, features Ruth Laney Baton Rouge Ruth Dawson Boyce Patricia Rachal Baton Rouge Alvin Aubert Lutcher Ted Larry Pebworth Shreveport and Williams of New Orleans.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University Press
LSU Press
John William Corrington
Miller Williams
LSU English Department
Loyola University
Louisiana
Ruth Laney
Ruth Dawson
Boyce
Patricia Rachal
Alvin Aubert
Ted Larry Pebworth
Shreveport
Williams
New Orleans
Melee in St. Petersburg police
Police describe early morning disturbance in a slum as a Friday night incident involving about 50 Negroes pelting patrol cars and injuring two officers. Four suspects, two men and two women, were arrested for beating and robbing a white gas station attendant named Van Baltzegar who was treated and released.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
van Balzegar
Baltzegar
Tech Plans New Athletic Complex Layout for 1968 69
The proposal details a track surrounding a football practice field a battery of tennis courts a 3000 seat facility for a baseball field with lighting and dugouts near the northwest campus across the Illinois Central railroad. The stadium is to be ready for the 1968 69 football season.
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Dium
Tech
Illinois Central Railroad
Tampa Rioting Erupts After Fatal Police Fleeing Shot
Last Sunday sparked Tampa unrest after a man named Chambers was shot in the back while fleeing police over a burglary inquiry. A funeral-home spokesman said no arrangements had been made as Chambers’ family could not be reached. Gov Claude Kirk planned to fly to Tampa to award medals to young African Americans who helped restore peace, saying he would arrive today.
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Chambers
Claude Kirk
Tampa
Teen Drinking Under Attack in New Orleans Raids
Vice squad officers and Orleans Parish grand jury members raided more than 70 bar rooms in a citywide push against teen drinking. About 15 people were arrested, including a 15-year-old and three 17-year-olds, during three hours of raids conducted by ten teams with grand jury participation.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
District Attorney’s Office
Grand Jury
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Peach Festival
Bucker Jungmart
Ark - la - Tech Skydivers
Jack Tarver
Meredith McRae
Desiard
Paul Spivey
Tampa Bay
Martin Chambers
Wm. Rogers
International Silver Co
Peacock
Cypress
Pine
West Monroe
People’s Homestead
Savings and Loan Association
United States
Mips
Safe Peoples Homestead
People’s Homestead G Savings Association
P. O
Catalpa
Auburn
Eighteenth
Ase
Happy Wanderers
Field
Eir
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