U N approves Gaza frontier separation plan for cease fire
U N Security Council unanimously endorses a Western plan to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces on the Gaza frontier. It calls for barriers and a demilitarized zone over half a mile wide, pending acceptance by Israel and Egypt. Both sides show willingness to resume talks with Maj. Gen. Burns on preventing clashes.
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United Nations, N. Y
U. N. Security Council
Gaza
Israel
Egypt
Morehhan
E. N. Burns
U. N
United States
Britain
France
Burns
Abba Eba
Omar
Funeral Friday For Monroe Man Fatally Injured
Funeral services are set for 10 a m Friday for Ernest C Mayes 54 of 3502 DeSiard Street a tower and tank contractor who fell 125 feet to his death while working on a water tank at Joyce two miles east of Winnfield He died about two hours after the accident at a Winnfield hospital Survivors include his wife a son in the Navy a daughter two sisters and a brother The accident cause is still under investigation
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Ernest C. Mayes
DeSiard Street
Mayes
Tank and Tower Service Co
Fof Monroe
Joyce
Winnfield
All Funeral Home Chapel
Jack Hanna
Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Mount Vernon
R. R. Mayes
Navy
Norfolk
Em- Moyer
al Powell
Paul Witt
Monroe
Peace Takes Over Job As Sicily Island Principal
Sicily Island Louisiana September 8 Raymond Peace athletic director and teacher at Sicily Island High School named principal replacing Ralph Turner who resigned to take a post in Franklin parish. Peace will continue coaching the Sicily Island football team this fall. John Raymond Garrison recent Louisiana Tech graduate named as teacher and assistant coach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily Island
Police Seek Father Of 11 Year Old Boy Stranded Near Here
Authorities sought the father of 11 year old Paul Tanner Jr who fled a service station near Crew Lake Tuesday night. The boy was taken into protective custody in Monroe after walking along a railroad track. The elder Tanner a transient cook and cotton picker is believed to be driving a blue 1940 Pontiac with Kansas license WY 602 65.
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Paul Tanner, Jr
J. B. Whitfield
City
Crew Lake
Rayville
John Oldenburg
Monroe
J. C. Kelly
Whitfield
Young Tanner
Tanner
Sgt. Kelly
Clear Weather Predicted Across Twin City Area
The weatherman forecasts clear skies for the Twin City area all day. High temperature near Selman Field reported at noon was 92 degrees. The Thursday low reached 63 degrees.
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Twin City
CAA
Selman Field
GOP Pushes Ike To State Intent For 1956 Run
New Jersey GOP chairman Samuel L Bodine urged early action to press President Eisenhower to declare whether he will seek a second term in 1956. Bodine planned a petition and unified effort by state chairmen at a campaign school to persuade Eisenhower to announce his intentions promptly.
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Washington
Samuel L. Bodine
New Jersey
Eisenhower
Bodine
GOP
DC-3 crash at Lockheed Air Terminal kills and injures
A DC-3 Currey Air Transport passenger plane believed to carry 30 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank California. Police report at least three killed and 24 injured as the two engine plane attempted to return to the field and struck two Air Force C-54s and a maintenance hangar.
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Burbank
Calif
Currey Air Transport
Lockheed Air Terminal
Oakland
Lockheed Aircraft Service Co
Dock Injunction Sought To Bar Shipping Tieup
New York New Jersey Waterfront Commission seeks injunction to end a longshoremen walkout crippling the port of New York. The tie up costs an estimated million dollars daily and spreads to Baltimore, threatening Philadelphia and Boston. The International Longshoremen’s Assn. said it had not received the restraining order as workers continued idle. Gov Harriman and Gov Meyner were urged to meet with the union leader.
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New York
New York-New Jersey
New York Shipping Assn
State Supreme Court
William V. Bradley
International Longshoremens Assn
Bradley
Robert Meyner
New Jersey
Union
Trenton
Meyner
Milwaukee rushes gamma globulin shots to curb polio outbreak
Milwaukee county authorities ordered emergency gamma globulin injections for about 100000 children as polio epidemic proportions were confirmed. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sent 700000 shots for Milwaukee and its suburbs to immunize roughly 89000 city children and 100000 suburban youngsters while first to seventh grade classes await a set opening date.
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Milwaukee
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
E. R. Krumbiegel
Wisconsin
Youth Set For Questioning in Socialite Death
Philadelphia district attorney said the 20 year old son of the couple hosting Mrs Doris Silver Ostreicher may be produced for questioning today in the death of the socialite. Capt David H Roberts ordered detectives to bring in Allen Schwartz as part of the investigation into her Aug 24 death from a criminal abortion.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Cash
Doris Silver Ostreicher
David H. Roberts
Allen Schwartz
William A. Gray
Milton Schwartz
Oma G. Fleming Arrested On New Theft Charges
Oma G. Fleming 32 a former Monroyan, already on probation, is held in Baton Rouge on seven counts of theft. He and his wife Sue B. Fleming were linked to a nearly 22500 swindle against two Baton Rouge men, with Fleming remanded in parish jail on 20000 bond.
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Oma G. Fleming
Fleming
Baton Rouge
John W. Chaney
Air Force defends brainwashing school for airmen
Col. Burton E. McKenzie testified in Washington after Newsweek raised alarms about a desert Reno Nevada training center. Officials said no changes are planned though the magazine said it understated facts about brutal methods and 36 hour interrogations.
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Washington
Air Force
Burton E. McKenzie
Reno
Nev
McKenzie
Pentagon
Emmett O'Donnell Jr
Newsweek Magazine
Korea
Newsweek
Five Suits For Slander Slated Spokesman Says
Mrs Tina Clark former principal of Millsaps school and veteran teacher sought to meet at the Ouachita parish school board office while her attorney Harvey Fields discussed possible records and affidavits from the boy and dog case for potential slander suits against West Monroe citizens. Fields said no settlement had been made with the board and no immediate action planned.
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Tina Clark
Ransom School
Millsaps School
Ouachita Parish
Clark
Harvey Fields
Farmerville
Fields
West Monroe
Parish School Board
Nean
Flood ends over Mexico City and Tampico Gulf Coast
A flood receded today over Mexico City and the Gulf Coast port of Tampico as rising waters subsided and relief efforts continued in the region.
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Mexico City
Gulf Coast
Tampico
Two-Time Loser Bandit Duplicates 1940 Holdup
The FBI reports Nathan Sherman of St. Louis duplicated a 1940 bank robbery attempt in New Orleans at Hibernia National Bank, demanding 500 dollars with a note. He was nabbed by bank employees, faces armed robbery charges, and claimed a prior three-year sentence.
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New Orleans
FBI
Missouri
Nathan Sherman
St. Louis
Hibernia National Bank
Sherman
Knight Street
Belleville
East St. Louis
Cahill
John Lawrence
M. P. Chiles
Atlanta
Washington
Chiles
Polio Incidence Peaked for 1955, Says Public Health Service
The Public Health Service reports polio incidence likely peaked in 1955. In the week ended Sept 3 there were 2 033 cases nationally, with Nebraska and Montana absent. the prior year’s week had 2 101 cases. The drop from Aug 27 suggests the peak occurred in that week.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Nebraska
Montana
Smithsonian expert cites height increase since Washington era
Anthropologist T Dale Stewart of the Smithsonian says American men today are about one to two inches taller than in George Washington's day. He notes improved food and living conditions as a leading theory.
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Washington
George Washington
T. Dale Stewart
Smithsonian Institution
12 Arrested In Assault On 7 Clubs Hotels Coast Raid
Mississippi National Guard raided seven night clubs and hotels along the Gulf Coast and arrested 12 owners and operators on gambling and liquor charges. Guardsmen confiscated casino equipment from six clubs and destroyed liquor, starting a fire at the training center as the operation began. Gen. Pat Wilson said the effort will continue until gambling is eliminated on the tourist strip.
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Gulfport
Miss
Mississippi National Guard
Gulf Coast
Pat Wilson
Hugh White
Jackson
Hattiesburg
Nothhing
Air National Guard Training Center
Wilson
Two Monroе police officers crash narrowly missing train
Two Monroe police officers R L Johnson age 30 and L W Kemp age 32 escaped death when their patrol car overturned on the Missouri Pacific tracks near Louisville while responding to a call at Zesto Ice Cream. They were treated and released from Charity Hospital for minor injuries with no arrests made.
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Monroe
Louisville Avenue
Missouri Pacific
Louisville
R. L. Johnson
L. W. Kemp
Charity Hospital
Johnson
Zesto
Mitchell's Wrecker Company
Kemp
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