Rockwell resigns as Louisiana Tech athletic director to pursue higher degree
Tod Rockwell, athletic director and associate professor at Louisiana Tech, submitted his resignation to President G W Bond effective July 15, 1990. He plans to return to school for a master's degree while considering part time coaching offers. He has been a long time educator and speaker in North Louisiana, addressing thousands of high school students and civic groups.
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Tod Rockwell
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Louisiana Tech
Bond
G. W. Bond
Rockwell
University of North Dakota
Salem College
Salem
W. Va
University of Michigan
Michigan
Red” Grange
Monroe
Presbyterian Men End Year With Banquet
The Presbyterian church men closed their year with a banquet in the Sunday school room served by the Ladies Auxiliary. Judge Drew Rev. O Kelly and local guests attended. Speakers urged active duty and purpose in church work as plans for the new year were outlined.
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Judge Drew
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E. J. Lumpkin
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Garrison
Minden
America
O'Kelly
Frank Monroe
E. S. Jenkins
Henry Schroeder
John P. Graham
Deep River
Monroe
S. E. McFadden
McFadden
Minden Presbyterian Church
D. James
James
Port of New Orleans Tops Southern Lumber Exports in 1929
New Orleans led all Southern ports in lumber and timber exports in 1929, according to a Department of Commerce compilation. The port also was the only major Southern port to increase its export volume that year.
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New Orleans
Mobile
United Kingdom
Department of Commerce
Ransom Paid by Kidnap Victim Ties $100,000 to Katz Case
Kansas City report says $100,000 ransom for Michael H. Katz, a Kansas City druggist, remains unclaimed by authorities who traced $10,800 of the ransom. Investigators seek five involved suspects, with funds passing through Merchants Bank and a car sale linking to a driver identified as Morris Schulz.
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Kansas City
Mar
Michael H. Katz
Merchants’ Bank
Jake Nigro
Nigro
Morris Schulz
St. Charles
Edward P. Boyle
Katz
Senator Ransdell Seeks Re Election In Louisiana
Senator Joseph E. Ransdell said he will run again for the Senate seat. He spoke on sugar tariff hopes and flood control work, noting U S engineers survey Mississippi tributaries for reservoirs and that 150 engineers are on the Arkansas river project. The item also notes speculation about planets beyond Earth.
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New Orleans
Joseph E. Ransdell
Ransdell
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House
Theletator
United States
Mississippi
Arkansas River
Gangland in Chicago backs vast defense fund
Chicago daily reports a massive defense fund plan by gangland to counter the anti crime drive led by the Secret Six. Col. Robertsham Randolph, Chamber of Commerce president and Secret Six member, urged raising two to three times the Six’s target. The fund is to be used in the trial of five alleged kidnap extortionists holding Theodore Kopelman for ransom.
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Herald and Examiner
Robertsham Randolph
Chamber of Commerce
Secret Six
Theodore Kopelman
Italian Discovers Four New Planets
Rome March 26 Professor Rafael Bendandi Italian seismologist and astronomer claims four new planets beyond Neptune including a giant 600 times Earths volume. He describes a 360 year orbit planet 7.0 billion km from the sun and a second 6.21 billion mile distant world with over 500 Earth volumes. Bendandi says the two other planets require further study and that the Lowell planet may be the second.
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Thomas B. Morgan
Rome
Mar
Rafael Bendandi
Neptune
Bendandi
Flagstaff
Arizona
Lowell
Texan Scale Marks The End Fish Story
Uvalde Texas March 29 A ranchman T T Reynolds has invented a device that attaches to a fishing rod to show the weight of a fish at a glance. The patent pending scale fits into a rod handle and uses a pivotal hook with a transparent strip to reveal weight instantly.
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Uvalde
Texas
Isaac Walton
T. T. Reynolds
Paris Court Upholds Ban on Women in Men's Clothes
Paris tribunal rules the French feminine sporting federation may bar members who habitually wear male attire. It upholds expulsion of Violette Morris, former champion and racer, from the federation and dismisses her suit for re establishment and 100000 francs in damages. The case rests on a century old law against women masquerading as men.
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Paris
French Feminine Sporting Federation
Violette Morris
Mile
Morris
Doran links bootleg “sheep dip” to paralysis outbreak
Washington March 29 Prohibition Commissioner Doran stated bootleggers sold a ginger flavored poison dubbed sheep dip made from creosote or crude carbolic acid. He said hundreds of tested samples showed the concoction caused paralysis across the South and Southwest. The remarks described widespread use and detection of the toxic mix.
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Washington
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Doran
Bootleg scheme tied to Jamaica ginger like elixir
A bootleg operation run by Tf. M. Donald of Downsville distributed Jamaica ginger like spirits. The commissioner identified three main distribution hubs, with St. Louis and Cincinnati among the key centers, while a Louisiana Teck pitching staff and named figures like Fred Edens and Bennie Swayze connect to the case.
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Louisiana Teck
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Downsville
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Jamaica
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Cincinnati
Ransdell's Niece Weds Author's Son In East
New York March 20 reports a marriage in London between Alison Gibson Powell and Desimine Duer Miller. Mrs Miller, a Maplewood, New Jersey native, is a descendant of Isaac Shelby and niece of US serviceman Joseph E. Ransdell. Miller is the son of Warfheury Wise Miller. his mother is novelist Alice Duer Miller. They will live in London.
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Alison Gibson Powell
Desimine Duer Miller
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den Palio
Mr. Miller
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Wast Fitts Second Street
Alice Duer Miner
Sheriff slain as jury grants estate policy award
Lewisville Arkansas March 20. A county court jury verdict upholds an award of ten thousand dollars to the estate of Sheriff J W Miller. The jury found death by suicide, while asserting possible motive tied to lawless elements in the city.
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J. W. Miller
Alistee
Muller
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George Graftan
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