Legion Sponsors Howard Show At Ferriday School
The Paul Howard show appears at Ferriday High School auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday, sponsored by the local American Legion post. Howard and the Arkansas Cotton Pickers, famed radio TV and recording artists, are headline acts with a long WSM Grand Ole Opry association.
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Ferriday
Paul Howard
Ferriday High School
American Legion Post
Howard
Arkansas Cotton Pickers
WSM Grand Ole Opry
Eddie Arnold
Jimmy Wakely
Jerry Sullivan
Alabama
Eddy Turner
Race Track Officials Stand Firm Against Tax Hike
Officials of the New Orleans Fair Grounds in Baton Rouge refuse a 17 percent pari mutuel tax and vow to close rather than race under the higher levy. President John S. Letellier and Governor Earl Long clash as the measure passes a committee vote. Critics warn a 17 percent rate will drive out quality horses and reduce mutuel pools, with an estimated five million dollar decline in revenue.
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Baton Rouge
New Orleans Fair Grounds
John S. Letelier
Fairgrounds
Letellier
Earl K. Long
Letelier
New Orleans
Teoyd J. Mistrot
Louisiana
The
Horsemets Benevolent and Protective Ason
Racin
Suistret
Retirement Farm Remembers a Life on Show Trains
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Reis of Yarmouth Maine fulfilled a dream by adding a railroad style stateroom to their 20 acre retirement farm. They spent 30 years touring on trains and remember long routes from 9 a.m. to midnight. The couple built Rainbow Farm with portable like renovations and cover walls in photos from show life.
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Yarmouth
Maine
J. D. Reis
Reis
Kazel
Mexico
Cuba
Canada
West Zooddy Head Lisnthouse
South Portland
Negro Acquitted Of Murder Charge
Fairfield Texas jury acquitted Jimmy Barker of murder after he testified the victim’s widow offered him 100 to say he did it. Barker says he hunted rabbits on Hubert Clanton farm near Athens when Mrs. Clanton fired at him. Clanton widow denies Barker’s story.
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Fairfield
Tex
Jimmy Barker
Barker
Hubert Clanton
Athens
American Turncoat Afraid To Return Home
LONDON AP report says Samuel David Hawkins twenty three a former GI who stayed with the Communists in China fears returning to the United States. Hawkins regrets his decision misses friends car and movies and is engaged to a White Russian typist. He earns about 112 dollars a month as a truck serviceman in Red China. Six of the original 23 have returned one died Hawkins son of a widow in Oklahoma City.
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London
Heiping
China
Samuel David Hawkins
Rene MacColl
London Daily Express
MacColl
Hawkins
Korea
America
Red
Richard’. Tenneson
Corley Jones
Oklahoma City
Jrs
Americans Playing Musical Instruments Revealed in Estimate
One estimate places 27,650,000 Americans as players of some kind of musical instrument. The figure highlights widespread engagement across regions and demographics, suggesting a broad cultural trend in music making.
Six prisoners escape Texas jail in dramatic break
Six inmates at Ector County Jail hacked through bars with improvised blades and climbed down three stories to freedom. Richard W White and Buddy Wayne Richardson, Odessa burglars, led the escape. Richardson, a three time loser, faces habitual criminal charges with possible life sentence. One man Everett Spencer, 53, from Waco, was recaptured two and a half hours later near Midland. five others remained at large as guards and trusties were coerced during the escape.
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Odessa
Tex
Ector County
Everett Spencer
Waco
Midland
Ernest Broughton
Richard W. White
Fort Worth
Wayne Richardson
Billy
Sisk
James
Ray Parker
Richardson
Broughton
Bel
Princess Attends Theater With Bachelor
Princess Margaret went to a charity performance of T. S. Eliot's The Family Reunion at the Phoenix Theater with Billy Wallace and four friends, less than a day after dancing until nearly dawn with Dominic Elliot at the American Embassy.
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London
Margaret
Billy Wallace
Wallace
Herbert ‘Agar
T. S. Eliot
Phoenix Theater
Dominic ‘Elliot
Earl of Minto
Prisoners Escaped Police During Floor Climb
Six men fled as police responded. on reaching the ground from the third floor, three ran south and three ran north.
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Legion
Ferriday School
Mistrot
Kneibers
Fair Grounds
Reankins
New York
Saratoa
Peteiiier
Anthony Pevetert
Edu
Mothe Stavag
Sango
New Oceans Handicrop
Harald Roth
Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Hippo
White
Manu
Texas
Cobuck and DO
SEARS
Messa Ty
Silvertone
T.V
Sears Revolving Secrats
Louisville, Ave
Coe E
Thurs
Princess
Bachelor
Rai
Sears Roebuck & Co
Louisville Ave
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