Progress on new gym at Louisiana Training Institute
Dr. Harvey Dillon reports rapid progress on the Louisiana Training Institute gymnasium. Brickwork is complete and the roof will rise soon. total project cost nears 64500 for building and pool, with 120 working days to finish. Scattered campus upgrades accompany the effort.
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Louisiana Training Institute
Harvey Dillon
Dillon
W. C. Salley
Louisiana State University
Institute
Ki-Ro-Li
Dr. Dillon
Governor seeks lighted airways from New Orleans to Houston
Governor Richard Leche asked the U S department of commerce to install lighted airways and radio beams between New Orleans and Houston via Baton Rouge to enable regular night flights on the New Orleans Houston end of the Eastern route. He cited current safety limits due to obstructions and insufficient runways at Baton Rouge airport and urged faster local improvements.
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Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
United States Department of Commerce
New Orleans
Houston
New Orleans-Houston
New York-Houston
Eastern Airlines
Department of Commerce
East Baton Rouge
Black and White Ointment Promises Clearer Skin
A long running beauty aid touts Black and White Ointment as the solution for pimples and blemishes. The ad claims twenty years of use with rapid improvement and an aftercare suggestion of pairing with Black and White Skin Soap. Trial size costs 10c and a large can 25c.
Ouachita Parish Farm Conservation Committee Meeting
Ouachita parish committee members of the 1937 agricultural conservation program will meet Thursday at 9 a.m. in the courthouse to discuss changes for 1938 and review program development. John L. Sanders will lead the session with recommendations to be sent to the state office and then Washington for the southern region’s summary and federal scheduling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
E. R. Strahan
State Office of the Agricultural Conservation Program
Washington
Agricultural Department
John L. Sanders
LSU Cadet Corps Rated Excellent by War Dept
General van Horn Mosely informed officials that Louisiana State University cadet corps received an excellent rating from the War Department. The university Reserve Officers Training Corps has held the highest rating for seven consecutive years.
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Baton Rouge, la
van Horn Mosely
Fourth Corps
Louisiana State University
University Cadet Corps
War Department
University Reserve Officers Training Corps
Hathaway Named Director at Little Rock Home Loan Bank
The Federal Home Loan bank board announced the appointment of O. C. Hathaway of Shreveport Louisiana as director of the Home Loan bank at Little Rock Arkansas. Hathaway will fill a vacancy held for over a year with a term ending December 31 1938.
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Washington
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
O. C. Hathaway
Shreveport
Home Loan Bank
Little Rock
Ark
Tech Farm Work Starts at Louisiana Tech in Ruston
Mrs. Elnora V. Chandler fifth district NYA supervisor announced 40 boys from her group began a farm improvement project at Louisiana Tech Ruston. They will lay a water main connect to the city system build a modern dairy barn concrete silo and hay barn on a 350 acre farm west of Ruston on the Dixie Overland highway. Louisiana Tech sponsors skilled labor and materials NYA provides unskilled labor and the workers will board in Tech dorms under R L Reese who directs the agricultural department. The project will take several weeks of work by NYA members.
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Elnora V. Chandler
NYA
Louisiana Tech
Ruston
T. L. James
Ruston Capitalist
Fifth Congressional District
Tech
R. L. Reese
Agricultural Department
Jones elected head of Monroe Lions club
F L Jones chief clerk of Southern Carbon was unanimously elected president of the Monroe Lions club at the Tuesday noon meeting in Hotel Frances. He will assume July 1, succeeding E C Gibson. Other officers include M G Moore first vice president T H Woods second vice president L G Hughes secretary treasurer. PIANO program by Jeannette Clarkson Alice Brauer Bennie Hughes and Billy Jobe boosted the meeting.
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F. L. Jones
Southern Carbon Company
Monroe Lions Club
Hotel Frances
Jones
E. C. Gibson
Lions Organization
M. G. Moore
T. H. Woods
L. G. Hughes
Jeannette Clarkson
Alice Brauer
Bennie Hughe
Billy Jobe
Lions Club
Harry Newhall
Delhi girl first to take up farm studies at Tech
Olive Thomas Avent of Delhi becomes the first girl enrolled in the department of Agriculture at Louisiana Tech. A second term freshman, she studied home economics at the College of Industrial Arts in Denton Texas. She takes courses in farm machinery and southern field crops as part of her work here. Her mother is a government servant in Washington.
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Ruston
Olive Thomas Avent
Delhi
Department of Agriculture
Louisiana Tech
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Tex
Piss Avent
Tech
J. S. Avent
Washington
Mississippi
Man with Hacksaw Blades Arrested in Local Case
James E. Dwyer, recently released from Shreveport jail, was held for investigation after offering three dozen hack saw blades at a low price to a local machine shop foreman. He claimed purchase in Dallas and denied theft. Officers Meek and Cornett arrested him.
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James E. Dwyer
Shreveport
Dwyer
L. S. Meek
A. L. Cornett
Dallas
Tex
Smith Named Scientist Head at Mother Church in Boston
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston reports 59 new churches and rising sales of Mary Baker Eddy writings. Judge Clifford P. Smith of Newton, Mass., is elected church president for one year, with Edward L. Ripley as treasurer and Ezra W. Palmer as clerk. Smith has long served the Mother Church in legal and educational roles.
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Boston
Mass
Christian Science
Mary Baker Eddy
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Clifford P. Smith
Newton
Edward L. Ripley
Brookline
Ezra W. Palmer
Marshfield
Christian Science Board of Director
Mason City
Iowa
District Court of
Mother Church
Christian Science Board of Education
Christian Science Publishing Society
Christian Science Board of
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Scene OF Christian Science Election
Farm Conservation Committee
W. W. Cooper
Cooper, Taylor & Holmes, Inc
Ouachita Bank
Warren F. Taylor
George S. Holmes
Portland Cement Association
Birmingham
Ala
NYA Boys
LIONS
Man With Hacksaw Blades
Tinel and Herald
Bureau of History and Records
Cobbs Creek
Continental Distilling Corporation
Phile
Dollar
Forp
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Detroit
Grain Millers
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