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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1961

Page

3

Bids Due June 28 for Four Northeast Louisiana Highway Projects

Louisiana Highway Director announces bid opening June 28 for four area projects in Ouachita Calhoun Richland and surrounding parishes. Plans include an underpass on South Second Street Monroe and grading drainage and pavement improvements on routes 15 880 876 and 622 with completion times from six to twenty months.

Baton Rouge Louisiana Ray W. Burgess South Second St Monroe Ouachita Parish Missouri Pacific Ouachita Ave South Second South Third Texas Avenue West Carroll — Kilbourne Kilbourne Franklin Metropolis - Gilbert Metropolis Gilbert Richland Mangham-Bell

Anti-Soviet Rallies Mark German Unity Day in Berlin

West Germans gathered in thousands to denounce Khrushchev's Berlin plan and insist on free nationwide elections to decide Germany's fate. Leaders Adenauer and Brandt urged unification through democratic means as memorial events marked an eighth anniversary of East German revolt while mourning 9,000 political prisoners and honoring those killed or jailed.

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Soviets Cite Love Behind Nureyev Defection

London AP report states Soviet officials blame romance for Rudolf Nureyev's Paris defection from the Kirov Ballet. Company members identify the woman involved as Clara Saint, 21, daughter of a Chilean painter in Paris. Interpreting for the troupe, Helen Konstantinovska noted the affair is painful yet Nureyev is young and the woman attractive.

London Paris Rudolf Nureyev Leningrad Kirov Ballet Covent Garden Clara Saint Helen Konstantinovska Nureyev le Bourget Moscow

Utah backs South stance in St Helena school case

Utah Attorney General Walter L. Budge joined nine Southern states in arguing St Helena Parish Louisiana may end its public school system. He said state action could terminate public education if residents choose private segregated schooling, while sixteen other states contend school closure is constitutional.

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