Housees Take Up Own Rivers and Harbors Bill
The House prepared to take up its version of a 1.556 billion dollars rivers and harbors bill to avoid a presidential veto. The measure mirrors a Senate bill approved last night after weeks of negotiation on 30 projects with budget bureau amendments.
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House
Rivers Harbors
Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Senate Rivers and Harbors
Congress
Kerr
Budget Bureau
Greenville Harbor
Miss
Secretary of the Army
Chief of Army Engineers
Federal Power Commission
Millwood Reservoir
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Four Pass Exams As Pharmacists Named in Loyola
Louisiana Board of Pharmacy lists pharmacists who passed exams at Loyola University New Orleans. Harold A. Short of Winnsboro is the only local pharmacist to pass. Three others gained reciprocity: Sister M. L. Woletz and William Bolivar Hutto Jr of Monroe and Jesse Harold Thornton of Ruston.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Board of Pharmacy
Loyola University
Harold A. Short
Winnsboro
M. L. Woletz
William Bolivar Hutto, Jr
Monroe
Jesse Harold Thornton
Ruston
Newsprint Arrives by Water for Baton Rouge Papers
The first shipment of newsprint to arrive by water for the State Times and Morning Advocate was unloaded at the municipal dock. Bowater Southern Paper Co. of Calhoun Tennessee will make regular shipments to the newspapers.
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Baton Rouge
State-Times
Bowater Southern Paper Co
Calhoun, Tenn
Mer Rouge Lions Club to hear Doane representative speaker
Doane Agricultural Service manager Russell E Kreutman will speak at the Mer Rouge Lions Club regular meeting. Warren White, chair of the Agricultural Development Committee, announced a farm tour for Friday with two Doane Service guests joining the group. Officers of the Morehouse Parish Farm Bureau will be elected at 745 p m Friday during a barbecue at Bastrop High School cafeteria with Warren White presiding. Ferriday to host Miss Concordia Beauty Pageant on June 24 at Ferriday High School as a preliminary to the State Miss America Pageant in Lake Providence. E E Taylor Ferriday Rotary Club president says committees are forming.
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MER Rouge
Russell E. Kreutman
Doane Agricultural Service
Mer Rouge Lions Club
Warren White
Agricultural Development Committee
Doane Service
Morehouse Parish
Ferriday
Ferriday High School
Lake Providence
E. E. Taylor
Ferriday Rotary Club
Mangham FFA Chapter Rated Superior at State Convention
Mangham High School FFA earned a superior rating at the Louisiana FFA state convention held in Shreveport last week. Delegates James Hutson and J. C. Clingfost attended with sponsor O. E. DeVille and Miss Anne Eller, FFA sweetheart, along with delegates 0. J. Oliveaux and Tim Fife.
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Mangham
Mangham High School
Future Farmers of America
Shreveport
O. E. DeVille
Anne Eller
FFA
J. Oliveaux
Tim Fife
James Hutson
J. C. Clingfost
Mangham Cheerleaders Study At Northwestern State College
Johnnie Free Marlyn Lyles Anne Eller Peggy Arrant and Cornelia Walters traveled Sunday to Northwestern State College in Natchitoches for a week of special cheerleading classes taught by Lawrence Herkimer. Bud Thames earns honor mem ber of all state band after Baton Rouge audition. LSU notification confirms selection.
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Mangham
Bud Thames
Baton Rouge
LSU
Thames
Louisiana 4 H Delegates Meet President Eisenhower in DC
Tommy Joe Malone 18 of Farmerville leads 4 H delegates from 48 states plus Hawaii and Puerto Rico on a week in Washington. The group tours Beltsville farms, Congress visits, climbs the Washington Monument, and plans Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Mt. Vernon tours before Friday night departure.
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Washington
Tommy Joe Malone
Farmerville
Eisenhower
Tommy
Territory of
Hawaii
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Jerry St. Pierre
Lutcher
Lavette Ward
Shreveport
Beverly Greer
Stonewall
Louisiana
Allen J. Ellender
Senate Agriculture Committee
Ellender
M. C. Taylor
Agriculture Department
Beltsville
Washington Monument
Mt. Vernon
Edward W. Gas
Wapensky Says Fed Adopts Easy Money Policy
Basil A. Wapensky from the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank told a banking group in New Orleans that the Fed has adopted an easy money policy to aid the current recession but warned it will not end the business slump by itself.
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New Orleans
UPI
Basil A. Wapensky
Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
Mrs Wilbur Thames in High School Band under Pryor
Mrs Wilbur Thames plays the trumpet in the high school band directed by J P Pryor.
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Wilbur Thames
J. P. Pryor
North east Louisiana law bills move through state houses
Ninety Louisiana legislators debated fourteen bills introduced by Sen. Hubert Sims and eight north east lawmakers. Measures ranged from retirement and sick leave for school staff to district attorney offices, education gifts, and highway purchase rules. Most passed the House or Senate with strong margins. one amendment to a constitutional change failed in the Senate.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House
Senate
Hubert Sims
Mer Rouge
Vail M. Delaney
Lake Providence
T. T. Fields
Farmerville
W. S. Peck Jr
Sicily Island
Jack Crane
Monterey
Woodrow Wilson
Bastrop
Lasley Downes
Rayville
Ashton B. Collier
Atlanta
W. Spencer Myrick
Oak Grove
Willie Rambo
Georgetown
Sims
Delaney
Fields
State Board of Education
Peck
Crane
Seventh Judicial District
Wilson
Department of Highways
Delony
Boards of Governors
Highway Department
Whitaker Sentenced to Death in Wife Swap Slaying
Thomas Whitaker 38 was sentenced to die in the Indiana electric chair on November 19 after being found guilty of killing his 9 year old daughter Regina, his former wife Alma 36 and their son Jackie 11 in a spree linked to a wife swapping scheme. The case followed a June 25 invasion of Stewart Martin's home where Martin's wife and two children were shot. Whitaker and Martin's trial featured lurid testimony about the couples exchanging wives. Attorneys plan to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court after a judge urged a new trial.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPI
Thomas Whitaker
Indiana
Stewart Martin
Whitaker
Martin
Indiana Supreme Court
Vigo County
Herbert Criss
Kerr-McGee Must Answer Pollution Charges by June 27
Baton Rouge AP reports Kerr-McGee Oil Co. must answer pollution charges in Breton Sound by June 27 and outline corrective plans to the Louisiana Stream Control Commission. A wildlife and fisheries inspector said heavy pollution was found on three occasions from oil spillage from Kerr-McGee barges in the sound.
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Baton Rouge
Kerr- McGee Oil Co
Breton Sound
Louisiana Stream Control Commission
Wildlife and Fisheries Commission
Kerr-McGee
Bayou Macon Project To Get Underway In Louisiana
Rep Otto Passman announced preconstruction planning will start this year for the Bayou Macon stream improvement in Northeast Louisiana with actual construction next year. The project is a key part of flood control and drainage programs for the Tensas Basin affecting East and West Carroll Madison Richland and Franklin parishes. Army engineers will coordinate with drainage districts and local interests though several years may pass before completion.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Bayou Macon
Louisiana
Otto Passman
Passman
Tensas Basin
Arkansas
East
West Carroll
Madison, Richland
Franklin Parishes
Army
Aquatic Life Destroyed in 15 Mile Parish Streams
Kenneth Biglane executive director of the Louisiana Stream Commission said an estimated 15 mile stretch of two Accasion Parish streams had all aquatic life destroyed by a noxious slug linked to discharges from industrial plants.
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Baton Rouge
Kenneth Biglane
Louisiana Stream Commission
Accasion Parish
Biglane
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