Federal team starts voter registration push in East Carroll
A four man federal regular team under the Voting Rights Act set up in East Carroll Parish with 40 degrees registered by noon. Captain George W Roosa and three others plan to register Negro voters while denying quotas and noting conditions vary by location. Parish officials dispute discrimination claims as civil rights groups press for expansion into East Baton Rouge Parish.
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Lake Providence
George W. Roosa
East Carroll Parish
Louisiana
East Feliciana and
Plaquemines
Wrowg
David Skinner
Homer Walls
C. F. Montgomery
Dallas
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Roosa
Justice Department
Civil Service Office
Post Office
Leander Perez
South Louisiana Plaquemines Parish
Louisiana Board of Registration
East Feliciana
East Carroll
Vail Delaney
Delaney
State Board of Registration
Cecil Manning
Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Parish
Local business gains shown in Monroe report
A Louisiana Business Review study from LSU College of Business Administration notes 14 of 20 business lines rose from June 1964 to June 1965, led by women’s clothing at 32.1 percent. Other gains include air express shipments 31.1 percent and building material sales 20.5 percent, with furniture sales down 6.4. From May to June, 13 of 20 lines rose, rail freight loadings up 25.9 and postal receipts 20.5. women’s clothing fell 19.7 and department store sales 16.2. Statewide activity remained high, with national gains as well.
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Monroe
Louisiana Business Review
Division of Research
College of Business Administration
LSU
Air Express
Registration By Agents Begins
Federal registrars start placing Negroes on southern voting rolls with no literacy questions as the Justice Department targets nine counties in Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana. Attorneys general push suits against poll taxes while officials complain of federal intrusions and alleged broken pledges.
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Washington
Justice Department
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
Oere
Dneenn
Ena Vo
Nicholas Katzenbach
Civil Service Commission
Mississippi
Louisiana
Dallas County
Ala
Selma
Johnson
Katzenbach
John W. Macy
Austin
Richmond
Montgomery
Leflore
Madison
Dallas
Lowndes
Hale and Marengo
East Caroll
East Felician
Plaquemines
Carl Golson
Lowndes County
Taylor Speidle
Monroe man brings in giant local apple
Tony D. Cascio of 3409 Polk St. in Monroe showed a News-Star reader a remarkably large apple with a circumference of 11.5 inches. He noted his tree had yielded many big apples until a recent strong wind blew most away, but none matched this big red beauty.
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Tony D. Cascio
Polk St
Monroe
News-Star
Arrests Mark Capitol Hill Viet Nam Protest Sit-In
Police halted a Capitol Hill march protesting U.S. policy in Viet Nam after 260 people were arrested for disorderly conduct during a sit-in that ended four days of demonstrations by the Assembly of Unrepresented People. Lead figures Staughton Lyndh and Robert Moses Parris were among those struck by red paint hurled by two Nazi followers. many defendants faced fines or jail time in Washington’s first police court session in a decade.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
U.S
Viet Nam
House of Representatives
Nazi Party
Staughton Lyndh
Yale University
Robert Moses Parris
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party
Siege of Duc Co Camp Seen Crushing Viet Cong
An armored South Vietnamese column with U S air support closed on the Duc Co Special Forces camp near Pleiku as Viet Cong resistance remained light but steady. At least 219 Viet Cong were killed with six captured as engineers and armor pushed along Highway 19 toward the besieged camp, which sits five miles from the Cambodian border and blocks the route to strategic control.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Duc Co
Pleiku
Highlands
le Thanh
Viet Nam
Shreveport Man Among Missing Titan site blast victims
SEARCY Ark AP a Shreveport man and a Mississippi man were among 53 killed in an underground Titan 11 missile site explosion and fire near here Jim S Best 66 1444 Clover Shreveport and James T Wallace 420 8th St Columbus Miss identified among the dead.
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Cross
Searcy
Ark
Little Change In Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with a chance of brief thundershowers across the Twin Cities today and Wednesday. Highs near 90 to 94 degrees, lows around 68 to 72, light to variable winds 5 to 15 mph. Monday’s Monroe area high reached 94, with 68 degrees at dawn.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
Gemini 5 Date Still Aug. 19 Launch Target
Space engineers fixed several minor Gemini 5 problems over the weekend and reaffirmed the Aug. 19 launch target for astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and C. Conrad Jr. Reports had suggested a possible delay due to the Titan 2 booster issues.
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Houston, Tex
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper
Navy
Cmdr
Charles Conrad Jr
Nixon Urges Hike In Viet Efforts
President Nixon calls for stepped up air and sea attacks on North Viet Nam and urges an American relief committee to aid North Vietnamese civilians with food medicine and clothing. He says distribution could be run by an independent agency if Hanoi objects to a government program.
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West Branch
Iowa
Richard M. Nixon
United States
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Nixon
Herbert Hoover
Dc Nixon
International Red Cross
Council Delays Action On Bids In Bond Sale
Monroe city officials opened bids on six bids for six million dollars in school expansion bonds. The council recessed after an executive session with the City School Board to meet with attorneys. Low bid led by First National City Bank of New York and Sharff & Jones at 3.6922 percent would cost about 3.4 million. Other bids ranged from 3.509 to 3.825 percent with city costs from 3.5 to 3.6 million. Council also approved a sewer district bid, considered a rezoning request, expanded city limits, and eyed cabinet bids for the City Hall courtroom.
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Monroe
Ee Op
W. L
Jack) Howard
J. H. Scogin Jr
Federal District Court
First National City Bank of New York
Sharff & Jones
Halsey Stewart, Inc
Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago
Central Savings Bank of
Chemical Bank of New York
New York Bank
East Monroe
H. L. Grayson
Winnsboro Road
Oliver Road
New City Hall
Sol
Central Grammar School
Local traffic opens new I-20 section in Monroe
Local traffic begins using a new I-20 section between Catalpa Street and Texas Avenue in Monroe. Officials say only local vehicles may use the segment at this time with eastbound drivers exiting downtown via Jack son and Second Street. Local motorists may re enter at Hall and Layton to reach Texas Avenue exit.
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Monroe
Catalpa Street
Texas Avenue
Jackson
Second Street
Hall and
Layton Street
Twin Cities
New Tax Cut Said Unlikely
MIAMI BEACH FL AP secretary of commerce John T. Connor said chances for another income tax cut this year are slim due to the Viet Nam war costs. He noted $7 billion in extra federal revenue from 40 years of growth must be reinvested in the economy.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Viet Nam
John T. Connor
Connor
American Bar Association
Cuban Seaman Details Seven Seas Murder Spree In Gulf
A Cuban crewman confessed to killing five aboard the 166 foot banana boat Seven Seas near Miami. He said only the cook survived after being sent to the engine room. One young survivor hid in a chain locker as the vessel drifted toward Cuba.
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Miami
Fla
Gulf Stream
Coast Guard
Cmdr
W. C. Wahl
Key West Coast Guard
Associated Press
Gerald Davidson
Wahl
Ramirez
Seven Seas
Miami Beach
U.S. Immigration Service
Elvin Burgwaise
Burgwaise
Cuba
Hope for RH Tragedies Raises New Preventive Approach
Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Julius Krevans described a tentative gamma globulin injection technique tested in the United States and England to prevent erythroblastosis in an RH incompatible pregnancy. The method aims to imitate natural protections that reduce RH incompatibility risks, shown during a Johns Hopkins Jackson Laboratory genetics course at Bar Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Maine
Johns Hopkins University
United States
England
Julius Krevans
Johns Hopkins
Jackson Laboratory For Genetics Research
Tthe National Foundation-March of Dimes Organization
Expert Team Arrives For Investigation In Arkansas Silo Disaster
SEARCY Ark UPI rescue teams hauled 58 bodies from a Titan II missile silo dust and smoke filled nine story depths after a diesel engine explosion. President Johnson ordered an underground disaster probe as a 30 member expert panel arrived.
Explosion in missile silo exposes safety lapses
At Little Rock Air Force Base an explosion ripped through a level two area 40 to 50 feet below the surface of a missile launch site. Two survivors escaped via a vertical hatch as Air Force officials led by Charles F. Strang investigated. The silo measures 56 feet in diameter and a seven foot door seals the top. The control crew shut a final escape route to guard against overheating fuel and possible detonation.
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Charles F. Strang
Air Force Missile Safety
Little Rock Air Force Base
Wood
Air Force
Fireworks Sale Ban Proposed Legislation
New Orleans UPI report says Louisiana Fire Marshal Milton Stire back a bill to outlaw fireworks sales. He announced plans at the Arson and Fire Prevention seminar to push legislation in 1966 while several New Orleans lawmakers also intend similar measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
UPI
Louisiana
Milton Stire
Stire
Boundary commission groups to meet over Texas Louisiana line
In Austin a Louisiana Boundary Commission and a Texas counterpart planned to meet to draft a tentative boundary between the states. The line would govern oil and gas leasing along shorelines with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler hopeful for a mutually endorsed result by both legislatures and Congress.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Louisiana Boundary Commission
Texas
Jerry Sadler
Chuckle Pawnbroker Narrates life on the flats
A column titled Today’s Chuckle Pawnbroker surveys life "off the flat of the land" with wry observations. The narrator reflects on rural routines, thrift, and small-town manners, delivering humor through practical, down-to-earth anecdotes.
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Viet
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Hoover
Council of Free Nations
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Council
Sam Hanna
Phelps, Fenn & Co
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Missouri
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