Rackets Probers Call For Strategy Huddle Monday
The Senate Rackets Committee convenes a closed door strategy conference Monday with field investigators from New York Philadelphia Chicago St Louis Detroit and Miami. The year ahead may include hearings on racketeering in labor management including the Kohler strike violence and investigations of operating engineers carpenters and butchers unions and labor consultants. Robert F. Kennedy cautioned details remain undisclosed.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
St.Louis
Detroit
Miami
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Kohler Plumbing Fixture Co
Wisconsin
Kohler
Robert F. Kennedy
Teachers Say Salary Scale Sub-Average
The Louisiana Teachers’ Assn. says both teacher salaries and per pupil costs in Louisiana lag behind national averages. It backs a two cent increase in the natural gas gathering tax to fund higher pay, noting state leaders shifted surpluses to provide part of the raise. Louisiana ranks 21st in instructional staff salaries and classroom teachers’ pay, with a 1957-58 average around 4585 and 4450 respectively.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Teachers’ Assn
Louisiana
LTA
Earl Long
National Education Assn
Mississippi
California
District of Columbia
New York State
United Fund Still Short of Goal in Ouachita Parish
Officials report United Givers Fund has collected 201860 dollars, 97 percent of the 206,000 dollar goal, leaving 6131 dollars to raise in Ouachita Parish for 1958. Drive offices urge residents to mail pledges or call FA 5 3869 to request a pledge card.
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United Givers Fund
Drive
P. O. Box
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
United Givers
Twin Cities Churches Plan Yuletide Observances
Several faith communities schedule Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services with music, candlelight, and special programs. First Methodist features Messiah at 7 30 and a candlelight evening service with a 11 30 p m communion. First Assembly of God and Our Lady of Fatima offer midnight mass and multi service schedules. First Presbyterian plans candlelight communion and choir numbers. St Pauls Methodist hosts a 5 30 p m family service with a living tableau led by children and youth choirs.
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Twin Cities
First Methodist Church
Eloya Fominaya
Northeast State College
First Methodist
First Assembly of God Church
West Monroe
Lee Fiser
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Lexington Avenue
Hungary vows continued hunt for counterrevolutionaries
Budapest reports Prosecutor Geza Szenasi pledging to pursue counterrevolutionaries from last year’s anti Russian uprising for years. He spoke at Parlament as Chief Justice Jozsef Domonkos noted over half the judges were fired for refusing to join summary courts.
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Budapest
Geza Szenasi
Szenasi
Jozsef Domonkos
Supreme Court
Pat Maleter
Police Seek 11 Week Old Girl Believed Kidnapped
In San Francisco police hunt for Caroline Elizabeth Horton 11 weeks old, missing since yesterday afternoon. Reported by Dorothy Horton 28, a woman saw her at Public Health Building and said she would enter the baby in a Temple Baptist church contest. A second woman identified as Mrs Miller and a cab driver say the infant was taken in a cab and driven toward St Dominic's church. Priests and temple church deny any baby contest and had not seen the child.
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San Francisco
Caroline Elizabeth Horton
Don Scott
Dorothy Horton
Public Health
Temple Baptist Church
Crossett’s Meanest Man 1957 Still At Large
Crossett Arkansas residents offer a $50 reward for the ar rest and conviction of the butcher who killed and mutilated a pet deer at the Crossett Zoo. The stolen two year old buck named Dash was raised by Charles Menser of Lake Village and later housed at the zoo. Game Warden W A Kelly notes the animal was struck and dragged to a road where horns and blood were found. Five nearby deer were unharmed.
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Crosset, Ark
Crossett
Waskell Carter
Crossett Zoo
Dash
Charles Menser
Lake Village
Menser
W. A. Kelly
Cash
Soviet leaders challenge West on disarmament
In Moscow on December 21, Soviet leaders urged the West to sign a no war pact and back an international conference on disarmament. Gromyko dismissed NATO plans for a foreign ministers conference as pointless, while Khrushchev challenged the West to choose the system that best serves its people. Parliament endorsed proposals to halt nuclear tests and use of atomic bombs by year’s start.
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NATO
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
United Nations
Paris
Gromyko
West
Dulles
Khrushchev
Nikoli Bulbanin
United States
Britain
Russia
Move To Get Science Dept Gains Ground
Democratic leaders push to combine all government research and development into a single Cabinet level Science Department. Sen. Humphrey cites a study urging centralized control of space weapons and other developments. Sen. Mansfield notes science research burdens military services and favors a unified department.
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Washington
Department of Science
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Government Operations Committee
Mansfield
D-Mont
Russia
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Preparedness
National Science Foundation
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Navy Vanguard sighting sparks race to launch first satellite
Cape Canaveral reports signs of Vanguard activity with observers noting a possible rocket nose peeking over the launch stand. The long launch tower arm appears to have shifted overnight, suggesting test activity near the Navy vehicle. The Navy and Army compete to reach orbit first.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Vanguard
Navy
Army
America
Two Die In Fire At Orleans Apartment Building
A pre-dawn blaze in a multi family house near Marrero in Jefferson Parish killed two residents, Andock Pejeaud 49 and Dolores Williams about 20, with eight others escaping. Fire Chief Philip Panepinto said the cause is undetermined and the bodies were found among ashes.
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New Orleans
Marrero
Jefferson Parish
Philip Panepinto
Panepinto
Andock Pejeaud
Dolores Williams
Paul Chapman District FHA Official Dies at 58
Paul Gee Chapman district supervisor for the Farm Home Administration in north Louisiana died in a Ruston hospital of a heart attack. He was 58 and lived in Archibald. A World War I veteran and Mason, he leaves a widow and nine grandchildren along with five daughters and siblings. Funeral at Little Creek Methodist Church with interment in church cemetery.
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A. T. Mitchell
Church
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Rayville
Virginia Hornbeak Chapman
Archibald
Cecil Lowe
Minden
Mg Looney
Lake Charles
Kendall Gideons
Morgan City
M. E. Parker
Ruston
Fred Rushing, Jr
Mangham
Fair And Warmer For North Louisiana Today
Fair and warmer weather is in store for north Louisianians today with mild conditions likely to continue through Monday. Temperatures yesterday ranged from 33 to 66 with highs today around 60 to 62. Arkansas faces similar conditions with scattered showers forecast for tomorrow.
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North
LSU unveils first oral cure for major intestinal parasites
LSU researchers Dr. J C Swartzwelder and Dean William W Frye report dithiazanine as the first effective oral therapy against four parasites including whipworm, strongyloides, large round worms and pinworms. Tested in 400 patients, the drug shows promise for mass therapy in infected populations.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State University Today
Journal of the American Medical Assn
J. C. Swartzwelder
William W. Frye
LSU Medical School
Swartzwelder
Messiah Presented Across Twin Cities Churches
Christmas services will be observed in Twin Cities churches with a midweek celebration of the oratorio Messiah. In Monroe downtown the First Methodist Church hosts the production directed by Elroy Fominaya, assistant professor of music at Northeast State College, with a choir that has been rehearsing.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
First Methodist Church
Elroy Fominaya
Northeast State College
The
Methodist Church
Goodfellows Appeal Aims To Reach 4000 For Monroe Charity
The Monroe Rotary Club White Elephant sale supports the Goodfellows fund which has raised 3726.09 with three days remaining to reach 4000. Jaycees and Jaycee Jays work with volunteers packing food clothes and toys for distribution to the needy as Christmas nears.
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Monroe Rotary Club
Goodfellows Fund
Goodfellows
Jaycees
Jaycee Jaynes
Mother of Six Killed In Crash In Mandeville
In Mandeville Louisiana a car struck a freight train killing Billie Jean Black 32 a mother of six. Coroner Gautreaux said she and her husband Irving 49 had moved from Fort Collins Colorado less than two weeks earlier. Children ranged from one to nine. Mrs Black was alone in the car when it struck a gondola car of the Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad train.
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Mandeville
Billie Jean Black
Gautreaux
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