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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1964
Page
16
President Johnson began a three day foray into Michigan and Minnesota taking on money-raiser and money-saver duties. He planned two Democratic fund-raising dinners and flew economy to cut costs while addressing supporters in Detroit and other stops.
Florida Governor Farris Bryant visited strife torn St Augustine amid calls to expand the curfew and possibly send more state troopers. The hearing before Judge Simpson involved King and civil liberties attacks on the curfew while violence raged. President Johnson flew to Detroit aboard a Jetstar for a Democratic fundraiser, citing cost and security as reasons for the jet travel choice.
Lynn Baughman, 18, of Farmerville won the Queen Dixie Gem XIV title at Howard Auditorium on the Louisiana Tech campus in Ruston. First runner up was Judy Cantrell, second runner up Fern Renee Halford, with Judith Ann Giessee named Miss Congeniality. The top six also included Pat Hogg and Mary Hilan Marler. Joy Annell Ryland won the Princess Peach crown.
The Twin Cities YMCA YWCA Day Camp closed its first period with a Parents Day program attended by 300 plus. Awards honored top campers in riflery archery swimming skiing and overall performance. Boys and Girls Day Camp groups were led by named counselors with several recipients receiving trophies for most outstanding and most improved campers. Limited registrations remain for the second period beginning June 29, with reservations via FA 5-7391.
Ronald C. Barnett a 24 year old West Monroe man was hospitalized Friday after his truck left Trenton Street struck a utility pole near the road car He suffered several broken bones internal injuries and other possible injuries His condition was not believed serious He was ticketed for reckless driving and causing a wreck.
Rep. Gillis Long of Louisiana introduced a bill proposing a $100 monthly pension for World War I veterans over 72. The measure also liberalizes veterans compensation rules, expanding medical and burial expense allowances.
The FBI charged Merritt Ely Randle 45 James F E Hodges 30 and Lawrence Neal McGraw 37 with conspiring to injure oppress threaten or intimidate voters in a Negro registration drive and with threatening to assault two white civil rights volunteers Roy Torkington 24 Berkley California and John Paul 21 Ossining New York. Warrants issued in Oxford Mississippi and the suspects were arraigned with bond not set at the request of counsel.
A telegram to King Savang Vathana from Pathet Lao urged banning U S reconnaissance flights and bombing missions over Communist held areas. It proposed a royal ordinance and a meeting of Laos factions to resolve the crisis ahead of a 14 nation conference.
Washington AP Republican platform writers will not outpromise Democrats on future civil rights acts but will pledge vigorous enforcement of the 1964 act. Rep. Melvin R. Laird said militant groups may press for quotas and race based school admissions. He noted the full committee will decide the platform and urged prompt enforcement of the law.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department probed the deaths of thousands of fish on a private lake near Mission. Dr S V Dietz, owner of the half mile by 100 yard lake, noted a crop dusting plane over the water on Wednesday while spraying nearby cotton fields. Dietz reported the incident to the Wildlife Department on Friday, noting a similar event on June 26, 1963 in which about twice as many fish perished.
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