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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1958
Page
11
Lincoln and San Diego items note Wallace Wiley a mechanic and a third Mr and hire. An aviation structural class in USN involves Sebon Wiiny of Quit.
An anonymous account notes a squadron that took part in SerteeR exercises off the Southern California coast in May. The report mentions nineteen ships including a carrier participating in the drill.
Specialist Third Class Edwin L. Sapp, 24, of Hodge La, participated in Exercise Strong Arm near Fort Polk La to test combat readiness. He returned to Fort Speed Tex with the 314th Ordnance Company after enlisting in June 1956 and basic training at Fort Dix. He is a 1951 Dover High School graduate and former mechanic with Fleden & Mundy in Dover.
G B Mahaffey of Ruston dies at his Pensacola home May 21 at 8 pm aged 87. Funeral at Beth Shplist Athinta with burial in Bethsa dia cemetery. Survived by eight children including Mrs J B Mahaffey Florien La and Mrs G Packer Pensacola, plus thirty eight grandchildren.
The Ruston Daily Leader commends Louisiana publishers for attending a state wide meeting on the Tech campus. It thanks LPI leaders and university staff across departments for hospitality in hosting conferences, exhibitions, and tours that highlighted Tech’s growth and journalism training.
Louisiana Congressman Olly E Passman introduced a House bill to amend the Agriculture Adjustment Act. It would authorize the transfer of this year's cotton acreage allotments when natural disaster delays planting or replanting, enabling transfers within the same or adjoining county parishes where the producer has interest. The proposal aims to avoid altered cotton acreage histories and relies on Secretary of Agriculture approval.
Fashionettes notes shorter skirts rising for day and evening wear with hems 1 to HM inches above floor and 16 inches or more for May day time. Veils trimmed with velvet bows and flowers gain appeal for hats or bare heads, ranging from light half-veils to head veils that cover face and hair. The California Highway Patrol arrested 343,919 people for speeding in 1957, an increase over prior year.
Members of the Bond family gathered May 17 at Head Cemetery six miles west of Ruston Louisiana to honor ancestors William Frederick Isond and Masa A Beall who settled Landsiana in 1856. Descendants from seven children appeared and officers of the Bond Family Organization were elected including Jo Ellen P Griffin president and Mary Ann Glover vice president.
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