City Power Plant Adds Big Turbine And Expands Capacity
A $4 million power plant improvement and a $1 million steam turbine boost Monroe's generating capacity to 66 500 KW, with full plant control from a new four story building. Engineers turned the turbine into the system at 9 45 a m as French L Smith L L Nunley and M D Tarver observed. The Utilities Commission says output will meet needs until 1965 and future capacity increases depend on growth.
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Monroe
The
Utilities Commission
French L. Smith
L. L. Nunley
M. D. Tarver
Nunley
GOP Leaders Call For Vigorous Anti Red Moves
Republican leaders urged Kennedy to set a time limit of one to three months on Geneva nuclear testing negotiations and notify the Soviet Union. Dirksen and Halleck said strength, not more talks, is needed and cited Eisenhower actions in Iran and other crises to justify a tougher stance.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Kennedy
Geneva
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
House Gop
William E. Miller
New York
GOP
Dirksen
Eisenhower
Iran
Lebanon
Quemoy-Matsu
Guatemala
Halleck
Vienna
Khrushchev
Abducted Teenager Reaches Safety After Car Theft
In Anderson South Carolina a 17 year old girl who was dragged from a parked car by two or three men, believed to be Negroes, escaped to a farmhouse. Charles Gambrell 20 was slashed and both victims were involved in a nighttime abduction that sparked a county wide search. Gambrell received treatment at Anderson County Memorial Hospital and was released. The incident occurred on a dirt road north of Anderson near Highway 81. The sheriff reported conflicting accounts yet the teen and Gambrell stories aligned.
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Anderson
S. C
Taday
Highway 81
Gambrell
W. J. Erskine
C. M. Ellison
Jim Williams
Fred L. Bremmer
Anderson County Memorial Hospital
Sheriff's Office
Goy
Anderson County
South Carolina
Georgia
Unidentified badly decomposed body found in Mississippi River
Orleans parish coroner seeks identity of a badly decomposed man pulled from the river. The spokesman could not determine race. Estimated 5 foot 9, wearing blue jeans and a blue white checkered shirt. Believed in water for a week or more.
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New Orleans
UPI
Orleans Parish
Wade named assistant district manager in Monroe SSA office
Luke F Wade appointed assistant district manager for the Monroe Minnesota Social Security Administration office succeeding Durelle Allen who became district manager in Temple Texas Wade a UT Austin graduate and World War II veteran has nearly 20 years in social security He and his family reside at 413 Howard St A new grade school at St Josephs School will open soon with Sister Veronica of the Cross aiding Father Michael Hannon She is from Cork Ireland and holds a BS from LSU
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Luke F. Wade
Monroe
Social Security Administration
Durelle Allen
Temple
Tex
Wade
University of Texas
Social Security
Howard St
St. Joseph's School
Veronica of the Cross
Calais
Michael Hannon
Cork City
Ireland
Louisiana State University
Clues Slim In Death Of Two Women
Authorities pursue meager leads in the strangulation deaths of Althea Ottavio and Patricia Ann Hewett near Jacksonville Florida. The Georgia women aged 43 and 25 were last seen after traveling to the city for Memorial Day activities and possibly to gamble on dog races.
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Clues Slim
Jacksonville
Fla
Georgia
Althea Ottavio
Patricia Ann Hewett
Palmetto and
Pine Woods
Sheriff's Office
Valdosta
Feud Between Tycoon and Daughter Settled Amicably
New York AP reports attorney James B. Donovan says Shelby Cullom Davis and his daughter Diana have amicably settled a dispute over a 3.8 million dollar trust. Diana, 22, plans to wed June 24 to John Means Spencer, a history teacher at Darrow School. Davis wanted the trust to go to Princeton University.
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New York
Shelby Cullom Davis
Diana
James B. Donovan
Princeton University
John Means Spencer
Darrow School
New Lebanon
N.Y
Davis
Princeton
Scotland
Mare Marked For Destruction Faces Fate Again
WESTMINSTER Md AP A five year old mare named Decision Nine, descended from Derby winners, again faces destruction after a leg injury. Previously ordered destroyed by owner Miss Crystelle Waggoner in 1959, the instruction was never carried out. The horse later changed hands to Ernest C Rogers Jr of Baltimore, who keeps her as a hunter and pet despite plans for death.
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Westminster, Md
Decision Nine
Ponder
Pimlico
Miss Crystelle Waggoner
Decatur, Tex
Laos Geneva talks delayed as rebels violate cease fire
The Geneva conference on Laos was postponed indefinitely amid Western charges that Laotian rebels allied with communists violated the cease-fire. The United States said it would continue bargaining with the Soviet Union while boycott threats aimed at stronger Laos truce enforcement persisted.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Laos
Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Neujtral
Britain
Cochairman
Khrushchev
U.S
Padong
Malcolm MacDonald
Georghi Pushkin
France
Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
International Truce Commission
Four Ex-College Players Arrested In Bribe Scandal
Four former college basketball players were arrested on conspiracy and bribery charges in the widening basketball fixing case. Names include Daves Budin formerly with Brooklyn College, Jerry Vogel and Dan enene ex Alabama players, and Lou Brown of North Carolina.
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NEW York
Aaron Wagman
Joseph Hacken
Daves Budin
Brooklyn College
Jerry Vogel
Danenene
Alabama
Lou Brown
North Carolina
Dist
Frank S$. Hogan
Wagman
Hacken
Budin
Brooklyn
University of Michigan
University of Oregon
Vogel
Quintazzi
Yonkers
Brown
Jersey City
Reds Defy Court Ruling on Communist Party Registration
New York AP report: Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist party, says the party will not comply with the Supreme Court order to register under the Internal Security Act of 1950. He warns the ruling asks the party to die by its own action and vows not to cooperate. He notes members may face jail rather than expose names.
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New York
Communist Party
Supreme Court
Gus Hall
High Court
Kennedy suffers back injury recurrence during tree planting
President Kennedy strained his back while shoveling dirt at a ceremonial tree planting in Canada last month. The White House says he has constant discomfort but no serious concern, is improving, and has been treated by Dr Janet Travell.
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Washington
Kennedy
Canada
White House
Janet Travell
United Press International
Pierre Salinger
Harvard
Tractors for Freedom Reject Havana Negotiations
NEW YORK UPI The Tractors for Freedom Committee will not send Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt or any member to Havana to negotiate the release of 1200 Cuban prisoners with Fidel Castro. A spokesman said the committee has not seriously considered Castro's demand for onsite talks and Mrs Roosevelt finds it completely unrealistic.
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New York
UPI
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Roosevelt
Walter P. Reuther
Milton Eisenhower
Detroit
Joseph M. Dodge
Havana
Man Flies With Personal Rocket Belt In Flight Test
Bell Aerosystems unveils a Small Rocket Lift Device or rocket belt for the Army Transport Command. Harold M. Graham tests show him leaping a fire truck and soaring over a 360-foot horizontal flight at about 20 mph on 30 successful spring tests.
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Bell Aerosystems Co
Army Transportation Research Command
Harold M. Graham
Bell
Graham
Teasing Clouds Persist Over Northeast Louisiana Weather
Clouds in northeast Louisiana remain part ly cloudy as scattered showers are forecast through Friday. Highs near 92 today and tomorrow with lows around 66. Selman Field hit 93 with a 73 low Wednesday, and no rain was reported yesterday.
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Louisiana
Mercury
Selman Field
French Farmers Invade Morlaix in Wage Protest
About 4,000 Brittany farmers blocked Morlaix streets with tractors and trucks to protest farm prices. Paris sent 130 riot police as locals’ administration building was seized and later vacated. Leaders warned of possible violence if demands are not met. The dispute centers on the distribution system and farmers receiving only a fraction of market prices while reforms lag.
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Morlaix
France
Brittany
Paris
Jacques Seron
White Solon Seized as 92nd Freedom Ride Arrests Marked
Jackson Mississippi AP police arrested 11 integrationists including white New York State Assemblyman Mark Lane and Percy Sutton. The arrests brought the freedom ride total to 92 since May 24. CORE filed appeal bonds for Lane and Sutton after their trial set for 3 p.m. in Jackson.
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Jackson, Miss
New York State
Mark Lane
Manhattan
Percy Sutton
New York City
National Association of Colored People
Delta Airlines
Montgomery
Ala
Richard Haley
Chicago
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Lane
Sutton
Army Displays New Guerrilla Warfare Transport Aids
At Fort Eustis Virginia the Army showcases mobility tools for guerrilla warfare. Demonstrations include a rocket-mounted man device, a swamp vehicle called a marsh buggy, and a mini helicopter named helicycle. Part of the Transportation Corps operation mobility program highlighting limited and full-scale battlefield action.
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Eustis
Transportation Corps
Kennedy
Bolivia Arrests Sixty Leftist Union Leaders
In Bolivia sixty left wing union leaders were arrested amid plans for a Castro style revolution. They were sent to an internment camp after martial law was declared. The government released documents linking the Cuban Embassy to the conspirators and called for citizens to oppose communism.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Communist Party
Latin America
Friends of Cuba
Sacaba
Cochabamba
la Nacion
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