Little Theatre seeks final pledges for new playhouse
The Little Theatre drive has $46,000 pledged toward the first goal to match a Clifford Strauss donation. Team captains and workers are contacting members and friends to reach everyone, with $100 seat pledges payable over two years and memorial gifts encouraged for community meaning.
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Dell Moore
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Carl Slakter
Scherck Bogan
Violet Holland
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Little Theatre Board
Mississippi At Doorstep Of Great Era
Dist. Atty. Armis Hawkins of Houston, a candidate for lieutenant governor, told a civic club Mississippi stands on the threshold of its greatest economic era. He warned the next decade could bring prosperity or calamity and urged unity to secure the state’s place in the national economy.
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Real Estate Transfers Across West Monroe Listings
A sequence of property transfers authored by multiple sellers including Joe L. Matin, Marjorie Roberts Jones Richardson, D D May, Perry G. Zuber, Leonard Battistone, David F. Pierce, Lula Spillman, Lillie Walls Turner, Nathaniel and Sharman Gray, Darrel W. Finley, Bonnie Lynn Brookings, George Byrdwell Harris, Mrs. Erma Dollar Harris Boyd, Fred Fudickar Jr., R. Fred Petty, and Robert E. Taylor. Purchasers include Walter J. Frank Jr., Hillard Ray Miley, Johnny L. Ward, Luther Milton Hale, Oma C. McGuffee, W. A. Wilson, Eugene Spillman, Letha Sherman, Alice W. Thomas, Abram Walls, Gerson Walls, Bobby Ray Norday, O. R. Gibbons, Style Shop Inc., Allen T. Turpin, Dr. Fred Co. Amman, and Henry C. McKinney. Prices range from $100 to $42,750 for parcels in West Monroe and surrounding subdivisions.
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West Monroe
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Sherrouse Park
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Amman East
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Henry C. McKinney
Witness recounts capture of Coyle brothers in Middleboro
AP reporter details the arrest of the Coyle brothers in Massachusetts. Troopers moved through the Canova property and woods after a neighbor spotted a person crawling. A fusillade followed as the search escalated. one trooper radioed for medical help after the capture.
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Congress Admits Veterans Pension Bill Costs More
In Washington the House author of the veterans pension bill conceded it will cost the government an extra 10 billion dollars over 40 years rather than save 12 billion. Rep. Olin E. Teague said full cost details were provided. opponents argued the cost was camouflaged during limited debate.
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Georgia solons oppose order to integrate Atlanta schools
Georgia lawmakers voiced opposition to a federal court order directing the Atlanta school board to prepare a desegregation plan. Judge Frank Hooper said the plan must be reached within a reasonable time, with the legislature allowed to study the plan before implementation. Democratic leaders warned against any plan enabling county integration. Senator Richard B. Russell urged resistance to the lawyers’ push.
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Court Upholds Dismissal of Voter Suit
The Fifth Circuit upheld dismissal of a Justice Department voter registration suit against Alabama. It ruled the 1957 civil rights statute did not authorize suing a state and agreed that with two registrars having resigned there was no one to sue. The case concerned alleged discriminatory practices in negro registration.
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Prisoner climbs water tower at Stateville Penitentiary
Prisoner Joseph Alexander, 28, scaled an 80 foot water tower at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet on Tuesday and stayed there for several hours before coming down. He said he climbed to protest pea picking on his work detail.
U S Plans Joint Satellite Fleet to Monitor High Altitude Tests
The United States proposes a three-nation plan with Russia and Britain to launch twelve earth satellites to detect high altitude nuclear tests. Stanford physicist Wolfgang Panofsky will present the plan at the Geneva East West science conference, with six satellites at 600 mile orbits and six at 40 000 mile orbits to blanket the globe.
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