Eighth District Democratic Committee to name nominee
Leesville Louisiana AP Gov Jimmie Davis opposes state funding for a referendum to select the Eighth District Congressional nominee. Funderburk plans a committee meeting to choose the candidate, arguing law requires the party panel to name the nominee. Several members back a legal selection over a straw vote.
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Leesville
Jesse Funderburk
Eighth District
Democratic Congressional Committee
Funderburk
Jimmie Davis
Board of Liquidation of State Debt
Davis
Baton Rouge
Democratic Committee
Earl Kemp Long
Harold McSween
Arthur ©. Watson
Natchitoches
S. L. Garrett
Winnfield
Maxwell Bordelon
Marksville
Eighth District Committee
Jack Gremillion
Mop-Up Begins In Areas Hit By Hurricane
Meridian Mississippi AP reports remnants of Hurricane Ethel bring heavy rain to the upper Mississippi Alabama borderland with up to 10 inches forecast east of center. Flood warnings possible as Alabama aims to recover. the storm caused two deaths and displaced about 50 000 evacuees in Louisiana and Mississippi. Debris and fallen trees clutter Biloxi Pass Christian Long Beach Gulfport streets.
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Meridian
Miss
Ethel
Mississippi-Alabama
New Orleans
Here
Alabama
Florida
Gulf
Louisiana
Mississippi
Biloxi
Pass Christian
Long Beach
Gulfport
Roland resigns as Louisiana revenue collector to enter private practice
Robert L. Roland resigned Friday effective Oct. 15 as Louisiana collector of revenue to practice law. Roland, a San Francisco native, has been a Louisiana resident since 1934 and will join the local firm Watson Blanche Wilson Posner and Thibaut. There was no immediate replacement announced. rumors linked Roland Cocreham to the post.
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San Francisco
Louisiana
Watson, Blanche, Wilson, Posner and Thibaut
US Indicts Cohen on Seven Tax Counts
Mickey Cohen the former underworld figure was indicted by a federal grand jury on 13 counts including three counts of personal income tax evasion and seven counts of concealment of assets. He was arrested at his West Los Angeles apartment with bail set at 100000 and faces up to 51 years in prison and a 95000 dollar fine.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Peirson Hall
California
Emblem Adopted by Northeast Louisiana State College
The college adopted an emblem featuring a Ouachita Indian about a year ago. A committee appointed by James Nicholson, administration dean, presented the design. Ww. C. Buchanan chaired the committee with members George C. Brian Miss May Reid Leon Manley Jimmy Hatten Annie Lee West Stahl and Tommy Parks.
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Northeast Louisiana State College
James Nicholson
Ww. C. Buchanan
George C. Brian
Alumni News 1961 Homecoming Officers Listed
Northeast alumni edition circulates listing officers of the Alumni Association President Roland Carter West Monroe Vice President James Boone Monroe Secretary Del Lassiter Monroe and directors Austin Abrams Winnfield Arlen Adams Forest Jo Ann Buswell Edwards Sicily Island.
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Northeast
Roland Carter
West Monroe
James Boone
Monroe
del Lassiter
Austin L. Abrams
Winnfield
Arlen Essie Adams
Forest
Jo Ann Buswell Edwards
Sicily Island
Cuba Expels 2 Americans For Espionage
In Havana a Cuban police raid freed Majorie Lennox an embassy secretary and another American after 40 hours of detention. The note accused Lennox and others of espionage and conspiratorial activities prompting expulsion from Cuba. The embassy said Lennox was in good condition and claimed she was not mistreated.
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Havana
U. S
Majorie Lennox
Lennox
Fidel Castro
Mrs. Lennox
Nixon Promises Four Year Farm Pay Plan To Cut Surpluses
Vice President Richard M. Nixon pitches a four year plan to reduce farm surpluses costing up to a billion dollars yearly. He spoke to about 25 000 Iowa farmers at a plowing contest and to a St Louis union convention, stressing a pay more now strategy. He urged farm vote support and noted Deaf school children heard his lip read speech, saying America needs the best from all citizens.
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Guthrie Center
Iowa
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
St. Louis
Nixon
Omaha
Neb
Des Moines
Iowa School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
America
Seven U S Astronauts Ready to Go Now
Seven American astronauts said they would be willing to go into space immediately if spacecraft were ready. They expect unmanned tests aboard Redstones and Atlas missiles with a Mercury capsule by year’s end and a first manned flight possibly in early 1961, with orbital flight unlikely before late 1961.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
UPI
America
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
United Press International
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cury Control Center
Grissom
Earth
Control Center
Russia
Kennedy warns Khrushchev at Maryland fund raiser
Senator John F. Kennedy told Nikita Khrushchev that Soviet meddling in American elections would fail. At a 1800-strong Democratic dinner in Pikesville Armory he argued democracy outpaces communism and pledged to speak as a private citizen while urging unity and resolve. Kennedy drew crowds during a swing through Pennsylvania ahead of UN talks.
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Baltimore
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Kennedy
Maryland
Soviet Union
Pikesville
Pennsylvania
Khrushchev
United Nations
Ike Completes First Phase of Annual Checkup
President Eisenhower left Walter Reed Hospital after the first phase of his annual checkup and headed to Camp David with Mrs. Eisenhower. He planned a weekend of quiet at the retreat to prepare his September 22 United Nations address likely to challenge Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. N
Walter Reed Hospital
Camp David
Catoctin Mountains
Thurmont
Gettysburg
Earl Eisenhower
United Nations
New York
U. S
Nikita Khrushchev
World Organization
Monroe Hosts Louisiana Municipal Association Convention Plans
A Monroe Chamber of Commerce committee discussed plans for a Louisiana Municipal Association Convention in spring 1961. Mayor W L Jack Howard urged Monroe to stage an excellent event expected to attract about 750 municipal officials, about to be held in March or April with hotel motel managers and chamber members participating.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Louisiana Municipal Association
W. L
Jack) Howard
Monroe
Jim Williams
Soviet Jet Endangers 36 On Plane Over Berlin
A Soviet fighter buzzed a British charter airliner near West Berlin endangering 36 passengers. Captain James Martin filed a protest with the Berlin Air Safety Center after a near miss as Willy Brandt warned against interfering with Berlin air traffic.
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Willy Brandt
West Berlin
East
Berlin
Frankfurt
East Germany
Castro Seizes American Banks in Cuba
Fidel Castro’s government took over all branches of the First National City Bank of New York First National Bank of Boston and Chase Manhattan Bank in Cuba. Interventors from the Cuban National Bank seized operations and notified the U.S. Embassy. Banking sources estimate reserves and undivided profits at 5 to 6 million dollars with liabilities and assets many times higher.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
U.S
Cuban National Bank
First National City Bank of
New York
First National Bank of Boston
Chase Manhattan Bank
Clear to partly cloudy skies over Monroe today
The forecast calls for clearing skies in Monroe with mild temperatures reaching 86 to 90 degrees. Winds will vary from 10 to 20 mph. Yesterday's high was about 88 degrees with winds 8 to 18 mph. Hurricane Ethel was drifting northward near the Alabama Mississippi border producing mainly rain.
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Monroe
Ethel
Alabama - Mississippi
Father Robbery Suspect Tied to Child's Disappearance
Clifton O. Ford, 35, jailed by the FBI in California on bank robbery suspicions, is under LaSalle Parish inquiry into his infant child's disappearance. The baby's body was found buried under ten inches of dirt in Chickasaw Cemetery, wrapped in a hospital sheet. Ford claimed the smothering happened in sleep. The child, born to Rose Marie Ford on June 4 at Dr. Gaharan's clinic in Jena, is the focus of ongoing investigations.
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Jena
Clifton O. Ford
FBI
California
LaSalle Parish
Ford
Chickasaw Cemetery
Sheriff's Deputies
Sheriff's Office
Rose Marie
Gaharan
Six Negroes Arrested in New Orleans Picket Demonstration
In New Orleans police arrested six African Americans including Jim McCain national field secretary for the Congress on Racial Equality for forming a picket line around a shopping center protesting unequal job opportunities. Also jailed were Dr Henry R Mitchell minister Avery C Alexander minister Louis Landrum Henry J Harris and Carleton J Roy as about 300 onlookers cheered nearby.
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New Orleans
UPI
Jim McCain
Congress On Racial Equality
Woolworth’s
Henry R. Mitchell
Avery C. Alexander
Louis Landrum
Henry J. Harris
Carleton J. Roy
Chuckle Opportunity Missing When Broadcast Delays Tuning In
A light remark notes that humor chances often pass as audiences broadcast instead of tuning in. It points to timing and attention being key to catching the joke. The line suggests radio or TV timing influences audience engagement.
Disappearance of Ritters Stuns Suburban Royal Oak Area
William Ritter and Edith Ritter, both 45, vanished with their two children amid $60,000 gambling losses and mounting debts. They left a $30,000 home unlocked and avoided photos, taking family pictures and leaving behind a purse with six pennies. The Ritters ran a nursing home in Royal Oak and were seen as wealthy by neighbors. The case, tied to bankruptcy filings, draws FBI scrutiny though no charges exist.
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Detroit
UPI
William Ritter
Edith
Ritters
Royal Oak
West Bloomfield
FBI
Middleton
Ritter
Mobutu Demands Outgoing Diplomats by Noon in Congo
Congolese strongman Col Joseph Mobutu warned Russian and Czech diplomats to leave Leopoldville by noon Saturday or be arrested and expelled. He sent troops to surround embassies and arrested 20 aides of Premier Lumumba while U N forces guard Lumumba’s residence.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
UPI
Joseph Mobutu
Tass
Mobutu
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
U.S. seeks emergency UN session on Congo crisis
The United States urged an emergency General Assembly session to address the Congo situation after the Soviet vetoed a Ceylonese Tunisian resolution. James Wadsworth accused the Soviet Union of aiming to derail UN operations and called for immediate UN funding and measures to halt subversion.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
U.N
Congo
U.S
James J. Wadsworth
U.N. Security Council
Soviet Union
Dag Hammarskjold
Wadsworth
Hammarskjold
France
Poland
Security Council
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