Symbol Of Freedom Leaps Fence For West Berlin
Conrad Schumann, East German border guard, defected Aug. 15, 1961 by leaping over the Wall into West Berlin. The photo by Peter Leibing symbolized escape and liberty. Now 21, father of one, he works in a bottling plant and lives with his wife in Ulm area. He recalls the moment and his hope for a simple life as a free man.
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Schumann
Peter Leibing
Contpress
Hamburg
Associated Press
East Germany
West Berlin
RIAS
Berlin
West
Coromunists
West Germany
Guenzburg
Ulm
Germany
Erich
Meissen
Saxony
East Zone
Warning Issued On Passing Of School Buses
Monroe police remind motorists of a revised traffic code section governing school bus passing and flashing signals. Vehicles overtaking must stop at least 10 feet behind until children reach destination. buses display stop arms front and rear. At intersections, drivers must halt within 15 feet of red lights and may proceed through yellow signals with caution once safe.
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Monroe
Catholic Bishops Urge Help for Negro Rights Drive
U S bishops issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to remove obstacles to voting, housing, jobs, education and public facilities for African Americans. The National Catholic Welfare Conference said the letter would be read in many dioceses, though some may ignore it. Archbishop O Boyle will lead invocation at Lincoln Memorial ceremonies next Wednesday.
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Washington
United States
National Catholic Welfare Conference
U.S
Patrick A. O’boyle
Lincoln Memorial
Louisiana Governor Davis Sees Tidelands Talks Progress
Gov. Jimmie Davis of Louisiana says his White House meeting with President Kennedy advanced tidelands boundary talks on the Gulf. An escrow fund of over 550 million dollars from oil production sits pending a settlement, with baseline lines and the three mile limit still under dispute. Davis, Sen. Long, and Rep. Willis led the Louisiana delegation, signaling possible a special legislative session if an accord emerges before next May.
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Washington
Jimmie Davis
Louisiana
Kennedy
Davis
Gulf of Mexico
Gov. Davis
White House
U.S
Russell B. Long
Edwin Willis
Willis
Tor
Chris Faser Jr
James S. Reily
Ed Reed
Tidelands
Wagner Cracks Down Pickets At City Hall
Mayor Wagner halted the around the clock sit in outside his City Hall office after a melee in which three policemen were injured. Nine demonstrators were arrested as mounted police dispersed the crowd amid chants demanding jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans in construction. The 44 day protest drew national attention and mirrored a similar occupation near Governor Rockefeller in Manhattan.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
City Hall
Wagner
Washington
Park Row
Val Coleman
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Coleman
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Manhattan
Tulip beautification meeting planned with road officials
Louisiana Highway Director Ray W Burgess is invited to a Tulip Festival planning meeting with E R McDonald of the Lovely Louisiana Tourist Association and West Monroe Chamber of Commerce officials. The session at 2 p m in the First National Bank building aims to advance a statewide tulip beautification program for next spring.
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Louisiana Highway
Ray W. Burgess
Lovely
Louisiana Tourist Association
E. R. McDonald
West Monroe
Association
McDonald
Newellton
Chamber Agriculture Committee
George Tyner
Burgess
Highway Department
O. M. Pouchaut
Fifth District
George Foreman
Donald
UTA
Holland
Miss Pope Joins Faculty of Georgia College
Miss Betty Pope resigns from Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Monroe after 1956 to head the music department at Truett McConnell Baptist Junior College in Cleveland Georgia. She holds degrees from William Carey College New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Northeast State College. She taught five years in Mississippi and directed six choral groups at the Home while serving as organist at College Place Baptist Church.
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Betty Pope
Louisiana Baptist Children's Home
Monroe
Truett-McConnell Baptist Junior College
Cleveland
Wade B. East
Miss Pope
William Carey College
Hattiesburg
Miss
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Northeast State College
Scientists fly to Puerto Rican base on Beulah storm decision
AP reports scientists depart from a Puerto Rican base to study seeding Hurricane Beulah with chemicals. The mission aims to determine if weather modification could alter the storm's path or intensity.
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Washington
Indicted labor leader faced 25 counts in New Orleans
Federal grand jury charged Zacheris Banks former president of a Negro longshoremen local with 25 counts of false entries in local financial records and two counts of submitting false statements to the U S Department of Labor.
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New Orleans
UPI
Zacheris Banks
U. S. Department of Labor
Two Burglaries Under Investigation In Monroe
Police probe two Monroe-area home burglaries late Thursday night with owners unnamed pending investigation. Assistant Chief Ralph Graves said cases are not complete. Louisiana state police report six DUI arrests, naming three men from West Monroe and Ouachita Parish. Two men were also booked on highway littering charges in Morehouse parish.
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Monroe
Ralph R. Graves
Troop F
Louisiana State Police
Arthur H. Harper
Collinston
Guy D. Atkinson
North Tenth Street
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish
George W McGowan
Mont Valle
Ala
U.S
C. W. Harris
Bawcom Street
Ouachita
Robert L. Bolden
Wisner
Charles E. Zimmerman
Watson
U.S. 80
Morehouse Parish
Bailey Grant
June Anderson
Thomas Street
Monroe men sentenced in Fourth District Court
Dan Scott aged 59 of 830 Bethune Street and another man from Monroe were sent to Angola State Penitentiary to begin five year terms. Clifford Wilson alias Dewitt Edward, 19, starts five years for burglary while M C Talley, 21, of Monroe, receives five years for simple robbery. Sentences handed down August 19 in Fourth District Court.
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Dan Scott
Bethune Street
Monroe
Angola
Clifford Wilson
Dewitt Edward
M. C. Talley
Fourth District
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Allied
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Call Faulk-Collier
INC
North Second
JFK
Michael J. Murphy
Tulip Meet
General Electric
THE
Calvert Frantom
Georgia College
Miss Betty Pope
Organized Labor
Hubert Yeidell
Steele Motors, Inc
Louisville Ave
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