Louisiana draws space firms as cost, water routes lure science industry
Louisiana officials say space age firms are flocking to the state, seeking low transport costs via waterways and close ties to NASA and local production units. Henry Davis notes stiff competition with Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas, yet Louisiana leads in attracting space development and subcontractors.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Henry Davis
Commerce and Industry
Department
Davis
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
Doctor Sought in Abortion Death at New York Office
Police hunt Queens gynecologist Dr Mandel Friedman 53 after abortion death of Barbara Covington 35 in his office. The suspect, linked to a previous 1961 Vivian Grant case, vanished after release and failed to surrender. Witness Charles Beck 31 admitted involvement.
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New York
Queens
Mandel Friedman
Friedman
Miss Covington
Florida
D. D. Covington Jr
Dade City
Fla
Florida Senate
Beck
Vivian Grant
Miss Grant
Pickets At Counters Increase Amid Desegregation Push
In New Orleans Canal Street desegregation protests, more pickets were expected at about 50 lunch counters. The scene contrasted with last year’s publicized CORE sit ins while counter managers and workers noted few actual Black diners and minimal activity.
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New Orleans
UPI
Canal Street
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Katanga Chief May Prolong Secession
Elisabethville Katanga leader Moise Tshombe warns the United Nations plan to unify the Congo could fail after a clash with U.N. troops and Katangan gendarmes. He alleges U.N. troops fired first and claims two gendarmes were killed, while U.N. officials deny casualties.
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Katanga
Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
U.N
Congo
Tshombe
New York
Peniel Baptist Church Homecoming Planned
The Peniel Baptist Church on Jonesboro Road West Monroe schedules a homecoming for Sunday September 30 on church grounds. A dinner on the grounds follows morning worship and a fellowship hour will be held. Mrs Fred Neal serves as event chairman.
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Peniel Baptist Church
Jonesboro Road
West Monroe
Fred Neal
Radar clocks chickadees at 17 mph in New York study
Ornithologist Dr. Wesley Lanyon uses police radar to time birds at 2.4 second flight segments on Long Island and in Florida. The effort aims to assess wide scale use in tracking speeds and populations. The fastest observed is the ring necked duck at 66 mph.
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OL Nalheisch
American Museum of Natural Lice
Wesley FE
Lanyon
Dix Hills
Florida
Long Island Sound
First English crosswords traced to 19th century children
The Britannica notes that early English crossword puzzles appeared in the 1800s and were designed for child amusement.
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England
Britannica
Blonde trucker hijacked eggs in New York incident
Jerilyn Chilcott a 20 year old Iowa truck driver and her father reported 600 cases of eggs hijacked from their refrigerated tractor trailer in the Washington Market area. The teen piloted the rig to fit between two trailers while police investigated.
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New York
Manhattan
Towa
Jerilyn Chilcott
Auburndale
Iowa
Mid Chilcott
Jerilyn
Washington Market
Daddy
Teen Aged Girl Kills Man After Protecting Mother
In Indianapolis a 14 year old girl Patty Ann Guy shot and killed 34 year old Russel E Overby after he torn her mother's blouse and tried to break into their home. Investigators say the shooting appears justified and no charges were filed. Deputy reports show the mother Shirley Irene Guy claimed Overby had harassed her for two years.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Patty Ann Guy
Russel E. Overby
John G. Linehan
Shirley Irene Guy
Overby
Man Survives Boat Explosion Off Berwick
In Berwick Louisiana a 26 foot vessel named Kitty Wake exploded while refueling at a dock blasting the craft to splinters. Aboard was William Wilson 26 who was hurled 150 feet but suffered only a bloody nose. Owner Joseph Dee left the boat moments before the blast.
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Berwick
UPS
William Wilson
Wilson
Joseph Dee
Morgan City
Purser Funeral Services Planned in Oxford Mississippi
Dr. Frank Moody Purser 73 former president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention and retired pastor of First Baptist Church Oxford died early Wednesday. He served 30 years in Oxford and is survived by a daughter and three grandchildren.
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Oford
Miss
UPL
Frank Moody Purser
Mississippi Baptist Convention
Purser
First Baptist Church of
Oxford
Three Die In Head On Crash Near New Orleans
A two car head on crash in New Orleans on Wednesday killed three people identified from papers on their bodies. The victims were Vivi an E. Webb 18 of Jackson Mississippi wife of Coast Guard seaman Berlin Webb Nathan F. Miller of Lucedale Mississippi and Merley J Clarke about 55 of Mobile Alabama. Mrs Webb was alone in her car and officers took half an hour to remove her body.
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New Orleans
Vivian E. Webb
Carolwood
Kennedy to address Cuba buildup at news conference
President Kennedy plans a forthright statement at a televised news conference on the Communist military buildup in Cuba. Senate leaders discussed his request for standby authority to call 150000 reserves to active duty and debated Republican amendments signaling tougher action.
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Kennedy
Cuba
Washington
Herbert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
White House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Democratic
GOP
Humphrey
Fidel Oo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mansfield
Congress
Tropical Storm Celia Heads Toward Hurricane Status
Tropical Storm Celia was about 900 miles east of Puerto Rico and moving west-northwest at 15 mph. Forecasters expect it to reach hurricane strength near 75 mph as two Navy reconnaissance planes plan to probe the system. Gale winds extend outward up to 150 miles north and 50 miles south. ships near the Leeward Islands advised to keep to port and small craft to exercise caution.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Celia
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Navy Reconnaisance
Leeward Islands
Monroe Forecast Sees Clear Skies Then Thundershowers
The northeast area should see clear and partly cloudy skies today with afternoon and evening thundershowers. Highs will reach 92 to 96, nights cool to 70s, yesterday’s high was 95 after a heavy downtown thunder shower. Sunset 6 17 p m. sunrise Friday 5 50 a m.
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Monroe
Perez Skips Segregation Rally After Busy Day
Ex-communicated political leader Leander H Perez Sr did not attend a segregationist rally in Kenner citing a busy day. About 500 people gathered at M. A. Green Civic Hall and onlookers outside heard speakers including excommunicated Jackson Ricau as the event proceeded without Perez.
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New Orleans
UPI
Leander H. Perez Sr
Archdiocese of
Our Lady of Good Harbor School No. 2
Burns
Kenner
Perez
George Singelmann
M. A. Green
Jackson Ricau
Morrison to resign in year run for Louisiana governor
UPI reports Ambassador Morrison said he will serve another year at the Organization of American States before resigning to seek Louisiana’s governorship. He criticizes Gov Davis on school integration promises and pledges to attack the current administration’s morality and efficiency while pursuing tidelands boundary settlement with the federal government.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
DeLesseps
Morrison
Tidelands
Kennedy
Nine Navy fliers killed in Neptune crash at Se
Nine Navy fliers died when a twin engine P2V Neptune patrol bomber crashed after takeoff from Los Alamitos NAS. The jet exploded in an open field near the Naval ammunition and net depot in Seal Beach. Witnesses described a trailing flame path and debris showering a nearby housing project. The pilot apparently aimed for the empty field to avoid the Rossmore Leisure World housing complex.
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Seal Beach
Calif
UPI
Navy
Naval Ammunition and Net
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Rossmore Leisure World
Sanders Captures Georgia Governorship in Primary Upset
Georgia state senator Carl F.E. Sanders won the Democratic primary with 360 095 votes to 208 507 for former Gov Marvin Griffin the race marked the first popular vote primary in 54 years Sanders carried Fulton DeKalb and Chatman counties and carried Dougherty the Albany area amid racial tensions and a shift from rural political power after county unit criticism.
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Atlanta
Carl FE. Sanders
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Sanders
Griffin
Ernest Vandiver
Ku Klux Klan
Fulton County
DeKalb
Chatman
Savannah
Dougherty County
Albany
Aldermen Respond To New City Debt Report
Four West Monroe aldermen said they were unaware the city is twenty thousand dollars deeper in debt. City clerk Harold Hill announced the figure this morning after last week’s sixty thousand dollar loan to cover outstanding bills. Alderman Joyce Smith questioned the sixty thousand use and plans for further review, while Alderman A L De Loach Jr said he would study receipts and payments.
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West Monroe
Harold Hill
Charles Anding
Joyce Smith
A. L
Buddy) De-Loach Jr
George Wylie
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