Gov't Considers Releasing Bay of Pigs Testimony
Washington AP reports the State Department weighs releasing long secret 1961 Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony on the Cuban invasion. Officials indicate unanimity on no U S air cover offered to refugees but questions linger on non U S air strikes. Release debated by committee members with security concerns stated by Hickenlooper and Aiken weighing options.
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Washington
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Wagner Reports Several Strike Issues Settled
New York Mayor Robert F Wagner announced progress in the 55 day old newspaper strike. He said several issues have been narrowed and defined while two critical items remain unresolved after 18 hours of talks at City Hall with publishers and unions. Subcommittees will report by Friday noon.
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NEW York
UPI
Robert F. Wagner
City Hall
Wagner
New York City
Hair Transplant Reported Success at AOA Convention
Dr Daniel Keprince described the punch and plant method at the American Osteopathic Association convention in Miami Florida The procedure removes a scalp section with about 20 hairs from the back of the head and transplants it to the bald area The report notes that hair transplants can stop receding hairlines
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Miami
Fla
American Osteopathic Association
Daniel Keprince
Royal Oak
Mich
Freedom Is Wonderful Says Hodge Upon Parole
Orville Hodge, former Illinois state auditor, walked out of Menard Prison with 81.67 in hand after serving 6 1/2 years for siphoning funds. He returned to Granite City, vowed to be a good citizen, and accepted work with a local hardware store while keeping to parole conditions.
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Orville E. Hodge
Otto Spitz
Illinois Menard State Prison
Hodge
State of Illinois
Chester
Orville Hodge
Ilinois
Menard
Granite City
Otto Kerner
William
Leonard R. Davis
Thurl Jones
Orville
Bootleg term traced to cowboy boot practice
The term bootleg derives from the cowboy habit of concealing items in a boot during prohibition era activity. Collier's Encyclopedia notes this origin of the word describing illicit liquor and other hidden shipments.
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Collier's Encyclopedia
Symington Says Taxpayers Face 4 Billion From Stockpiles
Senate Armed Services chair Stuart Symington warns taxpayers are stuck to the tune of 4 billion as hearings end on the 8.9 billion defense stockpile surpluses. Arthur Fleming defends 1953 57 mobilization decisions and Eisenhower era stockpile goals.
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Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate
Symington
Senate Armed Services
Arthur S. Flemming
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Flemming
University of Oregon
Defense Mobilization
George M. Humphrey
Secretary of the Treasury
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Macmillan hits at De Gaulle over European policy
Britain seeks US and other free world help as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan assails Charles de Gaulle for blocking Britain’s path to Europe. In a TV address he demands faster trade talks with Washington and EFTA partners, warning that France risks jeopardizing Western unity and postwar European reconstruction. Paris reaction is muted but Monnet calls the crisis serious as De Gaulle prepares to press a Europe independent of the United States.
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London
UPI
Britain
Europe
United States
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Washington
Commonwealth l
EFTA
Macmillan
France
Brussels
de Gaulle
Paris
Monroe Mayor Heads to Searcy for Harding College Talks
Mayor W. L. Jack Ho Ward left Monroe this morning for Searcy Arkansas where he will address Harding College students tonight and tomorrow. Mrs Ellen Bryan Moore state lands registrar visited Ouachita parish courthouse today before appearing before a civic club and planned to visit further friends around the Twin Cities.
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W. L
Jack) Howard
Monroe
Searcy
Ark
Harding College
Ellen Bryan Moore
State Lands
Ouachita Parish Court House
Moore
Twin Cities
Monroe civil service board meeting announced
The Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board of Monroe will meet Thursday February 7 in the city court room at city hall starting at 5 30 p m W E S T Monroe is set to attend the Ruston Chamber of Commerce banquet at 7 p m in the Louisiana Tech Dining Hall Eugene Scott, president of W M Chamber, and manager Eugene Smith are invited to attend the event.
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Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board of
Monroe
W. L. Husted, Jr
City Hall
West Monroe
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Louisiana Tech
W. M. Chamber
Eugene Scott
Eugene Smith
December business shows gains but slips from November
Louisiana business rose 3.6 percent in December from a year earlier, yet fell 1.9 percent from November. LSU researchers report gains over 1961 across most sectors, with petroleum production up 13.4 percent and building permits surging 401 percent, while unemployment payments declined 24.1 percent.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Louisiana State University College of Commerce
Weather outlook for Northeast Louisiana turns cloudy this week
The weather forecast calls for continued cloudy to partly cloudy skies in Northeast Louisiana through Friday with drizzle today and morning fog Friday. Highs range from 50 to 54 today, 56 to 60 Friday, and nights from 40 to 44. Thursday’s high was 47 and the low 37.
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Louisiana
Weatherman
Former Gilbert Mayor Corbitt Dies at 65
A. G. Corbitt, 65, longtime Gilbert mayor and Scott Corbitt Drug Store partner, died early today at Jones Clinic in Sterlington after a heart attack. Funeral rites under Mulhearne Funeral Home of Winnsboro. Survived by his Gilbert widow. he previously served as mayor until 1958 and lived much of his life in Gilbert.
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A. G. Corbitt
Gilbert
Jones Clinic
Sterlington
Mulhearne Funeral Rome
Winnsboro
Winn Parish
Scott - Corbitt Drug Store
Franklin Parish
Dan Gilbert
Lodge No. 405
F&am
Kennedy Farm Plan Reverses On Production Controls
President Kennedy forges a major reversal by proposing voluntary farm controls to curb surpluses, replacing earlier push for compulsory quotas. Administration estimates new feed grains milk and cotton programs cut federal farm costs by 300 to 500 million annually from about 3 billion now. He retains mandatory provisions for cotton and several crops but seeks producer referendums and targeted payments to address cotton pricing and marketing imbalances.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
U.S
Ole Miss Rejects Second Negro in Registration
At the University of Mississippi in Oxford, James H Mere dith was admitted to register for his second semester while another Black applicant, Dewey Roosevelt Greene, was turned away for unqualified status. Police guarded the campus as Meredith registered and attended classes, amid tightened security and warnings of swift disciplinary action for troublemakers.
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Oxford, Miss
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Ehere
Dewey Roosevelt Greene
Greenwood
Miss
Robert Ellis
Green
Ellis
Greene
Lyceum
Meredith
John D. Williams
Dewey Roos
Evelt Greene
Green‘wood
Mississippi Vocational College
Medgar Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Jackson
J. H.meredith
J. H. Meredith
Mississippi
German Surrender Recalled At Stalingrad Visit
Eddy Gilmore recalls the 1943 surrender of Hitler’s army at Stalingrad now Volgograd, recounting von Paulus in the ruined city and the Soviet victory that shifted Allied hopes. The essay reflects on the brutal winter siege, the turning point of World War II, and Gilmore’s 1941 coverage.
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Eddy Gilmore
Stalingrad
Volgograd
U.S.S.R
Hitler
Wehrmacht
Germany
Free World
Soviet Union
Friedrich von Paulus
von Paulus
Schmidt
Chmidt
United States backs nuclear arms for NORAD defense
Washington declares Canada must equip its defense forces with nuclear weapons to counter the Soviet bomber threat. The State Department says conventional forces alone cannot replace nuclear capable systems in NATO NORAD defense arrangements. The Ottawa debate and political fallout in Canada follow the blunt U S stance delivered to the Canadian Embassy.
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Washington
United States
John G. Diefenbaker
Canada
Soviet Union
State Department
Ottawa
U.S
NATO
NORAD
European Allies Warned U S May Out Troops
Washington reports say American officials warned European allies that allowing Charles de Gaulle to seize leadership could force the United States to cut defense commitments in Europe. U S diplomats stress that defense of Western Europe and South America cannot be divided without weakness, while some say commitments to Europe might be reappraised if De Gaulle prevails.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Europe
U.S
de Gaulle
Britain
Kennedy
South America
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Foreign Relation Committee
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Volga
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