Peace Corps Opens Training in El Paso for Tanganyika Mission
A group of about 38 Peace Corps recruits begins training at Texas Western College in El Paso for service in Tanganyika eastern Africa. Led by Harris P. Bresee Jr. the trainees will learn Swahili and civil engineering tasks as Britain prepares Tanganyika for independence while Rutgers workers start studies for Columbia.
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EL Paso
Tex
Kennedy
Harris P. Bresee Jr
Tanganyika
Africa
Bresee
Orange
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
N.J
Columbia
Peace Corps
Texas Western College
University of Texas
Texas Western
Texas
Britain
Victor Cedars Dies at 78 in Local Hospital
Victor Cedars aged 78 died after several weeks illness. Services set for Monday at 10 a.m. in Hixson Brothers Funeral Home chapel with Rev. E. J. Graves officiating. Burial in Riverview Cemetery under Hixson Brothers directions. Survived by sister Mrs Mary Crooks of Alexandria.
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Victor Cedars
Hixson Brothers
E. J. Graves
Assembly of God Church
Riverview
Mary Crooks
Alexandria
UPI Reporter Charles Smith Loses South Korea Visa
The South Korean military junta ordered cancellation of the UPI correspondent Charles Smith entry visa. Charge D Affaires Park Chang Jun confirmed the action citing an unfounded harmful article. UPI Asia VP Ernest Hoberecht said the visa remains in Smith's passport.
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Tokyo
United Press International
Charles Smith
Park Chang- Jun
Japan
Smith
Ernest Hoberecht
UPI
Asia
800 Officers To Attend Meet In New Orleans
More than 800 peace officers from municipal, state and federal services are expected at the 30th annual Louisiana Peace Officers Association convention in New Orleans. Gov. Jimmie Davis and Mayor deLesseps Morrison are among featured speakers. The convention opens Sunday and runs through Wednesday.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Peace Officers Association
Jimmie Davis
deLesseps Morrison
Monroe city issues twenty four building permits in one week
City records show 24 building permits issued from June 19 to June 23 as Inspectors report strong business. Entries include additions, new brick veneer homes, porch enclosures, demolitions, and one steel service station with values ranging up to $20,000.
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Roberts St
Leslie H. Peters
Ona Bates
Beale St
Rosetta Beals
Polk St
David DD. Cantrell
Gordon
St. John St
Greater
Monroe
Crescent Dr
Carport
Parkview Dr
C. C. Miller
Downey la
David B. Hilley
Country Club Rd
Leon Danna
Auburn
Proctor Green
Peter Rock Baptist
South Eighth Street
J. S. James Construction Co
Walton la
A. C. Cole
Barlow
Weette Web Ovie
S. McGuire
Washington St
John Smith
Ed Purifoy
Winnsboro Rd
Kellog Oil Co
18 St
Rule Judge Can Assume Office
Louisiana Supreme Court refused to block John R. Rarick from taking the 20th judicial district seat after a suit by former Sheriff T. H. Martin. The court also denied supervisory writs after the First Circuit declined to grant them. Rarick, a St. Francisville lawyer, won the nomination June 10 and faces no opposition in the general election. The district judge who dismissed the suit had been appointed to hear the case.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State Supreme Court
John R. Rarick
20Th Judicial District
High Court
East Feliciana Parish
T. H. Martin
Martin
Rarick
First Circuit Court of Appeal
Louisiana
St. Francisville
Fred S. Ellis
Covington
Two Burglaries Investigated By Monroe Police
Monroe police investigate two burglaries totaling about 50 dollars. Hill's Bar-B-Q at 1301 Texas Ave lost 35 dollars from a juke box and pinball machine after a plywood panel was removed to unlock the door. The break in occurred between 3 and 6 30 a.m. Saturday. Ritter's Wrecking Yard on DeSiard Street reported about 15 dollars taken from a soft drink machine. Method of entry to Ritter's Yard is still under investigation.
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Monroe
Hill
Texas Ave
Ritter
DeSiard Street
Louisiana and Mississippi Forecast With Scattered Showers
Partly cloudy through tonight in Louisiana and Mississippi with scattered showers in the afternoon south. Highs near 85 to 90. Gulf Coast from Port Arthur to Pensacola shows easterly to southerly winds 5 to 15 mph with a few showers. Sunrise 3 02 a.m. Sunset 7 19 p.m. Barometer 29.96 at 6 p.m.
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Port Arthur
Tex
Pensacola
Fla
Monroe
Post Office Holds Unclaimed Tractors for Freedom Mail
Detroit AP: about 65 000 to 70 000 letters for Tractors for Freedom no longer claimed by the dead group. Post Office waits for guidance before returning or handling dead letters. The committee led by Eleanor Roosevelt Eisenhower and Reuther disbanded after Cuba swap fell through.
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Detroit
U.S
Tractors For Freedom, Inc
Tractors For Prisoners Exchange
Emile Asa
Edward L. Baker
Freedom
P.O. Box Freedom
Roosevelt
Milton S. Eisenhower
Walter P. Reuther
Fidel Castro
Asa
Post Office
U.S. Treasury. Net
U.S. Treasu
Moonshine Raid Arrests Clay Man in Jackson Parish
Cicero Mamon a 67 year old Negro from Clay was jailed in Jackson Parish on a $500 bond after officers raided his residence and confiscated several gallons of moonshine. He faces liquor law violation charges following joint Bienville Jackson and Lincoln parish investigations. Raids were led by Sheriff Newt T. Lee Deputy James Beasley and federal agent Jim Lee.
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Jonesboro
Cicero Mamon
Clay
Jackson Parish
Bienville
Jackson
Lincoln
Newt T. Lee
James Beasley
Jim Lee
Monroe
Arkansas Data Briefing Noted Shifts and Results
A terse report records shifts in Arkansas and neighboring areas with numeric values across locations including Little Rock Shreveport Alexandria and Jackson. The notes mention stage levels yesterday and the day before with references to p Pool and Rise stages and a fall pattern in the regional data.
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Little Rock
RED Shreveport
Fall
Alexandria
Pearl’ Jackson
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