British Chief De Gaulle To Hold Talks In Paris
Paris reports say French President Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will privately meet for 24 hours at the Chateau of Champs to discuss Anglo-French disputes over the European Common Market and France’s nuclear aims. They will also review Atlantic Alliance tensions and the cold war context with no formal agenda or communique.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Harold Macmillan
France
Atlantic Alliance
Chateau of
Champs
Macmillan
Dorothy
Philip de Zulueta
London
Britain
de Gaulle
Commonwealth
River showboat Goldenrod destroyed by fire in St Louis
A Friday fire gutted the Mississippi River showboat Goldenrod in St Louis, ending a run of an old melodrama and finishing just after a performance of The Convict's Daughter. The only casualty was an 18 month old dog named Fluffie belonging to the river crew.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Goldenrod
Edna Ferber
Fluffie
Crossett forms Art League elects officers
Mrs. Lawrence Edwards and Mrs. Ellis Clark were elected president and secretary treasurer of Crossett Art League formed to sponsor traveling art exhibits. Crossett Health Center granted joint commission accreditation for three years. Hodge to hold first town election June 12 with candidates for marshal and aldermen and unopposed mayor Edd Askew.
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Crossett, Ark
Lawrence Edwards
Ellis Clark
Art League of
Crossett
Sicily Island Leader Heads Agricultural Committees
Northeast Louisiana holds chairmanship of both legislative agricultural committees with State Senator J. C. Sonny Gilbert named head of the Senate agriculture committee. Rep. Lantz Womack of Franklin Parish leads the House agriculture committee. Homecoming at Larto Baptist Church follows a revival begun earlier, per Rev. W. M. Carlin.
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Sicily Island
Northeast
Louisiana
J. C. “Sonny” Gilbert
Senate Agriculture Committee
Rep
Lantz Womack
Franklin Parish
House Agriculture Committee
Agreement Ends Western Union Walkout Threat
Washington AP reports a tentative two year wage contract ends the threat of a walkout by about 24 000 Western Union Telegraph Co employees outside New York City. The CTU and company announced the agreement awaiting ratification next week with a 15 cent per hour package increase over two years and an 11 cent per hour across the board rise 4 cents immediate for all except walk ing bicycle and motorcycle messengers.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Co
New York City
Commercial Telegraphers Union
Afl-Cio
New York
American Communications Association
Elmer L. Hageman
CTU National Bargaining Committee
Kimball Service Slated Sunday for Local Widow
Lula Harlen Kimball 64 died Friday in a Monroe hospital after a long illness. Resident for 37 years, she was widow of M. H. Kimball and member of First Christian Church. Final rites Sunday 2:30 p.m. Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel with Rev. John O Stewart and Rev. R T Watson. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors: daughter Doris Kimball Pittman Monroe. sons George W. Kimball New Orleans Jack E. Kimball Monroe. Chief M-Sgt Harold B. Kimball Barksdale AFB. brother Jack Harten. sisters Kate Lanier Ruby Sneed. nine grandchildren.
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Lula Harlen Kimball
Monroe
M. H. Kimball
Kimball
Gordon Ave
First Christian Church
Vicksburg
Miss
Mulhearn Funeral Home
John O. Stewart
Ruby Sneed
Solons To Quiz Ball On Censors
Washington UPI Chairman John C. Stennis announces that Undersecretary of State George Ball will be questioned Monday about deletions from military leaders speeches. The panel cites a February 27 commitment to submit a report on deletions as the basis for questions. Ball offered to answer after Kennedy directed agencies not to allow review of specific deletions.
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Washington
UPI
John C. Stennis
Senate
George Ball
Mississippi Democrat
Ball
Kennedy
State and Defense Departments
Soviet Hikes Food Prices Blames U S War Prep
The Soviet Union raised meat and butter prices by up to 34 percent and blamed U S war preparations. The Central Committee cited economic strains and U S saber rattling, while observers saw an admission of agricultural troubles. Prices jumped for butter ham sausage and turkey as shoppers stocked up. The state said funds could not be shifted from defense to livestock due to the international situation.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Communist Party Central Committee
United States
Nikita’ S. Khrushchev
Pravda
Moscow Radio
FBI Probes Explosives Link in Continental Jet Disaster
FBI continued an inquiry in Kansas City and surrounding areas into the source of explosives used to sabotage a Continental Air Lines Boeing 707. Forty five people were killed when the plane exploded in flight near Unionville Missouri, leaving one survivor who died hours later. FBI agents reviewed thefts of dynamite and explosive materials in the prior months.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
FBI
Continental Air Lines
Unionville
W. Mark Felt
Missionaries Kidnapping Sought in Viet Nam Forests
South Vietnamese troops hunted for three American missionaries kidnapped from a leprosarium near Ban Me Thuot by Viet Cong guerrillas. The group includes Rev. Archie E. Mitchell, 44, of Washington state, Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietty, 34, of Texas, and Daniel Gerber, of Ohio. A US Army Special Forces unit aids local forces in jungle fighting.
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Saigon
UPS
Central Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
Central Highlands Area
Archie E. Mitchell
Ellenburg
Wash
Eleanor Ardel Vietty
Houston
Tex
Daniel Gerber
Dalton,hio
U. S. Army
U. S
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Larto Baptist Church
W. M. Carlin
Western Union
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Sherwin Williams CO
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Solons
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