Insecticides Bill Introduced In La Legislature
In Baton Rouge the House Agriculture Committee will hear Rep. Lawrence Gibbs’s bill to require labeling of insecticides by season and stored usage guidelines. The measure advances after farm complaints about poor pest control, especially in cotton, with other bills on powdered milk labeling and trespass lines discussed.
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Nick Cefalu
House Agriculture Committee
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
Commissioner of Agriculture
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Cefalu
Agriculture Committee
Louisiana
Louisiana Department of Health
House
Commission
Justice of the Peace
Bandit Caught By Flying Tackle
Herbert Williams 37 faces robbery and aggravated battery charges after a high school football player tackled him to stop a purse snatch outside a New Orleans bank. Abel Parr 61 a bank messenger reported the $1,876 loss as James Lawrence chased the suspect from his car shouting stop that man. Lawrence tackled Williams to halt the crime.
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New Orleans
Herbert Williams
Williams
Abel Parr
Parr
James Lawrence
Lawrence
Powell Requests Suit Dismissal
Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seeks dismissal of his federal income tax evasion indictment in New York. His lawyer Edward Bennett Williams also asked for grand jury minutes and tax return copies, with motions to be argued next Monday and a trial date if denied.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
D-Ny
Edward Bennett Williams
Tion
Williams
Powell
Thomas A. Bolan
U.S
Bolan
The
National Review
U.S. District Court
Doubts Rise on Southern Baptist and Northern Union Merger
Rep. Brooks Hays of Arkansas, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, says merger with the American Baptist Convention seems unlikely in the near or foreseeable future. ABC delegates choose Valley Forge, Pa., as HQ site near Philadelphia on a 27.6 acre tract, rejecting New York or Chicago options after four days of debate.
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Cincinnati
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptists
Northern Baptists
American Baptist Convention
ABC
Valley Forge
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Future Role of Electricity in the Home Highlighted
The article traces electricity’s growth from Edison’s 1882 aims to modern home use. It notes rising consumption from 200 kWh in 1913 to 600 in 1933 and 3000 by 1946, urges planning for future electric expansion, and advises contractors to design systems with capacity for tomorrow’s appliances.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Edison
Mmany
Second Brutality Hearing Opens For Ex Police Trio
HATTIESBURG AP Hearings before the city civil service commission entered a second session with former Police Chief W N Johnson and three ex officers seeking to return to duty. A Mississippi Southern College freshman faced police brutality charges that led to Johnson's demotion and 30 day suspension without pay. Sgt Lester Blackburn and patrolmen J C Smith and William Trussell were fired while Pti W F Nicholas was suspended 30 days. Nicholas did not appeal but others seek reversal of mayor and commission actions. Hugh Ackis testified he was beaten after a claim of gambling at the station following a loss in a domino game.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
City Civil Service Commission
W. N. Johnson
Mississippi Southern College
Johnson
Lester Blackburn
J. C. Smith
William Trussell
Pti
W. F. Nicholas
Nicholas
Hugh Ackis
Birmingham
Ala
Ackis
Payne Muskie Win Maine Senate Test
Payne wins renomination in early bird primaries while Muskie runs unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The Payne Muskie Senate clash will occur Sept. 8 as Maine ends the first in the nation voting tradition.
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Payne
Muskie
Maine
Portland
UPI
Frederick G. Payne
Edmund
Herman D. Sahagian
Belgrade
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Goldfine
Man fined for flooding teen dance with garden hose
In Wolverhampton John Archibald Mac Queen paid 26 pounds after he flooded a basement apartment party while arguing with rock and roll. He claimed he thought the candlelit room was on fire. In Washington President Eisenhower criticized doctors ban on visiting Colorado saying he got sick there once and the doctors are nuts.
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England
UPI
John Archibald MacQueen
Washington
Eisenhower
Colorado
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