Lincoln Parish School Board Advances Hiring and Bids
Lincoln parish school board approved opening dates for Negro and white schools set September 5 and 7. Bids opened for Simsboro canning center sale awarded to Effie Hill for 253 dollars. equipment bid went to Dennis Owens. New teachers named. several transfers and retirements noted. special session planned to review school building needs.
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Lincoln Parish
Soln Bauders
Behnols
Dubsch High
Lincoln Sheet Metal and Roofing Company
Tedder
Charlotte Ann Watkins
Miriam Savage
National Science
R. B. Taylor
Hico
Simsboro
Ruth Chapman
Oscar Barnes
Ruston
Roberson
Effle 13
Hill
Dennnis Owens
Jow
Johnson Typewriter
Ann Boyd
Waller Savage
Clarisse Reidheimer
Hillcrest
Simsboro School
D. Thomas
Lincoln High
Charlotte Simmons
Saint's Est School
Buna King
Lincoln High School
Presbyterian Synod Men’s Conference at Silliman College
Henry G. Riser reports residents attended the Presbyterian Synod Men’s Conference at Silliman College Clinton with speakers including Dr. Martin Dendy Rev Al Dimmock J Ernest Somerville and former Governor Robert F Kennon The meeting closed with a noon Sunday dinner and voted to hold the 1961 conference closer to home in Clinton plus details on local visits and forthcoming community events.
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Browo
Synod
Kiaresbyterians
Alex Boyd
Red’ R Presbyterian
Wig
Presbyterian Synod
Staif
Lou Eriana
Silliman College
Clinton
Marhel C. Dendy
Richmond
Al.Dimmock
Alanta
Presbyterian “Synod
H.E. Townsend
Ruston
Jaker
Alverne Riser
George Wafer
Paris
Texerie
Seba
Jack Riser
Neis
Jackson Parish
Monroe
Busin
E. L. Kelly
Vacation Bible School and local notices in Vienna
Vacation Bible School opened Monday at First Baptist with 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. sessions and a Friday program. W. M. Swift leads, aided by teachers Colvin, Colvin, Barmore, Jones, Holtzclaw, Nelson, and Orwell. Also notes on Rev. James Fowler’s sermons, residents moving, and local family updates including John Lolley’s heart attack recovery and reunions at the Frazier gathering.
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First Baptist
W. M. Swift
Stone Colvin
Jimmy Colvin
Elvie Barmore
Homer Jones
Mark Holtzclaw
Myra Nelson
Mildred Orwell
Advertising Manager Named At Leader Co
Colonel Arthur 7 Detrie of the Louisiana Tech Faculty has accepted a position as advertising manager of the Ruston Daily Leader announced by publisher Clarence Ei Pauli. He was a tech engineering professor for three years and previously managed KNOR in Monroe for three years. He also worked for Douglas Aircraft as a process engineer and served as a retired lieutenant colonel under General Stillwell with the Chinese Army. He holds several patents used on aircraft and missiles.
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Arthur 7. Detrie
Louisiana Tech
Ruston Daily Leader
Clarence Ei. Pauli
Engineering Department
Tech
Col. Deble
KNOR
Monroe
Douglas Aircraft Company
Leutenant
General Stillwell
Mrs. Marlie Farley Dies at 72 in Ruston
Mrs. Marlie Farley, 72, died Saturday in a Ruston hospital. Funeral services were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Dubach Baptist Church with burial in Hamilton Memorial Cemetery. Spears-Simblell Funeral Home of Ruston directed. Survivors include her husband, one brother T. A. Green of Ruston, and several nieces and nephews.
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Mattie Farley
Ruston
Dubach Baptist Church
Hamilton Memorial Cemetery
Spears-S<imbell Funeral Home
T. A. Green
Funeral Services For Fordham Held Near Chatham
Funeral services for Ephvian Fordham 67 were held Saturday at Mt Pleasant Baptist Church near Chatham Burial was in Zoah Cemetery under Edmonds Funeral Home of Jonesboro Survivors include widow a daughter Mrs T D Ewing Monroe VA two sons Maurice Fordham Monroe and O C Fordham Shreveport two sisters Mrs J B Hearn Ruston and Mrs Fred Lawrence West Monroe three brothers J D M L and W E Fordham West Monroe and five grandchildren
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Chatham
Ephvian Fordham
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Zoah
Edmond
Jonesboro
W. E. Fordham
West Monroe
Farley Family News and Japan Sailor Report
Reggie Richardson and family move to New Orleans after selling their home. Laurie Richardson bought it. Mrs. Jewett Farley and baby Tony Robbin visit Ber Nice with Cecil Farley’s parents. Tony Robbin born May 31, photographed with grandmother. Cecil Farley recounts his Merchant Marines voyage to Japan, noting 15 foot tidal waves and an earthquake, and how open sea kept ships safe.
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Reggie Richardson
New Orleans
Laurie
Jewett Farley
Tony Robbin
Ruston
Cecil Farley
Farm Placement Group To Open Ruston Office For Peach Harvest
The Louisiana Division of Employment Security Farm Placement Section will operate in Ruston at 212 W Alabama St five days a week. Tra Hill of the Monroe office and W M Brown of the state office will recruit harvesters and provide services at no charge to growers or workers. Local agent F Q Levasseur will cooperate. last season the Ruston office placed over 1,000 workers. Harvest slated to begin around June 0 with completion by August 1, weather permitting.
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Ruston
Louisiana Division of Employment Security
Alabama St
Tra 'T. Hill
Monroe
W. M. Brown
State Office
Austen
Baird
F. QO. Levasseur
Lincoln Parish
Thll and
Brown
Senate Approves Commission For North Central Industry
The Senate passed B. R. Patton's bill to create an Industrial Commission to manage the old POW camp west of Ruston. A 5 member panel from Lincoln Union Claiborne Bienville and Jackson Parishes would lease the property for industrial use, with a governor appointed body and no opposition in the Senate. The site includes sewer, roads, water, and power, and previously housed German POWs and a tuberculosis hospital.
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Senate
North Central
House
B. R. Patton
Ruston
Patton
Lincoln
Union
Claiborne
Bienville
Jackson Parishes
Buddy Napper
Posal
45 Parish Youths Attend 4-H Camp at Camp Bistineau
Forty five youngsters from Lincoln Parish left Monday noon to attend the Junior 4-H Camp at Camp Bistineau. They were led by home demonstration agent Mrs Ona Blondin and local leaders along with several counselors and junior leaders. Attendees include Don Mogan, Track Kavanaugh, George Simonton, Scott Dowling and many others, with sessions running through Friday afternoon.
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Lincoln Parish
Camp Bistineau
Ona Blondin
Buck Green
Bill Harper
R. G. Holloway
Mary Sue Smith
Ocal
Giron Callahan
Jeni Sue Lee
Don Mogan
Track Kavanaugh
George Simonton
Scott Dowling
William Colvin
Mickey Marvison
Barry Canteberry
Tommy Canteberry
Clyde Farrar, Jr
Keith Wilson
Porgy Gibson
Vickie Gibson
Linda Dick
Brenda Dick
Claudia Dugdale
Judy Howard
Peggy Howard
Marilyn John
Patrisian Rives
Ann Hogan
Charlotte Hightower
Barbara Davis
Sandra Jones
Fern Brewer
Sherry Cruikshank
Janey Levasseur
Judy Levasseur
Mary Goodwin
Linda Brewer
Judy Veasey
Noreen Bennett
Mary Francis Roberts
Carolyn Terrill
Marilyn Mabry
Kareen Linor
Janis
Lou Moody
Jo Ann Turner
Pat Baldwin
Rebecca Giles
Anele Smith
Juday Trollis
Donna Cater
Students Begin Nine-Week Corney Lake Forestry Tour
Twenty advanced forestry students from Louisiana Tech begin a nine week tour of duty in a camp at Corney Lake to supplement classroom study. In Ruston the summer term opened Tuesday. Teachers guiding the camp near Bernice include John Knprte nig, Osio L. Fitzgerald, and Ernest J. Russell, associate professors.
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Louisiana Tech
Corney Lake
Ruston
Bernice
John Knprtenig
Odio L. Fitzgerald
Ernest J. Russell
Life Line Radio Show Debuts on KRUS
Life Line, an All American morning program, is added to KRUS Monday through Saturday at 3 15. It offers rapid analysis tied to faith in action and American ideals. Hunter Co of Dallas brings Life Line to KRUS listeners as a public service.
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Life Line
KRUS
United States
Huntei! Co
Dallas
Texas
Cook Baptist Sets 62000 Education Unit Construction
The Cook Baptist Church of Ruston authorizes immediate construction of a 62000 educational unit for 175 Sunday School attendees and 114 banquet guests. It will include multiple nurseries and departmental rooms, is debt free with 8000 on hand, and may borrow up to 40000 while remaining funds are raised. This is first of three units planned over ten years, with the second in 1965 and a future 800-seat auditorium by 1970.
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The
Cook Baptist Church of
Marvin Jones
Second Horned Toad in Month Reported in Ruston
A Texas fugitive number two in as many months was found in Ruston when Mrs. Jerry Marlin of Alpine Street reported her son discovered a genuine Texas horned toad wandering in her yard. The 4 inch long creature is housed in a cage at the Marlin home after being flushed from a Woodlawn subdivision yard by Mrs. Ruby Turner in mid May.
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Texas
Ruston
Jerry Marlin
Alpine Street
Woodlawn
Ruby Turner
Avon Street
Marlin
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Judith Clinton Yarbury
Ann Mitchell
Henry G. Riser
Hue
Elie
Xegete
America
Ye Square Salon
New York
N.Y
Vienna
James Fowler
W. Monroe
First Baptist Church
G. David
Little Rock
Ark
A. D. Lyon Sr
John Lolley
Cleve Hornsby
J. C. Lolley
R. T. Lolley
Idaho
Ben White
Frazier
J. R. Frazier
Culbertson
K. E. Ball
Calrice Reidhimer
PTA
W. H. Kimbell
Dianne Cecil
Germany
U. S. Army
Jimmy Ball
Army
Joe Loria
Neal Wingate
States
South America
Neal
Bryan
Leader Co
Arthur J. Detrie
Marlie Farley
Dubach
Fordham
W. S. Brewry
Margaret Farley
Avn
U.S. Pr
Alabama
Forestry
L. P. Blackwell
Forestry Department
Barry R. Barth
Bogalusa
J. H. Buller, Jr
Columbia
Joe P. Chapman
Grayson
Aaron R. Chestnut, Jr
Mansfield
Paul #1
Covington
Robert G. Garland
Shangaloos
Thomas R. Harris
Goldonna
Claude M. Hughes
Harold A. Lowery
Junction City
Rives B
Lowrey
George D. Rowell
Arcadia
Waller D. Smith
John M.taylor
Jonesville
Billy Mack Troquille
Springhill
Prichard Underwood
Mangham
Thomas H. Watts
Shreveport
Jimmy D. White
Alexandria
Arlie H. Wilkerson
John M. Woodard
Gibsland
William P. Young, Jr
Bistineau
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Mr. Investor
D&j, Inc
P.O. Box
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Cook Baptist
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