Gore Pledges Fight To Hike Highway Fund
Senator Albert Gore pledged an all-out fight to raise federal aid for highways as part of an $51.5 billion program. He backed a $900 million per year federal share matched by states for a vast interstate system, with funding differing slightly between House and Senate plans. The proposals aim to tax road users further, estimating about $8.83 more per year for the average motorist driving 10,000 miles.
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Washington
Albert Gore
Senate
House
Gore
Congress
Parish Cancer Fund drives toward Ouachita quota
Ouachita parish has reached 58 percent of its 1956 cancer drive quota as crusade chairman George Rorex urges broader participation. He notes lack of 1955 comparison, asks businesses and professionals to donate, while neighbor-to-neighbor chairwoman Mrs. C. K. Crandall offers envelope handling help. Parish trails other areas and aims to push the total over the top.
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Ouachita Parish
George Rorex
Crusade
American Cancer Society
Rorex
P. O. Box
Monroe
C. K. Crandall
Ouachita
Index of sections and pages
The front page lists section codes for the issue including Oi Gas Churches Radio TV Editorials Sports Gard News Theaters and more with page identifiers for quick reference to where topics appear in the newspaper. The index guides readers to features across 4A through 17B and 11-13A.
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Oi & Gas
Amendment One Narrowly Defeated In Louisiana Vote
Official returns show Amendment One carried by a margin of 767 votes in the April 17 General Election. The measure failed 104283 to 103516, a two thirds requirement for tax increases. Governor elect Earl K Long opposed it, citing it would tie his hands. Other amendments passed: No 2, No 3, No 4, and No 6 with margins detailed.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Long
Orleans Parish
International House of New Orleans
Louisiana
UN Secretary In Egypt To Complete Mid East Mission
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold visits Cairo to secure enactment of a cease fire with Israel and to plan durable Middle East peace. He meets Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and weighs truce arrangements, troop withdrawals, and observation posts with Egypt Israel and Syria seeking a stable border settlement.
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Egypt
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Middle East
U. N
Beirut
Lebanon
Security Council
Mahmoud Fawzi
Hammarskjold
Syria
Citizens Councils Seek Members in Detroit Area
Detroit reports pro segregationist Citizens Councils of Alabama are recruiting members and forming chapters in the Detroit region. Sam Engelhardt, Alabama Citizens Council executive secretary, says Detroiters asked for organizing literature and he sent it. He notes locals avoid naming themselves to avoid trouble.
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Detroit
The
Detroit Free Press
Citizens Councils of
Alabama
Citizens Councils
Supreme Court
the Free Press
Sam Engelhardt
Citizens Council of Alabama
Engelhardt
Long chooses Fowler aide as revenue chief option
The New Orleans States reports Gov elect Earl Long backs Douglas Fowler as first assistant to lead the state revenue department with James S. Reilly of Shreveport named to head the department. Edward Arnold funeral honors draw hundreds in Hollywood as he dies at 66. Rammel T. Smith reports car theft but is detained by detectives investigating house-breaking cases in Charlotte.
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New Orleans
Douglas Fowler
Earl Long
Long
James S. Reilly
Shreveport
Revenue Department
Fowler
Hollywood
Edward Arnold
Arnold
Encino
Calif
Charlotte
N. C
Rammel T. Smith
Smith
Huskey Admits Missed Signal Leaving Center Lane
Mack R. Huskey 69 told police he failed to signal when turning right from a center lane because his wife was watching for him. The incident occurred in Knoxville Tennessee on April 28.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Mack R. Huskey
Huskey
Siamese Twin Girls Die Days After Birth in Fargo Hospital
In Fargo North Dakota on April 28 doctors reported the death of Siamese twin girls joined at the chest and abdomen. The infants died Saturday in the hospital incubator where they were placed after birth Thursday night. They were the daughters of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Neubauer.
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Fargo
N. D
Lawrence Neubauer
Greenville note from April 28 page continues Mighty Page
A fragment from Greenville Mississippi dated April 28 refers readers to continued coverage on the Mighty Page. It hints at ongoing local reporting and adds no further specifics.
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Greenville
Miss
London Arms Talks Nearing Total Failure
The five power disarmament conference in London appears to have fizzled with little progress. US, Soviet, British and French delegates met in recess as talks stalled over force reductions and the open sky plan. Stassen and Gromyko held private talks while Canada joins for UN reporting.
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London
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Canada
United Nations
New York
Haold E. Stassen
Andrei Gromyko
Stassen
Eisenhower
Gromyko
Wedding Gift Bomb Explodes. Groom Injured in Dayton Suburb
A bomb hidden as a wedding gift exploded in the Dixon home in Englewood Ohio injuring groom to be Donald Dixon 27 with belly and leg injuries. His sister and two aunts were only mildly hurt as eighteen people were in the house at the time. The device thought to be dynamite was triggered by a portable radio battery during a pre wedding gathering.
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Dayton
Ohio
Donald Dixon
Dixon
Englewood
George Cooney
Chicago
Ill
Donald Stewart
Washington, D.C
Francis Stefanak
Elmhurst
Illness Fatal to LSU Agriculture Dean Jordan Lee
Dean Jordan G. Lee 70 head of LSU College of Agriculture died at home after weeks of illness. He joined LSU in 1919 and became dean in 1931 and planned retirement June 30 after 25 years as head. Dr J Norman Efferson named to succeed him. Lee born 1885 in Farmville Iowa. educated at LSU. He was named man of the year in Louisiana agriculture by Progressive Farmer in 1943.
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Baton Rouge
Jordan G. Lee
Touisiana State University College of Agriculture
Lee
Agriculture Department
Department of Vocational Agriculture
J. Norman Efferson
LSU Agricultural Experiment Station
LSU Board of Supervisors
College of Agriculture
Dean Vee
Farmerville
LSU
Department of Agriculture
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Lafayette
The
Progressive Farmer Magazine
Louisiana Agriculture
Louisiana Soil Conservation Committee
Louisiana Education Board scales budget to 160 million for schools
The Louisiana Education Board approved a 55 million building program for colleges and special schools and asked the Legislature for as much of it as possible. It also moved to request 160 million dollars to operate public schools next year, an increase of 48 million over the current budget. The eight state colleges and the special schools project substantial construction needs, while Southern University may begin a graduate program, with details to be continued on the next page.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Education Board
Louisiana Public Schools
Southern University
Youth Confesses Attack Learned From TV Crime Shows
In Mansfield Louisiana a 16 year old from Grand Cane Norman Spencer Negro admitted beating and robbing 65 year old Gilmer Pittard in Pittard's store taking 41 dollars. Pittard remains in critical condition in a Shreveport hospital. Police say the youth described himself as a television student of crime and is held without charge pending Pittard’s condition.
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Mansfield
Grand Cane
DeSoto Parish
Harmon Burgess
Norman Spencer Negro
Gilmer S. Pittard
Pittard
Shreveport
Burgess
Spencer
Pitlard
Daylight Saving Time Shortens Sleep For Wide US Area
Elgin WL April 28 The 70 million Americans moving clocks forward for daylight saving time Sunday will lose about 59 minutes of sleep. Elgin Observatory explains the second was shortened by 18 percent by the International Astronomical Union, making the day longer by roughly a minute. Continued on sixth pages.
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Elgin
Elgin Observatory
International Astronomical Union
Dublin
Ireland
Observatory
Congress Moves Bill to Officially Adopt In God We Trust
A bill to make In God We Trust the official motto of the United States has passed the House and awaits Senate action. The phrase has appeared on U S coins since 1865 and is widely viewed as the official motto by many Americans. Continued on page six.
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United States
Congress
House
Senate
U. S
Navy Trainer Plunges Into Wooded Area
Two U S Navy airmen died when their AD5 Skyraider crashed and exploded in a forested area ten miles northwest of Harrisonburg early today. A third crewman was missing despite searchers recovering one body and locating a partially opened parachute flagging the rescue.
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Harrisonburg
Here
U. S. Navy
Enterprise Road
Enterprise Road. A Crash Helmet With the Words, “Smitty” V. C. 33
Esthman Newman
Monroe
Newman
Douglas Ads Skyraider
Catahoula
Charles Phillips
John Hearn
Ernest Guinn
Werckage
Phillips
Jonesville
Louisiana State Troper
Don Steen
J. Y. McGuffie
Fighth
Sulphur Man Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Tragedy
In Sulphur Louisiana a 40 year old construction worker George Henderson exchanged words with his wife Addis Doyle Henderson then shot her multiple times and killed himself. Police reported the suspect was found in front of their house and later taken to a hospital in serious condition. Mrs Henderson lay dead inside the bedroom with shots to the chest neck and shoulder.
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Calcasiean Parish
George Henderson
Addis Doyle Henderson
Sam C. Mazilly
Russian Seamen Claim Pressure Forced Five to Return
Senate hearing hears Viktor Stamskay and Michael Ivankov-Nikolov testify that pressure prompted five fellow seamen to return to Russia from the United States. The Tuapse crewmen said the returnees had expressed happiness here but Moscow claims they acted on their own.
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Washington
Russia
Viktor Stamskay
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Georgi Zarubin
Michael Ivankov - Nikolov
Zarubin
Viktor Soloyvev
United States
China
United Nations
Ivankov - Nikolay
Moscow
Hby
Baton Rouge Mayor Dies In Lansing Air Crash
Baton Rouge mayor Jesse L. Webb Jr. 43 perished in a private plane crash near Lansing Capital Airport along with Dr. Kim Brew Owen LSU philosophy professor and Paul Pitman 42 Baton Rouge deputy sheriff who piloted the craft. Witnesses said a wing failed on approach and the plane exploded in midair before burning in an open field. The victims were en route to a Municipal Conference at Michigan State University.
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Lansing
Mich
Baton Rouge
Jesse L. Webb Jr
Lansing, Mich
Kimbrew Owen
Louisiana State University
Paul Pitman
Michigan State University
Plot to assassinate Russian leaders foiled by Scotland Yard
London reports that four Eastern European anti-Communists planned to kill the two Soviet leaders during their Britain tour. Police intercepted letters from abroad and within England. two gangs were involved with one gang based in Britain and the other on the Continent. Identites of the four men remain undiscovered.
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Scotland Yard
Russia
Britain
the Yard
Daily Express
Daily Sketch
England
Bulgaria
Khrushchev
Foreign Office
Naval Intelligence
Thames
Weather Outlook for Louisiana and Arkansas
Forecast calls for cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers in Louisiana and local thunderstorms in Arkansas. Warmer temperatures persist with a cooldown expected in the north and west regions by Sunday. In Monroe, Saturday temperatures ranged from a low to a high, indicating unsettled spring weather.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Monroe
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