Governor To Testify At Hearing In Galveston Court
Governor Earl K Long prepared to testify in a Galveston habeas hearing after being transported there by force, with witnesses describing the move as involuntary. The hearing opened near 10 a.m. and resumed at 1:30 p.m. as Long urged his representatives to the stand and joked with the courtroom crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Tex
Earl K. Long
Long
Blanch Long
National Guard
John Sealy Hospital
L. D. Godard
Prosecutor Resigns Amid Senate Probe In Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana deputy prosecutor Metro Holovachka quits after bitter attack on a Senate committee probing links to organized crime. He denies graft while three investigators in his office are fired. The move follows intensifying local calls for his ouster and a taped Chicago TV appearance.
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Gary
Ind
Metro
Holovachka
Take County
Indiana
Senate
Floyd Vance
Walter Conroy
James Dent
Michael Kampo
Conroy
Kampo
Senate Committee
Chicago
John McClellan
D-Ark
Gary Post-Tribune
Conviction of Four Youths Stirs Florida Race Tensions
In Tallahassee Florida four white youths were found guilty in the tape assault on a 19 year old Negro coed. The all white jury sentenced by Judge W May Walker will hear the mercy recommendation in two weeks. Sentences may range from years to life.
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Tallahassee
Fla
South
National Assn
W May Walker
Violent Deaths Claim Eight In Northeast Louisiana Area
Eight people died in Northeast Louisiana over the weekend in four traffic crashes and four drownings. Victims include Tommy Owen 5, John C. Givens 67 and Porter Henderson 26 in separate crashes, and Theo Jackson 48 found dead after a single-vehicle wreck near Oak Ridge. Drowned victims include C D Simmons 20, Dock Rogers 93 and Roberta 15 in Cars Lake and Horseshoe Lake incidents, with Moore 16 missing after a motor boat overturn.
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Louisiana
Tommy Owen
Feur Ond
Anu
John Thomas Owen
Theo Jackson
Oak Ridge
State 133
John C. Givens
Sondheimer
Porter Henderson
Cleo Moore
Monroe
Bayou Lafourche
Moore
Alfred
Vanier Vilea
Thomas Duschane
Water Lake
Horseshoe Lake
C. D. Simmons
Dock Rogers
Roberta
James Eastland Moore
Simmons
Railway unions seek 14 percent wage hike across railroads
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen asked railroads for a 14 percent pay increase. International president H. E. Gilbert said wage notices were served and called for an escalator clause and higher daily earnings guarantees for road service engineers and firemen. The BLFE cited worker productivity and industry profits as support for the demand.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
H. E. Gilbert
Brotherhood
Gilbert
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Union
Nassau editor targeted after Oakes murder case reopens
Three shots hit the Nassau Herald offices as a Nassau police report noted the gunfire aimed at a newspaperman seeking to revive the Sir Harry Oakes murder inquiry. The event followed by Baton Rouge coverage of Gov Earl Long amid habeas corpus proceedings and a Texas return. An elderly cyclist was hospitalized after a South Second Street collision.
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Nassau
Bahamas
UPI
Harry Oakes
Nassau Herald
Baton Rouge
State- Times
Earl Long
Texas
Long
Chester Williams
East Baton Rouge Parish
Williams
Galveston
Tex
Nick Brown
Louisiana
St. Francis Hospital
South Second Street
South To Learn To Accept Rules
Brooks Hays, former U S Supreme Court official, tells a Stockton class that national decisions must pass through Congress and the courts. He says the federal system is difficult but can be made to work and mentions honorary awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockton
Calif
Brooks Hays
U.S. Supreme Nation
War Congress
Congress
Federal Pacific
Hays
Tractor Sinks Halt Training Near Cat Island
Gulfport AP report: The First Armored Amphibian Co Marine Corps canceled weekend training after a 40 ton armored amphibious tractor sank in about 19 feet of water in Gulfport harbor en route to Cat Island. Three crewmen aboard escaped unharmed.
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Gulfport
Miss
Marine Corps
Cat Island
Gulfport Harbor
Stevenson and Johnson Still Contenders for 1960 Nomination
Sen. Mansfield notes Adlai E Stevenson and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson remain in the race for the Democratic nomination. He cites Sen. John F. Kennedy as the leading candidate today with Humphrey and Symington growing efforts. On the GOP side, Sen. Hugh Scott predicts Nixon winning the nomination with Rockefeller possibly heading the ticket. Stevenson attends Democratic meetings and says he will not be nominated, though Mansfield doubts that strict stance.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Richard M. Nixon
Scott
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Stevenson
Democratic Advisory Council
Mansfield
Western powers push for decisive action on Berlin at Geneva talks
At the Geneva four power talks in their sixth week the West warned the Soviet Union to retreat or face action over Berlin. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and U S Secretary of State Christian Herter conferred with Maurice Couve de Murville as they prepared a strategy session with Lloyd to keep a united front. Western diplomats anticipated two more meetings if Gromyko offered no new ideas and discussed suspending the Soviet time limit plan on the Western occupation.
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Geneva
West
Soviet Union
Berlin
Sel‘wyn Lieyd
London
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Lloyd
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
West Berlin
Moscow
Nikita ‘Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party Presidium
Monroe Third Airline Service Inaugurated At Monroe
Trans-Texas Airways opened a north south route through Monroe linking Memphis Tennessee and Houston Texas. Local officials and airline executives attended ceremonies at Selman Field with Mayor W L Howard ill and unable to attend. Executives John Eichner and Jack Ayer joined the ceremony and the inaugural flight originated in Memphis en route to Alexandria.
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Monroe
Selman Field
Trans-Texas Airways
Memphis
Tenn
Houston
Tex
W. L. Howard
Richard Hale
News
Star—World
James A. Noe
KNOE
Knoe-Tv
Jim Williams
Maanager
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Charles Hayden
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Linda Lou Allen
Louisiana Tech
Alexandria
Howard
Trans-Texas
John Eichner
Jack Ayer
Shark kills swimmer off California coast in San Diego area
A 33 year old San Diego aircraft engineer Robert Pamperin was killed by a white shark while skindiving 50 yards from shore at La Jolla. Eyewitness Am Lehrer described a 12 foot shark with white belly slashing water as Pamperin cried for help. Lifeguards and Coast Guard searched 40 minutes but found no body. helicopter crews saw a large shark underwater.
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Bob
Lehrer
William Abitz
Pamperin
Abitz
Carolyn
Coast Guard
Albert Kogler
San Francisco
Monterey Bay
San Diego
Seven Countries Study Plans for Second European Union
Seven governments Britain Austria Switzerland Denmark Norway Sweden and Portugal study a second European customs union similar to the Inner Six. The Outer Seven ministers planned a mid July meeting in Stockholm after a June 1 gathering of forty ministers who concluded talks on the plan.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Britain
Austria
Switzerland
Denmark
Norway
Portugal
Chuckle Taxpayers: Civil Service Exam Avoiders
A quip notes taxpayers benefiting from government hiring standards by avoiding civil service examinations. It frames the discrepancy between public service goals and shortcut practices. No individuals named.
Paper patients possible at Brooke Army Medical Center
In San Antonio AP report Maj. Gen. William E. Shambora says Brooke Army Medical Center tests use paper gowns sheets and uniforms to cope with laundry shortages and emergency supply gaps. Army Quartermaster Corps leads the trial to assess feasibility for patient care and staff apparel.
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San Antonio
Brooke Army Medical Center
William E. Shambora
Army Quartermaster Corps
Germans nominate Heinrich Luebke for West German presidency
West Germany's Christian Democratic Party names Heinrich Luebke 64 as candidate for president to succeed Theodor Heuss on Oct 15. The decision ends Adenauer Erhard dissension with Erhard still vocal, while Adenauer remains chancellor citing global instability after Dulles' death.
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Bonn
Germany
UPI
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democratic Party
Heinrich Luebke
West Germany
Adenauer
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Luebke
Theodor Heuss
Eerhard
Frank H. Bartholomew
John Foster Dulles
Governor Candidate Attacks Long Aides In Baton Rouge Statement
Gail Berry a Lake Charles man and gubernatorial candidate says Gov Marl Long is exhausted and targets Blanche Long Lether Frazar Chep Morrison and Russell Long in a harsh critique. Berry plans to arrive in Galveston Texas today after issuing the statement.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Lake Charles
Galveston
Tex
Louisiana
Gail Berry
Marl K. Long
Berry
Blanche
Frazar
Cloudy Through Tuesday With Scattered Showers Likely
Northeast Louisiana will be considerably cloudy through Tuesday with scattered thundershowers and mild temperatures. A comfortable 65 was the low last night with the mercury reaching 75 degrees at mid-morning. Lowest tonight will be 72 to 75 with highest tomorrow of 84 to 88.
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Louisiana
How the government counts workers in May
The piece explains how the Census Bureau uses a sampling method to estimate national employment. It notes 66,016,000 workers and 4,389,000 unemployed in May, based on surveys of about 600 part time interviewers visiting 35,000 homes.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
State Officers Plan To Attend Long Hearings
Lt. Gov. Luther Frazar and Gov. Earl Long's executive secretary Wilma Lockhart will travel to Galveston for tomorrow's sanity hearing ordered for Long. They skip today's habeas corpus hearing. Sen. R. C. Gaspard predicts Long will return and resume governorship.
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Baton Rouge
Luther Frazar
Wilma Lockhart
Earl Long
Galveston
Tex
Action filled Want Ad boosts reader interest aboard
A News Star World want ad promises nonstop calls and all day applicant flow for a housepeeker, companion for an elderly lady, with contact at 506 Mill WM FA 2-750. It urges readers to place a one week ad with low rates and cancellation rights.
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News Star—World
Housepeeker
T A. King
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Walter B. Rourke, Jr
Sam Hanna
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Bussie
Jack V. Fox
Wilson Collinsworth
Patrick Scarborough
David Beagles
Ollie Soutamire
Raiford
Bulletins
Adlai, Johnson
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