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KEITH BARDWELL, a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, explaining why he refused to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple. Bardwell added that he has "piles and piles of black friends" but believes the children of mixed-race couples "suffer...
...McClendon, a 19-year-old rising sophomore at Tulane University in New Orleans who was a visiting student at Harvard last semester, died on Sunday. The cause of death could not be confirmed, because the coroner’s office of Tangipahoa Parish has not yet received a copy of the death certificate...
...Tangipahoa parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...
...Kemp, fiftyish, mother of two children, herself daughter of one of the first families of Tangipahoa Parish, a woman who had never put her hand into political mud, looked on with dismay at the whole scandalous proceeding. Then she took a hand herself, offered to resign as Congresswoman to stand for nomination in regular primaries if her opponents would abandon their plan to hold a "citizens' election." To the Kingfish, sitting in his New Orleans hotel room surrounded by bodyguards, the news of her offer was a severe jolt...
...Roger Thayer Stone of Boston, last summer furnished Mr. Zemurray with a grandson at 56. His son, Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department...
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