Gremillion Seeks 30 Day Grace for Negro Registration
Louisiana Attorney General Jack Gremillion said East Carroll Parish cannot locate someone to process 44 Negro registration applications after Registrar Cecil Manning resigned June 14 following a federal ruling of discrimination. The Justice Department asked the Fifth Circuit to appoint a federal judge or referee to handle the registrations, while Gremillion urged a 30 day extension to replace Manning.
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New Orleans
UPI
Louisiana
Jack Gremillion
East Carroll Parish
East Carroll
Cecil Manning
Justice Department
U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Gremillion
Carpenter joins astronaut corps with naval wings
Lt Cmdr Scott Carpenter received the astronaut wings in a Pentagon ceremony becoming the fourth person to wear the U S naval wings. Navy Secretary Fred Korth pinned the insignia as Carpenter joined fellow astronauts Lt Cmdr Alan B Shepard Jr Grissom and Marine Lt Col John H Glenn Jr already wearing the wings.
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Washington
UPI
Scott Carpenter
Navy
Fred Korth
Carpenter
Pentagon
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Crossett sale to Georgia Pacific assured
Crossett Arkansas news notes that P F Watzek announced stock is being transmitted to escrow agents, ensuring Georgia Pacific Corp will buy Crossett Company shares at 55 dollars each if minority stockholders accept by July 2 1962. The Crossett Gates and Watzek families hold over 80 percent of shares. The company annually does about 50 million dollars in business in a town of 6000.
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Crossett, Ark
P. F. Watzek
Crossett Company
Watzek
Georgia Pacific Corp
Portland
Ore
Georgia Pacific
First National City Bank of New York
Crossett
Crossett Family
Crossett - Watzek - Gates
Watzek’s
Gates
Crossetts
Georgia Pacific Paper Corp
A S Campbell 91 Dies in North Carolina
A S Campbell aged 91 of West Monroe died Monday at 1 p.m. in Wadesboro North Carolina where he resided for ten years. Survived by one stepson EF B Albritton of 414 Arrant Road West Monroe. Funeral arrangements are complete and his body will be shipped back to Monroe for burial.
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A. S. Campbell
West Monroe
Wadesboro
North Carolina
Ef.b. Albritton
Arrant Road
Campbell
Monroe
Franklin family ill after homemade ice cream poisoning
Ish family recuperating after food poisoning symptoms believed to come from ice cream made with raw and canned milk. Mrs. Grover Stevens 33 Winnsboro and five children plus grandmother, 55, were treated after falling ill early Sunday. Husband Grover Stevens worked in Haynesville and was not affected.
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Grover Stevens
Haynesville
Chicago
UPI
Winnsboro
Sen
Sev
Route 4
Terrell
Ted
Dianna
Frances Kay
Rosemary
Janie LaCosta
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Robert Boling
Clare W. Kyler
Howell
Reform School
Bossier
Caddo
DeSoto
Webster Parishes
U. S. Dist
Ben Dawkins
Shreveport
Dawkins
Lillian Russell
the Palace
Monroe, Louisiana
Thrift Shop
A.S. Campbell
Carolina
Olla
Health-Tex
All Boys
Franklin
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