State Police Unveil New Look With Caps and Olive Shirts
State Police adopt regulation caps replacing ranger hats. Troop F commander Capt Kidd says new cars are easier to enter from the low profile and troopers like them. New olive shirts align with uniform colors under Col Burbank's directive. badge changed earlier to a shield-type insignia.
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State Police
M. P. Dean
Capt
M. E. Kidd
Dean
Kidd
Capt. Kidd
Col
Thomas Burbank
Department of Public Safety
Superintendent of State Police
School Opens In Concordia August 28
VIDALIA Special announces James C. Lancaster new Concordia Parish Superintendent of Education says parish schools open Wednesday August 28 for 180 days with a meeting for colored employees at Sevier High School 7:30 a.m. and white employees at First Baptist Church Ferriday 10 a.m. List of holidays includes Labor Day Thanksgiving Christmas Easter and a teachers workshop.
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Vidalia
James C. Lancaster
Concordia Parish
Lancaster
Concordia Parish School Board
Sevier High School
First Baptist Church
Ferriday
Mrs Abel Elizabeth Barr Files Dies in Oak Ridge
Mrs. Abel Elizabeth Barr Files 79 of Oak Ridge died Sunday after a long illness. Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. in the Oak Ridge Methodist Church with Rev. Cunningham and Rev. Midgett presiding. She leaves two sons W Dan Files Bastrop and William S Files Shreveport, a daughter Mrs Neil Mott Oak Ridge, two sisters Mrs J M Brothers and Mrs Minnie Boughton of Monroe, two more sisters Mrs S M Abel Dallas and Mrs Roberta Bondy New Boston, and four grandsons. Burial followed at Oak Ridge Cemetery under Blackwell and Golden Funeral Home Bastrop directing.
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Oak Ridge
Abel Elizabeth Barr Files
George Cunningham
Jack Midgett
Files
J. M. Brothers
Minnie Boughton
Monroe
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Blackwell and Golden Funeral Home
Bastrop
Alabama
Roswell Child's Funeral Rites This Afternoon
Funeral services were set for 3 p.m. today at Mulhearn Funeral Home in Monroe for 10 year old Deborah Jenann Roswell.offsiciating pastor E C McKenzie of Jackson Street Church of Christ. Burial followed at Memorial Park cemetery. The Sterlington girl died after a tractor accident injuring her late Saturday. She was to be a fifth grader at Sterling ton School this fall. She is survived by parents Eugene and Deborah Roswell and grandparents Mrs C F Barklow and A L Bandy plus Mr and Mrs Jeff Roswell. Pallbearers were D R Haygood Rayford Haygood Wes Green Buddy Hollis Ray Spicer Archie Parker.
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Mulhearn Funeral Home
Monroe
Deborah Jenann Roswell
Eugene Roswell
Sterlington
E. C. McKenzie
Jackson Street
C. FE. Barklow
A. L Bandy
Houston
Texas
Jeff Roswell
D. R. Haygood
Rayford Haygood
Wes Green
Buddy Hollis
Ray Spicer
Archie Parker
Pay Lists Show Over 1 Million For State Legal PR
Two Louisiana newspapers report Gov Jimmie H Davis administration pays more than 1 million annually for legal and public relations services across state agencies. The lists include 100 plus attorneys earning 30 to 1500 a month, 37 civil service lawyers totaling 342 180 per year, Ed Reed’s public relations pay, and fees to Gould Blieden Manley along with related state commissions.
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South Louisiana
Jimmie H. Davis
Baton Rouge Morning Advocate
New Orleans Times Picayune
Davis
Division of Administration
Ed Reed
Gould, Blieden & Manley
Louisiana Sovereignty Commission
Sunday Advocate
Sovereignty Commission
Anthony Vesich
New Orleans
Radio and Television Technicians Board
Jack Fruge
Ville Platte
Motor Vehicle Commission
Louisiana Milk Commission
Commission
Crowley
Edmond Reggie
Telephone change proposed for Ferriday and nearby exchanges
Southern Bell begins mailing return post cards to Ferriday Monterey and Vidalia subscribers detailing a plan for free calls between exchanges and outlining monthly increases to cover the extra investment and reduced long distance revenue. Waters notes business and residence rates would rise by specific amounts, with business lines on a per month scale. Adoption requires majority subscriber approval in each exchange, with Monterey showing strong support.
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Southern Bell Telephone Co
Ferriday
Monterey
Vidalia
Lamar Waters
Waters
Summer Choir Performs Puccini Work at North East State College
The Summer Choir at North East State College presents a concert at 8:15 tonight in Biedenharn Recital Hall on campus. Eloy Fominaya conducts Puccini's Messa di Gloria with solos by Sidney Martin, Frank Swindle, and David Smith, organ by Elaine Allen, and the NLSC Brass Ensemble directed by Paul Mann.
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Northeast State College
Biedenharn
Eloy Fominaya
Sidney Martin
Frank Swindle
David Smith
Elaine Allen
NLSC
Paul Mann
Slayings of Two Railway Men Stun Hammond
FBI agents and Hammond police probe the killings of Roy Bottorff engineer age 66 and Paul Overstreet 44 in a switch engine freight yard. Assistant chief Ray Johnson said one victim likely knew the killer and suggested knowledge of train procedures. Both men were shot in the back during a five minute interval as a brakeman alerted the tower.
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Hammond
Ind
FBI
Roy M. Bottorff
Paul A. Overstreet
Ray C. Johnson
Bottorff
Overstreet
Johnson
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