02 Sep 1959
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1959
Page
1
A fragment from a New York AP report notes a cape clad leader who turned from a Bible reading, strolling the sidewalks. The snippet implies a public figure or character interacting with onlookers, but details are scarce.
Prime Minister Nehru sought to reassure Parliament that India’s defense command remains intact despite a rift between Defense Minister Krishna Menon and Army Chief Lt. Gen. Thimayya. Thimayya resigned then withdrew amid a dispute over a officer’s promotion. Nehru praised Menon, affirmed civil authority, and indicated no cabinet changes. Police hunted teen killer Sal Agron in a Bronx playground case as New York media reported a major youth crime wave and swift emergency actions by Gov. Rockefeller and FBI chief Hoover.
Riot at Marydale Products Company in Oak Grove ends after tear gas bomb used by authorities. Owners and workers clashed during a drive through a picket line. several injured but none hospitalized. Plant employs about 400, aims to process nearly a million bushels of sweet potatoes this peak season. Workers seek union representation, shorter hours, overtime pay. Local officials report police on standby as negotiations proceed.
A 15 year old mountain girl Ann Carson was held on a murder charge in Clarkesville Georgia after admitting she shot her father Edgar Carson 42 with a .22 rifle while he slept. The coroner's jury bound over the case to Habersham County grand jury. The sheriff noted she had good marks at South Habersham High School and said she killed him because he wanted her to go to school.
Calcutta streets lay in glass after savage rioting left seven dead and thirty injured. Streetcars and buses were burned and not running as rioters protested Bengal government food policies. Violence followed clashes between police and a 16 000 student procession.
Jack Norworth, famed composer of baseball’s anthem Take Me Out to the Ball Game, died of a heart attack at 80 in Laguna Beach California. The vaudeville star wrote the song in 1908 after seeing a Polo Grounds ad on the subway and helped popularize baseball. he also wrote Shine on Harvest Moon and partnered with Nora Bayes before their 1913 divorce.
Four Northeast Louisiana State College students served as instructors at the LaSalle High School band workshop held at Lake Bistineau. The team included Ferris Corder James Jenkins Miss Elwanda Greer and Hillman Levy as mentors and clinicians.
Eddie B. Pohl of Monroe has been notified of a promotion to Foreign Service Officer Glass 7 Vice Consul of Career and Secretary. The promotion takes effect September 7 while he is stationed in Palermo Italy and is subject to Senate approval. He has served in many world postings and will stay in Palermo until January 30.
Maj Gen Nikolai Zacharoff, head of Russia's KGD, arrives in the United States with a top aide to survey security for Premier Khrushchev's 12 day tour starting Sept 15. He will review cities, routes, and protection plans with U.S. authorities.
FBI data show a 9.3 percent rise in major crimes in 1958 with 1,553,922 offenses. Forcible rape led gains at 13 percent, robbery and burglary up over 12 percent, and murder rising 1.9 percent as the new uniform crime reporting system covered 97 percent of the population.
Fall like morning giving way to heat as Monroe saw a high of 92 degrees in the afternoon. Outlook through tomorrow predicts partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Temperatures expected two to four degrees above normal across the state. Moisant Airport near New Orleans reports 47 as the Louisiana high.
A humorous quip defines a gentleman as one who, when his wife drops something, kicks it to a location where she can retrieve it more easily. The line plays on gender roles with light, old fashioned humor.
In Paris the presidents Ike and Charles De Gaulle ride an open car along the Champs Elysees in a victory parade. They open conferences in De Gaulle's office then salute a crowd approaching a million as Eisenhower raises his arms in his trademark gesture.
Thousands greet the Allied leaders as Eisenhower and De Gaulle enter Paris in an open car amid cheering crowds. The two headline their first postwar conferences in a hopeful, celebratory atmosphere with large turnout, potentially surpassing past demonstrations.
Milwaukee police said two Black men, Herman C. Virgil and Ronald C. Baldwin, admitted taking part in a spree of rapes beatings and robberies of white women from April 1956 to January 1957 on Milwaukee's North Side. Each man faced rape charges and preliminary hearings were scheduled for September 15. police planned to question two brothers mentioned in the confessions.
Former heavyweight contender Charlie Norkus, 31, was shot twice in the groin and thigh by patron Emanuel Trevisano, 31, at a cafe where Norkus worked as a bouncer. Trevisano, escorted from the bar at 2 am, returned before 4 am and Norkus barred the door as two 32 caliber bullets hit him during a struggle.
Charlton Massachusetts AP Aar on Burlingame shot at a horn prank outside his house to frighten youths. He fired into the air hitting Quent Kuehl 17 hidden in a tree who had been blowing a duck call as a joke. Burlingame pleaded guilty in Webster District Court to assault with a dangerous weapon and received a suspended six months jail sentence.
Washington AP report says a new compromise on the labor regulation bill centers on construction site picketing. Senate and House conferees weigh language to exempt site picketing from a general ban on secondary boycotts. Republicans seek binding pledges to consider construction industry problems next year if Democrats drop the issue.
In SOUTH GATE California a blaze gutted a home killing Dave Sprinkle 35 Beryl 27 and children Dave Jr 6 Star 4. Neighbor Harry Fretz 55 tried to help but was repelled by heat. Police cite asphyxiation. Fire began from a smoldering cigarette and burned for hours before flames erupted.
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