Eisenhower urges year round Republican campaigning
President Eisenhower tells the Republican National Committee to stop being a hibernating elephant and adopt a 365 day campaign program. He backs Meade Alcorn's plan for a continuous, enlightened GOP operation to imprint progressive leadership and sustain party activity between elections.
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Des Moines
Town
Eisenhower
Republican National Committee
GOP
Meade Alcorn
Alcorn
National Committee
Republican Party
Louisiana Board Approves $8.5 Million Budget Increase
The Louisiana board of institutions unanimously approves an $8.5 million budget request for the coming year, up from the current level by about $2 million. A $3 million prison allocation would fund a 48 hour work week for guards, reducing overtime and improving morale. Additional funds cover food costs and a new Mississippi ferry.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Louisiana
Board of Institutions
State Department of Administration
Victor Walker
Angola
FB. R. Anderson
Walker
Mississippi
Batista Denies Invasion Plans
Gen. Fulgencio Batista, ousted Cuban president, denies plans to invade Cuba. In exile in the Dominican Republic he told radio interviewer Ruth Lloyd that he transferred the presidency to bring peace and he is not preparing an invasion, calling the reports an evil invention to justify murders and disorders.
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New York
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
Batista
Dominican Republic
WNEW
Ruth Lloyd
Fidel Castro
Alexandria Air Crash Kills Six Crewmembers
An Air Force four engine refueling plane crashed shortly after takeoff from England AFB in Alexandria killing six crewmembers three officers and three enlisted. The B50 bomber exploded on landing and burned across the field near railroad tracks as investigators awaited identifications.
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Alexandria
England Air Force Base
England
Fingland Tower
Shreveport
Negro leader cites bribe offer in school desegregation case
Atlanta reports a member of the Negro community admitted offering parents sums of 500 to several thousand dollars to withdraw their public school integration suit. Asheville notes the death of Lamar Edwin Stringfield at 51, Pulitzer winner for From the Southern Mountains in 1928. Houston reports Hedy Lamarr suing oilman Howard Lee for support, stating he was the only man she truly loved.
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Atlanta
UPI
Asheville
Lamar Edwin Stringfield
Southern Mountains
Houston
Tex
Hedy Lamarr
Howard Lee
Negroes sue Birmingham over segregated bus seating
U S District Judge H H Grooms refused to dismiss or hold up a civil suit filed by 13 Black residents challenging the city bus system seating segregation in Birmingham Alabama.
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Birmingham
Ala
H. H. Grooms
Eisenhower Urges Fast Pass on Three-Point Housing Bill
The Eisenhower administration urged Congress to enact a three point housing bill quickly while reserving time to study more controversial housing proposals.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Spy Charge BOM Defector Claims 60000 Red Spies in West Germany
East German defector Lt. Col. Siegried Dombrowski 43, deputy chief of the espionage organization, says about 60,000 Red spies are operating in West Germany. He fled to the West ten days ago.
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BOM
Germany
West
West Germany
Siegried Dombrowski
Another Freeze Forecast Tonight Across Northeast Louisiana
The weatherman predicts another hard freeze tonight in northeast Louisiana as a cold front remains active. Monroe logged 53 inches of rainfall yesterday before clearing, with yesterday's high 72 dropping to a 20 overnight at Selman Field. Continued low temperatures are expected tonight with 18 to 22, and tomorrow may bring highs of 44 to 48.
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Louisiana
Monroe
Federal Aviation
Selman Field
Akron teacher on maternity leave visits fourth grade unit
A teacher on maternity leave returns to Jackson School in Akron to visit her former fourth grade class. A pupil greets her with the remark How do you like civilian life. The scene captures a quiet moment of transition from military or service life back to ordinary school routines.
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Akron
Ohio
Jackson School
Tulane students on trial for tourist guide killing
In New Orleans the Tulane University trio John Farrell Alberto Calvo and David Drennan face murder charges in the fatal beating of Fernando Rios a 26 year old Mexican tour guide. A fellow student testified the defendants boasted of beating and robbing a homosexual. the state seeks the death penalty.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Wial
John Farrell
Wilmington
N. C
Alberto Calvo
Panama City
Panama
David Drennan
Fernando Rios
Rios
Nicholas Silvey
St. Louis Cathedral
J. Bernard Cocke
Criminal District Court
Dist. Atty
Richard Dowling
Richard Baldwin
Baldwin
Farrell
Calvo
Bar Conference Vote Tables DA Private Practice Ban
The Louisiana Bar Association delegates tabled a resolution barring district attorneys from private civil or criminal practice within their districts. The plan urged state lawmakers to set DA salaries equal to the incumbent judges and funded by parishes. Attendance at the Frances Hotel exceeds 350 attorneys and spouses as talks on various legal topics continue.
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House of Delegates
Louisiana Bar Association
Frances Hotel
Waldo H. Dugas
Lafayette
Louis Lyons
Louisiana
Castros Cuba show trial rally and Batista fallout
Fidel Castro addresses hundreds of foreign reporters as Cuba prepares the show trial of Batista loyalists. He urges mass support for executions and extradition of Batista associates, while vowing to seek revision of foreign concessions.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Batista
Fulgencio Batista
Batistans
Castro
Cuban Telephone Co
At&t
Twin City Vocational School Opens Evening Business Courses
The Ouachita Valley Vocational-Technical School begins registration for the new semester in business training at 7 p.m. Monday. Earl Lee Hammett, coordinator, leads the extension program teaching shorthand typing filing book keeping and business machines. Classes meet two nights weekly in extended sessions. A Lake Charles visit January 30 will study Better Business Bureau activities by Twin Cities Chamber of Commerce managers Jim Williams and George Wylie.
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Ouachita Valley
Better Business Bureau
Twin Cities Chamber of Commerce
Jim Williams
George Wylie
Lake Charles
Williams
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Wylie
Segregation Ends on Atlanta Trolleys in Quiet Compliance
In Atlanta on Wednesday, Negro riders moved to forward seats on several trolleys following a federal judge’s ruling that segregated seating must end. Transit officials reported no disturbances as many cars still observed the old practice with Negro passengers occupying rear seats.
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Atlanta
UPI
Engineer Sees Merit in Ouachita Nine-Foot Channel Plan
Col. M Barschdorf of the U S Corps of Engineers reported the nine foot channel idea could be achieved by raising locks and dams by three feet and replacing dam number two. The plan would cost about 20 million dollars and reflects a 60 percent rise in Ouachita river tonnage last year.
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Ouachita River
Col. M. Barschdorf
U. S. Corps of Engineers of
Vicksburg
Miss
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Monroe
Columbia
Department
Twin Cities
Col
Barschdorf
Washington
Corps of Engineers
Lipscomb
Monroe Landing
H. K. Thatcher
Wm. A. Boult
A. W. Newkirk
James Tangecose
B. Myers
Public Works Department
Ted Woods
Caldwell Watchman
el Dorado
Ark
W. W. Wilson
Harold A. Wood
Lee Zachery
Richard Hale
News-Star — World
Rackets Committee Probes Plot Behind Closed Doors
The Senate Rackets Committee meets in secret to compare notes on a rumored plot to oust some Republican members. Five of six scheduled witnesses from last year cannot testify due to illness, leaving one still uncontacted as the 1959 investigative session approach looms.
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Washington
UPJ
Senate Rackets Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Carpenter Heals Then Becomes First Mercy Hospital Patient
OKLAHOMA CITY. Alva Ragan 57 a carpenter who spent five months on the new surgical addition at Mercy Hospital returned as its first patient. He fell from a ladder and broke his ankle two weeks after completing the work.
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Oklahoma City
Alva Ragan
Mercy Hospital
Alfalfa Switzer Shot Over $50 Debt in North Hollywood
Carl Alfalfa Switzer 31, former Our Gang child star, was shot in the stomach by M S Bud Stiltz 38 during a dispute over a $50 debt. Switzer and ally Jack Piatt 37 arrived at Rita Corrigan’s home where a confrontation with Stiltz turned violent. Stiltz claimed self defense after Switzer threatened to break in and demanded repayment.
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North Hollywood
Calif
UPI
Carl
Alfalfa) Switzer
Our Gang
Busi
Ness
Spooken
Switzer
Alfalfa
the Little Rascals
M. S. Bud Stiltz
Stiltz
Jack Piatt
Rita Corrigan
Stuntman
Crash Corrigan
Pioit
McCullen Resigns Post In Bastrop
Bastrop High School assistant coach Pete McCullen resigns to join Stephen F. Austin College coaching staff in Nacogdoches Tex. McCullen, a former Louisiana Tech athlete, is married to Nettie Disch of Baton Rouge. Officials seek applicants to fill the Bastrop position.
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Bastrop
Pete McCullen
Bastrop High School
Stephen F. Austin College
Nacogdoches
Tex McCullen
Louisiana Tech
Nettie Disch
Baton Rouge
Bastrop High
McCullen
Navy May Open Private School System In Va
Virginia Governor J Lindsay Almond Jr proposed private schooling to avoid integration while Navy plans to fund private schools for government children in Norfolk if local public schools do not reopen. Six Norfolk high schools closed since order to accept Black students. Almond suggested tuition grants from public funds for private education and hinted at tax changes to support private schooling in resistant areas.
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Navy
Richmond
Virginia
Norfolk
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Almond
Edward R. Murrow
State Supreme Court
Doors Left Open Plague Twin Cities Business Areas
Police report repeated evenings of unsecured doors in Monroe and Ouachita parish business districts. Four doors found last night, two each on prior nights, with 14 cases over the past weekend. Officers notify owners and wait while the accountable person checks the premises.
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Twin Cities
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
54 Dead In Areas Hit By Floods
The Associated Press reports winter storms caused 54 deaths across flood stricken zones from the Southwest to the Atlantic Seaboard. Arctic air spread south as waters receded in Ohio and elsewhere. Thousands remained displaced in schools and emergency quarters as flood damage ran into millions.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Atlantic Seaboard
Mount Vernon
New York State
Buffalo
Salamanca
Lackawana
Azenavia Reek
North Adams
Mass
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Shenango River
Sharon
AFL CIO Spurns Plea to Curb Wage Increases
Washington AP reports AFL CIO leaders meet to push a new wage drive rejecting President Eisenhower's plea to curb wage rises. Al G Hayes of the Machinists defies the wage price policy and blames prices and profits for inflation while urging higher wages to match costs. The policy group led by Walter Reuther notes wages lag costs and profits amid record highs.
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Washington
Aflcio
Eisenhower
al G. Hayes
The
Machinists Union
Afl-Cio
Hayes
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Congress
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United States
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U. S. Engineers
M. P. Barschdorf
Alfalfa’ of Movies
Slamn
Piott
Iess
Louisville Avenue
Associated Press
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