Influence Of Extremists Appears Fading
Washington AP reports ultraconservatives may have limited impact on this fall's congressional races as both parties push back against zealots who accuse top officials of Communist plots. Walker's testimony questioning loyalty drew mixed reactions, with some senators distancing themselves while others praised his stance.
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Washington
Earl Warren
Edwin A. Walker
Dean Rusk
Senate Armed Services
Cancer Crusade Launches Drive In Area Today
A house-to-house and business campaign begins in Monroe and West Monroe with drives planned in Sterlington Fairbanks and Perryville Thursday through Saturday. Sterlington High School Band and Glee Club will cover the Sterlington area with music director Stanley Burkett in charge. Monroe co-chairman M D Tarver and business chairman James Harbuck lead the launch assisted by Mrs. Fred Beckett residential head. In West Monroe parish co-chairman Sam Hanna and business co chairmen Leslie Hamm and Leo Walsworth brief volunteers. residential drive chaired by Mrs. Joyce Smith.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Sterlington
Fairbanks
Perryville
Charles Drennan
Stanley Burkett
Parish
M. D. Tarver
James Harbuck
Fred Beckett
Sam Hanna
Leslie Hamm
Leo Walsworth
Joyce Smith
Postmasters Meet in Winnsboro Area
Roy M. Taylor will host the fourth and fifth Congressional District meeting of the National Association of Postmasters in Winnsboro. About sixty postmasters are expected at Motel Owen from 9 30 a m to 3 p m. Mayor Robert F Mulhearn will give the welcome. John E Butler Jr deputy regional director will address the noon dinner.
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Winnsboro
Roy M. Taylor
National Association of Postmasters
Motel Owen
Robert F. Mulhearn
John E. Butler, Jr
Dallas
Co. W. Cain
Monroe
Lawrence Parker
New Orleans
America Falgout
Meraux
Louisiana Postmasters Association
Homer B. Roark
West Monroe
State Association
Bolivia on the skids after a decade of stability
Bolivia has lived with one party rule for ten years since the 1952 upheaval. The United States has provided about 225 million dollars to keep the country alive, while the MNR party suppresses opposition. Per capita income runs about 950 dollars, and tin remains a key export. Exiles fled after the 1952 revolution, with some opponents captured, killed, or tortured.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
National Revolutionary Party
Gan
U.S
MNR
Two LSU faculty present reports at pharmaceutical convention
Two members of the Northeast Louisiana State College faculty presented reports to the Medicinal Chemistry Section at the American Pharmaceutical Association meeting held in Las Vegas Nevada last week. Dr August G Danti and Dr Dale H Cronk associate professors of pharma presented in the CHIT CHAT note.
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Louisiana State College
American Pharmaceutical Association
Las Vegas
Nevada
August G. Danti
Dale H. Cronk
Pharma
Castro To See Exiles About Ransom Swap
Cuban exile negotiators plan to fly to Havana to press Fidel Castro to lower the 62 million dollar ransom for 1,179 Bay of Pigs prisoners. The Families Committee says it has raised 26 million so far and the trialservis verdicts set 30 year terms with ransoms from 25 000 to 500 000 each.
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Castro
Miami
Fla
Havana
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Families Committee
Enrique Llaca
Jose Santiago
Family Committee
Movieland Oscars Tonight in Hollywood Santa Monica
Oscars night focuses on West Side Story Judgments at Nuremberg The Hustler Guns of Navarone Fanny lead races. Natalie Wood possible best actress while Sophia Loren lauded for Two Women. ABC radio TV and Armed Forces coverage with clips and primetime telecast.
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Hollywood
Santa Monica
Civic Auditorium
Liz Taylor
Rome
ABC Radio and Television
Armed Forces Radio
Televiewers
Smart Monkey
Nuremberg
Guns of Navarone
Natalie Wood
Sophia Loren
Garbo
Maggie School Board Trial Reopens Today
The Fourth District Court resumed testimony in two suits against Ouachita Parish School Board Superintendent William W. Ward and West Monroe Junior High Principal C. E. Hardin. Maria Maggio, a former physical education teacher, seeks to set aside her resignation, back pay, and rehire. Judge Mack E. Barham oversees the trial, with earlier testimony in mid March.
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Fourth District
Ouachita Parish
William W. Ward
C. E. Hardin
West Monroe
Maria Maggio
Glenmar Avenue
Miss Maggio
School Board
Mack E. Barham
Maggie
Turkey hunters urge confidence as forecast stays mild
Sunny mornings boost turkey hunting in Monroe with the season open through Sunday. Partly cloudy, mild weather with light 5-15 mph wind and no rain expected tonight’s low around 48 to 52 degrees. The weatherman’s outlook favors hunters through the weekend.
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Monroe
Hunter's Corner
American Killed At Mexico Border at Tijuana
An armed American who tried to cross the U S Mexican border wounded two Tijuana police and a hotel manager before he was killed. Police pursued the man on both sides of the border while thousands of weekend visitors watched.
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Strom Thurmond
D-S.c
Walker
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Armed Services Committee
Leverett Saltonstall
RM Miss
Howard W. Cannon
D-Nev
John M. Stennis
D-Miss
Senate
Sen
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Tijuana
Mexico
Agua Caliente
Defiant OAS Strikes Across Algiers And Oran
The Secret Army Organization launches new terror raids in Algiers killing at least five Muslims and wounding two, while Oran militants seize two newspapers and distribute more than 100000 copies bearing Salan’s image and a defiant statement. Safer French governance follows De Gaulle’s referendum win.
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Algiers
API
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Charles de Gaulle
Oran
L’echo D’oran
Oran Republican
Raoul Salan
Salan
de Gaulle
Algeria
France
Two Women and Three Children Drowned in Brazos River
Two Houston families on a Sunday outing at Stephen F. Austin State Park were swept away in the Brazos River. One body of a woman, Mrs. Robert H. Mahone of Houston, was recovered. four others, including two children and two adults, remained missing as searchers scoured the 8 inch to 30 foot river depths.
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Sealy, Tex
Brazos River
Stephen F. Austin State Park
Twoen
Austin County
T. A. Maddox
Robert H. Mahone
Houston
Maddox
Pete Mahone
Patti Mahone
Alton Rodgers
Nancy Rodgers
Mahone
Two Escape In Hail of Bullets
Two East Berlin building workers rammed a heavy truck through the Red Wall at Boyen strasse in the French sector and escaped to the West. They smashed 15 feet of the wall, then fled toward a house on the west side as East German guards fired. Neither man was injured.
Chuckle Sign at Crossing Promises Safer Passage
A humorous sign at a street crossing reads To avoid that run down feeling cross carefully offering a light wink at pedestrian safety. The playful message highlights caution and humor in daily city transit.
Ouachita Seeks Third Lawmaker in Reapportionment Push
Ouachita Parish, eligible for a third House seat under a constitutional reapportionment rule, trails other parishes in the census based reallocation. The 1960 figures show Ouachita with 101,663 people and two House members, while St. Landry with 81,493 has three, and Rapides with 111,351 leads.
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Ouachita Parish
Ouachita
St. Landry
Rapides
John B. Hester Funeral Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral rites for John B. Hester 70 former Union parish sheriff and auto auction barn owner in Monroe were set for 2 30 p m Monday at Downsville Methodist Church with Rev Brady Forman and Rev Tom Crosby officiating Burial under Southern Funeral Home Jonesboro direction would follow in Downsville cemetery He died in a Rayville hospital about 6 p m Saturday Survived by son John Hester Jr of Monroe two daughters Laz Baughman and Cecil Read both of Farmerville one brother J R Hester Louisville Tex one sister Mrs A D Green Farmerville eight grandchildren and one great grandchild
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John B. Hester
Union Parish
Monroe
Downsville Methodist Church
Brady Forman
Tom Crosby
Southern Funeral Home
Jonesboro
Downsville
Hester
Rayville
John
Sukarno Receives Soviet Planes For West New Guinea Push
President Sukarno reviewed Mig jet fighters from the Soviet bloc during Air Force Day ceremonies and pledged to seize West New Guinea by force this year if peace talks fail while approving U S proposals to renew talks with the Netherlands. Diplomatic circles note most of the air force was in East Indonesia.
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Peter Arnett
Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
West New Guinea
Air Force
U.S
Netherlands
Early Lighthouses Traced to Libyan Cushite Builders
The earliest lighthouses, with records surviving, were towers built by Libyans and Cushites in lower Egypt over seven centuries before Christ, indicating ancient maritime safety efforts and advanced coastal engineering in antiquity.
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Lower
Egypt
Dying 4-Year-Old Girl Finds Kindness On Visit
Julie Maland, a four year old cancer patient in San Pedro, smiled as trainman Engineer Bill Stulla placed his TV cap under an oxygen tent for her. The girl, with blonde hair and blue eyes, faced a prognosis that the end was near after treatments for a kidney tumor and lung spread. Her parents Irwin and Pat Maland, with three other daughters, cope with the loss anticipated by the doctor.
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San Pedro
Calif
Julie Maland
Bill
Los Angeles
Bill Stulla
Julie
Irwin
Pat Maland
Gunpowder Plant Blast Forces 500 Villagers to Flee
A factory blast near Saint Juste-Ardeche France sparked a fire and heavy casualties. Police fear at least 20 dead with 30 injured as explosions continued and residents fled to Pont Saint Esprit. Authorities suspected sabotage by the Secret Army Organization amid cease-fire talks with Algeria.
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Pont Saint Esprit
France
UPI
Saint Juste-Ardeches
Secret Army Organization
Pont Sant Esprit
Saint Juste-Ardeche
Texas Brothers Face Alleghany Stock Meeting
The Murchison brothers of Dallas confidently faced their first public accounting at Alleghany Corp.’s annual meeting in Baltimore. They control a $7 billion holding with proxies strong enough to repel any challenge while John D. and Clint W. Jr. sit atop the firm amid Kirby’s ongoing influence and the NY Central and I D S eye of the conglomerate’s empire.
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Baltimore
Murchison Brothers
Dallas
Tex
America
Murchisons
Alleghany Corp
Empire
Alleghany
John D. Murchison
Allan P. K Kirby
John D
Clint W. Jr
Clint W. Murchison Sr
Texas
Kirby
Woolworth
Murchison
Sheraton-Belvedere
New York Central Railroad
Investors Diversified Services
Mi i
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