High School Students Chosen for Louisiana Tech Science Summer Institute
Forty high school students selected for a nine week science institute at Louisiana Tech, funded by an NSF grant, aim to deepen science understanding and guide career choices. The mix includes Lois Acord and Judy Bishop among the girls and Larry Dan Barnes among the boys from towns across Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Judy Bishop
Plain Dealing
Phillis Ann Blakney
Reform
Ala
Mary Elaine Frost
Ben- 4On
Ark
Babs Green
Marion
Dorothy Margaret Heath
Scottsporo
Shirley Henry
Bernice
Lawana Hutton
Batesburg
S.C
Sharon Lynn Jennings
Marthaville
Gisela Kruegar
New Castle
Emily Sue McKnight
Darnell
Michele Ann Pons
New Orleans
Alice Marie Price
Clinton, Miss
Kathie Robbins
Angie
Linda Louise Shultz
Monticello
Ruth Louise Stearns
Baker
Carol Ann Thomason
Courtland
Terry Lou Walters
Jackson whites rally behind Mayor amid protests
The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson Mississippi says whites are solidly united behind Mayor Allen Thompson and city leaders to resist mass demonstrations and Negro segregation demands. The paper blames the Kennedy administration for instigating violence linked to a NAACP sit in.
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Jackson
Miss
Clarion-Ledger
Allen Thompson
Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi
NAACP
Attorney General's Office
House May Vote On Retirement Boost For Legislators
Spon sors of a Senate passed bill to raise legislators retirement benefits may push a House floor vote today. The House Retirement Committee reversed itself and then approved the bill 5-3 after reconsideration. The measure would lift average retirement pay to 3300 to 5500 dollars annually based on length of service.
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Senate
Lawyers Prepare Appeal After Mix Delay Ruling
In Birmingham Alabama attorneys for Negroes seeking school desegregation prepared to appeal a federal judge’s ruling. Judge Seybourn Lynne refused to issue an injunction and ruled the plaintiffs had not exhausted the Alabama pupil placement law. Rev Fred L Shuttlesworth urged immediate appeal to the 5th Circuit.
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Birmingham
Ala
U.S
Alabama
Tion
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
Lynne
America
Memorial Day Observances By Local Veterans Groups
Early morning Memorial Day ceremonies are planned in the Twin Cities with Hudson-Leehy Post No 3993 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Burnett-Downs American Legion post leading at Hasley Cemetery in West Monroe. Sgt Oliver M Lenard of the West Monroe Police Department will give the address, with Legion Commander Roland Carter and VFW Commander pro tem N Olsen as masters of ceremonies. A flag will be received from Ouachita Parish Veterans Service Officer H B McClendon, while Mrs Malda Hedgepeth and auxiliary members present a buddy poppy wreath and Mrs Ruby Cash the American Legion wreath.
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Twin Cities
Hudson-Leehy Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Burnett-Downs American Legions Post
Hasley Cemtery
West Monroe
Oliver M. Lenard
American Legion
Roland Carter
N. Olsen
Ouachita Parish
Veterans Service
H. B. McClendon
Malda Hedgepeth
V. F. W. Ladies’ Auxiliary
Ruby Cash
Sterlingtonian's Brother Dies in Calgary
George A. Dick Blake 36 of Sterlington died Sunday in Calgary while visiting a sister. Funeral rites planned in Amite under McNealy Funeral Home. Burial in Amite Cemetery. Survived by father John A. Blake Lake Charles, brother James A. Blake Lake Charles, sister Mrs Lester Varnado Zachary, and sister Mrs Jesse Crawl Calgary.
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Sterlington
Amite
McNealy Funeral Home
George A
Dick) Blake
Jack Blake
Calgary
Alberta
Ada
John A. Blake
Lake Charles
James A. Blake
Lester Varnado
Zachary
Jesse Crawl
Cana
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Nixon
Science Institute
Institute
Larry Dan Barnes
Sparkman
Eunice Eugene Byrd
Westlake
Edward Carter
Brookhaven
Wallace Cason
Lake Village
Tony W. Clemons
Cotton Valley
Robert Driggers
Dubach
Clarence J. Farrell
Brinkley
Michael E. Foster
Downsville
Thomas L. Hillman
L. Irvin
Walter Gill Kelly
Shreveport
Frank Thomas Mercer
Glenmore
Kermit
House
Orrell Billingsley Jr
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Birmingham Negro Integra
Jamaica
Miss Palace
Sterlingtonian
Arnel Seersucker
Cabin Boy
Arnel
Maternity Thrift Shop
By Bill Parry
Terry Link
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