Concordia Parish Electrical Coop sets 155 miles of new lines
Ferriday La June 2 Special A directors meeting June 20 at 10 am will set the contract to build 155 miles of new lines across Catahoula Concordia and LaSalle parishes including rebuilding the old system. The work will widen right of way and install automatic switches to improve service. An $8 847 57 government loan payment has been mailed with $4 160 32 interest.
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Ferriday
Concordia Parish Electrical Cooperative
Catahoula
Concordia
LaSalle Parishes
Eugene Taylor
Catahoula Parish
Ouachita Ice and Utilities Company
Five Americans Die in Puerto Rico Plane Crash
Captain Wakefield led a Strato Freight C-46 flight from Miami to San Juan with 18 passengers when engine trouble forced a crash landing near Point Salinas Puerto Rico. Only 28 survivors were expected, as coast guard ships and navy vessels searched the treacherous rocks and seas. Survivors included adults and children. many were injured. Rescue efforts were hindered by rain and rough surf. Captain Wakefield from Stamford and crew members Jack Connell George Cary Judith Hale were among those named.
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Newark
N. J
Miami
Strato Freight, Inc
Bradley Field
Windsor Locks
Conn
Dexter
San Juan
Point Salinas
Here
Puerto Rico
United States Coast Guard
Air Force
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Wakefield
Stamford
Bramble
Comdr
Goff
Oakland
Calif
San Francisco
San
Pittsfield
Mass
A. Gonzales
Toll in 24 hours places dead toll at 95
Three plane crashes in the past 25 hours have taken a heavy toll of life. With 47 feared dead in a crash off Puerto Rico, the toll reached 95 for the one day period. Twenty six persons were killed yesterday in a Brazilian army transport crash into a southern Brazil mountain. Twenty two persons including a Greek army general died last night in a crash north of Athens. The airliner that crashed off Puerto Rico was the second such disaster en route to the United States from San Juan. A San Juan to Miami plane vanished Dec. 28 about 50 miles off Miami with 32 passengers aboard. Search for the craft was abandoned early in January.
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Associated Press
Puerto Rico
Brazil
Greece
Athens
Atlantic
United States
San Juan
Miami
G O P Labor Rift Sparks Taft-Hartley Clash
Washington June 7 A small revolt within Senate Republicans challenges Taft plans to retain most of the Taft-Hartley act. The dispute centers on a GOP senate policy conference on labor bills as Elbert Thomas urges repeal of the act. Meanwhile five bipartisan amendments seek to graft TH provisions into an administration bill while Taft supporters defend his substitute. The outcome hinges on a handful of votes as debates continue.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
State-Commerce-Justice Departments
Thomas
Senate Labor Committee
Donnell
Smith
N. J
Douglas
D.-111
Morse
Ore
Aiken
Tobey
N. H
Margaret Chase Smith
Langer
N. D
Formosans in Japan call for liberation of Formosa
The Formosan League for Re-emancipation in Tokyo appealed for freeing Formosa from Chinese rule. It claims 20,009 members in Japan representing about 6.5 million Formosans and warns of risks of involvement in China's civil war. The manifesto accuses Chiang Kai-shek forces of abuses and cites US Britain Cairo outcome.
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Tokyo
Japan
Formosan League
Formosa
China
United Nations
Big Island
United States
Britain
Cairo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Black Tuesday marks protest by Louisiana filling stations
State association of filling station owners began a protest against the two cent gasoline tax hike voted by the 1949 legislature. Black crepe draped stations in New Orleans Shreveport Alexandria and Lake Charles as condolence cards urged repeal. Gov. Earl K Long said operators could profit from wholesale gas and cited high retail prices. Lawmakers Duchein and Brown urged a special session to repeal the tax.
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State Association of Filling Station Owners
Associated Press
Louisiana
New Orleans
Shreveport
Alexandria
Lake Charles
Crowley
Lafayette
Monroe
Earl K. Long
Charles F. Duchein
East Baton Rouge Parish
Algie Brown
Caddo Parish
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NEA Service
Lee Wakefield
D. H. Dexter
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Birmingham
Frances Hotel
Studebaker
Studebakera
Commander
All America
Studebaker Champion
Central Auto Sales
North Third St
Monroe, Louisiana
Sacs
Leety
Dad
Bulova
Benrus
Longines-Wittnauer
Elgin
Waltham
Girard-Perregaux
Fed
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Hamilton
Gruen, Bulova
Peacock’s
Peacecock
Parker
Remington, Schick and Sunbeam
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