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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1932
Page
5
A jumble of local humor and events as Amid rain abstaining election chatter, dance ideas spark, and others joke about Prohibition repeal impacts. Mentions of Capt McBride, a blunt hatchet injury, and a chaotic roundup of town happenings from construction crews to high school rally plans and Manchuria talk.
Milk markets show varied uses with fresh milk and cream dominating, while Louisiana faces limited creamery capacity and tick issues hindering dairy expansion. Changing national diets push farmers toward better grading and packaging, plus stronger advertising. Farm gardens in Louisiana valued at nearly 4.9 million dollars annually, with garden produce feeding farms and potential cash from surplus. Timber and farm woodlands occupy much of Louisiana land, stressing timber as a best use on marginal or idle acres.
Rollis M. Lane, 47, a veteran parachutist who began jumping in 1903, plummeted from a 13th floor building in Los Angeles after trying to open his parachute moments before impact. Lane had completed about 1,500 jumps, mostly from low altitudes.
The Progressive Farmer Ruralist urges a Southern member for the Federal Farm Board to back a diversified agricultural system. It calls for cash markets for diversified products and the creation of local farm marketing associations or farmers’ exchanges beyond cotton and tobacco, plus federation of these units.
The state timber stand has grown on lands once in cultivation. When marginal lands are removed from crop production and put into timber growing, crop output declines yet land shifts to forest use, solving a key farm problem.
Sheriff A J Thigpen announced the second suspect in the December 16 Bank of Choudrant robbery was captured in Houston and brought to Ruston for inquiry. Jack Phelps was arrested Wednesday evening and is jailed for further investigation. Clarence Wall, tied to the same case, had been released on a $5,000 bond to appear before the grand jury next month.
The Shelby family thanks friends for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of Mrs. Bell F. Shelby and for the floral offerings. Also notes Abe Harris and wife welcomed a daughter, Cargill Harris, born February 18 at Ruston Lincoln Sanitarium, weight seven pounds.
Fragmentary OCR shows multiple dated strings and market figures for New York and New Orleans exchanges. It includes entries like Thursday February 18 1932 and February 23 1932 with various Open and closing numbers such as 7.64 and 7.93, plus month groups January March May July October December and scattered codes like TH1 T14 Ta. The text resembles a financial table snippet with inconsistent punctuation and several misreads.
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