Bob Hope returns to Roberta roles at St. Louis Muny
Comedian Bob Hope revisits his 1930s Roberta role as band leader Huckleberry Haines at the St. Louis Municipal Opera. The run marks Muny’s 40th anniversary and notes Hope’s pay contrasts with prior star salaries. He can command up to $50,000 for a weekend in Las Vegas.
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Soviet Ambassador Menshikov Departs for Moscow
Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov left New York without notice and flew to Copenhagen aboard Scandinavian Airlines, then transferred to a Soviet airliner for his return to Moscow to report on diplomacy underway.
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Damper On Courtesy Flight Over Vancouver Island
The TU104 Soviet airliner at the Centennial Air Show was scaled back after U S forces implied possible interception. Officials delayed the planned 75 mile flight from Sea Island Airport to Victoria and instead kept the jet in the Greater Vancouver area due to lack of assurances against U S fighter response.
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Graham Ends Seven Week Evangelistic Crusade in San Francisco
Billy Graham wrapped up seven weeks of evangelistic meetings at the Cow Palace drawing 18,500 for the final session. He urged attendees to carry revival into their churches and warned that Satan could strike if they delay. He pressed that some are like Judas, selling their soul for silver. Attendance for the seven weeks reached 696,525 with 570 decisions for Christ, lifting the total to about 25,000.
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Senate Receives Beverage Bills In Polling Place Rule
Baton Rouge AP reports the Senate accepted the first in a wave of bills to add beer to alcohol bans at polling places. The measure passed the House without opposition. A related bill from the Louisiana League of Women Voters would make jurors drinking during service grounds for misconduct.
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Louisiana League of Women Voters
Right to Work Bill Set for Legislative Spotlight
In Baton Rouge the Senate Industrial Relations Committee holds a 2 p.m. hearing on a right to work bill banning compulsory union membership. Senator Jackson B. Davis of Shreveport introduces two bills seeking a constitutional amendment to re enact the law as Governor Earl Long wavers on signing or vetoing. Davis says the move is a kickoff to a broader fight over the issue.
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Earl Long
Ghana's Nkrumah Arrives in Cairo for Nine Day Visit
Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana arrived in Cairo on Sunday for a nine day state visit to Egypt. He will hold talks with United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser during the stay.
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UPI
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Farm Bureau probes Legislature on right to work stance
President L. L. Lovell of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation says they aim to spotlight legislators before reelections and press candidates for the 1960 vote on right to work. He notes they are not leading now, betting progress hinges on the next governor’s race.
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L. L. Lovell
Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Two Elephants Fatally Shot at Prospect Park Zoo
In Brooklyn the Prospect Park Zoo reported two aging elephants, Astra 32 and Judy 48, were shot to death Sunday night. Authorities indicated Judy died due to old age and tooth loss while Astra succumbed to stress and deteriorating temper.
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Carhop Helen Dismore Killed In San Antonio Pit
UPI reports 24 year old carhop Helen May Dismore died in an early Sunday crash near San Antonio when her car veered and plunged into a 30 foot gravel pit just north of the city.
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Helen May Dismore
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Man Undaunted In Search For Wife
Carl Lullen aged 37 from Sligo Kentucky advertised for a wife and received three responses all deemed unsuitable as the women were too old. He remains undeterred and says he will continue the search to provide a wife to help him housekeep for himself and his two children.
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Carl Lullen
Sligo
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New Orleans Police Round Up Cattle In Rustling Probe
New Orleans police rounded up seven head of cattle in a dispute over ownership. The cattle were photographed and impounded in Orleans parish while ownership is determined.
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UPI
Orleans Parish
Hernandez Dies After Car Crash Near Pleasanton
Joe Hernandez of Charlotte Tex died in a Pleasanton hospital at 9 30 am Sunday from injuries after his car left State Highway 173 near here.
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