Pleven Emerges as France Seeks New Premier
President Rene Coty moves to name Rene Pleven after Guy Mollet fails to form a government. Mollet vows no coalition with inflation controls, while center independents oppose strong powers. Pleven, a former premier, must build a broad coalition amid Algerian policy debates and a fragile balance in the National Assembly.
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Paris
France
Rene Coty
Brittany
Rene Pleven
Guy Mollet
Socialist Party
Premeir
Elysee Palace
Coty
Mollet
Center
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Algeria
Pleven
National Assembly
Toether
Democratic and Socialist Union of Resistance
UDSR
Soviet Volunteers Undergo Space Tests For Moon Trip
Soviet armed forces volunteers are undergoing tests on human response to space travel as part of moon mission prep. American and Soviet scientists at the International Astronautical Congress in Barcelona note the goal to send a satellite to the moon or circle it and return within two years. Discussions include cosmic radiation, meteoroids, and trajectory calculations for lunar orbit and oblique earth reentry. Americans lament missed opportunities and rising Soviet progress.
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Barcelona
Spain
High Court Opens Term With Heavy Docket
The Supreme Court began a new term led by Chief Justice Warren with about 800 cases on the docket. Forty nine attorneys were admitted to practice as the nine justices prepared to hear 113 argued cases from petitions filed this summer.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
Warren
Bound To Happen
A New Orleans report describes a man calling police to say spacemen parked a flying saucer in his driveway and entered his home to steal his wallet shoes and dog. He claimed the aliens were green and from Mars or Venus but the officer noted green beings come from the moon. No investigation was dispatched.
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New Orleans
Frank Miller
Mars
Venus
Miller
Moon
Faubus Charges Federal Troops Invasion of School Privacy
Governor Orval Faubus accused federal troops at Central High School of following Black students into dressing rooms and urged a policy review. He suggested Presidents and officials replace troops with women in the corps if integration continues. Nine Negro students entered Central High as guards, with minimal harassment observed.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval Faubus
Integrated Central High School
Edwin A. Walker
Faubus
Central High School
Eisenhower
Brownell
Secretary of Defense
Women’s Army Corps
Walker
Central
Central High
U. S. Army
Watch Kept On Storm Area In Caribbean
The weather bureau keeps a close watch on a trough of low pressure and heavy showers lingering in the western Caribbean south of Jamaica for three days. A hurricane hunter flight found no sign of a tropical storm, and no planes were scheduled to survey today. Forecaster Arnold Sugg said the area shows little potential for development.
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Miami
Weather Bureau
Caribbean
Jamaica
Arnold Sugg
Northwestern State honors Schorr as cadet lieutenant colonel
Gerald J. Schorr, a Northwest ern State College business administration senior from New Orleans, was named cadet lieutenant colonel and battalion commander of the ROTC unit. Lt. Col. Christian G. Kuehlke said Schorr was one of six promoted on the battalion staff. A separate item notes C. V. Brannon and his sister Mrs. Kenova Delph, long separated, meeting in Eros after forty one years, last seen Christmas 1915.
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Gerald J. Schorr
Northwestern State College Business Administration
New Orleans
Cornel
NSC
Christian G. Kuehlke
Northwestern
Schorr
Eros
C. V. Brannon
Kenova Delph
Trafalgar, Ind
Moon Launcher Hagen Leads U S Satellite Effort
Dr. John P. Hagen heads Project Vanguard aiming to launch a first U S satellite into orbit. He stresses a calm approach and states the United States is racing with its own schedule, not Russia, to send baby moons skyward for space intelligence.
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Washington
John P. Hagen
U.S
Hagen 49
Project Vanguard
United States
Russia
Hagen
Monroe Kidnap Suspect Sought After Nighttime Abduction
Police describe a white male in his 30s to 40s with a slender build, brown hair, muddy pants, and a dark jacket who abducted nurse Mrs. Leo Earl near Monroe before fleeing after the car ran out of gas. Earl, wife of a Monroe officer, was returned to Monroe by authorities. An earlier report indicated ongoing investigation into leads.
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Monroe
Leo Earl
South Second Street
James C. Kelly, Jr
Earl
South Monroe
Shreveport
Ruston
Control Board On Pollution Meets Tonight
A delegation of 12 civic leaders from here travels to El Dorado Arkansas where the Arkansas Pollution Control Board holds a hearing on Ouachita river water conditions. The session caps a 75000 project surveying the river from Hot Springs to the Louisiana line. Rodriguez will head the group with other Monroe and Ouachita Parish officials and press in attendance. Technical evidence will address pollution sources and volumes entering Ouachita tributaries from Arkansas oil fields.
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el Dorado
Ark
Arkansas Pollution Control Board
Ouachita River
Quachita River
Hot Springs
Louisiana , Arkansas
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Monroe
French L. Smith
Monroe Utilities Commission
Louis D. Smith
Herbert E. Dickard
The
Utilities Commission
Fred Fudickar, Jr
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Jim Williams
Chamber of Commerce
Hunt 2 Youths Near Coushatta
State police and Natchitoches Parish officers hunted in the Black Lake area near Coushatta for two youths who fled from Texas after a running gun fight with highway patrolmen. They hijacked a motorist near Evadale and stole his car, later eluding roadblocks near Alexandria as Grant Parish Sheriff J Wilson Smith pursued the stolen vehicle.
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Shreveport
Natchitoches Parish
Black Lake
Coushatta
Texas
Orange
Tex
Evadale
Alexandria
Grant Parish
J. Wilson Smith
Poles Demand More Freedom Amid Warsaw Unrest
Polish students pressed for freedom as police clashed with crowds by the Palace of Culture in Warsaw. Tear gas and clubs dispersed demonstrators after 150 arrests in four nights of trouble. A student committee urged moderation and legal action, appealing to Gomulka and Cardinal Wyszynski for reforms.
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Warsaw
Po Prostu
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Communist Party
Palace of Culture
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomula
Space Ship to Moon in Works
Soviet scientists who perfected the first earth satellite are far along in studies of a space ship that can visit the moon and return. American scientists reported today in Barcelona, Spain. Moscow newspapers hinted that some more startling development than the satellite was in the works and told readers to watch for something special on Nov. 7, 40th anniversary of the coup in 1917.
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London
Barcelona
Spain
Moscow
Kansas City Dedicates Freeway In Downtown Redevelopment
A new 2 million dollar freeway on Kansas City near north side will be dedicated to unclog U S 24 40 and replace about 200 ramshackle buildings. City officials will present millions in new public and private buildings as part of a downtown revitalization plan.
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Kansas City
Parade Marks Start of Monroe United Fund Drive
Jiminy Cricket symbolic conscience arrives in Monroe for the 1958 United Fund kickoff parade at 3 50 p m local bands will lead the event Four local bands play while cricket mascots are handed to children to remind them of the charity drive.
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Jiminy Cricket
United Fund
Monroe
Fund
Jiminy
Hollywood
National United Fund
Weather Smiles On Farmers Across The Region
The Weather Bureau forecasts clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Nightly lows around 50 to 54 and tomorrow’s highs 78 to 82. Earlier highs ranged 78 to 82 at Monroe, Moisant Airport, New Orleans and Burrwood, with lows from 49 at Monroe to 64 in New Orleans.
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Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Monroe
Moisant
New Orleans
Burrwood
Baton Rouge
Last Atomic Device Morgan Detonates In Nevada Test
Angel Peak Nevada witnessed the 24th device of the 1957 spring and summer atomic series named Morgan. The 7 a m local blast was tethered 500 feet above Yucca Flat and produced a bright fireball and mushroom cloud visible from Los Angeles. Thirty three devices were linked to Morgan with no military or civil tests reported.
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Angel's Peak
Nev
Morgan
Yucca Flat
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Pacific
Opening Tonight at Ouachita Valley Fair
Deadline for fair entries is 7 p.m. today per fair association manager John H. Birdsong Sr. The carnival and Blue Grass Shows open at 6:30 tonight, with cattle exhibits from Stockland Farms Sondheimer Louisiana State University Four Ranch Tallulah Gilfoil Tallulah and J B Holly Ranch Morehouse Parish. Judging runs Tuesday for most divisions and Wednesday for the senior livestock. A farm equipment exhibit is added this year as interest grows. Attendance is expected to exceed last year’s 40 000.
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Ouachita Valley
Moscow Radio says rocket stage becomes a second satellite
Moscow Radio reports part of the missile that launched the first Soviet satellite is circling Earth in a moon like orbit, separated from the satellite by about 1000 kilometers. The claim follows the launch and suggests the last stage may be orbiting independently as scientists discuss its trajectory.
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London
Moscow Radio
Russia
Russian Moon Race Gathers Steam After Satellite Lead
Soviet citizens celebrate as Sputnik leads in satellite field while officials promise bigger craft. Kirov and Izvestia report future plans include returning satellites intact and avoiding burn up on reentry. The public believes Soviet science outranks the West and awaits further launches.
Community Line Contacts and Hours for Editorial Circulation
Public information notice lists phone lines for Editorial and Circulation departments and a Classifieds desk. Hours state 5 00 pm to 800 am on weekdays and noon Saturday to 800 am Monday and on holidays.
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Earth
Gen. Walker
J. W. Matthews
National
White House
Control Board On Pollution
Rodriguez
Ka’s Re
Parade
United Campaign
Jimmy
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts
Colored Community Welfare
Carolyn Rose Strauss Rehabilitation Center
Monroe Area Guidance Center
Girl Scouts
Louisiana Mental Health Association
Salvation Army
YMCA
YWCA
Jimi
Gilfoil
Tallulah
Morehouse Parish
Outer
Space
Dry
J. Allen Hynek
Richard E. McCrosky
Smithssonian Astrophysical Laboratory
Cambridge
Mass
McCrosky
Alaska
Kremlin
Kzvestia
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