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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1965
Page
2
A white crowd of up to about 1,000 gathered in Philadelphia to protest a house sold to a Negro family. Rocks, garbage, and smashed windows marred the two story brick home as police kept order all night with barricades and limited street access.
Washington reports President Johnson intends to sign the $4.6 billion excise tax cut, with benefits to begin Tuesday and the signing anticipated Monday. Tokyo cites China readiness to send volunteers to Vietnam if called. Berlin notes East German helicopter over U.S. installations with a machine gun. Detroit covers debutante event for Christie Cole Wilson with notable parents and entertainers. Manila recounts search for seven missing U.S. airmen after B52 collision, one confirmed dead and survivors rescued at sea.
Nobel laureate physicist Walter H. Brattain, co inventor of the transistor, told a Senate national security subcommittee that an scientist who takes an extreme emotional public stand harms his usefulness as a government adviser. He said he did not believe such outbursts are currently a problem.
In New York a judge sentenced three New York City men and one Canadian woman for conspiring to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and Washington Monument. The four received maximum terms but with probation study of up to three months to possibly affect final outcomes.
In Blackpool England a Water pump failure disrupted Donald Weers act at the Queen's Theater as a planned waterfall effect for the next act spilled onto the stage moments before his closing number causing laughter and disbelief among the audience.
Members of the Barnette and Jarmon families gathered for a reunion at Fellowship Baptist Church in Dubach. Attendees included L S Barnette and Dinah, Glaydis Barnett, Everette Roberson, W W Cooper and family, E M Cooper and family, plus relatives from Long Beach California, West Monroe, Ruston, Huttig Arkansas, Waldo Arkansas, Longview Texas, and El Dorado Arkansas.
Springfield Illinois UPI reports the Illinois House approved a bill to outlaw B-girls and rejected a ban on BB guns from public sidewalks and streets. Representative C L McCormick defended the measure to forbid girls from soliciting drinks while criticizing the BB gun opposition with a quip about stopping everything wrong.
Canadian TV figure Bernard Braden halted his weekly show On The Braden Beat after hearing hammering from the rear of the studio. He found a workman erecting a sign reading Silence while the performance is in progress.
NBC and CBS filed complaints with the FCC arguing Comsat seeks excessive charges for television use of the Early Bird satellite. The proposed rate schedule would take effect June 27 unless suspended. A shakedown period runs before the date to test trans oceanic television transmission.
Mr Witty, manager of Metropolitan's Monroe office at 1404 No 18th St, begun as an agent in 1952. He rose to Assistant Manager after three years, joined the Field Training Division in 1960, and previously served as Assistant to the Regional Manager in Louisville. A Louisiana State University graduate.
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