12 Mar 1960
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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1960
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text lists multiple partial items, with names, numbers, dates, and references to institutions. The readable portion mentions Texas, New, a hotel clerk, civil days after a cand, and various odd sequences suggesting a legal or administrative notice with scattered figures.
President Eisenhower pressed Congress for higher postal rates to fund the Post Office Department amid rising costs and deficits. Proposed increases would raise first class letters to five cents per ounce and air mail to eight cents, with second class up 40 percent and third class up 25 percent, while fourth class rose earlier this year.
A Curren is conducting a Lenten course of addresses at St. Joseph's church in El Paso Texas. He has many friends in the Twin Cities and formerly served as assistant pastor at St. Joseph's church in Monroe. The community will welcome his ongoing series of services across the border.
Warne Nuckaby district highway engineer says 39 houses will be sold to clear the path for Interstate 20. Sale set for March 24 with bids on properties numbered 1 to 30 due by 10 a.m. at the district highway offices on De Siard near the overpass. Most structures are salvageable only for lumber or in poor condition, located between Stella street and the Ouachita River.
In Alabama five Negro defendants face trial over jail curbs while Greg Gray, a Montgomery attorney, notes the Alabama State student body will resume class and end racial demonstrations. At Philander Smith College in Little Rock, five students are set to be tried next Thursday after a lunch counter sit-in. In Tampa Sean Bellamy receives 80 days jail or a $600 fine plus 50 days and a $100 fine for disorderly acts following a white girl insult. Allen University students are detained over a Negro foray on a drive in restaurant. At Texas University Austin, about 20 students, black and white, protest segregation policies near campus entrances.
The Senate wrangled over the Lausche amendment as Keating and Russell led a Southern filibuster against equal protection under the law. Johnson urged a vote after debate while Pastore and Carroll proposed time limits to curb endless discussion.
The appellate court judges took the case under advisement on February 18 and ordered Dallas to devise a desegregation plan. NAACP attorney C. B. Bunkley urged immediate desegregation by September 1960 while district officials cited Texas law blocking rapid steps due to possible loss of about 2.7 million dollars in state funding and criminal penalties for board members who desegregate.
The moon will enter Earth's shadow early Sunday and appear copper red for about 1 hour 25 minutes. The total eclipse runs from 2 41 a.m. to 4 15 a.m. EST, visible across the Western Hemisphere if weather allows.
In 1957 Monroe acted to curb oil brine pollution entering the Ouachita River via tributaries fed by Smackover and other Arkansas oil fields. The Arkansas Commission held hearings and ordered wells to shut or to inject brine underground.
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury will meet next Thursday at 7 p.m. to hear a report on bids for about 100000 dollars of equipment and will open bids on library furniture for the Anna Meyer branch. A special committee led by Robert W. Irby will review bids for seven large items and report at the next session April 13.
The 84 year old sister of Russia's last czar, Grand Duchess Xenia, lies seriously ill in her Wilderness House Hampton Court home London. Her son Prince Andrew and daughter Princess Youssoupoff keep vigil while she has stayed largely in seclusion since fleeing Russia after the Revolution.
NASA reports Pioneer V using solar energy to transmit data on radiation magnetism and micrometeorites as it travels a solar orbit toward Venus. The craft aims to reach 93 million miles from the sun, with radio contact expected for four to five months and a 311 day circuit planned.
The US launched a powerful new space probe powered by sun cells and four paddlewheel vanes. Within four hours of launch two paddles locked in place as Thor Able produced 163 000 pounds thrust from Cape Canaveral. The mission marks a prestige effort after earlier aborts caused by fuel and technical issues.
Mrs. Lanza died by her own hand at her residence after her husband’s sudden death last fall. Doctors noted she had been depressed, with no note or pills left behind. She had recently stayed with Kathryn Grayson and lived in Fred Clark’s house with Benny Venuta. only Mark was at home when discovered.
A 37 year old man, Richard Dunn Cook, is jailed in Ouachita parish on federal car theft charges and vagrancy. He crossed state lines with a stolen car, appeared before U.S. Commissioner Louis D. Smith, bond set at $2000, and a formal hearing was waived. Federal authorities in St. Louis plan to issue a warrant.
A sweeping southern snowstorm burdens rural areas with trapped families in the Smokies and collapsed roofs while ambulances move expectant mothers to Bowling Green hospital. Roads shut, milk deliveries falter, and schools close as helicopters stand by in Knoxville and Nashville for aid.
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