Surveyor 1 Adjusts Course For Moon Landing
Surveyor 1 steers toward a revised landing site in the Sea of Storms after a 20 second rocket burn changes its path 97 000 miles from Earth. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports the craft responded properly and tracking will take hours to confirm a smooth descent toward the new target about 20 miles north of the prior point.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ryas CIA
Surveyor
Powers Bills Debated On Governor Authority in Louisiana Senate
In Baton Rouge the Senate opened debate on powers of the governor. Senator Olaf Fink urged enforcing Rule 61 to keep lawmakers off the floor. a bid to let the governor attend was rejected 9-25. McKeithen's floor leaders defended the package, with questions raised about study committee meetings and amendments on levee boards. The package aims to balance state power and allow a second four year term for McKeithen.
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New Orleans
McKeithen
Director of Public Works
O'Keefe
Jack Fruge
Wille Platte
Adrian Duplantier
Senate
Rayburn
Special Study Committee
Sam Jones
Buddhist Leaders Meet Ky Thieu in Pursuit of Compromise
In Saigon Buddhist leaders met Premier Ky and Chief of State Thieu in a surprise early round of talks aimed at ending the antigovernment campaign by compromise. The meetings followed a self immolation in Hue and rising protests as officials weigh concessions short of Ky and Thieu resignations.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
Hue
Thich Tam Chau
Buddhist Institute
Gia Long Palace
Thieu
Institute
Thich Tri Quang
Quang
Tich Tinh Khiet
U.S
State Trooper Injured as Oakdale Strike Protests Turn Violent
About 100 demonstrators blocked the entry to the Vancouver Plywood Co. plant in Oakdale and two women were taken into custody. Trooper William McFatter fractured his hand when attempting to seize a pipe from a protester. Over 200 union Local 3101 members have been on strike since March 13, with 100-plus new workers hired to replace strikers.
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Oakdale
Vancouver Plywood Co
William McFatter
Troop H
Leesville
Carpenters and Joiners Union Local
van Ply
Evangeline Parish
Branton Expected to Run for Public Service Commission
Shongaloo Special report says State Rep Parey FP Branton of Webster Parish plans to announce today for the Third District Public Service Commission. Monroe candidates John Hunt and John McKinley have announced, along with Wellborn Jack of Shreveport.
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Shongaloo
Parey
Branton
Webster Parish
Public Service Commission
John Hunt
Monroe
John McKinley
Wellborn Jack
Shreveport
Marine boot camp pride for Covington graduate son
Monroe City School board member Frank Breece Jr praises his son Pvt Frederic Breece 18 stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego for boot camp. He expects to finish training at end of June and then head to Memphis Tennessee to attempt jet navigation.
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Monroe City
Frank Breece Jr
Pvt
Frederic Breece
Marine Corps Recruit Station
San Diego
Calif
Memphis
Tenn
Breece
Covington High School
Mixed reaction to Fifth District sales tax plan
Officials react non committally to a proposed Fifth District one cent sales tax with Ouachita Parish likely to provide over half. A second meeting led by Monroe Superintendent Van D. Odom is planned in Monroe with attendees from district schools and government groups to discuss tax election details and distribution concerns.
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Ouachita Parish
Baton Rouge
Monroe
van D. Odom
Franklin
Lantz Womack
Womack
Ouachita Parish Fire Group Pushes for Pay Raise Exemption
Ouachita Parish fire committee and Police Jury press for exempting the parish from a state firemen pay raise bill. Chairman Fred Huenefeld Jr. warns inclusion would cost the department about 50 000 dollars annually. A Baton Rouge meeting with lawmakers aimed to secure an exemption.
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Ouachita Parish Citizens Fire Committee
Ouachita
Ouachita Fire Department
Fred Huenefeld Jr
Citizens’ Committee
George Wood
Ouahita
Huenefeld
Wood
Lawrence Gibbs
Jamar Adcock
T. W. Humphies
U S Planes Step Up Bombing of North Viet Nam
U S Air Force and Navy jets carried the heaviest strikes in four months against North Viet Nam from the border to north of Hanoi. The campaign targeted missile sites and anti aircraft positions with 83 missions by Air Force and carrier aircraft, while 280 sorties were flown over South Viet Nam. B52s hit a Viet Cong base inland from Quang Ngai as U S ground forces in the 25th Division pressed the hunt near the Cambodian frontier in Operation Paul Revere with 307 enemy fatalities reported since start three weeks earlier.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Air Force
Intrepid
Enterprise
Quang Ngai
Gemini 9 Launch Gets Green Light
Cape Kennedy Florida AP reports the Gemini 9 mission cleared for liftoff with pilots Navy Lt Cmdr Eugene A. Cernan and Air Force Lt Col Thomas Stafford aboard a Titan rocket. The crew plans a 185 mile high orbit to dock with the Augmented Target Docking Adapter and execute a historic spacewalk and satellite rendezvous, weather permitting.
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Gemini
Eugene Cernan
Thomas Stafford
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Thomson
wSeBs
Ommioto. Tustookig
Navy
Eugene A. Cernan
ATDA
Atlas
Titan
Gemini Twins
Space Agency
U.S
Stafford
Cernan
Surveyor
Moon
Y Lean
Chicago
Edward H. White
Pleasant Day in Twin Cities Weather Update
Unseasonably warm to cool air moved through the Twin Cities area overnight. Forecasters expect highs from 78 to 88 with lows 62 to 68 amid a dry, clear pattern and possible scattered thundershowers later today and Wednesday.
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Twin Cities
Gulf of Mexico
Baton Rouge
Lafayette
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Alexandria
New Orgene
Shreveport
Monroe rector named sixth bishop of Mississippi
The Rt. Rev. John Maury Allin, D.D., bishop coadjutor of the Mississippi Episcopal diocese, was installed as the sixth bishop today at Saint Andrew Cathedral in Jackson. He succeeds the retiring Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray, and former Grace Episcopal Church of Monroe rector Allin was inducted and invested at 11 a.m. on Whit Tuesday.
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Jackson
Miss
John Maury Allin
Episcopal Diocese of
Mississippi
Grace Episcopal Church of
Monroe
Saint Andrew
Duncan Montgomery’ Gray
D. D
Albert R. Stuart
Georgia
Allin
Episcopal Church
James Milton Richardson
Texas
John Adams Pinckney
Upper South Carolina
William Evan Sanders
Tennessee
James Loughlin Duncan
South Florida
Gray Temple
South Carolina
Robert Raymond Brown
Arkansas
John Vander Horst
Iveson Batchelor Noland
Louisiana
Girault McArthur Jones
Edward Hamilton West
Florida
Henry Irving Louttit
South
Charles Coleock Jones Carpenter
Alabama
Adcock backs school sales tax proposal in Ouachita
Monroe lawmaker Ja mar Adcock endorsed a Fifth Congressional District 1 cent sales tax plan to fund teacher salaries. The measure, presenting to the House by Lantz Womack and Benny Christian, would let school boards call an election to raise funds, projected to exceed 5 million annually districtwide. He urged officials in Ouachita and Jackson parishes to back the proposal.
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Odom
Neville High School
Womack
Ouachita
City of Monroe
Louisiana
House
Senate
Monroe School Board
W. S. Gannaway
Monroe
Milton C. Hall
Hall
News-Star Legislative Bureau
Baton Rouge
Jamar Adcock
Lantz Womack
Franklin Parish
Benny Christian
Richland
Adcock
Ouachita Parish
Nor'Eeast Louisiana
Jackson Parishes
Nineteen Lake Providence youths in wreck on La. 2
A two vehicle collision near Lake Providence sent nineteen local youths riding in the back of a truck tumbling from the vehicle. James Edmund Murphy, 34, of Bastrop, was jailed on charges of reckless driving and no driver's license. Several injured youths were hospitalized, with three transferred to Conway Memorial Hospital in Monroe and the rest staying in East Carroll Parish.
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Lake Providence
James Edmund Murphy
Bastrop
la. Hwy. 2
Murphy
Reuben B. Stevenson
Jimmy ‘Stevenson
Carl Johnson
Eddie James
Mary Louise Dixon
Josephine Reed
George Reed Jr
Doris Shepherd
Barbara London
Donald Edward Johnson
Deborah Ritter
Conway Memorial Hospital
Monroe
East Carroll Parish
McKinley Ends Law Partnership With McKeithen
The dissolution of the Monroe based law partnership of Gov. John Mc Keithen and John B. McKinley was announced today McKinley is a candidate for the Louisiana Public Service Commission and endorsed Hunt in the Aug 13 primary The firm will continue to operate at 221 Wall St Columbia with Donald R Brown as associate and McKeithen Mouser will withdraw from the partnership McKinley stepped down as State Sovereignty Commission chairman to focus on the PSC campaign
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John McKeithen
State Sovereignty Commission
John B. McKinley
Monroe
McKinley
Louisiana Public Service Commission
John Hunt
MccKeithen
McKeithen
Hunt
Public Service Commission
Vinson
Mouser
McKeithen and Mouser
Wall St
Columbia
Donald R. Brown
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