GENERAL NEWS
teenage' mother or. triplets " '
NQ^’ ,READY ' f OR .COLlTG^-t ' .
Rli£LANDS;, CALIF. ,{• Linda Sue ,Voss, 17,
who .‘.had’ triplet boys last year, was.
graduated last week from high school. .
-'Wow she's- hiiming for college.
“Ti.xt* &-.the^;pr6&ti.est • day Of my life!,’ •
the pretty.-, teenager said.'’Nobody tho-7
ug ht I’d rqjiike it 'thro ugh -high school,
ar t now Jrni ready to go to. college.,.
’’Usually girls who have even one
baby while they're in high school
drop out because they're too busy to
study.When I had triplets it was sort
of a foregone conclusion that I’d ne
ver finish school.You never know what
^ you can do till you have to,”
Linda, whose husband, David, is a
Dairy worker, had the triplets Sept.
17, 195S. her mother helps care for
them when she is at school and her
husband's at work._
GOV. LONG declared insane
BATON ROUGE, LA., Gov. Earl Long was
behind the bars of a state mental
hospital last weuk after being certi
fied insane; but the Leutenant Gover
nor hesitated about taking over as
Louisiana's chief executive.
Frazar, one of the most faithful
followers in Long's powerful politi
cal machine, said he still considered
himself only as Lieutenant Governor,
Shrieking and cursing, Long was
seized by deputies and committed on
his wife's warrant to the Southeastern
State Hospital at Ivlandeville to be
held "indefinitely."^ >. ' .
The silver haired; .Long, 63; gave a
piercing hog call, * "Whbooeee,^' -and
yelled' "God Damn, God Damn" after be
ing intercepted just three miles sub
side this capital.
In one of the wildest dayb in Lou
isiana's turbulent political history,
Long had freed himsplf from-ra New
Orleans hospital, declared he was
Governor "right now" and roared off
in a state highway patrol car for Ba
ton Rouge to entrench himself in off
ice.—
Frazer planned to confer in New Orleans
ilater in the day with State *j\tty, Gen. Jack
Gremillicn .on the status, of the • 'Governor
ship i \ ; ■*. -" . • d
”1 consider myself Lt. Governor,” Frazar
said. "I have- had the opportunity to seize
power but I did not. I am going-to do every
thing I; canto h .:p Earl and- help the- state.
”1 want to bo satisfied in my own heart,-,
that thp governor is, sick. That can only
come from him or a. member of the family.”
Long’s violent remov 1 from power stun
ned the people of Louisiana' as nothing had
done since his older - brother., H^ey (Kirig-c
fish) Long, was assassinated in a corridor'
of the capitcl building in 1935. - -
Long remained Goyeirmr in name and appa- -
rently will so continue. The state consti
tution provides a governor remains in of
fice until death, resignation or impeachment
LAST REBEL SOLDIER ON CRITICAL LIST
HOUSTON, TEX., The nation*b -last Civil w^r '
veteran, 116-year-old Walter, Washington
Williams, fought/ f or his 4iLfe ■ -an oxygen
tent at the heme of his daughter-last week i
Williams contracted pneumonia, two-weeks •
ago. He appeared to;be improving-, but Suf
fered a relapse afterwards. he was in. cri
tical condition atthe home his daughhefc*:
Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles late last week.
The death of; John Sailing, in a King
sport, Tenn., hospital •on March 16 left
Williams as the last living symbol .of some
four-million men who fought the blcpdy.ci
val war that split the nation nearly a
century ago. .x"
Williams, a confederate ,soldier, pre
dicted six years ago he would be the (last
living survivor.,He particularly wanted to
diitlive the last Union veteran and did.
Aloert Wo cl son of Duluth, 'Minn., the na
tion' s last surviving Union soldier died
.two years ago.
Williams " was. 116 last Nov. 14. He is
•blind and has been bedridden -. for several
years. • .
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