Court Denies Postponement Of Integration
The U S Supreme Court rejected stay requests delaying desegregation in New Orleans and Houston public schools. Louisiana officials pledged to pursue separate but equal schooling, while Attorney General Jack Gremillion said further action lies with the governor.
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Washington
Houston
Tex
New Orleans
U.S. Supreme Court
Louisiana
NAACP
William ©. Douglas
West
Jimmie H. Davis
Baton Rouge
Supreme Court
Gremillion
Albin P. Lassiter
Palmer Huey Seriously Injured In Morning Crash
Palmer Huey age 26 sustained serious injuries in a one car accident early today when his 1959 Volkswagen left Orell place crossed Park Avenue and struck a tree. He underwent surgery at St Francis Hospital and was described as doing well. Police found no skid marks and ongoing investigation by the Monroe Police Department.
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Palmer Huey
Island Drive
Huey
5. E. Huey
Monroe
Orell Place
Park Avenue
St. Francis Hospital
Orell
Ellis Ross Selected to Replace Wayne Huckaby in District
District engineer Wayne H. Huckaby is reassigned to Baton Rouge headquarters and will be succeeded here by Ellis Ross of West Monroe. Ross has 25 years with the department, replacing Huckaby who served four years as district engineer.
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Huckaby
Earl K. Long
City Hall
Ray Burgess
Baton Rouge
R. B. Richardson
Police Juries Win Authority Yet Bar Fee For Weed Cutting
Attorney General says police juries may enact ordinances to penalize property owners for neglecting grass or weeds but cannot require owners to pay the costs of cutting the vegetation after the fact. G G Zimmerman of Lafourche Parish police jury sought guidance on fees.
Picket Pickets In Houston Protest Lunch Counter Integration
In Houston nearly 40 white men women and children picketed a department store to protest lunch counter integration and media coverage delays. Segregation at lunch counters in major chains had recently ended in the area.
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Houston, Tex
UPI
Mass killings in Bakwanga spark 270 deaths in Kasai conflict
United Nations reports 270 killed in Bakwanga, Kasai province, as Congolese soldiers and Kalonji insurgents clash amid heavy gunfire and mutilations. Moroccan UN troops fire at armed civilians south of Thysville, marking first UN open-fire casualty.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Kasai
Bakwanga
United Nations
U. N
Nasai
U.N
Carl von Horn
Albert Kalonji
Leopoldville
The
Congo
Thysville
Moeberck
Wrestling federation cites collusion in Olympic match
The International Amateur Wrestling Federation charged a suspicion of collusion in an Olympic bout between a Bulgarian wrestler and the Russian gold medalist, disqualifying the Bulgarian from future competition. In Baton Rouge, police said a Florida convict escapee confessed to raping a girl and robbing a supermarket. a local teen identified Marc C. Garvin as the attacker. In Helsinki, Khrushchev arrived to pay a birthday call on Finnish President Kekkonen.
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Rome
International Amateur Wrestling Federation Today
Baton Rouge
Shirley Arrighi
Pensacola
Fla
Florida
Marc C. Garvin
Helsinki
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Urho Kekkonen
Poison gas used in surplus wheat stores here
Federal program directs gas treatment in two storage buildings at 111 Eighth St and 1501 DeSiard to kill insects and rodents, with public urged to stay away for a week. Miss Margaret Kalil, famed soprano and former Monroe resident, visits en route to a post at North Texas State University after her Neville High School senior year.
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Eighth St
DeSiard
Margaret Kalil
Monroe
North Texas State University
Neville High School
Republican campaigner Dick Hag visits Monroe to organize ticket
Dick Hag, Louisiana campaign manager for Nixon Lodge, spoke in Monroe today organizing the Republican effort. Hag, a businessman, has served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Dick Hag
Louisiana
Nixon- Lodge
Monroe
Hagy
Former Radcliffe student rejects Soviet spy role
Joan Barth a Radcliffe College political science student from New York denounces her casting as the villain in a Soviet spy thriller. Komsomolskaya Pravda claims she spied during an American exhibition in Moscow last summer by handing out gum and rock n roll records. Her father Harry Barth defends her innocence and says she was in the USSR to promote goodwill under State Department guidance.
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New York
Soviet Union
Joan Barth
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Mass
Kormsomolskaya Pravda
Moscow
Miss Barth
Bart
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Harry Barth
Amsterdam
State Department
Radcliffe
Davis Leads US in 400m Hurdles Final Sweep at Rome
Glenn Davis won the 400 meter hurdles as the United States secured a 1-2-3 finish with Bob Webster leading a 1-2 finish in the high diving finals. Ralph Boston broke the Olympic broad jump record with a 26 feet 7½ inch leap, surpassing Jesse Owens 1936 mark.
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Rome
UPI
Ralph Boston
Faurel, Miss
Jesse Owens
Forged US Memo Hoax Circulating in Latin America
The State Department condemned a forged document circulating in Latin America that purported to be a U S memorandum threatening Castro s regime. It was presented as signed by Undersecretary Douglas Dillon though he was not in Washington on Feb 5. Officials called it an unscrupulous hoax possibly from Soviet or Chinese agents.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Latin America
U. S
Fidel Castro
United States
Douglas Dillon
U.S
Department
Dillon
Lincoln White
Four Men Held In Kidnapping Of 12 Year Old Girl
Four men are held in New Orleans in connection with the alleged kidnapping of 12 year old Alexandria girl Marnell Richey. Police picked up the girl while she walked with one suspect and she was returned to her parents in Alexandria.
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New Orleans
Alexandria
Marnell Richey
Rapides Parish
Ben A. Richey
Ptm
Dave Fremin
Ronald Reyes
Edward E. Butters
U.S Owned Minimax Stores Seized by Cuban Government
In Havana province Fidel Castro's government seized the five million dollar U S Minimax supermarket chain. The action, ordered as part of a show of unity, targets American operators and subsidiaries for hostile conduct toward Cuban workers.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Minimax
United States
China
Civic Plaza
Organization of American States
San Jose
Costa Rica
OAS
Cuba
Americas
Soviet Union
Red China
Most Firms To Close Monday On Labor Day Holiday
City observes Labor Day with downtown merchants, city hall, federal offices, post offices and the Chamber of Commerce closing. West Monroe follows with city hall water street post office and Chamber of Commerce offices closed, while police fire and utility workers remain on duty.
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Federal
Chamber of Commerce
West Monroe
City Hall
Post Office
Twin Cities
Ex-Con Held in Kidnap Slaying of Young Waitress
FBI arrested Joseph Milani, 33, near Herrin, Illinois, on a federal assault charge linked to the kidnapping and murder of Mary Lily Ellen Roberts, 17. Roberts’ body was found in a well at an abandoned farm house near Herrin. Milani has prior murder and auto theft convictions and was jailed on $50,000 bond after arraignment.
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Joseph Harry Milani
FBI
Benton, Ill
John Bryant, Jr
Bryant
Mary Lily Roberts
Herrin
John Bryant
Mary Lily Ellen Roberts
U.S
Everett Lewis
Milani
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Miss Roberts
28 Injured In Routine Firing Exercise Near Grafenwöhr
In Bavaria near the Czech border a U S 8 inch howitzer shell overshot during a routine artillery exercise at Grafenwöhr injuring 28 and killing 15 members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron 12th Cavalry 3rd Armored Division. An Army spokesman said names likely won’t be released before Monday.
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Heidelberg
Germany
UPI
3Rd Reconnaissance
12Th Cavalry
3Rd Armored Division
Grafenwoehr
Bavaria
Army
Weather Outlook for Northeast Louisiana Shows Fair, Warm Days
The weatherman forecasts mostly fair skies with high temperatures near 90 to 94 in northeast Louisiana. Rain occurred yesterday in Lake Charles Lafayette Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with no rain in Monroe West Monroe. Sunset is 6 31 p m and sunrise tomorrow is 5 44 a m.
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Louisiana
Lake Charles
Lafayette
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Federal Aviation Agency
Selman Field
Monroe
West
Two Die In Separate Natchitoches Traffic Crashes
In Natchitoches parish two drivers died within five hours. Mrs Joseph D Brown Sr of Good Hope was killed in a collision with a truck near Montrose Huey Johnson 39 of Montgomery died when his car left the road and struck a culvert near Clarence.
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Natchitoches
Natchitoches Parish
Joseph D. Brown Sr
Good Hope
Montrose
Huey Johnson
Montgomery
Clarence
Today’s Chuckle About Concealing Ignorance Versus Knowledge
A daily humorous note observes it is harder to hide ignorance than to learn. The quip contrasts concealment with pursuit of knowledge in a light, ironic tone.
Kennedy Denounces Khrushchev Visit Amid Campaign
Senator John F Kennedy said Khrushchev should realize an election is underway and Americans will pick the president. He warned against using the UN for propaganda and spoke during a New England campaign tour with a breakfast fundraiser in which attendees gave substantial contributions.
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Boston
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations
Kennedy
Khrushchev
U. N
United States
New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Congress Winds Down After Fractional Session
The 86th Congress adjourned just before midnight in a halftime of stalemate as Republicans and southern Democrats blocked major bills. John F. Kennedy plans to use the outcome in the campaign. Senate adjourned 11 52 p m with Dirksen later applauded, Johnson recited par.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Shomeward
House
Senate
86Th Congress
John F. Kennedy
E.d.t
Everett M. Dirksen
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ulbricht warns of conflict over West Berlin stance
East German leader Walter Ulbricht told West Berlin Communist leaders on June 11 he would risk a conflict rather than allow Allied control over Berlin. He warned a separate East German soviet peace treaty could be signed if the West opposes the Soviet plan for Berlin, describing it as a war center.
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United Press International Berlin
UPI
Walter Ulbricht
West Berlin
Ulbricht
Berlin
East Germany
Willy Brandt
Brandt
Soviet Union
Neue Weg
Hunting and hunting dog want ads
Want ads advertise bird dog and squirrel dog sales with a contact number. Readers are urged to reserve and inquire about seven day rates and cancellation privileges.
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