French Troops Restore Gabon President After Clash
French airborne forces in Gabon restored pro French Leon Mba as president after a brief clash with Gabonese rebels. Librevill e reports and Brazzaville sources say rebels who toppled Mba surrendered while Aubame, named provisional chief executive, was ousted. Casualty figures were initially unspecified.
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Leon Mba
Libreville
Charles de Gaulle
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Senegal
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Jean Hilaire Aubame
Refugees Shuttled From Azores Earthquake Crater
ANGRA DO HEROISMO Azores AP A mercy fleet from five nations carried more than 1 000 dazed refugees across 20 miles from San Jorge Island to Angra. Norwegian British Italian and Yugoslav ships ferried evacuees amid ruins and sulfurous air signaling possible volcanic activity. Evacuation paused as tremors weakened Cmdr Alvardo Cardoso port captain said conditions stabilized. Many refugees arrived with only the clothes on their backs and held religious items.
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Baker Invoked Fifth Amendment In Senate Inquiry
Former Senate aide Bobby Baker refused to turn over records or answer questions, invoking the Fifth Amendment. The Senate Rules Committee subpoenaed documents tied to his outside business dealings, ordered him back Tuesday for a public hearing, and eyed contempt proceedings with possible penalties of one year, a $1,000 fine, or both.
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Bobby Baker
Baker
L. P. McLendon
Committee
McLendon
Dial CEA 3 Ad Wants Low 7 Day Rate
Classified ad fragment notes want ad number 5161 and asks about a low seven day rate with cancellation privileges. No further context or entities identifiable.
Chou Enilai Tours Pakistani Capitalist Mill
Chou Enilai, premier of Communist China, visited a Karachi cotton mill during a nine day Pakistan tour. A mill owner touted capitalism as the workers, numbering about 2,000, cheered the visitor. Chou questioned workers about pay but gave no comment on the reported average wage of 150 rupees a month.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Chou Enilai
China
Forest Hill Resident Killed In Car Crash
Forest Hill Louisiana report shows Louise Brown aged 40 fatally injured when her car collided with a tree Tuesday. She died hours later in an Alexandria hospital about 20 miles north of Forest Hill.
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Forest Hill
Louise Brown
Alexandria
Fate of others unknown as Fruen rescues nine on Ambassador
The Norwegian freighter Fruen rescued nine men from the disabled British merchantman Ambassador in the Atlantic about 1,000 miles east of New York. Seven crew remained aboard the listing ship with 14 missing and presumed drowned.
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New York
Fruen
Atlantic
Russell Vows Around Clock Rights Battle
In Washington Senator Richard Russell and 19 Southern opponents pledge to wage a 24 hour fight against the House passed civil rights bill. Senate leaders warn of possible weeks long debate while President Johnson backs the measure with firm terms despite potential compromises from Republicans.
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Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Johnson
Congress
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Senate
Humphrey
West Monroians Recuperating Visitors Welcome Home
Two residents Dorris Harper of Ludwig Street and Harry Snyder of North Second Street have returned home to recover. Bill Miner’s United States coin collection will be shown Thursday at 7 30 p m at the Bastrop Coin Club meeting in the parish agriculture building on the Mer Rouge Road inviting all area coin collectors and dealers.
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Bill Miner
Monroe
Bastrop Coin Club
Parish
Mer Rouge Road
Senior Citizens Club reschedules meetings to 2 p.m. Thursdays
The newly organized Senior Citizens Club for people aged 50 and over will meet at 2 p.m. each Thursday starting Feb 20. Director Jack Hesketh of the Monroe recreation department says meetings will be at Benoit Recreation Center. The club is sponsored by the recreation department.
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Five jurors excused in Ruby Oswald trial
AP dispatches report five jurors excused today, bringing total to nine, in the Jack Ruby trial over the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Other bulletins note the Brussels painting Negroes Heads found, a $75 million Soviet wheat sale tied to a labor boycott, calls to bar Cape Kennedy access, Goldwater commenting on Castro, and defense testimony about Hoffa.
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Jack Ruby
Lace Harvey Oswald
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Brussels Museum
Miami Beach
Fia
Soviet Union
Fair and Mild Weather Forecast for Ark La Miss
Generally fair and mild weather will dominate the Ark La Miss area today and Thursday. Highs near 56 to 60 today, lows around 37 overnight, and a warmer Thursday with highs 60 to 64. West winds around 8 to 12 mph. Monroe records show 56 today and 37 overnight.
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Religion in America Beginnings of the Anglican Church
The Protestant Episcopal Church arrived in America with Jamestown colonists in 1607, later becoming autonomous and adopting its present name in 1789, according to the World Almanac.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
America
Democrat Burton Wins House Seat
In California's 5th Congressional District special election Democrat Phillip Burton defeated six opponents and write-ins to win the seat vacated when John Shelley became mayor of San Francisco. Burton claimed a resounding victory for the Johnson administration and will serve the term expiring January 3, 1965 before seeking reelection.
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Phillip Burton
House of Representatives
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California
John Shelley
Government Will Recall Vote Registrar in Louisiana Case
Federal civil rights division seeks to recall Mae Lucky Ouachita Parish registrar of voters to the stand in a civil case over 1956 57 removal of thousands from parish rolls. FBI agent Regis Kennedy would testify later. judge questions timing for cross examination of Mae Morin former deputy registrar.
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Department of Justice
Mae Lucky
Ouachita Parish
Frank M. Dunbaugh II
FBI
Regis L. Kennedy
Metairie
New Orleans
Monroe
Ben C. Dawkins Jr
U.S. Court
Western District of Louisiana
Mae Morin
Lucky
Kennedy
Morin
Dunbaugh
Dawkins
Under Sheriff Finds Ten Thousand Dollars Cache North of Wray
Under sheriff Harold Williams stumbled onto ten thousand dollars or more in cash 18 miles north of Wray Colorado, part of twenty two thousand eight hundred sixty four dollars stolen in a bank hold up at Enders Nebraska. Stacks of moldy currency were found in sagebrush after questioning two men sentenced in the case. Another cache of about sixteen thousand dollars was found by a road crew shortly after the robbery on April 14 1962.
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Wray
Colo
Harold Williams
Enders
Neb
Colorado
W B Jackson Announces For City Race
William B. Jackson, chairman of the City Recreation Board, announces his candidacy for commissioner of finance and utilities in Monroe's May 16 first primary. The 46 year old insurance man cites leadership and proven business success, urging voters to evaluate his record beyond words.
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William B. Jackson
City Recreation Board
Finance and Utilities
Monroe
Jackson
McGuire Ave
Finance and Public Utilities
City of
Compromise Reached on Historic Tax Cut Bill
Washington AP reports House and Senate conferees reached a compromise on the nation’s largest tax cut, routing the bill for quick action. The plan lowers individual rates to 14 percent through 70 percent, reduces withholding from 18 to 14, and cuts corporate rates from 52 to 48 percent in two stages. The measure promises $30 billion more purchasing power over two years, with many taxpayers benefiting from a liberalized standard deduction. About 13.5 million would owe less and 1.5 million would exit the tax rolls.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Chuckle: Women Forgive But Never Forget What They Forgive
A humorous remark notes that women remain ready to forgive and forget yet retain memory of what was forgiven, poking at the quirks of memory and reconciliation with a light touch.
Families flee Vietnam as terror rises
As terror increases in Vietnam, families leave the country and two others plan to return home. U.S. officials discuss steps to resume operations, but only a few have materialized so far.
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Viet Nam
Viet
Black man held in incident case near Pioneer
West Carroll Sheriff reports Anderson Thomas 21 of Pioneer held in undisclosed jail after a 17 year old pregnant white woman alleges rape near Pioneer. The woman is five months pregnant and hospitalized at Delhi Clinic. He was apprehended early Tuesday after a Neuro entered her house with a can at 7 pm Monday.
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West Carroll
J. R. Butler
Anderson Thomas
Pioneer
Butter
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