Turtle Season Returns to Catahoula Parish Turtles Harvested
In Jonesville Louisiana turtle season brings mass egg gathering by the King family on river banks near Ouachita four miles from Canada. They collect about 5 000 eggs daily from a pond holding 40 000 to 50 000 turtles and ship hatchery raised turtles nationwide. Louisiana historically yields large turtle meat harvests with over 200 000 pounds previously collected.
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Star News Service
Jonesville
Catahoula Parish
Ouachita River
Canada
King
Louisiana
Funeral Service Slated Friday For Truss Thomas
Truss Thomas aged 80 of 500 Montgomery St West Monroe died today at St Francis Hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services Friday at 10 am in Hixson Brothers Chapel with Rev J J Morris officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery under Hixson Brothers direction. The body will not be in state until 10 am Thursday. Survived by widow Elizabeth Thomas three sons Louis Tulsa J T Thomas AB Thomas Monroe one stepson Arnold Jeffery Conroe Tex three daughters Virgie Hines Pine Bluff Louise Scott Clinton Mich and L C Lewis Eunice one stepdaughter Marie Calhoun Conroe Tex four sisters Julia Brady Monroe Eth Birch Sterlington Georian Birch Monticello Ark Bertha Martin Hamburg Ark several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Truss Thomas
Montemery St
West Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Hixson Brothers Chapel
J. J. Morris
Memorial Park Cemetery
Hixson Brothers Funeral Home
Elizabeth Thomas
Louis Thomas
Tulsa
Okla
J. T. Thomas
A. B. Thomas
Monroe
Arnold Jeffery
Conroe
Tex
Virgie Hines
Pine Bluff
Ark
Louise Scott
Clinton
Mich
L. C. Lewis
Eunice
Marie Calhoun
Julia Brady
Eth. « Birch
Sterlington
Georian Birch
Monticello
Bertha Martin
Hamburg
Former Alexandria Mayor Bowdon Sentenced to State Prison
Former Alexandria Mayor W. George Bowdon Jr. was moved to Angola State Penitentiary to serve a five year term after pleading guilty to stealing 6,641 dollars from the city. The theft involved Bowdon using city crews and materials for private buildings amid indictments of nine other city officials.
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Alexandria
W. George Bowdon Jr
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angola
Bowdon
Bowden
Dist
A. M. D'Angelo
Rapides Parish
Joe Sanchez
Walter Hayden
Lanitation
Hayden
Ed Karst
Traffic Signals Installed For Civic Center Expressway
Monroe police crews install about 20 traffic lights along expressway approach routes in preparation for Civic Center Expressway opening. Right of way will favor motorists on the expressway and its approaches. Signals at Fifth Street Sixth Street Louisville Avenue and Catalpa Street were adjusted with reversals additions or removals. City Council approved the right of way changes at a Tuesday special session.
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Monroe
Fifth
Sixth
Louisville Avenue
Catalpa Street
Government Plans To Resume Partin Trial Case
The government plans to resume presenting its case against Ed ward Grady Partin, a 46-year-old Local 5 Baton Rouge business agent, on four counts of criminal conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The trial paused after Friday as prosecutor Wilford J. Whitely Jr. attended his father’s funeral in North Carolina.
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Butte, Mort
Teamsters Union
Edward Grady Partin
Louisiana
Partin
Local 5
Baton Rouge
Wilford J. Whitely Jr
North Carolina
Unclear numeric sequence listed as prices
A string of dollar values presented without context or accompanying narrative. No identifiable events or entities are described beyond the numbers.
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King Family
J. R. King
Turtle Farm
News-Star News Service
Sears
Homestead
Old Salem
Hutch
Sears “Holiday
Sears and
SAVE
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Louisville Ave
Monroe, la
Percales
Iuslins
Percale
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