Seaway Opens In U S Canadian Unity For St Lawrence
The St Lawrence Seaway, a joint US Canada project, was formally dedicated last week signaling enduring friendship. The waterway extends about 2300 miles inland from the Atlantic, with a total outlay over 450 million dollars. Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower attended the dedication.
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United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
International Partnership
Atlantic Ocean
Monroe Mews-Star June 30 1959
Local page from The Monroe Mews-Star dated Tuesday June 30 1959 highlights community notices and brief local items. Names and places appear in short paragraphs reflecting typical small-town daily life.
Louisiana Shrimp Industry Eyes No 1 National Rank
Editorial notes Louisiana’s shrimp catch recovering after 1958 decline when Texas and Florida led. Conservation and enforcement boosted May results. white shrimp expected to boost late summer harvest. If trend holds, Louisiana could regain top national status with about 100 billion pounds annually, boosting jobs and family food like gumbo and shrimp dishes.
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Texas
Florida
Louisiana
When Gypsy Rose Lee and Sister June Havoc Captivate Broadway
A cub reporter recalls meeting Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc as their rise in theater brings social attention. He contrasts their public careers with family histories, noting bold methods, literary ambitions, and the wider society from vaudeville to royalty, with mixed admiration and critique.
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Gypsy Rose Lee
June Havoc
Gypsy
Minsky Freres
Lily Langtry
Mother
Ethel Merman
Dreiser
Miss June
Churchill
Roosevelts
Hovick Sisters
Seattle
Sir Winston
Mikhailovich
Laval
Petain
Brann
Mussolini
Gloria Vanderbilt
England
Beacon Hill
Fifth Avenue
Philip of England
Frank Sinatra
Hollywood
Leo Durocher
Allen Smiley
Buggsy Siegal
Edward
Prince of Wales
Paris
Vienna
Germany
Ribbentrop
Poland
London
Clare Luce
Rome
Hovick
Criticism Mounting for Lyndon Johnson in 1960 Prospects
Criticism grows of Sen. Lyndon Johnson as a potential 1960 Democratic president. Critics say he leads the Senate with a strong hand and concedes too much to President Eisenhower. Proxmire McNamara Morse fault his one man show and jobless pay handling. Johnson defends his pragmatism amid mounting dissent.
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Associated Press News
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Pat McNamara
Michigan
Democratic National Committee
Texas
House
Sam Rayburn
Robert R. Nathan
Americans For Democratic Action
Dixie-Labor Alliances threaten Southern electoral leverage
A bold plan by Northern Dixiecrats and Southern leaders aims to free 100 Southern electors from national party control, risking a House vote if no majority emerges. Nine states have moved to free electors, with Alabama Mississippi Georgia Arkansas Florida and Texas already active, while North Carolina weakly supported and Virginia already allowing personal votes. The effort, tied to Butler and Johnson era politics, seeks to reshape Supreme Court
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Washington
Paul Butler
Democratic Party
Philadelphia
National Party
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Alabama
Lister Hill
John Sparkman
Democratic State Committee
John Patterson
Florida
State Senate
Texas
Senate
South Carolina
State Committee
Strom Thurmond
Virginia
North Carolina
Did Klaus Fuchs deserve capital punishment and exile
The piece questions whether Fuchs, who betrayed Britain and helped pass atomic secrets, deserved execution. It contrasts his nine and a half year sentence, later parole, and exile behind the Iron Curtain with debates on capital punishment, treason, and rehabilitation amid racial crime coverage and public outrage.
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Washington
Klaus Fuchs
Great Britain
Florida
Charles Starkweather
Nebraska
Britain
United States
Rosenbergs
America
Fuchs
England
How To Keep Well by Dr. Van Dellen
Editorial style health column advising elderly care and housing near town centers. Discusses diet, supplements, and home comforts like beds and shoes, plus how doctors answer questions by mail. Includes brief Q&A on iodine thyroid treatment and heart illness. Mentions hunger strike by Palestinian refugees planning during Dag Hammarskjold visit.
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van Dellen
TRIKE
Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Middle East
Radio
Damascus
Hammarskjold
Israel
Monroe News-Star masthead and publisher history
The Monroe News-Star records its publishers John D. Ewing 1929 1938 Wilson Ewing 1938 1952 and staff roles including Editor Mann Editor and Executive Editor. It notes publication daily except weekends and ads distribution by The Branham Company with a statement of journalistic principles and AP affiliation.
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John D. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Monroe
News-Star—World Publishing Corporation
Olive
North Fourth St
Obert Ewing, Jr
Willam H Bronson
Richard Hale
Edmund G. Brown
Jack Gates
Walter B Hatten Mann
Associated Press
Branham Company National Advertiaing Representatives
Newark
Atlanta
Detroit
Memphis
Dallas
San Francisco
Los Ameles
Charlotte Onroe News-Star
Anen
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Yale University
California
U.S
Vermont
WAL Sample
Wheelis
Veget
Monroe Mews
Charles H. Lyles
Branch of Statistics
South Atlantic and
Gulf
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
BY Westbrook Pegler
BY James Marlow
Dixie
National Committee For
Lyndon B. Johnson
Roosevelt
Truman
Fulton Lewis
Party
Mississippi
James Coleman
Eastland and Stennis
Georgia
Arkansas
Algiers
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Theodore R. van Dellen
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