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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 9

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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9
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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, LA- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1955 PACE NINE 1 leave Hungary, there axe thous U.S. Court Clerk Doctor Seeks Refugee Kin By Hln Derr ands of cituens of the strife-torn country who need food, clothing and medical supplies. The American Red Cross has just assumed a new obligation, Dies During Da nco NEW ORLEANS CI) John A. Feehan 45-year-old chief clerk of the U. S.

Circuit Court of Appeals, died of a heart attack Miss Scott said. This is the program to provide 100,000 family The Rapides parish chapter of the American Red Cross is at pre FOR RENT or LEASE OFFICE or STORE Bolton Levin Sts. Contact: PRESTON BRASHER 2101 Highway 1. unit food parcels for Hungary last night while attending a dance. They will contain nine pounds of meat fat, dried milk, sugar and rice, and seven packets of dried soups.

Each parcel will provide one week's supplementary diet for sent helping to contact a local physician's young nephew believed to be enroute from Hungary to Camp Kilmer, N. J. This information came today from Mi Bobbie Scott, Parish Red Cross director. The physician prefers not to have bis name used, Police said Feehan collapsed at the annual Christmas dance of the New Orleans Jazz Club. Officers said be collasped vn returning to his table after i dance.

Funeral arrangements were a family of four. Red Cress Supplies Miss Scott said, because he is still unsure of his nephew's where Cartons and supplies are being abouts and because of the laree nurchased and volunteers in east era chapters are already packing them for overseas shipment. They East minute reminder will be distributed by the Interna tional Committee of the Red Cross in cooperation with the Hungarian Red Cross. Alexandria dollars could help provide these food parcels, accord' ing to the director, and whether used for this or other projects, our money goes a long way in central Europe. Five dollars will pay for food for 10 refugees in Austria for one day, tetanus an titoxin for three injured people, number of his and his wife's relatives still in Hungary.

Word was sent from Hungary to the physician on Dec. 16, saying the nephew would arrive at the eastern base in about four days, and at present the local Red Cross is trying to inform the 21-year-old college graduate that his uncle wants him to come to Alexandria. The young man probably did not even know his uncle's address when he left Central Europe, the doctor told Miss Scott. Seeks 3 Families The doctor is also trying to contact in Hungary three families of relatives to help them come to the United States. Because they have been, forced to flee their homes he believes them to be in refugee camps, but is unsure of their addresses.

Hungary's present condition is indicated by the fact, Miss Scott said, that the doctor's brother who did not want to leave Hungary even during World War II when his home was bombed now ready to leave. Even though this family may one day's vitamin needs of 600 (Tows Talk lUit Fhoto) Santa Interviews a Junior Hen et Hie club's Christmas party. people, or 250 doses of penicillin. The Rapides chapter is still far short of its goal, as is the national to keep the troopers on the case because "there are no clues and Hungarian relief campaign. If the Stato Quits Probe Of Hotard Death goal is not reached by Christmas Orphans Feted By Lions Club there is nothing to investigate." authorities expect a serious short' age of covilian food supplies there Hebert said he still believed Mrs Moate is dead.

LAPLACE. La. UP Sheriff by mid January. "While we appreciate the res Percy Hebert, St. John the Baptist parish, said today he would Santa Claus forsook his reindeer for lions Thursday Alexandria ponse we are getting," Miss Scott release two state troopers from IT'S investigation of the death of lions, that is.

said, "we must have more funds by Christmas if we are to help these people whose need is so Thomas Hotard and the disap The club turned its meeting in pearance of Mrs. Audrey Moate. to a Christmas party for children great." Hotard, an Algiers. Scout of its members and for children master, was murdered with the IF YOU CAN GIVE A DETTER IT! of St. Joseph's Home.

blast of a shotgun as he was parked on lonely Frenier beach Two tin soldiers stood guard by IIOIIUS- pokhs FOR ME! 2130 Lee THIS CHRISTMAS COMES BUT cardboard guardhouses outside the near Lake Pontchartrain. Mrs. Audrey Moate, a divorce from Hotel Bentley Venetian Room as Baton Rouge, was believed to the children marched in, and as ii have been with Hotard at the they sat down, two snowmen came time he was killed. She has been out on the stage and welcomed missing since the Nov. 25 murder them to the Christmas party.

Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof Ancient Age Distilling of Hotard. Gifts were distributed to all the Hebert said there was no need kids at the party by elves as San ta made the rounds of the tables, talking to the smaller fry who sat next to tneir tamers. Lion Don Riddle furnished oth Lifetime! er entertainment for the lion Jun tors with his trumpet which was fingered by a hand puppet mon key, Bozo. A choir from the fifth grade of Cherokee school rendered Christ fcWt Mate it "Hm years to "TWnk" elm aivief 'tewi MMrM ptaiw mi htteM. Smu wiH ke tM fate.

This, CMstmet emrhmlrv any Hit hi yw WtHwe thdn. Teke Advantage of These Terrific Bargains Now During Roirk Bros. re-Christ mis mas selections at the party. Piano music for singing of Christmas carols by the entire party was played by Mrs. Martin SescuL Elves were Gary Fontenot, Al PIANO SALE Wm NOW len Gravel, Bobby Boswell, and Elridge Roark.

Tin soldiers were Neal Fleckman and Bert Carna-han, and snow men were Ronny Wet NOW Mew Utter lefty QC aw 1Im 169! w9J RfCtftffttitAO 1 psZ Practice loe 103 Rcconditoncd Practice SI Plane I Small Site $0095 Penny and Ronny Wood. Tom Southerland was program MMev .1171 575 595 13 chairman. Santa Claus was play ed by Mrs. J. H.

Blake. i Upright $115 Rental Planet $4 Par Month fir Up Dr. William H. Hamilton will be out of his office from Saturday, December 22, through Tuesday, January 1 12-24 AQEI Phone 3-515(5 .1101 Jackson Japanese Salt, pepper shakers reduced from 80c to 50c. Prathers I u-io EIawjMPWWiaP isxtAWfeg 3) "I know RCA VICTOR is FIRST CHOICE In TV-1 deliver thorn!" SANTA KNOWS because he puU 'moreRCAVictorTVinthehomeil he visits than any other kind.

He likes the bright, steady "Living Image" picture the rich Uw prini JV57 y0" Balanced Fidelity Sound! But find out for yourself what Santa knows. Come in today! 1M Itswb SMor-Mlltt Co A I flVTsaggdw II ill -IQEHLJ I Announcing the most glamorous car in a generation! KKsO You never looked or felt as good in anything before! Torsion-Aire Ride pours the road under you! Try Chrysler's new Torsioo-Aire Ride and yoall think some of the laws of gravity, wtioa and inertia have been suspended in your favor. No more rock and rolL No more pitch when yon stop. Chrysler's new torque rod suspension and lower center of gravity give you a brand new groom! -skimming "feel" of the road. The wheels ride the contours bat yea JmL The road hist pours under you.

Other cars have changed models this one ehangee motoring. Look at its rich, racy lines at the long; low silhouette at the dramatic upsweep of the rear fenders that plume back from the waist like the wake of a hydroplane. It's a streak of a car with the elegance of the boulevard and the spirit of the speedway. Get into this car, drive it into traffic or out on the open highway and 70a enter a new domain of travel. In the 1957 Chrysler, with its new Torsion-Aire Ride, motion has a new "feetf.

And wait till yon toe the throttle. A new Pushbutton TorqueFlite Transmission teams with a mighty airplane-type V-8 engine, developing up to 323 horsepower, to give you a new high-velocity getaway, matchless passing power when you need it Come in this week and visit otrr showrooms. See and drive the most complexly new car of the year! weiT in mi! Jimiiiie Walter Homo Appliances Phone 2-0476 Phono 2-7101 ALEXANDRIA T.10T0D GO: Sixteenth At Washington St. Phone 3-5666 Afexindria, La. 726 Main PinovilU 1717 Jackson Alexandria i.

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