Senate Farm Group Okays Four Measures In Baton Rouge
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved four bills and sent them to the Senate floor. One measure would grant total property tax exemption on farm machinery. The committee action comes as 120 bills were introduced by the deadline. The session resumes at 11 a.m. with many local bills on the docket.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Crawford H. Downs
Alexandria
Martin
Martin Issue Thursday.’’ Downs
Wade O. Martin Jr
Downs
Agricultural Committee
Sylvan Friedman
Natchez
R. C. Gaspard
No Loss Of Life As Tornado Smashes Mustang Town
Residents of Mustang Oklahoma waded through wreckage after twin tornado funnels struck two miles southwest of town. Despite estimated property damage around 200000 and a near complete warning failure, no injuries were reported among 210 residents as the storms skated into the community and spared lives.
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Mustang
Okla
Oklahoma
R. J. Merrill
Ency
Snake
Mustang Oklah
Loss of baby whooping crane at Audubon Park Zoo
One of two rare whooping cranes hatched in Audubon Park Zoo has vanished. Officials fear a hawk or owl swooped into the cage during the weekend and took the chick from egg No.2 hatched Friday. The remaining chick is shored by wire as searches fail to find any trace.
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New Orleans
Audubon Park Zoo
Zoo
George Douglass
J. W.fruchnicht
Long vows no compromise on Fair Grounds tax and voting machine curbs
Gov. Earl K. Long said there would be no compromise on the four percent Fair Grounds race track tax increase and he will push curbs on voting machines in small precincts. He asserted the race track bill is his and will pass as written, with the two percent increase backed by the Louisiana Municipal Association.
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Earl K. Long
Fair Grounds
Fair Grounds Corp
New Orleans
Louisiania Municipal Assn
Siegelin
Morrison
LMA
Adlai Estes In Final Bid For California Primary
Adlai E Stevenson and Sen Estes Kefauver urged California voters in a last round of presidential primary campaigning. Both scheduled windup TV appearances as California awards 68 Democratic National Convention votes. Kefauver accused Stevenson of deal making with segregationists naming Talmadge Ellender and Caldwell.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
California
Oakland
Calif
Kefauver
Stevenson
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Millard Caldwell
Florida
Allen Ellender
D-La
Talmadges
Ellenders
Caldwells
Eisenhower Returns to Washington After Quiet Farm Weekend
President Eisenhower leaves Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for Washington D C this morning after a quiet weekend of rest at his farm.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Washington
Four Juveniles Held In Ransom School Damage
Four boys aged 11 to 13 were taken into custody by West Monroe police after weekend vandalism at Ransom Elementary School. They admitted the act, with property damage valued between 500 and 1000 dollars, including soaked ink on a teacher’s desk and scattered records.
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West Monroe
Ransom Elementary
Jeff Caldwell
Parish
W. W. Ward
Legislature Faces Record Bill Deluge and Big Budget Push
Louisiana lawmakers rush to clear a record 1,930 bills as House 1510 and Senate 420 total near deadline. The 341 million dollar general appropriation tops state funding. Rep. Vail Delony adds 10 million to highway funds. Gov. Earl K Long backs elections measures and a transfer of powers from the State Building Authority to the treasurer.
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Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Louisiana
Vail Delony
Earl K. Long
State Building Authority
Robert Kennon
Long
Louisiana election measures loom in Legislature
A drive to place voting machines under a new board would shift control from the secretary of state. Lawmakers also consider a runoff requirement for statewide offices and a mix of constitutional amendments and other election law tweaks.
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Kennon
Louisiana
House
Kenyon Boards of Institutions, Highways, Welfare and Wildlife and Fisheries
Senate
Gas Tax Hike Decried as Punitive by Industry Leader
C H Lyons president of the Mid-Continent Gas and Oil Association testified against a House Ways and Means committee bill in Baton Rouge. He called the proposed gas gathering tax increase confiscatory and punitive as the bill was amended but no final action was taken.
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Baton Rouge
C. H. Lyons
Mid-Continent Gas and Oil Association
Shreveport
House
Ways and Means
Horace Lynn Jones
Calcasieu
Louisiana House delays vote on gas tax boost
Baton Rouge officials report the House Ways and Means Committee postponed a vote on a major increase in the gas gathering tax. Gov. Earl K. Long supported the delay.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee
Earl K. Long
Public school teachers seek pay rise amid tax hike plan
The House chamber hears testimony from about 600 oil and gas officials education leaders legislators and observers on a proposal to fund a teachers pay raise with a 27 million per year tax hike. The debate underscores the fiscal and policy stakes of the measure.
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House
Educa
Men With Knives Battle At Rooster Fight Scene
Herbert Lambert and Louis Maddox were hospitalized after a stabbing during a cock fight at Sam Campbell’s Pine Crest road venue. Lambert stabbed Maddox in the throat and Maddox stabbed Lambert in the stomach. Sheriff Bailey Grant said cock fighting is illegal and warrants will be issued for the two men and for Sam Campbell. Lambert’s condition was serious but improving. Maddox’s condition was not confirmed.
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Herbert Lambert
Louis Maddox
Sam Campbell
Pine Crest Road
Bailey Grant
Lambert
Maddox
Grant
Three White Men Accused of Inciting Riot in Knoxville
In Knoxville Tennessee police charged Horace Morelock 55 Andy Court Williams 57 and George Cash about 40 with inciting a riot that drew 1500 whites and Negroes to a city playground clash. A Negro woman was struck by a baseball bat and a Negro home damaged by shotgun fire before 18 officers stopped the violence. Morelock Williams and Cash face additional counts shooting into a home and driving on a revoked license.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Horace Morelock
Andy Court Williams
George Cash
Morelock
Williams
Cash
Strong Bills On Segregation Await Action
Segregation leaders plan to push six measures defending whites only facilities as the Louisiana Legislature nears final House action. The deputy chairmen said bills will move in regular order while debates continue on 17 segregation proposals filed during the 60 day session. House and Senate bills target employment and education staff tied to race and a broadcast gate seeking to curb interracial programming on TV.
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Joint
New Orleans
National
Assny For
Senate
Brenham Crothers
Ferriday
Andrew Sevier
Tallulah
Louis Fosse
Arabi
Arsenic Poisoner Goes On Trial For Killing 6 Persons
Mrs. Rhonda Belle Martin, a 49 year old Montgomery waitress, goes on trial for the arsenic deaths of six people including her husbands, her mother, and three children from 1937 to 1951. The state seeks the death penalty. she claimed insanity.
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Thetford
Ronald C. Martin
Emogene Garrettt
George Garrett
Carolyn Garrett
Ellyn Elizabeth Garrett
Mary Frances, Gibbon
Claude Martin
Martin
Ronald
Temperatures in Monroe Rise Toward Week Ahead
Twin City residents may expect partly cloudy skies and rising temperatures Monday afternoon and Tuesday. The noon reading was 81 degrees, up from 61 in the early morning. Tonight's forecast calls for 62 to 66 degrees with 82 to 86 degrees expected on Tuesday.
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Twin City
Highway resurfacing expands across Monroe and West Monroe streets
The Highway Department starts asphalt resurfacing on four Monroe and West Monroe streets including For sythe Avenue Milhaven Road Texas Avenue and Cypress Street Coastal Contractors of Baton Rouge will perform the hard surfacing Hall and Hollan of Montgomery finish miles of paving from West Monroe gravel pits to Chemiere Eros road and begin Eros West Monroe Road work slated to wrap in about five months A new bridge project is planned to begin in about a month
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West Monroe
Forsythe Avenue
Neville High School
Milhaven Road
Texas Avenue
Powell Avenue
South Second Street
North Seventh
Natchitoches Street
Cypress Street
Natchitoches
Illinois Central Railroad
Regan Street
Coastal
Baton Rouge
Highway Department
Hall and Hollan
Montgomery
Chemiere-Eros
Eros
Car goes out of control. child injured in ditch crash
Monroe woman pulls to protect her three year old leaning from the window. The car ran off the road about 100 feet, hit a brick driveway and culvert. Three year old Mildred Lee Ford is hospitalized with a broken left leg and lip injury. The driver, Mildred Ford aged 33, was treated for a head injury and released. Police officer Jim Standard provided the account.
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Monroe
Mildred Lee Ford
St. Francis
Mildred Ford
South Fifth Street
Jim Standard
Flooding Across Northwest as Rivers Rise and Dikes Strain
The Associated Press reports extensive flooding from the Columbia River system with 1,000 evacuees and thousands of acres submerged. Major dikes near 28 feet, a beaver-levee hole failure floods 1,600 acres and 12 families. Idaho and Wyoming rivers also flood. Mustang Oklahoma tornadic damage totals $200,000 with no injuries.
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Associated Press
Columbia River
Pacific Northwest
Columbia
Vancouver
Wash
Washington
Kootenai
Idaho
Bonners Ferry
Snake
Wyoming
Khrushchev Attacks Stalin In Secret Speech
Nikita Khrushchev charged that Joseph Stalin planned a purge of top associates before his death and called Stalin sickly suspicious. State Department released a 25 000 word version of Khrushchev's February speech to a Soviet party congress detailing harsh allegations against Stalin and his inner circle. The notes compare Soviet leader denouncements to US reactions to Washington or Lincoln.
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Washington
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Kremlin
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Khrushchev
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Russia
Klementi Y. Voroshilov
Voroshilov
State Department
Molotov
Mikoyan
Politburo
Soviet Union
Mayor-Elect's Son Hospitalized After Hand Injury
Eleven-year-old Jimmy Howard, son of Monroe Mayor-elect Jack Howard, was slashed by a door glass at the Church of Christ on Jackson Street. Doctors say nerves and tendons in two fingers were cut, with possible loss of touch, but he is expected to recover use of the fingers after several days in the hospital.
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Monroe
Jack Howard
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