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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1963
Page
1
A Greek vessel caught fire before midnight Sunday during a Christmas cruise. The disaster occurred as the ship operated under Greek flag with AP Wirephoto from London providing footage.
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard travels to Texas for talks with President Johnson amid a strengthened foreign policy position after achieving a joint tariff stand with De Gaulle in Brussels. He faces domestic budget tensions and protests over pensions and veteran benefits at home.
Athol Mass AP Lawrence Martoski a 16 year old high school student bought a $3 50 shortwave set and will study Radio Moscow propaganda in a government class. He sent questions to the stations mail bag program and received replies on disarmament and criticism of the United States. The Moscow announcer contrasted armies with peace and accused the US of supporting Latin American dictators. He praised chemical industry and noted Soviet roads are not as good as American highways. Friends taped the broadcast and plan to replay it in class.
Salida Colorado city council repealed an antiquated curfew ordinance requiring police to sound a bell or taps five times and scrapped a $2 poll tax rule that forced nonpayment into a day of street labor.
In Mazard Kentucky a group of 40 students from colleges in New York Wisconsin and Pennsylvania aided impoverished coal miners with food clothing money and toys. Phil Ochs the Greenwich Village folk singer whose carol sparked the drive joined the effort as students hope for federal support to aid the region. The U S government announced 8.7 million dollars for vocational training in the coalfields.
In Oxford Mississippi a warming trend melted deep snow that threatened to wipe out the deer hunting season. State law blocks hunting if more than two inches of snow except duck hunting. North Mississippi had sections with ten inches or more before Christmas Day sun.
President Johnson vacationing at his Texas ranch says he will cut federal payrolls over 18 months and insists departments must cap staffing without his approval. He monitors Cyprus tensions with Secretary Rusk, praising Britian, Greece, and Turkey efforts to stabilize the region.
Vatican sources report Pope Paul VI will begin his Jerusalem visit by bearing a wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa, pausing at Stations of the Cross with readings in 30 languages. He arrives January 4 for a three day pilgrimage concluding January 6 Epiphany season ends January 6.
A 40 year old Denver man listed as in satisfactory condition a week after receiving baboon kidneys in a landmark operation. Surgeons from the U S Veterans Hospital and Colorado Medical Center performed the transplant, building on prior chimpanzee kidney work in New Orleans.
The Houston Colts finished 44 wins and 37 losses at home in 1963 but endured a poor 22-59 mark on the road, reflecting stronger home performance than away.
Washington AP reports Sam the dachshund will return Friday to Maxwell C. Moulton after ending up in Africa when Ellen Loeb wife of the U S ambassador to Guinea received Sam at a Washington pet hospital. Sim will be flown from Senegal to New York and then to Washington.
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