Kennedy Awaits Board Report To Resolve Rail Crisis
President Kennedy awaits a three man emergency board's advisory recommendations on wage increases for about 450 000 rail workers amid a looming rail labor dispute. Unions demand raises while carriers seek inflationary restraint. The report covers nonoperating staff with two thirds of rail employees and precedes a 30 day negotiation window before a strike can occur.
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Kennedy
Walve
Washington
Wtee
White House
Ohio Democrats GOP To Select Nominees Tuesday
Ohio Democrats and Republicans will choose party nominees in primary elections Tuesday. Democrats are poised to win votes as campaigning favored their side, while Republicans seek a contender to topple incumbent U S Senator Lausche. Briley likely to win GOP nod. DiSalle expected to win Democratic governor nomination. Rhodes favored for Governor. Taft Jr. appears set to win the Republican congressional nomination for an at large seat.
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Columbus
Ohio
U.S
Frank J. Lausche
John Marshall Briley
Toledo
New York
McElroy
DiSalle
Ray T. Miller Sr
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
James A. Rhodes
U.S. House
Robert Taft Jr
Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati
Thomas Lowell Fees
Yellow Springs
Simeon, Fess
Taft
Ohio House
Mild Weather Forecast in Monroe Area
The Monroe area expects a high near 78 and a low around 55 for Friday. Recent conditions reached 76 with an overnight low of 54. Sunset is 6:51 p.m. and sunrise Friday at 5:19 a.m.
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Monroe
Rites Set For West Monroe Foreman Killed At Plant
Funeral services are scheduled for Charles M. Martin Sr., 40, of West Monroe at 2 p.m. Friday at McClendon Baptist Church. The Olin Mathieson plant death occurred when a fork truck tipped while lifting a heavy roll of paper, a battery pack weighing over 2,000 pounds.
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Charles M. Martin
Olin Mathieson
West Monroe
McClendon Baptist Church
D. O. Foster
Harold Cook
Charles Halstead
Kilpatrick
Twin City Memorial Gardens
South
Martin
Local officials honored with veterans service awards
Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs presents service awards to three local officials. Ouachita Parish Veterans Service Officer H. B. McClendon and office clerk Miss Lucille French receive fifteen year certificates. Assistant service officer Fred F. Ragland earns a ten year certificate.
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Louisiana
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Ouachita Parish
Veterans Service
H. B. McClendon
Lucille French
Fred FE. Ragland
Monroe Oil Masters Association Members Attend New Orleans Convention
Monroe group members Thomas J. Hyland and James W. Moore take part in the Louisiana Oil Masters Association convention in New Orleans from today through Saturday. Hyland chairs the convention program while Moore joins a panel.
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Monroe
Louisiana Oil Marsters Association
Thomas J. Hyland
James W. Moore
New Orleans
Hyland
Moore
Million Ton Pacific Nuclear Blast Marks Big Test
The United States ended its first week of Pacific tests with a third and largest burst, a million-ton yield shot over Christmas Island. Dropped from a plane, the low megaton explosion followed two smaller tests in Operation Dominic, prompting debates within the Kennedy administration on halting further nuclear tests after Dominic concludes.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Christmas Island
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Hiroshima
Dominic
Six Mississippi Men Charged in Jury Tampering Case
ABERDEEN Mississippi AP six Mississippi men charged with attempting bribery obstructing justice and conspiring to influence jurors in a federal whisky case tied to the January Grubbs slaying. Carl Murphy Jr acquitted on whisky charges, bond set for the others. all pleaded innocent.
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Aberdeen, Miss
Mississippi
Carl Murphy Jr
Lee County
James Grubbs
Verona
U. S
H. M. Ray
Murphy
Chester Ray Seago
Iuka
Carl Murphy Sr
Clarence William Riley
J. W. Riley
Hal Cooper Bourland
Monroe County
LeRoy Bourland
Herman Harold Hill
Aberdeen
Ray
Ruth West
Seago
Glenn Meets Cosmonaut In Washington
Soviet cosmonaut Ghermann Titov and U S astronaut John H Glenn Jr met in Washington at the National Academy of Sciences building. They spoke briefly in a friendly exchange and planned to address space scientists later, then toured the city with a White House stop to chat with President Kennedy.
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Washington
Ghermann
Titov
U.S
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
National Academy of Sciences
International Committee On Space Research
Caspar
The
Academy
Caspar Organization
H. C. van de Hulst
Netherlands
Richard W. Porter
Cospar
Porter
S. Douglas Cornell
Anastoly F. Dobrynin
Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin
Yuri Alexandrovich Belikov
Presidium
Soviet Union
Yuri Nikolaevich Belkov
Soviet Academy of Sciences
President Kennedy
White House
Caroline Steals Show At Kennedy White House Frolic
Washington AP reports diplomats mingled with champagne at a White House reception for 277 guests as President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy greeted officials. Caroline Kennedy drew smiles from guests, peering from a balcony in a frilly white dress while diplomats wore business suits and ethnic attire.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Omar Abou Riche
Joseph P. Kennedy
U. S
London
Washington Diplomatic Corps
Mrs. Kennedy
State
East
Caroline
German Border Guards Fire At Refugee on Rope
East German border guards fired two shots at a 19 year old refugee sliding down a rope from a five story roof on the East West border. The shots missed and the youth made it to West Berlin where he was bruised. Western police refused to untie the rope when East police tried to haul it up, so the East cut the rope and let it fall.
Meteor Blazes Across Sky Across Southeast
A meteor-like object shot across the sky from west to east over the Southeast on Wednesday night. Karl Hujer of the University of Chattanooga linked it to Haley's Comet orbit, noting similar sporadic meteors when the comet is due to be seen again in 1985.
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Atlanta
Karl Hujer
University of Chattanooga
Haley
Hujer
Body Found Beneath Truck Near New Iberia
New Iberia Parish deputies found 24 year old Wilson Pommier dead beneath his wrecked truck on Avery Island Road, near New Iberia. Officials say the non collision accident occurred late Wednesday when the vehicle ran off the road after the driver lost control.
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New Iberia, la
Iberia Parish
Wilson Pommier
Avery Island Rd
New Iberia
Rural strength shapes guernatorial primaries in OK and AL
In Oklahoma, former Governor Raymond Gary leads a 12 candidate field in the Democratic primary after opposing reapportionment, with rural support poised to influence a May 22 runoff against W P Atkins on the path to a November challenge to Henry Bellman. In Alabama, former Circuit Judge George C. Wallace wins a strong rural share in the Democratic primary, facing runoff opponent Ryan deGraffenried as urban results lag behind. James Folsom trails in Alabama, unable to overcome deGraffenried as rural results trickle in.
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Washington
Alabama
Oklahoma
Raymond Gary
George C. Wallace
James F. Folsom
Ryan deGraffenried
Wallace
Folsom
Gary
W. Averell Harriman
New York
W. P. Bill Atkinson
Henry Bellman
Pro Reds Capture Muong Sing Near Dooley Hospital Site
Reports from Vientiane say pro-Communist forces captured Muong Sing in northwest Laos, near the border with China and northwest of Nam Tha. The town housed Dr. Tom Dooley’s jungle hospital, a fact cited in background on his life and death. The royal government seeks funds, borrowing 220 million kip from the national bank to cover May expenditures as American aid remains suspended.
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Vientiane
Laos
Muong Sing
Tom Dooley
China
Nam Tha
Pathet Lao
Vietminh
Dooley
St. Louis
New York
Royal
National Bank
Triple Train Crash in Tokyo Kills 48
A northeastern Tokyo rail disaster killed 48 people and injured at least 120 as a commuter train hit a derailed freight car near Mikawashima station and a third train struck the wreckage. Ninety minutes into the rescue, crews worked to free survivors from the debris. The victims included passengers returning from Constitution Day celebrations.
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Tokyo
Mikawashima
Fields Reveals Plan To Tackle Louisiana Deficit
Rep. T. T. Fields of Farmerville said the legislative budget committee has a plan to cover Louisiana's 73 million dollar deficit. He cited ongoing hearings and declined to elaborate while noting no tax increase is expected. The committee aims to balance the budget with agency cost cuts and a recommendation from State Treasurer Tugwell.
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T. T. Fields
Farmerville
Legislative Budget Committee
Louisiana
Fields
Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
A. P. Tugwell
Tugwell
Married life keeps you from bragging without notice
A light humorous note reflects on marriage as a hedge against public foolishness, suggesting that shared life reveals personal missteps before they become obvious. The quip plays on self awareness and social restraint in a domestic setting.
Kennedy Sees School Desegregation as Greatest Challenge
President Kennedy declared desegregating public schools the nation's top problem in a telegram to a Civil Rights Commission conference. About 100 officials from 30 states attended as Attorney General Kennedy noted world attention on U S civil rights efforts and the need to intensify progress toward orderly, peaceful integration.
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Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
Civil Rights Commission
Kennedy
Moslem Dockworkers Boycott Algiers Wharf After 96 Die
In Algiers a Moslem dockworkers’ boycott halted port activity after a deadly attack by the European Secret Army Organization left 96 dockers fatally injured. Seven ships waited to unload as two post offices and a Moslem medical office were looted or damaged in a wave of violence amid Algeria’s ongoing struggle for independence.
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Algiers
European Secret Army Organization
Algeria
Algiers Casbah
Oran
Charles de Gaulle
US backs off NATO nuclear force idea with Europe union
The United States signals a new approach to nuclear arms in Western Europe by sharing control of warheads with a politically strong European union including Britain. Western sources say NATO ministers will discuss the plan as they review defense positions and weapons production ahead of spring meetings.
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Athens
Greece
United States
Europe
Britain
U.S
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
Washington
U S Signals Willingness to Halt Tests if Ban Reached
Washington told neutrals it would gladly stop nuclear testing once a verifiable test ban with the Soviet Union is agreed. In a Ghana note the United States urged support for a monitored pact while warning unilateral restraint without a Soviet deal would endanger independence.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Russia
Ghana
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Pacific
Soviet Union
Idle Property Adverts Under Low-Cost Rates
Rent ads describe apartments and rooms in the college area with several units rented and offered at low weekly rates. Listings include a garage apartment redecorated with closets, a new two bedroom house with weekly rent and paid bills, and a nice room for a college boy, plus an all-caps prompt to list vacancies with a discount rate and cancellation options.
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