Solon Accuses Drug Firms Of Price-Fixing
Washington Oct 12 AP Rep Holifield D Calif accuses five drug firms of collusive practices and price fixing in the sale of 13 million dollars worth of polio vaccine to the government. A House investigation has produced prima facie evidence of antitrust violations. Officials of the U S Public Health Service defend the prices as fair.
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Rep
Holifield
Dcalif
House
Justice Department
Federal Trade Commission
U.S. Public Health Service
Reid M. Hovey
the Health Service
Clarke Banta
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Reece
R-Tenn
Health Service
Reed
Democratic National Committee
Fountain
D-Nc
Subcommittee
James Naughton
Citizen Council Caucus Calls For Trend Reversals
A Jackson Mississippi caucus of pro segregationists from ten Southern states met nine hours behind closed doors to discuss reversing what they call a trend toward a race less and class less society. A three member committee released a statement vowing to reverse public opinion, while critics cited voter qualification debates and NAACP opposition. Louisiana Senator W M Rainach said changes to voter laws were not on the agenda and the group plans an information program to expose the NAACP.
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Miss
Citizens Councils of America
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama
South Carolina
Virginia
Oklahoma
Citizens Council of America
W. M. Rainach
Summerfield
Rainach
Louisiana Legislative Committee On
Medgar Evers
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Citizens Councils
NAACP
Supreme
Wilson Plans Cut In Armed Forces And Spending Hike
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson announced plans to trim U S armed forces by more than 100000 men next year while boosting defense outlays by over 2 billion dollars He criticized Adlai Stevensons draft and H bomb proposals as irresponsible and said a final manpower and spending decision would come by December 15 The Eisenhower budget will be sent to Congress in January addressing fiscal 1958 starting July 1 1957
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Defense
Charles E. Wilson
U. S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Wilson
Eisenhower
Congress
Stevenson
Russia
United States
Vatican Composer Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi Dies at 84
Vatican City reports the death of Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi, 84, renowned sacred music authority and director of the Sistine Chapel choir, from a heart ailment. In Chicago Pure Oil Co. announces offshore natural gas discovery from a new deep Eugene II formation.
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Vatican City
Lorenzo Perosi
Sistine Chapel
Chicago
P—Pure Oil Co
North Central Louisiana Fair Judged At Fortieth Showing
Friday at the North Central Louisiana Fair saw champions named in dairy beef and swine. Caldwell La Salle Catahoula Winn and Grant parishes contributed entries while children, carnival acts and livestock judging drew crowds. The junior dairy show doubled entries from last year, hogs reached a record 100 entries, and a Jersey was named grand champion in junior dairy.
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Frank Noonan
World Farm
Olla
Oldtimers
Louisiana
Caldwell
la Salle
Catahoula
Winn
Grant
LaSalle County
H.D. Gaddis
LaSalle
Gaddis
Jersey
Franklin Parish Selected For Pilot Rural Project
Franklin Parish has been chosen as one of three Louisiana parishes for a national pilot rural development program aimed at raising farm family incomes. About 50 local civic, business and farm leaders met in Franklin to form the parish effort with leaders from the Extension Service and Farmer's Home Administration outlining four channels to lift local income through on farm education, local group counseling, and resource assessment.
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Franklin Parish
Louisiana Parishes
Franklin Courthouse
Louis Borman
Extension Service
Baton Rouge
Franklin
Lantz Womack
Joe G. Richard
Ag Extension Service
Farmer’s Home Administration
The
Soil Conservation Service
Beating Of Recruit Is Found Guilty At Parris Island
The Marine court martial found Cpl Richard J Bille 21 of Erie Pennsylvania guilty only of simple assault on Pvt Donald Hamisfar 20 of Norwalk Ohio the recruit who said he was slugged in the stomach for not addressing the noncommissioned officer as sir Hamisfar was hospitalized for hernia surgery the trial lasted 55 minutes and could lead to a maximum six months imprisonment reduction to private and forfeiture of two thirds pay
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S. C
Cpl
Richard J. Bille
Erie
Bille
Pvt
Thomas L
Bastrop Man Dies While Driving in Accident
A 69-year-old Bastrop man, Joe William Parker, died of a heart attack while driving. his wife suffered a broken leg and arm and shock, and two of Parker’s children were hospitalized. The crash occurred on S Washington as the car veered into a ditch. funeral services planned for Sunday at Blackwell.
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Joe William Parker
Morehouse Parish
Bastrop Hospital
Verm and Wallace
John M. Parker
N. 3Rd
West Monroe
St. Francis
S. Washington
Blackwell
Mild Weekend Forecast and Louisiana Outlook
Forecast calls for continued mild, mainly cloudy conditions with widely scattered showers possible today and Sunday. Arkansas expected to stay mostly cloudy and mild. Selman Field reached a high of 85 degrees and a low near 60 Friday morning.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Selman Field
Radio Signals Spur Hope For 09 Americans
Reports of distress signals drew 92 planes to an Atlantic area near the Azores in a hunt for a missing military transport carrying 59 American service members. Signals heard between 8:15 p.m. CST and 9:10 a.m. CST suggested possible survivors, with sources including Pan American, BOAC, KLM, Transcanadian, Lajes Base, and the Geiger. The C-118 vanished en route from Lane Heath England to McGuire AFB New Jersey with nine Navy and 50 Air Force personnel aboard.
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Atlantic
Azores Islands
BOAC
KLM
Transcanadian
Lajes Air Force Base
Azores
U. S. Navy
Geiger
Lajes Air Base
Air Force
Military Air Transport Command
Laneheath
England
McGuire Air Force Base
N. J
Third Air Force
Ruislip
Homecoming Night Spurs Northeast State College Festivities
Northeast State College celebrates Homecoming with an open house and dance and the coronation of a Homecoming Queen. A giant pep rally drew about 900 students in Brown Stadium as the Indians face the Southern State Muleriders at 8 p.m. tonight. Maggie the donkey mascot was captured and held at the Magnolia campus before a planned return to Arkansas.
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Brown Stadium
Southern State
Magnolia
Ark
Lewis C. Slater
Northeast
Southern
Maggie
Bobby Oden
Arkansas College
Monroe
North
Refugee father and daughter removed from ship under court order
British immigration officials halted Russian refugee Alexei Chwastov and his American-born daughter Tanya from the Soviet liner Vyacheslav Molotov hours before sailing. The order, sought by Tanya’s Detroit mother Elena Diaczok, named Tanya a ward of the court and barred departure until the custody dispute over the two year old is resolved. The pair left the ship with a Soviet embassy car, while Chwastov appeared somber bearing Tanya.
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London
Alexei Chwastov
Russia
Elena Diaczok
Detroit
Chwastow
Tanya
Chwastov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet discus star convicted of shoplifting in London
Soviet athlete Nina Ponomareva faced trial in London for stealing five hats worth 4.95. The 27 year old Olympic discus record holder was fined 9 dollars in court costs and sent to a Russian ship bound for the Soviet Union. The magistrate accepted the store detectives’ account while the athlete testified in Russian.
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London
Nina Ponomareva
Vyacheslav Molotov
Melbourne
Romaschkova
Clyde Wilson
Texas News Woman Misleads At Press Conferences
A Texas press correspondent for her home paper attends a presidential press conference and later claims to represent a different Texas daily. Over several weeks she alternates who she represents, prompting astonishment from the president. Continued on second page.
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Texas
Young
LSU Race Issue May Be Decided At Meeting Today
LSU President Troy Middleton says eligibility certificates may be required from all LSU students if district attorneys demand it. East Baton Rouge DA J St Clair Farrot aligns with the attorney general, who says the 1956 act covers new students only. The LSU Board of Supervisors meets with the Legislative Committee on Segregation for a planned discussion on the issue. Sen. Rainach notes certificates have blocked new Negro enrollments this fall. Middleton says enforcement rests with district attorneys, not the attorney general.
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LSU
W. M. Rainach
Middleton
Sen. Rainach
Farrot
Puzzle Jackpot Rises to 75 With No Winners
After last week's 975 prize, this week's Morning World Crossword Jackpot shows no winners and climbs to a 75 purse. Readers faced tougher clues as explanations noted for clues across such as MINER versus MILER, WAITER, PRICES and PRIZES, plus a quirky wordplay about MAT and CAT.
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Morning World
Agata
Bea Pas
Suez talks progress with six guiding principles agreed
At the United Nations meeting in New York on October 12 Britain France and Egypt reported they had agreed on six principles to guide negotiations on the Suez crisis. The principles cover freedom of access sovereignty of Egypt tolls dispute arbitration funding development and insulation of the waterway from national politics.
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N. Y
Britain
France
Egypt
U. N. Security Council
Suez
Selwyn Lloyd
Christian Pineau
Mahmoud Fawzi
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Pineau
Paris
National Assembly
Lloyd
New York
Fanz
Harmmarskjold
Bernard Cornut - Gentille
U S Demands Payment for Downed Navy Plane
The United States demanded 1 355 650 52 dollars from Russia for the Sept 4 1954 shooting down of a U S Navy P2V Neptune over the Sea of Japan. The note to the Soviet foreign ministry in Moscow says the attack was unwarranted and unprovoked. Nine crewmen survived. one man perished trapped in the fuselage.
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United States
Russia
Sea of Japan
Moscow
U. S
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