Governor Davis hints at tidelands session amid reapportionment suit
The governor suggested a possible special session on tidelands settlement as lawmakers debated reapportionment. He noted the dispute over Gulf bottom ownership has blocked over 500 million in oil and gas royalties and would require legislative approval. Davis praised the legislature and sang to close his appearance, with Avis performing You Are My Sunshine.
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St. John
St. Charles
Mollere
Davis
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Gulf Bottom
Washington
Justice and Interior Department
Tidelands
Louisiana
Avis
Aycock
U.S
Supreme Court
Plymouth Rock
Republic
Lincoln
Christ
Profumo affair unfolds as Keeler testifies against Ward
Christine Keeler describes gifts from men including Profumo saying money was for her mother. Ward denies relations with her as eight charges are outlined by prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-JJones. Profumo resigned from government after admitting the affair claim.
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Ward
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
Profumo
Christine
House of Commons
Miss Keeler
Chit-Chat Foundation Sponsors LSU Science Training Program
The Chit-Chat Foundation funds a two month training program at Louisiana State University to offer top science students a chance to study physical science research. From the Twin Cities attend Neville High student Alva Stephenson Heffmen Jr and Ouachita Parish High students William Earl Gore and Jerry Lane Speir along with West Monroe High students William Benton Watkins and Morgan Corneilius Weston.
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Louisiana State University
Twin Cities
Alva Stephenson Heffmen, Jr
Neville High
William Earl Gore
Jerry Lane Speir
Ouachita Parish
William Benton Watkins
Morgan Corneilius Weston
West Monroe High
Weather summary for Monroe and vicinity and surrounding regions
Partly cloudy through Saturday with widely scattered thundershowers and little temperature change across areas including Monroe Louisiana Delta and Mississippi. Highs mostly in the upper 80s to mid 90s, lows in the mid 60s to low 70s with light rainfall and dew points in the upper 60s to 70s.
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Monroe
Louisiana Delta
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Nixon Sees Pope Paul VI in Private Vatican Audience
Richard Nixon and his wife and two daughters met Pope Paul VI in a private library session lasting over 15 minutes. The former VP praised the Pope as vigorous and noted his interest in American people and global issues.
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Richard M. Nixon
Paul VI
Nixon
Pope
Martin J. O'Conner
Scranton
North American Pontifical College
Patricia
Julie
Nixons
Athens
Florence
Venice
John XXII
Pope Pius XII
Pope Paul
Castro Signals Offensive Against Counterrevolutionaries in Cuba
Fidel Castro told sugar workers in Havana that the army would soon launch an offensive against remaining anti-C Castro opponents in Las Villas Province while reporting guerrillas wiped out in Matanzas and half the Las Villas counterrevolutionaries gone. He cited poor harvests due to rains imperialist blockade and maneuvering. He noted a Soviet mission to study cane cutting and promised better equipment, but warned salaries rise only with higher output.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Las Villas
Matanzas
Castro
Cuba
River Flood Stages Shift Over 24 Hour Period
River levels rise and fall over a 24 hour cycle with stage changes noted as flood risk remains present. Authorities monitor gauges and issue alerts as waters move through floodplain areas.
Aycock critiques federal overreach and states rights in Louisiana
Louisiana Lt. Gov. C. C. Aycock told about 50 Monroe Optimist Club members that federal interference in states rights and integration policies, he warned, risks destroying local government. He urged voters to elect qualified leaders and defend Americanism and constitutional government.
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Louisiana
C. C
Taddy) Aycock
Aycock
Monroe
Little Rock
New Orleans
Oxford
Harvard
John Q
Washington
Kennedy urges Ireland as beacon of small nations in world peace
President Kennedy lauds Ireland as a model for small nations to build equal, fruitful ties with former powers and to play a constructive role in the United Nations. He cites Ireland’s independence, freedom, and recent Dublin honors, including a city freeman title in Cork.
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Ireland
Kennedy
Great Britain
Island Republic
United Nations
U.S
Sean Lemass
Matthew McCloskey
Dublin
Cork
Vaccinations Of Swine To Begin
Baton Rouge AP reports a new state Livestock Sanitary Board rule requiring all swine sold at auction markets for breeding or feeding to be vaccinated against hog cholera. Vaccinated swine must be guaranteed on the purchaser’s premises 21 days after vaccination.
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Baton Rouge
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Argentina’s Sire Nigromante Tops 144 Thoroughbred Year
Nigromante, noted as the Candy Spots progenitor, is described as Argentina’s thoroughbred champion in the year 144 in the source.
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Nigromante
Candy Spots
Argentina
Northwestern Alumni Meet At Piccadilly With Kyser Speaker
Dr. John S. Kyser president of Northwestern State College spoke to about 100 alumni at the Piccadilly for the first area-wide Northwestern State Alumni Association meeting. He urged a large state fund allocation and outlined the college’s educational contributions in Louisiana. Mrs Daisy Bergeron is president, Joe Webb secretary-treasurer, with officials Dean Sylvan Nelkein and Dean Dudley Fulton present. The next meeting will be in Monroe in October.
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John S. Kyser
Northwestern State College
Northwestern State Alumni Association
Piccadilly
Kyser
Northwestern
Louisiana
Daisy Bergeron
West Monroe High School
Joe Webb
Sylvan Nelkein
Dudley Fulton
Monroe
Dan Sears retires after 25 years with West Monroe
Dan Sears retires today at age 66 after 25 years with the City of West Monroe. A farewell party is set for 3 p.m. in the old city hall on Trenton Street, honoring his service in the street and water and sewer departments. He will miss the city barn maintenance role and plans fishing and gardening at 114 Plum St.
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Dan Sears
West Monroe
Old City Hall
Trenton Street
Sears
Street Department
Water and Sewerage Department
Slim Townson
J. C. Fleming
Plum St
New York Cab Drivers Begin North Carolina Tour
Twenty five New York taxi drivers, famed for chat, tour North Carolina for three days as guests of the state. They will visit Old Salem, the Biltmore Estate at Asheville, the Oconaluftee Indian Village, and a Boone wagon train encampment reenacting Daniel Boone’s 1773 Blue Ridge crossing.
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Winston Salem
N.C
New York
Gab
North Carolina
Old Salem
Biltmore
George Vanderbilt
Asheville
Cherokee
Boone
Daniel Boone
The
Blue Ridge
Four Boys Drown In Riverside Farm Pond
Four boys aged 13 11 and 10 drowned while wading in a farm pond at Noah Mast farm near Riverside Iowa Mrs Mast warned them a deep section existed and later searchers recovered the bodies The victims were Raymond Gingerich 13 Johnny Yoder 11 and brothers David Bell 10 and Car Bell 9
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Riverside
Iowa
Noah Mast
Here
Nine Paralytic Polio Cases Reported in U S
The Communicable Disease Center reported nine paralytic polio cases in the United States last week, with five in the Carlisle area of Pennsylvania. Four states Alabama Tennessee Arkansas and Illinois each had one case in the week ending June 9. Overall polio cases this year remain far below prior years.
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Atlanta, Ga
Communicable Disease Center
United States
Carlisle
Alabama
Tennessee
Arkansas
Illinois
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