Queen Dixie Gem XIX Named At Ruston
Tanya Lee Graham of Minden was crowned Queen Dixie Gem XIX at the 19th Louisiana Peach Festival in Ruston. Genelle Marie Calais of Cecilia was first runner-up and won swimsuit and congeniality awards. 17 girls competed for the title, with 27 for Princess Peach.
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Tanya Lee Graham
Minden
Louisiana Tech
Howard Auditorium
Rebecca Gale Beard
Ruston
Lorie Elizabeth Henry
Thomas Aswell
Miss Graham
Genelle Marie Calais
Cecilia
Bobbie Lynn Lopes
Susan Canterbury
Simsboro
Barbara Lindsey
Bernice
Mr. and
Kenneth Henry
Ruston Optimist Club
Senate group hears Laird and Helms on Soviet missiles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens a closed session with Defense Secretary Laird and CIA Director Helms to assess Soviet offensive missile capability. Fulbright questions Laird's missile claims while Mundt views the ABM debate as a desperate tactic by critics.
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Senate Group
Laird
CIA
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Richard Helms
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
Mundt
Defense
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate
House
Lodge Meeting Stated Tuesday at West Monroe Temple
West Monroe Lodge No. 419 F and AM holds its regular meeting at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday in the West Monroe Masonic Temple. The master mason's degree will be conferred and all degree team members should attend.
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West Monroe Lodge No. 419
F & AM
West Monroe Masonic Temple
Nixon tax program faces House vote this week
Nixon's 9.2 billion tax plan extends the income tax surcharge and cuts a business tax break while extending taxes on telephone service and cars. AFL-CIO opposes the measure until broader tax reform is added. Senate action hinges on surtax expiration and possible retroactive changes.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Afl-Cio
House
Labor Federation
Senate
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson
Tech Plans 75th Anniversary Celebration Committee
Louisiana Tech University president Dr. F Jay Taylor names a 20 member committee of alumni faculty students and friends to plan the 75th anniversary observance during 1970 marking the 1895 opening of the institution led by Dr Virgil Orr dean of the college with Dr R L Ropp as advisor.
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Ruston
F. Jay Taylor
Louisiana Tech
Ruston Institution
Virgil Orr
Tech
Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana
Taylor
R. L. Ropp
Robert M. Caruthers
William S. Carter
Alice M. Graham
Odie LeRoy Fitzgerald
Joe Hinton
Jefferson E. Kidd
Archer W. Honeycutt
Michael Warren
Whiteoak
Tex
Charleen Carr
Dianna Marrs
Shreveport
Johnny W. Jones
Ferriday
Robert W. Tomsie
Open The New Window Theme Of Miss Louisiana Pageant
The Miss Louisiana Pageant adopts Open a New Window as its theme with competition starting Wednesday at 8 15 PM in the Monroe Civic Center Rehearsals for visiting queens are today and contestants register Tuesday morning Principal participants include Kathleen Ennis Janet Hatfield Mary Frances Backstrom and Vicki Fisk Curtis Rape choreographer Chorus singers and the reigning Miss Louisiana Suzanne Saunders are named Ticket prices for the four night event range from 8 to 12 dollars with varying daily rates Tickets are available at Jack s Drugs and Civic Center Theater pricing mirrors the schedule
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Monroe Civic Center
Jack’s Drugs
Civic Center Theater
Kathleen Ennis
Arizona
Janet Hatfield
Kentucky
Mary Frances Backstrom
Centenary
Vicki Fisk
Greater New Orleans
Curtis Rape
Marilyn Lewis
Clairce Fluitt
Jewel Spooner
Edwina Welch
JoAnne Lay
Jim Norwood
C. B. Welch
Jack Rutledge
Bill Vaughn
Louisiana
Suzanne Saunders
New York Bank Chairman Defends Rate Hike
David Rockefeller chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank defends an 8 percent prime rate increase as necessary amid money market conditions. He told the House Banking and Currency Committee that the move was needed to prevent mass borrowing shifts from other banks and credit markets and to curb misunderstandings about higher rates.
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Washington
Chase Manhattan Bank
David Rockefeller
Rockefeler
The
New York Bank
House Banking and Currency Committee
Jetliner hijacked to Havana returns to Miami
An Eastern Airlines DC8 with 89 aboard diverted to Cuba after a hijack by a Spanish speaking man armed with a knife and a bottle marked explosives. The hijacker, his wife, and daughter remained in Havana as the jetliner resumed to Miami. The daughter acted as interpreter and said they were from Newark. The captain reported the hijack scene south of Norfolk, and the crew described tense but orderly conditions during the hours in Cuban airspace.
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Miami
Cuba
Newark-to-Miami
Eastern Airlines
Havana
Bernard L. Hutain
Norfolk
Hutain
Newark
Husain
Pope Warns Critics Endanger Church in Vatican Address
Pope Paul VI told cardinals the Catholic Church faces grave dangers from critics of doctrine and papal authority. He urged unity as he began the seventh year of his pontificate and called for peace in Vietnam, Nigeria and the Middle East while defending hierarchical ministry and doctrinal orthodoxy.
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Vatican City
UPC
Paul VI
Vietnam
Nigeria
Middle East
Spain
Holy See
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18Th St
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Levy D. Redden
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Perez
David Savage
Rose Mary Evans
Atlanta
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