Jackson judge weighs police power on federal property
Judge James Spencer considered a jurisdictional dispute over whether city police can arrest demonstrators on federal property after four integrationist pickets were arrested on the steps of Jacksons federal building. Negro attorney R Jess Brown argued the case belongs in federal court, while city prosecutor Jack Travis urged continued local action. The judge called the issue interesting and took the matter under advisement.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
James Spencer
R. Jess Brown
Spencer
Jackson
Federal Building
Brown
Jack Travis
Monroe Man Fails To Win Amputee Damage Suit
A Monroe Louisiana man failed to prove negligence by a Natchez doctor or motel owner in a bid for 650000 in damages. Alvin H White claimed the doctor failed proper medical care and that trash on the parking lot caused his fall while staying at the motel. Judge Harold Cox ruled no evidence of negligence.
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Vicksburg, Miss
UPI
Monroe
Natchez
Harold Cox
Alvin H. White
White
G. M., Little
Golf Candidate Reported AWOL
Fort Hood Texas AP An Army private who qualified Monday in Dallas for the National Open Golf Championship was absent without leave when he did it his company commander said Col O R Bergner commander of the 143rd medical detachment said former Fort Worth City champ Jerry Edwards was AWOL when he shot his 140 to grab one of five slots in next week s tournament and Bergner indicated Edwards would not be allowed to play in the Open because of the AWOL charge He said Edwards has used up all leave time he has coming to him and if he were to play in the Open he would have to get advance leave.
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Fort Hood
Edwards
Chinese Reds Nix Cease-Fire
In Formosa the Chinese Communists rejected a Nationalist invitation for a three day cease-fire around Quemoy to celebrate the Dragon Boat festival. Quemoy's command said defenders would not respond to Red fire from Tuesday through Thursday, despite prior norms for brief truces. The Nationalist Defense Ministry said 131 shells were fired at the islands in 98 minutes Tuesday, the heaviest assault since January.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Presbyterians Split Over Jonah Controversy in Mississippi
In Jackson, UPI reports Mississippi Presbyterians are divided over Rev. A. M. Hart of Meridian who calls Jonah a parable and questions Adam as historical. A group urges the Synod of Mississippi to overrule the Central Mississippi Presbytery which balked at Hart’s membership. Hart’s supporters decry improper standards in the presbytery’s theology ruling.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
Mississippi
Synod of Mississippi
Central Mississippi Presbytery
A. M. Hart
Meridian
Presbytery
Hart
Adam
Mineral Board To Meet Friday in Baton Rouge
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis has called a State Mineral Board meeting for 10 a.m. Friday in Baton Rouge. The session will consider matters before the board, the governor's office announced. It is the first meeting since chairman William Helis of New Orleans resigned over the tidelands dispute, and D. Gordon Collins of Shreveport also resigned.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
State Mineral Board
William Helis
New Orleans
Tidelands
D. Gordon Collins
Shreveport
Kennedy to Hold News Conference at 4 P.M.
President Kennedy will hold a news conference at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the session will be open to live radio and television coverage.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Statue removed after Masaryk statue removed in Czechoslovakia
Diplomatic sources report the last Masaryk statue has been removed from Czechoslovakia where he helped found the republic and served as its first president in 1918. The Lanzhot statue remained until the end of 1961.
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Vienna
Austria
Thomas Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Masaryk
Czechoslovak Republic
Lanzhot
Death rate in traffic drops slightly in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS UPI The Metropolitan New Orleans Safety Council reports an eight percent drop in Louisiana highway deaths in the first four months of 1962. The state tallied 208 traffic deaths in Q1 1962 versus 225 in 1961, with a mileage death rate of 5.2 per 100 million vehicle miles, 11th in the nation. New Orleans fell to seventh among 10 cities in its class, but deaths dropped 33 percent from last year. Other rates showed Baton Rouge 1.6, Shreveport 2.2, Lake Charles 1.9, and Jennings and Sulphur none. Al Helfer and Gene Elston on Colt .45s broadcast duties.
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New Orleans
UPI
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Jennings and Sulphur
Real Estate Transfers in Ouachita Parish Clerk Records
Transfers show multiple parcels sold in Monroe and West Monroe for sums ranging from 100 to 18,250 dollars. buyers include Cooley Printers and Lithographers Inc, Richard Ellis Sanders, Jewell M. McGough, and Andrew Z Harrelson among others, with parcels in Hud son s First Addition West Heights Forest Hills Subdivision Lake DeSiard Suburban Homes and Sunshine Heights Subdivision. Some transactions include mortgage assumptions or cash payments.
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Ouachita Parish
John C. Ensminger
Robert 5
Kennedy
Cooley Printers and Lithographers, Inc
Hudson’s
Monroe
James Monroe Humphrey
Don Reeves
West Heights
West Monroe
Paula Landry
John Wesley Harris
Ouachita Cotton Mills
Pearl Fennell Bower
Jewell M. McGough
Fennell
DeSiard Road
Russell and Hazel Builders, Inc
Richard Ellis Sanders
Forest Hills
Robert W. Tanner
Harold Lincecum
Joe A. Ford, Jr
Donald M. Spillers
Fairlane
Township 18
Range
James William Mayo
Isaac Oo. Parker
Splane Place
Louie Eugene Richie
Dallas W. Richie
A& F Investment Co., Inc
Lake DeSiard
Johnny L. Reeves
Joel M Brown
Humphries Garrett Road
Township
David Burk
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Gene Elston
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Sive
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