Envoys Doubt Red Buildup Real Menace
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home doubt that Red China's military buildup in Fukien Province signals a plan to strike the offshore islands Quemoy and Matsu. They suggest the buildup may aim to silence Chiang Kai-shek's threats to invade the mainland. The Red coast shelling continued as Chen Yi accused Nationalists of planning an invasion with U.S. help. Rusk, Home and allied leaders met after talks with de Gaulle and Adenauer as Western allies seek Berlin peace progress.
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London
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Red
Rusk
Home
Quemoy
Matsu
Peiping
Red China
Chen Yi
U.S
Southeast China
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
America
Moscow
Soviet Union
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Harper Bill Seeks End To City Court New Trials
Judge W M Harper won committee approval for a bill by Sen Jamar Adcock to end new trials in city courts. The measure provides appeals on the record to district court and aims to abandon the de novo system as outdated. Support came from Judge Woodrow Wilson. opposition from the Louisiana Bar Association.
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Baton Rouge
W. M. Harper
Monroe
Jamar Adcock
House
T. T. Fields
Farmerville
Louisville Ave
Harper
Woodrow Wilson
Bastrop
House of Delegates
Louisiana Bar Association
Cecile Blair
Alexandria
Wilson
Impatient Man Uses Plane To Find Stolen Car
John C. Adomelis reported a missing car and then used a separate vehicle to reach the airport. He flew over Waterbury scanning for the sedan, spotted it near railroad tracks, and alerted police to recover the vehicle.
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Waterbury
Conn
John C. Adomelis
Adomelis
GOP Pounds Anti Kennedy Market Theme
In Washington Republicans attack President Kennedy's policies as causing stock market decline. The Senate Republican Policy Committee joins the Republican National Committee in labeling Wall Street's drop a Kennedy crash. Javits of New York urges a tax program to restore business confidence and speed economic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Kennedy
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Republicanational Committee
Wall Street
Yale
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Young Phillip McDonald Finds Beekeeping Adventure
Eleven year old Phillip McDonald of Monroe got swarmed by bees at Bernstein Park while fishing with his parents. The family used a new beegu m to relocate the swarm from a pickup truck to their yard where the bees will work for the new owner.
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Phillip McDonald
South Tenth Street
Monroe
Bernstein Park
Phillip
Louisiana League backs appointive education boss bill
The Louisiana League of Women Voters urged passage of Sen. Jamar Adcock’s constitutional proposal to abolish the elected state superintendent post in favor of an appointive commissioner. Adcock delayed sending the measure forward amid senator criticism of rushed committee action.
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Shelby M. Jackson
Adcock
B. H. Rogers
Grand Cane
Jackson
Mrs Gilbert Under Restraint Over Artwork Seizure
NEW YORK AP The E L Bruce Co moved in State Supreme Court to restrain Rhoda Gilbert wife of its former president from disposing of paintings and furnishings valued at 867784. The company says Gilbert assigned the property to cover notes totaling 1930000. Gilbert fled to Brazil after admitting unauthorized withdrawals from the hardwood flooring firm. Justice Francis X Conan signed a stay order barring disposal of the property including Gilbert's wardrobe pending a hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
E. L. Bruce Co., Inc
State Supreme Court
Rhoda Gilbert
Gilbert
Brazil
Francis X. Conan
Legislator Backs Austere Budget As House Debates
Gov. Jimmie H. Davis urged a strict spending plan as the Legislature began action on the 495 million general appropriations bill. House members planned a swift one session passage, with debate on parish by parish school funding and concerns over nine month operation. Senator Jamar Adcock’s effort to make Jackson’s post appointive sparked a one hour Senate debate before being sent back to the calendar for possible revival.
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Sam Hanna
Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
House
Davis
Bryan Lehmann
Norco
Shelby M. Jackson
Senate
Jamar Adcock
Monroe
Jackson
Adcock
Reapportionment Bills Die In Senate Committee
In Baton Rouge, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected multiple reapportionment bills 3-5. Former senator J. D. DeBlieux warned he will file a federal suit if action is not taken, arguing current maps let 33 percent of people control the House and 34 percent control the Senate, while other reapportionment efforts also failed.
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House
Senate
DeBlieux
Louisiana Advisory Committee On Civil Rights
Living Costs in May Hold at Record Level
Washington AP reports May consumer costs unchanged at 105.2 percent of the 1957-59 base, offset by cheaper food and gas with higher housing and medical care. Labor official Robert J. Myers calls May steady, predicts a small rise in June. he notes after tax earnings of factory workers rose to a new high as hours and hourly wages increased.
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Washington
Robert J. Myers
Labor Department
Myers
Died After Beating at State Industrial School
East Baton Rouge coroner ruled a 15 year old New Orleans Negro died from multiple contusions inflicted by a severe beating with a leather strap. Hosea Fountain, inmate at the Louisiana State Industrial School for Colored Youth, died Monday from traumatic injury after entering the institution from New Orleans. Sheriff deputies said the youth was on a work detail Monday and refused to work.
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Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Chester Williams
Hosea Fountain
Louisiana State Industrial School For
Fountain
Mississippi court orders desegregation injunction for Ole Miss
The 5th Circuit ordered Judge Sidney Mize to issue an injunction requiring the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first Mississippi desegregation case affecting the state. The decision found no valid non discriminatory reason for rejecting Meredith and accused Ole Miss of delaying and harassing tactics. Meredith, an Air Force veteran who turned 29, welcomed the ruling as a birthday surprise and described his aim as seeking common ground for settlement.
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Jackson, Miss
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Dist
Sidney Mize
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
New Orleans
Mize
Ole Miss
James H. Meredith
Meredith
John Minor Wisdom
Air Force
Weather outlook with scattered storms through Wednesday
Forecasters expect considerable cloudiness and scattered thundershowers through Wednesday with little temperature change. Highs around 88 today and Wednesday, lows near 70, variable winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts in storms. Sunset 7:19 pm, sunrise 5:03 am. Monroe rainfall Monday ranged from traces to .56 inch, with .51 inch at St Joseph and .56 at Calhoun.
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Wednesady
Monroe
Winnsboro
Calhoun
St. Joseph
Caesar's Wife Quips About Brutus Borrowing Knife
A light line from a daily joke panel notes Caesar's wife quipping that Brutus dropped by and borrowed the hunting knife, turning a domestic moment into a punchline without menacing details.
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Caesar
Brutus
Repeats Old Charge Denied By Solvents
Washington AP report details lawyer Frank Cain testifying before a House subcommittee about a mid March meeting with Billie Sol Estes that contradicts Maynard C Wheeler of Commercial Solvents Corp. Wheeler calls Cain's Texas testimony false. The conflict may prompt perjury review by Justice Department while Estes faces fraud and theft charges.
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Washington (Ap
Frank Cain
Billie Sol Estes
Maynard C. Wheeler
Commercial Solvents Corp
Cain
House
Texas Court of Inquiry
Estes’ Pecos
Tex
Wheeler
Texas
Dallas
Estes
Subcommittee
James Naughton
Justice Department
Naughton
West Texas
Pecos
Congo Unity Talks End in Discord as Tshombe Leaves
Premier Cyrille Adoula and Katanga President Moise Tshombé concluded six weeks of unity negotiations in discord. Tshombe departed Elisabethville while Adoula urged stronger UN measures to end Katanga’s secession, saying talks proved futile. Adoula cited hardened resistance to reunification and noted 41 meetings, blaming the UN for steadier action.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Cyrille Adoula
Katanga
Moise Tshom
Tshombe
Elisabethville
Adoula
United Nations
Deadline Today for Fourth Judicial District Judge Qualifying
The deadline today at 5 p m sets qualification for the newly created Fourth Judicial District judge position. Two Monroe attorneys, George Fink and Hillyer S Parker, have qualified. Both seek the third judgeship in the district court covering Morehouse and Ouachita parishes. The post was created by the Louisiana Legislature and signed by Gov Jimmie H Davis.
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Fourth Judicial District
Monroe
George Fink
Hillyer S. Parker
Louisiana
Jimmie H. Davis
Morehouse
Quachita Parishes
Air Force sergeant kills wife and two others in Evansville
Jimmy Ray Wilson, 23, an Air Force sergeant home on leave, admitted killing his estranged wife Walda Wilson, 27, her father Walter Stocky, 49, and family friend Ronald Birkhead, 29, at the Stocky residence after a failed attempt to persuade her to return. Stocky's wife Stella and the couple’s 7-year-old daughter Cindy survived. Wilson, arrested near his parents' home, claimed Birkhead was a rival and said he dumped the shotgun en route to police.
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Evansville
Ind
Air Force
Arthur F. Temme
Jimmy Ray Wilson
Walda
Walter Stocky
Ronald Birkhead
Stocky
Stella
Wilsons
Cindy
Wilson
Estel Wilson
Temme
Warren
Mich
Birkhead
Sterlington to Get Tobacco Tax Funds
Sterlington becomes eligible on July 1 to receive 4.65 per person from tobacco tax funds after Governor Jimmie H. Davis signed the bill. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Mike John Jr and co sponsored by Rep. Lawrence Gibbs and Sen. Jamar Adcock, enables Sterlington to join the tobacco tax structure.
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Baton Rouge
Sterlington
Jimmie H. Davis
Rep
Mike John Jr
Monroe
Lawrence Gibbs
Sen
Jamar Adcock
Supreme Court bars state sponsored school prayers
The Supreme Court ruled that a nonsectarian 22 word New York prayer in public schools violated the First Amendment. The decision, in a 6 to 1 ruling, sparks debate on allowed religious observances in schools and could curb practices from Bible readings to Christmas plays.
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Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
New Hyde Park
N.Y
New York
New York Civil Liberties Union
Long Island
William J. Butler
Alan Reitman
The
American Civil Liberties Union
New York Union
Churchmen React to Supreme Court Prayer Ruling
Reactions from prominent church leaders range from outrage to approval over the 6 1 decision banning daily state prayers in public schools. Harold R Albert calls the trend toward less religious expression disastrous while A M Sonnabend welcomes the ruling. Bundquist hails it as a step forward for religious freedom and state church separation.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Harold R. Albert
Pittsburgh
A. M. Sonnabend
Boston
American Jewish Committee
George E. Bundquist
The
New York Civil Liberties Union
Resumption Of Strike Hinges In Court Order
New York AP report says a possible restarts of the Pan Am and Eastern flight engineers strike hinges on a federal hearing before Judge George Rosling. If the temporary restraining order is lifted, Pan Am's 500 engineers may strike again immediately.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
Daniel Kornblum
Engineers’ Union
U.S. District Court
Kornblum
Ron A. Brown
Pan Am
George Rosling
Rosling
National Railway Labor Act
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern
Arthur J. Goldberg
Washington
AFL - Cio
Flight Engineers International Association
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