Resolutions Slated At Louisiana Police Jurors Convention
The Louisiana Police Jurors Association opens its 36th annual meeting in Baton Rouge. A key resolution asks the Legislature to extend the retirement system beyond four more years, with Gov elect H. H. Davis and Gov. Matt R. Leng to speak. Other proposals seek to curb fireworks use and appoint parish independents to guard public welfare amid local reforms.
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West Monroe Votes on Name Change Today
West Monroe residents go to the polls today to vote on a proposed city name change. The West Monroe Chamber of Commerce funds the election drive while lawmakers warn this may be the last chance this year to act before five weeks of advertising before a fee submission deadline. Precinct locations include Nature Building Precinct 2 and other local sites. results could influence regional development and tax policy.
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Selman Field
Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Twin Cities
De Gaulle Arrives in Washington to Forge Allied Front
President Eisenhower welcomes French leader Charles de Gaulle at the White House and airport as crowds cheer. De Gaulle vows to build a solid Allied front before the East-West summit with Khrushchev, while criticizing Sahara tests and Algeria as not an extension of France. Ghanaian students protest during the visit.
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Sahara
Algeria
Mistrial Declared In Robbery Case With Gwin Brothers
The trial for Otis and James Gwin ended without a verdict as the jury weighed alibi claims and testimony about their possible roles in the Oak Ridge Delhi bank robbery. Prosecutors argued lack of physical evidence while defense noted inconsistent witness recollections. Conviction, if any, would carry one to eleven years.
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Judge Dismisses Hung Powell Jury
In New York a federal court jury in the Adam Clayton Powell income tax fraud trial was deadlocked six to six. Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan declared the panel hung and dismissed it, stating future deliberation would be useless.
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First YMCA Day Camp Registrants Named
The first boy and girl register for the YMCA YWCA Day Camp to run June through August. The photo shows Laigh Parker son of Mr and Mrs William J Parker of Lexington Monroe Robert C McKee youth secretary of Twin Cities YMCA and Martha Jean McGough daughter of Mr and Mrs W J McGough of 1702 Park Ave Monroe.
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Atlas and Polaris programs to cut Bomarc and Super-Sage
The plan calls for 18 additional intercontinental Atlas missiles at two million dollars each. Warren AFB near Cheyenne will become the nation's only purely operational ICBM base with nine Atlas pads manned by the crew that fired Friday's Atlas, expected to graduate mid spring.
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Youth Admits Fatal Stabbing Of Young Girl
The youth testified he asked Linda Faye to date him then hid near a grocery and followed her into a wooded area. He said she walked away and he grabbed her while she tried to flee, stabbing her with a knife after she would not comply.
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Red China Charges Ike Policy Aggression
In Tokyo the Communist Chinese government accused President Eisenhower of pursuing an aggressive policy and warned that the danger of a war of annihilation still threatened the world.
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Eisenhower
Negroes Cup First Major Court Win
The Supreme Court ruling states ownership does not grant absolute dominion when property is opened to public use. In Orangeburg South Carolina fifty more young Negroes were convicted of breach of peace tied to mass antisegregation protests, raising total convictions to 120. Across the nation, 338 were arrested after force to break a protest march. The U S Fourth Circuit heard an appeal by 18 Negro students for white school assignments in Norfolk. In Macon Georgia a Justice Department official called racially segregated voting facilities a denial of equal rights.
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CBS Refuses Sit Down Show Over Propaganda Claim
CBS-TV refused to air a sit down program citing propaganda rather than objective reporting. Gov. Ellington claimed scenes were staged. CBS denied the charge. In Montgomery, about 16 Negroes occupied a library reading room for five minutes before leaving when denied access without library cards. first racial incident in three years. In Atlanta, eight Negro students, four girls and four boys, protested two downtown stores with signs reading Negro money, why not Negro employment, with no arrests reported.
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Atlanta
Blast Detection Debate Draws Scientists at Geneva
The 1958 Geneva plan faces US critique amid calls for improved detection of nuclear tests. Dr. Edward Teller urges resume testing for battlefield readiness while Hans Bethe proposes unmanned stations in the Soviet Union to detect 20 kiloton blasts.
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United States
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Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Livermore
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Cornell University
Local Group Heads to St Louis on Three Day Tour
A coalition of West Monroe and nearby business and farming leaders depart today for a three day visit to the St Louis area. They will tour the Purina Livestock Research Farm near St Louis East St Louis stockyard and attend the Cardinals Dodgers game. Participants include David Petrus Bob Titus John Titus Charles Webber W E Jones C J Freeman Bill Watson O Q O Cloyd Billy Caldwell Strickland Norman Pearah Drew Anderson Joe Pratt Wo l Hueckelby and others from Ouachita and Union parishes.
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C. J. Freeman
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