Monroe Mayor Says Olin Works To End Southside Odor
Monroe Mayor W L Howard and city commissioners say Olin Mathieson officials in West Monroe are making an all-out effort to eliminate the southside odor problem. They toured the Olin paper mill and oxidation ponds after being invited by company spokesmen to discuss progress and cooperation.
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Richard Tyler
Monroe
W. L. Howard
Olin Mathieson
West Monroe
Howard
Olin
President Signs Bill To Raise Minimum Wage To 1.60
President Johnson signed a law boosting the national minimum wage to 1.60 an hour by 1968, extending coverage to farm workers and workers in restaurants hotels laundries and hospitals. The move brings about 8 million more people under the wage law and revises the Fair Labor Standards Act for the first time since 1963.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Labor
Senate
House
Organized Labor
Congress
Fatal propane fire claims second victim in Eunice
EUNICE LA AP Kermit Boss 32 of Sunset LA died in a hospital becoming the second fatality from a flash fire at a propane gas loading facility near Basile on Thursday Lee Bellard 31 of Eunice died Thursday A third man Eugene Henderson 57 of Iota LA remains in critical condition Cause of blaze not yet determined
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Eunice
Kermit Boss
Sunset
Basile
Lee Bellard
Eugene Henderson
Iota
Wallace Faces Contempt Action Over School Desegregation
Gov George Wallace denounces a contempt complaint filed in federal court by the NAACP alleging he violated a 1964 injunction on school integration. The suit seeks civil contempt with possible jail or statewide desegregation order while accusing Wallace of actions aimed at hindering desegregation, including a restraining law affecting local school boards.
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Wallace
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Alabama
Lurleen
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Roberts Family Enjoys Tennessee Mountain Air Vacation
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT reports Monroe police man John FE Roberts his wife Laura and daughter Demetria vacationing in Gatlinburg Tennessee near the Great Smoky Mountains. They praise the scenery before their early fall trip.
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Tennessee
John FE. Roberts
Demetria
Monroe
Roberts
Laura
W. L. Howard
Gatlinburg
B52s Raid North Vietnam Mark Fourth Strike
U S B52 bombers attacked North Vietnam for the fourth time in the war, targeting ammunition dumps and depots in the southern part of the country near the DMZ. Waves of Air Force Navy and Marine bombs followed as infantry of the 22nd Division repelled Viet Cong attacks, with 150 Viet Cong killed and seven captured in a mountain fight near the central coast.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Panhandle
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Apartment Fire in Chicago Claims Seven Lives
In Chicago on the South Side a blaze in an old apartment house killed seven people including two children a woman and four men. Four others were injured. A young father saved his baby son by leaping from a second story window with the child in his arms. Fire erupted near the rear porch and spread through the central stairwell as firefighters struggled with extreme heat.
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Chicago
South Side
Dart Fatal For Zoo Leopard at Oklahoma City Zoo
Ivan the Terrible, a snow leopard escaped from the Oklahoma City zoo Wednesday night and died early today two hours after capture. Director Dr. Phil Ogilvie attributed death to a reaction to the tranquilizer used to subdue the animal. The leopard, spotted near the zoo around midnight, was shot with a rifle-fired tranquilizer dart, then collapsed in its cage about 2:30 a.m. after convulsions and diaphragm paralysis despite artificial respiration. The animal, the third leopard to escape the zoo in 16 years, had slipped through an unlatched door and was to be tracked by dogs.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Ivan the Terrible
Phil Ogilvie
Lincoln Park Zoo
Ivan
Ogilvie
Zoo
Soviet rejects U.S. peace offers at U.N. General Assembly
At the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko condemned U.S. Viet Nam peace proposals and demanded withdrawal of American troops as the path to peace. He urged immediate bombing cessation, troop withdrawal, and removal of foreign armaments in South Viet Nam, asserting the need for Vietnamese self-determination. The U.S. said it would wait for a more considered reply and continue efforts toward peace.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U.S. Viet Nam
U.S
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Arthur J. Goldberg
Viet Nam
Gromyko
Assembly
Democratic Republic of
South Viet Nam
Fall Weather Stays In Area
The Monroe area can expect clear to partly cloudy skies through Saturday with mild days and cool nights. Thursday reached 85 with a low of 59. Saturday’s high is forecast 78 to 84 and a low of 56 to 62. Winds will be barnable, mostly cool from the north at 5 to 15 mph.
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Monroe
Key Cosa Nostra Figures Are Jailed
New York AP report: 13 Cosa Nostra figures jailed on 1.3 million bail after a Thursday raid in Queens. Justice Conroy held them as material witnesses in major crimes. bail set at 100000 each, most wearing expensive jewelry. Names include Eboli Miranda Marcello Trafficante Corallo Gagliano Gallo and others as prominent mob figures.
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New York
Supreme Court
Cosa Nostra
Joseph Valachi
Joseph M. Conroy
Queens County
Sanford Garelik
Apalachin
N.Y
la Stella
Forest Hills
Queens
Manhattan
Garelik
Thomas
Tommy Ryan
Eboli
Brooklyn
Vito Genovese
Michael Miranda
Carlos Marcello
New Orleans
Senate
Frank Costello
Santo Trafficante
Florida
Cuba
Don Alongi
Aniello Della
Teenager asks for bigger allowance to stand on own feet
A teen tells his father he must become independent but cannot do so on his current allowance. He asks for more funds to support his plan to stand on his own two feet.
McKeithen Weighs Pay Raise for Louisiana Teachers
Gov. John McKeithen said a teacher pay raise proposal is under study for a November special legislative session. He noted his administration has already given teachers a sizable increase and that funding is a key question. The Louisiana Teachers Association urged including a fully implemented 1964 salary schedule in reapportionment session plans. The governor also touched on civil rights, a two term amendment on the November ballot, and a civil service pay boost for 3.5 million dollars slated to begin Oct. 1. He dismissed campaigning for the two term amendment and defended the sovereignty commission voter drive as nonpolitical.
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McKeithen
Lincoln Lynch
Congress of Racial Equality
New Orleans
Wingate White
State Penitentiary
Angola
State Sovereignty Commission
Commission
Governors Brace for Aid Cuts as Vietnam Costs Rise
AP report: President Johnson and Gov. Scranton lead governors in a briefing on inflation limiting federal grants. Johnson cites Vietnam expenditures likely increasing by at least 10 billion this year. Scranton says tax increases in the next Congress seem likely.
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Washington
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Johnson
Southeast Asia
Scranton
White House
Turnout urged for Saturday Democratic runoff in Twin City area
Election officials press for higher participation than the first primary. In Ouachita Parish and 28 parishes, contention centers on the Third Louisiana Public Service District commissioner race between Monroe's John Hunt and Claiborne's John Garrett, who finished first and second in August. Local races include three Ouachita School Board seats and a Monroe City school board seat, with two referendums called by Gov. McKeithen.
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Twin City
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana Public Service District
Ouachita
Public Service Commission
John Hunt
Monroe
Claiborne
John Garrett
Monroe City
John McKeithen
Robert S. Kennedy
David Kahn
Shelby Hill
J. H. Scogin
Chester Holloway
Joe Zuber
Roy Cash
J. D. Purvis
Roy Brooks
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