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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1959
Page
4
Postmaster Pearce of Ruston Louisiana notes 24 054 103 letters and 672 856 packages failed in fiscal 1068 due to incomplete addresses illegible handwriting or inadequate wrapping. He urges full clear addresses legible printing return addresses on cards and parcels and avoiding coins or hard objects to prevent damage at dead letter.
New York solicits 865210 to feed over twenty million overseas, funding the 1960 Share Our Surplus program with U.S. surplus foods distributed through Church World Service. Dr. Norris Wilson announces donations via Thanksgiving services and community drives, detailing transport and distribution by volunteers to aid widows orphans and hospitals in distress.
Forest Ranger Frank L. Gibson promotes winter seedlings from four Louisiana Forestry Commission nurseries. Vigorous beds of young trees await shipment to locals for planting. Residents urged to place orders immediately. price is $4.25 per thousand trees, order blanks available from county agents and soil conservation offices.
Betty Tucker from Ruston attended the Audio-Record Library Convention in Dallas on November 6-7 with top religious music stars. She and sister Mrs. Jackie Nelson have sung duets and solos for years, accompanied by Rev. CW Nash of El Dorado, Arkansas. Tucker works in the classified department of The Leader Publishing Co.
E Mayerle reports his son Joseph W Mayerle now well after seven months since diagnosis. Doctors gave him little chance, but he has gained weight, quit for a time, and leads a normal life with his wife Betty and two daughters Wanda and Denise, while plans to visit Ruston.
Areas scheduled to receive 1959 60 CWS surplus shipments include Austria Belgian Congo Chile Egypt France Germany Ghana Greece Haiti Hong Kong India Indonesia Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Korea Lebanon Liberia Malaya Nigeria Oman Pakistan Poland Taiwan and Yugoslavia.
The wall lists 23 Tech seniors from Louisiana Tech as nominees for the 1959-60 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Fourteen men and nine women are named, with selections based on nominations by Tech organizations and votes by a student-administrator committee.
Louisiana growers can plant garlic in October or November on high ridges for drainage. Varieties Creole Tahiti and Italian adapt to local soils. garlic needs rich, well drained soil and 600 to 800 pounds of fertilizer. Plow legumes beforehand and consult Agricultural Extension Publication No. 1218 for full guidance.
The Long Leaf Fine Chapter of DAR offers a medal for the best junior high essay on the Old Wire Road, a historic stage coach route that carried immigrants toward Texas. The piece traces the road from Lake Providence across the Mississippi to Monroe and Shreveport, notes its origins under Filhiol and Miro, describes harsh travel conditions, and follows road improvements leading to modern highways and interstates.
Friends of Ross Perritt celebrate his return home after a back injury, with Arcadia hospital stay from Saturday to Friday. Visitors include Mrs. Wilson King and Lena Thompson in Ruston hospital, and others sharing supper and church sentiments. Interwoven are community notes on illness, visitors, and religious reflections among Alabama residents.
Local notices report visits and arrivals in Corinth including Mrs Louie Brenwell visiting Martha Uamiton’s family in Chitksville Arkansas this week. Names mentioned include Glyde Caver Haye Stephenson Blond Hoo Melvin and Stephenson families plus hospital and home updates and a dike loss incident near J N Deane home.
A Ruston business man advertises a desire to lease from 0 to 160 acres of fenced land within ten miles of Ruston. He asks interested parties to write Box B in care of The Leader.
In Oak Grove, Otto Hy Passman told Oak Grove Woman's Department Club that federal spending, higher than revenue, risks wrecking the economy. He cited budget cuts totaling 5 billion while debt rose from 266 to 290 billion since 1953, despite receipts near 446 billion through 1958. He spoke also at Winnsboro and questioned President Eisenhower's fiscal record amid a Q&A session. World cigarette production in 1958 reached 1.97 trillion units per the USDA.
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