Oil production growth slows as U.S. capacity tops 11 million
An industry report shows crude output growth sank to 1.1 percent above 1967 levels with 1968 demand at 128 million barrels daily. Domestic capacity reached 11,218,000 barrels per day led by East Texas revisions, while overall output forecast at 8.913 million bpd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Association
Committee On Supply and Demand
H. S. Erskine
Tulsa
Okla
Erskine
East Texas
American Petroleum Institute
Institute
The
Independent
West Monroe Airport Committee Forms Study Groups
In a Monday meeting, West Monroe Airport Committee chairman Howard Griffith formed four groups to locate suitable land for a general aviation airport in west Ouachita Parish and study finances. Teams will survey northern western and southern parish sites and report findings by May 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
Howard Griffith
West Ouachita Parish
Ouachita River
Griffith
Fred Kull
C. G Pearce
Jeff Caldwell Jr
Joe Antley
David Mahoney
Northside
Pat Norris
Phil Doherty
J. R. Wallace
Rob Holtzclaw
Jim Boyington
Caldwell
Antley
Pearce
Gene Smith
Long Range Recreation Goals Discussed by West Monroe Group
West Monroe chamber recreation committee chaired by Alderman Truett Thorn plans long range goals for city recreation. Members expect a bond issue to finance facilities and a temporary building at Wood and Cotton Streets to be ready by June 1 before permanent quarters are built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
Thorn
Wood and
Cotton Streets
Monroe
Richardson High Presents This Ghost Business Tonight
The Richardson High senior class stages the mystery comedy This Ghost Business at 7. Included in the cast are Thomas Smith Lawrence King Sue Jack Russell Ronald Taylor Ronald Littleberry Artisetta Phillips Joycelyn Richards Patricia Campbell Susie Hendricks and Brenda Slack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richardson High School Tonight
Thomas Smith
Lawrence King
Sue Jack Russell
Ronald Taylor
Ronald Littleberry
Artisetta Phillips
Joycelyn Richards
Patricia Campbell
Susie Hendricks
Brenda Slack
Message to Garcia echoes in crossgenerational encounter
In Richmond a man named Carlos Garcia Velez is treated in an ER and reveals his great grandfather received the famed 1898 message to Garcia from Lt. Andrew Rowan in Cuba. A nurse connects the moment to Regina Rowan Hola and the hospital tale uncovers a family link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Andrew S. Rowan
Garcia
Calixto Garcia
Rowan
United States
Spain
St. Mary's Hospital
Carlos Garcia-Velez
Regina Rowan Hola
Campbell Installed Grand Chaplain of Louisiana Masons
Fred W. Campbell of Wheeling was installed as Grand Chaplain of the Grand Chapter of Louisiana by J. B. Sharp at a West Monroe No. 93 Royal Arch Masons meeting. The open gathering featured a covered dish supper and Sharp as principal speaker.
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Grand Chapter
State of
Louisiana
West Monroe
No. 93
Royal Arch Masons
Fred William Campbell
Wheeling
J. B. Sharp
Sharp
Harriman Says U S Must Support South Vietnam
W Averell Harriman told a New York dinner the United States cannot abandon South Vietnam and must help the South decide its own future. Talks in Paris may start at the Majestic Hotel as demonstrations swirl in Paris and around Sorbonne and Nanterre.
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New York
W. Averell Harriman
Paris
United States
Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
South Vietnam
Majestic
Hitler
Gestapo
Unesco
U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization
U.S
Harriman
White House
Woodruff Wallner
Mai van Bo
Hanoi
Sorbonne
Nanterre University
Latin Quarter
Real Estate Transfers in Ouachits Parish Clerk of Court
Real estate transfers recorded list multiple property deeds with buyers and sellers, lot numbers and subdivision names, prices, and mortgage assumptions including James Magouirk to wreedie 6 Haves et ux Sherwood Forest, Warren Eberts to Blanchard Crooks et ux, Mingledorff to William Johnson Jr, Forsythe Park, Renwick's Addition, Lakeshore Subdivision, and other parcels with prices from 4.00 to 79 500 dollars and mortgage details.
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Ouachits Parish
James Ray Magouirk
Wreedie
Haves Et Vx
Sherwood Forest
Morteage
Warren J. Eberts
Blanchard
Crooks Et Ux
Solomon Jjomnton Jr
Ef Ux
Thomas Wo Humenries
Humpharies
Thomas Daniel Mingledorff
Wiliam Wesley Johnson Jr
Forsythe Park
Kenzie Johnson
Willie L. Totver
Renwick
Jona C. Hessell
W. E. Black
Black
Forest Park
Willis Ried
Morsten
Morris
Township
Ranee SE
Ernest Williams
Albert Willams de
Walter Weir
Willie Henson
Ijoneon Whitaker Ellie Sr
Eastern Forest
Johnny T. Johnson
Denver W. Vic
Carty
Morris Blumenthal
Joel Smason
Range
Students March On State Capitol In New Jersey
Two thousand New Jersey college students marched from a park to the State Capitol to press for more public higher education funding. Gov. Hughes and Chancellor Dungan spoke as demonstrators booed and interrupted, carrying coffins to symbolize funding shortfalls and urging a $492 million bond issue for construction with a referendum.
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Trenton
N.J
New Jersey State College
Richard J. Hughes
Higher Education
Ralph A. Dungan
Dungan
State House
New Jersey
Russell Pulin
Trenton State College
War Memorial Building
Hughes
Absentee Voting Opens for Sales Tax Election
Absentee voting for the upcoming May 25 school sales tax election is open through May 18. Carter Corzine, chief deputy clerk, said ballots can be cast 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. A total of 177 ballots were cast in the municipal elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter Corzine
Court House
South Grand Street
Cozine
Ice bound Iceland fjords threaten fishing industry losses
In Iceland Arctic weather coated northern and northeastern fjords with ice. Officials warned that if the icepack clings to the coast, it could trigger a financial disaster for the nation’s fishing sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reykjavik
Iceland
UPI
Planning Group Holds Preliminary Hearings Here
Monroe Quachita Regional Planning Commission heard four zoning map amendment applications Mon night and certified a public hearing for May 20. Applicants include Mrs Phillip David to create a new R-1M district on McGuire Ave, Fred P Henry to extend R-2 in Southside Commercial Subdivision, Robert L Moore to extend R-1 on Roselawn, and Mrs Ella Mae Williams to extend an R-2 lot near Blanks Ave and Lowery St. Special exceptions for Dover, Turner, and Reeves were approved with parking conditions. Nat Troy’s apartment project on Loop Road received final approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe-Quachita
Southside
Robert L. Moore
Roselawn
Ella Mae Williams
Blanks Avenue
Lowery Street
Bernice F Dover
Quiggles Dr
W. M. Turner
Owl St
A. R. Reeves
Media St
Nat Troy
Loop Road
Pravda Charges Friend Spied For CIA Agent
Pravda, the Soviet party newspaper, charged Alexander Makinsky a naturalized American spied for the CIA while in Moscow posing as a consultant for a soft drink company. It claimed he visited the USSR three times in two years and was active in espionage with links to influential Americans. The U.S. Embassy had no information on him.
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Moscow
Pravda
Eisenhower
CIA
Soviet Union
Alexander Makinsky
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
Prava
Communist Party
Makinsky
United States
Fisenhower
Iran
Poland
Britain
GOP Bill Seeks Draft Reform With Random Selection
Five Republican lawmakers propose a draft reform bill challenging Selective Service Director Hershey. The measure would draft 19-year-olds first, create a lottery style selection, set national uniform deferment standards, emphasize enlistments, and allow 30 day gaps between notice and induction. It faces low odds with House opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Armed Services
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Neville Alumni Banquet Honors Old and New Officers
Neville High School Alumni Association holds its annual banquet at the Monroe Civic Center starting at 7 15 p m. Honor classes include 1918 for 50th anniversary and 1943 for 25th year plus this year’s Neville graduates with Frank Breese as master of ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neville High School Alumni Association
Monroe Civic Center
Neville
Frank Breese
Old City High School
Monroe City School Board
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Maurice Patrick Ross
Dmz
Jacqueline Delaney
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Ross
Michael Wayne Ross
Hue
Middletown
Conn
Riloxi, Miss
Petroleum Industry Research Committee
Selman Field
Richardson High
George M. Snellings
Democratic Committee
George Snellings
Fred W. Campbell
Vital Monroe
U.S. Viet
Red Cross
the Majestic
Seine
Kleber
Rue Laperouse
Arc de Triomphe
French Foreign Ministry
State Capitol
Raymond Rodriguez
Marine
Joe Lasuzzo
Mgs
OLD Southera Finance Co
Louisville Ave
Robert T. Stafford
Richard S. Schweiker
Charlies W. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Armed Services Committee
Frank Horton
N.Y
Garner E. Shriver
Kan
Hershey
Webb Nix
City of
Robert S. Kennedy
State Farm Life Insurance Company
Bloomington, Ilinois
Sterlington Bank
Sterlington, Louisiana
Buick
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