School staff photo caption features OPHS staff
Dent of schools Mrs Louise Bacle OPHS guidance counselor State Superintendent William J Dodd and T Howell school principal appear in a staff photo by John I Fogleman.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1966
Page
2
Truck-driver bond posted in fatal Union Parish collision
A Jackson Mississippi truck driver Louis B Weldon 27 was released on 1500 bond on negligent homicide charges after a Lillie area crash that killed Francis M Farrar 68. Farrar died at Lincoln General Hospital after a truck loaded with cotton bales attempted to pass as he turned onto a parish road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmerville
Jackson, Miss
Lillie
Louis B. Weldon
Union Parish
U. S
Hwy
Francis M. Farrar
Farrar
Union Grove Baptist Church
Bernice
Spears Funeral Home
Lincoln General Hospital
Ruston
Ralph M. Walker
Jackson
Doyle Farrar
Dale Farrar
Fontana
Calif
Davis Farrar
Rialto
Don Farrar
Annie L. Janson
San Antonio
Tex
Deanne Edwards
Washington, D. C
Lanelle Rusk
Epps
Grady
J. W
Mahlon Farrar
Woodrow Farrar
Spearsville
Leora Henderson
Rose Washam
Eva Arnold
Lacompte
Flying Crosses Awarded for Viet Nam Rescue Mission
Maj. J. Lewis Smith of Hammond Louisiana received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Air Medal for helping rescue 17 downed American fliers from North Viet Nam while providing cover in Skyraiders. Smith was shot down and spent about an hour in enemy territory before helicopter rescue. A separate item notes a sheriff sale of Recife properties including 45 story Plaza Towers in downtown New Orleans after a bank foreclosure for nonpayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Maj
J. Lewis Smith
Hammond
U. S. Air Force
Lewis
North Viet Nam
Smith
Recife
Plaza
New Orleans
New York Bank
Southern Land Title seeks court approval to reorganize
NEW ORLEANS AP UPI Southern Land Title Corp asked a federal court for permission to reorganize as it sagged under the financial empire of builder Sam J. Recile. Recile's attorneys sought relief and a plan to stabilize the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
UPI
Southern Land Title Corp
Sam J. Recile
Recile
Plant Launched As Antipoverty Project Closes in West Virginia
COWEN WV AP A cabinet making plant with 631236 in loans from federal state and private sources is shutting down after 10 months as an antipoverty project Its president Clyde Leslie blames inadequate financing The plant opened last February and employed 60 workers producing television cabinets kitchen cabinets chairs and wood products The failure mirrors a prior WV antipoverty venture National Seating and Dimension Co near Williamson went bankrupt two years earlier despite 15 million in federal loans
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowen
W. Va
Clyde Leslie
Wood Turning Co
West Virginia
Economic Development Administration
Small Business Administration
West Virginia Industrial Development Authority
Leslie
National Seating and Dimension Co
Williamson
Students Nabbed Near LSU On Drug Charges
Authorities arrested three students and four former students near the LSU campus on narcotics charges. Six faced marijuana possession counts, with Michael Howes charged on criminal conspiracy. Police, sheriff, and campus security conducted 6 am raids. all were asleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Michael Howes
Bryan Clemmons
East Baton Rouge
LSU
Clemmons
Bruton T. Dawkins
Alexandria
Warren Xavier Boney
New Orleans
Howes
John O. Brazelton
Michael Kraver Macke
Wayne Melvin Olson
Shawnee, Okla
Boyd Michael Ringer
Dexter, Mo
Aldermen approve 100 percent salary raise in Pineville
In Pineville Louisiana aldermen voted themselves a doubling of pay from 50 to 100 dollars monthly. They approved a 900 reduction in the traditional Christmas bonus for city employees. Mayor Floyd Smith and Alderman Robert Cespiva opposed the raise but it passed 4 to 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Floyd Smith
Robert Cespiva
Oil Allowable Of State Postponed
NEW ORLEANS AP J M Menefee state conservation commissioner has postponed setting Louisiana oil allowable for January and February to December 22. He cites press of business and staff attendance at the Interstate Oil Compact Commission meeting in Phoenix next week. Purchasers estimated Louisiana crude needs at 1,665,661 barrels daily, up 34,640 from the last hearing. The current allowable remains 36 percent of a well’s capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
J. M. Menefee
State Conservation
Louisiana
Menefee
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Phoenix
Ariz
Car Clips Gas Line Fire Erupts in Cut Off Louisiana
An auto struck a gas line beside a night club in Cut Off early today causing a fire. The stolen car came from a bowling alley in Galliano. Russell Naquin, 22, of Golden Meadow, was charged with driving without a license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cut
Galliano
Russell Naquin
Golden Meadow
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Ouachita Parish High School
Milton Hall
Ouachita Parish
Lillie Man
Bond
Omaha
Featuring
Mutual of
Royal Avenue
Monroe, Louisiana
Mutual of Omaha
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
Omaha, Nebraska
United Benefit Life Insurance Co
Tri-State Briefs
Woolworths
Ladies Bunny
Orton
Orion
Woogsworth’s
H. C. Dobbs
Dobbs Truss Co
St. Frances Hotel
Monroe
Santa
Commercial Securities
Gommercial All Securities
2Nd Street
West Monroe
Trenton Street
Uncle Tom Sez
Zenith
RCA Whirlpool
Pth
RCA
T.V
TOM Peters Discount CO
W. Monroe
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