How We Will Pay For Our Hospital
The Lincoln Parish area faces hospital cost sharing with half the expense borne by national interests and about a quarter by local taxpayers. Corporations pay 57 percent of tax load, while state property tax exemptions shift costs to all state residents. The Leader urges voters to approve the plan endorsed by the police jury and state experts to secure better medical facilities through a planned larger hospital unit.
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Lincoln Parish
State Hospital Board
4-H Electric Project Clinic Teaches Lamp and Grill Assembly
Dubach youth host a 4-H Electric Project clinic with Micky Waller and Jo Ann Stewart demonstrating lamp assembly and an electric grill. Attendees included Nancy Gray Barbara McGee Mary Fowler and John Bean among others. a planning meeting for spring shows was set for Feb 23 in the Ag Extension Office.
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Micky Waller
Dubach
Mary’ Fowler
Jo-Annn Stewart
Drew John Fowler
Joe Rostron
Sandra Pendy
Linda Pendry
Robert Moore
Mac Allen
Judy Faye Coplen
Ferne Brewer
Donald Colvin
Karen Liner
Patricia. Ezell
J. W. Brewer
Allen Watts
Carpenter
Eunice Fowler
Berdenia Smelly
John P. Bean
Alexandria
22 Southwest Gas employees receive 10 year service pins
Twenty two employees of the Southwest Gas Producing Company and Feazel Interest of the Dubach District were awarded year service pins at the Dubach plant on February 11. RB Cox presided and noted a total of 220 years of service among the honorees. The Dubach plant, managed by A. Johnson, has operated ten years with 67 workers, producing butane, propane, iso-butane and octane gas for inter continental pipelines.
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Southwest Gas Producing Company
Feazel
Dubach
RB. Cox
Monroe
W. A. Bell
J. A. Bonnette
T. C Broughton
J. EB. Molt
Southwest
Johnson
Duhach
Intercontinental
Frazier Rites Held At Choudrant Sat
Funeral services were held for Bob L. Frazier 80 of Ruston Route 3 at Choudrant Baptist Church. Rev. A S Newman Rev. David Corley and Rev. Odis Duras officiated. Burial followed at Cooktown Cemetery under Darbys Funeral Home Ruston. Survivors include four daughters five sons twenty seven grandchildren and one creator and child.
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Bob L. Frazier
Ruston
Frazier
Choudrant Baptist Church
A. S. Newman
David Corley
Odis Duras
Cooktown
Darby
Rites Held Saturday For Jim Feazell 73
Jim Feazell died at his Vernon home Thursday afternoon at age 73. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel in Ruston with burial in Oak Ridge cemetery under Kilpatrick's direction. Survived by four brothers Max Feazell St. Petersburg Fla J O Feazell Valdosta Ga Ghie Feazell Albany Ga and B M Feazell Jonesville La two sisters Mrs Allie Upchurch Cotton Valley and Mrs Evelyn Haughton Dickinson Texas and many nieces and nephews.
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Jim Feazell
Vernon
Me. Feazell
P.m
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
Ruston
Oak Ridge
Kilpatrick's
Mr. Feazell
Max Feazell
St. Petersburg
Fla
J. O. Feazell
Valdosta
Ghie Feauzell
Albany, Ga
B. M. Feazell
Jonesville
Allie Upchurch
Cotton Valley
Evelyn Haughton
Dickinson
Texas
Final Rites Held For Mrs Grissom
Funeral services were held at 3 pm Friday for Mrs Mittie Grissom 67 of North Hodge who died Wednesday night in a Shreveport hospital. Burial was in Walnut Creek church cemetery near Simsboro under Conger’s direction. Survived by two daughters Mrs Cleave Monk and Mrs Mildred Hodges a son RB D May six sisters three brothers and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Mittie Grissom
North Hodge
Shreveport
Grissem
Walnut Creek Church
Simsboro
Jimmy Miller
Buerial
Church
Conger
May
Bya
Mandia Cooper
Charles and
Mars
Ola Maizie
Golden Gray
Hodge
Lee Gray
Charlie Cray
Gibslards
For Sale Notice With Miscellaneous Items
Partial advertisement lists power jet pump and pipe parts for sale and a house and lot in Shushora proposed for quick sale. Contact Brooks Hol dis in Alabama with Highway 80 incorporation details and a 5 H phone reference.
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Tlonse
Shushora
Pricad
Lagutet
Highway 80
Brooks Holdis
Erroneous Teen Appreciation Note From Local Community
A clipped, incomplete message thanks neighbors for expressions of sympathy and support. The note mentions Mirada and Wik Mitedes Doone Bor and references care from Mrs LE Hart, with garbled phrases suggesting a preliminary missive about a recent event or loss.
Outstanding Freshmen At Tech To Be Put In Special Honor Class
Freshmen excelling in English composition at Louisiana Tech are selected for spring term honor classes. Sixty A or B students join three classes taught by Dr. Dwight A. Lee, Dr. Harry M. Brown, and Robert C. Snyder. The list includes students from Bastrop to Winnfield with homes in Ruston Shreveport Minden and other towns.
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Tech
Louisiana Tech
Dwight A. Lee
Harry M. Brown
Robert C. Snyder
Local Woman Named To Head Residential Red Cross Drive
Mrs. John M. Hinton Jr. was named chairman of the Residential Section for the March American Red Cross fund drive with Mrs. Leo Le. Gerow as Vice Chairman. Don C. McCormack announced the appointments for Lincoln parish. They will supervise Ruston residential sections and begin selecting captains and a neighborhood committee to contact every resident for dues.
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John M. Hinton, Jr
Leo LE. Gerow
Don C. McCormack
Red Cross Fund
Lincoln Parish
Hinton
Carew
Red Cross
Ruston
McCormack
Myr. McCormack
Tinton
Clinton
New Revenue Division Names New Jubilee Chairmen
The 75th Anniversary celebration appoints Travis Melton as Revenue Division chair, with John Kavyanaugh heading Historical Program, Walter Carver leading the Novelties Committee, and J. W. Reeves directing Concessions. Sam Gregg of Rogers Co. briefs division heads on plans for the May event.
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Travis Melton
John B. Rogers
Melton
John Kavyanaugh
Walter Carver
J. W. Reeves
Wer
Sam Gregg
Rogers Co
Work Begins Tuesday On Widening Of Railroad Overpass
Construction on the Everett Street overpass of the Illinois Central rail line started Tuesday. The city will pay 3300 dollars with the railroad covering the rest. The 100 block of Everett Street was blocked as crews tore out the old bridge and set a wider structure to replace it.
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Everett Street
Ilinois Central Railroad
Ruston Board of Aldermen
Ruston
Long
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