Rioting in Algiers Kills Ten as Partitions Protest
Algerian nationalists clashed with French police in Algiers and two towns over plans to partition Algeria. Ten people died and 71 were wounded, including five Muslims and 40 injured in Algiers. FLN officials in Tunis condemned police uses of force and called for a July 5 demonstration.
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Algiers
Partition
Algeria
Blida
Baraki
Sahara
Bouzareah
National Liberation Front
FLN
Tunis
Casbah
Hun
New Consolidated Caldwell Parish High School Planned
A planning committee will recommend to the Caldwell Parish school board July 11 a consolidated high school for Grayson and Columbia with 628 students. The site would be at the foot of Columbia Hill in Wiley Hollow, cost to be determined by an architect, and a citizens committee would review the project if approved.
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Columbia
Caldwell Parish
Grayson, A
Columbia Hill
Wiley Hollow
Ted L. Johnston
E. L. Carroll
Tom Tingle
Twin Cities Hit By Severe Thunderstorm And Flooding
A sudden lightning laden thunderstorm dumped 1.70 inches of rain on the Twin Cities Saturday. The storm flooded Monroe streets during a 30 plus minute downpour. Sunday forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with a high of 88 to 92 degrees and little temperature change from Friday. Early Saturday temperatures dipped to a cool 67 degrees.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
State Gains Year To Act On Welfare State
Louisiana lawmakers face deciding on a new law to govern support for illegitimate children as federal funds for the ADC program hinge on suitable homes rules. A Kennedy era rider delays the Sept 1962 deadline, delaying the Fleming ruling and potentially shaping the state’s plan for restoring dropped cases and securing about 20 million in federal aid.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
Kennedy
Louisiana
Eisenhower
ADC
England
Adop
Ousted School Official Clings to Office in Baton Rouge
Ousted superintendent Lloyd V. Funchess remained in his Baton Rouge office overnight amid a court move that could restore him. District Judge Coleman Lindsey ordered the school board and Lloyd Lindsey to show cause why they should not be enjoined from barring Funchess from continuing in his post.
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Baton Rouge
Lloyd V. Funchess
Coleman Lindsey
East Baton Rouge Parish
Lloyd Lindsey
Funchess
Lindsey
Hoper
Monroe Mayor Rejects Kennedy Foreign Aid Drive
Monroe Mayor W L Howard, a Southern opponent of federal aid excesses, disclosed a telegram from Democratic National Committee chair John Bailey urging support for Kennedy's foreign aid program. Howard stated he is not a left wing Democrat and opposes foreign aid and federal education funds. He urged states rights and conservative organization in response.
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Monroe
W. L. Howard
National Democratic Party
Kennedy
Howard
John Bailey
Democratic National Committee
Bailey
Democratic Party
National Democrats
Ramblin El Miro Temple Knights meet at Castle Hall
Ramblin El Miro Temple No 187 Knights of Kharassans will meet at 8 p m Monday in Castle Hall 127 St John St announced Royal Vizier Frank Parker City buses run July 4 on a 40 minute loop to Southside Charity Hospital DeSiard Road and Park Avenue schedule begins 6 a m with 40 minute trips to Bernstein Park Powell Avenue Texas Avenue service ends 3 p m
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el Miro
Knights of Kharassans
Castle Hall
St. John St
Frank Parker
Southside
Charity Hospital
DeSiard Road
Park Avenue
Loop Road
College Avenue
Bernstein Park
Powell Avenue
Texas Avenue
Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Schedule For Forsythe Park
A full Forsythe Park Fourth of July program runs Tuesday from 11 a.m. with an official welcome by Mayor W L Howard, games, a judo exhibition, flag raising, a community sing, barrel fight between fire departments, sports, bike races and a Neville Stadium fireworks display at 8 p.m. Organizers Jaycee and Chamber of Commerce expect up to 10 000 attendees and urge picnic lunches.
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Neville Stadium
Jaycee
Chamber of Commerce
Forsythe Park
Monroe
W. L. Howard
Twin Cities
West Monroe
Howard
Allen Corbin
Monroe Police Department
Gene Smith
Rain Delays Lake Providence Miss Louisiana Pageant
The Lake Providence Miss Louisiana Pageant paused by a thundershower Saturday night and will resume at 7 p.m. today to announce the evening dress winners. After rain ended, 28 state winners paraded in evening gowns and swimsuits while Miss Judith Ann Coday, the reigning Miss Louisiana, performed before the delay.
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Louisiana
Lake Providence
Billie Sue Riordan
Dixie Gem X
Mary Ann Watson
Tangipahoa Parish
Judy Dobbs
Lincoln Parish
Teddy Ann Seyburn
Bossier
Ellen Frances McMillan
Springhill
Carolyn Lee Natal
New Orleans
Lyndra Francis Pate
Judith Ann Coday
Dixie
North
Soaper Suggests Kennedy Not As Young As January
The column humorously questions Kennedy’s age, notes private life events of friends and relatives, mentions a maritime strike forcing Hawaii tourists to fly, hints at Navy improvements by Admiral Rickover, and quips on learning English phrases for foreign visitors with the line about being a stranger.
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United States
Lightning strike kills Monroe man riding in boat
A 34 year old Monroe resident, Roxy Dancy, died after being struck by lightning while riding in a speed boat on the Ouachita River near the Monroe Boat Dock between 6 and 6 50 pm. He was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Francis Hospital despite rescue efforts by a companion.
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Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Ouachita River
Roxy Dancy
Jasmine St
Ouachita Parish
John P. Burton
Sheriff's Department
Monroe Boat Dock
Site Push For Southern Mayors Meet In Birmingham
Mayor James W. Morgan and Safety Commissioner Eugene Connor of Birmingham said they will push for Birmingham as the site of the first Southern mayors conference. They join a steering committee named by Mayor W. L. Howard of Monroe to select the meeting place.
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Birmingham
Ala
James W. Morgan
Eugene Connor
Morgan and Connor
W. L. Howard
Monroe
Secretarial Pilot Threatens Suicide Then Lands Safely
A 22 year old Nashville secretary Mildred Murphy spent two hours aloft after threatening to crash the plane over her baby. Instructor Doug Reeves and Gov. Ellington pilot George Wallace helped guide her to a controlled landing near Lewisburg. She was hospitalized after passing out, with relatives unsure who cared for her year old child.
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Nashville, Tenn
Doug Reeves
Mildred Murphy
Reeves
Ed Jones
Nashville Flying Service
George Wallace
Buford Ellington
Knoxville
Wallace
Lewisburg
Jones
British land war forces enter Kuwait amid Gulf crisis
British troops tanks and planes landed in Kuwait to back the sheikdom against possible Iraqi annexation. The move, backed by the United States, followed Prime Minister Macmillan urging Iraq to avoid aggression. Battleships carriers and jet bombers joined the effort with Saudi Arabian support rumored.
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Associated Press
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Iraq
United States
Harold Macmillan
Abdel Karim Kassem
U.N
New York
Security Council
Leopoldo Benites
Ecuador
I Kuwait
Kassem
Baghdad
Sheik
Sir Abdullah as-Salim as-Sabah
Saud Arabia
Saud
Bulwark
Macmillan
Cohen Is Sentenced to 15 Years and Fined 30000
Mickey Cohen the former West Coast mob boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 30000 for federal income tax evasion. He was convicted by a federal jury after an eight week trial that heard testimony from witnesses including Jerry Lewis Red Skelton Don Jordan Ben Hecht and Candy Barr. He demanded the verdict saying he was convicted because he is Mickey Cohen while prosecutors cited taxes penalties and interest totaling about 400000 for 1945 to 1950.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Jerry Lewis
Red Skelton
Don Jordan
Ben Hecht
Candy Barr
Newsmen
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Mary Ellen McKay
Washington Parish
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West Carroll
Betty Stokes
Louisiana Tech
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Thibodaux
Jane’ Ellen Moore
Oakdale
Sherilyn Fletcher
Ponchatoula
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Jackson Parish
Carolyn Ann Cherry
Franklin
Billie Shaugnessy
Frank Noonan
Ramblin
Soaper
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Long John's
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Austen
Dancy
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