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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1956
Page
8
Riis High prepares for the annual duel with Neville ELS as the Bearcats seek the district title. Students, band, and players rally around the motto Beat Neville, with Friday’s game shaping the standings and bragging rights.
Neville aims to repeat last year's state title performance against Ruston which seeks revenge for a 21 to 7 drubbing. The Bearcat Band intensively rehearses for Neville half time as Ruston High's Prayer Group grows toward 5 dozen participants. RLS Key Club plans to attend Trinity Methodist Church service with Ruston Kiwanis, marking the clubs' 13th anniversary.
Dr and Mrs M Giles Fort Jr former Tech students will present reports of medical missionaries at the Louisiana Tech Baptist Student Center. Baptist ministers to Southern Rhodesia since 1952 Dr and Mrs Cort have talks on missions starting Monday October with schedule details and topics including The Call of Missions and The Place of Med.
Mrs. J E Puckett announces the engagement and upcoming marriage of her daughter Miss Joanne Puckett to James Alvis Watson son of Mr and Mrs Homer Watson of Arcadia. The wedding is set for November 4 at 3 30 p m at the First Baptist Church of Ruston.
Louisiana veterans focus on proposed constitutional amendments on the November 1956 ballot. Proposition 17 would extend the veterans homestead tax exemption from 1959 to 1964, maintain $5000 for WW II and Korea vets, and affect other veteran benefits. Proposition 44 would provide extra funds to complete Korean veterans' bonus payments. Lincoln Parish Office, Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, courthouse, provides guidance to veterans.
The Crop Reporting Board projects 1956 cotton production at about 44.115 million bales, down 3 percent from last month and below 1955’s 14.721 million bales. Yield per acre is about 402 pounds, 119 above average but 15 below last year’s peak, with harvested area at 15.661 million acres, the smallest since 1882. Classified ads follow.
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