Boston School Panel Busing Plan Criticized by Hicks
Louise Day Hicks, chairwoman of the Boston School Committee, denounced a 21 member advisory panel on racial imbalance as undemocratic and unworkable. She attacked proposals including busing and redrawn district lines, urged a citywide referendum, and criticized a policy she said harms neighborhood schools. The report notes Boston’s 59 percent nonwhite pupil population and says racial imbalance harms all children.
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Boston
Louise Day Hicks
Boston School Committee
Local school boards delay signing wage contracts
MonRoe City and Ouachita Parish boards have not signed revised lunchroom fund contracts with the federal agriculture department. Officials expect to sign soon, noting boards sign with state departments, not HEW. Delays threaten four cent per meal plus milk program funds, with several days remaining before deadline. In Bulgaria, a failed factional plot against Todor Zhivkov surfaced as a central committee member Ivan Todorov Gorunya was found dead and General Tsvetko Anev went into hiding. The city remained calm as authorities investigated.
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J. H. Scogin
Monroe City
Milton C. Hall
Ouachita Parish
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Intermea
Ivan Todorov-Gorunya
Bulgarian Communist Party
Tsvetko Anev
Todorov-Gorunya
Sofia
Twin City Chat: Sgt Gunther to Visit Monroe Family
Sgt Bobby Gunther and relatives arrive in Monroe for a two week visit. He is an instructor at Ft Walton Beach Fla air base and has served since 1952. Gunther attended Ouachita Parish High School.
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Bobby Gunther
Monroe
E. E. Gunther
N. McGuire St
Gunther
Ft. Walton Beach Fla
Ouachita Parish High School
Six Solons Back Klan Inquiry
Washington UPI report notes six of Louisiana's eight Congressmen supported a 50 000 appropriation for the House un American Activities Committee to probe the Ku Klux Klan. The bill passed 312 to 43. Hale Boggs James Morrison Otto Passman Joe Waggonner T A Thompson and Edwin Willis voted in favor. F Edward Hebert and Speedy Long did not vote.
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Washington
UPI
Louisiana
House un-American Activities Committee
Hale Boggs
James Morrison
Otto Passman
Joe D. Waggonner
T. A. Thompson
Edwin Willis
F. Edward Hebert
Speedy Long
Robbers Hit Gilliam Bank Vault In Night Break-In
Burglars hacked through the roof of a building housing the Cattle Trust and Savings Bank of Gilliam and cut through the vault door to steal between 600 and 700 dollars in loose change. A stolen pickup used to haul the loot was abandoned about two hours later near the Plain Dealing bridge.
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Gilliam
Cattle Trust and Savings Bank of
North America Hit by Meteorite Fragments Study Says
American researchers citing the World Almanac suggest Earth was bombarded by stony metallic fragments from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter between 34 million and 700,000 years ago. The hypothesis points to widespread impacts over deep time.
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North America
Mars
Jupiter
Peace Corps Withdraws From Indonesia Amid Tensions
U S presidential envoy Ellsworth Bunker and President Sukarno announce the Peace Corps will pull out in weeks due to tensions between the United States and Indonesia. About 35 American volunteers, mainly athletic coaches, are affected as U S aid shrinks to under 3 million annually and future assistance focuses on technical aid to select universities.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Peace Corps
Bunker
Sukarno
United States
Defense Policy Draws Fire at Newspaper Editors Meeting
The Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors charged Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and his information chief with confusing the Defense Department public information policy with Ford Motor Co.’s public relations. The panel noted McNamara’s past as a Ford executive in delivering its annual report at the convention’s opening session.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
Ford Motor Co
Freedom of Information Committee
American Society of Newspaper Editors
McNamara
Ford
Governor in Pajamas Chases Dog Through Des Moines
Des Moines governor Harold Hughes, weighing about 230 pounds, hunted his Irish setter Mike at dawn in pajamas and a bathrobe. The dog escaped, wandered streets near downtown, and returned to its home after 45 minutes of fruitless searching, aided briefly by a hunting horn.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harold E. Hughes
Mike
31St Street
Hughes
Phyllis
Floods Kill Ten in Minnesota and Widespread Destruction
The Mississippi River flood swamped Minnesota and neighboring states forcing thousands from homes. At least 10 deaths are linked to Minnesota floods as melting snow and rising tributaries overflowed banks. The Red Cross reports tens of thousands homeless across five states and federal disaster aid is being activated.
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Mississippi
Minnesota
Red Cross
Wisconsin
Iowa
North Dakota
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Johnson
Midwest
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
White House
Ilinois
Sunnyside
Charles Keck
J R Troeltzsch Dies Funeral Services Pending
Julius Robert Troeltzsch 70 retired production superintendent and chemical engineer of Commercial Solvents Corp died unexpectedly this morning in Monroe. He was born in Marysville Montana and lived in Monroe 23 years, survived by Louise, two sons, three brothers and a sister with services at Peters Funeral Home.
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Julius Robert Troeltzsch
Commercial Solvents Corporation
Mr. Troeltzsch
Hilton St
Monroe
Commercial Solvents
The
Corporation
Marysville
Mont
Troeltzsch
First Presbyterian Church of
Midway Masonic Lodge
St. Paul
Temperatures to be Cooler Across Region
Cooler air moves into northeast Louisiana with tonight’s low around 52 to 56 degrees. This afternoon’s readings reached 80 to 85 with a chance of a thunder shower. Friday brings partly cloudy, cooler weather with highs 72 to 76, and Saturday should be fair and mild.
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Louisiana
Monroe City Hall Ground Breaking in Monroe
History was made as officials broke ground for a new City Hall complex at Sixth and Wood Streets near I-20. Mayor Howard led the ceremony with 100 business and civic leaders present. Contracts totaling 1.4 million cover City Hall with jail, police HQ, city court, and city hall, plus rail gear and elevators. bids to open April 27 under a $114 million capital program attracting ITT facilities to Monroe.
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Monroe
New City Hall
H. W. McSherry
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Hilton Heard
W. L
Jack) Howard
Milton King and
King
Sixth and
Wood Streets
Jesse F. Heard & Sons
Howard
Milton King
King Stubbs
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Civic Center
City Hall
Heard
Mercy Killing Trial Ties In Law In Law In Philadelphia Case
Philadelphia police report a mercy killing at a Germantown nursing home where Mary Happer 61 died of two gunshots after Dorothy Butts 49 of Bethesda Md shot her then killed herself six hours later in Bethesda. Butts had visited Happer at the High Oaks Home for Christian Scientists and drove away after the shooting.
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Philadelphia
Mary
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
Viet Nam
Mary Happer
Dorothy Butts
Bethesda
Miss Butts
Miss Happer
High Oaks
Christian Scientists
Germantown
Edith Barrett
Miss Barrett
Miss Hopper
Kenneth Gehret
Gehret
Joseph Golden
Washington, D.C
Holton Arms Girls School
Happer
el Paso
Tex
Wilson Flies To Washington
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives in Washington for a one day visit to meet President Johnson and U.S. leaders. He is welcomed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at Andrews Air Force Base in rain, then drives to the capital for talks with Secretary Henry H. Fowler. Viet Nam and Malaysia topics expected.
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Washington
Harold Wilson
Johnson
U.S
Andrews Air Force Base
Wilson
Dean Rusk
Traffic Flow Roadside Interviews Started Around Monroe
Interstate and state highway teams from the Monroe Metropolitan Area Transportation Study began roadside interviews on 14 principal highways around Monroe and West Monroe. The three week phase, running 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on 12 stations and 24 hour on two, seeks patterns of traffic entering, moving through and leaving the Twin Cities to aid engineers.
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Monroe Metropolitan Area
Monroe
West Monroe
Philip G. Dierstein
Wilbur Smith
Twin Cities
U.S. Hwy. 80
Dierstein
Dier
Biggest Raid Of Viet Nam War Executed
An armada of 230 U S and South Vietnamese aircraft bombed a jungle near the Cambodian border in Tay Ninh Province from dawn to dusk. Navy planes joined for the first time inside South Viet Nam as ground fire remained light and six secondary explosions occurred from Viet Cong munitions. Two Navy planes took minor damage amid a high intensity operation described as a major effort by General Westmoreland.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Air Force
Navy
Midway
Skyraider
North
U.S
Tay Ninh
William C. Westmoreland
U.S. Army
U.S. Air Force
Muong Sen
Hanoi
West Monroe Finances Declared In Good Shape
West Monroe City Clerk Harold Hill stated the city's finances are in good condition with no debts beyond current bills. He noted the finances are better now than in previous years and that the city operates on a year to year basis. The new fiscal year starts July 1 and last month’s bills will be paid next week.
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West Monroe
Harold Hill
Hill
Chuckle on Freshman Registration Card Names Parents
A college freshman registration card features a humorous line listing parents as Mom and Dad. The quirky entry highlights student life moments captured in campus documents, reflecting lighthearted attitudes toward official forms and family labels.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Baton Rouge
Mack Avants
Catahoula
Concordia
Jackson
LaSalle
Lincoln
Richland
Tensas
Winn
Bulgaria
Peking
Todor Zhivkov
City OF
Sophia
Twin City
Solons Back Klan
Gillian Trust Company
Pup
Mississippi River
Associated Press
J. R. Troeltzsch
Monroe City Hall
Taylor
Bec
Cambodia
Mighty
Ee Reed
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