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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 14

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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14
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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, LA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1958 PAGE FOURTEEN were asleep and unharmed. Authorities said Richard had Youth, 14, Admits caning knife and twisted the cord around her neck. Nassau County authorities pieced together this account of the slaying: worried when no one auswereJ her call at the Wrights tpait-ment. which is bene3th hers. Richard was charged with juvenile delinquency because of his age.

and was held for an arraign- Mrs. Wright, dressed in a housecoat, rested in a bedroom. Slie asked Richard to leave and he refused, flying into a frenzy. After the attack, he slipped from the apartment, eluding his battered Mrs. Wright with a large soda bottle, a lamp, a power paint trip.

He is employed by the sanitation department of this Long Inland community. Richard visited his grandmother Mrs. Jennie Mazziotti, 60, Saturday evening and then called on his aunt. He watched television while Slaying Aunt, 23 sprayer and a large with an electric cord. Then, iney said, he Mrs.

Wright's husband Robert, VALLEY STREAM. N. Y. AP) grandmother. She had become -merit today stabbed her repeatedly who a26, was on a weekend hunting A stocky eighth-grader has admitted the frenied slaying of his 23-year-old aunt, mother of two children.

Police said Richard C. Mazziot- ti. 14. told them he killed Mrs. Mary Lou Wright, a slender bru nette, "because of a sudden urge I can't explain." The boy's father Novie Mazziot- ti, brother of the slain woman.

found Mrs. Wright's body late Saturday night in her basement apartment, which showed signs of fJ 'nru '355 toEDMar Third at JHT Jackson I a terrific battle. Her children Robert 5, and Michael, 3, -A A Teenager Is Slain In Riot at Tavern DRAFT TO CONTINUE Selective service chief Lewis B. Hershey says new military manpower cuts ordered by Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy won eliminate the necessity of the draft.

Hershey claims that two million people can't be maintained in uniform without compulsion. MONTGOMERY, Ala. UPI Montgomery police kept a close Top Farm Animals Judged in Chicago CHICAGO (LTD Judging of th nation' top farm animals began at the 59th International Live Stock Exposition in competition hich will lead to coveted grand championship honors. The highlight of the nation's biggest farm show will come Tuesday when the grand champion steer is chosen. Among the early favorites for the show's top award is a 930-pound Aberdeen Angus fcteer owned by Charles Wood 17, Spencer, Iowa.

The steer, and the junior champion frequently goes on to capture Uie open class title. The sleek steer must pass another hurdle today in the senior calf class competition. If Holy Cow survives today's judging, the steer will qualify for the grand prize. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was the guest of honor at the exposition today. In a speech prepared for delivery at a lunch meeting of the Chicago Farmers Club, Benson said the recent vote by farmers to end corn acreage allotments vindicated his position on controls.

He said the outcome was "the first clear cut, realistic choice farmers have had on the question of controls versus freedom of de cLsion." The exposition this year has attracted 10,361 head of livestock from 32 states and Canada in competition for more than $100,000 in premiums. In Sunday's activities, the University of Wyoming took first place in the judging of lamb carcasses. The winning carcass was an 85-pound Southdown wether. The reserve champion was a Southdown wether shown by Richard Farms of Lodi. Wis.

A University of Illinois team won the collegiate livestock judging contest The University of Nebraska team placed second and Oklahoma State University was third. check on teen-agers today after SHOP AT HOME the weekend funeral of a high school student slain following a I if you can't come in, we'l- teen-age riot at a tavern. Richard Newman, 18-year-oid Phone 6692 member of the "Beta Gammas" and a student at Robert E. I-cc high school, was buried Saturday in ceremonies attended by about mm 250 carloads of mourners. Wit The youth was shot by Thomas F.

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(LTD A series of unusually sharp earthquakes rumbled through most of southern California and western Arizona Sunday night, alarming thousands of residents and causing minor damage in at least three cities. Windows shattered and plaster cracked under the impact of the successive temblors which rocked a large pie-shaped area extending from San Diego, west to Yuma, just across the California border and north to Los Angeles. Magnitudes of two of the four earth temblors was 5.4 and 5 on the Richter Scale slightly less than the quakes which rocked San Francisco a year and a hall ago and caused widespread minor damage. A large plate glass window at a chain grocery store was shattered here and a water main snapped. A number of grocery stores reported canned goods and bottles were shaken from their shelves.

Broken windows were reported in Mexicali and cracked plaster in homes and businesses were reported in El Centro. anyone doing." He said a star football player for Sidney Lanier high school had been threatened by the Beta Gammas before the annual game be tween Lanier and Lee high, and the same player was followed by a carload of Beta Gammas to the home of a friend and had to be given an escort home. During the past fifty years newspaper circulation has in creased by more than 40 mil lion newspapers purchased dailr In another instance, a youth was ambushed and badly beaten on leaving a teen-age recreation spot as his mother looked on in Which Br oadloom To Buy? The Answer is BIGEL017S Proven, Mothproofed For Life WLY -ALL BOOL SPECIALLY- PBIGEB horror. A third youth, allegedly threat ened repeatedly by the Beta Gammas, had to pull out a shotgun to drive off a group of them when they tried to force entrance to his house. New Junior Miss Is Franklin Girl 8.49., 9 49 5 Only 9x12 RUGS Wool Blend Georgia Dynamite Case Trial Opened ATLANTA, Ga.

(AP) Five men charged with dynamiting a Jewish temple in Atlanta are scheduled to go on trial in Fulton Su A Treat! Morrell Pride Cooked Boneless PORK HOCKS Pickled from "Jay" MertenS' JENNINGS, La. (UPD Miss tq. yd. Carol Ann Cherry reigns today as the new Louisiana Junior Miss. She was crowned in ceremonies at 5995 with pad completely installed over 40-oz.

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Chris Cherry of Franklin, La. She will represent the state in the American Junior The five are Wallace H. Allen, George Allen Bright, Kenneth Chester Griffin, Robert and Richard Bowling. They have been held in jail without bond since their arrest. The five men were indicted on Miss pageant in Mobile, Ala.

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