Cheniere Lake Recreational Center grows with facilities
Cheniere Lake Recreational Center expands as Ouachita Parish develops the 3,287 acre site into a major recreational complex. Jessie Brantley notes new pits and 7 boat launches, with 40 miles of markers, 37 duck blinds, and free large pavilions in six park areas. The 66 foot lake level and $11,000 annual maintenance support the growing operation.
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United States
Cheniere Lake
Jessie Brantley
Cheniere
Brantley
Cheniere Dam Road
Arthur S. Tidwell Jr
Hobson Norris
J. S. Trichel
Robert C. Downing
Jack Rushing
E. D. Elmore
Lloyd Voorhees
Ouachita Police Jury
Voorhees
Fred Patterson
Ouachita Parish
Tidwell
Norris
Gov McKeithen Plans Weekend At Long Lake
Gov John J McKeithen will spend the weekend at Long Lake in Columbia after a morning meeting with congressional leaders on the tidelands. He plans to travel to Columbia this afternoon as the legislature resumes Monday. The meeting included U S Sen Russell B Long and Reps Hale Boggs and Edwin Willis to push a tidelands settlement to aid his administration finances.
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World Legislative Bureau
Baton Rouge
John J. McKeithen
Long Lake
Columbia
Tidelands
McKeithen
U.S
Russell B. Long
Hale Boggs
Edwin Willis
MecKeithen
Natchez Negro Youth Drowns on blackberry trip
A 10 year old Negro boy Glen Allen Thomas drowned Thursday during a blackberry picking trip with friends near Emerald Mound five miles north of Natchez. The group swam in a pond and rescue attempts failed. A coroner's jury ruled the death accidental drowning.
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Natchez
Glen Allen Thomas
Pond
Emerald Mound
Here
Two PSC Bills Withdrawn in Louisiana Legislature
Rep. Lawrence Gibbs of Monroe withdrew two bills on Friday related to the Public Service Commission. The measures would amend the constitution to require appeals from PSC orders to be filed in the parish where the order was issued, and one bill was an enabling act.
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World Legislative Bureau
Baton Rouge
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
Public Service Commission
Cuba Says U S Sentry Shot Cuban Soldier
A Cuban War Ministry statement says a U S Marine sentry at Guantanamo Bay shot Private Andres Noel Laurdnet in the left chest, seriously wounding him as a Cuban guard was struck by a second bullet that blew out a tire. The incident comes after a prior flare up earlier in June, which Washington denied.
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UPS
U. S. Guantanamo Naval Base
Oriente Province
State Department
War Ministry
Andres Noel Laurdnet
U. S
Scranton Plan Backed by Governors To Halt Goldwater
Harrisburg AP report says Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and several Republican governors will join a high level strategy session Saturday to aid Gov. William Scranton in his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. The meeting aims to counter front runner Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
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Harrisburg
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
William W. Scranton
Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Cuban industrial experts arrive in Peking
Five industrial experts from Cuba arrived in Peking on Thursday, reported by the Communist New China News Agency via UPI.
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Tokyo
UPI
Cuba
Peking
Communist Chinese New China
West Berlin greets RFK on anniversary visit
West Berliners crowd the streets and City Hall plaza to honor U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on the first anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s historic Berlin visit. Police estimate a quarter million waved from streets and 80,000 in Kennedy Square as he praised European resolve and recalled his brother’s defense of freedom. Kennedy cited Goldwater’s lack of broad support and stressed unity under successive U.S. presidents. He echoed Kennedy’s Berlin message Ich bin ein Berliner and noted the wall of shame versus Berliners’ courage.
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Kennedy
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Oregon
California
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Ken-ne-dee
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Tshombe Urges Congo Peace Among Factions
Moise Tshombe, former Katanga secessionist, appealed Friday for reconciliation among Congolese factions in Leopoldville. He said sincere unity is the country’s only chance to escape misery and anarchy, and his reception among cheering crowds suggested he may become the next premier.
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the Congo
Tshombe
Congo
Chicago youths injure ten in summer rioting on lakefront
Gangs of youths released from Robert O. Waller High School roamed Near North Side and the Lake Michigan shore looting stores and attacking whites. At least 10 injured, including a 17 year old stabbed at North Avenue Beach. Police arrested about 21 by mid afternoon.
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UPT
North Avenue
Henrotin Hospital
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Lake Michigan
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Clairvoyant Misses Crater. Digging Ends in Yonkers
Authorities halted further search for Judge Joseph Crater after a 50 by 85 foot trench 2.5 feet deep yielded no trace. The dig, ordered by Westchester Sheriff John E. Hoy, followed clairvoyant Gerard Croiset’s ESP based tip that Crater was buried at the roadside location after a prior yard burial. Crater vanished in August 1930, remaining Yonkers’ most famous missing person.
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Yonkers
N.Y
Joseph Crater
Westchester County
John E. Hoy
Crater
Gerard Croiset
Croiser
Western Big Three push for German reunification in six point plan
The United States Britain and France denounce the Soviet East German treaty as perpetuating division. They offer to explore with Moscow any opportunity for German reunification in freedom, urging a settlement with progressive solutions and noting no sign of Soviet movement toward a peace treaty. The Western declaration restates Berlin rights, four power realities, and the Bonn government as the legitimate German regime.
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West Berlin
U.N
Europe
Seventeen U S Servicemen Missing in Viet Nam
Washington UPI reports seventeen U S servicemen are listed as missing in South Viet Nam amid anti-Communist warfare. The group includes 11 Army personnel, two Marines, and four airmen, with some believed captured by Viet Cong guerrillas. Pentagon notes show 234 U S dead and 937 wounded, and no clear distinction between missing and captured in casualty lists.
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UPT
U.S
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
Army
Viet Nam
Defense Department
Deputy Envoy Sees Hard Work in Saigon Posting
Alexis Johnson left Friday for his new post as deputy ambassador in South Vietnam. He warned there are no magic answers to Southeast Asia problems and emphasized it would be a lot of hard work. Johnson, former deputy undersecretary for political affairs, will operate in Saigon ahead of Gen Maxwell D. Taylor who was named ambassador by President Johnson to replace Henry Cabot Lodge.
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UPT
Alexis Johnson
Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Johnson
Saigon
Maxwell D. Taylor
Henry Cabot Lodge
U S loan aid to Formosa supports two new power plants
United States officials announced a $35.9 million loan to Nationalist China for construction of two electric power plants in Formosa. The funding aims to bolster energy capacity and support postwar economic development.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPT
United States
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