Castro Seizes Texaco Plant Threatens Cuban Oil Grab
Fidel Castro ordered intervention of the Texaco refinery in Santiago after three oil firms refused to process Soviet crude in exchange for sugar. He warned of seizing American properties penny by penny if the U S cuts Cuban sugar purchases. Militia guards ringed the refinery as Castro signed the order under a 1938 law.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Texaco
Santiago
Castro
Cuba
United States
Sugar Workers Federation
Artemisa
Revolucion
Esso Standard
Shell Oil Co
Venezuela
Oil Bills Orleans Body Also Against 2 Proposals
SAM HANNA reports Orleans oil bills draw opposition as a council meeting weighs two propositions. The staff writer notes local officials and residents express concerns about costs and impact while outlining the political stakes and potential consequences for the community.
$40 Billion Defense Bill Faces Louisiana Battles in Legislature
In Baton Rouge Gov. Jimmie Davis opposes measures to shift wildlife to the capital while backing administration allies. A $40 billion defense bill advances from a Senate House conference, totaling 39.996 billion with allocations for Air Force Navy Marines Army and defense staff. The wildlife transfer amendment and a minerals board probe were rejected, amid New Orleans opposition.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
Wildlife Department
Davis
Aids
New Orleans
Chep Morrison
Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Senate House
Air Force
Navy
Army
Secretary of Defense
Rep
T. T. Fields
State Minerals Board and Conservation Departments
Appropriations Bill Increases by One Million in Senate
Baton Rouge AP report shows the general appropriations bill rising to about 493 million on the Senate floor with roughly 600000 allotted for salary hikes for top officials judges sheriffs clerks registrars and assistants. The raises depend on passage of several bills and Gov. Jimmie Davis may veto or sign the sections. Senate Finance Committee totals reach about 1250,000 as debates focus on ordinary state expenses.
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Senate
Jimmie Davis
Long Day Possible for Legislature Before Holiday Break
Senate president pro tempore Robert Ainsworth said top officers discussed a possible long workday tomorrow with a decision due tomorrow morning. Lawmakers weighed returning Sunday night to avoid post Fourth of July holiday traffic as the session nears its end on July 7.
Nightclub workers siege NY Liquor Authority office
About 200 nightclub workers including exotic dancers besieged the State Liquor Authority headquarters in Manhattan to protest closures of four West 52nd Street venues on charges of immoral activities. Dancers defended their art and training while picketers, many in regular clothes, urged reversal of the licenses revocation.
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State Liquor Authority
West 52Nd Street
City Hall
Lola
Leon & Eddie's
Mafrid
Weatherman Maintains Status Quo In Local Forecast
The weatherman keeps a steady forecast for Monroe residents with little change from day to day. Expect clear to partly cloudy skies through tomorrow with hot temperatures. Yesterday’s high reached 92 and a low of 72, with south to southeast winds at 6 to 18 mph statewide. Tonight lows in the 70s and today’s highs in the mid 90s.
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Monroe
Rockefeller Proposes Seven Point Care Plan for Aged
At the National Governors Conference in Glacier Park Montana Governor Nelson A Rockefeller unveils a seven point medical care program for the aged. He urges replacing federal state subsidies with social security funded health care and adds a payroll tax of half a percent for both employers and workers. Those over 65 could take larger old age benefits or buy health coverage via a health benefit trust fund. The plan faces a two thirds vote debate as governors decide whether to back using Social Security for the program.
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Glacier Park
Mont
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Congress
Rockefeller
National Governors Conference
House
Burr
Eisenhower
Resolutions Committee
Ouachita 4-H Electric Winners Named for 1959 60 Year
Lila Marie Fite of Ouachita Parish High School and Phillip Sims of Woodlawn School were named winners in the Ouachita Parish 4-H Farm and Home electric program. Announcement made late yesterday, based on records from the 1959 60 year on home electric developments. Runners-up were Ann Beard and Robert Hodge of West Monroe High School.
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Lila Marie Fite
Ouachita Parish High School
Phillip Sims
Woodlawn School
Ouachita Parish
Ann Beard
Robert Hodge
West Monroe High School
Nebraska Visitor Revered Utley Returns to West Monroe
Reverend Vernard Utley, formerly of West Monroe and now based in Plattsmouth Nebraska, will guest speak Wednesday night at Ridge Avenue Baptist Church where he was licensed and ordained a decade ago during a visit with relatives in West Monroe and Fairbanks.
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Vernard Utley
West Monroe
Plattsmouth
Neb
Fairbanks
Utley
Southern Baptist Mission
Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
Leap Frog Techniques Impress Western Experts in Moscow
Western specialists at an International Congress on Automations say Soviet achievements in automation mark a leap ahead. They note self optimising systems and pneumatic computing instruments, with Soviet institutes outperforming Western rivals and MIT as the lone exception. They say the Soviets use self correcting control to manage steel mill temperatures and optimize radio transmitter power.
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Moscow
Soviet Institute of Automation and Telemechanics
West
Storms Ravage Five States In Severe Outbreak
A vast outbreak of thunderstorms swept Minnesota Iowa Illinois Missouri and Kentucky, causing millions in damage in Southeastern Iowa alone. One death and numerous injuries reported as winds up to 125 mph felled trees and damaged buildings across Ottumwa and nearby towns.
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Mid- West
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Missouri
Ohio River
Kentucky
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Keokuk
Disaster Group To Review Drought Crop Ruin
Louisiana state Disaster Committee meets in Alexandria to review drought related crop and disaster reports. They will prepare a report for Gov. Davis to consider requesting a federal drought disaster declaration. Committee includes USDA heads Civil Defense and state Agriculture officials serve in advisory roles.
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Alexandria
Louisiana State Disaster Committee
Jimmie H. Davis
Eisenhower
U.S. Department of Agriculture Department
Civil Defense
State Department of Agriculture
George Kimbrough
Tallulah
Agriculture Stabilization Committee
Stabilization Committee
C. E. Slack
Manned Rocket Flight Seen Soon by NASA Leader
NASA administrator T Keith Glennan announced plans to send a man on a 200 mile rocket flight within months. He spoke at the Threshold of Space display in Washington as messages from Wallops Island were fed to a computer without human input. The first Mercury capsule will launch aboard a Redstone rocket aiming for 125 miles up and a 200 mile suborbital hop along the Atlantic Missile Range in 16 minutes.
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Washington
T. Keith Glennan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
Atlantic
Monroe council delays recreation plans while hiring architects
Mayor W L Howard said no definite building plans exist yet for new recreational facilities in Monroe though contracts will authorize preliminary designs for several centers. The council will also have Monroe architects Johns and Neel design plans for a municipal auditorium and Milton King and W King Stubbs for a new city hall and jail with funding via an interest free loan.
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W. L
Jack) Howard
Monroe
Howard
H.H.F.A
Rivers and Heuer
H. H. Land
Parkview Subdivision
Bryants’ Addition
Berg Jones Lane
College
Booker T. Washington
Parkview
Johns and Neel
Milton King
W. King Stubbs
Former Local Resident Dies in Baton Rouge
William Derwood Cann, 74, a former Monroe resident, died this morning in a New Orleans hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born in Bosco and lived 30 years in Monroe before moving to Baton Rouge, where his son W. Derwood Cann, Jr. is a noted businessman. Funeral arrangements will be at Southside Baptist Church in Baton Rouge Thursday afternoon, with interment at Old Magnolia Cemetery under Hollabough and Spinder Funeral Home.
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William Derwood Cann
Monroe
New Orleans
Abraham Allen Cann
Elizabeth Ramsey Cann
Bosco
Cann
Baton Rouge
W. Derwood Cann
Southside Baptist Church
Old Magnolia Cemetery
Hollabough and Spinder Funeral Home of
Todays Chuckle No Man Goes Before His Time Joke
A brief humorous line notes that no man proceeds ahead of schedule unless the boss leaves early, playing on workplace timing and authority with light satirical tone.
Recess Called In Congress Until August
Democratic leaders called Congress to recess for the presidential nominating conventions and to reconvene August 8. Protests arose but the plan aims to allow the GOP and Democratic nominees to confront each other in the Senate chamber if Nixon presides. The Democratic front runner for the nomination is Senator John.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Six Boys Feared Drowned In Wisconsin River
MAULTON Wisconsin AP Six boys aged 12 to 14 are believed to have drowned in the Wisconsin River Tuesday night while trying to reach an island opposite a camp for underprivileged children. They held a rope from the river bank as the current swept them under. no trace has been found. Initially five were missing, later updated to six.
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Maulton
Wis
Wisconsin
W. Pomirko
Pomirko
Kennedy Boosts 1st Ballot Total
Kennedy leads the Democratic National Convention delegate count with 534 votes on the first ballot. AP tallies show Johnson 206, Symington 76.5, Stevenson 34, Humphrey 53.5, favorites and others 205, uncommitted 389, with Mississippi yet to choose its 23 votes.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Associated Press
Massachusetts
Michigan
Montana
Los Angeles
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Adlai E. Stevenson
Hubert H Humphrey
Minnesota
Favorite Sons
Mississippi
North Dakota Senate Race Narrowly Ahead For Davis
Gov. John E. Davis, Republican, held a slim lead over Democratic Rep. Quentin Burdick in the North Dakota special Senate election as 1,576 of 2,310 precincts reported. Unofficial totals showed Davis about 51 percent with 83,961 votes to Burdick’s 80,250, as rural areas remained to report and both candidates warned the result was still very close.
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Fargo
N.D
John E. Davis
Quentin Burdick
North Dakota
Senate
Davis
Burdick
Rees Diary Type Account Of 59 Murders Revealed
Police sources report contents of a diary style record tied to the 1959 Carroll Jackson family killings in Virginia and Maryland. The document presented to a federal grand jury in Maryland describes abduction, murder of the mother and young daughter, with graphic perverse detail and a photo of the victims.
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Baltimore
UPI
Melvin Davis Rees, Jr
Carroll V. Jackson
Jackson
Fredericksburg
Louisa County
Rees
Hayattsville
Cow calf wanted ad attracts quick offers
Wanted ad seeks cow and calf for immediate sale. Readers placed calls, with one listing a sold Guernsey cow and calf the first day. Contact numbers FA 3-8902 and FA 2-516 for inquiries, and ask about seven day rates with cancellation privileges.
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News-Star—World
Guernsey
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Lasley Downes
Rayville
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Davis Forces
Weatherman
Status Quo
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Twin City
Nebraska
Red Automation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henderson Ky
Tri State Plastics
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