Fulco Promises Fireworks on Highway Probe Effort
Rep. Frank Fulco of Caddo Parish vows a heated push for a legislative probe into the highway department. As committee chair he accuses higher ups of scapegoating five highway engineers amid a Shreveport area investigation, seeks a seven member panel to review rumors. committee votes 8-2 against the resolution.
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Way Department
House Transportation and Highways Committee
Fulco
Highway Department
Shreveport
Ful
Falco
Algie Brown
Caddo
Lindsay Crosby Won't Return To Singing Act
Hollywood AP Lindsay Crosby 24-year-old singer facing nervous breakdown and influenza may quit the Crosby brothers night club act. Larry Crosby says Lindsay finds the act too hectic and has wished to leave show business. He has entered a Santa Monica hospital for at least a month to recover after a nervous collapse in Juarez, Mexico, with brothers Philip and Dennis.
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Crosby
Crosby Brothers
Larry Crosby
Lindsay
Bing Crosby
Santa Monica
Hts
Juarez
Mexico
Philip
Dennis
Abduction Suspect Captured in Iowa Farm Roadblock
Sheri Batey is safe as Donald Kinyon, 27, a parolee with sex offenses, is arrested after a two day Northeast Iowa manhunt. He allegedly abducted the girl and attacked the grandparents, who were hospitalized in Jackson County. The suspect’s car connected to Moo and Mrs Vincent Batey. The grandmother was found bound and beaten. the grandfather remained in critical condition. Medical exam showed the girl was not raped.
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Maquoketa
Towa
Sheri Batey
Donald Kinyon
Iowa
Kanyon
Mroo
Vincent Batey
Gard
Bateys
Sheri
Mrs Batey
Jackson County
Vincent
Dominican agents sought influence on U S sugar policy
Secret reports from Rafael Trujillo’s Washington agents show Dominican lobbyists pressing Rep Harold D Cooley chair of the House Agriculture Committee to shape U S sugar legislation. Cooley denied any secret meetings or favors and noted the memos were self serving. The documents span 1958 to 1961 and describe courting Cooley and inviting him and his family to the Dominican Republic.
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Washington
Rafael Tru
Jillo
U.S
Harold D. Cooley
D-N.c
House Agriculture Committee
Trujillo
Cooley
Dominican Republic
Copley
Associated Press
U. S
Coolley
Trusl
Priester
Rep. Cooley
South
Sherman Adams
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Goldfine
New England
Agriculture Committee
Local Minister Named Imperial Shrine Chaplain
The Rev. Wayne W. Gray of Covenant Presbyterian Church Monroe is named Imperial Chaplain of the Shrine of North America by Imperial Potentate George M. Klepper. Gray, a retired U S Army lieutenant colonel, will serve through next June and is the first Louisiana Shriner to hold an Imperial Council post.
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Wayne W. Gray
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Monroe
Shrine of North
Klepper
Gray
Memphis
U. S. Army
USAR
Rotary International
Karubah Shrine
Mosquito Plague Ravages Louisiana Texas Gulf Coast
Millions of mosquitoes swarm the Gulf coast disrupting cattle operations. About 160000 animals reportedly lose an average of 10 pounds, totaling roughly 1.6 million in losses. In Cameron Parish La alone over 200 cattle and 500 calves have died, some from choking or mud entrapment. Officials urge federal help to control the outbreak in Cameron Calcasieu parishes and Jefferson Chambers counties.
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Hadley Fontenot
Camberon’ Parish
Thompson
D-La
Washington
Cameron and
Calcasieu ‘Parishes
Louisiana
Jefferson and
Chambers Counties
Texas
Stratojet lands in flames amid cockpit blaze at Robins AFB
A six engine Stratojet made a safe landing at Robins Air Force Base after cockpit flames and smoke reduced visibility. Crew of three from MacDill AFB were treated for smoke and heat irritation. danger traced to electrical system.
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Warner Robins
MacDill Air Force Base
Fla
Robins Air Force Base
Don Burger
Et Mo Leherman
Lawrence Day
Japan Works to Win Farm Bloc Support
Washington AP reports Japan launches a major campaign to win backing from the powerful U.S. farm bloc amid looming trade competition with the European Common Market. The effort argues Japan remains the best foreign market for U.S. farm products through the 1960s if sales to America continue, with 500 firms backing the US Japan Trade Council distributing 40,000 copies of a new trade promotion.
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Washington
Japan
U.S
America
Us-Japan Trade Council
Japan Trade Promotion Office
Japan Tops United States Agricultural Exports
A pamphlet argues the United States finds its strongest export market in Japan, with a foreword by Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman noting that last year Japan ranked as the top foreign customer for cotton soybeans cattle hides tallow nonfat dry milk and raisins. Over the past decade Japan surpassed all other countries in U S agricultural exports.
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Japan
Orville Freeman
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