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GRADUATION: IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

GOTT'S COVE - Hattie Doucet and Vena Miller of this small community have passed their final examinations for high school diplomas and will receive them tonight at Crowley High School in a graduation ceremony.

Happens all the time in May, right?

Except that in this case, Mrs. Doucet is 70 years old, the oldest graduate to be certified in her home parish of Acadia, and her daughter, Mrs. Miller, 46, is graduating with her. Part of the reason for the two-generation graduation is Harold Miller, Mrs. Miller's son and Mrs. Doucet's grandson.

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Breaks in bar to get cigarettes and whiskey

City police are searching for a chain-smoking burglar who may be a wee bit tipsy today.

The burglar pried open the rear door of Bill's Bar at 818 South Main Street last night and made off with 5 packs of cigarettes and a quart of whiskey.

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Oil old timers fete planned here Thursday

An event that helped change the course of history and gave birth to the petroleum industry will be observed Thursday throughout the state and nation.

The event will mark the 100th anniversary of the world's first commercially successful oil well. On Aug. 27, 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake struck oil at 69 1/2 feet with his homemade drilling rig near the small mountain town of Titusville, Penn.