Monroe Officials Host Blue Chip Firm Prospect Visit
Monroe Mayor W L Howard said city officials including George Parsons and James Williams spent Monday with a leading industrial prospect. The firm, described as a blue chip company, is potentially relocating to Monroe and would bring hundreds of jobs and a major payroll. Officials briefed the group on the city plan and potential sites, with another technical visit planned soon.
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Monroe
W. L. Howard
George Parsons
James Williams
Howard
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Father Daughter Team On Canoe Trip Down River
A father daughter duo travel toward New Orleans on the final leg of a Mississippi River canoe journey. Anna May Lehman 19 and Charles Lehman 41 started from Lake Itasca March 29 in two 17 foot canoes. If they reach the river mouth, Anna May would become the first woman to complete the 2252 mile journey by canoe solo. They faced insects strong currents and heat during the voyage.
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Greenville
Miss
UPI
New Orleans
Mississippi
Anna May Lehman
Charles Lehman
Miss Lehman
Lake Itasca
Minnesota
Dallas Architect John Ladd to Speak at Realtors Meeting
John Ladd, regional architectural representative for Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Dallas, Texas, will be the principal speaker at the Monroe West Monroe Board of Realtors monthly meeting. The Paragon Club hosts the 7 30 p m session. Ladd has worked with the company 25 years and now leads color research at Springfield Research Center Baltimore Maryland.
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John Ladd
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Dallas
Tex
Monroe - West Monroe
Soldier’s Body Found In Lake Near Fort Polk
The body of Alfred C. Hedberg, 17, a soldier stationed at Fort Polk, La., was recovered Monday from Lake Charles. John Clayton, 24, of Port Arthur, Texas, found the body while swimming en route to summer school at Southern University. Hedberg’s hometown was withheld by Ft. Polk authorities pending notice of next of kin. He drowned during an outing here last weekend.
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Lake Charles
Alfred C. Hedberg
Fort Polk
John Clayton
Port Arthur
Tex
Southern University
Hedberg
Ft. Polk
Mississippi Legislature Begins Special Session on Shipyard Plan
Jackson Miss AP The legislature opens a special session to decide issuing 130 million dollars in full faith and credit bonds for a Pascagoula automated shipyard. Litton Industries would fund and rent the site with state aid, potentially transferring title after bonds are paid. The Ingalls yard currently employs about 9,000 with a 40 million dollar payroll. the new yard would raise employment and payroll substantially.
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Jackson, Miss
Pascagoula
Paul Johnson
Litton Industries
Ingalls
Jackson County
Pascagoula River
Litton
Agricultural and Industrial Board
Ingalls Yard
Strikers Ordered To Resume Work By Federal Judge
In Philadelphia AP report Judge John P Fullam ordered deck officers to return to work and enter arbitration by Wednesday or face a conditional $250000 judgment. Employers claim seven day walkout caused $1.5 million in damages with losses at $7300 per hour.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic
Gulf Ports
U.S
John P. Fullam
International Organization of Masters
John Pelino
Fullam
Pelino
Maritime Service Committee
Funeral Services Held Today For Victim Of Wreck
Funeral services for Audrey Bolding Lee 51 of Oak Grove were held at 3 p m in the First National Funeral Home chapel with Rev Rose Carthers and Rev Robert Miller officiating Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery She died at 8 30 p m Sunday in St Francis Cabrini Hospital Alexandria after injuries from a motor vehicle wreck near Alexandria Survivors include husband Arnold G Lee two sons and three daughters two brothers two sisters and 10 grandchildren Pallbearers were Edmond Smith Winter Gunter Grady Myers Snooks Bedenbender Bobby Brumley and Scott Gunter
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Oak Grove
Audrey Bolding Lee
First National Funeral Home
Rose Carthers
Robert Miller
Lee
St. Francis Cabrini Hospital
Alexandria
Arnold G. Lee
Marshall Lee
Jennings
Kenneth Lee
U.S. Air Force
Biloxi
Miss
Barbara Hutson
Peggy Dawson
Willimena Huffty
Willie Bolding
Julius Bolding
Gertrude Lee
Cassie Vick
Edmond Smith
Winter Gunter
Grady Myers
Snooks Bedenbender
Bobby Brumley
Scott Gunter
United States Signs $12.7 Million Aid Deal With Korea
Seoul and Washington signed an agreement Saturday for an American loan of 12.7 million dollars to help expand Korea s electric power system. The accord marks a step in energy cooperation and supports Korea s utility infrastructure development.
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Seoul
UPS
South Korea
United States
Korea
Jonesville Child Killed by Automobile Near La 124
In Jonesville a three year old girl JARDINE White daughter of Vera B. White was struck on La. 124 south of town by a car driven by Virginia Rainwater Monroe. She died at Catahoula Hospital. no charges filed as police deemed the crash unavoidable. The child tried to dart across the road toward playing children.
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Jonesville
Jardine White
Here
Vera B. White
Virginia Rainwater
Monroe
Sheriff Aide Receives Free Receipt for Impounded Car
In Gretna Louisiana an auto theft clerk testified that Clement W. Lartigue III, deputy to the Jefferson Parish sheriff, was given a free cash receipt for a 1959 impounded car valued at 19 dollars. Lartigue paid nothing, claiming a judicial auction July 20, 1966, had netted the vehicle.
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Gretna
Jefferson Parish
Clement W. Lartigue III
Bob Barberito
Parish
Lartigue
Barberito
Sheriff's Department
Dist
Vincent Massa
Farm Programs Noted by Solon
Senator Williams charged the farm programs favor large corporate growers over small family farms. He cited 258 direct-cash subsidy recipients between 100 000 and 500 000, with J G Boswell Co in California top at 2 807 633 and Louisiana operations including South Coast Corp Mathews Fourche Parish at 281 823. He urged a 10 000 limit per farming operation on land diversion payments and highlighted penitentiaries receiving subsidies from Arkansas Texas and Louisiana officials.
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Washington
John J. Williams
Senate
Williams
California
Hawaii
J. G. Boswell Company
Louisiana
South Coast Corporation
Mathews
Lafourche Parish
Scopena Plantation
Bossier City
J. P. Brown
Lake Providence
Epps Plantation
Epps
Southdown, Inc
Thibodaux
J. H. Williams
Natchitoches
Sterling Sugars, Inc
Franklin
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Agriculture Department
Arkansas State Penitentiary
Texas Department of Corrections
Louisiana Penitentiary
Churchill & Thibaut, Inc
Donaldsonville
Ascension Parish
Rosedale Planting Company, Inc
Benton
Bossier Parish
Carrol Rice
Sicily Island
Catahoula Parish
A. Wilberts Sons LS Company
Plaquemine
Iberville Parish
L. H. Woodruff
Fant Assumes Committee Post In State Local Government
Shreveport Mayor Clyde Fant becomes chairman of the Governor's Committee on State and Local Government at a Monday organizational meeting. A. R. Johnson III of Lake Charles is vice chairman and New Orleans Senator Michael O'Keefe is secretary. The group will liaise between cities parishes and the state on legislative matters.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Shreveport
Clyde Fant
A. R. Johnson III
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Michael O’keefe
Is All Aspirin the Same
Advertising copy asserts St Joseph Aspirin undergoes over 100 quality tests to ensure purity. It emphasizes consumer care and urges readers to take St Joseph Aspirin for their health.
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