Food and Drug Meeting Opens Training Camp
A three day training course by the U S Food and Drug Administration and state officials opened Thursday and runs through Saturday. Representatives from 28 parishes attended with Gen Francis A Woolfley of Civil Defense present. Demonstrations of radiation detection devices and methods for decontaminating food will be held, with participants handling dosimeters and geiger counters and attempting to locate concealed radium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Ioe
Francis A. Woolfley
State Civil Defense
Harold Leininger
Mr. Grant
Leininger
Allan Stiher
Trapp
Health Department
Eunice Forman
Death notices from Jena and West Monroe area
Thomas Albert S Boddie 68 of Jena dies at home after long illness. Funeral at Nolley Memorial Methodist Church Jena with burial at the cemetery. Survivors include wife Minne and eight grandchildren among others. Also Fannie Nichols Pagan 85 dies at home in Collinston area after six weeks illness. Funeral at Ebenezer Presbyterian near Strong Arkansas with burial in Ebenezer cemetery. Also Kelly W C 41 of St. Paul Minnesota dies. services held in St. Paul. survivor details. Ida Dowdy 88 of West Monroe dies. funeral at Mt. Vernon Church West Monroe with burial in church cemetery. survivors listed. Pallbearers named for Dowdy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Albert Boddie
Jena
Thomas Albert S Boddie
Nolley Memorial Methodist Church
W. O. Lynch
Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home
Minne Boddie
Artis Robertson
Margarie Kelley
New Orleans
Cleo Boddie
Shreveport
L. C. Boddie
Allen Boddie
Longview
Tex
L. N. Boddie
Bates, Ark
C. B. Boddie
Taylor
Bastrop
Fannie Nichols Pagan
J. S. Pagan
Collinston
Mississippi
Strong, Ark
Morehouse Parish
Janet VanAlstine
Porter Pagan
Roy Pagan
George Pagan
Paris
Ark
Charlie Thompson
Mel Rouge
Florence Holbrook
Ebenezer Presbyterian Church
Strong
Bob Sheperdson
Woodlawn Presbyterian Church
W. C. ‘Kelly
W. C. Kelly
St. Paul
Minnesota
Murphy Funeral Home
Gertrude Kelly
Monroe
J. P. Kelly
Iva D. Brooks
Baton Rouge
Quachita Parish
Monroe Wholesale
Ida Dowdy
Jonesboro Road
West Monroe
Mt. Vernon Church
Jack Hanna
E. L. Tanner
Church
Hall Funeral Home
Dora Rawls
L. D. Wilbanks
Peacock Announces Four Year Pharmacy Curriculum at Northeast Louisiana
Milton O. Peacock of the college pharmacy department announced Northeast Louisiana State College will offer a complete four year pharmacy program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. The course aims to begin in fall 1956 57 with upgraded laboratories and a high quality faculty to educate qualified students for the profession.
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Northeast Louisiana State College
Milton O. Peacock
The
College
Peacock
State Board of Education
Louisiana State College
Louisiana
Public Health Service reports polio cases rise slightly
The Public Health Service reported 180 new polio cases last week, four more than the prior week. The agency also released 4,170,591 doses of new vaccine, pushing June totals to a record 10,979,505 doses. California led with 37 cases, Texas had 33. state totals reflect ongoing seasonal increases.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
Health Service
Florida
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
American Samoa
California
Texas
Cascio elected grand knight of Knights of Columbus council
Joe David Cascio was elected grand knight of Knights of Columbus third degree Council No. 1337. He will take office July 1 for a one year term. Other officers include Milton W. Ford deputy grand knight Frank Anzalone Jr chancellor Robert Schott recorder Jerome J. Brauc financial secretary Roy Cox treasurer Leon Danna advocate L E Em banato warden A G Johnston inside guard Joseph F Reine Jr outside guard. L P Cloutier trustee three year Sam C Miller two year Nick Jungina one year.
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Joe David Cascio
The
Knights of Columbus
Cascio
Milton W. Ford
Frank Anzalone, Jr
Robert ©. Schott
Jerome J. Brauc
Roy Cox
Leon Danna
L. Embanato
A. G. Johnston
Joseph 4. Reine, Jr
L. P. Cloutier
Sam C. Miller
Nick Jungina
Youth for Christ Meetings Saturdays at 7 30 PM
Interdenominational Youth for Christ gatherings occur every Saturday at 7 30 PM at 219 Pine Street. Donald McGough leads the movement inviting youth and all ages in the Twin Cities to join, aim to curb youthful delinquencies and promote wholesome activity.
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Youth For Christ
Pine Street
Twin Cities
Donald McGough
Catahoula Negro Held In Assault On White Man
James Edwards Leach, a St Joseph resident, is jailed in Catahoula parish after an assault on Leonard Graves seven miles north of Sicily Island. Graves was struck with a lug wrench near the Two Mile Inn, after an argument, and found unconscious along the road. Graves was found by a passerby and state police notified. Deputies and the Tensas parish sheriff helped arrest Leach at St Joseph Sunday evening. Investigation ongoing before charges.
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Jonesville
James Edwards
Leach
St. Joseph
Catahoula Parish
Leonard Graves
Sicily Island
Catahoula
Graves
Two-Mile Inn
Man Hurt When Struck By Cycle
Adrian Ellis 42 of 2900 South Grand was hospitalized Thursday with an injured right ankle and head bruises after stepping from behind a parked car into the path of a motorcycle on Hall Street. Gene R. Hennigan 16, driving a Joseys Drug Store motorcycle, was northbound when Ellis stepped from between parked cars. No charges had been filed Thursday noon.
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Adrian Ellis
South Grand
Ankel
Hall Street
Gene R. Hennigan
Josey’s Drug Store
West Monroe
Ellis
Fficers
Planning Bill Advances regional planning commission creation
House Bill 1193 passed without opposition in the House of Representatives. Monroe Chamber of Commerce secretary-manager James Williams said the measure, introduced by Gilbert Faulk, was supported by the local Chamber, Mayor-elect W L Jack Howard, school officials and police jury members. The bill creates regional planning commissions and outlines their powers duties and responsibilities and allows grant acceptance from various government levels.
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House of Representatives
James Williams
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Gilbert Faulk
W. L
Jack) Howard
Northwestern State clinic to close with gala concert
Northwestern State college summer music clinic ends its eighteenth session with a gala concert at 7 30 p m on Friday June 22 in the Fine Arts auditorium. The program features the clinic band mixed chorus vocal ensembles piano octet organ solos baton twirling and drum majoring under director Sherrod Towns.
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Natchitoches
Northwestern State College
Fine Arts
Sherrod Towns
NSC
Peewee" Crumpler
el Dovado
Ark
James Burke
Les Gillespie
Lee Self
Swami Santha Darbar Draws Large Castle Hall Attendance
Swami Santha No 102 held a Darbar in Castle Hall with a large attendance. Visitors Adams Casey Joe Dietrich Dr H H Baur and Eugene Shows attended. Plans were made for Nomad day in New Orleans on Saturday August 11 when the Supreme Grand Lodge is to meet.
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Swami Santha No. 102
Castle Hall
Adams Casey
Joe Dietrich
H. H. Baur
Eugene
New Orleans
Supreme Grand Lodge
Pig Crop In Decline, Ag Report Shows
Washington reports the 1955 spring pig crop at 53,085,000 head, down 8 percent from spring 1954. Higher hog prices are expected this fall. prior spring crops influenced price drops. Breeding data note 7,650,000 sows farrowing, 6.94 pigs per litter, a spring record, with fall farrowings forecast around 5,163,000 sows and a potential 1956 fall crop near 35,000,000 head.
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Washington
Meeting outlines unity talk by Pythian Sisters and Swami group
Members of the Pythian Sisters and Swami Santha plan a mutualistic program titled Lesson of Loyalty and Ay eighth order ceremony details to be announced at the gathering.
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Swami Santha
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