Journalism Week at Missouri Remembers Press Pasts
Westbrook Pepler reports Journalism Week at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The piece recalls Charles G. Ross and Walter Williams, tracing old standards and a Civil War battlefield legend involving Quantrill and the James boys.
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Kansas City
University of Missouri
Lords of the American Free Press
New York
Washington
Columbia
Jesse James
Harry S. Truman
Charles G. Ross
Mr. Truman
Steve Early
Roosevelt
Ross
Walter Williams
Missouri
Quantrill
Raider
James Boys
Williams
Roanoke Eagle Scout held on murder charge
Lee Scott, an Eagle Scout and high school wrestler, is jailed in Roanoke on a murder charge in the church kitchen slaying of 16 year old Dana Marie Weaver. Police tied scratches and a bloodstained wardrobe to the suspect as investigators pursued a motive, with evidence including a bag from the church kitchen and a pop bottle.
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Roanoke
Christ Episcopal Church
Charles M. Irvin
Dana Marie
Scott
Frank H. Webb
Webb
Jefferson High School
N. Garrett Scott
Lee
Frederick Bradley
Hague Beaten in Jersey City
Frank Hague loses control as fusion forces win the Jersey City municipal election led by John V. Kenny. Hague naming his nephew Frank Hague Eggers for mayor, his 32 year reign ends. The city celebrates as Hague’s long political machine era collapses, reshaping Hudson county politics.
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Peter MacDonald
Jersey City
N. J
Frank Hague
Hague
City Commission
John V. Kenny
Kenny
United States
Frank Hague Eggers
Hudson County
State Democratic
National Democratic Committee
Polit
Young Men to Convene Here at State Federation Event
The National Federation of Young Men's Clubs plans a Monroe convention at the Virginia Hotel September 3 to 5. About 1,000 delegates and visitors from Louisiana Mississippi Arkansas and Texas expected for banquets parades boat trips and games. The event is led by A F Canizaro with Frank Fulco as president and A E Anzalone as local sponsor with a large organizing committee and a parade planned under Vincent Sylvestri and Sam Miller.
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National Federation of Young Men's Clubs
Monroe
Virginia
A. F. Canizaro
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Canizaro
Federation
Frank Fulco
Shreveport
A. E. Anzalone
Progressive Men's Club
George W. Guerriero
Joe David Cascio
Dominic LaCart
V. J. Dispenza
Cochairman
Eugene Bruscato
Tony Embanato
Vincent Sylvestri
Sam Miller
Arnold Fontana
Joe Corerro
All-Protestant Paper Planned for World Leadership
Kansas City May 11 Protestant leaders plan an all-denominational newspaper to unite voices for a world wide spiritual revival. Dr Robert W Searle notes unity via a jointly controlled paper. Gideon Seymour agrees it timely amid Protestant unity talk and a new dark age.
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Kansas City
United Voice
Robert W. Searle
Protestant Council of
New York City
Gideon Seymour
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Speed‑up dispute at Ford continues amid talks
Detroit May 11 Ford and the C I O United Auto Workers resumed talks at 10 a m EST as a 65 000 worker strike drags on. The union accuses Ford of raising output 10 percent at Rouge and Lincoln Mercury plants, while Ford says it added manpower to meet needs. Picket lines formed outside the bargaining site and Walter Reuther called a Communist engineered demonstration unimportant to the talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford
United Auto Workers
Rouge
Walter Reuther
Red Noose Around Shanghai Tightens and Fukien Attacked
Chinese Communists push into Fukien province and threaten Hankow as the Shanghai garrison confirms gains. A three pronged offensive expands from Kiangsi across Chekiang toward Fukien, with attacks near Kinki Kashan and Chenmo signaling broader push from Hangchow to Lake Poyang.
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Shanghai
Fukien
Fred Hampson
Hankow
Yangtze
China
Kinki
Kiangsi
Formosa
Kashan
Shang
Chekiang
Hangchow
Lake Poyang
Three Arrested In Two Recreation Parlor Raids
Ouachita Parish High School Alumni Association calls an urgent meeting led by president James H. Trousdale Jr at 8 p m in the Parish High School library. Alumni press for unity to discuss the choir trip to Wales and other vital matters. meeting starts promptly at 8 and lasts under one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish High School Alumni Association
James H. Trousdale, Jr
Parish
Wales
Parish High School
Teacher fund meeting set in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge May 11 The next round in the dispute over a 3 000 000 special fund for teachers salaries opens at 10 am Saturday. The state board of education will hold a special meeting to consider distribution after a state supreme court decision dismissed a suit by New Orleans seeking a specific plan. Orleans parish was left out of the fund under the original plan and has applied to change the distribution.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Education
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Orleans Board
Raids nab tip board operators at DeSiard recreation parlors
District Attorney Fred Fudickar issued warrants as Quachita parish deputies raided two DeSiard street parlors after 5 pm Tuesday. Haddad Bruscato and Flaherty were charged with operating or selling baseball tip games and were released on bonds of 300 dollars each. deputies seized hundreds of tip boards. Evidence stored at Ouachita parish courthouse, cases to be brought before Judges Garrett or Gladney with no date set.
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Fred Fudickar
Quachita Parish
Monroe
Frank Kirby
Raymond Knowles
Fudickar
Flaherty
Ouachita Parish
Bailey Grant
Haddac
Haddad
Bruscato
Fadickar
Sheriff Department
David I. Garrett
Edward L. Gladney, Jr
Water Requirements Your Municipal Improvements
This installment outlines the engineers report on water and electrical system enhancements. It notes the filtration plant's average output of six million gallons daily with summer peaks near eleven mgd, and highlights 50 percent unbilled water due to plant use, other departments, past free supply to institutions, leaks, and meter slippage. Plans include replacing river water for the power plant, meters upgrades, and reducing unaccounted water to determine future demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Vicksburg
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
Alexandria
Natchez
Students Reign In Twin Cities Officials For A Day
Ouachita Parish and Neville High School students served as city officials in Monroe and West Monroe after 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Parish Clerk R. Dean Farr administered the oath to student mayors chosen by popular vote. Neville students then took over noon duties, with Tommy Trawick and Vernon Sanders succeeding Mayor George O. Breece.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Neville High School
R. Dean Farr
Monroe Cit
Neville
Tommy Trawick
Ouachita
Vernon Sanders
George O. Breece
Monroe's teen mayor appoints staff and vows service
More Pictures On Page 6 reports that after taking office Monroe's half day mayor appoints Buddy Malmay as chief of police and Jimmy Vaughn as fire chief. Ouachita Parish High students Tommy Starnes Billy Milstead Jimmy Smith and Della Guillory fill key posts while Sanders works with Jack Baugh as finance and utilities commissioner.
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Trawick
Monroe
Ouachita
Buddy Malmay
Jimmy Vaughn
Ouachita Parish
Tommy Starnes
Billy Milstead
Jimmy Smith
Farmer Is Given Death in Chair in Georgia
Wayneboro Ga May 11 A tenant farmer W R Hobbs was sentenced to die in the electric chair on July 8 for the murder of three year old William Amerson. The jury quickly convicted after a sheriff’s deputy found welts on the child and Hobbs confessed to kicking beating and biting the boy in anger. David Amerson 13 testified the boy cried for water during the night and Hobbs carried him out and returned him dead.
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Waynesboro
W. R. Hobbs
William Amerson
Hobbs
Amerson
David Amerson
David
George Hains
Trains Start For Big German City
Five cars of the first postwar train to Berlin left Frankfurt carrying nearly 100 news and radio correspondents and British and American officials. The Anglo American train will join a British military train at Helmstedt and cross into the Russian zone to reach Berlin by Thursday morning barring delays. Sir Robert Inglis led the party, hoping for no difficulties. Lieut. Arthur E. Poland of Covington Kentucky commanded the five cars.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Helmstedt
E.st
Sir Robert Inglis
Arthur E. Poland
Green Ave
Covington, Ky
Barkley Urges Civil Rights At Brotherhood Day Dinner
Vice President Alben W. Barkley told about 700 guests at a Brotherhood Day dinner that civil rights must be advanced by the American people not legislators. He warned of foreign influence against freedom and urged moral education so all races and faiths share voice and choice in government.
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Philadelphia
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Charles Evans Hughes
Rescue fund may go to scholarship in Kathy Fiscus case
In San Marino California on May 11 letters were sent to about 100 rescuers of the Kathy Fiscus 52 hour rescue urging their shares of a $40,000 rescue fund be given to a scholarship in Kathy’s memory. Engineer Raymond A Hill said 20 to 30 rescuers favor a fund at Claremont College Pomona to perpetuate her memory.
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San Marino
Calif
Kathy Fiscus
Raymond A. Hill
Hill
Claremont College
Pomona
Kathy
Berlin Celebrates End of 327-Day Blockade
Daniel De Luce reports Berlin ends a 327 day siege with a mood of celebration and deliverance as the border reopens. Trains and trucks line up at the zones border and road blocks will be removed along 100 miles of Russian territory. Western Berliners prepare coal and food convoys for a city that endured two million people fed through blockade relief.
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Berlin
Germany
Jury to Buy New Dragline and Plan Blocks
The Quachita parish police jury voted unanimously to advertise for bids on a drag line for drainage work and gravel for the Natchitoches road. Plans to convert Spanish City into a residential area were discussed but deferred after opposition. Officials will meet to seek a compromise on the street layout while revoking several unused streets in Jackson Heights Grant addition. An ordinance also abandoned Baucomville streets. Ward five officials will investigate beer and whiskey license applications in the same ward.
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Quachita Parish
Natchitoches
James Sparks
Spanish City
Alvin Tippitt
A. E. Montgomery
H. L
S. W. Jordan
Acheson pledges civil rights guarantee for Germany
Secretary of State Acheson said the Big Four talks on Germany will hinge on Soviet willingness to back plans and accept full civil rights guarantees for Germans. He praised the Berlin airlift for ending the blockade but warned major compromises would require Russian agreement. Continued on sixth pages.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Acheson
Germany
United States
Paris
Community of Free Nations
Europe
Russia
Berlin
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Monroe City Hall
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Farr
Travis de Freese
Jack Baugh
Sam Shepard
Della Guillory
Ann Varino
Betty Jo Roach
Dan Bivins
Johnny Johnson
Wayne Woods
Jimmy Jenkins
Herman DeLoach
Johnny Goodwin
Jimmie Smith
Marvin DuBos
National Federation
Hai
Chenmo
Kunshan
Sheriff's
Farmer
Daniel de Luce
U. S
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