30 Oct 1961
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1961
Page
1
A chaotic Louisiana weekend with multiple fatal crashes and memorials. The report lists victims from Monroe and Bogalusa, including a helicopter pilot and local residents, alongside a large number of injuries and ongoing investigations. Interment details and church services are noted for several families as authorities track a string of accidents across parishes.
The article argues Khrushchev remains leader but lacks monolithic power, becoming head of a party machine influenced by rank and file opinion and public sentiment. It notes factional attacks, Molotov and Malenkov opposition, and costly consequences of relaxation and economic policy abroad within a centralized system.
A 22 year old Negro, Vear Duncan of 712 New Noted Codes ragdoon, is held on a charge of aggravated battery after a fracas on the Cluty New Orleans, Natchitoches road. JT Corprite suffered a serious chest wound and was taken to Charity Hospital after the Saturday midnight fight.
Vatican City Pope John XXII, nearly 80, resumes public prayers from his Vatican apartment window after a two day confinement for a cold. He coughed a few times during the Sunday service addressed to about 10 000 persons, signaling a minor illness.
Dr. L. Gragg marks half a century of medical practice in Boyle County. The physician born in Danville turns 77 today and recalls decades of around the clock calls before moving to a farm to escape night work.
In a continued report on post Stalin era changes, Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s cult and a monument to purge victims is approved. A 260 foot Karl Marx statue is unveiled in Sverdlov Square as former allies reassess ties to Stalinist rule and the Lenin-Stalin tomb narrates a new memory.
Elisabethville reports from Echo Du Katanga say Congolese army units crossed the Lubilash River into Katanga and razed villages. The clashes occurred near Kasai border as central authorities seek settlement amid secession tensions. King Hussein cites Syria uprising as major Arab event since 1916 revolution.
President Kennedy visited Fort Smith and Big Cedar in Oklahoma, meeting Sen. J. W. Fulbright Gov. Orval Faubus and Rep. Dale Alford amid Arkansas election talk. He praised Fulbright and pressed U.S. strength and resource care, while touring Ker-Mac ranch and its Angus cattle display. The president also noted Oklahoma support for Nixon in 1960 and highlighted national defense with a trowel in hand.
Swedish seismologists report a high altitude explosion at 8 33 am GMT with waves reaching 2 100 kilometers from Uppsala. Observers in Denmark Norway and Britain suggest a nuclear test while others attribute the disturbance to an earthquake near Vancouver with no U S comment yet.
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