Monroes civic center plan approved for arena and facilities
Monroes City Council approved preliminary plans for a civic center complex including an arena seating over 7100 for boxing and wrestling and a 6000-plus capacity for basketball. The project aims at an $11.5 million capital program with final plans due in October and bids expected by December.
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Monroe
Johns & Neel
W. L
Jack) Howard
Jack Neel
Neel
Civic Center
Stubbs Avenue
North Eighth
North Eleventh
Major provisions outlined in the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act
The $947.5 million antipoverty bill outlines job corps and work training to aid education, plus work-study for needy students. It would fund community action grants at 90 percent of project costs, loans for rural families, and rural housing and daycare programs. Additional funds support work experience, VISTA volunteers, and incentives for small businesses with loan authority up to 25000 dollars.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Treme
UNE Wpilaiy
Rwui
Ience
Service To
America
VISTA
Small Business Administration
Three White Men Plead Guilty in Jacksonville Murder
In Jacksonville Florida three young white men pleaded guilty to murder for the slaying of a Negro woman during March race riots. A fourth man is believed involved but out of city. A .22 revolver is listed as the death weapon.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Justice of the Peace
Jesse Leigh
Donald Coleman
Lee Coty
J. W Rich
Wayne M. Chessman
Twin City Chit Chat: Boys Pitch Backyard Tent
After rain delays two Monroe boys Mark Henckroth and Mike O Neal spent Monday night outdoors in a homemade tent in the Henckroth backyard. They slept unattended, only fear coming from their cat attempting to pull the tent down.
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Monroe
Mark Henckroth
Amalie
Mike O'Neal
Henckroth
New Daughter Leigh Kelly Born to E R Lawrence Family
In Monroe at 1906 Filhiol the Lawrence family welcomed a daughter, Leigh Kelly, born over the weekend weighing six pounds ten ounces. She joins her brother Mike. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs G B Shirley of Minden and Mr and Mrs T L Lawrence of Winnsboro.
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E. R. Lawrence
Filhiol
Monroe
Leigh Kelly
Mike
G. B. Shirley
Minden
T. L. Lawrence
Winnsboro
State Budget Committee Re Organizing in Louisiana
The State Budget Committee reorganized into subcommittees to review line by line state expenditures. Chairman Jamar W. Adcock announced the plan from the capitol with an August 24 full committee meeting to consider economy and future recommendations.
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Jamar W. Adcock
Legislative Budget Committee
Monroe
State Capitol
Adcock
Capitol
Robert Munson
Cheneyville
C. C
Taddy) Aycock
Vail Delony
Lake Providence
B. B
Rayburn
Bogalusa
Legislative Economy Committee
Munson
Delony
Bennett Johnston
Shreveport
Norman Ordeneaux
Jennings
Edwin Edwards
Crowley
Howard Jones
Mississippi River Gulf Outlet bridge construction begins
BULLETINS NEW ORLEANS UPI reports a $98 million bridge project across the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet has begun east of New Orleans. AP notes two U. S. pilots shot down in August 5 air strikes on North Vietnamese bases were reported by Radio Hanoi. Atlanta reports Lester Maddox resists integration orders by keeping ax handles outside his segregated restaurant. Mobile covers an 11-year-old Negro boy wounded by gunfire from a passing car. UN in New York: Thant urges Khrushchev to take positive steps to keep Cyprus peace. Baton Rouge Bank Department records show Louisiana deposits rose $124 million in the year to June 30.
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New Orleans
UPI
Mississippi River Gulf
Here
Tokyo
U.S
Hon Gai
Gulf of Tonkin City
Radio
Hanoi
Parents Call New York Public Schools Boycott
The Parents and Taxpayers council in New York urged a one day or longer boycott of public schools on opening day to protest School Board plans for integration by bus and to push for a neighborhood school concept referendum. They say white parents should stay away unless drastic changes occur, while school officials warn such boycotts are illegal and harmful to children.
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New York
Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Council Today
Joint Council For Better Education
Calvin E. Gross
Board of Education
Morris Lushewitz
The
Parents and Taxpayers Council
New York City
Cyprus Deadlock Threatens shaky UN cease fire
In Cyprus a Turkish Cypriot troop dispute on the northwest coast endangers the U N backed truce as Turkish air reconnaissance continues. Ankara calls for Greek Cypriot withdrawal from three villages near Kokkina while Greek Cypriot leaders vow no retreat. U Thant notes Turkey accepts cease-fire in principle but insists the coastal area be cleared first.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Turkey
U.N
Ismet Inonu
Ankara
Kokkina
Spyros Kyprianou
Kyprianou
Athens
U Thant
Schools Officials Meeting Today in Baton Rouge
About 150 parish school board presidents, vice presidents and superintendents gather in Baton Rouge to discuss the Civil Rights Act. Focus centered on whether boards will voluntarily desegregate within a set period or risk losing federal funds.
Poverty Bill Sent To LBJ For Signing
The Senate sent to President Johnson a $947.5 million antipoverty bill aimed at employing idle youth and aiding low income families to exit relief. Passage via voice vote completes congressional action despite some sponsor displeasure. Sargent Shriver expected to run the program, with estimates of up to 7 million families affected through community action. House additions included loyalty oath and governors veto provisions, which the Senate chose not to challenge.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
Barry Goldwater
Congress
Sargent Shriver
Isolated Showers Expected Across Louisiana
The Louisiana Delta was dry yesterday but thunderstorms and showers are forecast today and tomorrow, covering about 30 percent of the area. A fast-moving cold front over central Missouri and Oklahoma will cross Louisiana by late Wednesday night, bringing below normal temperatures for a few days. The high yesterday at Calhoun was 98, low 71. Today’s high near 101, low 76, humidity easing Thursday and Friday with no precipitation Friday or Saturday.
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Louisiana
Missouri
Oklahoma
Calhoun
Chuckle Notes On Changing Times From Automobiles To People
A local comic column reflects on the modern shift from horse power to motor travel and notes concerns about people being displaced by advancing technology. The piece uses humor to comment on social change and progress.
Lawyer says she lied in Louisiana double murder case
Mary Kathryn Hampton 21 of Sandy Hook Kentucky faced the state pardon board while denying the killings she pleaded guilty to in 1961. Her Boston attorney F Lee Bailey argued she was framed and in Florida at the time. The governor said only unanimous board and judge approved recommendations would be approved.
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New Orleans
State Pardon Board
Mary Kathryn Hampton
Sandy Hook
Here
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
Sam Sheppard
Mary Kathryn
Florida
Boutte
Bailey
Emmett Monroe Spencer
Panion
Midwest
Spencer
Raiford
Miss Hampton
Louisiana
Benjamin Yount
Hermine Fielder
Yount
Fielder
Franklin
John J. McKeithen
Land Reform In Cuba Said Dismal Failure
The Cuban exile AIP report declares Fidel Castro’s land reform a failure. It cites confiscation of 161 sugar mills and best cane plantations leading to a collapse in output from 5,700,000 tons in 1959 to well below 3,800,000 tons in 1963 and 1964, with sugar earnings dropping from 578 million dollars in 1958 to 350 million in 1961 and continuing decline. cattle poultry and tobacco also suffer steep declines.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
AIP
Three Teenage Girls Drown In Canal Crash
In Crowley Louisiana three teenage girls died when the car veered off a curve and into an irrigation canal. Victims were Bonita Stewart 15 of Jennings Hilda M Truax 15 of Egan and her 13 year old sister Anna Marie. Driver was Edward Stewart 19 the Stewart girl’s brother.
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Crowley, la
UPI
Bonita Stewart
Jennings
Hilda M. Truax
Egan
Anna Marie
Stewart
Edward Stewart
Goldwater Wealth Estimated At 1.7 Million
Time magazine valuates Senator Barry Goldwater and wife at about 1.7 million with 65 thousand annual income split among stocks bonds salaries and board roles. It lists specific holdings across Associated Dry Goods Arizona Bancorporation Borg Warner American Electric Power and more plus a 200 thousand Paradise Valley home with 33.4 thousand mortgage balance.
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New York
Time Magazine
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Senate
Associated Dry Goods Corp
Times
Associated Dry Goods
Arizona Bancorporation
Borg. Warner Corp
Mrs. Goldwater
American Electric Power Co
Borg-Warner
Continental Casualty Co
General Electric Co
General Motors Corp
Hooker Chemical Corp
Internation Business Machines
Maryland Casualty Co
Honeywell, Inc
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Texas Utilities Co
Universal Match Corp
Valley Bank of Arizona
Time
U.S. Official Confirms Chinese Jets in North Vietnam
Washington AP Pentagon spokesman Arthur Sylvester said several Chinese Communist MIG15 and MIG17 fighters have been introduced into North Vietnamese bases. He noted McNamara had anticipated this move and suggested pilots could be Chinese or trained in China. No evidence of flights over South Vietnam or new U.S. deployments were reported.
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Washington
Pentagon
Arthur Sylvester
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Sylvester
U.S. Navy
Red China
Hainan
Gulf of Tonkin
Teenager Ends Ferris Marathon at County Fair
Wapakona, Ohio AP Pretty Patricia Jones, a 16 year-old Sidney high school junior, ended a 40 hour Ferris wheel spin at a rate of six revolutions per minute. She claimed a county fair record and was congratulated by operator Franklin Massey who gave roses. Chuck Rodgers of Botkins, who set a 25 hour 6 minute Ferris marathon at Shelby County Fair last week, offered congratulations.
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Wapakoneta
Ohio
Patricia Jones
Sidney High School
Chuck Rodgers
Botkins
Shelby County Fair
Franklin Massey
Missionary Slain In Central Congo
New York UPI reports Rev. Burleigh A. Law Jr. 45 years old, a Methodist missionary from Tallahassee Florida, was killed in Wembo Nyama in the Central Congo. Law went to the Congo in 1950 and served as evangelist and construction supervisor before his death reported last Tuesday.
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New York
UPI
Burleigh A. Law Jr
Tallahassee
Fla
Congo
Methodist Board of Missions
Law
Wembo Nyama
Lusambo
Efficient Rental Results in News-Store Want Ads
Classified listing promotes quick results and tenant selection for apartments and properties. ROOM efficiency apt. Adults. $28 mo at 302 South 3rd. FA 2-390. MODERN 1 bedroom apt with attic fan and heat. Across from W High School. $66. FA 3-7845. DIAL FA 2-516. Want Ad number offered with 10 day rate and cancellation privileges.
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Viet Nam
Sam Hanna
Greyhound Bus Company
McConnellsburg
Turnpike
Twin City
State Budget Committee
Bulletins
Atlanta, Ga
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Mobile
Ala
United Nations, N.Y
Thant
Nikita Khrushchev
LBJ
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Cuba
Central
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