Rains Return Flood Crests Hit Dixie Areas Again
Rains poured on the Dixie region driving more than 6 000 from homes as rivers rose anew amid a southern storm system crossing the Mississippi. Hattiesburg Mississippi a lumber mill town of 35 000 faced renewed danger with deaths reported and damage estimated at 2 million dollars as National Guardsmen patrolled the area.
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United Press International
Dixie
Southern Plains
Southland
Mississippi River
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Bessemer
Ala
Mississippi
Louisiana
Georgia
Hattiesburg
Miss
Alabama
National
Boule
Hodges predicts improving economy despite current troubles
Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges told a House subcommittee that the U S economy should improve in 60 days or 50 days and endorsed Kennedy's plan to raise the federal minimum wage to 1 25 an hour. He rejected inflation fears and noted his past support for a state wage in North Carolina.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
House Labor & Education
House
North Carolina
Edgar W. Hiestand
R-Calif
Congressional
Kennedy
South
Flemming Named President of University of Oregon
Arthur S. Flemming, former secretary of health education and welfare, is named the new president of the University of Oregon by the State Board of Higher Education. He is 55 and will visit Oregon on March 20 for several days and again April 16. Flemming served in the Eisenhower Cabinet from 1958 to 1961. He succeeds O Meredith Wilson who was sworn in as president of the University of Minnesota. The Oregon presidency had been vacant since last summer.
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Portland
Ore
Arthur S. Flemming
Feared kidnapped girl spurs citywide search in New York
FBI agents join a two day search for four year old Edith Googie Kiccorius who vanished while playing on a sidewalk near 8th Avenue and 13th Street. Police and her widowed mother fear abduction by a sex deviate or a childless woman as hundreds are questioned and a broad manhunt unfolds.
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New York
UPI
FBI
Friday
Edith
Googie) Kiccorius
Googie
Albin
Manuel Duclet
Edith Kiccorius
Brooklyn
Duclet
8Th Avenue
13Th Stree
Cene Tenary Choir to Perform at Neville High School
The nationally famed Cene tenary Choir from Shreveport will appear at Neville High School auditorium at 8 p m next Tuesday. Will Andress presides with Will Pringle as vice president Jill Lands Barbara Bourdie as secretary and James Goins as treasurer. Noted members include Joe Sartor Linda Rossett Pat McFarland George Lawn Edward Pledger and Kay Cooper.
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Shreveport
Neville High School
Will Andress
Will Pringle
Jill Landis
Barbara Bourdie
James Goins
Joe Sartor
Linda Rosett
Pat McFarland
George Lawn
Edward Pledger
Kay Cooper
Family of Capt Jack Andrews Returns from Alaska
Recovering Capt. Jack G. Andrews and his wife Georgette, recently home from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, are reported by Rantoul Illinois sources to be doing well after Georgette’s surgery. Her mother Mrs. George Bowie from Edgewater Gardens is with them.
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Jack G. Andrews
Elmendorf
A.F
Anchorage
Alaska
Rantoul, Ill
A.F.B
Georgette
George Bowie
Edgewater Gardens
Radio Brain Space Shot Fizzles
Cape Canaveral reports the Juno II booster failed to fire the upper stages after launch at 7 13 p m EST. The 75 pound satellite Explorer X carrying a single transmitter aimed to study the ionosphere and long range radio and television signals but plunged into the Atlantic after the stage failure.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
I National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S
Earth
Explorer
Kennedy urges curb on gold drain via travel duty cut
President Kennedy asks Congress to reduce the duty free purchase limit from 500 to 100 dollars to stem overseas gold and dollar outflows. He also proposes tax exemptions for foreign banks on U S government securities kept non commercially. The package includes health program bills funding physician training nursing homes and aged care facilities. Continued on Page Two-A.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
U.S
Tornado Warning Triggers Early Dismissal in East Baton Rouge
A Friday tornado warning caused an early dismissal for East Baton Rouge Parish students. The school board ordered children sent home after lunch and parents urged to pick up or rely on regular bus service. State police advised drivers to avoid highways whenever feasible.
Civil War Cannon Dedication Honors Widow Blakely in Vicksburg
In Vicksburg Mississippi the Widow Blakely Civil War cannon was dedicated in a centennial ceremony. Torbert Slack of Lake Charles reenacted scenes from his father Lt A L Slacks diary of the 1863 siege. The event drew over 250 attendees near the Louisiana Circle by U S Highway 61.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Blakely
Torbert Slack
Lake Charles
West Monroe
Dixie
Louisiana Circle
Confederacy
A. L. Slack
First
Louisiana Heavy Artillery
Widow Blakely
New Orleans Teachers May Get Pay Soon
Louis G. Riecke of the Orleans Parish School Board said he was hopeful public school teachers would be paid early next week. A plan would have State Treasurer Tugwell advance 1.75 to 2 million dollars on homestead exemption refunds to the New Orleans City Council, which would pass the funds to the school board. February salaries for New Orleans teachers have not been paid, and February pay for the city’s Frantz and MacDonogh No. 19 schools is still outstanding.
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New Orleans
Louis G. Riecke
Orleans Parish
A. P. Tugwell
William Frantz
MacDonogh No. 19
Judge Rules Strikers Are In Contempt
In Washington Friday a federal judge held Eastern Air Lines Flight Engineers International Association in contempt of court over the ongoing national airline dispute. The strike continued at Western Air Lines as settlement talks stall. President Kennedy set up an emergency board to probe the Northwest Airlines case while Feinsinger’s commission arranges further hearings.
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Miami
U.S. Dist
Ernett C. Choate
Eastern Air Lines
Flight Engineers International Association
Western Air Lines
Arthur J. Goldberg
Kennedy
Northwest Airlines
Nathan Feinsinger
Presidential Commission
Feinsinger
Special Commission
Eastern
Atlas E model tests first flight to 7,000 miles
The Atlas E intercontinental missile completed its first flight test, reaching 7,000 miles with a 400,000 pound thrust, verifying uprated engines, inertial guidance, and nose cone heat resistance. The launch from Cape Canaveral followed earlier failures and aims for operational status later this year.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Arder
South Atlantic
U.S
Capetown
South Africa
Air Force
State set to take I 20 proposals on March 22
The State Highway Department will accept sealed proposals for the Calhoun to West Monroe segment of Interstate 20 on March 22. Project covers 5.6 miles from U S 80 at Calhoun to route 546 with grading drainage structures concrete paving and grade separations. Project engineer is C M Dunlap of West Monroe. Gibbs says Monroe area bids will be let within 12 months.
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State Highway Department
Lawrence Gibbs
Gibbs
Ray Burgess
Calhoun - West Monroe
Calhoun
C. M. Dunlap
Stella St
West
Monroe
Kennedy Okays Resuming Talks With Soviets
President Kennedy authorized resumption of talks with the Soviet Union on reciprocal commercial air service. Officials said discussions would renew after Eisenhower halted them last July following the RB47 incident, signaling potential concrete negotiations under Kennedy.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
United States
Russia
Dwight D.eisenhower
Oldest Crime Claim Shakes Time of Human Origins
British anthropologist Dr. L S B Leakey unveiled bones from Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika dated over 600000 years ago. The remains, including a child, suggest murder and imply humans predate Zinjanthropus as the earliest known man. Evidence hints the site housed ancient humans near modern form, with potential saber toothed tiger presence.
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Washington
L. S. B. Leakey
Coryndon Museum
Nairobi
Kenya
Olduvai Gorge
Tanganyika
National Geographic Soliety
Zinjanthropus
Leakey
National Geographic Society
Government To Support Court Edicts
In Washington, Attorney General Robert Kennedy stated federal court orders will be enforced in Louisiana civil rights cases. He criticized the Louisiana Legislature for delaying teacher pay amid integration moves and dismissed talk of a possible two year truce with the White House on civil rights.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Louisiana
Kennedy
House of Representatives
Justice Department
New Orleans
Crescent City
Wellborn Jack
Jack
White House
Jack P. F. Gremillion
Fair Skies End With More Rain
The text reports a weather change as a cold front brings renewed rain to Monroe and surrounding areas. It notes rising and falling water levels at Cheniere Lake with gates opened to lower levels, while wind gusts and heavy rain affect LaSalle Lincoln parishes and towns including Ruston Winn Madison More.
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Cheniere Lake
Lake Commission
Hobson Norris Sr
Cheniere Dam
LaSalle
Lincoln
Ruston
Winn
Madison
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Mississippi River Bridge
U.S. Highway 61
Mother of
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Warren W. Ward
Ouachita Parish
William W. Ward
Ward
Bailey Mortuary
K. G. Rorie
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Old Town
Methodist Church
Howard H. Ward
Brookhaven
Margaret Vance
Lake Hughes
Calif
E. E. Jelks
el Dorado
Ark
Joe Webb
Herbert Reeder
Herman Dawson
Woodrow Waller
Bernard Walker
Sam Maddox
N.O
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