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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 5

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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PAGE FIVE ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK. ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959 NEW Thick Milk Shakes at Hobo Drive In Dr. R. B.

Wallace will be out of his clinic until June 29 mwf Gov. Long Files a Separation Suit Against Wife of 27 Years avenue which houses Fuzzy's Cafe and the Ideal Liquor Store in 1938, had the case thrown out on the nolle prosse motion of District Attorney F. Jean Pharis. 7,865 feet from the north shore of the lake. The design engineer said also agreement had been made that oil rigs requiring greater clear 2 in District Court Enter Guilty Pleas The defendants in the two cases Proposed Bridge Location Opposed BATON ROUGE (AP) -Oil i- 3 "Nv By Jack Owens Boyer, the co-defendant, has already pleaded guilty and is at Angola.

ance could bypass the proposed bridge by using the inner harbor Judge Hunter also sentenced navigation canal and the intra-coastal waterway. Vertical clear set for trial Thursday in Ninth Judicial District Court both entered guilty pleas and were sentenced to terms in the state penitentiary. The lone trial scheduled for today was called off when the' dis and shipbuilding interests have protested plans by the State Department of Highways for a projected 22 million dollar Lake Pont-chartrain bridge which will form Jerry O. Hanes who was convicted Wednesday of armed robbery. The sentence in the case was two years at hard labor at Angola.

ance for bridges spanning these water routes is unlimited in open position. The 21-year-old Hanes was the trict attorney nolle prossed the only person whose case actually part of the interstate and defense highway system. J. B. Carter, bridge design en case, thus ending the session of went to trial during the week.

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It's convenient. Dr. John A. Worley will be out of his office June 20 through June 27 jury trials. Hanes was also accused of Jeff Wadsworth, charged with simple burglary.

He withdrew his gineer for the department, said protests were made at a June 2 BATON ROUGE (AP) The woman Gov. Earl Long accuses of defamation, cruel outrages and abandonment after nearly 37 years of married life helped him move into the Louisiana governor's mansion three times. After one of those times, Blanche Revere Long proudly aid, "Earl's interests are my interests." It appears those Interests are severed since the governor filed uit in family court yesterday for separate bed and board and the 68-year-old Mrs. Long has depart-. ed Louisiana.

The break comes after Mrs. Long twice committed the governor to mental institutions, and she moved into a $60,000 Louisiana colonial home he built for her on "millionaire's row" by capitol lake here. Mrs. Long had been absent theft, was given a three-year stretch at Angola. The Negro was guilty plea and was given an additional two years in the state penitentiary.

hearing arranged by the New Orleans district of the Corps of Engi accused of stealing six radiators from Mac's Wrecking Co. in Alex neers. They concerned a planned 45-foot vertical clearance of navi andria. Two other defendants yi The jffijjy WHEEL' mowerl the same case are already serving gational openings of the proposed V- Hr. Try If I sentences at Angola.

When James H. Corley withdrew his not guilty plea of the U30 THIRD STREET two forgery charges against him, ALY BUYS FARM DUBLIN (UPD-Aly Khan has bought a 110-acre stud farm at Clonsilla, County Dublin, it was reported Thursday. Agents for the Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations paid $59,400 for the property. Dr. R.

B. Wallace wlil be out he was sentenced by Judge Walter M. Hunter to spend two years in bridge. Carter said later discussions of department representatives and protesting interests had led to agreement on a single vertical clearance of 65 feet above mean high water and a horizontal clearance of not less than 150 feet. 'The opening would be located JOHN W.

WARD HARDWARE 1734 Leo, Dial HI 2-7702 Mrs. Blanche Long the state penitentiary. I James Bancroft, charged with Ronald Boyer with the simple tempt to gain a fourth term as governor. of his clinic until June 29 mwf burglary of a building on Bolton ss sums siiSiMes i A I've lived with this turbulent 1 character for 27 years," she said after his first commitment, "and I love him very much." She said she would be happy again when he was released. She bowed to pressure and allowed from both the official mansion and her new home in recent days.

Her whereabouts remain unknown. Mrs. Long, often described as dark-haired, slender and pretty, was born at Covington, the town where Gov. Long today gets a court hearing on his claim that he is being held in a state mental hospital Illegally. Moved to Orleans When two years old, she moved with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert H. Revere to New Orleans. She attended public schools, Tu-lane University and Soule business college in New Orleans. Her first Job was as secretary to the president of an electrical corporation.

She met Earl, brother of then Gov. Huey P. Long, Long to return to a New Orleans clinic for rest and treatment- only to see him walk free one day later. She frantically rushed to Baton Rouge ahead of him and signed new commitment papers that resulted In his present stay at Southeast Louisiana hospital. After the Louisiana first lady faded out of sight into the house by the lake.

Later, she apparently fled the state and some say the nation. while Earl was attending law school and working as a sales man. Much of their courtship took place in Baton Rouge, where Mrs. Marriages Down 4 Percent in 1958 Long's sister, Mrs. Amelia ScheX' nayder, then lived.

They were married Aug. 17, 1932, at Estes Park, at the home of Long's 7 Automatic Defrost sister, Callie, who was teaching there. The greater part of their married life was spent in New Or aum npnnTiA cnimnniDr leans, Baton Rouge and Winnfield, where Long has a farm he loves but which Mrs. Long refers to as I VBaHIHH I IV I liiuiuiniiik GET FROiriOO T0 140. TRADE-ltl ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR PRESENT REFRIGERATOR "his shack." Lived In Alexandria (Spcclil te the Town Tilkl NEW YORK Marriages In the United States decreased by about four percent in 1958, the second straight year of decline in the number of weddings, it was reported today by statisticians of the Metropolitan life Insurance Co.

The actual number of marriages during the year was about 1,456,000, compared with 1,518,000 In 1957 and 1,585,000 In 1956. The 1958 marriage rate 8.4 per 1,000 population, including Armed Forces overseas was the lowest recorded since 1932. Apparently, the decrease In marriages was related to busi They also lived for a time in Alexandria during a four-year ofrigs.irators period Uiat separated two of Long's stints In the governor's eat. Soon after their marriage, Mrs. Long Joined her husband in political campaigning and she stuck to it through the years.

"I guess all the Longs Just nat ness recession, the statisticians point out, since the sharpest de urally take to politics," she said, crease occurred in the period "And even though I'm a Long by from September 1957 through Now at Special SUMMER SALE PRICES marriage I guess I take to it, March 1958. too." Marriages may be expected to She directed state campaign headquarters. She answered letters. She managed workers. On a few occasions, she even made rebound soon to their prerecession level, according to the statisticians.

Data available thus far in 1959 indicate small increase FM22-59 AUTOMATIC DEFROST FRIGDAIRE Imperial Model. Reg. $539.95. Up to $140. Trade NOW AS LOW AS speeches in Long's behalf.

Mrs. Long's political work even over the corresponding period of 1958. tually led to the post of Louisiana Moreover, with the forthcoming for 6 Days National Democratic Committee- woman which she now holds. The governor used his influence to back her nomination, although he said at the time it was a political SALE rise in the number of persons attaining adult age, the annual number of marriages should climb rapidly after the early 1960's and remain at high levels for many years to come. Geographic Variations There were wide ceosranhic error.

The governor and Mrs. Long have differed In one respect. She ENDS, July 3rd. s3ii95 Jias tended to favor the city com variations in the trend of mar forts, epitomized In her new home, end Long has yearned for the solace of his Winn Parish farm, where he raised pigs among other riages from 1957 to 1958, with 28 states showing decreases and 22 things states and the District of Colum Long showed dissatisfaction with his marriage in press conferences and public utterances before Mrs, Long took part in taking him to a Galveston, mental hos FD-l 04-59 SELF DEFROST Cififc E3 4ft OK FRIGIDAIRE. 10.4 Cu.

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Frlgldaire pital for the first commitment, 'Blanche's House' bia having increases. The sharpest decreases were In those states with changes in their marriage laws, while adjoining states had the biggest Increases. Indiana, where a waiting period has been required since January 1958, had the biggest drop-45 percent. Marriages in the adjoining states of Ohio and Kentucky increased by 10 and 23 percent, respectively. Almost as sharp a change was He made clear the new house was "Blanche's house, not mine," 95 429! Rag.

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NOW AS LOW AS created." Mrs. Long usually refrained from public statements. After she recorded in Mississippi, where helped take him to Galveston, she said in a statement she con the legal age for marriage was raised on July 1, 1958. Marriages there decreased by 42 percent, while Alabama. Tennessee, and With Major Brand Operating Refrigerator 10 years old or less suited with her pastor and several doctors during an eight-month Arkansas had Increases of 23 to period before deciding something 18 percent.

had to be done, Among cities with at least Sale idaire hmv 1,000,000 population, Los Angeles Special Frig She said she pleaded with him to rest and take things easy but he wouldn't listen. Long continued to drive himself unmercifully in alone showed no change. New York had a three percent de crease, Chicago and Philade! legislative fights and in his at- phia had four percent decreases, and Detroit almost seven nerrent Alaska and Hawaii, which had not yet attained statehood in '58 CHEST MODEL 17.5 Cu. Ft. Reg.

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