West Monroe mayoral race leads Louisiana runoff voting
In six Northeast Louisiana towns runoffs loom for mayor and city council seats. West Monroe faces a Mayors race between J Allan Norris and Dutchie Bell Jr with 5300 registered voters. council incumbents advance and several challengers seek posts as polls open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Burkett
Loy Heard
R. C. Jouissaint
Ben Farmer
C. E. Ponder
Earl Duncan
Joyce T. Smith
George Wylie
Charles Anding
A. L. DeLoach
G. B. Folds
West Monroe
Winnfield
Mary Allen
J. D. Taylor
Wilber B. Evans
Kenneth W. Henderson
Roy James
Garland Sanders
Tallulah
Archie Fairbanks
J. C. Stocks
Top Advisors Called In For Conferences
Washington AP report says President Kennedy summoned diplomatic and military advisers to discuss Laos fighting and possible steps if it continues. rebels seized Houei Sai on the Mekong near Thailand, threatening the year-old cease-fire. The United States weighs options to aid anti Communist forces led by Gen. Phoumi Nosavan while seeking a peace path with neutralists and Pathet Lao.
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Vientiane
Laos
Mekong
Thailand
Houei Sai
Red
Souvanna Phouma
Washington
Kennedy
U.S
United States
Phoumi Nosavan
U. S.S
Pathet Lao
Tha Fai
Defense Ministry
Soviet Union
Nam Tha
Negro Returns to Louisiana From Chicago
Rejected offer of free Northward transport, Rezzie Moffett a 45 year old Negro sent by New Orleans segregationists boards a bus to return home. He left with $3 and a $22.51 ticket funded by Cook County Public Aid. Ralph Collins of Travelers Aid notes his job hunt in Chicago failed and he regrets the move.
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Chicago
White Citizens Council of
Greater New Orleans
Rezzie Moffett
New Orleans
Moffett
Ralph Collins
Travelers Aid Society
Cook County Public Aid Department
Drop Expected In Peach Crop In Nine Southern States
Washington reports the Agriculture Department forecasts a 1962 peach crop decline in nine Southern States. The estimate is 14,320,000 bushels, about one fourth lower than last year, due to cold January through March. Harvest in Louisiana's short crop should start around June 1.
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Washington
Man May Lose Both His Wives
Kenneth Donald Morelock faces divorce and annulment actions filed in Rogersville Circuit Court by his two wives. Darlene Good Morelock accuses mistreatment dating from their June 1959 marriage. Janice Ann Arnold Morelock, 19, alleges she wed in March 1960 and learned he already had a wife when he deserted her less than 24 hours after their marriage.
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Rogersville, Tenn
Kenneth Donald Morelock
Darlene Good Morelock
Janice Ann Arnold Morelock
Morelock
Conservatives Concede Loss In Elections
London AP reports Prime Minister Macmillan's government weakened as Liberals and Laborites win control of municipal councils in 36 towns. Conservatives shed 516 net seats across 428 boroughs in England and Wales amid wage and dividend restraint debates and uncertainty over Britain joining the Common Market.
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London
Macmillan
England
Wales
Britain
Treasury tightens Cuba import ban barring travel purchases
The Treasury tightens restrictions on Cuban goods by banning Americans from buying Cuban items abroad and bringing them home in baggage. The new rule takes effect May 20, ending a prior personal-use exemption that allowed rum or cigars in baggage.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Arkansas Negro Is En Route To Hyannis Port
An unemployed 43 year old Negro cook from Little Rock is on a bus trip to Hyannis Port Massachusetts seeking a chance at a better future. He carries a $51 ticket and $10 spending money provided by the Capital Citizens Council which offers free trips to Hyannis Port for dissatisfied Negro families. Harris hopes to meet Edward Kennedy and predicts a return to Little Rock as a wealthy man driving a red Cadillac.
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Arkansas
Hyannis Port
Little Rock
Ark
UPI
Mass
Kennedy
David Harris
Capital Citizens Council
South
Harris
Amis Guthridge
Citizens Council
Harris Guthridge
Edward M
Ted) Kennedy
Hyannis
Cape Cod Cummer
Boston
Ted Kennedy
Massachusetts
X15 film shows five mysterious objects at high altitude
Test pilot Joe Walker reported film from the X15 rocket plane showing five or six mysterious objects during a record height flight of 246,700 feet. The objects appeared disc or cylindrical in shape on a rear-mounted camera, with no firsthand sighting by Walker.
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Seattle
Wash
Joe Walker
John H. Glenn Jr
Gherman Titov
Walker
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dis
Glenn
Earth
Jury Fails To Reach Verdict In Cullipher Murder Trial
After 23 hours of deliberation a 12 member jury in Fourth District Court failed to decide the murder case of Cecil Eugene Cullipher. District Attorney Albin Lassiter said Cullipher likely will be retried in November and he remains in Ouachita parish jail. Cullipher, 24, is charged with the fatal stabbing of Monroe businessman Lealis Hale on October 3, 1961, insisting he acted in self defense.
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Cecil Eugene Cullipher
Albin P. Lassiter
Southside
Ouachita Parish
Mack Barham
Fourth District Court
Cullipher
Monroe
Lealis Hale
Miss Northeast Beauty Pageant Draws Fifteen Contestants
Fifteen beauties compete at 8 p m in Brown Auditorium for the Miss Northeast title with plans to advance Miss Northeast to the Miss Louisiana Pageant at Lake Providence. One contestant Miss Zella Collins of Jonesville withdraws due to illness. list of entrants includes Sharon Ary Rayne Sarabeth Boughton Bastrop Sonya Bowden Tallulah Patsy Ruth Collins Pioneer Bettie Gibbs Monroe Billie Jo Hanchey Rayville Barbara Jean McCoy Monroe Sue Parkerson Monroe Sylvia Pritcher Monroe Cecilia Richardson New Albany Charlotte Salley Monroe Sharon Gail Sawyer Oak Grove Kathleen Whitfield Falls Church Va Sheila Pennington Williams New Iberia. A tea at the home of Press page 2A
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Brown Auditorium
Lake Providence
Zella Collins
Jonesville
Sharon Ary
Rayne
Sigma Tau Gamma
Sarabeth Boughton
Bastrop
Delta Omicron
Fair Weather Preview Through Saturday With Warm Temperatures
The forecast calls for continued fair and warm weather into Saturday. Highs today near 88 with a low around 62, humidity up to 79. Temperatures peak at 87 yesterday with a 60 low. Sunset is 6:56 p.m. today and sunrise Saturday at 5:12 a.m.
Judge to Rule Police Raided Muslims Legally
Judge Mack Barham will decide whether Monroe police legally entered the Temple of Islam and seized a signboard used as trial evidence against Troy Bland Cade, a Black Muslim leader charged with criminal anarchy. The issue stems from a prior conviction overturned due to lack of a warrant. Cade’s retrial began amid ongoing testimony on police entry and seizure, with the court contesting who had authority to act during the raid.
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Mack Barham
Monroe
Troy Bland Cade
Jesse Heard
Cade
Heard
Jane Negro
Barham
Louisiana
United States
Albin P. Lassiter
James R. Venable
Atlanta
James
Man Who Hired Negro Is Held
Washington report says Harvey J. Brudner a New Jersey physicist who hired the first Black man sent North by the New Orleans Citizens Council is held at District of Columbia Hospital for mental observation after leaping into a police car and demanding to see the President. Brudner, president of Medical Developments Inc., claimed to be the most informed scientist in the United States and said he could save the world. The case links to Lewis Boyd, hired by the firm as a $100-a-week handyman, and to Boyd and his family being the first Black migrants rewarded with bus tickets and $5 to leave New Orleans for the North. Hospital condition listed as satisfactory.
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N.J
Bruddner
Ewis Boyd
Boyd
New Orleans
Kennedy Depreciation Write-Offs Move Nears Effective 1962
President Kennedy’s administration announced a liberalization of tax depreciation write-offs, aiming to boost business. Treasury officials said the revisions will apply to machinery and equipment, with substantial 1962-year deductions usable by all taxpayers, though exact savings were not disclosed.
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Hot Springs
Kennedy
Business Council
Roger M. Blough
U.S. Steel Corp
Big Steel
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
Washington
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
Treasury
Absolute Zero Defined as 459.7 Degrees Below Fahrenheit
A science note states absolute zero is the theoretical point where all molecular motion stops, approximately 459.7 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Cigarettes Now Are For Smoking
Edinburgh woman Mary Campbell was cured of a unique craving by switching from eating cigarettes to smoking them. She began while pregnant and consumed as many as 100 daily, then spent heavily. doctors attributed the urge to mental stress. Now she smokes about 10 daily.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
UPI
Mary Campbell
Out With Classics Professor Urges Modern Reading
Harvard education professor Dr. Edwin Sauer urged Rhode Island teachers and parents to form committees to introduce modern realistic literature in high schools. He argued clean modern works exist and students can handle mature themes if communities and teachers are prepared and guided properly.
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Providence
R.I
Harvard
Edwin Sauer
Rhode Island Council of Teachers
Sauer
Harvard School of Education
Communists banned in Venezuela after revolt
President Romulo Betancourt outlawed the Communist party and the MIR after a brief leftist revolt. Police raided Caracas offices, seized records, and shut party newspaper operations. Interior Minister Perez said there is proof of Communist and MIR involvement in the Carupano uprising, which the government crushed.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Communist Party
Revolutionary Left
MIR
Betancourt
Oilrich
Carlos Andres Perez
Perez
Carupano
Homework Watching the Want Ads for Top Grade Home Items
A classified ad urges readers to use the want ads to buy or swap items at low cost. It promotes FIRESTONE automatic washers in perfect condition for $50 and highlights low seven day rates and cancellation privileges via NEWS STAR WORLD CLASSIFIED AD and dial FA 2516.
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Firestone
News-Star—World
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