Monroe Adopts First Zoning Ordinance ahah
Audit reveals a $101 258 surplus for fiscal year 1960 accepted by Monroe City Council. The audit by Garelick Bradley and Heller shows a $35 849 83 reduction in expenditures from 1959 and notes debt past due accounts limited surplus in earlier years. Mayor W L Jack Howard says surplus allows capital improvements including Plum Street underpass street upgrades and Selman Field control tower.
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Monroe
Garelick, Bradley and Heller
W. L
Jack) Howard
Howard
Plum Street
Selman Field
Catholic Church Drops Raffles For Tithing Plan
The Rev. John P. Weigand of St. Joseph's Church of the Palisades in West New York announces no more carnivals bazaars or raffles to fund parish needs. Parishioners will be asked to donate 10 percent of gross income to the church and approved charities. He says the plan is voluntary though aligned with church law obliging Catholics to contribute. The parish has about 7,200 families and the pastor has spent 10 weeks preparing parishioners with letters and proclamations.
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West
New York
N. J
John P. Weigand
New York City
America
United States
Father Weigand
St. Joseph's Church of the Palisades
Revolutionary Escape From Belfast Prison
Police hunt 21 year old Irish revolutionary Daniel Ignatius Donnelly who fled Belfast jail during Christmas, slipping from a cell with John Joseph Kelly and scaling a 30 foot wall. Donnelly, an IRA district leader, served 10 years for bombings and his escape occurs as Princess Margaret visits Ireland.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
British Isles
Daniel Ignatius Donnelly
Irish Republican Army
Princess Margaret
Ireland
John Joseph Kelly
Iraq
Holiday traffic toll drops. 485 killed during Christmas weekend
The nationwide Christmas travel period claimed at least 485 lives in traffic accidents, falling short of last year’s 493 and marking the lowest three day toll since 1949’s 413. The National Safety Council had projected up to 510 deaths amid heavy holiday highway volumes.
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National Safety Council
The
Woman assaulted in Greenville by Black intruder
A 75 year old white spinster living alone in Greenville was attacked in a rear bathroom by a Black man who forced her to the floor and struck her. Police report the suspect, not armed, fled. she underwent surgery at Greenville hospital and reported calling her pastor during the fright. The incident follows a broader 78 hour Christmas holiday death toll and traffic fatalities across the country.
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Greenville
Miss
W. C. Burnley
Burnley
Harold O. Martin
Artilleryman on Trial in Grafenwoehr Incident
FRANKFURT Germany UPI The powderman of the howitzer that killed 17 U.S. soldiers last fall was a truck driver until the day of the accident An Army court martial heard Capt Edward C Gillette testify that Pfc Raymond R Riggs of New Iberia Louisiana 20 was transferred from his truck job after injuring one hand Riggs entered the second day of his trial for negligent homicide in connection with a howitzer round fired more than two miles over its target into an infantry tent camp near Grafenwoehr Germany.
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPI
U.S
Edward C. Gillette
Raymond R. Riggs
New Iberia
Riggs
Grafenwoehr
Mrs Freeman Covers Meter Duties in West Monroe
Mrs. Sue Freeman is checking parking meters for the West Monroe police department while Officer Lois Hart recovers from major surgery. Hart underwent surgery about two weeks ago and is hoped to return to her post by January 15.
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Sue Freeman
West Monroe
Lois Hart
Hart
Today’s Chuckle Critique on Faults and Standards
A wry reflection on criticism noting it targets others for different faults rather than their own. The quip frames disapproval as a mirror of personal bias and social judgment, highlighting the gap between self and others in moral standards.
Eisenhower Faces Restoring Five Star Rank After White House
Congressional leaders quietly push a plan to restore Dwight D. Eisenhower to his five star general rank after he leaves the White House on January 20. A special act would be needed as he resigned the permanent commission in 1952. Restored rank would yield over twenty thousand dollars yearly, with pension and office expenses under consideration.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Pentagon
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Douglas MacArthur
Omar Bradley
Adm
Chester W.nimitz
Missourian Named Boss of Highways
President elect John F Kennedy chose Rex Whitton chief engineer of the Missouri Highway Department to be federal highway administrator with a $20,000 yearly salary. Whitton, 62, has led Missouri highways since 1951 and since 1920 with the department. Kennedy praised Whitton as uniquely experienced for guiding the national highway program.
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John Rooney
D-N.y
House
State Department
Whitton
Missouri Highway Department
Kennedy
Pollock Youth Drowns Funeral Rites Slated
Donald Earl Dryden an 18 year old Pollock resident drowned Monday eight miles east of Pollock while boating with two brothers Thomas and Harold Wallace who were rescued. Dryden body recovered at 11 15 a m and services set for 2 30 p m Tuesday at Pollock Baptist church with burial in Forest Lawn Pineville. He is survived by his parents a brother and grandparents.
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Pollock
Donald Earl Dryden
Little River
Pollock Baptist Church
Herbert W. Dryden
Young Dryden
Thomas L. Wallace
Harold D. Wallace
Wallace
S. C. Wallace
Dryden
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Pineville
Hixson Brothers Funeral Home
Reginald
W. H. Knox
Martha Dryden
France conducts third atomic test in Sahara desert
France staged its third nuclear detonation at Reggane in the Sahara, a small device of several kilotons. Officials say fallout poses no danger to nomads, with weak radiation observed over a 60 by 15 mile area. Scientists aim to improve small tactical bombs and detonators for thermonuclear devices.
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Paris
France
Reggane
Sahara
United States
Defense Ministry
Belgian Strike Worries King Seventhed Nationwide Protest
Socialist Union leaders issued strike alerts in major American owned industries as Belgium’s austerity protest entered its seventh day. The government claimed the nationwide strike was folding with most workers back at work, but new calls and immobilized south prompted King Baudoin to consider cutting short his Spanish honeymoon and return home. Antwerp firms in particular saw 25,000 workers affected by the strike alert.
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Brussels
Belgium
Baudoin
Spain
Antwerp
Strong Magnetic Field Around Star
Pasadena news reports Dr. Horace W. Babcock of Mt. Palomar Observatory discovered the strongest magnetic field in nature, about 34 000 gauss, around star HD 215441 using the 200 inch Hale telescope. The star, neighbor to the solar system in the Milky Way, showed a peculiar spectrum indicating the magnetic field.
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Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Horace W. Babcock
Mt. Palomar Observatory
Babcock
Louisiana Christmas holiday deaths toll tops twenty
Twenty people died in Louisiana during the Christmas holiday period from Friday evening to Monday midnight. Eight perished in three head on crashes, three in hit and run incidents, and five in other traffic misfortunes. Other fatalities included a burning, a drowning, a fall and a falling object. Elsie Stringer Cobb and her granddaughter Sharon Young died in a collision near Haughton involving a car in the wrong lane driven by Henry Williams. Three University of Houston students died when their car crashed near Houma. Two men from Shreveport also perished.
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Louisiana
Elsie Stringer Cobb
Sharon Young
Haughton
Henry Williams
Negro
Bossier City
Williams
Davis Announces Address To Five Stations Thursday
Governor Jimmie H. Davis will address Louisiana residents Thursday night in a 15 minute year end report focusing on the year’s issues and future concerns. A proposed 28 million sales tax increase is among topics, with stations KTAG Lake Charles KALB TV Alexandria and KPLC TV Lake Charles among initial carriers.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
KTAG
Lake Charles
Kalb-Tv
Alexandria
Kplc-Tv
DAVIS
Mild Damp Weather Stretches Into Wednesday
Weather outlook for the area calls for mild, damp conditions through Wednesday with occasional rain. Forecast highs run about 62 Tuesday, 58 Wednesday, and a low near 40 Tuesday night, while Monday recorded a 62 degree high and 46 low with no rain reported by FAA forecasters at Selman Field.
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FAA
Selman Field
Psycho treatment urged for violent teenage gangs
New York AP. Sociologist Dr. Lewis Yablonsky advocates treating gang leaders as psychos not hoodlums. He argues branding gang activity as sick behavior would curb participation and reduce violence. He says gangs are loose, borderline psychotics with grandiose persecution delusions, and organized effort often fails. See SICK Page 2-A.
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New York
Lewis Yablonsky
University of Massachusetts
Dr. Yablonsky
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Monroe Adopts First Zoning Ordinance In Monroe City
The Monroe City Council passed a near unchanged zoning ordinance to become effective January 10 at midnight. Mayor Howard, Finance Commissioner McSherry and Street Commissioner Rodriguez led a unanimous vote establishing residential and commercial zones with a zoning map, an administrator’s office, and a board of adjustment. James S. Harbuck named the first zoning administrator. Residents urged to visit City Hall Planning Commission for copies and explanations from Planner George Parsons.
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Monroe
Planning Commission
W. L
Jack) Howard
H. W. McSherry
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Howard
Rodriguez
McSherry
Monroe - Ouachita
Board of Adjustment
James S. Harbuck
City Recreation Board
Board of Adjustments
The
City Hall
George Parsons
Parsons
FBI Fingerprint Report Awaited In Booth Case
In Shreveport Louisiana police awaited an FBI fingerprint report in the investigation of socialite Mary Allen Booth who was murdered after her car was found at a shopping center on December 12. Her body was discovered December 18 four miles south of the city. Six people connected with the Booth household were questioned and several detained including Willie Thrash and his wife, the Booths’ laundress, plus a maid and her husband. Authorities plan further interviews and possible lie detector testing to locate the killer.
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Shreveport
FBI
Mary Allen Booth
Booth
Willie Thrash
Willie May Thrash
Booths
Candia Dixon
Ben Dixon
Public Safety
J. Earl Downs
Baton Rouge
Seemann
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University of Houston
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