Kennedy to visit France for three day talks with De Gaulle
President Kennedy will visit Paris May 31 to June 2 for talks with Charles de Gaulle on a broad range of issues. The trip, described as a modified state visit, aims to deepen Franco American ties and discuss Laos, with possible follow up meetings in London Bonn and Rome. The White House confirmed the plan as Kennedy returns to Washington from Florida.
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Kennedys
France
de Gaulle
Paris
Kennedy
Europe
Palm Beach
Washington
Harold Macmillan
Pierre Salinger
London
Bonn
Rome
Laos
Joseph P. Kennedy
Macmillan
Great Britain
Key West
Fla
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Washingon
Public urged to pressure for JFK plans
Democrats launch a nationwide push to rally public support for President Kennedy's New Frontier program. The Democratic National Committee asks workers to urge citizens to contact senators and congressmen to back the minimum wage bill. Margaret Price leads a drive targeting women to press the Senate where action was delayed.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Democratic National Committee
Margaret Price
Senate
House
Ban The Bomb Protesters Rally in London Demonstration
About 40 000 demonstrators gathered in drizzle for a four day anti nuke march ending with a mass rally in Trafalgar Square. Earl Bertrand Russell urged action to avert nuclear disaster as police guarded banners and flags from 30 foreign nations and marchers from Aldermaston and a U S base. They welcomed a West German contingent and a lone Japanese participant amid visa refusals.
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London
Earl Bertrand Russell
Nelson
Trafalgar Square
Britain
Aldermaston
U.S
Wethersfield
R. A. Butler
American Prisoner Robert McCann Freed by China
Peiping radio announced American Robert E. McCann jailed since 1951 for espionage will be released for humanitarian reasons due to his lung cancer. McCann, once of Altadena California, is dying and will depart China on Wednesday, leaving four other U.S. espionage prisoners still held in Red China.
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London
Robert E. McCann
China
Peiping Radio
Peping
McCann
Altadena
Calif
Tientsin
John T. Downey
New Britain
Conn
U.S. Army
Richard FE. Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
James R. Walsh
Cumberland
Hugh F. Redmond Jr
Yonkers
N.Y
Peiping
Want Ads Sell Farm Equipment Fast in News-Story World
Classified notice advertises garden tractor with plow cultivator harrow mower rake trailer priced at 100 dollars and a TV Parmall tractor in good condition. Provides contact numbers FA 43420 FA 55447 and ad placement line FA 2516 with seven day rate and cancellation privileges.
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Parmall Tractor
Little Theatre to wear Senators uniforms for Damn Yankes
Monroe production of Damn Yankes will feature male chorus members in real Washington Senators baseball uniforms. Robert Evans, president of the Little Theatre, secured the authentic costumes for the show. A note about a former Olin vice-president now head of the FAA appears on CHIT-CHAT page 2-A.
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Little Theatre
Monroe
Washington Senators
Robert Evans
Olin
Federal Aviation Administration
Monroe Public Works Eyes Recreation Centers and School Bond
Monroe city officials will hold two special meetings this week. They plan to award recreation center and pool bids and consider a 1,675,000 bond issue to fund new elementary classrooms. The City School Board asked for the bond. council already studied recreation bids.
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Monroe
W. L
Jack) Howard
Howard
Supt
van Dodom
Envoy Due In Tonight Briton Rusk To Hold Laos Talks
Lord Home arrives in Washington to work with Secretary Rusk on a Western reply to the Soviet note on Laos. Macmillan to join for talks with Kennedy as a draft reply is anticipated. Soviet and British plans favor a 14 nation conference with a cease fire as a first step. Fighting in Laos subsides though rebels attack eastern and southern points. Officials caution over statements of a large rebel offensive.
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Peiping
Laos
Chen Yi
Moscow
Sukarno
United Nations
International Organization
Taos
Congo
Washington
Lord Home
Dean Rusk
Soviet Union
Harold Macmillan
Kennedy
U.S
Macmillan
Britain
United States
Suncay
Priest Kills Burglar In Denver Church
In Denver a Roman Catholic priest shot and killed a burglar who was stealing Easter collection at St. Catharine's Church. The ex convict Richard Eugene Sanders died after surgery at Denver General Hospital. A second burglar may have been wounded as the priest confronted them in the rectory dining room.
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Denver
UPI
Delisle Lemieux
St. Catherines Catholic Church
Richard Eugene Sanders
Denver General Hospital
Roy Tangye
Sanders
Tangye
Governor Must Call Election on Judgeship
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis must call a judge election within 60 days due to the death of Judge David I. Garrett. Judge Paul Stephens of Coushatta will fill the vacancy until the election after being appointed by the State Supreme Court. The Fourth Judicial District covers Ouachita and Morehouse parishes. Garrett died after a heart attack at 67. Stephens has occupied the seat for several days.
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Jimmie H. Davis
David I. Garrett
Paul Stephens
Coushatta
State Supreme Court
Democratic Committee
Garrett
Stephens
Fourth Judicial District
Ouachita
Morehouse
Mild Days and Cool Nights in Northeast Louisiana
Forecast calls for mild days and cool nights in northeast Louisiana through Tuesday with highs near 74 and a low around 50s. Skies will be partly cloudy after a sunny weekend, and no rain was reported Sunday at Selman Field where a high of 75 and a low of 42 were recorded.
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Louisiana
FAA
Selman Field
Church Parade Tests Faith With Five Dollar Wal Let
A humorous column notes a parishioner facing a faith moment when a five dollar bill stands in for a needed donation in a church setting. The anecdote offers light local color and a moral nudge about generosity.
Minister Beaten as Racial Probe Reopens in Alabama
The Tuscaloosa county grand jury revived its intense investigation into the beating of Rev. J. D. Fackler a 24 year old Lutheran student minister in New Orleans. Ku Klux Klan leaders denied involvement while Alabama officials warned against racial tensions and urged restraint after a rally by about 1000 Klansmen at the courthouse. Former Gov. James Folsom condemned the beating and the logging of Fackler saying both races resent agitators.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
UPI
Tuscaloosa County
Grand Jury
J. D. Fackler
New Orleans
Alabama
Bobby Shelton
Shelton
James Folsom
Scott Named Grand Jury Foreman Here
Monroe businessman Tom H. Scott was appointed foreman of Ouachita parish grand jury for the spring session in Monroe. Judge Paul Stephens presiding. other jurors named include John Bishop Johnston Jr C K Dickard N A Jardine J A Rutledge G Hudson Sr P G Boyd A Lee Hodges C C Roddey G H Owens Wiley Kroach and George Wiley. Court recessed after sentencing a theft case and in respect to the death of Judge David J. Garrett Sr.
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Tom H. Scott
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Scott
Byudge Paul Stephens
Coushatta
John Bishop Johnston, Jr
C. K. Dickard
N. A. Jardine
J. A. Rutledge
G. Hudson, Sr
P. G. Boyd
A. Lee Hodges
C. C. Roddey
G. H. Owens
Wiley FE Kroach
George Wiley
Tenth Judicial District
David J. Garrett Sr
Stephens
Aneagle
TH. E. Jamison
Winds Hit N'east Louisiana With Gusts to 47 MPH
Moderate to strong northeast winds swept area around noon causing minor disruption. Bastrop saw trees down blocking roads, one on South Washington in Bastrop and another on Highway 165 in Mer Rouge, while power lines fell but traffic later resumed. FAA at Selman Field recorded multiple 40 mph gusts, strongest at 47 mph.
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Louisiana
Bastrop
South Washington Street
Highway 165
Met Rouge
Morehouse Parish
Morehouse
Union Parish
FAA
Selmanfield
Weer Sentenced to Life for Starved Rock Slaying
Chester Otto Weger, convicted of bludgeon slaying, received a life term for the murder of one of three matrons killed at Starved Rock State Park over a year ago. Weger’s family sobbed in court as the sentence was read.
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Ottawa
Ill
UPI
Chester Otto Weer
Starved Rock State Park
Weger
Juanita
Jo Ann
Mary
Lovers Await Life Or Death Jury Decree
In Los Angeles AP reports that Dr. RB Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff face a jury verdict on murder charges. After four days and multiple trials the couple now await possible death or life sentences for Finch, Tregoff, and conspiracy charges tied to the death of Barbara Jean Finch.
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Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Finch
Barbara Jean
Cubans Intercept U S Ship and Release It
U S naval authorities report the cable ship Western Union was intercepted by a Cuban gunboat five miles off Baracoa in international waters. U S jet planes and the destroyer John W Weeks went to assist but did not enter Cuban waters or overfly them. The cutter’s skipper said the ship loaded with gasoline had little choice but to obey.
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Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
U.S
Western Union
Baracoa
John W. Weeks
Cuban
Guantanamo
Letter from Mansfield soldier describes Confederate advance into Maryland
The letter from Thomas H. Phifer of Mansfield, Louisiana Volunteers, written Sept 1862 on Army of Virginia stationery, details a rapid advance into Maryland near the Pennsylvania line and the encirclement of Harpers Ferry. He sends greetings to his family as a fellow soldier notes the mail return.
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Robert E. Lee
Maryland
Thomas H. Phifer
Mansfield
Louisiana Volunteers
Silas
Dier
Army of
Harpers Ferry
Bolivar Heights
Woman rescues child by descending 24 foot well
In Hamilton New York Mrs Arthur Linsley calmly lowers herself 24 feet into an abandoned well to save her four year old daughter Barbara. Her six year old son David sends help as firemen arrive within about 15 minutes. Barbara lost her balance and fell into the open shaft but the mother steadies herself and hoists Barbara to safety with ropes.
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Hamilton
N. Y
David
Barbara
Arthur Linsley
Mrs. Linsley
Patterson Man Killed Instantly In Highway Crash
Morgan City Louisiana. Newman R. Gilfort a 46 year old Patterson resident was killed instantly when his car left U S 90 and struck the Bayou Boeuf bridge. Police said the cause was not known but they suspect he fell asleep. The crash occurred shortly before 5 a m with the car demolished.
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Newman R. Gilfort
Pattersoa
Tod
Bay Boeuf Bridge
Gilfort
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