Senate approval of Ellis delayed by stockpile probe
Senate Judiciary Committee opened a hearing on Frank B. Ellis for U S judge in eastern Louisiana. Eastland said action would be deferred until Ellis testifies in the stockpile investigation ordered by Sen Symington after Kennedy criticism that the stockpile is excessive valued at about 3 4 billion. Ellis agreed to testify if executive privilege is waived. The record will remain open pending questions from the armed services subcommittee.
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Washington
Senate
Frank B. Ellis
Office of Emergency Planning
U.S
Louisiana
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ellis
Covington
Senate Armed Services
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Kennedy
Eastland
Symington
Armed Services Subcommittee
John J. Wiliams
R-Del
One-Eyed Bank Robber Added to FBI Most Wanted List
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson an armed bank robber with anti tank guns and grenades was listed among the FBI Ten Most Wanted. He is described as dangerous and capable of killing without provocation with accomplice Albert Nussbaum suspected. They allegedly netted about 160000 in four holdups and used deactivated military weapons. Wilcoxson 32 native of Duke Oklahoma has an artificial eye burn scar and moves by private plane.
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Washington
UPI
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
FBI
Wilcoxson
Albert Frederick Nussbaum
Lafayette National Bank
Brooklyn
N. Y
Duke
Okla
Republicans Convene Today In Fifth District Meeting
Republicans meet at City Hall in Shreveport to select delegates for the March 10 convention. District Chairman Donald B. Fiske of Oak Grove presides as parishes choose their delegation and a statement of principles is drafted for state party policy.
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Shreveport
City Hall
Donald B. Fiske
Oak Grove
Fiske
Army reshapes strike forces adding two mobile corps
The Army enlarges its Strategic Corps adding five divisions to the three current ones and creates two quick strike corps focused on air mobility and armored strength. About 75,000 more soldiers join the ready alert force while overall manpower remains unchanged. Two National Guard plus three regular divisions form the new corps structure. The plan aims for flexibility across distant theaters as U S and Nationalist authorities shift units. In Formosa the rural reconstruction commission will spend 13.7 million on farm development financed by the International Development Agency.
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National Guard
49Th Armored
1St Armored
5Th Infantry
Guard
Taipei
Formosa
Joint Commission On Rural Reconstruction
U.S
International Development Agency
Viet Cong attack kills dozens at village theater
Unofficial reports say in the Mekong Delta a crowd of women and children were killed and 108 wounded when four hand grenades were thrown into a crowded theater by Viet Cong terrorists. Khrushchev accuses Kennedy of avoiding a disarmament summit by refusing to sign a treaty.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong River
Traffic experts meet to discuss highway safety methods
Traffic experts from Texas Louisiana Oklahoma and Arkansas will gather in Euless Texas on Monday to review uniform methods for improving highway safety.
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Euless
Tex
UPI
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
JFK Pins Medal On Glenn In Emotion Packed Ceremony
President Kennedy awarded astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. the Distinguished Service Medal for his flight around the world, calling it a team effort and recalling Mt Suribachi. Glenn, moved, praised the mission and his colleagues before the Friendship 7 capsule as family watched.
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Glenn
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Kennedy
John H. Glenn Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mt. Suribachi
Col
Marine Corps
Navy
Robert R. Gilruth
Project Mercury
Gilruth
Lapace
Washington
Glenn Ae
Palm Beach
Fla., Where He, Mrs. Kennedy
Friends
Joseph P Kennedy
Cape Ca
Goldfine Paroled After Tax Evasion Sentence
Bernard Goldfine an American industrialist formerly jailed for income tax evasion was released on parole today from a Public Health Service hospital on Staten Island New York State authorities overseeing his parole announced the event.
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New York
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Public Health Service
Staten Island
Widow awarded 50000 in moonshine raid damage suit
Lucedale Mississippi widow of a man killed in a moonshine raid won a 50000 damage verdict against George County Sheriff and a deputy. The suit contended excessive force and negligence related to the raid.
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Lucedale
Miss
UPI
George County
Monroe Chamber Leaders to Brief President at 3 P.M.
Chairman of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce committees planned a briefing with president J. H. Scogin at 3 p.m. today. The meeting aims to discuss chamber matters and city business in Twin City.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Scogin
Eichmann Reports Dizziness While On Death Appeal
Adolf Eichmann is reported in good health but has a nervous heart condition causing slight dizziness. Prison authorities say no serious heart trouble. daily examinations by the prison doctor. The Supreme Court plans a March 22 hearing on his death-sentence appeal as he reads and writes in Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo
Israel Supreme Court
Eichmann
Ramieh
Expedition allegedly spurred New Guinea tribal warfare
A Protestant missionary claims Harvard expedition members including Michael Rockefeller encouraged tribes to fight for film material. Harvard officials call the charge baseless and say Dutch authorities found no foundation. Rockefeller, an unpaid art collector, was in New Guinea after the expedition when his boat capsized last November.
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Binghamton, N.Y
Dutch New Guinea
Harvard
Michael Rockefeller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Michael
H. M. Lake
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
New Guinea
Mr. Lake
Cambridge
Mass
Robert Grosvenor Gardner
Harvard University
Peabody Museum
Khrushchev Presses March Summit as U S Hopes Waver
Premier Khrushchev delivers a 20 page message to the State Department demanding a Kennedy summit in March. Officials fear the letter seeks to block atmospheric tests and constrain Geneva talks. Washington plans to consult Britain and allies on a reply backing open disarmament talks with a possible summit later.
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John M. Hightowe
Washington
Khrushchev
Kennedy
U.S
Soviet Union
State Department
White House
Florida
McGeorge Bundy
United States
Britain
Soviet boast of arms superiority on Armed Forces Day
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky declared in Pravda that the Soviet Union has enough rockets and nuclear weapons to wipe any aggressor from the earth. He said anti aircraft forces could annihilate the enemy’s air and space weapons and submarines carry rockets to destroy ships and ruin bases.
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Moscow
UPS
Rodion Malinovsky
Russia
Malinovsky
Soviet Union
Pravda
Red Army
Briton Blasts Refusal Of Tshombe Visa
Sir Roy Welensky criticized the United States for denying Katanga President Moise Tshombe a visa to attend a Madison Square Garden rally on March 7. He called the refusal inexplicable amid strong Communist threats and defended Tshombe’s stand with U.N. actions in Katanga. Welensky said U.N. forces were mercenaries and defended white support for Tshombe.
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Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Roy Welensky
United States
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Madison Square Garden
New York City
U.S. State Department
Congo
Welensky
U.N
United Federal Party
Prince Hiro Celebrates Second Birthday With Shiner
In Tokyo Prince Hiro Crown Prince Akitohito’s son marked his second birthday despite a bruised right eye from a fall. He posed for an official photograph, maintaining royal duties amid a minor injury.
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Tokyo
Hiro
Japan
Akihito
Michiko
See we did undersell everybody department store sign
A closed department store displays a sign reading See we did undersell everybody. The cheeky message pokes fun at the department’s liquidation or closure while calling attention to the sale. The humorous line captures a moment of retail downturn with a playful sting.
Radio Studio Wrecked in Louisiana Tornado
A severe thunderstorm produced a small twister that destroyed radio Station KOTC in Jonesboro and injured disc jockey Paul Strange of Colfax. The tornado damaged homes, trees, and a highway bridge, with two other announcers taking shelter in a car.
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Louisiana
Jonesboro
Paul Strange
Colfax
Jonesboro - Hodge
Hodge
KOTC
Walker Road
Strange
Don Lynons
Frank Demores
Farm Leaders Opposed To Omnibus Bill
Farm and agriculture business leaders from eight Northeast Louisiana parishes voiced unanimous opposition to the 1962 omnibus farm bill urged by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman at a Monroe meeting. They objected to feed grains and wheat provisions, warned the bill would penalize their area for Midwest surpluses, and pledged to explain the objections locally. The group sent a telegram to Senators Ellender and Long and Rep. Passman urging defeat of S 2786 and H R 10010 in committee.
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Louisiana
Orville Freeman
Monroe
Warren White
Mer Rouge
Mid-West
Grains Advisory Committee
Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
White
Agriculture Committees
Congress
Allen J. Ellender
Russell Long
Otto Passman
Ouachita Parrish
Paul Ransom
John H. Filhiol
Meyer Greenwald
Peter Godwin
Bruce F. Gregg
W. J
Morehead Quips About Superfluous Speech During Talk
Pittsburgh AP report notes Rep. William S. Morehead joked after a woman called his speech superfluous. He replied he might publish it posthumously, prompting her enthusiastic agreement.
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Pittsburgh
William S. Morehead
D-Pa
Glenn returns to Cape Canaveral in 17 car procession
Thousands cheer astronaut John H. Glenn Jr as he arrives at Cape Canaveral aboard an 18 mile 17 car parade. Vice President Johnson and Mrs Glenn ride beside him while bands play and crowds surge to greet the Space hero after his orbital flight.
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Kennedy
Cape
John Glenn Jr
Canaveral
Fla
Saul Pett
Cape Canaveral
John H. Glenn Jr
Missile Base Center
Lyndon B. Johnson
Glenn
Airport
Spaceport
Johnson
Marine Corps
Glenn Told He's Tall Cotton Down In Texas
In Cape Canaveral Lyndon B. Johnson welcomed John H. Glenn Jr. home after his flight from Grand Turk Island. The vice president joked about being “tall cotton” in Texas and advised Glenn to keep his congressional address simple and humble. Johnson noted Khrushchev had offered space cooperation after the splashdown.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Grand Turk Island
Lyndon B. Johnson
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Johnson
Congress
Khrushchev
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