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Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 36

Publication:
Daily Worldi
Location:
Opelousas, Louisiana
Issue Date:
Page:
36
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Page 36 Opelousas, Louisiana, Sunday, March 24, 1957 duly world 2 4. HIP-FLOPPING ELVIS BUYS $100,000 TENN. MANSION I i ft- s. MEMPHIS. March 23 (UP) Hip-flopping singer Elvis Presley has recently purchased "Graceland," a $100,000 white-pillared mansion at nearby Whitehaven.

Four years ago Presley was a $40 a week truck driver. Former owner Mrs. Ruth Brown Moore accepted the present Presley home here as partial payment. Graceland has the advantage of a feur-car garage, suitable to Presley's numerous Cadillac and Lincoln automobiles. The home contains five bedrooms' with two upstairs bams, a full bath and half-bath on the first floor and a full bath In the basement, which serves the large den there.

There is also a servant's room and bath. The Presleys, It is reported, plan ta build a high chain-link fence surrounding their 14 34 acre estate to protect the singer from fans. i SAMO I Alaska's mineral-rich soil has coal. lead. tin.

platinum, and mercury, the National Geographic Society says. yielded more than one billion dol lars worth oi gold, copper, silver. 1 SAN FRANCISCANS looks toward building tops as an aftershock sways the structures. The worst af the quakes bad a magnitude af at lease 5.5 and was described as the mast evere ta hit the area since the great Ore and earthquake of 1906. Many the persons shown here fled buildings during the height af the earth tremblers.

(United Press Facsimile) THIRD ARREST EXPECTED 'Swindle Gang' Smashed in St. Landry i Two members of what Deputy aiherlff Bill Place bread dough in a lame plastic bag to let it rise. The dough won't stick to the bag "swindle gang" were Soileau described as a -r- tfi- tile arrested and charged Saturday and efflcers expected to apprehend a third member before nightfall, Selleau said. He arrested and charged J. E.

Savant, 21, af Eunice. Still being saught was Eugene Fantenet, 25, af Eunice. Savant was charged with theft and Matt with attempted theft. Savant and Matt were apprehended at their hemes by Salleau Saturday mernlng. Salleau said the "swindle game' has been eperating In St.

Landry parish far same time. He said usually the men wark in pairs, ga Into a store and purchase a pack af razor blades ar similar small article. The deputy said the men give the clerk last ct perfe touch a $5 bill, receive their change. AS EARTHQUAKE rocks sixth floor offices of United Press at San Francisco, staffers take refuge under desks as the continue duties. With chandallers swaying and types a picture caption as Jae Dodge takes time out for coffee and a sandwich.

then tell the clerk they have a smaller bill and wauld prefer paying far the merchandise with the smaller bill "But by the time thr pair decid (UP Facsimile) GEtlUmiT es what bill they want ta use far payment they have the clerk so confused they have gotten back their $5 ar 10 and me change from either one used, Solleau explained. He said Leroy Lafleur af Law-tell reported ta the Sheriff's office Saturday morning that he had been Uri Air Embaume (fragrant breeze) PARTS AND SERVICE Only at COHCZLO; CIIEUHOLET CO. North Court Street Phone 3501 "swindled af money and the vlous day a call came from Fisher's Merchandise store at Marrow that a 1 "i tfc X- 'I. The delicate and exquisite: similar gag bad been attempted mere. 1 "A fragrance by Rigaud of Paris that lingers alluringly inat lingers auur, ast perfect' la a aod adds "the touch for any occasion.

High Fashion For The YOUNG GENTLEMEN Santone I- -4. Created, packaged, sealed in Paris. STRIPED JACKET in a Galcy Lord wash and wear dacron and cotton comes in blue or brown. Vent back; soild pant. Sizes 4 7.

7.98 Perfume and cologne 3.50 to 32.50 at -4 Southwest Louisiana's Finest Stores Southwest Louisiana's Finest Stores.

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