Diem Maintains Control as Viet Nam Crisis Closes
Viet Nam president Ngo Dinh Diem asserts he remains chief of state and that Buddhist and student protests are finished. He pledges release of detainees, promises better U S relations, and says martial law will end before resumed elections. He dismisses claims of Nhu’s power and questions surrounding a coup.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Associated Press
Diem
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
National Assembly
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Goldwater pushes Cuba veto as condition for ban
Senator Barry Goldwater demanded a formal reservation to delay the limited nuclear test ban treaty until the Soviet forces and weapons are removed from Cuba and international inspection is arranged. He said he will offer the reservation after the Senate takes up the treaty next week.
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Washington
API
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Cuba
Goldwater
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S.S.R
Weather Station Discussion Set at Selman Field
Plans for starting a weather station at Selman Field will be discussed at a special meeting of the aviation committee of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce at 3 p.m. next Wednesday in the Selman Field Airport Tower training room. Louis D. Smith chairs the meeting and agenda includes a program to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the FAA and architectural progress on the new terminal building with possible airline schedule changes.
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Selman Field
Aviation Committee
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Louis D. Smith
Selman Field Airport
Federal Aviation Agency
Free Electors Battle Looms At Demo Meet
Democratic State Central Committee to set December 7 first primary while a potential free electors resolution stirs a political clash. Ouachita Parish committeeman Fred Fudickar Jr. suggests timing favors movements as party leaders monitor seats, filing deadlines loom for governor and state offices.
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Democratic State Central Committee
Fred Fudickar Jr
Ouachita Parish
Fudickar
House
State Capitol
Harold Montgomery
Dayline
Louisiana Committee For Free Electors
Democratic Committee
Democratic
Charles A. Riddle Jr
Baton Rouge
Republican State Central Committee
New Orleans
Diplomat Reports Fruitful Pakistan Talks with Ayub Khan
U S Undersecretary of State George Ball wrapped a three day visit in Rawalpindi saying talks with Pakistani leaders were excellent and both sides understand each other better. He did not secure a pledge against closer ties with China though and planned to report to President Kennedy.
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Rawalpindi
Pakistan
U.S
George Ball
Ayub Khan
Red China
Ball
Presiden Kennedy
Kennedy
Ayub
United States
India
Why Kids Say Good Night Is Fading Away
A vignette notes the custom of kissing children good night is dying out as parents hurry to bed. It also mentions a World Almanac claim that Dutch settlers paid Indians the equivalent of $39 for Manhattan, not $24.
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Island of
Manhattan
Twin City Chit Chat Auntie Mame Tryouts Held
Tryouts for the current season's first production Auntie Mame take place today and Friday at 7 30 am in the Strauss Playhouse Lamy Lane Additional sessions are Sunday at 2 pm The cast calls for 30 men and women Richard Clark executive director said the play is tentatively planned for mid October A Busy afternoon at the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home park on Bayou De Siard featured a picnic supper for Home family members
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Strauss Playhouse
Lamy Lane
Playhouse
Richard Clark
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Park
Bayou de Siard
Cuban Soviets Seen by Returning Student
Dick Riemann of Yonkers reports Russians in Cuba move in groups behind a Regla fortress with limited access. He describes a walled area housing a small number of Cubans and says the regime crews Havana with heavy antiaircraft batteries. He criticizes Cuban food and notes special rations for guests while urging stronger national security.
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New York
UPS
Casto
Cuba
Dick Riemann
Yonkers
N.Y
San Francisco Bay Area
Regla
Havana
Riemann
Fidel Castro
Hammond crowd chants for the mayor amid campus celebs
A downtown Hammond crowd of Negro students gathered chanting We want the mayor. Some carried placards as tensions rose in the city center.
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Hammond
Alexandra of Greece Released After Hospital Stay
Alexandra of Greece former Queen of Yugoslavia was released from a Venice hospital where she was treated after a near fatal sleeping pills overdose.
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Venice
Italy
Alexandra of
Greece
Yugoslavia
Sit-in Protest Ends in Hallway Arrests at Newark School
In Englewood New Jersey six Negro women were arrested in a school hallway while Negro students, in a classroom sit in, protested a plan to end racial imbalance.
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Englewood
N.J
Roy Cohn Pleads Innocent on Perjury and Obstruction Charges
New York AP reports Roy M. Cohn, the McCarthy era investigator, pleaded innocent to perjury and obstructing justice in a stock fraud probe a week early. Prosecutors say the charges stem from alleged lying in stock trading records.
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New York
Roy M. Cohn
Mother and daughter drown after car plunges into canal
In Slidell Louisiana a mother Sandra Lou Evans 25 and her daughter Valerie 4 died when their car collided with a panel truck on U S 90 and plunged into a canal. The husband Edward Evans of Chardon Ohio saved two other children but could not rescue his wife and daughter. State troopers named the surviving infants as eight months and twenty one months old. The Navy relative and police said the incident occurred Wednesday night near the highway.
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Slidell
Edward RB. Evans
Chardon
Ohio
Sandra Lou
Valerie
Donald Keating
Freddie Piazza
Evans
U.S. 90
Weather outlook shows warm spells with scattered storms
The forecast indicates partly cloudy skies with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers. Temperatures may mirror Wednesday’s highs near 96 and overnight lows around 75, with variable winds at 5 to 16 mph.
Lausche slams Kennedy openness to Gromyko talks
Sen. Lausche accuses President Kennedy of risking trust by planning talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko on easing East West tension. He cites Gromyko's Cuba missile denials as evidence of deceit and warns against giving him access to the White House. Humphrey defends Kennedy’s potential for peace.
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Washington
Frank J. Lausche
D-Ohio
Kennedy
Andrei A. Gromyko
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Lausche
Senate
Gromyko
Cuba
Lause
White House
Boycott at Plaquemine High School Lunchroom
In Plaquemine Louisiana Negro students began boycotting the high school lunchroom in protest of the dismissal of lunchroom worker Stella Grant amid racial demonstrations. Principal W A Williams said only one meal was served on the first day of the new semester while about 250 of 500 pupils normally buy the 18 cent lunch.
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Plaquemine
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
W. ©. Williams
Mercedes Ohlymeyer
Iberville Parish
Williams
Mirs Stella Grant
Mirs Stella Grant, Was Being Replaced Mrs. Ohlymeyer
Grant
Providence Men Held For Murder
Texarkana Arkansas July 4 slaying of James Henry Wallace. Prosecutor John Goodson said two men Leroy Callahan of DeQueen Arkansas and David Roden of McCurtain County Oklahoma are charged with murder and are held in Lake Providence Louisiana on narcotics and burglary tool charges. Wallace was killed when he chased two men who had hidden in his father in law Henry Hood’s yard near a grocery store.
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Texarkana, Ark Af
John Goodson
Lake Providence
Texarkana
Ark
Man Goodson
Leroy Callahan
DeQueen
David Roden
McCurtain County
Oklo
Louisiana
James Henry Wallace
Henry Hoods
Max Kett
Korean War Hero Ex Premier Song Arrest Spurs Presidential Race
The military regime arrests Yo Chan Song, a Korean War hero and former premier, sparking a presidential bid by the Liberal Democratic party while others accuse the move of stifling elections. Song, 47, faces a military court martial on old charges as his health concerns rise.
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Seoul
South Korea
Yo-Chan Song
Song
Mapo
Liberal Democratic Party
Chung Hee Park
Park
Democratic Republican Party
Washington
State Department
Yonsei University Hospital
Long
State Illiteracy and Dropouts at Peak in Louisiana
Loyola University history professor Dr. Raymond P. Witte says Louisiana has the nation’s highest illiteracy and high school dropout rates. He notes 900 New Orleans policemen, only nine with college degrees, six of whom are Black, and argues education is essential for democracy to prevent manipulation by emotional candidates.
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New Orleans
Loyola
Louisiana
Raymond P. Witte
New Orleans University
Witte Sail
North
Witte
Violence and School Postponement After Birmingham Bombings
A night of racial violence in Birmingham followed the bombing of Arthur Shores home and a fatal shooting. Governor Wallace announced the school board would close three schools postponed desegregation as state and local authorities increased security. Police and National Guard units patrolled as riots and gunfire wounded civilians and officers.
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Birmingham
Ala
George C. Wallace
Board of Education
John L. Coley
Wallace
Montgomery
Dynamite Hill
Constance Baker Motley
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
600 Men Hunt For Missing Child
More than 600 men including 250 airmen from Ft. Warren searched for 6 year old Carmella Aragon who vanished after her first day of kindergarten in Cheyenne Wyoming. Note paper found at a creek edge and Carmella was last seen by a truck driver walking east of Arpsehool. The child left a neighbor’s ride and followed a woman and her children toward home.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
UPI
Ft. Warren Air Force Base
Carmella Aragon
Carmella
Arpsehool
Vaughn A. Ditzler Jr
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