Climbers May Help Travelers In Space
Air Force doctors plan nine month Nepal expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary and Dr. Hugh Griffiths to Mt Makalu. Captain Nevison will monitor pulse brain waves respiration temperature and heart beat to aid space vehicle design and test low cabin pressures. He aims to telemeter data to a lab and analyze breath for oxygen and carbon dioxide during high altitude ascent.
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San Antonio
Tex
Air Force
Edmund Hillary
Hugh Griffiths
Nepal
Thomas C. Nevison Jr
Nevison
Air Force School of Aviation Medicine
Brooks Afb
Hillary
Griffiths
Mount
Makalu
Kennedy Presses Farm Aid Plan Ahead of 1961 Crop Year
Iowa Governor Kennedy says a major farm bill cannot be written in the upcoming three week congressional session. emergency farm credit legislation may be possible. He aims to exploit the Republican split on farm policy highlighted by Nixon's disavowal of Ezra Taft Benson's program.
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Iowa
Congress
Senate
Kennedy
Republican Party
Richard Nixon
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Louisiana Voting Rights Hearing Sets New Parishes
The civil rights commission asserts authority to set voting rules under 1960 law and resumes a parish by parish inquiry. Complaints allege qualified Black voters barred from registration and some previously registered were purged. hearings next month may involve different parishes and more locations.
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Commission
Louisiana
Europeans Flee Jadotville Kolwezi Amid Katanga Turmoil
U S officials report whites fleeing Jadotville and Kolwezi as mutinous Congo troops, jungle tribes arm themselves, and Katanga's leaders convene in Elizabethville for a war council after the premier proclaims total mobilization.
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Congo
U. S
William Camp
Jadotville
Katanga
Kolwezi
Munongo
Elizabethville
Court orders clash as boards mull integration plan
A federal court orders the school board to move ahead with first grade integration in September while a state civil court halts the plan. Gov Davis could seize school administration if fall closings occur. Rittiner says he will meet unless the governor objects. The board relies on Supt Redmond’s report and counsel’s advice to avoid contempt.
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Gremillion
Tis
Jimmie Davis
S. Rittiner
Rittiner
Gerard A. Rault
Louisiana station funds and farm tour showcase cooperative work
Delegates toured a 310 acre farm experiment station after a funding history that started with $10,000 annually, was cut to $7,500, then raised to $14,000 in 1939. They viewed mechanization on plots, pasture management, and crop tests while Dr. J Norman Epperson spoke. Chamber leaders Jim Williams, Bobby Joe Oden, Dewe Simmons, and Paul Ransom helped organize the event.
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J. Norman Epperson
LSU School of Agriculture
Jim Williams
Bobby Joe Oden
Dewe Simmons
Paul Ransom
Chamber
Disadvantages of 2 Car Family Hit by Own Car in Varnville
In Varnville South Carolina Monday night Mr and Mrs Boyd Ember were involved in a two car collision on a sharp curve. Both cars were wrecked but the Emblers were not injured.
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Varnville, S.C
Boyd Embler
Varnville
Twin Cities Chit Chat on Alligator Pit Naming Contest
The article notes rapid construction of a new alligator pit at a municipal park to replace deteriorating wooden cages. It describes a name the gator contest for first graders in city and parish schools in Monroe and mentions the upcoming Telfis Grotto meeting on Friday August 5 and plans for a Grand Monarch visit on September 6.
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Monroe
Jack Hesketh
William Rasberry
Coward
Orion
Dog Griggs seeks contact after small dog injury incident
Observe dog owned by Dog Joe Griggs of 2917 South Grand Monroe after a car hit the animal on 1110 Jackson. The dog bit a family member who picked it up and it then limped away. A 10 day observation period is requested and Griggs asks the owner to contact him.
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Joe Griggs
South Grand
Monroe
Jackson
Griggs
X-15 fires to record altitude and speed from Rogers Dry Lake
Pilot Walker reaches 78 000 feet in a four minute burn aboard the X-15 above Silver Lake before gliding to Rogers Dry Lake for a landing at 9 08 a.m. The rocket plane powered by twin four barrel engines follows earlier X-15 flights by North American Aviation for NASA.
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Silver Lake
Desert Test Center
Rogers Dry Lake
Walker
North American Aviation
NASA
Rodriguez prepares pipe delivery for 18th to 26th street project
Engineers and contractors are perfecting a work schedule for the 18th to 26th street project. A copy will be given to Ford, Bacon & Davis soon. Property owners and business proprietors have cooperated, despite temporary inconveniences, and the completed street will be a major asset to the street system.
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18Th
26Th Street
Ford, Bacon & Davis
GAO Flags Louisiana Arkansas Highway Procurement Flaws
A GAO review cites Louisiana and Arkansas for appraiser collaboration, overpaid right of way costs, and failure to charge damages for late Oklahoma projects. It criticizes cost-plus contracts, route changes without hearings, and delays in Federal highway repairs by up to two years.
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GAO
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Katanga Colony Producing Most of Congo Wealth
Katanga province in the southern Congo accounts for about 60 percent of the republic s wealth. Rich in copper and other minerals it also supplies chemicals explosives cattle citrus and staples. its secessionist premier Moise Tshombe leads the Canakat Party opposing Patrice Lumumba s central government plan.
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United Press International
Katanga
Congo
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Canakat Party
Patrice Lumumba
Tshombe
Lumumba
Davis Paves Way For Bolt From Demos In Louisiana
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis agreed to call a state central committee meeting to vote on uncommitted electors as about 50 segregationists and States Rights supporters urged a split from the Democratic ticket. The move aims to give the South leverage in the electoral college and pressure for a more conservative Civil Rights plank. State Rep. John S. Garrett said voters are unsatisfied with both major parties and that the Republican platform offers no relief.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Jimmie H. Davis
State Central Committee
Davis
Central Committee
South
Dixie
John S. Garrett
Haynesville
Garrett
Nixon Pushes Equality Theme In Honolulu
In Honolulu Nixon urged end to discrimination while outlining a civil rights goal for the United States. He said desegregation will take time and stressed national unity on nondiscrimination as a moral issue not a regional or government problem. He framed security and experience as campaign themes before 35,000 in Iolani Palace crowds.
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Honolulu
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Iolani Palace
Hawaii
Africa
Asia
Kennedy
Arizona
Pearl Harbor
Harper Reports Arkansas Demos To Name Electors
Arkansas Democratic leaders plan to name eight presidential electors at a state committee meeting later this month. Under a 1959 law the committee assigns electors, a process required at least 60 days before the November 8 election. Harper hopes to convene a state convention in early September after the committee names the electors. He favors endorsing the party nominees and awaiting governor Faubus’s input.
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Harper
Arkansas
Demos
Fort Smith
Ark
UPI
Tom Harper
State Committee
Faubus
Harper urges staying in party to fight for cause
In remarks about party unity he criticizes defectors as ineffective and calls for remaining within the party to work toward reclaiming its direction and advancing the shared agenda.
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Harper
Patterson vows aid in flogging case probe in Alabama
Governor John Patterson pledges state assistance in the investigation of the flogging of a Negro youth by white men. He said he believes such acts are on the way out in Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
John Patterson
Alabama
Acadia Baptist Academy Announces New Buildings and Start Date
Eunice Louisiana ACADIA BAPTIST ACADEMY for grades 8-12 announces state approved expansion with new buildings and boarding facilities. School begins September 10 with registrations limited and a catalog available.
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