Beauty Queen Switch Shocks Miss Louisiana Crowning
Linda Gail Baucum, 18, of Springhill wins Miss Louisiana after Judy Cathey declines the crown to marry Northeast State basketball player James Cook of Jonesboro. Cathey, North Louisiana Cotton Festival entrant, cites love and marriage as reasons, while Baucum aims for a career. Miss Cathey tours Europe with Northeast Louisiana State College jazz ensemble and later supports Cathey, who returns to stage.
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Cotton Festival pageant results name top five contenders
Miss Houma did not place in the first five while Jo Ann Wooten Miss Cenla finished in the top five. Had Miss Cathey won the crown she would have been the third straight Bastrop Jaycees sponsored Cotton Festival winner. Outgoing queen Diana Jane Smith of Oak Ridge crowned last year by Lyndra Pate of Shreveport.
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West Monroe
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Oak Ridge
West Monroe Rodeo Tickets On Sale July 17 20
Advance tickets for the West Monroe rodeo run July 17 through 20 at the West Monroe Riding Club arena. Prices are 2.25 for box seats, 1.75 for other seats, and 1.00 for children. The event, sponsored by the Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club, features stock by Tommy Steiner and an increased purse with trophy saddles for event champions. Tom Hadley will emcee with appearances by Jim Eskew and an Italian comedy team. Tickets at Rodeo Headquarters 200 Trenton Street West Monroe.
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Treasury Secretary predicts tax cut bill by adjournment
Douglas Dillon said on television that the House Ways and Means Committee would craft a satisfactory tax cut bill to be enacted by Congress before adjournment. He added the measure would be balanced and acceptable though not the one Kennedy recommended.
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Gray Funeral Services Set for Dwight W. Gray
Funeral services for Dwight W. Gray 52 of Van Nuys California were held at Kilpatrick's Funeral Chapel with Rev Harold Shirley presiding Burial followed at Greenwood Cemetery Gray a native of Jonesboro is a Navy veteran and had lived in Ruston and Shreveport Survivors include a son Dwight E Gray two sisters Mrs Vernie Halloway Mrs Vada Cook a brother Everett Gray A Washington report quotes Sen John G Tower praising Barry Goldwater as an ideological leader and symbol to stimulate the nation's imagination through the presidential race
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Barry) Goldwater
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