11 Jan 1960
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1960
Page
1
Dr. McMillan, a New Orleans resident and Evanston native, was found dead in a deserted construction lane. Sheriff Clemmons dismissed robbery or assault and cited a midnights death with a broken pearl necklace as the only evident clue.
Coach Bill Ruple leads a downtown parade in Monroe to mark Bill Ruple Day. He guided Neville High School to an undefeated season and the Louisiana state double A championship run, with a banquet planned at Neville cafeteria honoring him and his staff.
Davis plans to form a commission to bar integration as he campaigns for a second term in Louisiana. The one party state returns him to power after defeating Francis Grevemberg and Kent Courtney. Known for a boyish smile and singing You Are My Sunshine he charmed war weary voters and left a budget surplus.
Mitchell argues the steel wage settlement raises total employment costs by 32 to 354 percent annually, not just wages. He says comparisons to aluminum figures are misleading because steel covers social security and unemployment taxes in addition to wages and benefits.
A St Louis to Cleveland train derailed near an intersection with the Nickel Plate Railroad in Ohio killing four and injuring many aboard. Engineers and witnesses described braking failure and excessive speed as the diesel train split and caught fire, with responders racing to extract survivors.
In Binfield England Agriculture Ministry experts say Mo the bull among Britain's surviving cow quadruplets should be culled or separated from breeding. Maj John Wills former Berkshire high sheriff defends the quads calling Mo a fine fellow and expresses reluctance to neuter or slaughter him amidst debate over their future.
In New Orleans a court hearing centers on whether 5 month old Jan Claire Stevens remains with father William James Stevens or mother seeking custody. Stevens and private detective Marcus Thompson were jailed as fugitives after taking the infant from a Kansas City hotel. The child was later placed in St Vincent's Infant Asylum as extradition talks proceed between Missouri and Louisiana.
Police report John Cornell twenty four enters a bar, drinks briefly, then uses a butcher knife to threaten the bartender and obtain cash. The barmaid is identified as his mother, Catherine Cornell, as the incident ends with theft of 128 dollars.
Wendell Fisher was named Groveville fire chief last Thursday and fought his first blaze over the weekend. Fisher and fellow firefighters extinguished a small shed fire in his backyard.
The piece notes Catholic opposition to mixing faith and politics while covering Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's West Coast campaign stops. Humphrey urged UN supervision of missile and underground tests, calling leadership erosion the campaign’s central issue. Former President Truman also weighed in on leadership and endorsing a Democratic candidate near July’s convention. Symington expressed interest in the presidency and criticized Eisenhower’s defense remarks, saying the U S lags in missiles.
Atanase Joja deputy premier and minister of education of Communist Romania has been removed from his post in Belgrade Yugoslavia during the upheaval. The UPI report notes his dismissal as part of political shakeups affecting high level officials.
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