Queen Dixie Gem Pageant Ushers Festival Crown
Tonight at 7 p.m. in Howard Auditorium Louisiana Tech, nineteen area entrants compete for Queen Dixie Gem XVI as part of the Louisiana Peach Festival. Highlights today include a 3 p.m. downtown parade, noon awards luncheon, Sidewalk Art Exhibit, and peach contests with winners announced across multiple divisions.
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Howard Auditorium
Louisiana Tech
Tech
Railroad Park
Drew Hayes
Dennis Owens
Hico
Mickey Sumrall
A.B. Larance
Keystone
Dennis Owen
McKee
Sallie Dell Mize
Dorothy Mary States
New Iberia
Marcie Fowler
Natchitoches
Martha Ellen Palmer
West Louisiana
Leesville
Barbara Green
Dixie
Shreveport
Michelle Ritchey
Breaux Bridge
Beverly Kay Harris
Jonesville
Rhonda Gayle Ford
Farmerville
Rose Ann Scar
Upshaw
Rose Ann Scarbrough
Bossier Parish
Bossier City
Debra Forbis
Lisa Ann Blackwelder
Princess Peach
Vicki Wynn
Shari Ann Willis
Denisa Kay Foley
Kathryn Louise James
Tammy Williamson
Katherine Kilpatrick
Betsy Ann Hill
Wendy D . Wingert
Donna Carol Bar‘ron
Janice Lyon Steed
Terrill Bowen
Kayla Lynn Taylor
Lisa ‘Lynn Strickland
Melanie Carson |Harris
Nickie Theodos
Jeanine ‘Renee Walker
Pamela Sue Nor‘man
Michelle Jones
Susan Halstead
Julia Evans
Candee Christine Green
Betsy McLane
Shawnie E. McPherson
Appeals Judges Hear Ruby Pleas
Lawyers for Jack Ruby ask the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to spare him the electric chair. The decision may take more than three months as the court enters summer recess and considers whether a new trial or death sentence stands.
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Austin
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Oswald
Ruby
Zagone Family Holds Reunion in Monroe
Seventy eight Zagone family members gathered for their annual reunion at the Col umbus Social Club on Armand Street in Monroe. Attendees included John Zagone Mary Zagone John Adragna Carey Messina family Charles Zagone Mica Lisotta Pat Hayes Rose Costanza Vita Costanza Tommy Tarver Williams Zagone Joe Zagone Farace Frances Zagone Fontana George Fontana Victor Zagone J C Zagone Anthony Lasuzzo Tony Jacola Alma Roberts James Roberts Joe Jacola Vincent Zagone James Balsamo Sister Joseph Marie Camilla Marsala Carl Fontana and many relatives.
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Zagone
Columbus
Armand St
Monroe
John Zagone
Mary Zagone
John Adragna
Carey Messina
Charles Zagone
Mica Lisotta
Pat Hayes
Rose Costanza
Vita Rose Costanza
Tommy Tarver
Tony Jacola
Alma Roberts
James Roberts
Joe M. Jacola
Vincent Zagone
James Balsamo
Joseph Marie
Shreveport
Camilla Marsala
Carl Fontana
Risers Gather At Ruston Reunion In Lincoln Parish
The fifth annual Riser reunion met at the Lincoln Parish Fair Grounds in Ruston with about 60 members attending from Ruston and other cities in Louisiana and Arkansas. Officers for 1966-67 were elected: A Hartwell Riser, Ruston, president. Manning Riser, first vice president. Volney Riser, Little Rock, second vice president. Ruth Riser Mitchell, Ruston, secretary treasurer. Helen Riser Ortis, West Monroe, historian. Advisors: James Riser Shreveport Andrew Riser Ruston Walter Riser Castor.
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Ruston
Riser
Lincoln Parish
Arkansas
A Hartwell Riser
Manning Riser
Gig
Volney Riser
Little Rock
Ark
Ruth Riser Mitchell
Helen Riser Ortis
West Monroe
James Riser
Shreveport
Andrew Riser
Walter Riser
Castor
Economics professor to attend Southern Miss workshop
Dr Eugene H Fox head of Economics and Finance at Northeast Louisiana State College will join a Southern US business school deans and department heads workshop at the University of Southern Mississippi on Monday and Tuesday.
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Eugene H. Fox
Northeast Louisiana State College
University of Southern Mississippi
South Central
United States
Two Stewardesses Slain In Basement Attack
Seattle AP report says Lonnie Trumbull was killed while roommates Lisa Wick and McKee were left critically injured after a basement apartment assault. Police found a bloodstained wooden weapon fragment and questioned Joyce Bowe who found the two injured roommates. All three victims were 20 and from Portland Oregon, graduates of a United Air Lines training school six weeks earlier.
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Seattle
Wash
Lonnie Trumbull
Lisa Wick
Joyce Bowe
Portland
Ore
United Air Lines
Herb Arnold
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Mack Carraway Jr
Sumrall Orchards
Hiland
A. B. Larance
Redcap
Redhaven
J. E. Mitchem
Cornet
Southland
Triogem
Sunhaven
J. E Mitchem
Calhoun Experiment Station
Ruth Upchurch
Dubach
Buck Brown
Bob L. Smith
Diane Britt
J. T. Richardson
Upchurch
Elizabeth Barnard
D. H. Smelley
Dick Taylor
Gwenette Spears
Robert Carter
Sterling Harrell
Mary Lee Chandler
Ben F. Freasier
John Mc
Debbie Barr
Sue Needham
Brenda Heffner
Judy Alexander
Barbara Freasier
Jean Boyette
Starburst Garden Club
Pride of the Hills
la Monte ‘Wright
Ruston Garden Club
Dianne McKee
Sallie Della Mize
Dixie Red
Ella Rae Hollis
Nannie Rasberry
Red Globe
Martel Mathews
Dixie Gem
Jewel Davis
Coronet
Davis
Louisiana Green
Still
Maggie Kelly
Barbara Land
Charles Wilson
A. B. Hauck
la Monte Wright
Dianne
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Biloxi
Miss
Roy Gray
Corinth
Curtis Lowery
Brownsville
Tenn
John Lassiter
Hartford
Ala
Melvin Belli
San Francisco
Belli
Joe Tonnhill
Jasper
Joe Brown
Earl Warren
U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
Batiste
the Palace
Monroe, Louisiana
Thrift Shop
J. 1
Brand General Agent
the Lee National Life Insurance CO
Nat'l Bank
Geoffrey Beene
Jablow
Harvey Berin
Junior
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