Gannett Officials Visit Monroe for News Star Acquisition
Gannett Company executives including Vincent Spezzano Allen H Neuharth Phillip Gialanella Douglas H McCorkindale and Paul Miller visited Monroe Thursday as the nationwide newspaper company completed the purchase of the Monroe News Star and Monroe Morning World. The group posed for photos with local staff during the closing moments of the deal.
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Gannett Company, Inc
Monroe
Nationwide
Gannett
Phillip Gialanella
Gannett South
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Douglas H. McCorkindale
Gannett Board
Paul Miller
Ken Purcell
Passman to Undergo Major Surgery Amid Park Probe
Former U S representative Otto Passman of Monroe will enter St Francis Hospital Sunday for major surgery and plans a two week stay. He has not received a questionnaire tied to the House probe into influence peddling involving Koreans and Park.
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Tom Walker
U.S
Otto Passman
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Passman
House Committee
Justice Department
Capitol Hill
Edwin Edwards
Elaine
Park
House Foreign Aid Subcommittee On Appropriations
Korea
Louisiana
Congress
Rockefeller Bids Farewell to Politics in NY Dinner
Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller ended his political career with a Waldorf Astoria dinner attended by about 2,200 guests including Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger. Ford lauded Rockefeller as a standout governor and praised his vice presidency performance.
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New York
UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Rockefeller
Waldorf- Astoria
Ford
New York State Republican Committee
Donn Starry
Starry
West Point
Pentagon
Army
Clifford Alexander
Bernard Rogers
Germany
Thomas Ross
Military of Defense
United States
Army Training and Doctrine Command
Ft. Monroe
Jews Protest Nazi March in Skokie July Parade
Holocaust survivor Sol Goldstein says Supreme Court rulings clear the way for a Nazi march in Skokie on July 4, calling it hatred masquerading as free speech. He notes 6,000 to 7,000 Holocaust survivors in the area and urges protecting people from deliberate hatred. The National Socialist Party of America plans a nationwide gathering for the parade.
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Tenn
UPI
James Earl Ray
Brushy Mountain State
Floyd Hooks
Ray
Cumberland Mountains
Martin Luther King Jr
Henderson
Hooks
Skokie
Sol Goldstein
Supreme Court
Goldstein
Said Goldstein
Chicago
National Socialist Party of America
State Agencies Break Promises
Senate Finance Committee chairman B B Rayburn accused some agency heads of breaking promises to accept budget cuts as lawmakers review a 3 million dollar state budget for the next year. The panel will vote on amendments next week while seeking funds for public employee pay raises. House committee also moved a four bill package raising fees for state services from a larger Henry package of ten bills.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Finance Committee
B.B
Rayburn
House
House Commerce Committee
E.L Henry
Henry
Violence mounts in South Africa on riot anniversary
In Johannesburg police wounded 11 black protesters during rock throwing looting in Soweto on the anniversary of bloody riots. Armored riot trucks patrolled as cold weather kept some indoors and a Soweto strike affected about half the 800,000 workers. Age details given for several injured, with authorities citing gunfire and buckshot. Spain shifts toward a democratic coalition as four decades of right rule end.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPI
Soweto
Patrolman Helps Overpower Robbery Suspects in Lansing
Lansing police officer Patrolman Mac J. Donnelly Jr. helped overpower two robbery suspects and free a hostage, then jumped into his own rescue during the incident.
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Lansing
Donnelly
Michigan National Bank
Lansing, Mich
UPI
Mac J. Donnelly Jr
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Becca Cottrill
State Department of Corrections
Washington
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Gen. Storry
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Daily Sun
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Daily
Madrid
Spain
Elias Goldman
Whites Ferry
West
Mary’s Flower Shop
Manhattan
Wembley
Nunn-Bush
Hush Puppies
Desjard
N. 3Rd
Bond
Bond's Bakery
Catalpa
Harrison
Downtown
Ladies Busken Sandels
Converse All Stars
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