Court Directs Reapportion Case Review
In a case led by WMCA and executives, the Supreme Court ordered a lower federal court in New York to reconsider a suit challenging the state legislature’s apportionment as discriminatory to metropolitan citizens. The 1961 action cites a 1963 Tennessee ruling expanding federal review of malapportionment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Senate
Assembly
Tennessee
WMCA
R. Peter Straus
Joseph de Maio
Edward Lind
S Thomas Delaney
Edward Brown
James J. McCafferty
Michigan
Louisiana Guests From Germany Returning Home
Ten West German storm refugee children and their teacher leave New Orleans by bus for New York City then a boat to Germany. Eight children were honorary pages in Baton Rouge where they heard Gov. Jimmie Davis and spoke of hospitality. The group toured German-speaking host families in New Orleans Baton Rouge and Shreveport during a six week Louisiana visit funded by Berlin donations for Hurricane Carla victims. They expect Bremerhaven arrival June 25.
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New Orleans
New York City
Germany
Legislature
Baton Rouge
House
Paul Koch
Jimmie Davis
Louisiana
Shreveport
Berlin
Carla
Texas
Bremerhaven
Testimony On Deficit Set In Louisiana Senate Session
The Senate Finance Committee prepared to hear testimony in a closed session on Louisiana deficits for the past two years and projected revenues for the next fiscal year. Chairman William Cleveland Crowley invited any senators to attend the executive session in the Senate lounge.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Finance Committee
Louisiana
Senate
William Cleveland
Crowley
Finance Committee
State Financial
Revere
Policon
Floor Vote On Liquor Bill Near Floor Vote Near
Baton Rouge AP Rep Risley Tribe seeks a House floor vote on a bill to revise liquor licenses. The measure would remove package liquor sales from supermarkets and drugstores, drawing opposition as discriminatory to grocery stores and drugstores. Avoyelles Rep Buford Smith calls it rotten while the House votes 64 12 to return the bill to the calendar, allowing another floor push.
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Buford Smith
Avoyelles
Triche
Two Integration Leaders Held In Caddo Prison
SHREVEPORT AP Two Negro integration leaders Wyatt T. Walker 33 Atlanta GA executive director of the SCLC and Harry Blake 27 Shreveport face arraignment Thursday in city court on loitering charges. They posted bonds of 2.50 each after release to city police following arrest at a Negro vote rally.
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Shreveport
Caddo Parish
Wyatt T. Walker
Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Harry Blake
Walker and Blake Arrested After picket clash
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke as Walker's group faced arrest by city police after they refused to leave an area where police had dispersed white pickets from the National Organization for Whites and Negro counter-pickets.
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Walker
Martin Luther ,King Jr
Blake
National Organization For Whites
French German Friendship Mandatory Says Adenauer
Adenauer calls close France Germany friendship essential for a united Europe and U.S. interests. He rejects a London Washington axis, warns against past Franco Soviet alignments, and outlines a future of strong Franco German ties to curb Soviet influence. He plans to discuss with Dean Rusk next week.
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Bonn
UPI
France
Germany
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
Kennedy
U. S
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Paris
Britain
Macmillan
London-Washington
Europe
Soviet Union
de Gaulle
Moscow
Russia
Long Says U S Power Deterrent To Atomic War
UPI New Orleans Sen Russell L ong of Louisiana said the United States has retaliatory force to destroy the Soviet Union if attacked noting no need to start a war from fear He spoke at Avondale Shipyard New Orleans during the USS McCloy destroyer escort launching The vessel will carry bow sonar torpedoes and remote controlled helicopters The wife of Rep Arthur Winstead christened the ship which honors a naval officer for anti submarine work
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New Orleans
UPI
Russell B. Long
D-La
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Long
McCloy
Avondale
U. S
Arthur Winstead
D-Miss
Bill To Aid Small Firms Introduced In Louisiana Senate
A state Senate bill backed by the Department of Commerce and Industry would let 15 investors form a state backed development corporation to make loans to small firms. Senators Wendell Harris and B H Rogers introduced the measure, with final approval by the commerce board to ensure proper backing and organization.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Louisiana
State Senate
State Department of Commerce and Industry
Wendell Harris
B. H
Johnny) Rogers
Grand Cane
Department of Commerce and Industry
Henry Davis
Davis
Harris and Rogers
Commerce and Industry Board
Loewe Receives Honorary Degree in Redlands
Composer Frederick Loewe was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music at the University of Redlands commencement. He is famed for My Fair Lady Camelot and the film Gigi.
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Redlands
Calif
Frederick Loewe
University of Redlands
Loewe
Camelot
Gigi
Four More Children Drowned In Formosa Boat Accident
In Taipei four more bodies were recovered raising the known death toll to 21 from a boat race tragedy on the Yun River. Police warned the toll could rise as they search for additional victims among some 50 children aboard the trawler Chieh Shin, ages six to sixteen, when it capsized Sunday.
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Taipei
Formosa
Yun River
Riders Taken To Barracks At Hyannis
Forty four Negro Reverse Freedom Riders, moved by segregationists to unused Army barracks at Camp Edwards near Hyannis Massachusetts. Seventy six others had arrived previously, totaling sixty one shipped to the Cape Cod site, including families from Shreveport and Little Rock. Some found work elsewhere while others returned home on welfare funds. A arriving family of Matthew Gilbert and Nadgilie with four children joined the group.
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Hyannis
Mass
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Boston
William Ricks
Little Rock
Ark
Montgomery
Ala
Matthew Gilbert
Nadgilie
Hodding Carter Probes Rider Destination in Portland
Greenville publisher Hodding Carter says he will investigate whether Portland Maine was chosen as the destination for Reverse Freedom Riders. Clem Stovall a 25 year old Negro laborer from Noxapater Mississippi arrived there after an alleged altercation, saying he preferred Cleveland or Evanston where relatives live, noting cheaper fare than Portland.
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Portland, Maine
Hodding Carter
Greenville
Miss
Delta Demoerat-Times
Portland
Maine
Carter
Clem Stovall
Noxapater, Miss
Stovall
Mississippi
Cleveland
Evanston
Ill
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McKenzie
Lnilswazy
Mrs. Tucker
Kraft Mayonnaise
Swift's
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Duncan Hines
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Leters OF
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