Hoover Criticizes Self-Styled Communism Experts
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover urges factual and rational discussion of communism in a Chicago AP report. He faults emotional attacks and argues many non Communists share positions with Communists without being members. Hoover warns against branding differing opinions as communist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
American Bar Association Journal
United States
Hoover
Communist Party
Carpenters End Strike Against Area Contractors
The Northeast Louisiana Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Northeast Louisiana District Council of Carpenters announce a mutual two year contract effective February 19, ending their carpenters strike on over twenty Monroe area jobs. Ironworkers Local No. 710 continued to strike amid near settlement, with work continuing on most sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northeast Louisiana
Associated General Contractors
Loy K. Heard
AGC Labor Committee
L. L McMillan
Northeast Louisiana District Council of Carpenters
Northeast Louisiana Contractors Association
AGC
Heard
Monroe
Five Die in Illinois Crash Involving Indiana Family
A rain swept highway near Vienna Illinois saw five Indiana residents killed in a two car collision. Three others were injured. Seven family members were involved including three children. Victims were Dorothy Sweetin 45 Barbara 19 Thelma Short 21 and na Short 2 and Richard Cumbee 4 of Evansville Indiana. Line Harper 22 of Vienna Illinois was seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Ill
Indiana
Imoize
Dorothy Sweetin
Barbara
Thelma Short
Na Short
Richard Cumbee
Evansville
Ind
Missouri
Harper
Vien
Kennedy Unveils Textile Pact To Curb Imports
President Kennedy publicizes a 19 nation textile pact designed to shield the U S cotton textile industry from foreign competition. The five year agreement, effective October 1 for ratifying countries, aims to hold shipments near current levels. Congressmen from textile states expect broad support for the administration tariff cutting powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
U.S
United States
Commerce Department
State Department
Suspect Held In Slaying Of U S Officer In Congo
The houseboy of Lt. Col. Helen D. Stogner, U S assistant military at tache, is jailed on suspicion of killing his employer in Leopoldville. The Embassy said the suspect is in UN Nigerian police custody. details withheld to avoid prejudicing proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopoldville
the Congo
U.S
Helen D. Stogner
Stogner
Elizabeth Thring
Washington, D.C
Robert Behrens
United Nations
Solon Fights Barksdale Land Sale
U S Rep Joe D Waggonner plans to oppose the sale of 8400 acres at Barksdale Air Force Base. He will push the issue in the House Armed Services Committee and seek Gov Jimmie Davis support. The land was donated by Shreveport in 1930 for 2 1 million dollars with bonds paid off three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bossier City
UPL
U. S
Joe D. Waggonner
Dla
Fourth
Barksdale Air Force Base
Waggonner
Plain Dealing
House Armed Services Committee
Jimmie Davis
Shreveport
Barksdale
Bossier Parish
Shreveport Times
Twin City Chit Chat Supt Van D Odom At AASA Conference
Supt. Van D Odom and Mrs. Odom are attending the annual conference of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City New Jersey. They left Monroe yesterday for the event that opens Saturday and runs through next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van D Odom
Mrs. Odom
American Association of School Administrators
Atlantic City
N. J
Monroe
LUM TO SPEAK AT Salvation Army Banquet Tonight
The 1961 Salvation Army banquet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Paragon club features Chester Lauck of Lum and Abner as speaker. Reservations accepted at the door. An eight page program wrapup highlights 333 adult services for 11,500 people and 553 youth meetings with 10,075 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Army
Paragon Club
Chester Lauck
Lum
Abner
Vernon T. McCoy
Salvation
Kennedy urges cult of excellence in education and intellect
President Kennedy expressed hope that America will cultivate excellence in education and intellectual development to address national problems. Secretary McNamara will fly to Hawaii this weekend for talks with military and diplomatic leaders in the Western Pacific, his third such trip in two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kennedy
America
Roberts S. McNamara
Hawaii
Viet Nam
Westren Pacific
McNamara
New Orleans Station Plays Russia Top Tunes
A New Orleans radio station began playing Russia's top tunes including Goodbye Towns and Huts and I'm Looking Into Vast Fields. The broadcast marks a cultural exchange and features popular recordings from the Soviet music scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
UPI
Russia
Driver Wounded in Paris Car Bombing
A plastic bomb exploded in a parked car in central Paris injuring the driver severely. Police said the attack may be the work of the outlawed Secret Army Organization and could be a new terrorist strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
UPI
Secret Army Organization
Commission approves state central purchasing bill
Baton Rouge officials announced that the Little Hoover Commission on reorganization has approved a bill to create a central purchasing system for state agencies. State Senator B. H. Rogers of Grand Cane disclosed the approval.
Russians Defy Western Warning on Berlin Air Corridors
Moscow demands exclusive use of sections of the Berlin air corridors for Soviet aircraft, repeating defiance of a Western warning against interference with Allied air traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
UPI
Twister Strikes Ruston Mississippi Mississippi Toll and Clearing Forecast
A twister lifted a barn roof near Ruston and a second tornado damaged property in Ruston and in Mississippi. No injuries reported. Severe weather alert covered parts of Louisiana and Mississippi last night. Today’s forecast: clearing with highs near 65 and 70, cooler tonight, sunrise 6 49, sunset 5 55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
Mississippi
Will Watts
Grenada
Louisiana
Monroe
Astronaut Glenn Delays Stranded by Atlantic Weather
Cape Canaveral reports delaying the world orbit mission until Tuesday at the earliest due to bad weather in Atlantic recovery zones. Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. remains the prime astronaut despite the series of postponements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Atlantic
John H.glenn Jr
Dead Woman Identified in Ruston Fatal Crash
Identification confirmed Mrs. Barbara Jean Joyce Weems Womack 18 wife of David C. Womack 19 among three killed in a two car crash four and a half miles west of Ruston on U S Highway 80. Ronald Kiefer 21 of Beaver Dam Wis also died. Livingston Calif resident William T Livingston injured and released. No charges filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
Barbara Jean Joyce Weems
Womack
David C. Womack
U. S. Highway 80
Fort Bliss
Tex
Ronald Kiefer
Beaver Dam
Wis
Liondale
Ala
William Thomas Livingston
Huntington
Calif
Downsville Man Threatens Two Sheriff Deputies
A 28 year old Ouachita parish man Oscar Milton Tedeton alias Buddy Tedeton of Route 2 Downsville Frost Town is jailed on aggravated battery and aggravated assault charges. He allegedly threatened two Ouachita Parish sheriff deputies with a 12 gauge shotgun during questioning about an earlier incident. A report from Mrs Lonnie Frost of Route 2 Calhoun stated four men in an old model vehicle beat her husband at their service station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Bailey Grant
Oscar Milton Tedeton
Buddy’’ Tedeton
Tedeton
Route 2
Downsville
Frost Town
Quachita Parish
Sheriff Department
Lonnie Frost
Calhoun
Depo
Today's Chuckle Polite Punchline at Roadside Stop
A policeman tells a motorist that his wife fell from the car three blocks back. The motorist replies that he feared he had gone stone deaf and now realizes the truth.
Macon Center of Trouble as Bus Boycott Erupts
Racial violence flared in Macon Georgia as a Negro bus boycott for desegregation and jobs triggered rock throwing glass smashing fights and arrests. Mayor Edgar Wilson sought talks to calm tensions while authorities increased patrols and Bible Transit Co expanded counter measures with radio and TV appeals to white riders. A bus carrying children was hit by gunfire though police could not confirm a link to the boycott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Georgia
Associated Press
Edgar Wilson
Washington
Wilson
Bible Transit Co
Downtowen
Car-Chasing Shampony Patrols Desiard Street
Monroe police logged an unusual incident when a Shetland pony chased several motorists on DeSiard Street. Officer Howard V. Brown captured the small pony at 2303 DeSiard and placed it in the city pound awaiting its owner. Police noted it was not a dog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
DeSiard Street
Howard V. Brown
Brown
Orleans Man Dies In Carolina Wreck
Edwards A. Barnes, 26, of New Orleans was killed near Zebulon North Carolina when the car he rode in wrecked and burned. Sidney James Malcolm Colbert, 19, of Hopewell Virginia, was injured critically in the same crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zebulon
N. C
Edward A. Barnes
New Orleans
Sidney James Malcolm Colbert
Hopewell
Fifth District Pharmacists Protest Welfare Cuts
Fifth District Association of Louisiana State Pharmacists meeting in Monroe adopted resolutions opposing an average 10 to 15 percent slash in welfare prescription charges. Members vowed to protest the proposed price reduction while briefly accepting the plan in patients’ interest, noting it could push some prescriptions to near cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth District
Department of Welfare
Monroe
Fifth District Association
Louisiana State Pharmaceutical Association
W. J. Pierron Jr
Highland Park Country Club
Druggists
Western planes keep Berlin Hamburg air corridor open
Amid high winds and rain Western planes maintained normal traffic through the Berlin Hamburg corridor despite Soviet claims to exclusive three hour rights up to 7 500 feet. No Soviet MiG sightings were reported as Allied airlines and U S military aircraft used lower and regular levels. The Big Three warned of fighter patrols if Soviet pressure continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Berlin-Hamburg
Soviet Union
Hamburg
West Germany
U.S
United States
Britain
France
Plea Of Insanity Filed In Case Of C. E. Cullipher
Cecil Eugene Cullipher, 24, of Monroe faces murder charges for stabbing Lealis L. Hale, 59, with a trial due May 7. A present insanity plea was filed and a three doctor lunacy commission was appointed to report by April 6. The defense acted through court appointed attorneys over the defendant’s objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Eugene Cullipher
Monroe
Friday
Fourth District Court
Mack E. Barham
Ouachita Parish
John P. Burton
Edward Long
C. Prentiss Gray Jr
Cullipher
Lealis L. Hale
Hale
Parish
Idle 2 Bedroom Duplex at 512 Stella Street
Southside WM rental listing for a private entrance two bedroom unit for adults. Monthly rent $50 includes gas and water paid by tenant. contact FA 5-2276. Duplex currently available rental notice indicates occupancy and terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella St. M
Gas and Water Pd
Southside
Also Mentioned on This Page
FBI
Carpenters
Ilinois
Col. Stogner
Behrens
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Geneva
Solon
Barksdale Sale
Twin City
Odom
Bulletins
Robert Kennedy
Isle
Bali
Bandung
Indonesia
Far East
Livingston
Kiefer
Miami
Havana
Cabana
Cuba
Octavio Barroso Gomez
Jose Antonio Muiias Gomez
United States Central Intelligence Agency
Fidelawe
Orleans
Carolina
Moscow
C. E. Cullipher
News-Star World
Mitchell School
W.M
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!