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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1964
Page
12
In Glendive Montana the AP reports cattle trapped by blizzard ice and snow, many dead or near death. Roads are blocked and government crews may take 72 hours to reach relief as 100 pound ice loads and scarce feed push survivors toward collapse.
In Okinawa the Australian captain Cant H. V. Blomberg and his wife, aboard the 5000 ton Union Pacific, were swept to their deaths as they left their grounded freighter during Typhoon Opal. The ship ran aground Dec 3 off Naha after reef damage. The couple remained aboard to deter looters. a rescue attempt failed as a giant wave swallowed Blomberg while lowering to the rescue craft.
A Baker newspaper man Edward Fisher sixty five? 45 and his stepson Jerry Sanders twenty one were killed in a daytime collision between a car and a freight truck at an intersection on State Highway 19 inside Baker city limits. The truck driver escaped unhurt.
Four Canton residents Opel Davis Vera Davis Estes Warner and George Johnson were killed when their car collided with the Panama Limited at a north Jackson crossing. Police say the four were Presto Manufacturing employees and part of the car was dragged by the locomotive for over a half mile.
A 10 year old boy revealed the hideout of his father and 15 Viet Cong guerrillas in a tunnel network north of Saigon. Government troops blew the entrances with explosives in the most successful tunnel operation yet. The boy demonstrated grenade making and dismantling an American carbine amid candy rewards.
The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry approved Gov McKeithens Louisiana State Science Foundation to support Gulf South Research Institute with a 3.51 million dollar legislative appropriation. The plan aims to attract private funds and create a regional research center, focusing on market studies and technological development in the Gulf South.
Louisiana highway director A L Stewart warned ice pockets in shady spots create danger as freezing rain hit northern areas. Bridges and overpasses are most at risk and a salt chloride and sand mix will be spread. If roads freeze severely a motor grader would cut the ice.
An x ray device by Picker X-Ray Corp. now aids NASA engineering at Cape Kennedy. The unit inspects workmanship for defects, detecting a misplaced 0.0005 inch wire or a 0.003 inch solder pellet, and was installed just before the first moon shot.
A compiled list shows Gulf Oxygen Co. Inc. Lake Charles 100000 and Hoyt Manufacturing Corp. 115793 plus Ideal Cement Co. Baton Rouge 317450 and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. Baton Rouge 6597556. Other entries include Gramercy plant 6528577 Lone Star Cement Lake Charles 147000 M and M Harahan 128660 Monachem Geismar 375000 New Orleans Terminal 480700 Southern Bolt Shreveport 49470 Universial Oil Shreveport 150000 Uno-Tex Petroleum and Texas Gas Eunice 500000 Valco Engineering Baton Rouge 72491 Vancouver Plywood Many 3002817 Oakdale 3152504.
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