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The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 8

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8-A Wednesday, September 11. 1917 Monroe News-Star Outstanding Exhibits To Be Featured At District Fair Elections Slated For Bond Issues In West Carroll OLLA 70ne of most oiustanri.nc exhibits in the long history of the North entral Louisiana district fair at Jena is anticipated this year. according to an announcement by J. E. River Stages Flood Present 24-hour change 0 2 Rise 0.1 Fail 0.2 Fall 0.1 Fall 0.1 Fall 0.1 Rise 0.0 0.2 Rise 0 0.3 Rise 0.3 Rise 0 3 Rise 0.2 Fall 0.0 0.0 0 0 Stace yesterday mornins.

day before yesterday, stage. stage Stations; MISSISSIPPI St. Louis 30 3.9 Memphis 54 -0 5 Helena 44 6.3 Arkansas City 42 5.4 Vicksburg 43 4 9 Natchez 48 10.5 Red River Lndg. 45 Baton Rouge 35 6.2 Donaldsonville 26 4.9 New Orleans 17 2.6 ATCHAFALAYA Morgan Citv 6 4.5 OUACHITA Camden 26 r7.5 Monroe 40 Z13.7 BLACK Jonesvillc 50rl4.0 OHIO Cincinnati 52: 5 Pittsburgh 25; rzl6.7 ARKANSAS Little Rock 23 0 4 RED Shreveport 39 0.3 Alexandria 32 2 Harris. of Olla.

president of the fair association. Dates for the district fair have been set. beginning Sept. 30 and continuing through Oct. 5, Mr.

Harris said The district serves the area of LaSalle, Caldwell. Grant. Winn and Catahcnna parishes The fair association officers and directors have set Friday. Oct. 4.

as school day at the fair, with children from schools throughout the five parish area scheduled to be the center of attraction. Improvements Made During the past year, considerable improvements and some much needed additions have been made in the buildings at the fairgrounds representing expenditures totaling some $7500. Two old buildings have been torn down to make room for a new Home Demonstration club exhibits building measuring 28 by 80 feet. There also has been a large addition i built on the livestock barn in preparation for what is expected to be a record entry list in the livestock division. The officers anf board of directors are studying several alternative plans for extra special, added attraction" at this year's fair session and it was reported that "there is a possibility" that the fair may again offer horse- I racing.

The premium list for the North Central Louisiana district fair this vear has been set for around $5,000 "which places us in the top rank with regard to top premiums offered by any parish or district fair in the Harris said. OAK GROVE Special) The West parish school board has voted to call a bond issue election on Nov. 4. for the construction of a new high schoo, building at Kilbourne and a major addition to the Pioneer high school plant. The Kilbourne school building will be constructed at a cost of $200,000 if the bond election passes.

It will provide for 16 a home economics department and a lunch room. In ward 2, at Fioneer property owners will vote on aj $125,000 bond issue to provide: funds for construction of a homej economics department, an agri-i cultural department and two new; class rooms. Beginning of construction is set to begin in Fbruary, G. W. Gil-, more, superintendent of schools, said.

Start School Elects Council START (Special Student council membes recently elected to serve for the school year at Start high school under the ministration of president "Buddy Copeland have been released. They are: Jimmy Fuller, vice- president; Sallie Ann Pohl, secre- tarv-treasurer; Gloria Jean McElroy, reporter: Sue Joachim, historian; and Billy Hardwick, parli- The group voted unanimously to buy benches for the school yard 1 as a project for the school year. Catahoula asc iDoctor Envisions Commission Is Heart Transplants Elected For '58 CHICAGO (UP) A Baltimore.) Berman said ex. surgeon today described a most an JONESVILLE, iSpecial) The successful heart replacement pcnment was that nt. Catahoula Parish AS(.

County and sajd similar heai cently, the survival Commission for 1957 58 among humans e(, tjssUe and organs announced this week. the realm of practica- same specie has bee Hi (wins i Officers are as follows: P. bility. cep! in the I trans- Rison, chairman; Moody Dr Edgar F. Berman of Sinai wherc Wright, vice chairman; W.

C. Hospital in Bai imore described plants been 'Knotts, regular member; L. the historic operation in an ad- ----McGuffee, tirst alternate; Hollisidress before the 22 nd annual con- Johnson, second alternate. of the International College Election of community Surgeons, teemen was held and named; j- COMMIMSM A THREAT WASHINGTON Surgeons. Walter -D-Pa.) oi the He made the report on behalf IIouse ContMpftit ee on semen was held and named: He made the report on behalf ee on Un-America! Ward 1 Crawford, chair- 0f himself and two Activities said Comm man; Gillespie, vice Mauricio surgeon a serious interna -u.

rt a A raAntmil i3nd Ur. Ijt-Uii man-' Gillespie, vice chair-'Dr. Mauricio Goioerg. surgeuu remains a serious intana, man: CaneT member: Le- Cordova. Dr Loom roy King, first alternate; J.

V. ard Akman, cardiologist jcrs made Metcalf, second alternate. i Hospital. editor John Ward'2: H. C.

Peck, chairman; Daily Worker editor John Gates v. i of the that party Ed Stephens, vice chairman; Ab- or incompetent heart, dropped 45 per cent i a S.I challenge to the imagination, mui Pearson, member; a a. i challenge to me first alternate: C. L. Me- within the realm of pratvic.

noWTO MAKE A second alternate. he said. Ward 3: Pete Tarver, chairman, german said actually two H. D. Ainsworth, Vice chair- repiaccments wore accomplished man; David Torry, member; Fel- -n but in the first case the Cruse, first alternate; Mose becrt functioned for only 21 mffl- Bonnett, second alternate.

im I Ward 4: J. O. McGuffee. chairman; J. M.

Crawford, vice chairman; Fred I. Evans, member PI UGGED Morris, above, a farmer near Ponca City, has a nag that likes a plug of chewing tobacco as well as his owner. The big horse likes to ioin his master in an occasional chew dur- inp the noon rest. The horse feot the hao.t one ay when he bummed a little wad of! Morris (AP ire- photo.) utes. In the second operation, tne heart worked for one hour and 57 man; Fred l.

Lvans, mtauw. minutes before going into erratic Jimmie Alexander, first alternate-, acdjan The heart was restored to A. Tullos, alternate. normal beat several times later Ward 5: L. L.

McGutiee, artificial pacemaker stim- man; T. E. Kirby, vice chairman; T. L. Cater, member; Lee Mi.es.

apparently could naye first alternate; C. L. Purvis, sec- been sustained longer with the ond alternate. use of the Berman Ward 6-A: W. T.

Emrick, chair- sajd, experiment was pur- man; E. Cloessner, vice chair- posefully terminated man; H. J. Collins, member; j--------------- Howard McCarver. first alternate; Ivy Patten, second alternate.

Samovar VODKA AND PINEAPPLE juice MADE fR0M GRAIN BC AND 100 PROOF, SCHENLEY DIST. N. Y. C. Mrs.

Pankey Ruston Housewife Is Versatile Writer Ward 6-B: J. C. Thompson, chairman; A. A. McClure, vice- chairman; H.

A. Long, member; Ellis McClure, first Dave Sanson, second alternate. Ward 7: Hartwell Spinks, chairman; Lee Crooks, vice-chairman; Frank White, member; Lawrence Edwards, first alternate; S. J. McNeely, second RUSTON Special) Like the old saying about not being able to see the forest for the treees, many people often do not see the talent around them because it is so close to home.

One illustration of phenomena is Mrs. George E. Psnkey, of Ruston, a woman who has succeeded in being a housewife, mother, club woman, and writ- MRS. GRACE DOMINEY Mrs. Grace Odine Dominey, 50, rife of Albert Dewey miney, Rusk.

Texas, died there at 3:30 y- sterday morning, ow- ng a stroke at noon Monlay. Funeral services were held at 30 p.m. today at Mi. Zion iiurch in Rusk. Burial fallowed the church cemetery.

i Mrs. Pankey, the former Anna-, George A. Pankey, performing her I belle Atkinson of Keatchie, has housewifely duties, and taking fwritten "everything from a two part in seven different societies filler in a garden clubs is something of a mod- lazine to an article of several ern miracle. thousand words published in a Asked how she got her start in I Latest among her writing, Mrs. Pankey replied, i accomplishments are a few poems my teens one or two older accepted for publication by various people took an i re-t in me and i magazines.

asked me to do some writing." How this enterprising lady found S(X)n after ber first steps toward time while raising a son. Dr. a Satisfying and profitable avocation, Mrs. Pankey entered Randolph-Macon College, leaving after one year to mplete a thrt e-year at Louisiana State University in journalism. She also and did graduate work at the' University of Nofb Carolina, rounding her schooling.

"My first article was a folk tale, ddo parish- Northeast La. Deaths "and sometimes will get up in the middle oi the mgat if an idea strikes me and fumble 1 around until I find a pencil. On the other har.d. I will go for week-, writing a word." Mrs. Pankey said she spends a lot of her "writing" time in research and interviewing before she finally gets enough to write ab ut.

But she believes that ideas are "everywhere. It a chore to choose thf ones 1 want to spend my time or." have no as far as Survivors include his widow Mrs. Nola Mae Smith of six daughters, Mrs. Rosa Lee published in a Burr Mrs. Georgia Moreau, Peggy Shreveport anthology, Pan lean Smith Linda Carol Smith i key revealed.

I wrote and Elizabeth Diane Smith all when I was about spleen. 1 work! Ferrid Mrs Evelyn Ander- on it a very short time. A chauf- MRS. BEN SMITHERMAN JONESBORO Special Mrs. Sen Smitherman, 78, of Jones- died yesterday in a ioca: lospital after a long Funeral services were held at p.m.

today at the Jonesboro rirst Baptist Church with Rev j. W. Darr.eron. Interment, the direction of Edmond's Fun- jral Home, followed in city cemetery. native of Bienville Parish, she resided at Liberty Hill until 1907 when she moved to Jonesboro.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Km- osha. Mrs. John Upchurch, of Shreveport, and Miss Bessie Smitherman, of Jonesboro; a brother, Melton Black, of Bienville; and six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. son.

Golden Meadow, one brother Clarence Smith, Natchez, three sisters, Mrs. Pauline Dick son. Houston, Mrs. Matthews, Natchez. Miss Mrs.

Bes.rie Sanford, Columbia Miss. four who had been with my family a long time told me a story. about ghosts and I wrote it into Annie a publishable folk tale. and Gardening, horticulture and re lated subjects are the Ruston housewife's favorite subjects, al- th ugh she has covered a variety oi topics. Her journalistic background illiam mcclendon DELHI toteresUng.

She worked services iort.W^h.Jacrk^ on the Homemaker Magazine, as Clendon, retired Delhi farmer, wno, for thp died early yesterday, were held at 2 p.m. today at Kilbourne Ruston correspondent for the Star and the Shreveport Times, as a book reviewer for the. Shreveport Memorial Library, and a series of features for the Arkansas Gazette. The friendly writer Id how she about writing. I am very lazy and will do anything to avoid she confessed.

But orget- look at the roast make some im- niaht. he B. SMITH B. Clavton died of a ack vestcrday at 6 36 FERR 5i nith, heart a p.m. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at Lakeside c-nstal Church w.th Rev. A. Holland officiating. Burial will follow in the Natchez Cemetery under the direction of Young Funeral Home. Baptist Church.

Rev if. G. Hammons conducted the sevices. Interment, under direction of Gay 1 unera! me. followed in Kilbourne Cemetery.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Carrie Lee ndon: put pencil on paper I'm sons. Frank McClendon, ,0 hour Otha C. McClcnoon, Ki (lo gQ piaces bourne, and Kelly McClendon, Fat-i- th Phone Lll. Mrs.

Ciemmie Dollar of McGee. mogll Mrs. Gladys Haley, bourne, and Mrs. J. G.

tab. Carey; two brothers, Needham McClendon, Meridian. and. George McClendon, Duncan, Okla thre sisters, Mrs. Emma Drum-: mond, Mrs.

Unie May and Mrs. Louis Rankin, all of Mendenhall, 29 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were Kay Purvis, William Haley, E. C. Haley, Marvin Haley, Frank Haley, Marvin Bancroft.

Jack McClendon and Phillip Littlefield. Harrisonburg 4-H'er Wins Heifer Calf JONESVILLE (Special George Bartness of the Harrisonburg 4-H Club recently an a registered Hereford heiier calf as an award for his placement in the Alexandria Calf Scramble, reports Rodney Ewing, associate county agent. Six Catahoula Parish 4-11 boys participated in the Alexandria Lion's Club sponsored 4-11 Calf Scramble held in connection with the annual rodeo was held recently, orge Bar; mess and Leo othe, both of Harrisonburg, first and second cash ards of $20.00 and preliminaries. In the finals, George over club members 12 other parishes and received his pick of three registered calves which were awarded. The other two winn og club members were from Winn parish and ALen parish.

whi oc Bot ti thf fi .00 in daced from my writing style i- concerned." she said. "But I will say I have an inquiring mind and often see stories which I believe a less interested person would overlook. Then too. I love pe pie and some writing 1 have done has been possible because helpful people have stepped in and told me of something they think would be an interesting story. Expressing her appreciation for help people have given her, the charming Mrs.

Pankey said. "People everywhere, especially in libraries, have been so n- c.crfully patient and kind to me. ll've never met a mean or un-: thoughtful librarian. In the last few years, Mrs. Pankev has been writings light, humorous verse and lyrics publication.

She has written, poetrv since she was a child bu never thought it worth submitting. publication. Finally, sent a poem to a magazine and accepted! Since then, Mrs. Park-; 'ey said her poems have been in several verse and little! as well as one goi eral; circulation publication, The I wnj Journal. I Never feel discouraged if you the bug and a ant to have your material published, 1 Mrs.

Pankey advised would-be Writers. "1 finny believe," she said, "that you, the writer, think a piece of writing is worth- I while, you should continue submitting even if the manuscript has to bo 'retyped three times to keep rit Celebrates 105 Birthday Today WINNSBORO Special) Mrs. Lou Pollard, who has made her home with a daughter, Mrs. G. W.

Delaney, Winnsboro, route four, for the past 11 years will be 105 years today. Mrs. Pollard's original birth certificate was destroyed by lire but according to the family Bible she was born September 11. 1852 at Old Brook, Miss. parents moved to Winn parish in Louisiana in 1861.

At the age of 25. Mrs. Pollard married Ben.jam:n Pollard and the couple moved to Mississippi. Her husband died in 1933 and in 1942 Mrs. Pollard sold her home in Monticelo, and since that time has made her home with her children.

Mrs. Pollard does not talk any now, and has been confined to her bed for the past 18 months. However, she is able to sit up in bed and eat her meals. BLAMES INFLATION I BURBANK, Calif. attributes his less of 50 dollars to inflation.

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