Hole in Winnsboro yard puzzles locals
Mr and Mrs A A Lewis of Winnsboro report an unusual ground cavity on their farm three miles southwest of Crowville the five foot deep hole expanded to about ten feet deep in three days with no water or mud at the bottom Tallulah hosts a world themed water carnival at the country club with hundreds of students performing Epps Lions Club installs T S Powell as president and officers Jonesville reports the first cotton blossom of the year in Catahoula parish with a subscription prize from The Catahoula Publishing Co
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Winnsboro
A. A. Lewis
Crowville
Lewis
Tallulah
Tallulah Country Club
Robert Cagnolatti
Jonesville
Catahoula Parish
Stone Bell Sr
Archie. la
Catahoula Publishing Company
Catahoula News
Catahoula Publishing Co
Ex Truman Officials Granted Last-Minute Reprieve
Former White House appointments secretary Matthew J. Connelly and former Tax Division head T. LaMar Caudle received a stay of their two year prison terms from the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals chief judge Archibald Gardner. The stay will last until a ruling on their bid for a new trial based on claimed new evidence. No hearing date is set.
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Connelly
Caudle
St. Louis
Prioe
Gardner
White House
Truman
Justice Department
Calhoun Hosts Negro Field Day At North Louisiana Station
The annual Negro Field Day occurs Friday June 27 at the North Louisiana Experimental Station in Calhoun. Activities run 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with four men sessions on dairy poultry watermelon and vegetables, a women’s food freezing demo, a noon assembly, and guest speaker L J Washington of the Farmers Home Administration.
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General Assembly
R. J. Courtney
L. J. Washington
Farmer’s Home Administration
Washington, D.C
Woodward
Courtney
Eros Man Sentenced to Three Years in Kidnapping Case
In Opelousas Louisiana judge Lessley Gardiner revoked a five year probation and ordered Lemuel J Mann to serve a suspended three year sentence on a January 1957 kidnapping charge after he pleaded guilty to molesting a child in Monroe theater. The eight year old Port Barre girl was taken and returned unharmed.
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Opelousas
UPI
Monroe
Lessley Gardiner
Lemeul J. Mann
Eros
Port Barre
Mann
St. Landry
Upbeat Business News Signals Summer Optimism
Summer's advance shows broad gains in steel, rail, and consumer demand. Bethlehem Steel cuts furnaces. RCA reports color TV sales rise. rail traffic expected to dip in the Great Lakes region. taxes on auto manufacturing stay. Job prospects for grads improve, while wholesale coffee prices fall and May fire losses rise slightly.
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New York
Assn
Radio Corp. of America
Texas
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Lackawanna, N. Y
Great Lakes
Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Co
Engineering
Northwestern
General Foods Corp
United States
Story Time Program at Ouachita Parish Library
Ouachita Parish Library in Monroe and the West Monroe Branch host Story Time each Wednesday from 10 to 11. Sixty minutes of reading, serials, films, and activities engage 72 and 36 children, with 16 Junior Charity League volunteers guiding sessions.
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Parish
West Monroe
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Jackson Street
Cypress Street
Robin Hoad
Bar-C Ranch
Harold Woods
William Parker
Randolph Brown
Macdonald Giffen
John Cale
H. M. Chapman
Jack Madden
Kent Anderson
Phelps Lyons
Fred Huenefeld
Benton Wakefield
Ralph Smith
William Riley
Jack T. Jackson
Fred Westrom
Milton Pickett
Monroe Library
19Th Street
New Oil Field Indicated In Mississippi Wildcat
Smith County wildcat Womack No. 1 logged 25 feet of oil sand in the Sligo zone at 12,995 to 13,035 feet with core work planned through the Houston sand as operators chase deepest producing wells in Mississippi amid multiple counties and company actions.
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Jackson, Miss
Smith County
Magee
Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp
Sligo
Houston
California Co
Board of
Superec
Mallalieu
Lincoln County
Gulf Oil Corp
Soso
Jasper County
Cotton Valley
Jones County
Larco Drilling Co
Wildcat Whittington
Sharon
Sinclair Oil and Gas Co
Sandersville
Scott County
Forkville
Rankin County
Monsanto Chemical Co
Greene County
Larco
Dave Gammill
Wildcat
Ellis Cliffs
Adams County
Marlin Exploration
Hamilton
Wilcox
Everett Truly
Wayne County
Diamond Field
Larco and Durbin Bond
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Douglas Crew
Jean Lambert
Carl Cady
Sarah Thompson
Jim St. Julien
Epps Lion Elect
EPPS
T. S. Powell
Epps Lions Club
Epps High School
M. G. Gowan
Calhoun
Ing
Diehlmann Bernhardt
Hilary C. Sanders Jr
Adair G.M.C. Truck Center
Louisville Ave
Hotel Frances Corner
Finance Thrift
Shell Homes, Inc
Louisville
HOMES
SEARS
P. O. Box
Monroe, LA
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