House OKs Bartholomew Water District in Sterlington Area
The Louisiana House approved a bill creating the Bayou Bartholomew Water District to supply water from the bayou to Dead Bayou and Bayou DeSiard. A six member board will serve three members from Ouachita and three from Morehouse. The measure now goes to Governor Jimmie Davis for signature.
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Bayou Bartholomew
Dead Bayou
Bayou DeSiard
Juachita
Morehouse
Gibbs
Ouachita
Bartholomew
Quachita
John
Rep Gibbs
Sen
Jamar Adcock
Morehouse Parish
Monroe
Wooden nickels flop at Alta jubilee says Dunbar
Jack Dunbar told the Bownes Town Council he bought 50,000 wooden nickels for last year’s jubilee and sold only 15,000. He laments that people won’t take them and fears going “crazy” as he struggles to dispose of the rest.
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Bownes
Alta
Jack Dunbar
Jaycees Install Tonight at Monroe Banquet
Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual installation banquet at Hotel Francis starting 4:30 PM social hour. Ken Osterberger Louisiana Jaycee President to speak. Edd Routt KNOE GM to be installed as Tarraac naw nanasidaaati. new officers include Jack Murphy and Chuck Morgan as vice presidents and Lloyd Coon Richard Harrison Gene Howard Bill Rose as directors.
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Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce
Louisiana Jaycee
Ken Osterberger
Francis
Edd Routt
Knoe Radio
Tarraac
NVM Eeuo Muow
Jack Murphy
Chuck Morgan
Lloyd Coon
Richard Harrison
Gene Howard
Bill Rose
Jimmy Rivers
Dude Rogers
Gene Gunn
Doug Whittington
Ted Hatfield
Jaycee
Osterburger
Fielder Calhoun
Shreveport
Ed West
West Monroe
Shreveport Jaycee
Neill Matthews
Bastrop Jaycee
Layton Stephenson
Billy Hargiss
Monroe
Cal
Vidalia Seeks Zoning Law With City Officials
Vidalia Planning and Zoning Commission and city officials meet with a contractor to draft zoning ordinances. The seven member commission includes Earl C. Matthews John Dale III George Crooks Murray Rollie H. Spinks Clyde Falkenheimer Royce Whittington and Frank Thrash.
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Vidalia
Anna Rosenberg Plans To Wed Paul G Hoffman
Anna M. Rosenberg a Democratic party figure said she will marry Paul G Hoffman corporate executive and director of the United Nations Special Fund on July 19 in New York Hoffman 71 is a widower with six children Rosenberg 59 recently divorced from Julius Rosenberg and has one son A spokesperson for her public relations firm said time and place were not yet set but the event was planned for New York.
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New York
Anna M.rosenberg
Democratic Party
Paul G. Hoffman
United Nations Special Fund
Hoffman
Mrs. Rosenberg
Julius
Cadets Enroll in Six-Week ROTC Camp at Fort Sill
Twenty six advanced cadets from Northeast Louisiana State College join a six week summer ROTC program at Fort Sill Oklahoma. The training covers troop leadership fitness map reading marksmanship weapon maintenance and military tactics with a week of maneuvers in bivouac. The cohort is part of a Fourth Army group totaling about 1,500 cadets from regional colleges and universities. A long list of students from Shreveport Crowville West Monroe Pioneer Forest Monroe and other towns is included.
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Reserve Officers Training Corps
Northeast Louisiana State College
Fort Sill
Oklo
Northeast
Fourth Army
Ralph Allen
Shreveport
Jimmy T. Arnold
Crowville
J. H. Barfoot
West Monroe
Thomas M. Burton
Pioneer
James L. Denman
Forest
Archie B. Dowidle
Monroe
E. W. Dyer
Ivan C. Greene, Jr
Grayson
Larry K Guice
Sicily Island
Rodney M. Johnson
Jarrett S. Ketchum
Patterson
Paul L. Mann, Jr
Lawmakers Show Votes On Sugar Act and Debt Limits
Senate and House roll calls list Arkansas Louisiana Texas delegates on key votes this week. Sugar bill amendment failed 29 57 with Ellender Long against Louisiana and Tower Yarborough against Texas. Fulbright not voting. Administration sugar act extension passed 76 2 with Louisiana Ellender Long for, Texas Tower Yarborough for, Arkansas against Fulbright McClellan not voting. Debt limit motions failed and passed in various votes across states, with Ellender Long for Louisiana and Tower Yarborough for Texas, others voting as noted. House rejected recommit motion on trades adjustment act 171 253 against. many Texas and Arkansas members listed for or against with some not voting. Trade adjustment act passed 299 125 against. pinball bill to curb gambling passed 348 1 against with selective nonvoters in La Texas Ark.
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Washington
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Senate
House
Ellender
Long
Tex
Tower
Yarborough
Fulbright
McClellan
U.S
Tower and Yarboey
Ark
John J. Williams del
Tower, Ark
Alford
Passman and
Waggoner
McSween and
Thompson
Alger
Burleson
Casley, Dowdy
Fisher, Teague and Young
Thompson and McSween
Rogers, Mahon
Association seeks public aid for retarded children services
Louisiana Association for Retarded Children urged public backing of a legislative move to coordinate services for delinquent, retarded and emotionally ill youths. A Scotlandville sixth inmate was arrested for aggravated battery at the State Industrial School for Colored Youth amid a brutal beating probe. Hosea Fountain, 15, Negro, was buried after a fatal beating at the same school as five supervisors awaited murder charges in the banded abuse case.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Association For
State Industrial School For Colored
Scotlandville
Joseph C. Moses
Wesley Dixon
Abbeville
Hosea Fountain
Industrial School
New Orleans
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Carol Lynn Anderson
Lincoln Parish
Patish
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Dianne
Sharon Brown
Minden
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Louisiana Jaycee Jaynes
Anna Rosenberg
McSween
Beckworth
Casey
Dowdy
Fisher
Gonzales
Purcell
Roberts
Roglers
Rutherford
Teague
Association
Gentry
Waitation Rayon
First Federal
Grand Street
Fairfax
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