Garrison Fined for Defamation in New Orleans Case
District attorney Jim Garrison was fined 1000 for defaming eight Orleans criminal district judges amid a probe into vice and racketeering influences. The judge concluded the defamatory statement was untrue yet deemed some punishment necessary, as the trial unfolded before the state Supreme Court.
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Garrison
Supreme Court
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Ponder
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Orleans Parish
Garson
J. Bernardke
Cocke
Bipartisanship Hits Bottom In Congress
Washington reports bipartisan foreign policy has sunk in Congress amid clashes over Cuba. Democrats and Republicans accuse each other as Kennedy orders a Cuba arms quarantine with GOP complaints of insufficient consultation. Senator Hickenlooper declares no bipartisan foreign policy, yet says Republicans contribute to unity in crisis.
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Congress
Cuba
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Harry S. Truman
Korea
Kennedy
GOP
White House
Sen
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Favoritism Searched Out in Plane Award Case
Washington AP reports Senator Len L McClellan says Defense and Air Force secrets must explain alleged favoritism in the 28 million yet potentially 6.5 billion warplane contract for 700 fighter bombers. General Dynamics of Fort Worth won over Boeing. investigations reveal repeated overruling of cheaper Boeing bids.
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D-Ark
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General Dynamics Corp
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Robert E. Dunne
Air Force J
Bandit Hauls Cash From Liquor Store With Self Service Quote
In Kansas City Missouri a bandit flashed a pistol at clerk Lloyd A. Anderson and demanded cash from the liquor store register. Anderson replied that the store was self service and the bandit helped himself to the money.
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Bandit
Kansas City
Lloyd A. Anderson
Mason lodge to form in West Monroe on March 9
A spokesman says the J. C. Stewart Lodge free and accepted Masons will assemble in West Monroe on March 9 for the constituting ceremony, delayed from the originally planned Sunday date.
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J. C. Stewart Lodge
West Monroe
West Monroe Boys Club to operate on abbreviated schedule
West Monroe's Boys Club will operate on an abbreviated schedule for the rest of the week. Director Kenneth Taylor and assistant are referenced on CHIT-CHAT page 9A.
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West Monroe
Kenneth Taylor
Kennon Avoids State Politics In Talk Today
Robert F. Kennon, candidate for governor, spoke at the Monroe Rotary Club lunch and declined to discuss state politics. He said he plans to run for governor in due course while spending time at the Virginia Hotel to refresh and meet friends. The event drew local political figures including Sen. Jamar Adcock, Rep. Mike John Jr, Fred Huenefeld Jr, and Gilbert Faulk, who voiced various supports for Kennon or other potential candidates.
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Monroe
Kennon
Virginia
Rotary Club
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Jamar Adcock
Columbia
John J. McKeithen
Mike John Jr
Fred Huenefeld Jr
State Welfare Board
Gilbert Faulk
Quachita
Public Works
Claude Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Mac assailed over Cuba crisis H-bomb readiness
In Parliament today Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced sharp criticism for not disclosing that Britain had brought its H-bomber force and Thor rockets to a high state of readiness during the Cuba crisis.
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Cuba
Kennedy Civil Rights Speech Highlights War on Discrimination
President Kennedy urges broad national action against racial discrimination at all levels. He links equality before the law to economic growth and world leadership, praising peaceful desegregation progress at state universities and stressing voting rights as essential to citizenship.
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West Side Alderman Benjamin Lewis Shot to Death
Chicago police report Alderman Benjamin F. Lewis of the 24th Ward, a Black Democratic leader re elected by a landslide, found handcuffed and shot in his second floor office. A janitor saw empty shells near the body and one bullet wound in the head. Lewis defeated Jeff Clifford Alford 12 1 unofficially 12 189 to 888. Lewis was a former city building inspector and the ward’s first Black alderman.
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Benjamin F. Lewis
24Th Ward
Lewis
Joseph Brown
Jeff Clifford Alford
Alford
Eugene Belton
Belton
James Jackson
Ella
Mutilated Body Found In Congo
Elisabethville Katanga reports a mutilated Katanga police officer and a seriously injured companion found in a ditch near a Congolese army barracks. A Katangan inquiry says they were returning from duty when Congolese soldiers attacked them. Tension rises as clashes kill soldiers and officers amid unrest.
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Elisabethville
Congo
Katanga
Evariste Kimba
Leap Year origin traced to Julius Caesar scholars
The practice of adding a day every four years began with Julius Caesar's astronomers in 46 B C. Britannica notes that with the solar year lasting 365 days and six hours, the extra hours accumulated into a full day once every fourth year.
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Small Soviet Troops Leaving Cuba Reported
Washington officials say one Soviet ship carried a small troop contingent from Cuba under Moscow’s pledge to pull several thousand out by March 15. Four ships are believed en route, with capacity for eight to nine thousand soldiers, while no official notification of a 7000-man pullout was received.
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Cuba
New York Times
United States
Asst
Robert Manning
the Times
Moscow
Anatoly Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
Central Intelligence Agency
John A. McCone
Congressional
Northeast Louisiana Faces Mild Conditions With Light Showers
Northeast Louisiana enjoys springlike weather with daytime highs 57 to 68 degrees and nights 34 to 38. Skies range from cloudy to partly cloudy as widely scattered showers are forecast for today and Friday. Winds 0 to 20 mph shift to northerly this evening.
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Louisiana
Halleck cites possible Kennedy budget cuts
Rep Charles A Halleck says Kennedy budget could be cut by more than ten billion dollars without harming national security or the economy. Telstar satellite fails to respond to earth commands for a week, Bell Labs reports. French police seize another SOA leader Georges Buscia and eight subordinates assigned to assassinate Premier Pompidou and other officials.
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Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
Kennedy
New York
Telstar
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Paris
Secret Army
Georges Buscia
Georges Pompidou
Newspaper blackout negotiations urged by publishers and printers
New York AP reports May or Robert F Wagner said publishers and striking printers asked to renew negotiations to settle the citys 83 day blackout. In Lake Charles insurance executive urged investigation of an educational policy bid method by a Baton Rouge firm. In Englewood attendance rose at Lincoln Elementary as 186 of 498 pupils were absent, down from 239 Tuesday and 202 Wednesday.
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Robert F. Wagner
Lake Charles, la
UPI
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Baton Rouge
Englewood, N. J
Lincoln Elementary
Cuban coastal raid claimed by anti Castro group
Rebel and government radio monitors in Dade and Broward counties heard reports that military installations near Matanzas about 50 miles east of Havana were bombed Wednesday by a single airplane in a sea and air strike on the north coast of Cuba.
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Battered Body Of Girl Found In Minnehaha Park
In Minneapolis a beaten girl was found dead in Minnehaha Park. Detective Inspector Hawkinson said the victim, tentatively Mary Bell aged 15, had been missing from a babysitting job since Wednesday night. Nearby resident Einar Nelson found the body on a footpath. Police noted snow footprints suggesting she was with at least one assailant and tried to flee.
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Minn
Minnehaha Park
Calvin Hawkinson
Mary Bell
Einar Nelson
Laos Foreign Minister Quinsena Missing From Laos Delegation
President Kennedy noted that Quinim Pholsena Laotian foreign minister was missing from a Laotian delegation at the White House. He asked King Savang Vatthana where Pholsena was and was told Pholsena had contracted Asian flu during his Washington trip. Kennedy quipped that it was American flu.
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UPI
Kennedy
Quinim Pholsena
White House
Savang Vatthana
Laos
Pholsena
Defense of Bible Reading Before Court
The Abington Township school board argues that Pennsylvania’s law mandating ten Bible verses at daily school opening teaches morality, not religion. Justices press how morality versus doctrine is distinguished, with Ward defending the statute as nonreligious. The case contrasts Pennsylvania court ruling against Bible reading with Maryland upholding it.
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Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Philip H. Ward III
Abington ‘Township
Justice Black
Ward
Maryland
Philadelphia
Edward S_ schempp
Abington Township
Schempps
Baltimore
Kennedy urges civil rights push to Congress in pivotal message
President Kennedy appeals to a divided Congress to reinforce Negro voting rights and desegregation, outlining a civil rights program. He seeks extended Civil Rights Commission powers, warns of possible Southern filibuster, and cites progress since Lincoln while urging broader national effort involving states, localities, and private groups.
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Kennedy
Congress
Civil Rights Commission
Today s chuckle about luck and success
A lighthearted quip notes that almost everyone believes luck explains success of people they dislike, playfully casting doubt on luck as the true cause. The brief joke reflects a common social observation about luck and ambition.
Survives 32 Hours Trapped in California Well
Mrs. Arthur Hiscock, 45, survived 32 grueling hours in a caved-in well near Sanger California after the well collapsed. Constable Hurshel Pigen praised her as a remarkable woman, noting she clung to a ledge and used a board and rope to stay afloat until rescue.
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Sanger
Calif
Hurshel Pigen
Arthur Hiscock
Val Valles
Papermakers Fight Meter Removal in West Monroe
Local union 364 of the United Paper Makers and Paper Workers opposes a Chamber of Commerce plan to remove downtown meters. Lewis Stansell cites five reasons to keep the meters, following a union meeting February 14 with 358 members. A Chamber open meeting is set for 7 tonight at First National Bank to discuss downtown trade.
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Lewis Stansell
Ouachita Valley
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