Uncertain Future for Cotton Bills in Kennedy Plan
Washington AP reports the fate of proposed cotton legislation remains uncertain after a closed Agriculture Department meeting. A national cotton advisory committee, set by Secretary Freeman, failed to endorse Kennedy’s farm program and formed a subcommittee to study options. If enacted, changes aim to cut export subsidies and align prices with world markets.
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Washington
National Cotton Advisory Committee
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Kennedy
Salvation Army Banquet Tickets Still Available
Reservations for the annual Salvation Army Advisory Board Appreciation Dinner are open until Friday noon. The Dutch treat event at the Paragon club tomorrow at 7 p.m. aims to host over 300 attendees with Chester Lauck as featured speaker. Captain W E Grantham says the agenda prioritizes the speaker and includes new advisory board officers and awards for 1962.
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Salvation Army Advisory Board
Vernon T. McCoy
Paragon Club
Chester Lauck
Lum and
Abner Fame
W. E. Grantham
Salvation Army
Grantham
Salvation Army Headquarters
Payroll Tax Rates Going Up in Louisiana 1962
Louisiana employers face a 0.3 percent hike in payroll tax rates for 1962. Income in the unemployment compensation trust fund on June 30, 1961, stood at $111,208,627 against $1,449,591,480 in taxable wages, equaling 7.67 percent, triggering the rate increase.
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Baton Rouge
Richard E. Brown
Louisiana
Brown
MIGs Clash Over Berlin Corridor As Allies Protest
Western airliners and military planes reported intense Soviet activity in the 20 mile wide south Berlin corridor. Allied spokesmen said Soviet fighters approached several Western planes and briefly broke the sound barrier while protests were delivered to the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
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Berlin
Frankfurt-Berlin
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
East Germany
Moscow
Hannover
Berlin-Hamburg
Berlin- Frankfurt
Berlin Air Control Center
Red diplomats curb contacts with U S on cultural exchanges
Soviet diplomats in Washington restrict broad contact aims during talks with the United States on a new cultural exchange agreement to replace the expired accord. The talks began January 31 and followed high level discussions between President Kennedy, Pierre Salinger, and Khrushchev’s circle about improving communications.
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Washington
Khrushchev
Kennedy
U.S
Pierre Salinger
White House
Alexei Adzhubei
Mikhail Kharlamov
Lzvestia
Adzhubei
Salinger
Paris
Kharlamov
Moscow
West Monroe mayoral race kicks off with door to door drives
Three candidates for mayor J Allan Norris Co Bell Jr and Richard A Vallery begin campaigns emphasizing personal contact Vallery plans door to door outreach Bell rejects radio TV outreach Norris will continue house to house campaigning with turnout aim Based on interviews the five alderman seats will also see 15 candidates running with April filing deadlines.
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West Monroe
J. Allan Norris
Co. C. Bell Jr
Richard A. Vallery
Vallery
Anbody
Bell
Norris
Airman Accardo Home on Leave From Shepherd AFB
Airman Third Class James Accardo, son of Mr and Mrs J B Nelms of 608 McCain Dr, is home on leave from Shepherd Air Force Base Texas. Monroe mail routes except downtown will be serviced by motor vehicles and the post office added 10 new mail routes per CHIT-CHAT page 2-A.
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James Accardo
J. B. Nelms
McCain Dr
Shepherd Air Force Base
Tex
Monroe
Missing mother haunts fostered children in Los Angeles case
A year after a young mother using the name Lisa DiMarco checked into the Rosslyn Hotel with two children, she vanished. The two wards, now listed as Celia and Frank DiMarco, are in foster care with unclear ages. Authorities cannot confirm names or ages, delaying possible adoptions. The case remains unsolved and unresolved.
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Los Angeles
Rosslyn
Lisa DiMarco
Wongga
Celia
Frank DiMarco
Pittsburgh Talks Open New Steel Labor Contract Negotiations
Top negotiators met in their first formal session today to pursue a new labor contract for the basic steel industry.
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Pittsburgh
Minuteman Missile Marks Fifth Straight Underground Launch
Cape Canaveral reports the Air Force Minuteman missile achieving its fifth consecutive underground launch success on a 3,900 mile Atlantic range flight.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Air Force
Atlantic
General denies proposed land sale at Barksdale AFB
Lt. Gen. John D. Ryan commander of the 2nd Air Force rejected a plan to sell land at Barksdale Air Force Base that would have paved the way for its eventual closure.
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Shreveport
UPS
John D. Ryan
2Nd Air Force
Barksdale Air Force Base
Katanga Parliament Backs End of Secession
After a stormy four hour session the Katanga Parliament agreed to end the province secession but demanded that the central government align with the free world against communism.
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Elisabethville
Katanga, the Congo
Katanga
Free World
CBS Wins Football TV Rights Bid for Two Years
The Columbia Broadcasting System submitted a top bid of 10.2 million dollars to televise college football games for the next two years, an AP disclosure confirms.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Associated Press
Feibleman Warns U.S. Falls Behind Russia in Ideological Fight
Tulane University philosophy professor James K. Feibleman warned Wednesday night that the United States is falling behind Russia in the philosophical battle between communism and democracy. He urged more than moral exhortation is needed to foster democracies abroad.
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New Orleans
UPI
James K. Feibleman
Tulane University
United States
Russia
Small Fortune In Diamond Rings Dumped On Highway
Wytheville Virginia AP reports hundreds of treasure seekers combed U S 21 after two men allegedly stole a $150,000 case of diamond rings and tossed them from a speeding car. Rings valued over $100,000 were turned in by bystanders. Rings belonged to jeweler Harry L Hennings who said the theft occurred in Bluefield West Virginia.
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Wytheville
Here
U.S. 21
Wythe
Harry L. Hennings
Hennings
Bluefield
W. Va
Variable Cloudiness With Scattered Afternoon Showers
The forecast notes partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thundershowers this afternoon and tomorrow. Highs reach 70 to 75 today, 65 to 70 tomorrow, and overnight lows 50 to 55 tonight. Sunset is 5 54 and sunrise tomorrow 6 50.
Missing Man Turns Up In Another Life
Verne Hansen, 45, a paint factory grinder in Rockford Illinois, identified by FBI fingerprint checks as Dr Carl Vernon Holmberg a Syracuse University chemistry professor missing since May 11 1955. Holmberg once lived in Sandpoint Idaho with wife and three sons. Hansen offered no talks about the sudden identity and dismay lingered.
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Rockford, Ill
Verne Hansen
Carl Vernon Holmberg
Syracuse University
Hansen
Holmberg
Sandpoint
Idaho
Syracuse
New Outdoor Column Debuts Friday in News-Star World
The News-Star World will launch The Fisherman s Corner on Friday with reports on local lakes and streams gathered by area correspondents and fishers. Sam Hanna will write the new column while his Thursday Rod and Gun feature ends. Comin Up Afield continues Sundays with added outdoor coverage.
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News-Star — World
Louisiana
Sam Hanna
Hanna
Fisherman's Corner
News-Star
Morning World
Jackson man held on false pretense charge
A 36 year old Jackson man was held by city police on a false pretense charge for allegedly running up a $200 telephone bill on someone else’s number. Douglas A Fortner admitted making calls across the South charged to E Tucker of Monroe Louisiana who said he did not know of the bills until they arrived.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Jackson
Douglas A. Fortner
South
E. §. Tucker
Monroe
Tucker
Glenn Shot Friday Doubtful Cape Weather Odds
Weather-plagued scientists planned a Friday attempt to launch John H. Glenn Jr. into orbit but 54 mph gale and ongoing delays left the odds against a successful flight. NASA to reassess at midnight and pursue day-by-day launches despite poor forecasts and a ninth postponement.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
Central Atlantic
United States
Weather Bureau
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walter C. Williams
NASA
Glenn
John A. Powers
Powers
Admiral Says Pentagon Censored Law Review Articles
Rear Adm. William C. Mott testified that Pentagon censors blocked three articles in the JAG Journal, written by civilian professors, because they opposed the defense secretary's policy. He argued such censorship undermines professional education and debate in military journals.
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Washington
William C. Mott
Pentagon
Naval Law Review
Senate
Mott
JAG Journal
Judge Advocate General
Navy
Defense
Robert S. Menamara
Today’s Chuckle Battle of Brains Gives Quick Retort
A humorous exchange features a man declaring a brain battle while a woman counters with a witty reply about fighting unarmed. The brief joke plays on bravado versus cleverness.
JFK lauds Jackie’s White House restoration effort
President Kennedy praises Mrs Kennedy for refurbishing the White House to bring Americans closer to its historic residents. He says displaying Grant’s table Lincoln’s bed and Monroe’s dinner set makes the men more alive and that history should inspire stronger American identity.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Grant
Lincoln
Monroe
U.S
America
US attache Lt Col Stogner shot in Leopoldville bed
The assistant U.S. military attaché in Leopoldville Lt Col Helen D Stogner 39 of El Paso Texas was shot in the head while reading in bed and died an hour later Ambassadors staff member Miss Elizabeth Tring was in the room at the time A Congolese chauffeur was arrested and police searched for the house boy and night watchman No weapon was found and motives remain undetermined
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Leopoldville, the Congo
U.S
Leopoldville
Helen D. Stogner
el Paso
Tex
U.N
Stogner
G. McMurtrie Godley
Elizabeth Tring
Washington
Godley
Stegner
Army colonel died in Congo leaves widow and six
Mrs. Helen D. Stogner widow of Lt Col Stegner received the news of her husband's Congo death at home in El Paso Texas after staying beside her feverish six year old daughter. Fort Bliss officers and family friends joined the widow as she cared for the children and prepared for funeral arrangements. Stegner born Gainesville Texas grew up in El Paso and served as assistant U S Army attache in Leopoldville.
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EL Paso
Tex
UPI
Helen D. Stogner
Congo
Stogner
T. A. Stogner
Fort Bliss
Marian
Stegner
Jeannie
Leopoldville
U.S. Army
Helen
Gainesville
FE Paso
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