Marchers Seek Davis Meeting Over Home Rule Pay Hikes
Baton Rouge officials pressed Gov. Jimmie Davis for a hearing on anti home rule bills as 200 police jurors and city leaders met for two hours in a downtown hotel. Louisiana Police Jury Association president Charles L. Horne highlighted pay-raise measures for sheriffs clerks of court assessors constables and justices of the peace amid widespread opposition.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jimmie H. Davis
Capitol
Charles L. Horne
Louisiana Police Jury Association
Shreveport
Davis
deLesseps Morrison
New Orleans
The
Louisiana Municipal Association
Morehouse
Lincoln
Jackson
East Carroll
Horne
Caddo Parish
House Committee Adds $4 Million To Appropriations Bill
In Baton Rouge the House Appropriations Committee increased the governor's general appropriations bill from 489 million to about 493 million dollars. They added 261000 for state colleges, 50000 for LSU repairs, and 160000 for state police equipment plus a two engine five passenger airplane for emergency use. The measure heads to the House for a flood vote as a special order of the day.
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Louisiana State University
Bryan Lehmann Jr
St. Charles Parish
Bacon
Lehmann
Appropriations Committee
Jimmie Davis
Shelby
Three Anti Castro Cubans Executed At Dawn In Cuba
SANTIAGO Cuba AP a firing squad executed Manuel Beaton and two accomplices at dawn today The men were convicted by a military tribunal of leading an abortive revolt in the Sierra Maestra last spring and killing a peasant militia leader Beaton 30 and his group had roamed eastern Cuba for over six months five others were jailed for 5 to 30 years seven youths sent to reformatories until maturity one acquitted The executions end the most publicized insurrection against the Castro regime to date and mark a return to firing squad penalties after five months
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Santiago, Cuba
Manuel Beaton
Cipriano
Felipe Martinez
Fidel Castro
Sierra Maestra
Beaton
Cuba
Francisco Tamayo
Castro
Oriente
Havana
la Cabana
Two Sailors Missing After Pearl Harbor Sub Fire
Honolulu AP report says two men remain unaccounted for after a brief fire aboard the 2,500 ton nuclear submarine Sargo at Pearl Harbor. The one hour blaze began in the stern torpedo room at 5:30 p.m. and was contained by flooding the torpedo compartment and submerging the stern. Navy cited a rupture in the liquid oxygen line during LOX resupply as the cause while asserting the fire never endangered the submarine.
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Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Key builders of nations missiles hit across U S
Two unions IAM and UAW struck Lockheed and Douglas, major missile and satellite builders. A tentative two year contract was reached for 22,000 workers at Long Beach California and Tulsa Oklahoma after overnight bargaining. Local talks continued in Charlotte. Pickets to be withdrawn pending ratification.
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Los Angeles
Lockheed and
Douglas
United States
International Assn
United Auto Workers
UAW
Long Beach
Calif
Tulsa
Okla
Charlotte
N.C
Clos
KEY Builders
Calhoun 4-H Members Set for Baton Rouge Short Course
Six 4-H members from Calhoun Emma Murrey Brenda Custer Zella Faye Brown Richard Gross Billy Jim Stillers and Dude Staples are scheduled to attend a Baton Rouge short course on July 11 to compete with peers from other Louisiana cities in 4-H activities.
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Calhoun
Baton Rouge
Emma Murrey
Brenda Custer
Zella Faye Brown
Richard Gross
Billy Jim Stillers
Dude Staples
Louisiana
Riverside church to host speaker Charles Flurry Saturday night
Charles Flurry, noted moral and social youth leader for the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation League, will be the principal speaker at Ridge Avenue Baptist Church in West Monroe on Saturday night. The inter denominational gathering starts at 7 30 p.m. A separate event, the West Monroe Junior Chamber of Commerce model airplane contest at Selman Field, is set for Sunday with registration at 8 a.m. and competition to follow.
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Charles Flurry
Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation League
Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
West Monroe
Mob Threats Echoed In Senate Inquiry On Prisoner
Irving Mishel the reputed boxing racket banker refused to answer questions at a Senate Antitrust panel. He invoked the Fifth Amendment citing threats from mobsters while in prison and acknowledged there were threats as recently as May 20 or 21.
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Washington
Senate
Irving Mishel
Clinton State
Dannemora
N. Y
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Mishel
Subcommittee
U. S
Philip A. Hart
Dmich
Charge Catholic Bishop Refused To Mix School
A group of Negro parents say Archbishop Joseph Rummel refused to admit four above average Negro boys to a new Catholic high school in New Orleans. They allege he delayed integration citing potential losses and awaiting a federal court ruling, with further meetings yielding the same stance.
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New Orleans
Joseph Francis Rummel
Horace Bynum
Henry J. Harris
Henry Hayes
Llewelyn Soniat
Associated Press
Louisiana Weekly
Christian Brothers
City Park
J. Shelly Wright
Thour
Rummel
Wright
Newsh
1959 Louisiana crimes decline by 3614 charges
A UPI report from the Louisiana attorney general shows 167,660 charges in 1959, down 3,614 from 1958. Murder 192, manslaughter 59, narcotics 529, gambling 1,374, auto theft 407, alcohol related 4,787, reckless driving about 20,000. New Orleans led with 63 murder, 1 manslaughter, 370 narcotics, 861 gambling, 72 aggravated rape, 307 robbery. Other parishes note murder and narcotics figures.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Louisiana
Crescent City
East Baton Rouge
Long blames cop after arrest in minor crash
Earl K. Long former Louisiana governor campaigning for Congress blamed a "smart aleck" officer for his arrest after a minor crash near Bourbon Street. He insisted he was not intoxicated or speeding and said he would fight the case in court. He said he feared someone could be hurt if he resisted. Long said his license was in a suitcase when questioned by investigating officers.
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New Orleans
UPI
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Congress
Long
Bourbon Street
Sidney Waguespack Jr
Committee Votes To Repeal Phone and Telegraph Taxes
The Senate Finance Committee backed repeal of local phone service telegraph and travel taxes, cutting federal revenues by 752 million dollars annually. The move was added to a bill extending four billion dollars in taxes and delaying debt-limit changes. Chairman Byrd opposed the repeals citing budget surplus risks for 1960.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Garcia Asks For Nuclear Missiles
Manila reports President Carlos P. Garcia said he asked President Eisenhower for defensive nuclear missiles to boost the Philippines defense. He noted a joint communique would reflect U S awareness of the need for modern weapons and said long range missiles were not discussed, with any ICBM bases needing Philippine Congress approval.
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Manila
API
Carlos P. Garcia
Fisenhower
Garcia
Eisenhower
Philippines
Philippine
United States
Garea
Philippine Congress
Bloodlit Tokyo unrest rocks Parliament grounds
In Tokyo thousands of leftist students overran the Parliament grounds in a violent uprising against Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's pro West stance. At least one killed and up to five perhaps died, with 473 wounded as police fought back with tear gas after hours of clashes. U.S. security concerns mounted as Eisenhower’s Japan visit loomed.
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Kishi
Tokyo
Nobusuke Kishi
Diet
Socialist Party
Saburo Eda
Eda
Japan
Eisenhower
U.S
Manila
Kirkpatrick Named New Public Works Head
Gov Jimmie H. Davis appointed Claude Kirkpatrick of Jennings as director of the department of public works. The 43 year old former state representative replaces Lorris M. Wimberly, who resigned. Kirkpatrick campaigned for Davis in the seventh district and served in the Louisiana House from 1952 to 1956.
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Kirkpatrick
Gov. Davis
Lorris M. Wimberly
Davis
Today's Chuckle Watch your step when you age
By the time a man gets old enough to watch his step he isn't going anywhere.
State Department Condemns Passman Group Cuts
The State Department denounced a House Appropriations Committee reduction in foreign aid, warning cuts threaten national security. Undersecretary Douglas Dillon criticized lowering the request of 4.175 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year, saying the move weakens frontline defenses and endangers key economic assistance programs.
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Washington
State Department
House Committee
America
Douglas Dillon
House Appropriations Committee
Department
Committee
Eisenhower
Republican Committee
Otto E. Passman
D-Afa
Congress
Dillon
U. S
Sign Cuts Down Apple Pilfering at Stand
In Atlanta a fruit stand dealer posted a sign to deter theft stating If you steal one steal the biggest one because the judge will give you just as much time for stealing a little one. Clerks reported pilfering has fallen off drastically.
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Atlanta, Ga
Eisenhower Warns Communism Tops World Foes
President Eisenhower told a joint session of the Philippine Congress that communism is the single greatest source of world tension and that the United States must stay strong with its allies during a 10 day Pacific tour. He praised Filipino nationalism and warned communist leaders fear constructive nationalism as a mortal foe.
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Manila
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Fisenhower
Philippine Congress
Philippines
Formosa
Okinawa
Japan
Korea
America
Weather Outlook for Monroe Area Tomorrow
forecasts indicate warm humid conditions with more rain expected in the Monroe West area tomorrow though no major temperature change. Selman Field predicts partly cloudy skies and isolated thundershowers Thursday afternoon with scattered rain statewide.
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Monroe
Selman Field
Twin City
Arkansas
Toyko Debacle Eyewitness Describes Student Mobs
An eyewitness reports dusk gatherings of Japanese students near Tokyo Parliament, banners reading Cancel Ike's trip, as crowds converge from miles around. A scuffle erupts when right wing students clash with demonstrators, with reporters and photographers arriving as police move in.
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Tokyo
UPN
Parliament
Ike
Drag Racing Conviction Faces Heavy Penalty in Court
In Fourth District Court Judge David I. Garrett fined 18 year old Fred Marshall $100 and costs, sentenced to 30 days in parish jail, and suspended his driver’s license for 30 days after pleading guilty to reckless driving tied to drag racing on Booth street. Marshall and a second suspect were arrested by state police for drag racing and improper muffler. The court warned no leniency for drag racing. two others received $300 fines for intoxicated driving.
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Fourth District
David I. Garrett
Fred Marshall
Short Washington Street
Monroe
Booth and
Louberta Streets
Marshall
Booth Street
Garrett
Julius A. Supert
Winnsboro
Jesse E. Talbird
Bros. Marshall
Paul Freeman
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