Monroe man dies after panel truck overturns east of Ruston
Larry K. E. Hazzlerigg, 29, of Monroe, died at Ruston Hospital from a fractured skull after his panel truck overturned four miles east of Ruston on Highway 80. He was thrown from the vehicle at Roane's curve and died 25 minutes after arrival. He worked for Red River News Co. and left behind a wife and daughter.
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Ruston
Monroe
Ruston Hospital
Larry KE. Hazzlerigg
Selman Dr Monroe
Roane
Lincoln Parish
J. J. Bennett
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Hazzlerigg
Red River News Co
Youth Given Sentence In Local Killing
Judge Mack E Barham in Fourth District Court sentenced Claude Donald Crawford a 22 year old Ouachita parish man to five years in the state penitentiary at Angola but suspended the sentence and placed him on supervised probation for the 1959 shotgun slaying of his father Claude T Crawford. Crawford pleaded guilty and will serve probation during the five year period while under observation at East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson where he was found sane. In separate action Bradley A Phillips received 15 days in parish jail for vagrancy and William Marble was fined 25 dollars and costs.
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Mack E. Barham
Ouachita Parish
Claude Donald Crawford
Angola
Fourth District
Crawford
Claude T. Crawford
Cheniere Lake
West Monroe
East Louisiana State Hospital
Jackson
Barham
Bradley A. Phillips
William Marble
Most Wanted Criminal Caught
Floydada Texas report says Delbert H Linaweaver once among the FBI ten most wanted was captured near Floydada driving a tractor. He and two other convicts escaped Salina Kansas jail on July 8 1960 and Linaweaver had prior convictions for forgery burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.
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Floydada
Tex
UPI
Delbert H. Linaweaver
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Linaweaver
Hoover
Salina
Kans
Real Labor Used To Widen Canal In Kinston
Kinston will widen its major drainage canal using picks and shovels instead of heavy machinery. The $15,000 project will employ at least 50 unemployed workers and run for about two months as city and county governments approve funding.
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Kinston
N.C
Bonsal Opens New U S Consulate in Tangier Morocco
U S Ambassador Philip Bonsal inaugurated a new American consulate in Tangier a suburb meadow setting. The building cost about 1 million dollars and marks stronger ties with Morocco.
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Tangier
Morocco
UPI
U.S
Philip Bonsal
Rusk declares U.N. bond buy a must in Senate hearing
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States must invest up to 100 million dollars in United Nations bonds to rescue the organization from a financial crisis linked to Congo and Soviet nonpayment. He framed the move as essential to U.S. foreign policy and world peace.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
U.N
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rusk
United Nations
Congo
Russia
U.S
United States
Ouachita Parish School Board Holds Regular Session
The Ouachita Parish School Board meets tonight at 7 p.m. in the school system offices at 707 St. John St to conduct a regular session.
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Ouachita Parish
St. John St
Fifth District LFWC to Present Special Awards
Outstanding members of the Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs will receive special award certificates at the Fifth District LFWC annual convention in Ruston on February 24. The event takes place in the Fine Arts Building on the Louisiana Tech campus.
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Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs
LFWC
Ruston
Fine Arts
Louisiana Tech
Today’s Chuckle Plays On Secrets And Pride
A light humor item notes that a clever man keeps a sore secret to himself, preferring quiet thoughts over boasting. The joke hinges on misdirection about revealing flaws and pride, with a punchline about restraint.
Four die in Ville de Bordeaux blast and Oran newsroom raid
A TNT blast sank into the Ville de Bordeaux as it neared Bone killing four and wounding others while a car bomb lurked aboard. Algiers City Hall was later rocked by a TNT charge in an elevator, with no injuries. In Oran the European Secret Army Organization seized a newspaper plant and circulated a pirate edition.
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Oran
Algeria
Algiers
European Secret Army Organization
Charles de Gaulle
Ville de Bordeau
Bone
France
Bonaparte
Jean Oudinot
Sheriff seeks federal charges over alleged jail beatings
Sheriff Bryan Clemmons urged federal prosecutors to indict four black anti segregation demonstrators for falsifying affidavits after claims of jail beatings in East Baton Rouge Parish. FBI and Justice Department found no police brutality. Named complainants included Ronnie M. Moore Jerome M. Smith and David J. Dennis. A CORE telegram urged Kennedy to probe.
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Robert Kennedy
B. Elton Cox
High Point
N.C
Rioters Break Up Bobby's Speech at Waseda University
Thousands of Tokyo students greeted Robert F. Kennedy with cheers at Waseda University but a smaller faction of hard core Communists disrupted his address. Kennedy and Ethel stood calmly on stage and left by a rear door amid pandemonium.
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Tokyo
Waseda University
Robert F. Kennedy
U.S
Kennedy
Japan
Edwin O. Reischauer
Waseda
Ethel
Court Orders Voting Records Inspection In Alabama
The U S Court of Appeals ordered Wilcox County Alabama to permit the Justice Department to inspect its voting records as part of a probe into alleged Negro discrimination. In Laos Soviet and British ambassadors visited rebel-held Nam Tha area to try to halt fighting as rebels neared the provincial capital. Marshall Powell, ex Durant night club operator, said he will not testify before a penitentiary legislative committee in the Mimble Berry case. Kennedy and NATO chief Stikker discussed defense and political issues including NATO potential nuclear power. McNamara met with senators behind closed doors over who censored speeches by leaders.
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New Orleans
UPI
U.S. Court of Appeals
Wilcox County
Ala
Board of Registrars
Justice Department
Vientiane, Laos
Laos
Nam Tha
Washington
Robert S. McNamara
West Monroe Alderman Race Grows To Fourteen Candidates
West Monroe political fray heats up as 14 seek alderman posts including G B Folds who moved from mayoral contention to an alderman bid. Mayor J Allen Norris and ex mayor C C Bell Jr remain only mayoral contenders with 5 incumbents seeking reelection. The Democratic Executive Committee slate also faces challenge from TT Jack Blackman.
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West Monroe
G. B. Folds
Folds
Ford Today
J. Allen Norris
C. C. Bell Jr
Pat Tubbs
Joyce Smith
Lou Heard
C. E. Ponder
Alton Burkett
Dick Jouissaint
Ben Farmer
Norman Dodd
Ferrell Ketchell
A. L. DeLoach Jr
Charles Anding
A. E. Duncan
George Wylie
Democratic Executive Committee
Harold Hill
Charles Traylor
Gordie Roy
Jack Blackman
Kennedy seeks $5.7 billion education bill this year
President Kennedy urged Congress to pass a five year $5.7 billion aid to education program despite excluding parochial schools. He defended constitutional limits on church school aid and outlined loans grants and scholarships at all levels plus emphasis on science engineering and adult literacy. He positioned public school construction and teacher pay as top priority though revival remained uncertain.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Army to Release Reservists Miscribed in Berlin Crisis
The Army says it will release an undisclosed number of reservists wrongly called to active duty during the Berlin crisis mobilization. Those individuals will be advised they are eligible for release from service after a policy misinterpretation kept them in the ready Reserve.
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Washington
Army
Berlin
College Aid Bill Faces Heaviest Senate Attack
A $2 674 000 000 college aid bill faces its heaviest Senate opposition as Republicans seek to strip all student scholarships. Democratic sponsors remain cautiously optimistic about preserving scholarships for about 212 500 students over five years while Keating and Prouty propose replacing scholarships with a $61 million loan fund increase over two years under the 1958 act. If the amendment passes the House will likely resist.
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Washington
Senate
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
House
Cold, sunny with sharp temps in Monroe forecast
Bracing cool weather today and tonight with a high near 45 to 50 and a low around 25 to 30. It will stay generally fair and cold through Wednesday. Yesterday reached a high of 62 with an overnight low of 31.
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Monroe Area
Complaint filed over purchase of rapture gun in Ouachita Parish
Ward 3 juryman Rankin Earle filed a complaint against Ward 5 juryman Leslie Hamm about a rapture gun bought by the Ouachita Police Jury. Investigators confirmed the report, now forwarded to Dist. Atty. Albin Lassiter. Hamm says he did not own the gun and that it was billed to him, then sold to the Police Jury via Dr. Hays.
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Ward 3
Rankin Earle
Ward 5
Leslie Hamm
Ouachita
Hamm
Thaneater Walizing
Ouachita Parish
Earle
Sheriff's Department
D. C. Hays
Monroe Animal Hospital
Hays
Bailey Grant
L. A. Mosher Co
Monroe Utilities Group reports growth and expansion
Monroe city utilities manager French Smith released a progress report showing growth as water department services expand. The 1961 audit notes 57 157 feet of new mains and 31 000 feet of service lines installed, with 62 fire hydrants added and customer trouble corrections rising from 2 268 in 1960 to 3 040 in 1961.
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Utilities Commission
Monroe
French Smith
Smith
Commission
Wife Of Dentist Killed In Wreck Near Lafayette
Mrs. Joseph McDade aged 35, wife of a Lafayette dentist, was killed when her car plunged into a roadside embankment on Monday. Four children ages 10, 8, 5, and 2 were injured but not badly.
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Lafayette
Joseph McDade
Doomsday Fears Spark Jaipur Women Riot Hindu Priests
In Jaipur a crowd of women beat four Hindu priests who warned of calamities from a planetary conjunction. Doomsday proclamations by Swami Madhavacharya were echoed by newspapers in Delhi. Poona and Calcutta felt tremors and scares as crowds stampeded, causing one death.
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New Delhi
India
Jaipur
Swami Madhavacharya
Poona
Calcutta
Prisoners Escape From Pascagoula Jail On Train Bid
Six men described as extremely dangerous and a woman escaped the Jackson County jail in Pascagoula early today. They may have boarded a freight train bound for New Orleans. The group included two murder suspects and others held for burglary or grand larceny.
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Pascagoula, Miss
Pascagoula
Ouachita River Near Floodstage Forecast At Monroe
The Ouachita River at Monroe measured 38.15 feet this morning and is expected to rise to within about a foot of flood stage before leveling off and slowly falling. U.S. Army engineer A W Newkirk noted the river is high for the season and warned of possible higher levels if rainfall grows in the next two months.
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Ouachita River
Monroe
Newkirk
Ouachita
Louisiana
Record Unemployment Benefits Hit 3.97 Billion
Washington reports that unemployed workers received a record 3.97 billion dollars in unemployment benefits from federal and state programs during the previous year. Federal and state agencies together funded the payouts with Labor Department data showing the peak level of aid distributed nationwide.
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Washington
UPL
Labor Department
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Dirk A. Stikker
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
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Wilson Brook
Anthony Eilers
Burlington
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Eilers
Utilities Group
Scaremongers
Delhi
Indian Express
Hindustan Times
Orleans
FLOOR
James Grimsley
Grimsley
T. J. Bullock Jr
William Franklin Donald
A. W. Newkirk
U.S. Corps of Engineers
News- Star World
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W.M
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