Voters Face Important Election Saturday in Louisiana
The News-Star urges North Louisiana voters to cast ballots in a broad primary race featuring candidates for a U S congressman public service commissioner state board of education and multiple judgeships plus delegates to a constitutional convention. It endorses Otto E Passman Enoch T Nix and Judge O E Price and analyzes Hunt for PSC.
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Louisiana
North Louisiana
Public Service
State Board of Education
Endorsements Highlight North Louisiana Commission Race
The News-Star backs John S. Hunt for re election to the 3rd Public Service Commission District citing eight years of strong leadership and his current chairmanship. It also endorses John Jordan for the 4th District district attorney position, praising his ideas for an honest, just, independent office serving Morehouse and Ouachita parishes with focus on drug abuse prevention and a full time investigator.
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Hunt
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People
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John Hunt
Enoch T. Nix
State Board of Education
Public Service Commission
North Louisiana
John S. Hunt
North
John Jordan
Monroe
4Th District District Attorney's
Jordan
District Attorney’s Office
Morehouse
Ouachita Parishes
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Hightower Backed For Open 4th District Court Seat
The News-Star commends Lemmie Hightower as best qualified for the 4th District Court bench. He would bring education and experience from law and military service, plus a resident of Morehouse Parish to restore court representation. The paper urges a Saturday election vote for Hightower.
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Lemmie Hightower
News-Star
Lincoln advise Whigs to mobilize voters before 1840 election
The passage attributes to Abraham Lincoln a strategy for electoral organization aimed at boosting turnout. It urges statewide organization, county districting, subcommittees, voter lists, targeted persuasion of doubtful voters, and ensuring every Whig reaches the polls on election day.
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Abraham Lincoln
News-Star Recommends Local Congressional and Judicial Races
The News-Star endorses Otto E. Passman for U S Congress from Louisiana 5th District and John S. Hunt for State Public Service Commission in the 3rd District. It also backs Enoch T. Nix for the State Board of Education area 3rd District, Judge O E Price for Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Lemmie O Hightower for Fourth Judicial, and John P Jordan for Fourth Judicial district attorney with listed parishes voting in each race.
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United States Congress
Louisiana
Otto E. Passman
State Board of Education
Public Service Commission
Enoch T. Nix
Avoyelles
Bienville
Bossier
Caddo
Caldwell
Catahoula
Claiborne
Concordia
DeSoto
East Carroll
Evangeline
Franklin
Grant
Jackson
LaSalle
Lincoln
Madison
Morehouse
Natchitoches
Ouachita
Pointe Coupee
Rapides
Red River
Richland
Sabine
St. Landry
Tensas
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
O. E. Price
Union
Webster
West Carroll
Winn
Lemmie O. Hightower
John P. Jordan
South Atlantic ties deepen Portugal Brazil partnership
The article notes a growing Portugal Brazil rapprochement that could stabilize southern Africa and Latin America. It highlights free port facilities in Rio and Santos, access in Lisbon Angola and Mozambique, and plans for Petrobras missions, with Brazil expanding into Africa and Europe while Portugal leverages this alliance amid Neo isolationist US trends. The piece reflects on Cape St. Vincent and Prince Henry as historical parallels.
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Reboredo E Silva
Portugal
Brazil
Africa
Latin American
Lisbon
Brasilia
Joao Augusto Dias Rosas
Delfin Netto
Portuguse
South Africa
Rhodesia
Latin America
Europe
Angola
Mozambique
Cape
St. Vincent
Atlantic
Prince Henry the Navigator
United States
Million Come Dinner Satire Skewers White House Feasts
Washington political satire imagines Sargent Shriver promising 1,300,054 poor people dinner at the White House if McGovern wins. The dialogue between George and Eleanor McGovern jokes about logistics, money, catering, and the political theater of campaign pledges.
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R. Sargent Shriver
West Virginia
George McGovern
White House
Pennsylvania Ave
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McGovern
Eleanor
Sarge
Eunice
Air Force
Warren Beatty
Grateful Dead
George
Today in History highlights events from 1587 to 1963
On August 18 historical notes include Virginia Dare born in 1587, the first U S patent on condensed milk in 1856, Germany declaring war on Russia in 1914, Wilson declaring American neutrality, Roosevelt and Churchill meeting in 1938, James Meredith’s 1963 Mississippi graduation, the 13th Polaris submarine launch in 1963, pacifist interference attempts thwarted, and Pope Paul VI reforms announced in 1965.
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Virginia Dare
Roanoke Island
N.C
America
U.S Patent Office
Germany
Russia
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Quebec
Canada
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Groton
Conn
Paul VI
Roman Curia
News-Star Publishing Company Masthead and Info
The fragment lists News-Star Publishing Corporation officials and staff led by William H. Bronson as Publisher and Director with Mildred Hunt Ewing as Vice President and Director. It notes other directors, editors, and offices in Monroe Louisiana plus Associated Press affiliation and ad agency ties.
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John Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Robert Ewinr
News-Star
Wi Publishing@ Corporation
North 4Th Olive Streets
Monroe
William H. Bronson
Presi
Mildred Hunt Ewing
Edmund Graves Brown, Jr
Robert Ewing Lit
Patricia Wing Kendrick
Esther Ewing Ynne
Kenneth C. Barranger
R Ewing Brown
Toulmin Hunter
Jonn D. Ewing, Jr
Paula Wray
Helen Clay Hall
Harrison Kelly
Mon le
William Hh. Gronson
Jack S. Campbell
Edmund G. Brown
Jack C. Gates
William C. Hardin
Ember
Associated Press
Moloney Company
National Advertist
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
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Vernon
West Baton Rouge
Jeffrey Hart
Art Buchwald
Che Monroe
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