Officials Poised For Chlorine Alert On Barge
Officials in Natchez report preparations for Operation Chlorine to raise four 1,100 ton chlorine tanks from a sunken barge in the Mississippi River. Dredges remove sand 65 percent complete. Evacuation plans cover 25 mile radius with gas masks and shelters.
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Natchez
Miss
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Mississippi
Col
Warren S. Everett
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg
Mississippi National Guardsmen
Adj
W. P. Wilson
H. B. Cottrell
U. S. Public Health Service
Cottrell
Forecast Disaster In China Unless Population Cut
The Agriculture Department warned that China could run out of food and fiber by 1980 unless population growth is checked. It cited three years of agricultural failures, hunger and famine, and proposed improved agriculture with free enterprise, though the Communist regime may block such reforms. The report estimates China's population at 660 million, potentially reaching a billion by 1980, and criticizes the regime's policy of sacrificing current welfare for political and economic power.
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Washington
China
Agriculture Department
Department
Eve’s emergence stirs chuckle over Adam’s split origins
A lighthearted note riffs on the first split between Adam and Eve, joking that Eve’s presence created a force humanity has never controlled. The line plays on mythical origins with playful, outdated tone.
San Francisco Destroyed by Fires After 1906 Quake
The city suffered seven disastrous fires following the April 18 1906 earthquake, Britannica records noting the most devastating blaze occurred after the tremor.
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San Francisco
Dog Makes Error Keeps Cop At Bay
Satan the police dog and patrolman Charles Stevenson pursued a burglary suspect. The dog cornered the man a block away and held him, but Stevenson fell into a ditch. Detective Robert Smith arrived with a drawn gun and Satan released the prisoner to grab Smith’s arm, allowing the fugitive to escape.
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Independence, Mo
Satan
Charles Stevenson
Stevenson
Robert Smith
Smith
Three Americans Killed as Guerrillas Down Two Planes
In South Viet Nam the central highlands saw a spotter plane shot down by Communist guerrillas killing three Americans aboard the aircraft. A U S Air Force T28 fighter was damaged but the pilot survived with minor injuries as U S forces later attacked the guerrillas and reported two Reds killed.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Air Force
U.S. Air Force
Viet Nam
Ban Me Thuot
Eisenhower blasts Kennedy on foreign policy in Boston
Former President Eisenhower, at a $100-a-plate GOP dinner in Commonwealth Armory Boston, sharply criticized Kennedy for a dreary foreign policy. He defended his own administration, citing a drift and rejecting Democratic claims of a new, firm policy.
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Boston
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Commonwealth Armory
New England
Kiwanis Award Grants 100 Scholarship to Charles McMahon
North Monroe Kiwanis Club presents a hundred dollar scholarship to Charles McMahon of Northeast Louisiana State College. Kiwanis president Travis Wood and agriculture and conservation chair Bill Neukirk made the presentation.
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North Monroe Kiwanis Club
Northeast Louisiana State College
Charles McMahon
Travis Wood
Kiwanis
Bill Newkirk
Agriculture and Conservation
SelfEmployed Residents Grow in Monroe New York
In Monroe 12.0 percent, about 2520 people, earn livelihoods from self employment including grocers doctors lawyers and farmers. The average net income after expenses was 5495 with national median 4200 and Louisiana 4038.
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New York
Monroe
United States
Louisiana
Plan To Help Retarded Is Due Today
Washington AP President Kennedy receives a battle plan for a broad national program to combat mental retardation. A 281 page report by a home panel of experts calls for community action and a domestic peace corps style effort. The plan cites 126000 births yearly and 5.4 million affected Americans, with 400000 needing constant care. It notes mild retardation accounts for 90 percent of cases and concentrates among children of poor education and low income families.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Leonard Mayo
New York
Adlai Pressured Over Congo Future Remarks
United Nations diplomats criticized Adlai Stevenson for portraying too hopeful a Congo settlement. African delegates cited reports from Elisabethville of Katanga forces growing to as many as 40,000 while Tshombe pledges allegiance only loosely.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Congo
Stevenson
Kennedy
Elisabethville
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Leopoldville
Tshombe
Fourth Nuclear Device Fails Over Johnston Island
The United States failed for the fourth time in five tests to detonate a high altitude nuclear device above Johnston Island. The Thor booster malfunction caused the failure. the range safety officer destroyed the missile eight minutes after launch and debris fell harmlessly into the ocean within a safety zone.
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Honolulu
United States
Johnston Island
Atomic Energy Commission
Thor
Johnston
Sand Island
AEC
Islands
Extra School Money Needs Re Estimated
State Treasurer A P Tugwell offered a brighter forecast for Louisiana school finances, estimating about 10 million dollars in extra money needed for next year rather than 60 million. He cited tax collections strength as a key factor and noted previous bond use and sales tax shifts to cover education funding.
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Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana
Tugwell
Supt
F. F. Wimberly
Iberia Parish
LTA
Louisiana Press Association
Wimberly
Weather Outlook Monroe Area Partly Cloudy Through Wednesday
The Monroe area will see cooler air with partly cloudy skies through Wednesday and widely scattered thundershowers today and tonight. It will not be as warm tonight or Wednesday. Highs today in the upper 80s, lows tonight 60s to 64, with Wednesday’s high around 80.
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Monroe
Monroe edges toward $11.25 million capital program
Monroe plans a $11,250,000 capital improvement program funded by a two mill tax increase starting 1963. The bond issue finances a sewer plant civic center City Hall airport facilities and fire department expansion. Property assessments would rise about $2 per $1,000, with growth projections guiding debt service.
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Monroe
Louisiana
Black & Weedh
Kansas City
Kennedy Childish Nuisance Echoes Through White House Welcome
President Kennedy, facing a cannon salute for Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, kept a stiff demeanor as his daughter Caroline and friends on the White House second floor mocked the ceremony with shrill “Bang” volleys. Salinger said Caroline was not punished. The crowd mostly smiled as reporters and officials watched the playful scene.
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Kennedy
Ahmed Ben Bella
White House South Grounds
John F., Jr
Washington
White’ House
Caroline
Algeria
Ben Bella
White House
Pierre Salinger
State Department
Holly Ridge Man And Two Others Sought
Louisiana authorities are conducting a man hunt for bank robber James F. Gwin of Holly Ridge and two inmate companions who escaped from Angola State Penitentiary using a stolen boat from the Three Rivers Community. Gwin, serving 20 years for the 1959 Oak Ridge Bank robbery, fled with Thomas Pickins and Thomas Pickard. Bloodhounds are tracking the escapees.
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Angola
Louisiana
James F. Gwin
Holly Ridge
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Gwin
Bank of
Oak Ridge
Three Rivers
Mississippi River
Thomas Pickins
Eunice
Thomas Pickard
Arkansas
Delta
Longview
Tex
Bank of Oak Ridge
Otis
Sheriff Doubts UMriot Shooting Clarity
Oxford Mississippi sheriff Joe Ford suggests one of two men killed during the September 30 riot at the University of Mississippi may have been shot by a U S marshal. He asks DOJ to examine guns used by marshals as well as personal weapons amid ongoing investigations in the Lyceum Building incident.
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Oxford, Miss
UPI
Joe Ford
University of Mississippi
U. S
Ford
Department of Justice
Lyceum
James H. Meredith
Ray Lee
Unter
Paul Guihhard
Agence France Press
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JFK
Rosemary
Adlai
Sam Hanna
Barnett
New Orleans
Justice Department
Ross Barnett
James Meredith
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Atlanta
Montgomery
Ala
State of
Appeals Court
Paul B. Johnson Jr
Meredith
Oxford
Associated Student Body Cabinet
Dick Wilson
Jackson
News-Star—World
Fergerson
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