Huey Long to Lead Louisiana Highway Board
Gov Huey P Long named president of a 19 member highway advisory board organized to direct Louisiana 68 million dollar road program. Board to approve all contracts and verify figures, defusing rumors about state funds in Caldwell bank. Long asserts state funds are kept in Louisiana banks with no major bank failures.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
New Highway Advisory Board
Roosevelt Hotel
Highway Advisory Board
John Legier
State Board of Liquidation
Governor Long
Louisiana Pelice Jury Association
Louisiana
Caldwell Bank
Chatham Firm Burglarized Tuesday Night
Burglars robbed the general merchandise store of W. J. Carpenter in Chatham, southeast of Ruston, Jackson Parish, taking shoes and other apparel. Entrance gained by prying the back door. Value unspecified. Sheriff Neal Thomas of Jonesboro investigated on Wednesday seeking leads.
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General Mercantile
W. J. Carpenter
Chatham
Ruston
Jackson Parish
Carpenter
Jackson Town
Neal Thomas
Jonesboro
Texas crops making gain says report
Dallas report notes livestock and agriculture show material improvement over the past 30 days aided by ample moisture and favorable weather. Small grains grow rapidly providing pasturage while cotton yields dimmed by rains and slower picking. livestock conditions improve with deposits rising in reserve cities.
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Dallas
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Marriage Costs and Spenders, A Humorous Collier's Note
A brief humorous memo notes that marriage is a fifty fifty proposition with a quip about wives spending fifty dollars on dresses and husbands spending fifty dollars on socks. The line attributed to Collier's Weekly lampoons shared financial burdens in marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier's
iCar Sold To Provide Tobacco For Prison Inmate Brings $2.00
Waterloo reporter notes John Grady was sentenced to 66 days for driving while intoxicated and requested the sale of his car to obtain tobacco. A spectator offered $2, a court attache collected the money, and Grady received his smokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
John Grady
Jeds
Unemployed Aid Program Begins in Shreveport
Shreveport hosts two registration offices for unemployed whites and Negroes as the Community Welfare committee starts operations to place job seekers in the city and environs. Local civic groups cooperate while a vigilance committee led by Sheriff Tom Hughes coordinates enforcement and keeps nonresidents from settling in the city.
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Shreveport
Community Welfare Committee
R. T. Moore
Washington
Val H. Murrell
Harry L. Wiser
Moore
Col
Dan W. Spurlock
Standard Oil Company
Wiser
Salvation Army
Tom Hughes
22 Road Projects Gain Approval From Advisory Board
New Orleans November 28 The state highway advisory board in its Thanksgiving day meeting approved all 22 highway projects recently awarded by the state highway commission at Baton Rouge and gave the commission authority to issue the first 15 million dollars in bonds for Gov Longs 75 million paved roads and bridge program. The 15 million bonds will be advertised immediately with the sale date likely set for December 29.
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New Orleans
New State Highway Advisory Board
State Highway Commission
Baton Rouge
Gov. Long
Recipe for Happiness in a Happy Marriage
A light advice note highlights communication as essential to a happy marriage. The piece adds a humorous caveat that neither partner should be Usten-Ooliier's Weekly, implying a playful take on shared duties and external distractions.
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Ooliier
Ruston Merchants Plan Christmas Light Display
The Ruston Retail Merchants Association held a morning meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to organize Christmas night decorations aimed at boosting home trade. A petition urged every Ruston business to display lighting from December 6 through Christmas, with a committee assigned to contact merchants and implement the plan. Mayor Gayne and City Light Plant head Brooks attended, confirming the city will string 41,000 colored lights free of charge while merchants supply lights and pay for their own electricity.
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Ruston Retail Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
C. C. Alley
Ruston
Frank Price
J. B. Kendall
J. C. Ritchie
Charles C. Gayne
Robert Brooks
Nuclear fund of Good Cheer club begun in Ruston
A $40.64 nuclear fund was raised as a free will offering at a Thanksgiving service at Trinity Methodist Church. Mayor Charles C Goyne, chairman of the Good Cheer campaign, urged local and Lincoln Parish residents to contribute to help brighten Christmas for the poor this year. He noted expected greater needs due to the financial downturn and encouraged mailing or delivering contributions to the Mayor's office.
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Union
Trinity Methodist Church
Good Cheer Club
Charles C Goyne
Good Cheer Campaign
Goyne
Ruston
Sanjay
Lincoln Parish
Ruston Golf Club to grant title for new course near town
The Ruston Golf Club expects to secure the title to a new golf course site about 1.5 miles south of town on the Jonesboro highway this week. Major J. P. Cole and Reggie McFarland will conduct survey work next week as grading on fairways begins early. The club plans expert reviews after topography is mapped and will level the site, establish parking, and lay out fairways while construction continues in stages. The current course remains leased and will be used until November next year, when the new course should be ready for play.
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Ruston Golf Club
Jonesboro
J. D. Holland
J. P. Cole
Reggie McFarland
Red River road labor standstill in Courthouse camp
In Red River Parish about 30 to 40 Negro laborers remain camped in the old parish courthouse as contractor Sam Boyd seeks to resolve Saturday night labor troubles. Dynamite was fired near the road camp but no one was injured or equipment damaged. Sheriff Floyd Jones notes no action yet and unresolved tensions over local versus imported workers.
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Coushatta
Red River Parish
Sam Boyd
Baton Rouge
Fairview- Alpha-Hall Summit
Floyd Jones
Thanksgiving Day Peaceful Over Lincoln Parish
A peaceful Thanksgiving Day reported in Rus ton and Lincoln parish with no misdemeanors or highway accidents. Sheriff A J Thigpen and Mayor Charles C Gayne noted a law abiding community. Union services at Trinity Methodist featured Reverend S E McFadden delivering The Perfect Man.
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Ruston
Lincoln Parish
A. J. Thigpen
Charles C. Gayne
Trinity Methodist Church
S. E. McFadden
First Presbyterian Church
S. L. White
Methodist Church
Fire forces evacuation at Jackson State Insane Hospital
A fire on the top floor of the negro ward at the Mississippi State Insane Hospital in Jackson forced 350 black patients to be removed. Fire crews fought the blaze with all equipment, aiming to prevent spread to other buildings housing over a thousand patients, mostly white, with no reported injuries or escapes.
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Jackson
Miss
State Insane Hospital
Giant Prehistoric Lizard Found In Alaskan Glacier
Reports from Valdez, Alaska, say a 62 foot long creature with a 16 foot tail, fur preserved in ice on Glacier Island near Cordova, has been discovered. The head is described as six feet long, body twenty feet, suggesting preservation since prehistoric times.
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Cordova
Alaska
Valdez
Glacier Island
Columbia Glacier
Ruston Woman Receives Word of Commendation for Quick Fire Response
Miss Willie Mae Cleaton a Rayville primary teacher likely saved 125 children when a frame school burned at 10 AM She calmly dismissed pupils and alerted staff as flames engulfed the building leading to no injuries The fire caused about 2000 dollars in damage and origin remains unknown The unnamed Ruston girl is praised for cool courage and continues teaching at Rayville school
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Rayville
Willie Mae Clenton
Miss Cleaton
Rayville High School
J. A. Cleaton
Cleaton
Ruston
WA. Cleaton
Locat
Louisiana Tech
Jackson Building Destroyed as Fire Trap in Mississippi
Fire swept a three story ward of a Mississippi state insane hospital in Jackson, killing Guenest who was found burned near the bathroom where the blaze began. Attendants saved 330 inmates, while two or three staffers escaped with minor injuries as investigators probed the deadly blaze.
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Jackson
Miss
Guenest
Negra
State Insane Hospital
Trainy
Nately
Gace Ives
Pasture Improvement Projects Spotlighted by Parish Officials
The article notes a group including A Wasson and J Evanau recommending pasture improvement projects rated by a committee. The program, supported by the chamber of commerce, aims to select nineteen recipients for awards at a future ceremony. Government and university officials praise the effort as a model of farm progress as the tour advances through the South.
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A. Wasson
Jevanau
Oynhoor
Vrane
Cotton Bureau Man Two Day Visit Reported
A Cotton Bureau official led a two day tour including Homer Homer Parish and Ruston with I. C. Alexandero assisting. The aim was to classify cotton locally and introduce the bureau activities to area farmers and merchants. A committee led by Shiver established city guard coverage during the event and Alexander served as assistant secretary for the association.
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Cotton Bureau
Genus Farm Bureaus and Cotton Ceroners Association
Homer
Prervas
Priday
Ruston
Mat Alxander
Teddy
Low cotton prices fail to worry local farmer leader
A local farmer, Hall of Yew, discusses a year of crop planning amid low cotton prices. He notes reduced costs for seeds and farm labor, while maintaining hopes for beans, peas, potatoes, and berries. The article reflects rural commerce and the push to diversify crops.
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Chatham Firm
Pries
Texas
Nuclear Fund OF Good Cheer Club
Red River Road
Lincoln
Jackson Insane Asylum
Alaskan
Los Angeles
Lodiy
Tacoma
Orient Delivery
Puget Sound
Jackson Building
Nacogdoches
York
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