Louisiana Legislature Adjourns To Monday Budget Debate Persists
Gov Jimmie H Davis presents a record 933 million dollar budget to the Legislature with a 94 million dollar spending rise for next year. The House adjourned to 4 pm Monday after the House Affairs Committee moved 55 bills as fiscal. Davis cites a 15.5 million dollar surplus and says the deficit is liquidated through bond funds. More than 15 000 new industrial jobs created since his administration began.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie H. Davis
House Affairs Committee
House
Senate Cnt
Davis
Ie House
Louisiana
Resolution Lets Police Juries Elect a Vice President
Baton Rouge lawmakers advance a non fiscal measure allowing police juries to elect a vice president after an 88 to 2 house vote. The Ouachita Parish jury lacked a presiding officer during Pettit illness and the bill moves to the Senate. Also introduced is a request to raise assistant district attorney pay from 250 to 350 monthly.
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Senate
Lasley Downes
Rayville
Downes
Assistant
District Attorneys Association
Woman Lands Big Haul While Fishing on Cheniere Lake
Mrs Beatrice Thompson of 703 Wood Street West Monroe took time off Tuesday to fish and caught a real big haul. She laughingly described the unplanned catch and said she would return to Cheniere Lake today. She works nights as a hotel auditor.
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Beatrice Thompson
Wood Street
West Monroe
Cheniere Lake
Drennan Urges Boundary Plan for Ouachita Schools
Ouachita Parish Board leader C G Drennan backs dividing the parish into East and West systems to expand the Monroe City Schools. He supports a state survey to set boundary lines and suggests the Ouachita River as the divider or placing all non city areas under the Ouachita Parish system.
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Ouachita Parish
C. G. Drennan
Monroe City
Drennan
W. W., Ward
Department of Education
State Department
Monroe
Ouachita
East Ouachita
West Ouachita
State
Parish
Monroe Limits
Italian Nuclear Scientist Accused of Spying for Soviets
Giuseppe Martelli, a 39 year old Euratom employee, faced a British court in Southend charged with acts preparatory to offenses under the Official Secrets Act. Prosecutors alleged he acted as a spy for Russian intelligence, citing coded notes found in a cigarette packet and a diary bearing the London address of a Soviet officer.
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Southend
England
Giuseppe Martelli
Soviet Union
Martelli
European Atomic Energy Community
Euratom
Britain
Culham
Oxfordshire
Brussels
Abingdon
Culham Laboratory
London
Nicolai Karpekov
Death of Steelers' Lipscomb ruled heroin overdose
Baltimore AP reports Maryland medical examiner Dr Russell Fisher says Gene Lipscomb known as Big Daddy an NFL defensive tackle died from heroin overdose with a minor alcohol trace. Autopsy notes a needle mark in his right arm with heroin metabolites in bile and urine and a possible earlier injection. Lipscomb played ten NFL seasons with the Rams Colts and Steelers.
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Baltimore
Gene
Big Daddy) Lipscomb
Pittsburgh Steelers
Russell Fisher
Maryland
Fisher
Rudiger Breitenecker
Lipscomb
Sai
Governor Approves 1.2 Million For Ouachita Channel
Gov Jimmie H Davis approved 1.2 million to aid the U S Corps of Engineers with the Ouachita river nine foot channel project. Department of Public Works will buy rights of way in six parishes Ouachita Caldwell Catahoula Concordia Morehouse and Union.
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Ouachita River
O.K
Claude Kirkpatrick
Department of Public Works
Davis
Army
Kirkpatrick
Port Allen
Fifth District
Mike John, Jr
Lawrence Gibbs
Monroe
T. T. Fields
Farmerville
W. C. Steen
Columbia
Jack Crane
Monterey
James McCormick
Bastrop
Lonnie Richmond
Oak Grove and Sons
W. T. Carpenter
J. C. Gilbert
Sicily Island
Ouachita
Caldwell
Catahoula
Concordia
Morehouse
Union
Army Engineers
Catahoula Lake
Jonesville
Violence Erupts Across Congo Cities as Riots Rise
In Katanga at Jadotville 80 miles from Elizabethville fierce fighting pitted Congolese Army troops against tribesmen. Three killed and five wounded as 60 soldiers fired to quell rioting. UN Indonesian troops moved in to restore order. In Leopoldville banditry and homicides surged with Africans raiding whites including a 25 year old Dane Torben Gregersfeldt killed en route to the airport.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
UPI
Katanga
Jadotville
Elizabethville
United Nations
Torben Gregersfeldt
Copenhagen
Fire department battles blaze at Monroe apartment
The Monroe Fire Department dispatched equipment to an apartment house fire at 5209 Blank St on Monroe's east side. Early reports gave no indication of injuries or fire severity.
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Monroe
Blank St
Weather outlook for next two days stays warm and clear
Forecast shows clear to partly cloudy skies with variable winds from five to fifteen mph. Tuesday reaches 93 with highs Friday 86 to 92 and a low near 65 tonight. Overnight low was 65.
Birmingham Leads as Southern Iron and Steel Hub
Birmingham Alabama stands as the South’s top iron and steel center producing a wide range of goods from diesel engines to women’s hats, highlighting the city’s prominent manufacturing role.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Iron and Steel
South
Storm Ravages Topeka Hurt 17. Trailer Court Hit Hard
A fast moving thunderstorm packing 90 to 100 mph winds struck Topeka early today, injuring 17 people mostly residents of Cooley's Trailer Court. Seventeen trailers overturned trapping residents who were rescued by police and sheriff's officers. Most injuries treated and released at Forbes AFB hospital and a local facility. Damage included shop windows power lines and trees with reserves called to clear debris.
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Topeka
Kan
Today’s chuckle about growing pains and gardening
A lighthearted quip suggests spading a garden proves you are never too old for growing pains. The humor rests on the idea of physical effort in gardening.
Cooper Opens U S Space Marathon With 22 Orbits
Cape Canaveral reports astronaut Gordon Cooper starts a marathon Mercury mission aiming for 22 orbits and a 34 hour 19 minute flight. Primary goal is medical data on weightlessness with tests aiding future Gemini programs.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
U.S
Pacific Ocean
Project Mercury
Air Force
Midway Island
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Cooper
California
Florida
United States
Jacksonville
Mercury Control Center
Globe
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
M. Scott Carpenter
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