Delta Agriculture Weather Update Outlook Through Sunday
Drying conditions generally good by day with fair to locally poor nights and in showers through Sunday. Dewpoints around 5, sun today and Saturday with 3 percent measurable rain in afternoons and 10 percent at other times. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph, veering east to southeast tonight, 6 to 18 mph Saturday. Louisiana partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers likely, highs near 92, lows 44 to 72. Arkansas fair to partly cloudy with isolated afternoon storms, highs 85 to 90, lows 60s. Mississippi warm with a trough, highs mid 80s to 90s, lows around 60s.
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Wedding shower for Mrs Larry Hillburn formerly Ginger Caples
Report from the event notes a wedding shower held in the home of Mrs Floy Kilpatrick on Jonesboro Road with co-hostesses Mrs Regina Simmons and Mrs Nellie Hines. Mrs Hillburn wed in Hawaii on May 14, while her husband served in Vietnam and attended the ceremony in the islands.
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Larry Hillburn
Ginger Caples
Floy Kilpatrick
Jonesboro Road
Regina Simmons
Nellie Hines
Hilburn
Hawaii
Vietnam
Official vows action in raid by night riders
Lt Gov Charles Sullivan vowed that mid night raiders who bombed a Negro woman's home near Florence would be identified and prosecuted. He ordered state authorities to exert every effort after speaking before the Batesville Chamber of Commerce. The blast at Mrs Lillie Byrd's home injured her and her brother.
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Associated Press
Charles Sullivan
Mississippi
Florence
Sullivan
John Bell Williams
Batesville Chamber of Commerce
Lillie Byrd
Byrd
Gerthie Williams
Lunch With Mrs Lillian Scarbrough At Senior Citizens Club
Mrs Lillian Scarbrough of Gulfport Mississippi who now lives in Monaville attended a Senior Citizens Club meeting at the Benoit Recreation Center. She praised the luncheon and noted the group enjoyed the gathering and tasty food.
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Lillian Scarbrough
Senior Citizens Club
Benoit Recreation Center
Solons Put Repeal Clause In Riot Bill
In Jackson Mississippi the House added an automatic repeal clause to an anti riot bill to empower mayors with new authority after violence in Natchez. Rep Robert Lennon argued the clause ensures checks on mayors, noting a June 2 riot where about 300 Negroes attacked Natchez storefronts and burned buildings.
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Jackson, Miss
Netroes
Mississippi
House
Robert Lennon
Hattiesburg
Natchez
Lennon
Legisla
Roe Family Visit Mentioned in Monroe Notes
Roe visits with sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs C E Gandy of Monroe in a brief society update.
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Roe
Mrs. C. E. Gandy
Monroe
Anti riot measures passed with June 30 1972 repeal
A legislative amendment, approved by voice vote, provides automatic repeal of June 30 1972. The bill was one of four anti riot measures passed. The mayors bill and a companion measure granting anti riot powers to the governor were re passed with the amendment and sent to the Senate.
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McKeithen Moves to Block Domed Stadium Vote
Gov. John McKeithen urged the Louisiana House to defeat a constitutional amendment for a New Orleans Domed Stadium ballot. The House voted 75-21 to kill the measure, with McKeithen warning of broader impacts and criticizing cost estimates and outside pressure from the Houston Astrodome. He said the stadium could cost about 50 million for construction plus site costs, with possible private lease talks and expropriation.
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Baton Rouge
John McKeithen
New Orleans
McKeithen
House
Louisiana
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LSU
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Tulane
Houston Astrodome
Astrodome
Roy Hofheinz
Gulf South Research Institute
McKeithen Labor Probe Leaders Accuse Witness Bribes
Attorney J Min os Simon of Lafayette accuses Gov John McKeithen s labor inquiry of bribing witnesses perjured testimony and targeting people for murder He renewed these charges at a hearing before three federal judges on suits challenging the Louisiana Labor Management Commission inquiry Jenkins and Sylvester Baton Rouge Teamsters members face state aggravated battery charges The judges paused to study the cases after the hearing
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UPI
J. Minos Simon
Lafayette
John McKeithen
Labor Rackets Commission
Simon
Louisiana Labor Management Commission of Inquiry
McKeithen
Baton Rouge
Ashton L. Stewart
Roderick Jenkins
Jerry Sylvester
Jenkins
Sylvester
Teamsters Union
Robert A. Ainsworth Jr
Monroe church seeks secession from Louisiana Conference
Stone Avenue Methodist Church of Monroe voted 228 members to leave the United Methodist Church citing merger with Evangelical United Brethren and other factors. Bishop Aubrey Walton said the church may affiliate with another denomination. delegates also opposed using public funds to aid private schools.
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Shreveport
Monroe
Louisiana Conference of the
United Methodist Church
Aubrey G. Walton
Stone Avenue
Nicholas D. Pearce
Evangelical United Brethers Church
Mr. Pearce
W. D. Boddie
Flowers Express Sympathy With Affordable Arrangements
A short classified note offers sympathy flowers with sprays priced from five to ten dollars and wreaths from ten to thirty dollars, inviting readers to call for orders.
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