Monroe Area Sees Two New Oil Drilling Applications
Two new drilling proposals filed in the Monroe District of Louisiana open the way for tests in the Tensas Irish wildcat and the Gas Rock yield fields. Jett Drilling seeks Fry-Marks No 1 at 660 feet from the north line of Sec 31 10E north of Lake St John. Jim W Grier Eva B Smith No 1 targets Gas Rock with location 900 feet north and 750 feet west of Sec 6 193E. Other items include a Wilcox discovery in Tew Lake field and additional wells in Ouachita parish and Cadeville fields with multiple depth readings and cores.
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Monroe
State of Louisiana Department of Conservation
Jett Drilling Company Inc
Sec
Jett
Tuscaloosa
Lake St. John
Jim W. Grier
Eva B. Smith
Grier
Tew Lake
Wilcox
Catahoula Parish
Durbin Bond Co. Inc
Davis-Ford
Cadeville
Ouchita Parish
Gulf Refining Company L. Werner Sawmill Co
Republicans To Meet Here Friday
Louisiana Fifth District Republicans will choose two delegates and two alternates to the national convention in San Francisco. John Fox of Monroe says the district parley also selects delegates to the Louisiana state convention in Baton Rouge on June 30 and elects an elector for the Fifth District at 5 p.m. Friday in Ouachita Parish Court House.
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Louisiana
John Fox
Fox
Monroe
San Francisco
Baton Rouge
Ouachita Parish Court House
Life Insurance Policies in Louisiana Reach Record High
The Institute of Life Insurance reported 5,224,000 Louisiana life policies providing $4.925 billion in coverage at year start. The state's 10 year rise reached 242 percent, signaling strong growth in policy ownership.
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New York
Institute of Life Insurance
Louisiana
Institute
Radio TV Schedule and News Briefs Report
A compiled radio television log lists programs and times from 3:09 to 10:15 pm including Dr. D. Wives, Young Widow Brown, Pepper Young’s Family, Women in My House, Fred Waring, Evening Serenade, Coke Time, World News, and more. The schedule notes a separate news item on K. Bangheart and a late night sign off. A short Alexandria note reports an air force policeman wounded while on duty, status satisfactory, and mentions Minnesota forest fire averages of 1,000 per year over 40 years.
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Young Widow Brown
Pepper Young
Fred Waring
World News
Bill Stern
Quincy Howe
News of the World
One Man Family
Dragnet
K. Bangheart
Music Hall
Alexandria
Air Force
England Air Force Base
Bobby Adair
LaGrange
Guiding Light
Robert Q. Lewis
Pastor
Gary More
Bi Payott
Godfrey
Boob Crosby
Search
Kalb-Tv
Saieival
Senate Kills Bill To Divide 11th Judicial District
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana Senate declined to pass a measure to split the 11th Judicial District into two with one judge from DeSoto and Sabine parishes. Proponents argued it prevents another courthouse from sitting empty while opponents warned it would gad a political gerrymander.
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Senate
Rogers
Cole
Grand Jurors Refuse Indictment In Bathtub Death
A Mississippi grand jury declined to indict airman John OBrien for the death of Sonia Sande a 17 year old Wisconsin woman. The airman testified he placed her in a tub after a drinking party to sober her up claiming he did not know the water was scalding. Sonia had traveled from Meeton Wisconsin to marry him in Biloxi and later died after treatment at Keesler Air Force Base and a San Antonio hospital.
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Gulfport
Miss
Wisconsin
John O'Brien
Wartland
Wis
Sonia Sande
Meeton
University of Houston
Biloxi
O’brien
Keesler Air Force Base
San Antonio
New York Democratic Committee Names Delegates and Officers
The 300 member New York Democratic state committee meets at noon to day to name 24 half vote delegates at large to the Democratic national convention elect its own officers and select a time and place for the state Democratic convention.
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New York
Leary Named as Temporary Senator for Barkley Seat
Gov. Chandler designated Joseph J. Leary of Frankfort as a temporary U.S. senator to fill the late Sen. Barkley’s term, with the Democratic State Central Executive Committee in Louisville to choose the November nominee for the remainder of Barkley’s four year term. Leary, 49, longtime Chandler adviser, will serve until November and previously advised Gov. Clements.
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Frankfort
AB. Chandler
Joseph J. Leary
U.S. Senate
Sen
Barkley
Democratic State Central Executive Committee
Louisville
Leary
Chandler
Earie C. Clements
Joe B. Bates
Clements
Thruston B. Morton
Bible Society's 1816 distribution of 6410 scriptures
In the first year of its founding 1816 the American Bible Society distributed 6410 volumes of scripture to readers and churches across the region.
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American Bible Society
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