Gore Pledges Fight To Hike Highway Fund
Senator Albert Gore vows an all out fight to raise highway funds in a $51.5 billion plan. He forecasts $900 million yearly federal aid for primary urban and rural roads, with states matching. House and Senate bills outline interstate construction, user taxes to finance the program, and an average motorist cost of about $8.83 annually.
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Washington
Albert Gore
Senate
Gore
House
Congress
Ouachita Parish Cancer Fund Push Reaches 58 Percent
Parish crusade chairman George Rorex reports Ouachita’s 1956 cancer drive has 58 percent of its quota raised. He notes last year’s effort was a supplemental residential campaign and urges business firms and professionals to contribute.
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Ouachita Parish
George Rorex
Crusade
American Cancer Society
Rorex
P. O. Box
Monroe
K. Crandall
Ouachita
Index by Section The Daily Chronicle Guide
An index overview lists sections including Oi Gas Churches Radio TV Editorials Sports Gard News Theaters and other page references, outlining where readers can locate items across the issue. It catalogs topics and column groupings with page indicators for quick navigation through the paper.
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Oi & Gas
Amendment One Falls Narrowly in Louisiana Vote
Official returns show Amendment One carried by a 767 vote margin in the April 17 general election. The two thirds Legislature requirement to raise taxes was supported 104,283 to 103,516, as Secretary of State Wade O. Martin Jr. released results. Governor-elect Earl K. Long opposed the amendment, saying it binds a governor, while backing No 3 to empower Orleans Parish levee district and approving No 2 and No 6 broad tax exemptions and highway provisions.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Wade O. Martin Jr
Long
Orleans Parish
UN Secretary in Egypt to finish mid east mission
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo after Beirut for a likely final mission round before reporting to the Security Council. He met Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and discussed cease fire enforcement, truce observers, mobile patrols, and border point observation posts to stabilize the Israel Egypt front amid troop withdrawal debates and Syria concerns over the Sea of Galilee.
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Egypt
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Middle East
U. N
Beirut
Lebanon
Security Council
Mahmoud Fawzi
Hammarskjold
Syria
Citizens Councils Seek Members in Detroit Area
Detroit April 28 The Detroit Free Press reports pro segregation Citizens Councils of Alabama are recruiting members and organizing chapters in the Detroit area. Alabama official Sam Engelhardt says Detroiters asked for organizational literature, which he sent, noting they are wary of trouble.
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The
Detroit Free Press
Citizens Councils of
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Citizens Councils
Supreme Court
the Free Press
Sam Engelhardt
Citizens Council of Alabama
Engelhardt
Long picks plan for state revenue post in New Orleans
In New Orleans on April 28 the States reported Governor-elect Earl Long favors James Reilly of Shreveport to head the revenue department with Douglas Fowler as his first assistant.
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New Orleans
Douglas Fowler
Earl Long
Long
James §. Reilly
Shreveport
Revenue Department
Fowler
Huskey Admits Lacking Signal While Right Turn
Mack R. Huskey, 69, told police he did not signal when turning right from a center lane because his wife was watching for him. The incident occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 28 as Huskey’s car was involved in a collision or traffic stop, details indicate he cited distraction by his wife as the reason. Police records show the event was logged by local authorities and the man’s statement was recorded.
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Charlotte
N. C
Rammel T. Smith
Smith
Knoxville
Tenn
Mack R. Huskey
Huskey
Siamese twin girls die after birth in Fargo hospital
Fargo reports that Siamese twin girls died Saturday in a hospital incubator after being joined at the chest and abdomen at birth Thursday night. They were the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Neubauer.
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Fargo
N. D
Lawrence Neubauer
Greenville Miss April 28 Continued on Eighth Page
Greenville Mississippi reports a continuation on the eighth page dated April 28, highlighting ongoing coverage from the regional desk. The brief note signals deeper news inside the issue.
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Greenville
Miss
London Arms Talks Nearing Total Failure
London disarmament talks falter as five powers show little progress. Stassen and Gromyko held private talks, while no delegation agreed to Moscow and Washington’s proposed 2.5 million man forces. Open Sky aerial inspection faced Russian opposition and a three-phase Anglo French plan for final nuclear disarmament was rejected.
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London
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Canada
United Nations
New York
Haold E. Stassen
Andrei Gromyko
Stassen
Eisenhower
Gromyko
Wedding Gift Bomb Injures Groom Weeks Before Wedding
A bomb hidden as a wedding gift exploded at a suburban Englewood home in Dayton Ohio injuring groom designate Donald Dixon 27 and minor injuries to his sister and two aunts. The blast occurred as relatives gathered before a planned morning wedding and his father’s funeral. Eighteen people were present when dynamite triggered by a radio battery exploded.
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Dayton
Ohio
Donald Dixon
Dixon
Englewood
George Cooney
Chicago
Ill
Donald Stewart
Washington, D.C
Francis Stefanak
Elmhurst
Illness Fatal To LSU Agriculture Dean Jordan Lee
Dean Jordan G. Lee, 70, head of LSU College of Agriculture, died at home after weeks of illness. Appointed LSU dean in 1931, he planned retirement June 30 after 25 years as head. J Norman Efferson named to succeed him. Lee born 1885 in Farmerville, educated at LSU, previously organized and led the department at Southwestern Louisiana Institute. He was named Louisiana “man of the year” in 1943 by Progressive Farmer and chaired the state Soil Conservation committee.
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Baton Rouge
Jordan G. Lee
Louisiana State University College of Agriculture
Lee
Agriculture Department
Department of Vocational Agriculture
J. Norman Efferson
LSU Agricultural Experiment Station
LSU Board of Supervisors
College of Agriculture
Dean Lee
Farmerville
LSU
Department of Agriculture
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Lafayette
Progressive Farmer Magazine
Louisiana Agriculture
Louisiana Soil Conservation Committee
Louisiana education board seeks 160 million dollar school budget
The Louisiana Education Board voted to present a 55 million dollar building program for colleges and special schools and asked the Legislature for as much of it as possible. It also approved requesting 160 million dollars to run public schools next year, up 48 million, with eight state colleges and special schools detailing construction needs and planning for a graduate program at Southern University.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Education Board
Louisiana Public Schools
Southern University
Youth Confesses Attack Learn From TV Crime Shows
In Mansfield Louisiana a 16 year old boy Norman Spencer Negro of Grand Cane admitted beating and robbing 65 year old merchant Gilmer Pittard in Pittard's Grand Cane store. Pittard remained in critical condition in a Shreveport hospital as authorities held the youth without charge while awaiting Pittard's outcome.
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Mansfield
Grand Cane
DeSoto Parish
Harmon Burgess
Norman Spencer
Gilmer S. Pittard
Pittard
Shreveport
Burgess
Spencer
Daylight Saving Time Changes U S Sleep Time For Millions
Elgin Illinois April 28 UP 70 million Americans set clocks forward for daylight saving time but will gain about a minute of sleep due to a redefinition of the second by the International Astronomical Union. The Elgin observatory explains the second is now tied to the year rather than the solar day. Continued on sixth page.
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Elgin
Ill
Elgin Observatory
International Astronomical Union
Dublin
Ireland
Observatory
Congress weighs making motto official for United States
A bill to make In God We Trust the official U S motto passed the House and nears Senate action. The phrase has appeared on U S coins since 1865 and is widely regarded by Americans as the official motto. Continued on Sixth Page.
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Congress
House
Senate
U. S
Navy Trainer Plunges Into Wooded Area
Two U S Navy airmen died when their AD5 Skyraider crashed near Harrisonburg at 2 am. A third crew member was missing. One body incinerated. another found in a pine tree. The crash left wreckage and evidence of an explosion. Authorities traced the scene with local officers and a civilian airplane service owner guiding responders. The incident remains under investigation.
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Harrisonburg
Here
U. S. Navy
Enterprise Road
Enterprise Road. A Crash Helmet With the Words, “Smitty” V. C. 33
Esthman Newman
Monroe
Newman
Douglas Ads Skyraider
Catahoula
Charles Phillips
John Hearn
Ernest Guinn
Werckage
Phillips
Jonesville
Louisiana State Troper
Don Steen
J. Y. McGuffie
Fighth
Sulphur Man Kills Wife Then Commits Suicide
In Sulphur Louisiana a 40 year old construction worker George Henderson shot his wife Addis Doyle Henderson 31 to death in their home and then shot himself. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition as deputies secured the scene.
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Calcassieu Parish
George Henderson
Addis Doyle Henderson
Sam C. Mazilly
Pressure on five seamen to return to Russia claim
Three Russian seamen told the Senate Internal Security sub committee that pressure prompted five comrades to go back to the Soviet Union. Viktor Tatamikov said some had been pressured and predicted the escapees would perish in slave labor camps. Ivankov-Nikolov testified the five had appeared content here and had not expressed a wish to return, disputing Moscow’s account that they acted on their own.
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Washington
Russia
Viktor Tatamikov
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Georgi Zarubin
Michael Ivankov - Nikolov
Zarubin
Viktor Solovyev
United States
China
United Nations
Ivankov - Nikolay
Moscow
Baton Rouge Mayor Dies In Air Crash
LANSING Mich April 28 UP the mayor of Baton Rouge Jesse L Webb Jr 43 and two others were killed when their private plane exploded and crashed while approaching Lansing Capital Airport Witnesses said the plane lost a wing on approach and exploded mid air They were en route to a Municipal Conference at Michigan State University left Baton Rouge at 336 am scheduled to arrive at noon but crashed around 6 pm in an open field Identification of the victims was not completed
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Lansing
Mich
Baton Rouge
Jesse L. Webb I Jr
Mica
Kimbrew Owen
Louisiana State University
Paul Pitman
Michigan State University
Fighth
Plot to murder Khrushchev and Brezhnev foiled in London
Scotland Yard reportedly uncovered a plan by four Eastern European anti communists to assassinate Russia's leaders during their Britain visit. Four men allegedly formed two gangs with cross border ties and considered mining the Thames at Greenwich. No identities were disclosed.
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Scotland Yard
Russia
Britain
the Yard
Daily Express
Daily Sketch
England
Bulgaria
Khrushchev
Foreign Office
Naval Intelligence
Thames
Cloudy and Warm Weather Outlook Across States
Louisiana forecasts cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers and continued warmth. Arkansas predicts local thunderstorms turning colder in the north and west areas Sunday. In Monroe, temperatures Saturday ranged from 71 to 88 degrees.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Monroe
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