Congress To Get Modernizing Ideas
A joint committee of 12 senators and six representatives works toward early next year on modernizing recommendations for Congress. Proposals to change operations face resistance from senior members, while staffing and chairmanship reforms attract support from Republicans and students. The 1946 and 1963 reorganizations inform today’s debate as leaders resist tinkering with the machinery.
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Joint Committee
Joint Committee On Congressional Reorganization
Annual Ruston Camellia Show Planned
The Ruston Camellia Show will feature horticultural species and artistic designs January 29 and 30 in the Louisiana Tech Education Building gym. Exhibits run 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, with Lincoln Bank and Trust Company sponsoring and in cooperation with the American Camellia Society and Lincoln Garden Council. Show is organized by the Ruston Men's Camellia Society led by S. R. Ray Aycock, with displays from Ruston, Shreveport, Dorado Ark, Magnolia Ark, and North Louisiana commercial flowers. The theme Camellia Imagery splits into two sections Reflections of the Past and Projection Toward the Future with classes Renaissance, Legacy From the Sculptor, Image of the Orient, Fragment of Experience, and Visionairies.
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Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Nick Medica
Lincoln Bank and Trust Company
American Camellia Society
Lincoln Garden Council
Editor's Son Is Killed In Plane Crash
Maj Loren R Brooks Jr son of Col Loren R Brooks night editor of The Vimes Picayune dies in a B47 bomber crash at Holloman AFB near Alamogordo New Mexico on takeoff. Also killed Capt James S McIntyre age 31 of Dayton Ohio. Brooks West Point 1952 graduate and aerospace pilot trained at Edwards. Survived by his widow Marlys Kack three children and his parents.
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Ohio
Loren R. Brooks Jr
New Orleans
Loren R. Brooks
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Air Force
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Holloman Air Force Base
Alamogordo
James S. McIntyre
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U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Wright-Patterson Field
Aerospace Research Pilots School
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Marlys Kack
Canaby, Minn
Erhard Delivers Year End Talk in West Germany
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard outlined West Germany’s path to self determination for a reunited Germany through strengthening peace security and freedom He argued that East German free choice by the Communists would reunify Germany and that West Germanys world influence hinges on its strong economy He cautioned that world politics remain in flux requiring careful deliberation and clear aims as the Federal Republic pursues consolidation of its position.
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Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
Erhard
Fedral Republic
Louisiana Delta Forecast For Monroe Region Weather
Partly cloudy and mild in the Louisiana Delta today through Friday with highs near 68 to 76, lows 54 to 60, and southerly gusty winds. No significant rainfall expected, sunshine returning, with drying conditions listed as good daytime and fair at night.
Immunization Survey Reports Are Announced
Lincoln Parish in Ruston announces results from an immunization survey by the Louisiana Vaccination Assistance Project and Lincoln Parish Health Unit. The study shows varying protection levels against polio, smallpox, diphtheria, and tetanus across urban and rural white and non white residents, with final tabulations delayed.
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Ruston
Lincoln Parish
Louisiana Vaccination Assistance Project
Lincoln Health
June Moore
Jack C. Smith
Smith
Who's Who Feature Lists Mrs Faulk Listec
A Ruston Special notes Mrs Faulk Listec appears among many women in the Who's Who section highlighting achievements. The item emphasizes her inclusion with numerous others in the biographical listing.
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Ruston
FE. Faulk
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Gospel Sing Set At Forest High
Gospel singing show at Forest High School Forest Oak Grove will start at 7 pm Friday with noted groups featured.
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Oak Grove
Forest High School
Eva Ber
Monroe police retiree returns as college security chief
N. R. Wall, formerly captain of the Monroe police department, has retired earlier this week but has returned to work as a security officer. He will serve at Northeast Louisiana State College, located at 1611 Florida St. in Monroe.
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Hospitalized PFC Waldrop wounded near Da Nang Vietnam
Hospitalized PFC Terry Waldrop, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Waldrop of 110 Olive Street West Monroe, is recovering in the Philippines after a grenade explosion in his foxhole caused serious injuries. A letter to his wife indicates he will be moved to the United States when safe to do so following a lengthy operation.
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Exchange A fair exchange agreement at Ouachita Parish Library
Miss Frances Flanders head librarian says the library and branches welcome gifts of magazines and books in good order and spare magazines will be given away free to patrons. Spare books go to charitable institutions. Back issues of national magazines are available free to patrons at the Anna Meyer Branch 418 Jackson. The library invites readers to donate wide interest magazines for distribution. In 1777 George Washington led troops to victory at Princeton NJ.
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Ouachita Parish
Frances Flanders
Anna Meyer
Jackson
George Washington
Princeton
1965 Serpent birth year predicted luck and fruition
The article reflects on 1965 as a year of the Serpent for those born under its sign. It claims that if your birthday is divisible by 12 you would experience luck and the fruition of past efforts during that year, according to the 12 year Oriental Zodiac cycle.
Year of money but not marriage foretold by oracle
Mrs Arlene Cascio returns to her Monroe home at 219 Grayling Lane after recent surgery at St Francis Hospital. She is recovering for about six weeks and welcomes calls and visitors as she rests.
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Grayling Lane
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Cas- Clo
Ruston Drivers Urged to Meet Tag Deadline
About 2,800 of Lincoln Parish residents have bought new auto licenses since the campaign began in November. The deadline is February 6. Marcus Lott, director of the Lincoln Parish revenue office, says hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily except weekends. The pink registration card is required. Two year plates cost 6 dollars. truck plates range from 10 dollars up and will be available in January, valid for one year.
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Ruston
Lincoln Parish
Marcus Lott
State Department of Revenue
Lott
Officials Seek Negro Gunman Inbank Robbery at New Hebron
Authorities hunted a tall thin gunman who held up the Lawrence County Bank branch in New Hebron Mississippi around 11 am. He masked his face and demanded about $10,000, locking vice president Charles Little and others in the vault. The suspect was described as six feet tall about 185 pounds in his late 20s or early 30s.
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Cupid
Lawrence County
Charles B. Little
World’s Only Woman Foreign Minister Retiring In Israel
Golda Meir, Israel’s foreign minister since 1956, announced retirement at 67 after 19 years in office. Deputy Premier Abba Eban expected to succeed her. Meir, born in Kiev May 3 1898, rose from Milwaukee teacher to lead Israel’s diplomacy and Histadrut, shaping the country’s core institutions.
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Jerusalem
Golda Meir
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