Bill For Freedom Academy Okayed
Washington reports the House Committee on Un-American Activities quietly approved a bill to create a Freedom Academy and Freedom Commission to teach nonmilitary warfare against communism. The plan funds executive salaries totaling 228500 dollars, with seven commission members and a general manager. Defense and State departments oppose the measure, urging no new national education body.
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Washington
State
Defense Departments
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Freedom Academy
Freedom Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
House
John C. Culver
Iowa
Culver
Senate
Congress
Defense Department
Paul C. Warnke
Department
Department of State
William B. Macomber Jr
Congressional Relations
Macomber
Commission
Snowbound Navajo face hunger and cold amid snowstorms
Snowbound Navajo officials report improving signs in the fight against starvation and illness after December storms. Hospitals near capacity, with airlifts and food drops ongoing, while weather remains the key factor delaying relief efforts.
Drown In Canal Near Pecan Island
Howard Henderson a 37 year old resident of New Iberia died after falling from an oil rig into a canal near Pecan Island. His body was recovered, authorities reported.
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J. Lee Davis
Greenville
Miss
Tillie
Washington, D.C
Davis
Illinois Central Railroad Company
New Iberia
Howard Henderson
Pecan Island
Bids Open for 19 Miles of Highway Improvements
The Louisiana Highway Department reports $10.8 million in apparent low bids for 13 projects, including nine miles of embankment on Interstates 10 between Sorrento and Laplace. Major items include Portland cement paving on Plaquemines Route 3017 by T. L. James and Co. and asphalt paving on Sabine Route 1215 at Toledo Bend by Pamper Corp. Removal of the Dixie Overland Bridge on Route 110 is bid by Gossett Demolishing Co. Tulsa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Highway Department
St. James
St. John the Baptist
Jahncke Service, Inc
Atlas Construction Co., Inc
Ruston
Sorrento
Laplace
Parish
Plaquemines
Engineers
T. L. James and Co., Inc
Sabine
Toledo Bend Reservoir
Aimwell Church Junction
Pamper Corp
Crowville
Bossier and
Caddo
Talks in Paris Start Ties Expansion With Quebec Province
Gabriel Loubiere Quebec tourism minister began official talks with French leaders in Paris to develop ties between France and Quebec and boost francophone cooperation.
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Paris
UPI
Gabriel Loubier
Quebec
France
Cummins Funeral Held Today in Yazoo City
Funeral services for Samuel Searcy Cummins age 67 a retired Yazoo City businessman and brother of Ouachita Parish Coroner J W Cummins were held at 230 p m today at First Presbyterian Church Yazoo City Rev Leland Jorgenson officiated Burial followed at Glenwood Cemetery Stricklin King Funeral Home directed He died early Wednesday in Yazoo City Survived by his widow Mrs Georgia W Cummins a sister Mrs W J Shamblin Tuscaloosa Alabama and a brother in Monroe Louisiana
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Samuel Searcy Cummins
Yazoo City
Miss
Ouachita Parish
J. W. Cummins
First Presbyterian Church
Leland Jorgenson
Stricklin - King Funeral Home
Glenwood
Cummins
Fomer
Ford Bacon and Davis
Monroe
Georgia W. Cummins
W. J. Shamblin
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Children Leave For Holidays From Louisiana Baptist Home
About 135 children left the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe to spend Christmas with relatives or friends. Activities include a Sugar Bowl trip and deer hunting. they return Dec 30 and 31. The home hosted a Christmas program in Daddy Flowers Chapel with 80 teens led by Mrs. Ezra Morgan.
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Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Monroe
Wade Eet
Sugar Bowl
East
Daddy Flowers
Ezra Morgan
Tractor Fatality Near Vacherie Claims 67-Year-Old Planter
Henry J. Schexnayder, a 67-year-old sugar planter, was killed in a tractor accident on his plantation near Vacherie Louisiana on Wednesday AP reports.
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Vacherie
Henry J. Schexnayder
Here
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Bill For Freedom Academy
United States
Richard H. Ichard
D-Mo
Monroe News-Star
Federal Railroad Administration
Lynette
Tim
Window Rock
Ariz
Graham Holmes
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Public Health Service
George Bock
PHS
Raymond Nkai
Holmes
West Virginia
Nakai
Department of the Interior
National Parks Service
USS. Forest Service
Phoenix
Air Force
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Frank Chambers
Winslow
Tuba City
Stephen Wilson
Ft. Smith
Ark
Amy Nez
Silverstein
Sao
Mary’s Flower Shop, Inc
No. 2Nd St
Moonroe
Silversteins
Verstein
Phillip Fishman
Siard Monroe
Zale
Ware Tages
DeSiard
Louisville
Heda
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