Eisenhower Quits Smoking Stirs Talk of 62 Year Old Leader
In this portrait from Paris General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 62, weighs 172 pounds after quitting smoking abruptly two years ago. He averted a habit he found a nuisance, now exercises sparingly with a weighted golf club in his office as staff describe his discipline and routine amid nomination buzz.
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Paris
Dwight Eisenhower
North Atlantic Nations
Eisenhower
Tke
Mrs. Eisenhower
Frankie
Johnnie
Wilson
Chicago
Ike
Larry Norstad
Air Force
Slick Person
Republi
Monroe Police Hunt Missing Teen-Agers
The Monroe Police are seeking two missing teen-agers reported over the weekend. Dorothy Nel Dickens, 16, last seen leaving home with two soldiers to attend a movie, is described as five feet two inches tall with brown eyes and blonde hair. Donald Ray Spranger, 19, left home from Wyatt La. His parents urged anyone with information to contact the Monroe police.
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Monroe
Willie Harris
Dorothy Nel Dickens
Railroad Avenue
W. L. Spranger
Wyatt
Donald Ray
Southwest Shippers Board Opens Three Day Meeting
The Southwest Shippers Advisory Board starts a three day session at Hotel Frances with meetings of the Southwestern Industrial Traffic League and related committees. H F Easterling leads as general chairman and Monroe-West Monroe figures host a dinner dance and final luncheon at the Virginia Hotel with Robert J Bayer addressing the group on Men and Transportation in the Future.
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Southwest Shippers Board
Southwest Shippers Advisory Board
Hotel Frances
Southwestern Industrial Traffic League
Southern Paper Manufacturers Traffic Conference
The
Shippers Advisory Board
H. F. Easterling
Brown Paper Mill
National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards
Traffic and Transportation Club of
Monroe
West Monroe
Advisory Board
Traffic and Transportation Club
Monroe-West Monroe
Frances
General Board
Sion
Virginia Hotel
Rotary and
Traffic Clubs
Robert J. Bayer
Traffic World
College of Advanced Traffic
Chicago
C. G. Pearce
Missing Marine jet found after seven months
The wreckage of a Marine Corps jet fighter missing since June 10 and the pilot's body were found in Warren County near Vicksburg Mississippi. Capt Jack Wood of San Angelo Texas is identified by personal papers. The plane vanished during a flight from Dallas to Montgomery amid thunderstorms.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Marine Corps
Warren County
Armed Services
Jack Wood
San Angelo
Tex
Wood
Naval Air Station
Hensley Field
Dallas
Maxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery
Ala
Clarksdale
Barksdale Field
Lake Providence
Mississippi
R. M. Sickels
CAP
Tony
Taft Attacks Truman in Wisconsin Campaign Speech
Beloit Wis Jan 22 Senator Robert A Taft sharply attacked President Truman calling his bi partisan foreign policy claims pure hypocrisy He said Truman has discarded bipartisanship since his 1948 re election The speech at Beloit College drew 4660 to Lincoln Day dinner and framed Tafts bid for GOP delegates in Wisconsin He condemned the Korea war as Truman war and urged an investigation of the State Department citing McCarthy support
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Beloit
Wis
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Wisconsin
Rock County
Women's
Republican Club
Beloit College
Ohio
State Department
McCarthy
Draft Board Head Is Given 3 Years
Memphis Tennessee January 22 1960 Mark F Heffernan suspended chairman of Tennessee s largest draft board was sentenced to three years in prison on bribery charges He pled no contest in federal court and received three years on each of two counts Judge Marion S Boyd left the place of confinement open
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Memphis
Tenn
Mark F. Heffernan
Tennessee
Marion Ss. Boyd
Delaney
Wyzanski
Samuel
Eva Merker
Daniel Friedman
New York
Max
Spaht to Visit Monroe for Fifth District Meetings
Gubernatorial candidate Carlos Spaht arrives in Monroe tomorrow afternoon to meet leaders from all fourteen parishes in the fifth district. The session at 7 30 P.M. in the Virginia Hotel ballroom aims to map campaign plans with Judge Spaht and district leaders.
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Carlos Spaht
Monroe
Fifth
Virginia Hotel
Judge Spaht
Accidents Decline in Northeast Louisiana Week
Reports from law enforcement across northeast Louisiana show one death and 35 accidents in the past week. Four injuries occurred, with Caldwell parish the fatal incident location, part of seven deaths since January 1.
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Kaw
Louisiana
Caldwell Parish
Louisiana State Fire
Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Depaartment
Monroe
Westoe
Ouachita Safety Council
North Monroe Lions Club
Retail Merchants
Monroe Chamber of Commence
Louisiana State Police
West Monroe
Traffic Division
Bank Election Slated Today At Central Savings Bank
Stockholders meet at 3 o clock for the annual election of the board of directors who will elect officers. Clarence F. Faulak chairman of the board has died and his successor will be chosen as part of the year’s officer slate. The Morning World will publish the official list of board members and officers elect.
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Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Clarence FE. Faialk
Long Abandons Plan For $100 Old Age Bonuses
Governor Earl Long suspended plans for a special session to vote $100 bonuses for old age pensioners. He cited federal welfare rules and said the move could be seen as vote buying. Spaht, his rival, urged reconsideration to avoid depleting welfare funds.
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Baton Rouge
Earl Long
Louisiana
Jolson Widow Wins Over Million In Property Settlement
In Los Angeles on January 22, Mrs. Erle Jolson Krasna, widow of Jolson, secured a court approved community property settlement from the late star's estate worth over a million dollars. The pact, with New York lawyer Charles Schwartz, designates a $400,000 life insurance share, $131,156 cash, $175,910 in government bonds, $128,948 in recording royalties, and future earnings interest in two films.
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Los Angeles
Jolson
Erle Jolson Krasna
Norman Krasna
Mammy Singer
New York
Charles Schwartz
California
Ruston Professor Delivers Daughter in Rear Of Auto
In Ruston Louisiana on January 22 journalist professor James A Files aided by neighbor Mrs Paul Bonner delivered an eight pound baby girl in the back seat during a two mile drive to a hospital. Both mother and child were reported fine by a physician.
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Ruston
James A. Files
Louisiana Tech
Paul Bonner
Atomic debate and tax case dominate regional news
In Boston a federal jury nears verdict in the D W Delaney bribery tax case after hours of juror instruction. Congress frontlines consider northwest Louisiana as a potential site for large scale atomic facilities with Ringgold named as an area of interest.
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Washington
Overton Brooks
D.-La
Atomic Energy Commission
Louisiana
Brooks
Truman
Congress
Alexandria
Ing
Commission
Red River
Ringgold
Spaht seeks unity over welfare funds in Louisiana governor bid
Louisiana Democratic runoff candidate Carlos Spaht told a statewide radio audience he asked the governor to reconsider a bonus offer and cautioned against dissipating surplus welfare funds. Kennon adds state Sen. C. E. Barham as lieutenant governor hopeful as Barham edges Elmer Conner by 231 votes with two precincts missing.
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Long
Carlos Baht
Spaht
State Department of Public Welfare
Robert Kennon
Minden
Louisiana
Associated Press
Carlos Spaht
Kennon
C. E. Barham
Barham
John McKeithen
Wade Martin, Jr
Elmer Conner
Conner
U S Budget To Cost Louisiana One Billion Dollars
Baton Rouge reports Louisiana’s share of the proposed federal budget totals about 999.18 million dollars. The state public affairs council projects per capita federal taxes at 309.56 dollars and forecasts revenues of 830.7 million against a 162.4 million deficit for the coming year.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State Public Affairs Council
Regarch
Free Doesn't Mean Free Of Charge Arab Learns
Shukki Mohammed Khatiri, a 20 year old Arab, arrives in Jonesboro Ark after spending his life savings on a trip to the United States for a “free” education. He reaches Arkansas State College with only ten dollars and hopes to begin classes after funds are raised for his first semester.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Arkansas State College
United States
Shukki Mohammed Ef] Khatiri
Arkansas State
Israel
America
Khatiri
Robert Moore
Jerusalem
Sof Colleges
Cagans
State
Khatibi
Arkansas
New York
Portland
Iran Rejects British Envoy Hankey as Tehran Diplomacy Flares
Tehran rejects Robert Hankey 46 as Britain’s new ambassador amid oil row after Iran nationalized the Anglo Iranian Oil Co. Hankey’s appointment sought by London to ease deadlock. He previously served in Cairo Tehran Madrid Berlin Warsaw and Bucharest and was Eden’s private secretary.
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Tehran
Iran
Robert Hankey
Hankey
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Holding
Francis Shepherd
Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
Shepherd
Labor
Anthony Eden
Cairo
Madrid
Berlin
Warsaw
Bucharest
Eden
Press Freedom Is Right Of People
A Louisiana editor told a Biloxi audience that Americans need a broader understanding of freedom. George W. Healy Jr. of the New Orleans Times Picayune said the press and schools bear major responsibility to uphold academic freedom and press freedom as rights belonging to the people and warned the U.S. should not abdicate world leadership.
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Biloxi
Miss
Louisiana
George W. Healy
New Orleans Times
Picayune
Healy
U. S
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Pegler
Industrial Traffic League
Paper Traffic Parleys
Central Savings and Trust Co
Pollar
Frederick J. Lawton
NEA
Boston
D. W. Delaney
Internal Revenue
Charles FE. Wyzanski, Jr
Kennon Team
Connor
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