Laura Stalls Near Cuba as Tropical Storm Laura Lashes Isle
Tropical storm Laura stalled south of Cuba with gale winds and heavy rain. Cuba evacuated 10 500 coastal residents in Pinar del Rio as the storm moved north northeast toward Florida. The hurricane center warned possible hurricane strengthening and a shift toward the Florida coast while Havana prepared with preventive measures.
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Supreme Court to Rule on Army Surveillance Suits
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Justice Department appeal aimed at delaying or possibly blocking a full hearing on civilian spying by the Army. The case, backing the ACLU and conscientious objectors, questions federal court authority and whether surveillance caused concrete harm.
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Throwaway Car Reported Being Designed Abroad
Europa magazine reports European and Japanese firms are designing a $400 throwaway car with a 9000 mile lifespan. Prototypes from Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and others from Volvo Sweden and Toyota Japan are in development with a planned New York Auto Show debut next spring and market launch likely in 1975.
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Antonio Gottardi
Turin
New York
Europa
Today's Chuckle The Worst Thing About Retirement
A brief humor item notes the downside of retirement as drinking coffee alone during personal time, poking gentle fun at solitary routines.
Sketch Plan Reveals Colorful Parish Drainage Basin Names
The Ouachita Council of Governments published a comprehensive sketch plan last month revealing many drainage basins in the parish with names such as Petticoat Bayou Styx River Gourd Bayou Chaudrant La Pine Caney-Chauvin and Half Way Bayou among others referenced in Chit Chat Page 5-A.
Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel Dies at 68
Rudolf Abel, once the top Soviet agent in the United States from 1948 to 1957, died Monday at 68 after a six month illness. He was exchanged in 1962 for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Abel had operated from Brooklyn after moving from Canada and was later hailed by the KGB head in Pravda.
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Paris
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Macmilland
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet
Secret Police
River Stages Show Changes at Camden and Monroe
River stages shift with Camden at 4.3 feet and Monroe at 13.8 feet as flood conditions persist amid seasonal rise. Authorities monitor crests while residents brace for potential impacts along the riverfront.
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Monroe
Community rallies for paralyzed Petaluma youth
Robbie Sturla, 15, injured practicing football for St. Vincent's High School, lies paralyzed at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Petaluma residents have raised over 15 000 dollars to cover medical costs, aided by community drives and a radio station auction. donations extend to a White House token from President Nixon.
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White House
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Plea of Guilty in Smuggling Plot
Former French intelligence official Roger de Louette pleaded guilty in Newark to conspiring to smuggle 96 pounds of heroin valued at $12 million into the United States. Co conspirator Col. Paul Fournier remains in France. if tried in the U.S. they face 5 to 20 year sentences and $20,000 fines per count.
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N.J
United States
Roger de Louette
U.S
Herbert J. Stern
de Louette
Service de Documentation Exterieure Et de Centre- Espionage
Col
Paul Fournier
France
Stern
Fournier
DeLouette
Washington
Nelson Gross
U.s.state Department
Weather Forecast for Northeast Louisiana and Monroe FAA Data
Northeast Louisiana will see partly cloudy skies through Thursday with mild afternoons and cool nights. Highs 75 to 80 degrees, lows 41 to 56, humidity around 60 percent and sunshine about 70 percent. FAA at Monroe Municipal Airport logged a high of 80 and a morning low of 41 with no precipitation recorded.
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Federal Aviation Agency
Monroe Municipal
Rail Union Agrees On New 42 Month Contract
The rail signalmen announce a tentative 42 month contract likely to average 12 percent a year, above the Pay Board 5.5 percent cap. AFL CIO officer Charles J. Chamberlain will seek Pay Board guidance and ratification by 75 chairmen in Chicago. The Pay Board may require advance approval for this pact affecting about 12,000 members and more than 5,000 workers. The board also weighs retroactive pay for teachers as the post freeze period begins.
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Railroad Signalmen’s Union
Charles J. Chamberlain
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
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Chicago
Chamberlain
Signalmen
Justices Forbid Welfare Denial To New Residents
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 1 that states cannot deny welfare aid to new residents when no federal funds are involved, expanding a 1969 ruling. Victor Pease, a Montana ranchhand from Washington, sought aid after seasonal work ended in Cascade County and was turned away for not living there a year.
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Supreme Court
Warren E. Burger
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Montana
Victor Pease
Washington State
Cascade County
Salvation Army
Pease
Montana Legal Services Association
Cotton harvest nears completion in Ouachita Valley area
E E Hodgkins and Major Winters report harvest is 80 to 85 percent done across Ouachita Morehouse Caldwell Franklin Richland and West Carroll parishes. The 1971 cotton crop is valued at about 43 million dollars, up from 32.3 million last year, with yields near 600 pounds per acre last year and about 10 pounds higher this year. Planting rose 17 percent to 236 550 acres as weather favored seed beds and timely rains aided harvest quality.
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Macon Ridge
E. E. Hodgkins
LSU Cooperative Extension Service
Ouachita
Morehouse
Caldwell
Franklin
Richland
West Carroll
Extension Service
Hodgkins
Winters
Oklahoma to Meet Auburn in Sugar Bowl
New Orleans AP report says second-ranked Oklahoma voted to play fifth-ranked Auburn in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. Both teams undefeated. Oklahoma set to face No. 1 Nebraska on Nov. 25 for the Big Eight title, while Auburn meets Alabama for the SEC crown on Nov. 27. Oklahoma may make its official Sugar Bowl acceptance this Saturday.
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Oklahoma
Auburn
Nebraska
Alabama
Birmingham
Sooners
North Carolina
Louisiana State
Kentucky
Army beefs up all volunteer force with 804 offices
The military expands a $277 million recruiting drive to create 804 new offices and 3,857 recruiters, plus 2,691 sedans to find volunteers. The plan, part of a $71 billion defense bill pending in the House, raises per recruit costs and shifts offices from post offices to Main Street for visibility.
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Washington
Main Street
House Appropriations Committee
Army
Pentagon
John Q. Henson
Congress
Henson
Nixon Pledges Expansion of Mental Retardation Aid
President Nixon announced an expanded program to halve mental retardation by century’s end and release one third of the more than 200000 retarded persons in public institutions. He cited medical advances and immunizations as key, with federal spending about 668 million this year. Kenneth Robinson, Harvard freshman and youth program administrator, joined the meeting.
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Washington
Nixon
Kenneth Robinson
Harvard University
Robinson
Bank Robbery Hits Baton Rouge LNB Branch
Two gunmen wearing hunting hats robbed a Baton Rouge Louisiana National Bank branch and fled in a stolen car. Police recovered the vehicle soon after, but the robbers remained at large. The same bank suffered another holdup a week earlier with $70,000 stolen. Larry Brown, 21, was arrested Monday and charged in Friday's robbery.
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Louisiana National Bank
LNB
Larry Brown
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