Castro says he will wager sugar quota with Herter
Fidel Castro offered a sugar wager with U S Secretary of State Herter over Cuban sugar. If Cuba’s 1961 quota increases while production falls by one million tons, Castro would surrender the U S market share. if production rises, the quota would rise correspondingly. He also warned oil refiners to refine Soviet crude or face seizure and threatened reciprocal seizing of American investments tied to sugar quotas.
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Fidel Castro
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Cuba
United States
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Herter
House of Representatives Agricultural Committee
Washington
Eisenhower
Standard of New Jersey
Texaco
British-Dutch Shell
Soviet Union
McKeithen Seeks Re Election To Public Service Board
Louisiana Public Service Commission chairman John J. McKeithen announces re election bid. He filed May 27 after the filing period opened, citing a record of defending telephone subscribers and utility consumers across 28 north Louisiana parishes. He is married with six children and holds BA and LLB degrees from LSU.
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Louisiana Public Service Commission
John J. McKeithen
McKeithen
Commission
McKeither
Louisiana and American Bar Associations
The
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Louisiana Delta Council
Alexandria Man Dies As Truck Rams On Bridge
James C. McNutt, 1 year old son of F. E. McNutt, died early Friday when his cattle truck struck a Loggy Bayou Bridge 26 miles south of Shreveport. The trailer detached and the vehicle went into the water. several cattle were killed and others injured. Funeral services will be held at John Kramer and Son Funeral Home at 4 p.m. Saturday with burial at Forrest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Alexandria
Shreveport
James C. McNutt
F. E. MceNutt
McNutt
Thundershower Activity Seen Across Several States
A stationary cold front moving from the north is expected to trigger thunderstorms within about 75 miles of a Texarkana Texas to Greenwood Mississippi line, including Monroe. Expect scattered thundershowers in northeast Louisiana southern Arkansas and eastern Mississippi with highs near 85 to 95. Friday’s high was 93 and the low 75.
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Texarkana
Tex
Greenwood
Monroe
FAA
Leiman Field
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Fourteenth Annual Master Masons Session at Fort Hill
Master Masons from Louisiana Arkansas and Mississippi gather at Fort Hill above Harrisonburg for the fourteenth annual session. The event brings hundreds of Master Masons together as they initiate the session and prepare to participate in ceremonies. Continued on page two.
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Harrisonburg
Fort Hill
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Monroe
Eisenhower Nearing End Of Honolulu Journey
President Eisenhower plans to end his Honolulu visit Saturday and return to Washington with a single refueling stop at Travis AFB before landing near Andrews AFB early Sunday. He will report to the nation Monday night on his Far Eastern tour in a 6:30 p.m. EST address carried nationwide. The University of Hawaii praised his tireless travels for peace with justice in a citation accompanying an honorary degree. The trip included visits to the Philippines, Nationalist China, Okinawa, and South Korea, with a Tokyo stop canceled amid riots and criticism of U.S. policy.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Andrews Air Force Base
Travis Afb
San Francisco
University of Hawaii
University
Philippines
China
Okinawa
South Korea
Japan
Nobusuke Kishi
Tokyo
Laurence H. Snyder
Fisenhower
Ben-Gurion open to meeting Frondizi over Eichmann case
Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said he would be glad to meet Argentine President Arturo Frondizi if available in Europe to discuss the United Nations decision on the Eichmann case, though such a meeting seemed unlikely.
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Netherlands
David Ben-Gurion
Israel
Arturo Frondizi
Argentina
United Nations
Adolf Eichmann
Frondizi
Europe
Ben- Gurion
American Lawyers Plan to Defend Powers in Moscow Trial
Three American attorneys including Alex Parker of Richmond John N Hazard of Columbia and Frank W Rogers of Roanoke plan to travel to Moscow to defend U two pilot Francis Powers at his espionage trial Parker said they met with the Soviet Embassy in Washington to obtain visas The Virginia State Bar Association selected the trio to defend Powers whose parents live near Pound Virginia Powers was shot down over Russia May 1 and has been held in Moscow since then
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Russia
Parker
Powers
Virginia State Bar Association
Virginia
United States
John N. Hazard
Columbia Law School
Frank W. Rogers
Roanoke
Moscow
Drunken Driving Charge Dropped in Louisiana Case
Judge Jesse Heard in Fourth District Court acquitted Dr. Thomas A. Bruke Sr. of operating a vehicle under the influence but found him guilty on two lesser traffic violations and accepted a guilty plea on another. The governor commented on LSU control as officials noted insufficient evidence in the main charge.
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Thomas A. Bruke
Wallace Dean Road
West Monroe
Fourth District
Heard
Brulte
Governor says LSU board should not be controlled by the governor
Baton Rouge Gov Jimmie H Davis declared at a news conference that LSU should operate as a body apart from state government and that no governor should appoint a majority of its board. He discussed a bill to reduce LSU board terms to seven years and to keep the governor from control., Also reported are local court proceedings involving Dr Brule and others with charges including reckless driving speeding and license violations.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana State University
Davis
Senate
LSU
LSU Board
Dr. Brude
Brule
Heard
Ouachita Parish
Parish Clerk of Court
Object Seen Above Gulf
The Air Force reported a brilliant object sighted in the sky over the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night. The crew doubted it, suggesting it may have been a meteor. A routine unidentified flying object report was sent to Wright Patterson AFB for analysis as standard procedure.
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Washington
Air Force
Gulf of Mexico
Air Tactical Intelligence Center
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Plane missing carries 45 on Rio flight
A Real Aerovias Convair airliner with 45 aboard disappeared Friday night on a Belo Horizonte to Rio flight. The last contact was before 9 p.m. local time when the pilot B Lopes notified Sao Paulo tower. Officials could not confirm whether a force landing occurred or a crash. The craft carried 40 passengers and a crew of five.
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UPI
Aerovias Convair
Bello Horizonte
Rio
B. Lopes
Sao Paulo
Doctors Will Eye Decision About Drugs
Health Secretary Arthur S. Flemming named an eight man panel of physicians to review Dr. Henry Welch's FDA antibiotics decisions after Senate disclosures that Welch earned over 280000 dollars for work on industry funded journals. The panel will also probe the FDA drug division's ties to the pharmaceutical industry and coordinate with a new investigative unit on unbiased drug approvals.
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UPI
Betlev W. Brénk
National Academy of Scientists
FDA
New Drug Division
Flemming
AF Launches Titan Missile Flight Over South Atlantic
The Air Force launched a Titan intercontinental missile on a 5,000 mile information gathering flight over the south Atlantic. The 98 foot missile ended its flight near Ascension Island.
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Fila
UPI
Air Force
South Atlantic
Ascension Island
Two Men Die In Roanoke Plane Wreck
Two bodies were found in the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza near Roanoke Virginia after a flight from Winston-Salem North Carolina. The single engine plane apparently crashed after taking off in rain on Wednesday. Victims identified as Joe C. Lawrence and another man. Continued on page two.
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UPI
Here
Winston-Salem
N.C
Pro Communist protests mark Korea War anniversary in Tokyo
On the ten year anniversary of the Korean War start, Communist and pro Red labor groups staged a downtown rally and parade to the U S Embassy in Tokyo. They urged immediate withdrawal of American forces from Japan and questioned the security pact linking the two nations. The event followed discussions on Japan's leadership and a possible successor to Premier Nobusuke Kishi as LDP officials planned to choose a new party chief.
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Tokyo
Japan
America
Communist Party
U.S
South Korea
North Korea
United States
Nobusuke Kishi
Kishi
Liberal-Democratic Party
Chuckle Sign Cracks Up Traffic as Pedaler Passes
A small foreign economy car in traffic displays a wry sign in its rear window. It reads Quit honking Im pedaling as fast as I can. The cheeky message captures a light moment as the driver keeps moving.
Congo Elects Kasavubu President in Power Sharing Move
Leopoldville report says Congo Republic elects Joseph Kasavubu president and Patrice Lumumba prime minister in a Belgian negotiated power split aimed at uniting rival factions. Belgian rulers leave next Thursday transferring authority to the 13 million Congo population amid potential tensions.
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Leopoldville
Belgian Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Congo Republic
Patrice Lumumba
Kasavubu
Lumumba
Belgium
Congo
Tornadoes and Rain Slamm Texas With Damages
Tornadoes and heavy rain struck Texas near El Campo and Eagle Lake causing farm buildings damage but no injuries. Wide regions saw downpours, urban flooding in Amarillo and San Antonio, and rivers overflowed, affecting crops and cattle.
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Eagle Lake
Houston
Victoria
Bracken Ranch
Amarillo
San Antonio
New England
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Midwest
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Wabash
Clark
Crawford
Illinois
Kaskaskia River
Robinson Creek
Shelby County
Til
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New York State
Schenectady
N.Y
Glens Falls
Davis Plans Legal Steps In Racial Battle
Governor Jimmie Davis says Louisiana will seek all legal avenues to block a federal desegregation order for New Orleans schools. He vows to work with Attorney General Jack Gremillion and may close schools if needed, signaling interposition as a last resort. He notes closures would depend on circumstances.
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Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana
U.S
J. Shelly Wright
New Orleans
House
Texas
Allen Shivers
Caddo Parish
Davis
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Joe C. Lawrence
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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