Quail Eggs Hatched After Cross-State Journey
In Jonesville Mrs. Myrtle Price recounts a curious tale of her brother in law P G Comodore Mixon transporting a hen with Japanese quail eggs across three states. The hen barely leaves the nest as the group travels from Pickens Mississippi to Mobile Alabama to Jonesville and Jena Louisiana. Fifteen quails hatched once they returned home.
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Jonesville
Myrtle Price
Comodore
Mobile
Ala
Pickens
Miss
Mississippi
Northeast Cadets Begin Six Week ROTC Training at Fort Hood
Thirty five Northeast state cadets report to Fort Hood Texas for six weeks of field training. They join about 1300 cadets from Louisiana Arkansas New Mexico and Texas in preparation for commissioned second lieutenants. Instructors Capt Ray Coffey Capt Earle Trabue M-Sgt William Pierce M-Sgt Julian Gewin lead the program as Lt Col H P Landry notes the camp tests classroom training and introduces cadets to the modern peacetime army. A listing of cadets includes Gene Andrews Farmerville Joseph Bennie Andrews West Monroe Michael Boggs Monroe Volmer Dean Boyd Monroe Victor D Canterbury Monroe and many others led by the Northeast ROTC program.
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Reserve Officers Training Corps
Fort Hood
Texas
United States Army
Louisiana
Arkansas
New Mexico
U.S. Army
Northeast
Ray Coffey
Earle Trabue
William Pierce
Julian Gewin
H. P. Landry
Camp
Gene Andrews
Farmerville
Joseph Bennie Andrews
West Monroe
Michael Boggs
Monroe
Volmer Dean Boyd
Victor D. Canterbury
Melvin L. Case
Donald J. Crocker
Emmitt L. Currery
Delhi
Rex_D. Dillingham
Joe G. Driskill
John A. DuPriest
Doodles Lead Police Memoir Clerk’s Notebook Return
Memphis Press-Scimitar reporter Menno Duerksen misplaced his notebook filled with notes and doodles. Detective Lt. L G Weaver recovered it quickly, noting he recognized the doodles from Duerksen’s courtroom sketches and idiosyncrasies even though the name wasn’t in the book.
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Memphis, Tenn
In Northeast States Adds Two Instructors to Staff
Northeast State's science faculty expands with two full time summer session instructors. John Edward Mahler named chemistry instructor by President Lewis C. Slater. Chester Curtis Johnson from Emporia Kansas joins as assistant professor physics. Mahler, IA Park Texas native, previously student assistant at Midwestern University Wichita Falls Texas and served four years in the Navy. He holds a bachelor of science from Midwestern University.
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John Edward Mahler
Lewis C. Slater
Chester Curtis Johnson
Emporia
Kans
Iowa Park
Texas
Mahler
Midwestern University
Wichita Falls
United States Navy
Midwester University
Louisiana awards $2.6 million overpass contract in Calcasieu Parish
The Louisiana Highway Department awarded a $2.6 million construction contract for an overpass and interchange in Calcasieu Parish to a Dallas Texas firm. R B Richardson of the highway department and his wife Mary Louise Starnes are listed at 709 McCain Drive.
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Mary Louise Starnes
McCain Drive
Southern Bridge Co. Wins Contract for I-10 Facility near Lockmoore
Rector said the Dallas based Southern Bridge Co has been awarded the construction contract for the facility along interstate route 10 near Lockmoore. Work has started and is expected to take about two years to complete.
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Monroe Hearing Aid Center
Acousti¢en
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U. S. Military Academy
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College Ave
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Willie Mae Wafer
Gerald
Seiler
Secon
Air Force
Neville High School
Wafter
Ouachita Parish
Engineer Corps
Louisville
Jim Walter
Shell Homes
Louisville Monroe
P.O. Box
N'East
Northeast State
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
The
American Chemical Society
Monroe Exterminating CO
Harmony House
Sears
RT Tm
Louisville Ave
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Harmony
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