Weather Notes for Monroe and Delta Regions
Partly cloudy weather through Friday with widely scattered mainly afternoon thundershowers. Temperatures steady with highs 87 to 94 and nights around 70s. Winds 5 to 15 mph. Louisiana Delta mostly clear to partly cloudy with isolated showers and little temperature change. Drying conditions fair by day and poor at night with dewpoints near 70. Ground fog and heavy dew possible tonight. Showers cover minor area, mostly less than half an inch.
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Monroe
Louisiana Delta
Birth control considered in insect research debate
Washington reports on efforts to curb pests without harming nature. A new Gainesville laboratory will study biological insect control while Beltsville scientists test light, sound, air, and geometric methods against flies. Corvallis researchers note female houseflies emitting attractant perfume.
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Washington
UPI
Rachel Carson
Miss Carson
Gainesville
Fla
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Ric
Agriculture Research Service
Corvallis
Ore
CHIT CHAT Continues With Rabbit Tales And Hospital Graciousness
A late Tuesday scene shows a boy and a girl completing a white rabbit craft with a pen, while Cartwright reflects on the mishap of letting the animal escape. Meanwhile Mrs. Joseph Barone of New Orleans thanks Monroe residents for kindness to her hospitalized husband after a car accident at St. Francis.
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Joseph Barone
New Orleans
Monroe
Hidden money found in Dayton stash after eight hour dig
Buried early Tuesday by George J. Altman and Mary Jane Ward near Irwin, Pa. Roughly $350,000 in assorted bills was found in unsealed cans wrapped in Dayton Daily News sheets from 1945. Deputies from Miami County secured the scene after an eight hour search. the cash was sent to the Federal Reserve bank in Cincinnati until estate settlement.
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Dayton Daily News
George J. Altman
Irwin
Mary Jane Ward
Troy
Federal Reserve Bank
Cincinnati
Miners Trapped Nine Days As Drill Reveals Dust Clue
Rescue teams watch a 65 ton drilling rig rise, spitting white dust 331 feet underground where Throne and Fellin remain trapped. Louis Bova is reported 25 feet away under debris. Fellin and Throne react calmly as surface team receives the warning and Fellin offers suggestions.
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Throne
Fellin
Louis Bova
Yankee at Southern home greeted with kindness
The woman described being taken to dinner with her mother-in-law and hearing a nurse offer a room. She said she is a Yankee but appreciates Southerners and expressed happiness about the Barones returning someday under better circumstances.
West seeks sweeping restraining order against protests
Gordon West of Baton Rouge returns to office from vacation and seeks a sweeping restraining order halting demonstrations and protests. The order sets September 9 for a hearing naming the Congress of Racial Equality John Doe and Mary Doe and others acting in concert. CORE officials and readers were served, with New Orleans lawyer Nils Douglas calling it a flagrant violation of constitutional amendments. Floyd McKissick urged that the movement is a divine revolution led by God.
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RE. Gordon West
Baton Rouge
West
Congress of Racial Equality
John Doe
Mary Doe
Nils Douglas
New Orleans
Douglas
Floyd McKissick
CORE
McKissick
God
Silent march arrests at court house as injunction cited
About 350 Negro volunteers left Plymouth Rock Baptist Church forming a two deep column for a 12 block protest toward the court house and city hall. Police and Sheriff Griffon warned the group of a federal injunction and arrests followed after they sang We Shall Overcome. Five ministers met Mayr Schnebelen before his radio broadcast.
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Plymouth Rock Baptist Church
Court House
Dennis Longy
Songy
Levert Taylor
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Taylor
C. A. Griffon Jr
City Hall
Mayr Schnebelen
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U.S. Weather Bureau
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Louisiana
Nebraska
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Mississippi
Reaes
Dillo
Terri
Cartwright
St. Francis
Miami County
West Monroe
Tom Peters
York
Cammael
King David
Shainberg’s
Wing Dawe
Shainberg
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