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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 18

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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-PAGE SIX ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1965 IT TOOK RCA VICTOR 10 YEARS TO GET RID OF THE BUGS IN COLOR (watch out for the young kids in the business) RCA Victor has never stopped trying Why not enjoy the finest in service at to improve their product Jimmie Walker's the lowest prices while owning a Color TV with has never stopped trying to improve their Automatic Color Purifier, with solid copper knowledge and service. circuitry, with the new 25" (overall diagonal) Color tube, with all-channel tuning So, if you're going to own Color TV, you might as well have the brand from the In short, why settle for less than RCA Victor dealer that pioneered it Jimmie Walker Color TV from Jimmie Walker's! You'll own the sold the first RCA Victor black white very best from the best. We've never offered and Color TV in Cenla. anything but the best service and products since we sold the first Color TV set in Cenla! (AP Wirephoto) Associated Press photographer Huynh he was pinned down by a Viet Cong Thanh My, a 29-year-old Vietnamese, attack. Last night.

he was killed in is pictured about a month ago when Viet Cong attack. Photographer Killed in Viet War SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Associated Press photographer Huynh Thanh My was killed in action in the Mekong River delta Wednesday night, a U.S. military spokesman announced. My, 29, a Vietnamese, was the second Associated Press photographer to die in the Viet Nam war. Bernard Kolenberg, working for the AP while on leave from the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union, was killed Oct.

2 when the American plane in which he was a passenger collided with another during a combat mission. My had accompanied the 44th Vietnamese ranger battalion on an operation. The unit came under heavy attack from two Viet Cong batallions He apparently died of a bullet in the neck that severed his ular vein, the spokesman said. A Vietnamese army photographer said My had been wounded in the arm earlier and was awaiting evacuation when the Communist guerrillas launched another assault. The Viet Cong overran the position and took My's cameras and all other possessions except a watch and his wedding ring.

My is survived by his widow and 7-month-old daughter. Civil Rights Pact Is Studied in Natchez By James Bonney NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) City officials and Negro leaders today discuss ways to put into effect new civil rights agreements aimed at ending racial discord. Mayor John Nosser signed an agreement Wednesday, night granting most rights demands, and Negro leaders in turn pledged to end demonstrations pending further settlements. The city concessions included more Negro policemen, desegregation of the local hospital, upgrading Negro employes in area stores, formation of a biracial committee and appointment of a Negro to the school board.

Klansmen Stand By Nosser and civil rights forces worked out the agreements in a City Hall conference while a handful of Ku Klux Klansmen waited quietly outside. Charles Evers, state field director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, later told a Nerally of the provisions and said, "I believe they are sincere." called the concessions the "first steps toward His audience, packed into a church, expressed both surprise and joy. Some shouted "Freedom, freedom!" The night before, Evers led 600 Negroes in a march after they rejected city civil rights offers as only "more Negroes have been seeking official action on their demands since spring. To Hire Negro Policemen Evers said the new city agreements included the hiring of six Negro policemen in addition 1 to the two already on the force. He said the hospital had ready started desegregating its facilities with two Negro women admitted to an all-white maternity ward.

He said complete desegregation of the facility was promised by the end of the year. The city agreed to appoint a Negro school board member when a vacancy comes in March, 1966. A biracial committee will be formed in efforts to solve any further grievances. Evers said 19 Natchez area stores have hired Negro clerks, and others promised to upgrade their Negro employes. However, he said an economic boycott would continue.

He said a federally financed antipoverty program would begin immediately. Evers called on the Negro community to register as voters, saying responsibility goes with freedom. Nobel Award Winner Dies BASEL, Switzerland (AP) Dr. Paul Mueller. 67, Nobel Prize-winner whose research in insecticides led to the discovery of DDT, died Tuesday night He won the Nobel award in 1948 in medicine and physiology.

FOOD EXPERT SALT LAKE CITY. Utah (AP) The former directorgeneral of the United Nations Food and Agriculture tion, Dr. Philip Vincent Cardon, died Wednesday of natural causes in a Salt Lake City nursing home. He was 76. His sonin-law is Gov.

Calvin L. Rampton of Utah. He served in the U.N. post from 1954 to 1956. U.

S. HISTORIAN PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) James B. Hedges, twice chairman of the Brown University history department and a professor of American history at the university for more than 30 years, died Wednesday. He was 73.

EX-BIG LEAGUE PITCHER COVINA, Calif. (AP) One time major league pitcher Curt Davis died Tuesday after a short illness. Davis, 61, broke into the major leagues in 1934 with the Philadelphia Phillies. MARY CARTER PAINTS EVERY 2ND GALLON FREE Plastic Molds Supplies Over 1700 Colors Custom Cabinets Painting Supplies LESTER HARE, Owner 4529 LEE ST. 443-2755 ALEXANDRIA PHONE He played with the Chicago Cubs and St.

Louis Cardinals before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. He retired in 1945 and went into the real estate business. PATHOLOGIST HOUSTON (UPI) Funeral services were pending today for Dr. Stuart A. Wallace, 67, one of Texas' outstanding names in pathology and a distinguished professor emeritus of Baylor University.

He died Wednesday. RAIL EXECUTIVE DALLAS (UPI)-Funeral vices were scheduled Friday for Thomas Masterson, 68, retired assistant to the vice president and general manager of the Missouri Kansas -Texas Railroad. He died Tuesday in Denison, Tex. 3 Men Indicted In Double Killing BENTON, La. (AP) The Bossier Parish Grand Jury has indicted three men for murder in the 18-month-old slaying of Mr.

and Mrs. W. R. Richey of near Haughton. Indicted Tuesday were: -Donald Yates, 27, now serving 20 years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, for bank robbery.

-Jack Favor, 53, of Arlington, a former rodeo performer. -A third man, unidentified and still at large. The Richeys were killed in their fish bait shop home. Both were shot in the head with a .45 caliber bullet. Their safe and cash register were looted.

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