Bank opens new consumer loan department in Ouachita Bank
The Ouachita National Bank announces a new consumer loan department offering new and used car and appliance loans with installment repayment. The department features private offices, credit life insurance, mail payments, and coupon books, with hours extended to 4 p m. and praise from bank president R Lee Vanderpool Jr. for providing complete banking services to the community.
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Ouachita National Bank
Eisenhower and Winant in Postwar Relations
The excerpt recounts General Eisenhower and Smith's view of Winant's stance after World War II. Winant urged postwar cooperation with the Soviet Union but resisted concessions that might imperil a corridor to Berlin, citing Soviet rigidity as partly due to inexperience. He attributed Russian behavior to unfamiliarity and sought good faith with Moscow.
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Winant
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Irene Reid Heralded by Monroe Merchants as Local Icon
Irene Reid, famed Monroe advertising leader, receives broad civic tribute with a bronze plaque and pages in newspapers. She rose from selling papers on DeSiard Street to heading the News-Star advertising department and earning national recognition in editorials and college textbooks.
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Monroe
West Monroe
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DeSiard
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News-Star
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Mule
Monroe Commercial College
Morning World
Louisiana Adopts Per Diem for Solons and Voting Machines Move
Governor touts per diem for legislators and civil service reform while Kennon signs a law to install voting machines in every Louisiana parish. State to become the first in the deep south with statewide voting machines as differences in the legislation are described as helpful to the program. Citizens are proud of their representatives in the House and Senate.
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Louisiana
Deep South
Seven Fined For Overlength Load At Night
Seven individuals were fined for operating a vehicle with an overlength load at night without a permit. Ivy Bess, a Negro escapee from the parish jail, received a nine month sentence not to run concurrently with existing terms. Fuller defamation case postponed to June 27. gambling charge against Red Johnson nolle pressed.
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Rayville F. Fuller
Fuller
Nolle
Red Johnson
Maryland Claims Unique Virgin Hemlock Forest in East
Maryland asserts its forest holds the only virgin hemlock stand in the eastern United States. The claim centers on untouched, old growth trees and regional conservation significance. Experts say verification requires broader surveys and historical data comparison.
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Maryland
United States
Stevenson Draft Talk Circulates Amid Presidential Speculation
President Truman avoided a stance on a Stevenson draft as rumors swirl about the Democratic nomination. Supporters weigh Stevenson against Kefauver Taft Eisenhower and consider a Stevenson Kefauver or Stevenson Taft ticket. A public statement may come before the Republican Chicago meeting.
MacArthur Keynote Speech at GOP Convention Sparks Political Role Debate
General Douglas MacArthur delivers a keynote at the GOP gathering while noting the role is political. He has not discussed it with the Pentagon, which plans no action. President Truman says he will act if Army officials overstep rules amid draft talk. Stevenson denies seeking the Democratic nomination but leaves open a possible draft. Democrats Harriman Kerr Kefauver campaign in states as Kefauver leads pre-convention delegates with 246 to 864 and Harriman 85. 616 needed to win.
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Provo
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Oklahoma
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Chattanooga
Knoxville
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Harriman
Solon Debates West Germany sovereignty pacts
The committee aims to finish sessions next Tuesday or Wednesday and send the pacts to the Senate floor before July 7. The treaties would end Allied occupation in West Germany and restore sovereignty while unifying Europe under a single army allied to NATO forces led by Gen Ridgway. Senate ratification by all nations is required.
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West Germany
Matthew B. Ridgway
Europe
Truman
Brothers build chinchilla ranch to save endangered stock
In Indianapolis Louis and Charles Darko report their 250 acre chinchilla ranch now houses 67 pairs of animals valued at 1500 dollars per pair. They say extinction risk was high in 1922 and that it will take years to breed enough stock to offer pelts for sale.
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Charles Darko
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