25 Nov 1955
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1955
Page
1
Paris AP Premier Edgar Faure seeks a confidence vote on delaying elections to push an electoral reform law. The Assembly agenda committee set a Tuesday debate on a question by ex interior minister Francois Mitterrand, challenging government indecision and Faure’s ability to govern.
Bids totaling 300000 dollars for a women’s dormitory on the Northeast Louisiana State College campus will be opened December 6 at 11 a.m. in Baton Rouge at the state building authority. The project matches a recently opened dorm and a boys’ dormitory is under construction. Contractors bidding include R J Jones and Sons Dye and Mullings Columbia Miss J A Harper Crowville H C Peck Lumber and Supply Co Sicily Island Oden Construction Co Hattiesburg Miss W C Salley Jesse F Heard and Son West Monroe C B Construction Co Natchitoches Flint Bros Jackson Miss W G Haynes Nest Monroe and T J Owen Winnsboro.
San Francisco scientists dismiss Dr Jose Mariano Pontons warning that the city will suffer the worst earthquake Friday. UC Berkeley seismologist Walter C Marion says modern seismology finds no basis for such a claim and assures the city will remain standing despite Pontons study of celestial positions.
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Bandits cut into a bank vault in Slidell Louisiana using torches and released mustard gas during the break in. FBI says they stole between 7000 and 8000 dollars and left behind tools while gas forced evacuation and hindered entry for hours. Authorities seek suspects with state police aid.
In Savannah Georgia after the annual cross town high school football game Savannah High beat Benedictine 9 to 6. A two hour riot followed with 6000 to 7000 people at Bull and Broughton streets. Police fired tear gas, six officers were injured, fire equipment damaged and several arrests made.
Far East Air Force headquarters ordered all C124 Globemaster troop carriers grounded pending inquiry into Sunday Iwo Jima crash that claimed ten lives. Investigators study the plane’s crew, weather, and maintenance records as searchers comb wreckage for clues.
Traffic accidents on Thanksgiving Day killed Velda Jean Rawlins six of Lake Charles and Willie Lasseigne fifty nine of St Martinville along U S Highway 90 and Highway 86 in Calcasieu Parish and near Catahoula. A third victim Jarasmine Dantin fifty nine of Westwego died on State Route One near four. A mattress fire started by a cigarette caused another death.
In a year when Christmas plans strain budgets Good Fellows report a single $5 donation and call for more help from the broader donor circle. The piece notes that families with money can prepare, while poorer households face hardship delivering joy to children.
The United Nations Political Committee agreed to drop the Algerian problem from the General Assembly agenda, likely ending France's boycott that began September 30. France agreed in advance to accept the proposal, with discussions shifting away from Algerian independence. The U N also signaled a softer stance on admitting 18 applicants, including Outer Mongolia.
President Eisenhower resumes official duties after a family Thanksgiving at his Gettysburg farm. He plans a meeting with Col. Andrew Goodpaster in Gettysburg and will see Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall on Monday, the first since his Denver heart attack.
President Eisenhower accepted the resignation of Hugh W. Cross as Interstate Commerce Commission chairman. Cross had been under fire by Senate investigators. In his letter dated last Wednesday he said charges of improper conduct were baseless but noted that the pendency of such charges impairs his further service and the commission’s public functioning.
Four California men arrested in Memphis admitted to a spree of drug store robberies totaling about 5000 dollars. They described holdups in New Orleans Houston Fort Worth Los Angeles and unidentified California locations. Police traced their getaway route using a road map found under a bed and recovered cash pistols and ammunition at the motel.
Delegates at the 89th National Grange convention in Cleveland condemn government actions limiting overseas sales of surplus crops. The report cites emergency in American agriculture, calls price supports insufficient, and warns foreign buyers now compete with U S farmers. It notes 9 percent of farmers produce 51 percent of farm commodities and about 1.5 million farmers earn...
Weather forecasts predicted clear skies across the Twin City area Friday after noon. Rainfall totaled 1.62 inches across Thursday night and Friday morning, with temperatures rising from a 43 degree low to a 48 degree morning reading.
Public Service Commissioner John MecKeithen said his three man commission has no plan to change its travel segregation rules despite a federal ICC order outlawing segregation on interstate trains and buses. The remark followed ICC actions sup ervising interstate travel.
A Nassau County grand jury opened an investigation into the slaying of millionaire socialite William Woodward. Witnesses include Oyster Bay Cove officers and Mrs Ann Woodward who is expected to describe the shooting as an accident amid fear of a prowler at the estate.
Atlanta reports Attorney General Eugene Cook pledged to pursue state enforcement of racial segregation on Georgia trains and buses despite an interstate ban. He acknowledged enforcement would face technical hurdles and challenges.
Western reading at the U.S. Embassy courtyard in Prague drew crowds of Czechs until Nov 11 when the Czech Foreign Office barred the back-issue table deemed unwelcome. Harold Vedeler argued the magazines showed culture, not propaganda, but the display was canceled and Sundays in the courtyard ended.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that segregation on interstate trains and buses is unlawful and that public waiting rooms must not imply inferiority by race. The decision, in two NAACP and Sarah Keys cases, repudiates earlier theory of equal facilities with potential inequality.
Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, 67, sails on his fifth Antarctic expedition with Capt. Laurence Matthews. He predicts permanent civilian settlements by 1959 and a future of villages around 500 people, as ships and planes already head toward Antarctica. They travel via commercial airlines, stopping in San Francisco and Honolulu.
A Royal Canadian Air Force plane with 19 aboard sank after a forced landing in Seymour Narrows near Vancouver. Three crewmen drowned while 16 air force personnel were rescued by the fishpacker Western Challenge at the crash scene.
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