Kennedy Consoles Wife After Infant Death at Base Hospital
President and Mrs. Kennedy spent over two hours with their baby son Patrick’s death at Otis Air Force Base Hospital. Dr. Walsh delivered the baby by C section and informed Mrs. Kennedy at 6:35 a.m. The couple discussed their loss with family and aides as secrecy and grief surrounded the brief tragedy.
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Kennedy
Otis Air Force Base Hospital
Jacqueline
Otis Air Force Base
Mass
John W. Walsh
Pierre Salinger
White House
Salinger
Hugh D. Auchincloss
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Boston
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Caroline
John Jr
Unidentified man robs Farmerville clinic and escapes
A white man about 5 feet 3 inches tall wearing a white shirt and tie robbed Wadlington Clinic in Farmerville at 9 am, taking about 473 dollars from a desk drawer before leaving unseen. Sheriff Jord Stewart said the thief, described as 140 to 145 pounds with dark brown hair, casually browsed a telephone directory after the theft. No vehicle was seen and no one identified the suspect.
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Farmerville (Special
Wadlington Clinic
Jord Stewart
Stewart
Jefferson Parish Death Triggers Meningitis Alarm
Ronnie Sanders a 15 year old Harahan newspaper carrier died of meningococcal septicemia. Health officials contact potential exposures and warn seven to ten days for illness onset. Parish coroner cites rapid, blood carried form of disease and urges precautions after the Friday through nine day window.
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New Orleans
Jefferson Parish
Ronnie Sanders
Harahan
Ronald L. Sanders
A. M. Parker
Young Sanders
Charles Odom
Parish
Chlorine Gas Leak Hospitalizes Hundreds in Philadelphia
Police report a chlorine gas tank leak in a northeast Philadelphia area likely at a chemical plant. Early word says many residents were rushed to two hospitals amid a mix of residential and industrial surroundings.
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Philadelphia
Ribicoff Scoffs At Moon Trip
Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut mocked the $50 billion push to fund a moon mission while CT commuters ride to work in a baggage car. He cited photographs from New Haven Railroad showing a lack of passenger coaches as he spoke during NASA funding debates.
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Washington
Connecticut
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
Ribicoff
New Haven
House
Egg Scramble After Auto Wreck in New Jersey
In Hibernia New Jersey AP a dozen eggs survived a wreck when Robert F White’s car hit a telephone pole on return from a store. White was injured with facial lacerations and the eggs remained unbroken until he sat on them in the police car.
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Hibernia
N. J
Robert FE. White
White
Train Losses Near Seven Million in Great Mail Robbery
Scotland Yard and 14 county police hunt a gang that ambushed the Glasgow London mail near Cheddington 40 miles northwest of London. About 120 bags of registered mail were stolen and shipped banknotes and gems, with losses reported by Midland Bank about 1.4 million and National Commercial Bank of Edinburgh about 996 thousand. Rewards total 168 thousand.
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London
Scotland Yard
Cheddington
Midland Bank
National Commercial Bank of Edinburgh
Pope Paul VI addresses Hungarians with hopeful tone
In Budapest Pope Paul VI urged Hungarians to expect good news for the Catholic Church from their frontiers and expressed hope for progress. Washington circles foresee a resumption of full U S Hungary diplomatic relations by summer’s end. Baton Rouge reports a Louisiana primary election booklet was sent to party officials, issued Thursday by Secretary of State Wade Q. Martin Jr.
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Budapest
Hungary
Paul VI
Washington
United States
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Wade QO. Martin Jr
Kennedy Infant Patrick Bouvier Kennedy Funeral Planned
Hyannis Port Massachusetts AP Richard Cardinal Cushing archbishop of Boston will officiate at funeral services Saturday for Patrick Bouvier Kennedy infant son of President and Mrs Kennedy who died today in a sequence of national grief. Atlanta AP Wallace Butts who led Georgia to its first bowl game testified in federal court that he had never divulged any information about his universitys squad to any opposing coach.
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Hyannis Port
Mass
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Atlanta
Wallace Butts
Georgia
Khrushchev and Rusk Play Badminton in Moscow
Moscow reports Premier Khrushchev, aged 69, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 54, engaged in a lighthearted badminton game in the Soviet capital. The Tass dispatch notes the neutral, gaily toned meeting amid ongoing Cold War tensions.
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Tass
Khrushchev
U.S
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Beckwith Leaves Mental Hospital For Hearing
Beckwith, 42, accused in the Medgar Evers slaying, exited Whitfield State mental hospital for a habeas corpus hearing before Circuit Judge O. H. Barnett in Carthage. The hearing will address a motion to release him from Whitfield as psychiatric tests, halted by order, await resolution.
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Carthage
Miss
Byron de la Beckwith
Medgar Evers
Whitfield State Mental Hospital
O. H. Barnett
Beckwith
Greenwood
Whitfield
Brandon
Barnett
Bekwith
Bill Waller
Jackson
Hinds County
Bob Gilroy
Leon Hendrick
Waller
Evers
Gains Tax Revision Clears Way for 10 Billion Tax Cut
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a sweeping capital gains tax revision, setting up a next week markup of an over all tax cut bill aimed near ten billion dollars. The panel forecasts higher revenues in year one and weighs a two year holding period for capital gains. The move signals progress toward final passage anticipated in September with rates likely higher than Kennedy proposed.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Kennedy
Sullivan Mum On Support In Run-Off
In Jackson Mississippi defeated gubernatorial candidate Charles Sullivan with tears in his eyes refused to comment on support. Ed Jenkins announced he would back Coleman against Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson as vote totals showed Johnson leading with 176495 to Coleman's 151930 and Sullivan 126946 with 1,867 of 1,890 precincts counted.
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Sullivan
Associated Press
Jenkins
O. A. Sullivan
Charles
Johnson
Coleman
Robert Mason
Magee
Rex Armistead
Lulu
Priest Slain in Manhattan. Knife Linked to Stolen Wagon
The Rev. Francis J. McShane was found dead in his sister's Manhattan apartment with two stab wounds. A blood-stained steak knife nearby matched a set from a station wagon reported stolen in Yonkers. Police traced the car after a neighbor saw the priest and another man leave it early Thursday. The victim's brother, Rev. Vincent McShane, sought him when he failed to appear at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Elmsford. The body was found seated, still in clerical clothes.
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New York
Manhattan
Francis J. McShane
Yonkers, N.Y
Vincent McShane
Larchmont
N.Y
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Westchester County
Elmsford
Margaret McShane
Theta Rho Club elects Monroe teen as state president
Janet Lovelady, daughter of Mr and Mrs E D Lovelady of Monroe, was chosen as the new state president of the Theta Rho Club. The election occurred during the annual assembly in Alexandria with installation at the Bentley Hotel supervised by the joint youth committee of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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Janet Lovelady
E. D. Lovelady
Gordon Avenue
Monroe
Theta Rho Club
Alexandria
Bentley Hotel
The
Independent Order of Oddfellows
Arlene Slams Into Bermuda With 80 MPH Winds
Hurricane Arlene struck Bermuda with 80 mile per hour winds as the eye passed over the island chain 670 miles southeast of New York. The Miami Weather Bureau cautioned that gale conditions would follow for about five hours while winds extended 150 miles from the center. The storm, moving northeast away from the United States, prompted warnings for ships and small craft to seek harbor.
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Miami
Fla
Arlene
Bermuda
United States
Monroe Little Theatre announces Send Me No Flowers cast
The cast for Send Me No Flowers, final production of the summer Theatre Festival, is Gail Sawyer Arthur Griffith Doug Shaw Bill Wells Bob Evans Bery Franklin Bill Brodie Jack Trousdale Phil Lisotta Linda Martin Jackie Hodgson. Aug 16 to 19. Mrs Ron Chapman formerly Brenda Bayles arrived to see brother Johnnie Mike Bayles receive his master's from Louisiana Tech. Navy pilot Lt. is noted.
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Richard Clark
Monroe Little Theatre
Gail Sawyer
Arthur Griffith
Doug Shaw
Bill Wells
Bob Evans
Bery Franklin
Bill Brodie
Jack Trousdale
Phil Lisotta
Linda Martin
Jackie Hodgson
Ron Chapman
Brenda Bayles
Johnnie Mike Bayles
Louisiana Tech
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Weather Same As Year Ago In Monroe
Monroe's weatherman notes a repeat pattern with today's 97 degree high matching last year's. Tonight's low between 72 and 76, partly cloudy skies through Saturday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Days shorten as sun sets earlier, with today's sunset at 6 55.
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Monroe
Mao pledges Beijing support to U S civil rights struggle
Mao Tze Tung described the American Negroes campaign as a sharpening of the class struggle and promised Beijing's backing. He criticized Kennedy's plan as two faced and urged unity beyond race while noting Robert Williams sought asylum in Cuba after fleeing North Carolina protests.
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Tokyo
UPS
Mao Tze-Tung
Peking
Mao
New China News
U.S
Robert Williams
Cuba
Williams
North Carolina
Union County
N. C
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Chinese Communist Party
Bastrop Chooses Mayor in Saturday Runoff
Bastrop voters will elect a mayor in a Saturday special runoff to fill the late A. P. Carter term. Candidates James Holt and Odis Deal led a field of nine. about 3,000 are registered with 2,708 voting in the first primary. Absentee ballots reported. returns expected by 8:45 p.m.
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Bastrop
A. P
Fats) Carter
James Holt
Odis Deal
Johnnie Green
Morehouse Parish
Deal
Holt
Carter
International Paper Co
Today's Chuckle An Oldtimer Rested on Sunday
An oldtimer is defined as a man who rested on Sunday instead of Monday. The quip reflects a light weekly joke about aging and habit in a simple, period voice.
Desegregation Drive Expands 12th Grade Transfers
Baton Rouge school officials authorize Lloyd Lindsey to assign qualified Negro 12th graders to the nearest white school if courses are available. Judge West mandates desegregation this fall with 16 criteria, transfers to Baton Rouge High, Istrouma, and Lee high, and a decision deadline of August 21.
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UPI
Fa Baton Rouge
Lioyd Lindsey
Lindsey
E. Gordon West
Baton Rouge High
Istrouma and
Lee High
West
London Fog Death Toll Exceeds One Hundred Seventy
The World Almanac reports at least 170 people died in heavy London fog between December 3 and December 10 of last year. The event draws attention to perilous air conditions and historic fog incidents in the city.
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London
England
City Moves To Sell 50 Displaced Monroe Homes
The City of Monroe has bought 50 houses in the Wood Street area to clear for a civic center next to the 120 overpass. City Atty Ford Pipes Jr and Mayor W L Howard say some homes will be demolished and others sold. The council will open bids Tuesday at 10 a.m. on 15 houses and consider eight bids for a new fire station plus bids on Selman Field and two-way radio equipment for the fire department.
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Monroe
Wood Street
Civic Center
Ford Pipes Jr
W. L
Jack) Howard
Howard
Jackson and
Egan Streets
Selman Field
Powerful Bendix Automatic Washer for Sale
Used Bendix automatic washer in good condition priced at 25 dollars. Contact 3110 Dick Taylor by phone at FA 5-4939 for details and pickup.
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Dick Taylor
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