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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1961
Page
1
New York UPI reports Tuesday night's loosely bound NBS White Paper re examines the Berlin crisis amid a recent flurry of TV coverage. Fred Danzig notes the program revisits key issues and implications for U S policy and public understanding.
The Empire State Building sale details show Col Henry Crown owning the property with Wien and Prudential exchanging $65 million and $29 million plus leasing rights, land ownership, and planned improvements totaling millions. A TV review criticizes NBC White Paper on Khrushchev and Berlin for lacking depth and overemphasizing Western strengths.
Seymour Melman of Columbia University warns that a modest nuclear attack would cripple American industry. He explains that fire effects could destroy a highly integrated labor system and reduce 65 major centers to a third-rate industrial nation.
Charles P Goodson Jr. 69 died at his West Monroe home on Jackson Street Wednesday morning. Mulhearn Funeral Home to direct funeral with Memorial Park Cemetery interment. Lifelong Ouachita Parish resident and Fairbanks Baptist Church member. survivors include wife Eula, three sons Charles Ray Ralph Claude and Ronald, one sister Mrs Clara Cale.
Communist China and Albania signed a joint shipping company agreement reported by New China News Agency. The ships owned by the new venture will operate under a cooperative framework between the two nations.
A 52 year old Monroe man is held for the Ouachita Parish sheriff's department on charges of theft by check. Sheriff Bailey Grant identified him as J. B. Rollinson of 105 South First St. He was taken into custody and held under a 150 dollar bond.
The Associated Press reports ten Black people died in three fires across Louisiana on Tuesday. In Hammond a gas heater explosion is blamed for a blaze that killed 15 month old Alice Hampton and 2 year old Charles Hampton Jr. A 2 month old infant was rescued as the parents fled. Near Minden four siblings died in a five room house fire as rescuers waited hours for bodies. The dead included Athelene Moore and her sisters Irene Clarakee Leatrice and brother Rickey aged 3 to 7. In Welsh a separate blaze claimed Phyllis Bias four Michael three and Adrietta one.
The Coast Guard listed ten men rescued from the drifting dredge Cartagena, 250 miles off Cape Cod, by the cutter Acushnet. Names include Capt. Adley LeBlanc of Louisiana, Elvi Traha of Lafayette, A. Goforth of Alabama, A. O. Mosley of Mississippi, and Merlin Robinson of Mississippi. one man reported injured.
A Central Park West fire ripped through the 17 story Mayflower Hotel killing a firefighter and two residents including Murray Wyzell a songwriter linked to Perry Como. Nine others injured including seven firemen as over 30 residents evacuated from 8th to 10th floors. The blaze started in Wyzell bedroom on the ninth floor and was controlled after about an hour.
Funeral rites for W G Peacock 86 of Gray son were held at 9 a m Wednesday in Winnsboro. The Rev T A Brown of West Monroe officiated. He died earlier this week. Survived by Woodson Peacock and Mrs E S Roark of West Monroe and four more sons, three daughters, 23 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Burial in Brown cemetery near Pine BluffArk under Riser and Son.
The passage recalls Patrice Lumumba's anger at Belgian actions during Congo riots post independence. Belgian protection of citizens and assets strained relations. Belgian interests backed Tshombe in defiance of Kinshasa while Belgium held metal riches in Katanga copper uranium and other minerals.
Administration strategists expect Kennedy to present detailed foreign trade recommendations soon after January 10 when Congress reconvenes. The 25 member committee is seen as able to push legislation aligned with his ideas, while some Republicans seek broader domestic relief provisions amid urgency echoed by Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield. He urged simultaneous hearings by House Ways and Means and Senate Finance and called for swift action on foreign aid in a tight election year.
Rev Decker a 70 year old retired pastor near Brooklyn Michigan was beaten bound and set afire in a room of his farm home. Police say the death is murder and are seeking a young man seen driving a minister's sedan after the blaze.
David Moran reports his 3-year-old Labrador Judy birthed seven puppies on Christmas Eve in Bathgate Scotland. A veterinarian says the green puppy will turn gold within weeks, leaving six gold pups and one green pup initially.
Fragmentary text notes a plan to speed up integration and establish a new Cabinet post while Kennedy could bypass the House Rules Committee, which holds power to determine actions.
Huey A. Green age 94 resident of Marion died in the Marion clinic at 11 Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Marion Methodist Church with Rev. N D Pearce officiating. Burial under Kilpatrick's Funeral Home Far merville will be in Board cemetery. Survived by five sons H Dan Green Tim Green T W Green P E Green John D Green one daughter Debbie Nettles one sister Mrs W E Savage and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Grandsons will be pallbearers.
A new role is created for the cotton industry with a maid as goodwill ambassador. She will receive a wardrobe of the latest fashions and embark on a round the world tour to promote cotton.
Tampa AP reports a second African American student approved for admission to a white school. The boy’s father, NAACP field secretary, requested the transfer since the white school is 32 miles closer than the Negro school to their home.
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