Three U S military aides drugged in Odessa probe
U S Embassy in Moscow protested to the Soviet Union after three American military attaches were drugged during a trip to Odessa March 24 26. Lt Col W L Van Meter Air Force Marine Lt Col J M Landrigan and Navy Lt Cmdr S Shapiro were identified. Tests in Moscow found barbiturates causing drowsiness.
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Washington
U. S
Moscow
Soviet Union
Odessa
State Department
Robert J. Mc McCloskey
Black Sea
W. L. van Meter
Air Force
J. M. Landrigan
Navy
Cmdr
S. Shapiro
Railway Firemen Out Begin Protest Of Ordered Layoffs
Strikes hit railroads in the Midwest and beyond as firemen face layoffs under an arbitration award. More than 100 union members walked out at 12:01 a.m. on two Illinois switching lines, with pickets at the Conway line of the Pennsylvania Railroad near Pittsburgh. Illinois Central ended about 250 jobs in its 14 state system, while officials warned lawful action would follow to enforce court orders. The walkouts halted operations on TPW and Peoria & Pekin Union Railway, threatening freight delays across the nation.
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Midwest
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Illinois
Conway
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Illinois Central Railroad
Union
J. E. Wolfe
Alexander Holtzoff
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Peoria & Pekin Union Railway
TPW
Effner
Ind
Keokuk
Iowa
PPU
Peoria
Local Doctor Heads Louisiana Medical Society
Dr. Henson S. Coon of 601 Auburn Ave. was installed president of the Louisiana Medical Society at its Lafayette convention. He succeeds Dr. George H. Hauser of New Orleans. Other officers include J. T. Willis Alexandria first VP Henry Butler New Orleans second VP E M Harrell Lafayette third VP and C G Cole New Orleans secretary. Dr H H Hardy Jr Alexandria named chair of the house of delegates and M E St Martin vice chair. Mrs Henson S. Coon was named president of the Society Auxiliary. The women’s group met with the main convention.
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Henson S. Coon
Auburn Ave
Louisiana Medical Society
Lafayette
George H. Hauser
New Orleans
Coon
J. T. Willis
Alexandria
Henry Butker
E. M. Harrell
C. G. Cole
H. H. Hardy Jr
House of Delegates
M. E. St. Martin
Johnson Visits Poverty Zone In Maryland
President Johnson tours Cumberland Maryland as he launches a six state Appalachian tour. He speaks at City Hall and a high school stadium to 12 000 supporters while meeting jobless applicants at the unemployment security office. He vows to fight poverty and drive it underground.
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Johnson
Maryland
Cumberland, Md
Appalachian
Cumberland
City Hall
Employment Security Office
Truman Returns To Blair House
Former President Harry S. Truman returns to Washington for a two day celebration of his 80th birthday. President Johnson phoned him in Kansas City to wish him well ahead of the Friday birthday party in the capital.
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Washington
UPI
Harry S. Truman
Johnson
Kansas City
Truman
Louis Daniel High 12 Club Meets at Frances Hotel
The Louis Daniel High 12 Club will hold a noon Friday meeting at the Frances Hotel. Secretary A. H. Edmonds says agenda includes plans for the state convention in Monroe on September 12 and details of the upcoming national convention.
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Louis Daniel High 12 Club
Frances Hotel
A. H. Edmonds
Monroe
Rights Sponsors Win Jury Trial Test By Vote
Senate sponsors of the civil rights bill scored a narrow victory after four roll calls when a jury trial amendment was defeated 46 to 45. The measure would have allowed jury trials in criminal contempt proceedings tied to antidiscrimination injunctions, opposed by the administration and bill sponsors. Senator Russell said a variant may reappear next week to attempt reversal.
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Washington
Senate
House
Thruston B. Morton
R-ey
Johnson
Monroe Officials File Brief Against FAA Selman Field Move
City officials and Monroe Chamber of Commerce announce plans to file a brief with a congressional aviation subcommittee opposing the FAA plan to remove FAA staff from Selman Field. Congressman Passman will present the brief next Wednesday, citing risks to airport development and the ongoing terminal project aided by FAA funds.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Selman Field
Otto E. Passman
Monroe
Congressional
Aviation
W. L
Jack) Howard
Howard
Selman
Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
Louis D. Smith
Passman
Smith
FAA
Sino-Soviet Split Seems Irrevocable
The dispute between Moscow and Peking deepens with Khrushchev pressed to call an international Communist conference in mid year, likely to confirm a split. Romania mediation falters as Kommunist accuses China of courting capitalists and seeking balance with the United States, signaling an international division within the Communist move ment.
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Moscow-Peking
Khrushchev
Romania
Communist Movement
Peking
Red China
Kommunist
Soviet Union
United States
Europe
Japan
U.S
Moscow
Industry Fights Back Wrinkle Drug Under Threat
In New York the government stepped in as Helene Curtis Industries proposed a lotion that could temporarily restore facial smoothness. The potential $100 million wrinkle market faces jeopardy if regulatory issues are not resolved.
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New York
Helene Curtis Industries, Inc
Bryan Held for Mental Evaluation in Kidnapping Case
Florence AP Bryan, 25, accused kidnapper, was ordered to a state mental hospital for psychiatric observation after a brief court appearance. He faces a kidnapping charge for allegedly abducting 10-year-old Johnny Robison near Mount Pleasant, S.C., with the boy’s body later found in Florida. The FBI said another Jersey boy’s body was found nearby, and Bryan was linked to multiple missing children cases across several states.
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Florence
S.C
Joseph Francis Bryan Jr
U.S
Bryan
Johnny Robison
Mount Pleasant
Florida
FBI
David Wulff
Willingboro
N.J
Hillsville
Joseph D. Purvis
Richmond, Va
North Carolina
Audubon Park
New Orleans
Dennis Burke
Humboldt
Pacific Airlines crash kills 44 near San Francisco
Forty four people died when a Pacific Airlines Fairchild twin engine airliner crashed in the rolling foothills east of San Francisco. Witnesses reported the plane appeared to plunge straight down and the FBI said reports described a smoke puff from an engine before the crash.
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Concord
Calif
Pacific Airlines
Coast Range
San
Francisco
FBI
Reno
Stockton
Pacific
San Francisco
California
Oregon
Nevada
Four Southern States Seek Endrin Control
Four Southern states Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and Tennessee pressed for immediate control of endrin and similar pesticides at a U S Public Health Service conference in New Orleans to curb massive fish kills on the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers since 1960 federal scientists link endrin to the deaths and delegates seek a preliminary federal progress report by August 1.
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New Orleans
U.S. Public Health Service
PHS
Mississippi
Atchafalaya
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
Department of Health, Welfare and Education
Murray Stein
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Memphis
Baton Rouge
Vicksburg
Miss
Lloyd L. Lauden
American Sugar Cane League
Robert A. Lefleur
Louisiana Stream Control Commission
Runaway horse blamed in boy’s death in Louisiana
In ROBERT Louisiana authorities tied tangled rope to a horse saddle to a 13 year old on his father's farm near here. Willis Clifford Stewart died after being dragged about 600 yards to Seventh Ward General Hospital.
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Robert
Tangipahoa Parish
Here
Willis Clifford Stewart
Seventh Ward General Hospital
Partly Cloudy Skies Continue Forecast Northeast Louisiana
The forecast for Northeast Louisiana calls for partly cloudy skies to continue through Friday. Highest temperatures will be 82 to 86 with an overnight low of 62 to 66. Winds will be mostly southeast eight to 16 miles per hour. The high in Monroe Wednesday was 81 and the overnight low was 67. A year ago today, the temperature high was 90 degrees.
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Louisiana
Monroe
Now You Know By United Press International
The world's tallest living thing is a California redwood 367.8 feet high, according to the National Geographic Society.
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California
National Geographic Society
Today's Chuckle Bachelor life means early rise for late nights
The joke notes that a bachelor must wake early to earn money to fund staying out late, humorously framing single life as a spending and schedule constraint.
Louisiana State University to dedicate new library
Bulletin from Alexandria reports Gov Jimmie H Davis will dedicate LSU s new 550000 library on campus in Alexandria Friday. Other notes include bids being asked May 27 for a 500000 mental health center in Shreveport and Massachusetts AG Edward Brooke confirming IRS is probing his 1959 to 1961 tax returns. A Senate House conference backed a bill to allow televised debates among presidential nominees. In Saigon General Nguyen Khanh says Ngo Dinh Can will be executed under law and victims of his regime will be invited to watch.
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Alexandria
Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana State University
LSU
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Ngo Dinh Can
Ngo Dinh Diem
Virginia Police Arrest Suspect In 3 Killings
Fredericksburg police detained a man at a dine-in breakfast as an nationwide alert mounted for Wells the San Quentin parolee suspected in the New Jersey shooting of an attendant and the Fredericksburg killings of two officers. FBI ballistics tied the same foreign auto weapon to all three murders. The New Jersey victim was John S. Kersnowsky 20. Fredericksburg officers Sgt R G Wright 31 and Patrolman William Frank Mines 27 were slain. $60 was taken from the station.
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Fredericksburg
Lewis Henry Wells
San Quentin
New Jersey
Wells
John S. Kersnowsky
New Brunswick
N.J
R. G. Wright
William Frank Mines
T. W. Cobb
FBI
Kersnowsky
North
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Terrell Glenn
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Revlon
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George M. Galvin
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R. Andress
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Tasajero
Gordon Rassmussen
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