Supreme Court tackles broadcast censorship and libel issue
Washington UPI reports the Supreme Court will decide if broadcasters may censor political speech deemed libelous under the Federal Communications Act of 1934. Justices consider whether equal time applies to news as well as speeches and if the ban prevents any censorship even for libelous content.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Eisenhower
Itinerant Sawmill Worker Suspected In Virginia Family Slaying
Anne Arundel County police pursue a theory that a mobile sawmill worker may have killed a Virginia family of four. The two bodies were found near Fredericksburg on March 5, and the remaining two were found in a Shallow grave at Gambrills, Maryland, as investigators link the killings to nearby saw mills and locations in Mineral Virginia and Spotsylvania County.
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Annapolis, Md
Anne Arundel County
Virginia
Wilbur Wade
Mineral
Fredericksburg
Gambrills
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
Jackson
Janet
Spotsylvania County
Susan Ann
Here
Ft. Meade
Margaret Harold
Sanity Hearing Slated Tuesday For Mrs. Duncan
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, condemned to death for hiring two men to kill her son's wife Olga, 30, will have a sanity hearing in Ventura Superior Court. Judge Charles F. Blackstone will decide sanity based on reports from two psychiatrists after testimonies at the sentencing hearing.
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Ventura
Calif
UPI
Elizabeth Duncan
Charles F. Blackstone
California
Ward Sullivan
Roy Gustafson
Blackstock
Egypt Denies Soviet Economic Link Claim
Cairo reports deny that the Egyptian-Syrian economy is tied to the Soviet Union. Officials cite Nasser's independence from Moscow despite Cairo's military ties, including Soviet arms from jets to submarines, tanks, and small arms.
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Egypt
Cairo
United Arab Republic
UPI
Soviet Union
Gamal Abdel Nasser
U.S.S.R
Tito
Yugoslavia
Real Estate Transfers in Ouachita Parish Listings
Real estate transfers filed in Ouachita Parish show multiple sales including James A. Evans to Darel L. Walker for 6500 dollars with lots 11 and 12 in Evans subdivision. Other deeds include Janice Goulette to Dr. Rubie Henry for an undivided one eighth in Square H West Monroe for 1343.75 dollars and Kellogg Realty to MRK Corp for the west half of the northwest quarter in section 20 for 23000 dollars.
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Ouachita Parish
James A. Evans Et
MRK Corp
Township 18
Range 5
Susie Brass
Nicholas J. Sebastian, Jr
Christian A. Ulrich
Elle R. Roberts
Bertie Carnes Harper
Luther Reed, Sr
Hanna- Bynum
Identical Twins Share Births At St. Mark's Hospital
In Salt Lake City AP reports identical twins Mrs Merrill L Anglesey and Mrs Glen Brock both gave birth to daughters Sunday at St Mark's Hospital. Their obstetrician Dr Kenneth Hill delivered a daughter for their older sister Mrs Kirt J Lamb 67 minutes earlier. Both births were first for each woman.
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Salt Lake City
Merrill L. Anglesey
Glen Brock
Kenneth Hill
Kirt J. Lamb
St. Mark’s Hospital
Negro Faces Death Penalty For Slaying In Louisiana
Covington Louisiana AP Ma Reese Bickham a 42 year old Negro was found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Gus Gill 74 and the death penalty mandated He killed Gill and officer Jake Galloway 68 after going to the home of his common law wife to investigate a disturbance report Gill and Galloway were white and were slain during the incident Bickham fled in the patrol car and was later arrested near Baton Rouge
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Covington
Mareese Bickham
Mandeville
Bickham
Tylertown
Miss
Gus Gill
Gill
Jake Galloway
Galloway
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Nothing New On Negotiation Front In Paper Walkout
In St Louis the St Louis Newspaper Guild strike against the Globe-Democrat enters its second month with no new talks scheduled. A Sunday rally and 196 to 24 vote rejected the editor’s latest proposal calling it a surrender of job security. The publisher criticized the vote as not secret and therefore not indicative.
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ST. Louis
UPID
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Globe-Democrat
Globe Democrat
Richard H. Amberg
Amberg
Pulitzer Publishing Co
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Closed Circuit To Carry Elvis Telecast Planned
Elvis Presley’s first public appearance after Army induction is planned as a closed-circuit telecast from City Auditorium in Memphis. Col. Tom Parker said the show would be piped to theaters nationwide in March or April 1960.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Elvis Presley
Army
Presley
Tom Parker
City Auditorium
Fire rescue saves elderly man from West Monroe blaze
In West Monroe an elderly man identified as J. W. Call is hospitalized in fair condition after neighbors pulled him from an upstairs apartment fire at 505 Mill Street. Fire Chief E. C. Taylor said the blaze started by smoking in bed required five of seven engines to contain the fire, with significant water damage to ground apartments. C. H. Nelson credited with saving Call through artificial respiration aided by bystanders.
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West Monroe
J. W. Call
Charity Hospital
Mill Street
Call
C. H. Nelson
North Fourth Street
E. C. Taylor
G. C. Allbritton
Nelson
Fire Department
Taylor
Persistence Pays Off London Couple Marries After 1932 Rejections
Vera Hay ward refused Roy Horne 1931 proposals before finally accepting proposal 1932 and the couple wed on Saturday in London.
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London
UPI
Vera Hayward
Roy Horne
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