25 Oct 1961
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1961
Page
1
Moscow AP reports Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told delegates at the 22nd CPSU congress the Soviet Union will pursue an agreed solution with the West, but if talks fail it will sign a separate peace with East Germany.
President Kennedy announced support for Democratic candidates in New Jersey and Texas as Eisenhower campaigns for Republicans, signaling a clash of party efforts amid campaign season.
The U N Political Committee ignored procedural roadblocks and voted to consider immediately an urgent appeal to the Soviet Union for cancellation of the 50 megaton hydrogen bomb explosion.
Washington UPI reports former U S diplomat Irvin C Scarbeck faces charges of passing American secrets to Communist agents as the case moves to federal court today.
Lafayette Louisiana National Guard 3628th Ordnance Company departed for Fort Sill Oklahoma for a year of active duty service. The move marks a routine deployment for training and national defense duties with soldiers set to operate under federal activation.
The Novaya Zemlya test in the Soviet program produced a blast about one tenth the size of Monday’s 30 megatons. Uppsala University Observatory and Seismological Institute recorded today's event, the 23rd in the current series begun September 1. Khrushchev had forecast a final 50 megaton blast to end the series by October.
Judge Enoch McClendon in Minden expects to rule on the Cooley Sanatorium ownership by late October or this month. The Ouachita Retarded Children’s Association seeks a legal ruling as ownership remains unsettled, with Ouachita Parish Police Jury claiming legal ownership for the parish.
A reader is asked to call the number FA 5 3869 to uncover how to qualify for a program or service. The notice emphasizes phoning for detailed eligibility criteria and next steps.
New York AP reports Presidents Jervis Langdon of Baltimore and Ohio and Alfred E Perlman of New York Central warned nine state governors that heavy deficits threaten the industry. Langdon cites a 23 million red ink this year while Perlman notes NYC has 25 million deficit in the first nine months. Executives blame government handicaps and biased tax practices as fueling the crisis.
Pinkerton detective Morris A. Strickland, 49, died after being shot while pursuing a bank robber at the Citizens and Southern National Bank on Howell Mill Road. The bandit escaped with 20 810, as $25 000 in rewards were offered. FBI statewide talks on bank robberies began the same day.
Two veterans in City Hall enjoyed coffee and cake as P. A. Poag and Luther Howell, longtime city treasurer’s office workers, marked their 39th birthdays today.
The Rev Mina a Egyptian, his Chinese wife and three children faced statelessness after five years of studying in the United States. They faced deportation threats under student visa rules before a Minnesota congressman secured permanent residency, making them eligible for citizenship.
The first fallout cloud from the Soviet superbomb test is expected to reach the Aleutian Islands late Thursday and Alaska or western Canada by Friday. Atmospheric experts say the cloud carries a small debris fraction, with most remaining in the stratosphere until next spring.
A 21-year-old Black man with bushy hair and a goatee robbed the Wachovia Dickinson Avenue branch in Greenville at 10 40 am. He fled on a bicycle after threatening branch manager J M Moye and forcing a cloth bag full of cash into a larger paper bag. the amount later put at 3765 dollars.
Monroe city school system faces a potential October arrears but Superintendent Van D. Odom says payroll for November 1 can be met. The city began the year with a $219000 surplus and may receive a $156000 homestead exemption remittance.
In Abbeville Louisiana a 43 year old man Jules Richard was jailed on murder charges after a shotgun blast killed 16 year old Ken Vincent during a teens joy ride. Preston Vincent father of the victim filed the charge. Deputies said five teenagers in a car passed Richards home near Kaplan repeatedly provoking him and he fired striking Vincent.
The Johannesburg paper Die Transvaler calls Albert Luthuli a pathological phenomenon after the Nobel Peace Prize award. Despite bans on travel, speculation grows that Luthuli may obtain a passport to accept the prize worth $43,744. Verwoerd will decide if Luthuli can apply. Luthuli remains in semi exile in Natal and barred from meetings or politics.
Roy Ferguson of Ellisville Mississippi died in a flaming three car crash about six miles east of Raceland. Seven others were injured and Ferguson was pinned in a burning car, according to Sheriff Eddie Ste Marie.
Communist forces challenged free access to East Berlin prompting 6500 American troops to enter a state of alert from 4 10 a m to 3 35 p m Est The move followed U S jeeps crossing into East Berlin to escort an American civilian and a later bus checkpoint incident at Friedrichstrasse and Brandenburg Gate with 37 Americans aboard returning to the checkpoint.
Navy Lt and Mrs Marty Shuman of Milton Florida welcomed twins again a boy and a girl born Monday Their older twins are 17 months apart Shuman a radio instruments instructor at Whiting Field says he even dreams of diapers and babies He is a Brooklyn native with three sets of twins in the family
The Daily Mail denounces Africa and Asia at the UN for not louder opposition to Soviet superbomb tests. It warns a smaller Western blast would trigger global upheaval. Britain plans dried milk aid amid contamination fears. A Norwegian group urges banning nuclear tests as international law.
Drizzling rain as U S Military Police and American civilians' cars waited to move into East Berlin. Crowds formed on both sides of the border. West Berlin police cleared newsmen. A Soviet photographer was escorted across the line. An attempt by two civilians to push into the Red sector was halted.
Former President Eisenhower called the Peace Corps a juvenile experiment and mocked fiscal policy, suggesting sending a Peace Corps member to the moon. He attacked Washington Democrats for confusion and indecision while campaigning for Lefkowitz and criticizing Mayor Wagner.
Louisiana reports a sharp fall in September cotton harvest with northeast parishes down 60 to 85 percent from last year. Richland Parish shows a 76 percent shortfall with only 3,640 bales ginned of an expected 50,000. Weather may trigger demand for harvest hands if conditions worsen.
Couple seeks one bedroom house in the college area of 1912 McGuire. Contact FA 23916 after 5.
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