Nine Major Highway Jobs Near Complete
Louisiana highway projects costing 16 million dollars near Mon roe are set to open this year weather permitting. A A Braddock assistant district engineer said the I-20 bridge approaches Calhoun West Monroe and other sections plus paving near Northeast Louisiana State College and US 65 routes total 16 137 147 46 dollars. Weather has delayed finishing the 1-20 bridge and its approaches with about two months left on the bridge and similar on ramps in Monroe.
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Louisiana Highway Department
Monroe
A. A. Braddock
Fifth District
Ouachita River
Calhoun
West
Cheniere
Stella Street
South Second Street
Louisiana State College
Somerset
Alligator Bayou
Tallulah
West Monroe
Minden
Braddock
Louisiana Paving Co
Catalpa Street
Peter Kiewit
Isee
U S Must Stay In Driver Seat, McNamara Says
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara told Congress that the United States will remain the dominant force in NATO as long as it bears the bulk of Western defense. He urged allies to shoulder more burden but said U.S. leadership is necessary given the current load and global threats. He outlined a five year defense plan totaling about 56 billion dollars for fiscal 1964, with 51 billion for military forces. He hinted U S involvement in South Vietnam if North Vietnam attacks and called for urgent development of an anti ballistic missile and a new airborne infantry concept. He warned of Soviet strain on its economy influencing its military program and predicted Red China will push to expand influence without direct U S confrontation.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Free World
McNamara
America
Europe
U.S
Atlantic Alliance
Congress
House
Armed Services Committee
South Viet Nam
North
Viet Nam
Soviet Union
Red China
Speedy Long Enters Race for Louisiana Governor
State Senator Speedy O. Long announces candidacy for governor in the December 1963 election. The 34 year old lawyer pledges strong leadership to address state problems and develop Louisiana’s resources during a four year term, promising a businesslike administration and decisive action.
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Jena
Speedy O. Long
Louisiana
Long
Senate
Next Move Of De Gaulle Is Awaited
Washington debates De Gaulle's Brussels veto and the risk of splitting Europe from the United States. Officials plan tariff talks and a NATO nuclear force, but wait for outcomes. Macmillan faces choices on Britain's ties with Western Europe as relations with France worsen.
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de Gaulle
Three Miners Feared Dead In Illinois Mine Fire
Three miners were feared killed in a fire at Freeman Coal Co. Orient No. 5 mine near Benton Illinois. Four others were hospitalized from smoke inhalation after the blaze spread along the mine tunnel. Nearly all 70 workers evacuated while 24 rescue workers erected barriers to cut air entry and smother the fire. The mine began production in 1961 and employs about 250 people in the city of 7,900.
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Benton, Il
Illinois
Freeman Coal Co
Orient No. 5
Benton
Louisiana Sailor Wreck Victim
Two Whit ingfield sailors were killed early today in a car wreck on a bridge near Milton Florida. Seaman apprentice Kenneth Kramer 18 son of Frank Kramer Franklin Louisiana and seaman Jimmy A Pearson 19 son of Delbert Pearson Burwell Nebraska died in the crash Pearson perished at the scene Kramer died about an hour later at Whiting hospital. Whitingfield is an auxiliary of the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
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Milton, Fla
Whitingfield
Milton
Kenneth Kramer
Frank Kramer
Franklin
Jimmy A. Pearson
Delbert V. Pearson
Burwell
Neb
Florida Patrol
Pearson
Florida 87
Kramer
Whiting
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Cancer deaths rise among life policyholders in decade
The Institute of Life Insurance reports 700 million paid last year to families of policyholders who died from cancer. Cancer now causes nearly two of every ten deaths among ordinary insured lives, rising six times faster than heart disease over the past decade, though heart disease remains the leading killer.
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New York
UPI
Institute of Life Insurance
Institute
Lunch Resists Advances King Cobra Still on Fasting
Monroe zoo director seeks food for a hungry King Cobra in residence for three weeks. The snake has refused donated water snakes and prefers slender racers like blacksnakes. If fed later this week, the cobra may reach 18 feet and be worth about 250 dollars. without sustenance it risks starving.
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Monroe
Zoo
Kit Beecher
Beecher
DIL Akan
Louisiana
Hamm to speak at West Monroe Lions Club meeting
Leslie G. Hamm Ouachita Parish Police Juror Ward Five will be the Thursday night speaker at the West Monroe Lions Club meeting. Hamm is a plant er and businessman. The Bernstein Park zoo reports a file snake birth with four babies and 17 still born snakes last Saturday.
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Leslie G. Hamm
Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Bernstein Park Zoo
Malaya
Australia
Zoo
Kit Beecher
Rodriguez Foresees Senate Debate On Anti Filibuster Rule
Monroe Street Commission er W D H Rodriguez says he hopes the U S Senate will not end unlimited debate. Forecast for Northeast Louisiana is mostly cloudy with occasional rain today and cooler tonight and Thursday. Highs 50 to 54, lows 27 to 30, Thursday high 40 to 44. Tuesday reached 45 with a low of 43.
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Monroe Street
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Senate
U. S. Senate
Louisiana
Sea leopard described as Antarctic predator
The sea leopard, commonly reaching 12 feet, inhabits Antarctic regions and mainly feeds on penguins, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Antarctic
Britain Faces Setback as Brussels Talks End
In London Lord Heath reported the French veto halting Britain's Common Market bid after 16 months of negotiations. France calls the break a suspension while Bonn and Adenauer vow to keep up the fight for Britain's entry. Macmillan planned a national address as Britain weighs next steps in European unity amid Atlantic tensions.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
Great Britain
Europe
United States
de Gaulle
Britain
North Atlantic Alliance
London
Edward Heath
House of Commons
Atlantic Alliance
Paris
Maurice Couve de Murville
Brussels
France
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Harold Macmillan
Heath
Commons
Kennedy education plan would spend 400 million next year
President Kennedy sent a bill to Congress proposing 400 million dollars in the 1964 fiscal year to aid public elementary and secondary schools. Allocations would be based on population and per capita income, with big states receiving more totals and poorer states receiving more per person. Early figures: Arkansas 6.1 million, Louisiana 9.9 million, Mississippi 8 million, Texas 24.5 million.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Four Planes Crash Killing Toll Unclear In New Orleans
Two Killed In New Orleans as four planes crash in a span of hours. A Trans Air Line twin engine plane sank in Lake Pontchartrain after midnight. Houston passenger Clarence Norman Hansen was identified from wallet papers. Co pilot from Houston and pilot Bernard A. Kimberly remain unaccounted for.
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Housto
Lake Pontchartrain
Coast Guard
Clarence Norman Hansen
Houston
Trans Air Line
Bernard A. Kimberly
Marrero
Lake Pontchartrain Amusement Beach
New Orleans Municipal
Lake Front
Hansen
Kansas City
Continental Airlines
Municipal Airport
Senators Act To Stymie Profiteering
Senate investigators move to draft a bill to curb excessive profits and surpluses in the 8.6 billion stockpile program. Sen. Stuart Symington says he will seek Kennedy administration review and new guidelines for stockpile buying. Former Eisenhower aides McKay Weeks Humphrey are named in testimony.
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Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate
Kennedy
Symington
Eisenhower
Douglas McKay
Interior
Sinclair Weeks
Commerce
George M. Humphrey
Treasury
Bitter cold yields to relief in many regions
Subzero temperatures lingered from the Rockies to the Midwest but most of the nation saw relief as rain and snow moved across southern California easing a historic drought. Record lows hit Montana and Michigan with warming trends in Colorado and Wyoming. Georgia saw freezing rain and road closures as conditions eased elsewhere.
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Rockies
Midwest
California
Los Angeles
Oregon
Nevada
Portland
Minnesota
Mercury
International Falls
Bemidji
Bozeman
Mont
Marquette
Mich
Minneapolis
Montana
Colorado
Wyoming
Georgia
State Patrol
Atlanta
Tennessee
South Carolina
Meredith to return for spring semester at Ole Miss
James H Meredith told newsmen he will re enroll for the second semester at the University of Mississippi. He weighed national and world reactions against his own position and said he is eligible for readmission in good standing with at least a 2.0 average, though his exact grades were not released.
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Meredith
Robert Kennedy
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Cambridge School Bans Barnett Speech at Rindge Auditorium
Cambridge School Committee rejected request from Harvard Law School Forum to hold Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi speech in Rindge Technical High School auditorium. They offered outdoor venues at Harvard Stadium or Russell Field noting past Castro visit. City official and a Black committee member opposed using school property.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cambridge School Committee
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Barnett
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Harvard Law School Forum
Rindge Technical High School
Harvard Stadium
Russell Field
Fidel Castro
Edward A. Crane
Castro
Cuba
Harvard
Rindge
Gustavo M. Solomons
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