Florida Governor Hits Kennedy Bill
Washington AP Gov Farris Bryant of Florida testifies against President Kennedy public accommodations bill saying he fights for freedom not forced integration or segregation. He argues the bill would force owners to surrender control of customer choice while noting some hotels already operate integrated and others cater to specific groups. He stresses adequate facilities for all but free enterprise should guide supply without government interference.
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Washington
Farris Bryant
Florida
Kennedy
Senate Commerce Committee
Bryant
Sen
Spessard Holland
D-Fla
Miami
Freedom Crash Second For Sports Auto
Argentinian Norbert Konrad, 22, drove a sports car beneath East Berlin’s border barrier to rescue his fiancée Helga Werner, mirroring an Austrian escape three months earlier. He learned of the prior plan only after seeing a report of the Austrian’s car. Konrad, a West Berlin radio mechanic, had engaged Helga despite her father’s Communist opposition. Authorities earlier denied her exit permit, but last Thursday he rented the car and attempted the escape.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Norbert Konrad
Konrad
Germany
West Berlin
Helga Werner
Convict Caught At Mother's Home in Louisiana
Aaron Gill, 27, escaped Angola inmate, was captured at his mother’s home in DeQuincy after attacking a guard with a hammer during a visit. He had fled from the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Saturday and was later found hiding in nearby woods. He is being returned to Angola.
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Dequincy
Calcasieu Parish
Angola
Aaron Gill
Louisiana
Calcasieu
Gill
Francis Lyles
Pickets Arrested at New York Construction Sites Clash
Police arrested 39 pickets at public financed sites in Manhattan Queens and Brooklyn over alleged job bias against Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Ten arrested in Queens at an apartment site including two ministers. 29 in Brooklyn at Downstate Medical Center with one anti Negro agitator involved. Several clergy and a seminarian received suspended sentences in criminal court for blocking a cement truck at Rogers housing project.
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New York
Queens
Brooklyn
Rogers
Manhattan
East Side
Robert F. Wagner
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rochdale Village
Jamaica
Downstate Medical Center
50 Day Duck Season To Be Recommended
Director L D Young Jr and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission plan a 50 day duck season with a bag limit of four. Representatives from Mississippi Flyway will attend the council meeting in St Louis. Louisiana's delegation includes Young, Richard Yancey, A J Buquet, and Richard Fleming. The panel will also review restrictions on redheads and canvasbacks and set other hunting seasons in New Orleans.
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L. D. Young Jr
Louisiana Wild Life & Fisheries Commission
Mississippi Flyway Council
St. Louis
Mississippi Flyway
Council Meeting
Louisiana
Young, Ass’t
Richard Yancey
A. J. Buquet
Houma
Richard Fleming
Shreveport
Young
Louisiana Commission
Canada
T. A. Thompson
Washington
U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Commission
New Orleans
Lost Billford license items photos of presidents
Classified notice notes a missing driver’s license and other hard to replace items. It asks for return of photos including Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton and Jackson along with the license, indicating the owner is Billford.
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Billford
Washington, Lincoln
Hamilton and
Jackson
Street Commissioner Heads to Arkansas for Family Vacation
Street Commissioner W. D. H. Rodriguez begins vacation and plans to join his family in Arkansas's mountain region to do some stream fishing.
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W. D. H. Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Arkansas
Bridge game planned at Bayou DeSiard Country Club
Plans progress for a team of four bridge event to be held Tuesday night at the Bayou DeSiard Country Club starting at 7 30 p m Players interested in participation are directed to see CHIT CHAT page 5A for details.
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Bayou DeSiard Country Club
Treasury chief asks to extend debt limit through Nov 30
Washington AP reports Secretary Douglas Dillon urged Congress to extend the current 309 billion dollar debt ceiling through November 30 while lawmakers debate spending and any tax cut. The report also notes the John Birch Society’s 1962 income rose to 737,716.87 dollars, a nearly one third increase from the prior year per the state attorney general’s file. In Pine Bluff Arkansas an antisegregation protest saw a Negro stand-in and three women demonstrators suffer eye burns from ammonia fumes at a hamburger stand. Baton Rouge AP notes public hearings planned by Conservation Commissioner James Gill on oil and gas field operations. North Fort Polk Louisiana AP describes the 39th Infantry Division of the Louisiana Arkansas National Guard beginning a two day summer training with emphasis on soldiers and artillery.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Congress
Boston
John Birch Society
Massachusetts
Pine Bluff, Ark
Pine Bluff
North FT. Polk
39Th Infantry Division
Louisiana - Arkansas National Guard
Rev Harv y L Marcoux Former Vicar Dies in N O
Funeral services were held for Rev Harvey L Marcoux 34 former vicar of Grace Episcopal Monroe at Christ Church Cathedral New Orleans with burial in Hope Mausoleum. He died Sunday after six months illness at Ochsner Foundation Hospital. Survivors include widow two sons his mother two sisters and a brother. Pallbearers were Episcopal clergy.
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New Orleans
Harvey L. Marcoux
Grace Episcopal Church of
Monroe
Christ Church Cathedral
J. Leonard Nelson
Hope Mausoleum
Marcoux
Oschner
Foundation Hospital
Tulane University
General Theological Seminary
New York City
Protestant Episcopal Church
Grace Church
St. Paul's Church
Abbeville
Mary Grant Marcoux
Audubon Street
Harvey L., III
Stephen
Kremlin Gates Open to Tourists Amid Moscow Changes
In Moscow crowds form lines at Lenin's tomb and the Kremlin as gates open to visitors for the first time since Stalin's era. Tourists from the USSR and abroad tour the palace and museums, with Intourist arranging deluxe packages at $35 per person or $50 for two, including three hours of daily sightseeing and interpreter services.
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London
Moscow
Red Square
Lenin
Kremlin
Soviet Union
United States
Paris
Intourist
North Korean Raiders Kill 2 Americans
North Korean raiders crossed into South Korea at dawn and ambushed a U S Army jeep killing two soldiers and critically wounding a third. The UN Command placed some U S units on reinforced alert as the attack was described as vicious and unprovoked. The clash prompted heightened military readiness and the 1st Cavalry Division to a reinforced status.
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U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Chungyang-Dong
Seoul
Korea
UPI
United Nations Command
UNIC
UNC
INC
1St Cavalry Division
Catholic Schools to Desegregate After Public Order
In Lafayette Louisiana Bishop Maurice Schexnayder said Catholic parochial schools in the diocese would desegregate when public schools integrate. He added no decision on methods yet and noted none of the public schools in the diocese are currently desegregated. The diocese covers 13 parishes with 388,703 Catholics and 74,227 Black Catholics, the largest Black Catholic community in the nation.
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Lafayette, la
Maurice Schexnayder
Lafayette
Schexnayder
Louisiana
Harriman
Foreign Relations, Armed Services
Senate
House Atomic Energy
William C. Foster
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Partly Cloudy Skies Forecast for Next Days
The forecast calls for partly cloudy and warm conditions today through Tuesday with a chance of scattered afternoon and early evening thunder showers. Temperatures peak 89 to 93 degrees, with overnight lows 70 to 74, and southerly winds at 5 to 15 mph. Monroe recorded a high of 89 and a low of 72 Sunday.
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Monroe
Harriman quotes Khrushchev on China's nuclear timing
Undersecretary Harriman said Khrushchev told him it would be a long time before Red China develops a meaningful nuclear capability. The remark came during Moscow talks that produced the initial test ban accord. Senators questioned whether the pact could be abrogated if China gained Nukes.
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Washington
W. Averell Harriman
Khrushchev
Red China
Harriman
Moscow
U.S
Senate
Soviet Union
News
State Considers Underpass For West Monroe
Louisiana Highway Department weighs surveying cost for an underpass at the North Fourth Street railroad crossing in West Monroe Rep Mike John Jr urges the study saying the crossing is hazardous Local officials expect safer traffic flow and a cloverleaf pattern near Claiborne to handle increased volumes
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Louisiana Highway Department
North Fourth Street
West Monroe
Ray Burgess
Mike John Jr
John
Burgess
Alnon Central Railroad
Seventh Street
Claiborne
Ouachita
Rain Day Mystery Draws Bet In Waynesburg
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania rain is expected on July 29 as a long running tradition. Rain prophet John Daily predicts showers while heavyweight Cassius Clay bets the rain will bypass the town. Local lore traces the tale to a druggist and a faded ledger entry.
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Waynesburg
John Daily
Pennsylvania
Cassius Clay
William Allison
Allison
Albert
Byron Daily
Byron
Main Street
De Gaulle Rejects Nonaggression Pact Amid Nuclear Talks
Paris AP Charles de Gaulle rejected a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and dismissed the Moscow agreement to halt aboveground nuclear tests. He said France will halt its program only if US and USSR destroy their stockpiles and proposed a disarmament conference inviting interested powers.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Moscow
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
de Gaulle
Britain
NATO
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
France
Atomic Club
Five Bodies Sighted In Arabian Sea
An Indian air force plane sighted five bodies in the Arabian Sea area where a United Arab Airlines jet with 62 aboard disappeared Sunday near Bombay. The crash occurred in monsoon rains nine miles off the Indian coast as Navy ships and minesweepers hunted for wreckage and survivors.
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Bombay
India
Arabian Sea
United Arab Airlines
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Madh Island
Madh
Classified Ad: Kenmore Range and Furniture for Sale
1959 Kenmore range offered at 50 dollars. Bedroom suite with double dresser and chest of drawers 40 dollars. Six model Silvertone TV sets, 2 inch screen, 106 dollars. All items in excellent condition. Call FA 2 8365.
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Kenmore
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