Meet The Distinguished Service Award Honoring Ruston Youth
The Distinguished Service Award will be presented at 7 30 p m Thursday night in the Louisiana State Student Center banquet. Dc C Aycock Louisiana Lieutenant Governor will be guest speaker. Dinwiddie said tickets are available for 250 per plate. Last year’s winner was Jimmy Carter of Ruston. The banquet committee includes Dinwiddie A W Reed Jimmy Boyd Jack Carter Walter Savage and Charlie Barham.
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Ruston
Morris Dinwiddie
DSA
Louisiana Tees
Dc. C. Aycock
Louisiana
Dinwiddie
Jaycee
Jimmy Carter
A. W. Reed
Jimmy Boyd
Jack Carter
Walter Savage
Charlie Barham
Tech Fathers Day Planned for February 18 at Tech
Invitations go to over 2,400 fathers of Louisiana Tech men students for the second annual Fathers Day at the college on Saturday February 18. The program includes coffee a football film a smoker and campus tours with a Tech Georgia Southern basketball game at Memorial Gym to follow. Dr. R L Ropp and Joe Aillet will greet dads at 1 p m registration. Fathers get free admission to the 8 p m basketball game if they wear name tags. Meals may be taken at the dining hall at student price. sons may arrange dormitory lodging.
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Tech
Fathers and Sons
Bogard
Carson-Taylor
Sciertce
RHS Alumnus Leads Neville Band to Inauguration
RHS alumnus with ties to Ruston High School and Louisiana Tech directs Neville High School Band of Monroe slated to play in the inaugural parade. The 1918 graduate, well known in the state, earned a BA in music education in 1952 and has led a top Louisiana band. The band earned honors, including selection to perform at the Senior Bowl in Mobile last year.
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Withort Gathright
Neville
Monroe
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana
Motile
Alabama
Clarence Covington Funeral Services Slated Wednesday
Clarence Covington 58 of Chatham died yesterday at a Jonesboro hospital after a brief illness. Services set for 2 pm Wednesday at the Chatham Methodist Church with Rev J T Garrett and Rev W Tullos officiating. Interment in Chatham cemetery under Edmonds Funeral Chapel Jonesboro. Survived by sisters Myrtie Barnes of West Monroe Louisiana Ruby Chatham and Prennie Shell both of Chatham.
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Sboro
Clarence Covington
Chatham
Jonesboro
Chatham Methodia
Registration Schedule For Tech Released
Louisiana Tech students will register for the spring semester on Feb 1-2 in Memorial Gymnasium. Classes begin Feb 3 at 8 am. The registrar lists two-day registration plus exams and convocations for new and transfer students with alphabetical time blocks.
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Memorial Gymnasium
Tech
Mi- Fe
Ph-Ro
Minoon
Ro-Sa
Sp-V
A-Bo
Br-Co
Cr-Fl
Fox
Half of City Residents Sign Exemptions
Lincoln parish assessor Charles R. Hightower reports about 2,500 homestead exemption applications filed since January 3. He estimates roughly half of eligible Ruston residents have filed. deadline is April 25. State rules allow up to $2,000 exemption with a $3,000 veteran boost for five years. farms on 160 acres get $2,000.
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Charles R. Hightower
Lincoln Parish
Hightower
Ruston
Interstate 20 Dixie Inn bypass nearing completion
Two weeks of good weather are expected to finish the final link in the Minden McIntyre bypass on Interstate 20 from Dixie Inn to U S Highway 86. The remaining work is shoulder finishing. Ruston residents look forward to a four lane highway from seven miles west of Gibsland to Shreveport and reduced travel on the Dixie Inn two lane route and narrow bridge.
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Dixie Inn
U. S. Highway 86
Pen Highway Department
Ruston
Gibslana
Shreveport
RIECKE EXPELLED AT LSBA MEET IN ALEXANDRIA
Louisiana School Boards Association ends its 24th annual convention in Alexandria after expelling the New Orleans School Board. Louis G. Riecke of New Orleans calls the ouster politically inspired and urges action to seize schools and push desegregation plans. The group approves a change to easier teacher tenure rules to let no school board hire teachers of diverse backgrounds.
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UPI
Louisiana School Boards * Association
New Orleans
LSBA
Louis G. Riecke
Newe Orleans
Banda
Poloron Adds Plastic Lines at Ruston Plant
Poloron Products in Ruston Louisiana expands operation with two new plastic lines. The plant now makes one and two gallon thermos jugs and an ice bucket, plus TV trays to fill seasonal gaps. Equipment was designed by Poloron in Scranton Pa as part of a plan to stabilize employment year round.
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Louisiana
Ruston
Poloron Products
Arthur J. Colodny
Colodny
Poloren
Poloron Company
Scranton
Ruston Fire Losses Top 34 052 In Past Year
Fire losses in Ruston totaled 34 052 during the past year, per Fire Chief J T Mabry. The report notes 41 out of city calls, with a peak month in December. Fires broke down into 43 hot fires, 45 unknown fires, 34 electrical fires, 83 minor trash fires, and 14 false alarms.
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Ruston
J.T. Mabry
Hoe
Singh
Doenwniber
No Delay Now To Buy License Tags in Parish
Lincoln parish residents are urged to purchase automobile license plates at the state Revenue substation in the basement of the Lincoln parish courthouse. Charlie Gullett says there is no line now but as the February 6 deadline nears, getting plates will be harder. He expects Ruston sales to reach five or six thousand before the deadline.
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State Department of Revenue
Lincoln Parish
Charlie Gullett
Gullett
Area Residents Escape Injury In Auto Wreck
Mrs. Guillazaras Aventis daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Hanechey of Ruston escaped injury after a crash near 7 am when her car collided with one driven by Bhno C Matlack of Dubyeh Bienville parish sheriff reports the Matlock vehicle slowed to look at a colt and was struck from behind by the Laarus vehicle resulting in minor injuries to none of the occupants
Lincoln Parish School Bond Bids Sell Low At 3.64 Percent
Lincoln parish School Board sold a 1.5 million bond issue for four Ruston elementary schools at an average 3.64 percent to Barrow, Leary and Company and Seharff Jones. Equitable Securities bid on related district bonds at 3.79 percent. Savings over life of issue estimated around 225 thousand dollars, prompting plans to begin architectural work and land purchases with general funds.
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Ruston
Louisiana
Raquitable Securities Corporation
New Orleans
Ladd Dinkins & Company
Equitable Securities Corporation
Barrow, Leary and Company
Shreveport
Scharff and Jones, Inc
Ladd Dinkins and Company
Harry Judell
Foley Cox and Judell
Bonr
Morelle Emmons
Studell
Cypress Springs
Baanetti Springs Rand
Cooktown Road
Cooktown
Atomic exhibit touring Lincoln parish in January
Jaycee sponsored mobile exhibit from the United States Atomic Energy Commission will tour Lincoln parish in the next days. The “Atoms at Work” display promotes peaceful uses of atomic energy with lectures and demonstrations at Ruston downtown, early next week at multiple parish schools and public sites.
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United States Atomic Energy Commission
Lincoln Parish
Jerry Norris
Ruston
Norris
Brave civ
UPI to Cover Kennedy Inauguration With Large Team
United Press International mobilizes up to a large staff from Washington and bureaus nationwide to cover the Kennedy inauguration. Merriman Smith leads the main White House story with 20 years of UPI experience. Other reporters and photographers cover Mrs. Kennedy, Eisenhower meetings, the parade, and related events across locations including Gettysburg and Washington.
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United Press-Movielone
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White House
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Eisenhower
Willie Helen Thomas
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Maton
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Isenbewep
Gettysburg
Paving Set For Ball School Road Extension
The Old Kal Schoolhouse Road from Vienna to the Farmerville highway will be paved soon by the Loawissima Department of Highways as part of parish aid. Parish official Kiddie Evans says the state will fund the project with the new administration ahead on the fiscal year. Preliminary surveys are already under way for the 2.8 mile stretch, extending the blacktopped road known as While Lightning Road.
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Farmerville Highway
Loawissima Department of Highways
Kiddie Evans
Josip
Flower Arrangement Course Offered By Tech Institute
The Tforticulture Department at 646 Tadiniana Polytechnic Institute will offer a Spring semester course in Flower Arrangement in the Horticulture Laboratory. Classes meet Tuesday evenings 7 to 10 with one hour lecture weekly, two hours lab, credit two hours. Fee ten dollars for non registered or one course attendees. registration February 3 at Ragm Gateway Hall, John Weight to assist.
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Tadiniana Polytechnic Institute
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Tech
John Weight
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