Louisiana Holly: A Popular Yet Endangered Christmas Tree
Trees of Louisiana describe holly as a beloved Christmas decoration and ornamental, noting its range from Massachusetts to Texas, slow growth to 100 150 years, and female trees bearing bright red berries. The piece covers persistence, habitat, law protecting roadside cuttings, and uses of holly wood, while touching on toxicity, propagation, and varieties.
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Louisiana
Coastal Plain
Jower Piedmont
Massachsetts
Florida
Texas
Mississippi Valley
South
Kentucky
West Virginia
Delaware
City Council Delays Five Resolutions on Development Plan
NEW ORLEANS AP The City Council postponed action on five resolutions tied to a $500 million eastern New Orleans development by ratt Corp. The measures sought drainage, street plan changes, and city cost reimbursements, while a study on capital expenditure was shelved. Developer Marvin Wratler warned of abandoning the project amid city clashes. RAIN ORAL LONDON UPI A government survey shows a brain drain of professionals, with 200 doctors emigrating in 1964 and 300% leaving Kilara.
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New Orleans
New Orlans
Aratt Corp
Laratt
Marvin Wratter
Rain Oral London
UPI
Kilara
Segregationists Plan Buy-Ins In Two Mississippi Cities
Natchez and Fayette brace for white buy-in campaigns as Negroes stage trade boycotts. Charles Evers of the NAACP pushes civil rights concessions while APWA and Citizens Council units organize counter actions led by Rowland Scott. Drives set for January 15 amid escalating protests.
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Natchez, Miss
Mississippi
Americans For the Preservation
Neproes
Fayette
Natchez Rowland Scott
Natche
APWA
Louisiana
Scott
Charles Evers
NAACP
Conference AGs Call Voter Rights Act Challenge "Very Successful"
Baton Rouge AP Atty Gen. Jack Gremillion reports a four-state meeting with South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia attorneys general plus Alabama Gov. Wal lace to prepare for Supreme Court arguments on the 1965 Federal Voter Rights Act. South Carolina filed the original suit contending the act infringes state rights while Illinois, Massachusetts and California will defend the federal position.
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Lanta
Dan McLeod
South Carolina
Joel Patterson
Mississippi
Arthur Bolton
Georgia
Alabama
George Wallace
Gremillion
Highway Board Officials Named in Louisiana Department
Baton Rouge AP Three key appointments to executive posts in the State Highway Department were announced by Director A L Stewart Frances Manly Pelayo was named personnel and services officer filling a vacancy caused by the death of Charles W Burns Douglas F Peak was named assistant personnel and services officer and Will Grass was promoted to personnel officer a Bogalusa native Mrs Pelayo becomes the first woman in the department to be elevated to section head.
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Charles W. Burns
Douglas F. Peak
Will Grass
Bogalusa
Pelayo
Highway Department
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