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Major 1960 events in Lincoln Parish Ruston area year in review
The Ruston Daily Leader chronicles 1960 in Lincoln parish with D Arbonne Lake work bids opening January 11 and ongoing dam progress. The year records 15 highway deaths including several tragic crashes and a mock atomic drill at Tech Campus. Weather brought a heavy Louisiana snow and ice, power outages, a Moore's Quarter tornado, and late peach crops. Civic groups push library and hospital projects, a 40th Ruston Chamber birthday, Interstate T20 opening, and new schools budgets while addressing rabies exposure and industry development. A Christmas home fire spurred community aid for a displaced family.
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Iorg
D'Arbonne Lake
Farmerville
Lincoln Parish
Wilson Holder
Temple Baptist Church
Rel Gray
Ruston
Wallace Herbert
Wesley Chapel Road
Joe Williams
Rene Morgan Hancnck
Mineral Springs
J. L. Hood
Corinth
Evelyn Jane Whitehead
Shreveport
Mattie Lee Perry
Grambling
Sam Pruitt
Arcadia
Rose M. Hodge
Aroline Ruth Calhoun
John B. Cal‘Houns
Rustort
Tallulah
Bil Richardson
Alabama Carr
John
Rusten
Louisiana
Alexandria
Moore's
Tech
Civil Defense
Tech Memorial Gym
Lincola Parish
Cheudrant
Cheadrant
Calhourt
Billie Sue Riordan
Billie Sue
New Orleans
Lincoln General Hospital
J. M. Brown Construction Company
Lillian Pearce
West Florida
North Vyckma
Choudrant
John A. Thomas
Thomas
Thomas-Kimbell Clinic
North Cenral Industrial Council
Loraine Howard
James Howell