Louisiana Senate approves 60 million bond issue vote
Gov Jimmie Davis wins senate backing 27 to 12 for a 60 million bond to ease the state deficit. Northeast Louisiana Sen Jamar Adcock opposes citing doubts about repeated future shortfalls and methods. Several senators align with the administration while others vote against. Welfare funding noted with an 180 million budget reference.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Senate
Jimmie H. Davis
Sen
Jamar Adcock
Monroe
Adcock
Speedy O. Long
Jena
Louisiana
W. T. Carpenter
Bastrop
B. R. Patton
Farmerville
J. C. Gilbert
Sicily Island
Andrew Sevier
Tallulah
Gov. Davis
JFK Considers Opening Doors To Refugees
Washington AP Kennedy administration weighs emergency action to admit Chinese refugees from Hong Kong to the United States Potential quota ranges from about 1 000 to several thousand Officials say aim is broader refugee settlement Canada has agreed to take 100 Chinese families Parole could override ordinary quotas under urgent national interest In the past Eisenhower used parole to bring Hungarians to the United States 32 000 in six months
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Washington
Kennedy
Hong Kong
United States
China
Formosa
U.S
Canada
State
Justice Department
Robert F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Estes Faces Creditors In Texas Court
Billie Sol Estes faced 564 creditors in El Paso amid fraud charges and used the Fifth Amendment to refuse most questions. He answered only basic identity and address details before leaving after 21 minutes as creditors form a committee to aid the court-appointed receiver. A mid June meeting is planned.
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EL Paso
Tex
UPI
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
U. S. Dist
R. E. Thomason
U. S
Ralph Gilliland
Thomason
Three Expert Safe Crackers Caught After Wild Chase
Three of the nation’s best known safe crackers were captured after a 150 mile chase ending in Mobile. Hen ry Ernst 54 Herman Alonzo 31 and James J Strum 41 all of New Orleans were jailed for questioning in connection with port area burglaries. An informant prompted a New Orleans narcotics division tip and a trap set by Mobile police led to the 2:30 am arrest as the suspects sped through Mobile and into Pensacola.
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Mobile
Ala
UPI
New Orleans
Henry
Dutch) Ernst
Herman Alonzo
James J. Strum
Ralph Jordan
Port City
Ocean Springs
Miss
Bankhead
Pensacola
Estes Probe To Unveil Big Names
Washington AP reports that evidence in the Billie Sol Estes case points toward high ranking figures in both Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations. Informants say new information may involve more prominent names than previously disclosed. In Texas, a grim probe into a year old death sparked debate in Franklin as medical examiners consider possible murder of Agriculture Department agent Henry Marshall who investigated Estes.
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Washington
Billie Sol Estes
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Sparks
Franklin
Tex
Henry Marshall
Agriculture Department
Estes
Quiet Alabama bank robber killed after graveyard standoff
Eugene S. Gault, 43, of Prattville, shot two bank employees and a police officer during a daylight holdup at Bank of Ozark. Cornered in a church cemetery, he was killed by police. A friend called him quiet and soft spoken, saying he never fit the community. He had posted a misleading sign on his office door before the heist.
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Ozark
Ala
UPI
Eugene S. Gault
Prattville
Bank of Ozark
Gault
Mrs. Ramsey enters Ouachita Parish School Board race
Mrs. Harry Laverne Ramsey of Swartz announces candidacy for ward two representative on the Ouachita Parish School Board challenging incumbent W. E. Palmer in his 18th year. Ramsey, 30, is a NLSC and local educator, a mother of two, PTA member, and Baptist church attendee. Election date tentatively set for July 28 with possible move to September.
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Harry Laverne Ramsey
Swartz
Ouachita Parish
W. E. Palmer
Ward Two
Ramsey
Parent-Teacher Association
Swartz Baptist Church
Judy
Janet
Swartz Elementary School
Pappas to attend Louisiana health meeting then Kansas City dedication
Bobby Pappas, chairman of the sub committee for ecos metics of the United States, leaves Thursday for a Louisiana Public Health Association meeting in Shreveport. After the meeting, he will proceed to Kansas City for the dedication of the new Food and Drug Administration Building on Friday.
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Bobby Pappas
United States
Louisiana Public Health Association
Shreveport
Pappas
Kansas City
Food and Drug Administration
Registrar Hazel Seal Heads to California on Vacation
Ouachita Parish Registrar of Voters Mrs Hazel Seal departs Friday for a two week trip to visit her brother in Fresno California.
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Ouachita Parish
Solon Convicted In Speeding Case
Rep Seymour Halpern of New York was found guilty in Woodbridge New Jersey of speeding on the Turnpike and of disorderly conduct. He was fined $50 for disorderly conduct, $25 for speeding, plus $15 in court costs. He said he would appeal. The charges included driving 85 to 100 mph and using profane language during the stop.
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Woodbridge
N.J
Seymour Halpern
R-N.y
New Jersey Turnpike
Benjamin J. Kantor
Halpern
Fight Looms Over School Budgets In Baton Rouge
Davis administration battles to trim a $14 million request for next year while Gov. Davis and education forces defend higher state aid. Shelby Jackson of the state department told over 50 superintendents their budgets would be reduced and proposed ending the per educable formula for distributing funds. Rep. Risley Triche argued that state aid to schools would rise by 44 million, urging parishes to view the budget as a slight increase despite reductions. The dispute centers on the administration's budget proposal and the formula for distributing funds to districts.
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Baton Rouge
Jimmie Davis
Shelby M. Jackson
Jackson
Triche
Davis
Fight Looms
Mississippi breakouts end with two captives taken
PARCHMAN Miss two escapees Albert Estes and Hollis Gardner were captured without resistance south of Drew as four inmates remained at large after a week of prison breaks. Former Supt. Fred Jones accused of lax security, while authorities pursued two more convicts in woodlands near Benoit and a stolen car tied to Clinton Kilgore. Public safety units, bloodhounds, and highway patrolmen extended the manhunt across Delta counties.
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Parchman
Miss
Here
Albert Estes
Mississippi
Drew
Hollis Gardner
Lowndes
Fred Jones
Greenwood
C. E. Breazeale
Jones
Delta
Jasper Johnson
Estes
Gardner
Mississippi Highway Patrol
Benoit
Grady Gilmore
Skene
Clinton Kilgore
Death Sentence Demanded for Ex General Salan
Paris AP reports the prosecution urged the death penalty for ex General Raoul Salan. He faces treason charges before a special military court.
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Paris
Raoul Salan
Munson to Oppose M'Sween for 8th District Seat
Rep. Robert Munson of Chaneyville announced his congressional bid from the 8th district on a states rights platform. He pledged to reflect his constituents’ majority views despite Washington pressure and noted he will campaign via press as the Legislature is in session. Senator Speedy C. Long remained noncommittal about running. Munson argued freedoms are endangered by proposed economic and political fixes and called for solutions within a framework honoring God and individual liberty.
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Baton Rouge
Robert Munson
Chaneyville
Congress
Louisiana House
Munson
Washington
Speedy C. Long
Jena
Harold B. McSween
Alexandria
New Iberian Is Made Bishop
Washington AP reports Msgr. Warren L. Boudreaux of St. Peter's New Iberia La elevated to bishop and auxiliary to Bishop Maurice Schexnayder in Lafayette La by Pope John XIII. He becomes titular bishop of Calynda and auxiliary to Lafayette. Priests elevated but not assigned as diocesan chiefs receive historic dioceses.
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Washington
Warren L. Boudreaux
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
New Iberia
Maurice Schexnayder
Lafayette
Boudreaux
Calynda
Today's Chuckle on apples and the doctor's wife
A lighthearted quip imagines a cheerful scene with a bushel of apples and the doctor's wife as a playful promise of simple pleasures. The tidbit frames everyday humor in a neighborly, old timey voice.
Atlas Rockets Readied for Carpenter Orbit Mission
Cape Canaveral officials announced the first countdown segment for astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter’s triple orbit mission aboard Aurora 7. All systems were declared go despite smoke from Everglades fires 200 miles south and forest fires west of Cape Canaveral.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Project Mercy
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Here
Everglades
Gulf of Mexico
Weather outlook with heat relief and storms forecast
The weather man predicts partly cloudy skies with isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers. High today near 9, low tonight 68, humidity index up to 81. Sunset at 7:05 pm, sunrise Thursday at 5:05 am.
House panel backs 20 percent cut in Alliance for Progress
Washington committee votes to reduce Kennedy aid for Latin America by 20 percent from 600 million. impacts U S foreign aid program and regional policy. Tampa judge rejects motion to dismiss mail fraud indictment against James R. Hoffa and a Detroit banker. order to stand trial in September.
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Washington
UPI
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Tampa
Fla
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Detroit
Roosevelt Jr Seeks Privacy Ruling in Tax Dispute
New York AP report states Frank D. Roosevelt Jr claims his income tax fight tests government limits on privacy rights. The assertion frames the case as a broader test of personal privacy against official taxation.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
NAACP Leader Aaron Henry Sentenced in Mississippi Case
State NAACP President Aaron Henry was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined 250 dollars after being accused of making immoral advances on a white boy in Cleveland Mississippi.
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Cleveland, Miss
UPI
NAACP
Aaron Henry
Algiers SLA Killers Step Up Reign of Terror
At least ten people were killed in rapid attacks as the Secret Army Organization intensified its campaign of violence in Algiers. The string of killings sparked fear and prompted calls for security measures from local authorities and residents.
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Algiers
Evacuation of 145 Dutch Women and Children Begun
In West New Guinea authorities started evacuating 145 Dutch women and children from a central port amid Indonesian attempts to infiltrate the area. The move aims to safeguard civilians as security operations continue.
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Fakfak
West New Guinea
Ministry launches posters warning against cigarette smoking
London officials announced the Health Ministry has begun distributing public posters to deter cigarette smoking. The campaign emphasizes health risks and aims to curb tobacco use across the city.
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London
Ministry of Health Today
Kirkpatrick urges businessmen to engage in government work
Louisiana official Claude Kirkpatrick urged greater business participation in politics before the Monroe Kiwanis Club at the Virginia Hotel. He called Louisiana the crossroads of industrial know-how feeding South America and said the state stands on the threshold of its greatest industrial era. He compared business to labor unions and urged businessmen to voice desires through democratic channels to solve man made problems and leave a lasting civic legacy.
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Mary Anne Corpin
Claude Kirkpatrick
Louisiana Department of Public Works
Monroe Kiwanis Club
Virginia Hotel
Louisiana
South America
Union
Kirkpatrick
Torn Apart By Storm Strikes Continental 707 Crash
Centerville Iowa reports a Continental Air Lines Boeing 707 disintegrated in an electric storm killing 45 aboard. A single passenger, Takahiko Nakano, survived briefly but died later in hospital. Debris scattered across 25 miles near the Missouri border, searchers found fuselage sections with 41 bodies inside. Nakano, 27, from Evanston, served in the United States installing microscopes.
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Iowa
Missouri
Continental
Commercial Aviation
Kansas City
Takehiko Nakano
Nakano
United States
Evanston
Rutherford admits Estes campaign check of 1500 dollars
Rep J T Rutherford D Texas acknowledged receiving a 1500 dollar check from indicted financier Billie Sol Estes during a Washington visit on January 17. The donation coincided with a meeting Rutherford arranged with Agriculture Department officials over Estes cotton allotment issues.
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Dallas, Tex
J. T. Rutherford
D-Tex
Billie Sol Estes
Dallas News
Robert E. Baskin
Washington
Rutherford
Estes
Agriculture Department
Ralph Yarborough
Pecos
Tex
Marcus Dingler
Dingler
Dingler Farms
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