Charge JFK Using Editors As Conduits
Republican National Chairman William E. Miller accused the Kennedy administration of censorship and using reporters as political conduits in Editor and Publisher. Miller contrasted Kennedy secrecy with Eisenhower’s illness disclosures and drew sharp rebuttal from White House press secretary Pierre Salinger.
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Washington
William E. Miller
Kennedy
Miller
New York
Freedom of Information Committee
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Eisenhower
White House
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
Khrushchev Wife Says Soviets Not Building Shelters
Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev told Western peace marchers in Moscow that the Soviet Union makes no effort to build air raid shelters. She cited no defense in a nuclear war and said they are not getting ready.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Nina Khrushchev
House of Friendship
McNamara Sets Limits on Military Speakers at Seminars
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered that military speakers at private seminars discuss only military topics avoid partisan remarks and refrain from challenging current policy. Local commanders will decide involvement of personnel equipment and facilities in nongovernmental information programs. No military group may sponsor such programs without higher approval.
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Washington
Robert 5. McNamara
McNamara
Silly To Be Chilly Circulated Heater Item
A short, fragmented notice references a circulated heater item described as copper hose with a pair, both labeled 35. The text is incomplete and provides limited context about the item and its circulation.
Young Finders Keepers member finds diamond in Arkansas
Freddie Ann Works of West Monroe, age 12, joined the Finders Keepers Club after finding a pure white diamond about one third carat during a Crater of Diamonds visit in the Ozarks Arkansas last week. A chicken spaghetti supper is set for Mitchell School PTA tonight.
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Freddie Ann Works
J. L. Works
West Monroe
Finders Keepers Club
Ozarks
Arkansas
Rayburn Dying As Johnson Visits In Dallas
House Speaker Sam Rayburn 79, dying of cancer, shows slight improvement and rests comfortably at Baylor University Medical Center. President Kennedy urged prayers as hundreds of letters poured in. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife visited Rayburn, prompting speculation of a possible Kennedy visit to Dallas.
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Dallas
Tex
Sam Rayburn
Baylor University Medical Center
Kennedy
Forrest Sorrell
Secret Service
Rayburn
Washington
Sorrels
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Johnson City
Colleges Nagged By Drop Outs At ACE Meeting
Washington AP reports college officials at the American Council on Education say half of students who start college drop out before finishing. Blanchard Rideout of Cornell notes 50 percent dropout rate, mostly for nonacademic reasons, urging better counseling and more exciting freshman teaching. Joseph McLain of Mamaroneck high school stresses concern for students after enrollment.
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Washington
American Council On Education
Blanchard L. Rideout O
Cornell University
Joseph C. McLain
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Streamlined two page Form 1040 unveiled by IRS
Washington AP reports the Internal Revenue Service released a simplified two page Form 1040 for individual income tax payments. The new form uses plain English and drops the former Form 1040W, featuring better paper and larger type for easier reading.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Internal Revenue Service
Ouachita Valley Fair Opens Monday With Family Events
The Ouachita Valley Fair begins Monday at 4 p.m. and runs through Saturday under manager John Birdsong Sr. Local livestock shows, including an expanded Junior Livestock Show with youths from Ouachita and neighboring parishes, are featured. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children 12 and under. The event will include Johnny Rivers and his high diving mules as an entertainment highlight.
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Ouachita Valley Fair
John Birdsong Sr
Ouachita
Morehouse
Union
West Carroll
Richland
Franklin
Jackson
Caldwell
Birdsong
Johnny Rivers
Eklund Inaugurated IAEA Director General
Swedish nuclear scientist Dr. Sigvard Eklund was inaugurated as director general of the East West International Atomic Energy Agency. Soviet chief delegate Vasily Emelyanov walked out in protest after a sharp attack on Eklund and Western powers. the rest of the Soviet delegation stayed in the hall.
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Vienna
Austria
Sigvard Eklund
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vasily Emelyanov
Eklund
Two Young Refugees Die In Escape Bid
Two young refugees attempting to swim across the Spree to West Berlin were shot by Communist police and drowned or disappeared Friday night. West Berlin authorities reported eight refugees have died at the border since August 13 as Maj. Gen. Delacombe protested Soviet conduct to Col. Solovyev.
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West Berlin
Rohan Delacombe
Berlin
Delacombe
Nasser signals shift on Syria UN and Arab League membership
In Cairo President Nasser delivers a restrained address signaling de facto acceptance of a Syrian regim e move toward UN and Arab League membership. He states no blockade of Syria but insists Cairo will not recognize Damascus until the Syrian people freely decide their path.
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Nasser
United Arab Republic
United Nations
Arab League
Syria
Mamoun Kuzbari
Egypt
Damascus
Kuzbari
Weather forecast for Louisiana weekend
Forecaster predicts good football weather with clear skies and mild temps. Northeast Louisiana may see cool nights around 48 to 52 degrees with today’s highs near 78 to 82 and 80 to 84 tomorrow. Previous day highs ranged 75 to 79, with morning lows from 44 to 68.
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Tomorow
Lake Charles
Monroe Shreveport
Burrwood
Monroe
Today’s Chuckle Youthful Figure Joke
A light joke notes a youthful figure you obtain by asking a woman her age, playing on age old teasing with playful tone.
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko Arrives for Berlin Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Anrei A. Gromyko arrives in Washington to meet President Kennedy on Berlin crisis. He warns the danger of war must be prevented and hints at possible new Soviet ideas while offering a peaceful settlement of the German problem.
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Kennedy
Gromyko
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Khrushchev
Berlin
New York
U.N
Dean Rusk
Teen admits slaying girl for thrill in Wheaton field
In Wheaton Illinois a 15 year old boy confessed to luring 7 year old neighbor Yvonne Elliott into a weed filled field where she was hurt and drowned in rainwater. Police say Steven Schleneger told them he acted for thrill and that rumors of thrills drew him to the crime. The body was found by her father Wednesday night as investigators charged the teen with delinquency.
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Steven Schleneger
DuPage County
Lawrence Springborn
Yvonne Elliott
Elmhurst
Edward
Aycock Defends Kennedy on Communism but Critiques Policies
Lt. Gov. Aycock told the Optimist Club in Baton Rouge he backs Kennedy on communism yet disagrees with the administration on civil rights, housing subsidies, and free enterprise. He framed the issue as patriotism versus atheistic communism and urged staying focused on Americanism.
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Baton Rouge
Co. C. Aycock
Kennedy
Aycock
Optimist Club
Ion
Jimmie H. Davis
Tidelands
Rules Committee
School Boards In Four Parishes Plead For Rescue
SHREVEPORT Louisiana AP school boards in at least four parishes from Caddo to Ouachita report low funds and state payments two to three months behind schedule. In New Orleans six integrated elementaries risk November payroll without October borrowing authority. State Treasurer Tugwell cites a deficit in the general fund as the cause of more than 62 million dollars in parish shortfalls.
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Shreveport
Caddo
Bossier
Ouachita Parishes
New Orleans
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Ones
Tugwell
Minnie Ruffin School Bid Won for New Monroe Building
Monroe City School Board accepts Lamar Moore bid of 201 449 for Minnie Ruffin Elementary, to be built on Parkview Boulevard in the Parkview Subdivision. The base bid includes eleven classrooms with two alternates adding terrazzo tile and two extra rooms. The project is part of a 1.7 million bond issue approved last year for district expansion.
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Monroe City
Minnie Rufin
Lamar Moore
Jsuch
Parkview Subdivision
Parkview Boulevard
Minnie Ruffin
Monroe
Neville
Searbeck Admits Taking $400 From Polish Agents
Federal court heard former diplomat Irvin C. Searbeck admit taking about $400 from Polish agents after months of dealings. Security agent Kenneth W. Knauf testified at an interview in Frankfurt that Searbeck described regular meetings with the Polish secret police, pressure for more important documents, and a passport for Ursula Discher, 22, before she left for Frankfurt.
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Washington
A_ State Department
Irvin C. Searbeck
Searbeck
Warsaw
Red
Kenneth W. Knauf
Scarbeck
Frankfurt
Germany
Knauf
Leonard W. Walsh
Ursula Discher
U.S
Miss Discher
Knaut
Ater
Cuban refugee flow rises to peak 1187 families in week
The Cuban emergency relief center in Miami reports a steady increase in refugees with a peak of 1,187 families arriving in one week last month.
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Miami
UPI
Woman Booked For Abortion In Louisiana Arrest
A 27 year old unemployed nurse’s aide was booked on an abortion charge in Quachité parish. She was apprehended early today by the parish sheriff department on a warrant from the district attorney’s office. Bond set at 750, she posted it soon after booking. The incident involves a 16 year old girl in the area.
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Quachité Parish
Frances Lovell Griffith
Claiborne
West Monroe
Bailey Grant
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