Rotation rules for Korean front unchanged nine months
General Mark W. Clark's headquarters said front line troops retain nine months service for rotation and 36 points. Rear area units require 4 instead of 38 points while front troops earn four points monthly and those in rear two. Japanese based families add one point monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Clark
Far Eastern
Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
Army
United States
Eighth Army
Knights of Columbus New Year's Eve Party Planned
Knights of Columbus announce a Hollywood style New Year’s Eve party on Hotel Virginia roof starting at 8 p m attended by up to 300 with Herb Scalion’s orchestra and filmed memories. Free noise makers and souvenirs to midnight. Grand Knight Joe David Cascio invites public to join in a festive evening and plans for a January 11 initiation of 60 or more in memory of W J Riley Sr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Columbus
Virginia
Herb Scalion
Hollywood
Joe David Cascio
W. J. Riley Sr
Air Rescue halts search for missing plane
The Air Rescue Service suspended efforts to find a light aircraft missing since December 19 with two men aboard. Gerald Sutcliffe of Bronx New York and Max Weber of Cliffside Park New Jersey were listed as lost. Searchers had flown 10 days in creeping patterns, focusing near Honey Island Swamp by Pearl River and shifting toward Bay St. Louis after sightings reports. Sutcliffe and Weber were en route to McAllen Texas on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Air Rescue Service
Gerald Sutcliffe
Bronx
N.Y
Max Weber
Cliffside Park
N.J
Honey Island
Pearl River
Civil Air Patrol
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Sutcliffe
Weber
McAllen
Tex
CAP
Woman in Texas plane death case identified as friend
In Sweetwater a 25 year old woman listened anxiously as rancher William Cox announced plans to crash his plane. Cox, 24, circled Abilene and Sweetwater airports for hours before dying in the crash. A woman, described as a close friend, visited the airport after the event and later called investigators seeking information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater
Tex
William Cox
Abilene
Cox
Otto Beihauer
Reinhauer
Beinhauser
Pioneer Airlines
Beinhauer
Man Employed Here Is Killed In Ruston Crash
Carl T. Porter 31 of Magnolia Ark a logging engineer for Continental Laboratories Monroe died in a two vehicle collision at the West Georgia North Trenton streets intersection Ruston. Fog and rain blamed by police for the wreck with three Ruston officers in the other car but no charges filed. Funeral services to be held in Magnolia Ark Porter survived by wife and one son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
Magnolia Ark
West Georgia
North Trenton
Continental Laboratories
Monroe
Carl T. Porter
Peggy Street
Magnolia
Porter
Dubach
G. T. Lassiter
G. L. Barefield
Max H. T. Richardson
Ark
Continental Laboratories, Inc
VEW TO HOST SERVICEMEN AT HUDSON LEEDY POST
The Hudson Leedy Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosts visiting servicemen on Wednesday night. A fish fry is planned at 8:30 at the post home on Nat. guests are urged to wear uniforms and may bring spouses. M. M. Bayles will supply the fish for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson-Leedy
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Twin Cities
United States
West Monroe
Veterans’ Organization
Nat
4 Post
M. M. Bayles
Insurgent Republicans Lose Bid to Oust Arkansas Chair
Verne Tindall leaders and Taft and Eisenhower factions clash as the Arkansas Republican State Committee votes 57 to 39 to keep State Chairman Osro Cobb. The insurgents had sought to replace Cobb, linking to anti-regulars after earlier convention defeats. McInturff blamed the reorganization for GOP loss in the prior race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Old Guard
Eisenhower
Wallace Townsend
A. C. Remmel
Arkansas
Verne Tindall
Osro Cobb
Republican State Committee
Tindall
Stuttgart
Kansas
Cobb
Robert A. Taft
Taft
O. J. McInturff
Marshall
McInturff
GOP
Jeff Speck
Francis Cherry
Speck
Work starting at St. Francis Sanitarium
The front sections of the St. Francis Sanitarium were vacated to remove the building front and begin construction. Offices labs and wards moved to the nurses home on Hall Street while annex and back wings house patients. Admittance reports go to the nurses building first floor. The move began Friday due to few patients and construction starts after year’s first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis Sanitarium
Hall Street
Mrs Mae Lucky Appointed Ouachita Registrar of Voters
Mae Lucky will be sworn in as Ouachita parish registrar of voters in the clerk of court office at 4 p.m. Wednesday, succeeding Lillian Collins who retires January 1 after 27 years in the post. Collins will relinquish control at the close of the office day tomorrow. Lucky previously worked eight years in the veterans affairs service officer office and was chosen by the police jury at its October meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Lucky
Ouachita Parish
Lillian Collins
Miss Collins
Lucky
Veterans’ Affairs
Six Masses Set For New Year’s Day Services
On New Year’s Day six Masses will be held at St Matthews Church at 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 oclock. Confessions precede on Wednesday from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9. The following day first Friday masses start at 6 30 7 45 and 8 15 p m.
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St. Matthews's Church
Woman Leaving Texas After Ordeal of Arsenic Poisoning
Beaumont Texas Dec 30 a 29 year old mother of four who says she suffered years of arsenic poisoning from an unknown source plans to return to a Galveston hospital for continued paralysis treatment. Her husband aids the claim and plans to buy property near a Louisiana ranch.
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Beaumont
Tex
Galveston
D. M. Morris
Louisiana
Morris
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
Allies Retake Outposts in West Korea
Allied troops counterattacked near Chorwon and retook frozen outposts after heavy fighting that left about 30 Communists killed and 100 wounded. Reinforcements restored the positions despite snow and poor visibility from cloud cover.
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West Korea
Seoul
Chorwon
Eighth Army
North Korea
Reds
Kumhwa
Central Front
Louisiana collects 62 million in severance taxes 1951 52
Rufus Fontenot reports the fiscal year ending June 30 shows natural resource severance taxes reaching 62 million with oil taxes at 52 million. Lead parishes and states include Plaquemines LaFourche Terrebonne for totals and sector by sector leaders across timber pulpwood gas and sulfur and other products.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Rufus Fontenot
Plaquemines
LaFourche
Terrebonne
Tangipahoa
Livingston
Rapides
Union
Winn
Lincoln
Gravel—Rapides
Webster
East Feliciana
Shell
St. Tammany
Cameron
St. Charles
Search for Interference With Red-Hunting Grand Jury
Washington AP A House committee pressed its probe into government meddling with a New York Red hunting grand jury amid signals it may question Secretary of State Acheson. Jurors testified that efforts aimed to block continuation of the hunt for Communists on the U N staff, and four Justice Department officials were summoned to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
New York
Acheson
United Nations
Rep. Keating
R-Ny
State Department
Justice Department
Roy Cohn
Myles Lane
Charles Murray
William Foley
Joseph P. Kelly
Joseph A. Cahil
Charles J. Harsany
Corinne L. Geist
Max M. Zimmerman
U. S
U. N
Kidnap Tate Related By Orleans Man
A 34 year old bartender Lloyd Tate told police he was kidnapped by a holdup man who drove him to Baton Rouge after robbing him of $600 at a Metairie bar. He said the assailant threatened his life during the ride and left the receipts in a hiding place at the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Lloyd Tate
Metairie
Tate
Missing Link Coelacanth Found by South African Scientist
Durban reports Prof. J L B Smith arriving with a five foot preserved Coelacanth Latimeria hailed as possibly the missing link in evolution. The fish was caught on a remote Indian Ocean island near Comora, with formalin pumped into its body to preserve it for study. Prime Minister Malan arranged air transport to expedite its arrival.
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Durban
South Africa
J. L. B. Smith
Indian Ocean
Smith
Daniel F. Malan
London
East Africa
Comora
Madagascar
East African
Daniel Malan
Budget Request For 7 3 Billion Dollars Faces Congress
An administration source says President Truman will ask Congress to approve about 7.3 billion dollars in new appropriations next year and that spending this year may fall by four to five billion below the official estimate. Tax collections should align with prior forecasts, yielding a projected deficit of five to six billion by next June, versus the current ten billion cash shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
Eisenhower
Newspaper Clinic Planned in Monroe by Louisiana Press
A two day newspaper administration clinic organized by the Louisiana Press Association, chaired by President Max Thomas, will be held January 17 and 18 at Hotel Frances in Monroe. The event covers accounting, income and other taxes, insurance, financing, interest rates, and newsroom efficiency with talks by national experts and panel discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Louisiana Press Association
Max Thomas
Hotel Frances
The
Press Association
Alexandria
Plane Overdue In Islands With 10 Persons Aboard
A Philippine Airlines DC-3 with 10 aboard was reported overdue on a flight from Laoag to Aparri in the Philippines. The craft carried seven passengers and three crew, including two potential U S Information Service personnel. Authorities noted weather was clear at takeoff.
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Manila
Philippines
Laoag
Aparri
PAL
United States Information Service
Mumm
Miss Ireton
U. S. Air Force
U. S. Navy
Philippine Air Force
Philippine Aviation
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Korea
Mark W. Clark
Carlsen
Kurt Carlsen
San Francisco
Daddy
Sonja
Karen
VEW
ST. Francis
Texas
Orleans
White House
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