Surrounding Jordan Ike Encouraged Over Suez Progress
Lebanon AP reports troops from Syria Saudi Arabia Iraq and Israel poised around Jordan as King Hussein faces internal crisis and instability. Syrian forces hold Mafrak area with 5000+ in the north while Saudis base in Aqaba and Jericho district. Israel warns it will respond if any Arab move disrupts Jordan.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Jordan
Mafrak
Syria
Aqaba
Palestine
Jericho
Iraq
Israel
Middle East
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Hebron
Nablus
Hussein
Telephone Rate Refund Plan Is About Ready For Action
Southern Bell and Louisiana Public Service Commission prepare to meet in Baton Rouge on Tuesday to decide the method and start date for refunds following a 20 percent intrastate rate cut. John J. McKeithen says a determination on when refunds begin will likely come from the session. The commission ordered reductions to 5 cents for local pay station calls and 10 cents for other intrastate calls.
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Louisiana Public Service Commission
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Commission
Baton Rouge
John J. McKeithen
Third District Public Service Commissioner
Southern Bell
McKeithen
Public Service Commission
Represen
King Hussein Addresses Nation After Victory in Jordan
King Hussein denounces world Jewry and Zionism and promises to adopt the path of the liberated Arab countries as policy. In his first national address since a government crisis ended, he pledges to struggle for his people and criticizes outsiders who influence Jordan’s affairs.
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Amman
Jordan
Hussein
Israel
US expels Soviet embassy employee over refugee pressure
The United States ordered Genadi F. Mashkantzev of the Soviet Embassy to leave the country for highly improper activities. He allegedly tried to persuade former refugee Lt. Peter Pirogov to return to the Soviet Union and urged others to do the same. Sergei Striganov was summoned to receive the expulsion order at the State Department.
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Washington P
United States
State Department
Genadi F. Mashkantzev
Peter Pirogov
Russia
Soviet Union
Department
Mashkantzev
Sergei R. Striganov
Natchitoches Man Garlin Bice Dies by Own Action
A 48 year old Natchitoches businessman Garlin Bice killed himself with a .38 pistol in Winn Parish while visiting his sister. The death follows the reported death of his twin Arlin Bice two weeks earlier from a gunshot wound, stirring parish controversy. The coroner classified it as death by own action and an inquest was held.
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The
News-Star
Winnfield
Natchitoches
Winn Parish
Sanford Jor
Arlin Bice
Natchitoches Parish
James Kaufman
Boyd B. Durr
Jordan
Bice
Luther Keaton
Olin Launches Major Improvement Plan at West Monroe
Olin Olif-Mathieson Chemical starts an extensive program to upgrade and diversify its West Monroe paper converting facilities. A $500000 forest products research center will be built there under Dr. D C Lea with project engineer W E McGough guiding the 15 month effort.
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Olif-Mathieson Chemical Corporation
West Monroe
Robert H. Evans
Olin
Forest Products
D. C. Lea
Evans
T. R. Moore
W. E. McGough
Forest Products Division
Lea
Price Family Welcomes Daughter Elizabeth Saturday
Mr and Mrs H R Price Jr of Delhi announce the birth of a daughter Elizabeth born Saturday morning. Maternal grandmother is Mrs Mattie Williams and paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs H R Price Sr of Darnell. F C McConnell of Louisiana Power and Light Co West Monroe has been laid up for a week with arthritis. He expects to
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H. R. Price, Jr
Delhi
Elizabeth
Mattie Williams
H. R. Price, Sr
Darnell
F. C. McConnell
Louisiana Power and Light Co
West Monroe
Weather Today Not For Picnic In Monroe Area
The Monroe area sees mild temperatures but showers and possible thundershowers dampen outdoor plans. Local rainfall was light at .01 inches in the past 24 hours, while Lake Charles reported 3.35 inches, Lafayette 2.51 and Alexandria .29. State outlook: partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers. Highs 70 to 75 and lows 60 to 64.
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Monroe
Lake Charles
Lafayette
Alexandria
Four Union Leaders To Take Stand
Four union leaders linked by testimony of a convicted dynamiter with alleged terrorism in the Scranton area go before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee for questioning. Committee aides said they would appear today before the panel.
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Washington
Scranton
Senate Labor Rackets Committee
Hubshman Held in Contempt by Senate Probers
Senate investigators voted to cite Robert Hubshman a Scranton Pa Teamsters Union member for contempt of Congress after he refused to answer and invoked the fifth amendment officials said. Hubshman declined to say if he is a decent citizen.
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Washington
Senate
Robert Hubshman
Scranton
Teamsters Union
Hubshman
Testimony Details Bombings and Threats Highlighted in Hearing
Committee heard vivid stories about bombings and threats as Paul Bradshaw testified he took the rap for a house bombing. Robert Kennedy pressed to question accused men while Bradshaw named Carpenters Local 261 agents Bartell and Brady as participants in nonunion building violence.
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Robert Kennedy
Paul Bradshaw
Teamster
Nannies
Bradshaw
Joseph Bartell
Carpenters Local 261
Scranton
Bartell
Philip Brady
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Mean to him Winnfield boy shoots aunt and uncle to death
A 13 year old Lee Edward Taylor confessed to killing his aunt Clifton Brown 46 and uncle Dorthea Brown 39 in Winnfield Louisiana claiming they were mean to him. He shot his aunt Monday night then his uncle hours later after returning from the sawmill. He hid in the kitchen and discarded the gun then went to a movie before surrendering to sheriff officials who will present the case to the grand jury.
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Winnfield
Lee Edward Taylor
Colfax
Sanford Jordan
Jordan
Clifton Brown
Dorthea
Taylor
Leon Taylors
Houston
Tex
Bank Robber Johnson Receives Eight Years Six Months
Palmer Hardy Johnson 29 was sentenced in federal court to eight years and six months for the October armed bank robbery of the Choudrant Bank. The term runs concurrently with a nine year state sentence. He was brought from Angola to Monroe to face the charges.
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Palmer Hardy Johnson
Choudrant Bank
Ben C. Dawkins, Jr
Johnson
Ruston
Monroe
Angola
Ouachita Parish
W. G. Kelly
Monroe Businessmen Push for New Airline Routes to Houston
Monroe businessmen through the Chamber of Commerce back a civil aeronautics board appeal for new air links. The plan adds routes from Monroe to Houston via Alexandria and Lake Charles, New Orleans to Little Rock via Monroe, and Monroe to Little Rock via El Dorado. A CAB hearing is set for June 4 in Alexandria.
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Monroe
Civil Aeronautics Board
Chamber of Commerce
Southern
Trans - Texas
Houston
Alexandria
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Little Rock
el Dorado
Jim Williams
CAB
United States
Lawmakers Named on State Licensing Board Payroll
The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate reports two Louisiana legislators on the general contractors board payroll. Rep. W Spencer Myrick Oak Grove earns 600 monthly as assistant to the director and Rep. Len Tyndall Lake Charles is listed as board attorney earning 625 monthly. Delony Lake Providence replaced Myrick as a board member. Civil service negotiations are underway for board employees. A state supreme court ruling says such boards are not government departments, avoiding dual office concerns.
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Baton Rouge
Myrick
Horace Brown
Tyndall
Guy Lockrider
Lake Charles
Rep
Vail Delony
Lake Providence
Delony
Civil Service
W.W. McDougall
Supreme Court
Mother and two children killed in blast and fire
In Binghamton New York a mother Ella Matthews and her children Alain 14 and Carl 10 died when an explosion tore through their home. The father Woodrow Matthews 40 was severely burned and hurt. police initially suspected suicide. The blast damaged adjacent houses and left him trapped under a porch.
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Binghamton
N.Y
Woodrow Matthews
Ella Matthews
Alain
Carl
Matthews
Judson Griffin
Eisenhower weighs Suez options and U N security move
President Eisenhower said the United States still hopes to solve the Suez Canal dispute without U N Security Council action while not ruling out a council review in the long run. He noted progress in talks with Egypt and affirmed international status of the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez as waterways.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
U. N. Security Council
Egypt
Council
U.S
U.N
Suez
Security Council
Gulf of Aqaba
Suez Canal
Edgar
Tacoma
Wash
Milton
Sherman Adams
Adams
Soviet Union
Bermuda
Macmillan
Britain
Europe
West Germany
NATO
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