Louisiana House Debates Two Ways to End Fiscal Sessions
The Louisiana House faces a choice between repealing the 30 day fiscal sessions begun in 1955 or approving a new split session plan. The Judiciary Committee sent both measures to the floor, with Bertrand leading the split session proposal and Cashie backing repeal. Deshotel and Campagna propose combining fiscal and regular sessions with a 180 day term and $8,000 salary.
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Bertrand
Tion
Kenneth Deshotel
St. Landry
Deshotel
Rep
August Campagna
St. Bernard
Moon Trip Illusions From Isolation Study
Boston AP reports Dr. Woodburn Heron of McGill University described experiments with 60 college men isolated in a soundproof cubicle wearing light diffusion goggles and blocked touch, recording declines in intellectual performance and aftereffects on vision and size perception.
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Boston
Woodburn Heron
Montreal
McGill University
Harvard Medical School
Man Finishes 342 Mile Walk To Straits Bridge
Marion Pearson a 60 year old Grand Rapids businessman completed a 342 mile walk from the Indiana Turnpike to the southern approach of the Straits of Mackinac bridge. He rested ten minutes hourly and averaged about three miles per hour taking twelve days.
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Straits OF Mackinac Bridge
Mich
Marion Pearson
Pearson
Grand Rapids
Indiana Turnpike
Adlai Denies He Received Goldfine Gifts
Adlai Stevenson denies any gifts from Bernard Goldfine calling the tipridiculous. Spokesman William Blair says Stevenson never met Goldfine and did not know him before the Sherman Adams affair. The anonymous source claimed three vicuna coats and a $900 hotel bill in San Francisco, while Stevenson travels to Russia to pursue a copyright agreement and plans to meet Khrushchev.
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London
UPI
Adlai Stevenson
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
William Blair
Stevenson
Goldfine
Sherman Adams
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
St. Francis Hotel
San Francisco
Russia
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Two Youths Rob New York Bank by Lifting Partner
In Manhattan's Chase Manhattan Bank two young men robbed a teller while one lifted the other to reach cash on a counter. About 20 people present. thieves described as two Negro youths around 20. They escaped into the crowd on Lower Broadway. Nearby seller Mary Proctor turned away to answer a call during the theft.
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New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Mary Proctor
Public Works Bill Passes Big Vote in House
The House approved a $1,077,827,200 public works appropriation for the next fiscal year by a 360 to 18 vote, sending the measure to the Senate. The bill funds nearly 50 planning and construction projects and includes a $20.4 million cut to the federal loan program for small irrigation projects.
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Washington
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