Senate Debates Filibuster Ends Space Talks in Crisis
Bitter Senate debate erupts as a compromise to create a privately owned yet government regulated space communications firm collapses amid threats to file a cloture petition. Morse orates against liberal filibuster while Kerr counters with monopoly claims as Mansfield accuses opponents of delaying tactics.
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Washington
UPI
Spesserd Holland
D-Fla
Senate
Space Communications Corporation
Foreign Relations Committee
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Morse
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Space Committee
Kerr
Space Communications Development
Mike Mansfield
Fstes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Health seekers lament Ab out West now polluted
In Phoenix Arizona AP report says the West once drew thousands with clean air for respiratory ailments. Deserts in Arizona and mountains in Colorado attracted patients escaping crowded eastern and midwestern cities, but pollution now clouds the ideal picture.
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Phoenix
Ariz
West
Arizona
Colorado
15 Black People Arrested In Georgia Town
Albany Georgia police jailed 15 praying Black demonstrators and one white woman Monday night after city officials sought relief in federal court to end eight months of anti segregation protests. The group, three men among them, stood before city hall and refused to disperse at police Chief Laurie Pritchett's command.
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Albany, Ga
UPI
Laurie Pritchett
Pritchett
Albany
Elizabeth Wycoff
New York City
Congress of Racial Equality
U S Indicates Nuclear Tests To Continue
The United States signaled continued high altitude nuclear tests in the Pacific. An AEC and DoD statement cited damage to the Johnston Island launching pad from a July 25 Thor missile mishap, with weeks needed for repairs and a possible eighth week or more before tests resume. Final decision rests with President Kennedy.
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Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
Department of Defense
Johnston Island
Kennedy
AEC
West Monroe Eyes City Engineer Hire
City officials in West Monroe discuss hiring a city engineer to map water and sewer lines. Water Superintendent Joe Fleming supports expert mapping, while others question the cost and finances amid requests for more data and planning.
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Fleming
J. Allan Norris
Slim Townsen
J. Allan
Russian Estes Faces Execution for Corruption scheme
The Uzbek republic supreme court sentenced Burkhanov, head of a meat packing plant, to death for conspiring with collective farmers to net about 30 000 dollars, six mansions, and two cars over three years. Pravda Vostoka reported the verdict.
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Moscow
UPI
Czechs Offer Asylum To Spy
London reports that Czechoslovakia offered Robert Sobien asylum while Britain decides his fate. Home Secretary Henry Brooke was expected to act this week on pleas by Sobien and supporters to grant political asylum or allow transfer to another country to avoid a life term in the United States.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Robert A. Sobien
Henry Brooke
Sobien
Britain
Colombia Quake Toll Rises Across Regions
Officials fear the toll will rise as central and western Colombia shake with strong quakes. Early reports cite at least 20 deaths and 200 injured with many homes destroyed. Communications failed across 16 communities, electric and telephone service out, aid rushed in and troops deployed. The strongest quake measured 9 on the IIPE scale near the Andes, while the epicenter lay about 155 miles west of Bogota along the Sap Comes River.
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Bogota
Colombia
Pereira
Andes Geophysical Institute
Andean
Faubus Fifth Term Question Dominates Ark Balloting
Arkansas voters faced a Democratic primary on whether Gov. Orval Faubus should win a fifth two year term. Opponents including Sid McMath and Dale Alford argued reelection would etch dictatorship while Faubus hoped to top 50 percent to avoid a runoff. Other races included Sen. Fulbright challenging Winston Chandler amid a slate of unopposed GOP challengers.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Orval EF. Faubus
Faubus
Sid McMath
U.S
Dale Alford
Vernon Whitten
Mount Holly
Kenneth Coffelt
David A. Cox
Weiner
J. William Fulbright
Winston Chandler
Gathings
Wilbur Millis
J. W. Trimble
Oren Harris
Trimble
Harris
Today’s Chuckle Recession Joke
Cartoon caption notes the humor in affording a new car to tow a new boat, reflecting the strain of economic times with a light jab at financial limits and consumer desires.
Urge Search For Questioned Drug Kevadon Thalidomide Warning
New York City Health Department asks all residents to search medicine cabinets for thalidomide, marketed as Kevadon, a blue tablet larger than an aspirin with M in a double circle and scored for half breaking. Also cites warm forecast with 97 degrees in Monroe and Columbia's 100, possible thunderstorms, low 76.
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New York
City Health Department
Montrose freighter crippled in Detroit River collision
British freighter Montrose lay ruined and listing after colliding with a barge in the Detroit River. Crew of 41 were rescued without injury as tugs moved the ship toward the US shore with officers remaining aboard to protect owner’s interests.
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Detroit
Detroit River
Montrose
Ambassador Bridge
Windsor
Ralph Eyre-Walker
Birkenhead
England
Richard Fowden
Manchester
Nathaniel Browlee
Belfast
Ireland
David Wheatley
Wadebridge
Cornwall
G. D Beatty
Wheatley
Train Jumped Tracks Smashing Homes In Vandalia
A Pennsylvania Railroad express derailed in Vandalia Illinois at about 2 am injuring six people and damaging multiple homes and cars. Ten mail clerks aboard the St Louis to New York train included three lightly hurt. One freight car fell into the Kaskaskia River while both mainline tracks were blocked and likely to reopen in two to three days.
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Vandalia, Ill
Pennlvania
Ilinois City
Dale Slater
St. Louis
Slater
Kaskaskia
George Bowles
Bowles
Sunday Closing Law Enforced in Monroe
Mayor W L Jack Howard announced Monroe will enforce a new Sunday closing law effective August 1 1962. The measure bans sale of clothing lumber furniture and home or office furnishings with exemptions for real property drugs medical supplies charitable purposes and funeral needs. Violations carry a 100 fine for first offense and up to 500 plus six months jail for second offense. Governor Jimmie Davis signed the bill.
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Monroe
Howard
Eugene McGehee
Baton Rouge
Lawrence Gibbs
Mike John Jr
Haynes Harkey
Harkey
Jimmie H. Davis
Davis To Make Report Tonight On Two Year Admin
Gov Jimmie H Davis prepared a public address outlining two years of his administration and the recent legislative session. The speech was set for 7 pm on 15 television stations and 19 radio stations granted free airtime as a public service with coverage planned across states including Mississippi.
West Monroe Wage Increases Studied by City Council
West Monroe city employees may receive a raise after the Board of Aldermen discussed a salary plan at the August 14 meeting. Water Superintendent J C Fleming was tasked to prepare a rate schedule and cost, with Charles Anding proposing increases tied to length of service, up to five percent per five years. Fleming noted staff shortages and the need for two way radios in trucks to speed communications during breaks.
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West Monroe
Earl Duncan
Fleming
Charles Anding
Board of Aldermen
J. C Fleming
Anding
Tragic Explosion At Minden Area Ordnance Plant
A morning blast at the secret Louisiana Ordnance Plant near Minden killed three workers and injured six as Army officials ordered a board of inquiry. Names of the dead include Roy Pesnell Charles Todd and Melvin Tullos.
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Minden
Louisiana Ordnance Plant
Army
Ordnance Plant
Karl Sb. Zilske
Roy H. Pesnell
Keithsville
Charles F. Todd
Melvin B. Tullos
Waldo
Ark
Plant
Shreveport
Anthony Wroge
Col. Zilske
Congress
Eisenhower Proposes Global Peace University in Stockholm
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower urged creation of an international university with United Nations aid to foster world peace. Speaking before the World Confederation of Teaching Profession in Stockholm, he envisioned a campus hosting an international faculty focused on objective truth free of bias and propaganda.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United Nations
World Confederation of Organizations
New
Peoples’ House
Social Democratic Party
Citien
Eisenhower
United Nations General Assembly
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