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The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 35

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The Timesi
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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The Siihe vfpowt Timfs Tliurnlnv. April 1 1960 O-C CLAIMS PROTESTED Miamian Says Four Slales Get Warning Of Storms Political Motives Denied In Closure of Fort Polk Sel tools Close After Disease Hits in Etcx TYLER. April 13 (SpeciaD. Schools at Brownsboro near here have been closed until Monday because of six cases of hepatitis which have turned up In the classrooms within the past two months, according to Homer Bass, superintendent. Bass said Wednesday the six cases among the systems 480 students are In addition to two cases reported on adults.

None of the system's teaching of administrative personnel have been stricken, he said. The schools closed down after last Monday's session upon the recommendation of Dr. Charles Rahm, city health director. The disease is described by physicians as one usually coming from contaminated food or water. ftdditionall letters to the White House protesting Grevemherg's statements.

He has received no reply expeept an acknowledgment. In his second letter, Grevemberg was quoted as saying "1 defy any member of the Louisiana congressional delesation to deny that a political deal has been in connection with the Fort Polk and Chennault base shutdowns, Thompson asked President Ki-senhower to "investigate or repudiate" the statement. TOl.K CI.OSl RE CITY UKIEPS TOASTM ASTERS The Shreveport Toastmasters Club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Seven Seas Restaurant, with Felix Rives, newly elected president, presiding. CIVIC CM The Werner-Park Morningside Civic Club will hold Its regularmonthly meeting at 2615 Corbitt with Walter Feferling, president, presiding.

(Jury Cooper 111 BOSTON. April 13 IITIUM i actor Oary Cooper is suffering from an illness similar to that which hospitalized den. Douglas MacArtluir, physicians said today. Authorities at Massachusetts General Hospital here said the 58-year-old Cooper was resting "comfortably" while awaiting word on possible surgery to correct a prostate gland condition. MacArthur, 80, was operated on for much the same ailment last month.

WARD LAW'S The closure of Fort Polk last year stirred a storm of protest because of Army assurances in 1955 that the Fort would be reopened on a permanent basis. Larue acreages of maneuver rights had been donated with that understanding, and the city of Leesville greatly increased its bond issues to provide new civic facilities. The Pentagon informed Lake Charles civic leaders last December that it expected to eliminate one of two IU7 Chennault Base bomber wings at in the 11 Integration Quote Wrong By The Associated Press The chairman of Miami's bi-racial committee, quoted earlier as saying merchants there had agreed to start serving Negroes at lunch counters, said Wednesday night he had been misquoted. Nestor Morales said he told the city commission instead that merchants were willing to discuss the subject with the commission and added that there was no committ ment by any of the Miami store managers to desegregate eating facilities. A Miami News reporter said he quoted Morales correctly.

Another news reporter said he heard Mo-rales tell the commission substantially the same thing. But Miami's Mayor Robert King High said Morales' report was oral and did not touch on agreements other than one by the merchants to discuss the matter. "It is unlortunatc that any definite statements were published," High added. Atlanta Negroes' House Dynamited ATLANTA. April 13 (IPD-A house recently purchased by Negroes in a white section of tlanta was dynamited tonight.

No one was in the frame dwelling at the time of the explosion, although a Negro lamily had moved in furniture and planned to occupy the house in the near future. They would be the only Negro family on the blink, located in Atlanta's West End. The neighborhood is one of Victorian homes. There arc a nmher of Negro neighborhoods close by. Neighbors relused to discuss the blast, which was concentrated beneath the house and blew out part of the foundation and dislodged and shingles.

Police said apparently only one stick of dynamite was used. A 125-foot length of wire leading to a six-volt battery in a nearby woods as found. Authorities called the rig a "professional looking job." an" kllllllR Persons. The l.scalil?.iaJon!,,,,.f B0 Persons hurt in DONNA KAIIPIAK, a scholarly seven-year-old Baltimore girl, lectures to a schoolmate, Sharon Ann Troja, about a model of the human body. Sharon, incidentally, is in the 10th grade, while Donna is only in the third.

Donna, who likes to play with dolls, like most girls her age, finds more fascination in a wide range of studies and hobbies. She can explain the function of all body organs and often gives lectures on the subject to her classmates at Notre Dame Preparatory School. (AP Wirephoto) THREE LOCATIONS: 5820 linwod Phon 200 toil Ttnot Highway 10 Phon 3909 Greenwood Read Phone ME The Fineit Meat In Shreveport TENDER HAMS XEf VEAL LOIN STEAK VEAL SEVEN STEAK VEAL CROWN ROAST ESf WIENERS 21 HAMBURGER MEAT 3 SMOKED SAUSAGE 21 Joe Viso Dies In Hospital Here Joe Viso, 79, 2073 Lakeshore year and had no plans to continue the base oH'rations beyond June 30. 1962. Last month, the Air Force rejected a suggestion that the base be reconverted to a missile launching site.

It said that tests indicated the soil conditions were unsuitable to support the weight of launching pads. $101,716 Sought In Traffic Death A Richland Parish couple filed suit in federal court yesterday asking $101,746 for the death of their daughter who was killed in a highway accident near Rayville last year. Mr. and Mrs. Neal McEachern entered the petition, naming the New Amsterdam Casulty Co.

as defendants. Their daughter Ruth Elaine. 21, died May 7 when her car collided head-on with a truck. Roderick D. Woods was the truck driver.

By SAM A. IIANNA Of The Timet Washington Staff WASHINGTON. April 13 The Pentagon denied charges Wednc. day that the shutdown of Fort Polk in Vernon Parish was prompted by political motives. In a letter springing from statements of GOP gubernatorial candidate Francis Grevemberg, Deputy Defense Secretary James H.

Douglas said the closure was made from "strictly military considerations." The letter was addressed to Senators Allen J. KUender and Russell B. Long and Rep. T. A.

Thompson, who protested Grevemherg's claims in a telegram to Defense Secretary Thomas Gates March 28. The telegram asserted Grevemberg had implied that lack of a strong two-party system in Louisiana was a factor in closing Fort Polk last July 1 and in the projected closure of Chennault Air Force Base in Douglas stated in his letter that "consolidations, expansions and closures must be made by the military department to obtain maximum eltective utilization of installations, particularly during periods ot rapidly changing requirement lactors. "It is within this framework that a number of military installations including Fort Polk have been inactivated." AIR FORCE BASES Douglas added that several Air Force bases are also on a shutdown schedule because of an "accelerated decrease" in the number of B47 wings and fighter interceptor squadrons the Pentagon maintains. He said that "although no clear requirement is seen for the continued use of Chennault Air Force beyond fiscal year l'Jti2, other po tential uses tor this base are being sought. Besides the joint wire to the defense secretary, Thompson sent two 50 Negroes Begin Boycott in N.

O. NEW ORLEANS, April 13 (LTD About 50 Negroes marched up and down Dryades St. in a pre- I dominately Negro area yesterday in a peaceful protest demonstra- tion over what they called "dis-! criminatory employment prac tices by white merchants in the area. They said the parade opened a boycott against white merchants on the street who showed discrimination in employment policies. New Orleans police stood by, but didn't interfere with the orderly demonstration that lasted about 15 minutes.

Better Looks Better Good Housekeeping By I lilted Pre International A new line of thunderstorms swept through north Texas Wednesday on the heels of (our tornadoes which killed three persons and injured at least 60 others. The squall line that produced the tornadoes drove northeastward into Kansas and a small twister destroyed several sheds and knocked over a ranch house chimney tour miles south of Pratt, Kan. Tornado warnings were issued for parts of Eastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and extreme northwestern Arkansas. The American Red Cross said a preliminary survey of the tornado damage in the Texas Panhandle showed 13 buildings destroyed in the tiny town of Sunnyside," which was practically wiped out by a twister Tuesday night. The tornado hit Sunyside almost without warning, demolishing a church where 75 men were meet- iwi.Miis wi-ic ounnysiue residents.

Fischer in Tie For Chess Lead MAR DEL PLATA. Argentina. April 13 Young Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn moved into a tie with Russia's Boris Spasky in the international chess tournament today. The teenage New Yorker defeated Luis Alvarez, Uruguay, in 37 moves, during the thirteenth round. Spasky was held to a draw in 39 moves by Argentina's Luis Marini.

There are two rounds still to be played. Only half a point below them in the standings is Fridric Olafsson, of Iceland, who tonight defeated O.svaldo Bazan, Argentina. The tourney is due to finish Saturday night. In Brazil, butter now costs the equivalent of $1.48 a pound. Always Ask for or DISTILLED -MELLOW CUT AND WRAPPED CUT AND WRAPPED i 2 1 2 VEAL BEEF (died Wednesday at 6:35 p.m.

in Willis-Knighton Hospital after a 'long illness. Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 a.m. in Well-man Chapel. A retired grocer, Mr. Viso had lived in Shrevcport for 50 years.

was born in Cocono, Italy. He was a member of St. Theresa's Catholic Church and the Shreve- port Trogressive Men's Club. Survivors include a son. Jack Viso of Shreveport; four stepsons, Tom La Lena, Johnny La Lena and Charlie La Lena, all of Shreveport, and Jack La Lena of Chicago; a 'daughter.

Sister Carmela Viso of iGirard, and a step-daughter, I Mrs. S. A. DeFatta of Shreveport; jfour grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Medica of Jena.

A rosary will be said Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in Wellman Chapel. The Rev. William O'Hanlon, pastor of St. Theresa's Catholic Church, will conduct services Fri-jday.

Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery. Andrew Carnegie gave $800 in 1900 to establish the first band at Pennsylvania State University. Tostes Better Cooks Forest Fires Continuing In Arkansas LITTLE ROCK. April 13 A Forest fires continued to burn over Arkansas Wednesday and a Forestry Department official estimated the current outbreak of fires nas cost the state $1,895,000 in timber loss alone.

State Forester Fred Lang set the loss figure. He said 1,011 fires had burned over 94.7(59 acres of timber and grass land since April 1. Lang said he estimated total loss to the economy of the state would run more than 14 million dollars. He said the total loss figured loss of jobs because the burned timber will not be cut, processed and sold. The Forestry Department put out 48 fires on 558 acres Wednesday.

It reported 26 still burning on an estimated 1.800 acres. The situation was somewhat improved over Tuesday when the department battled 75 fires which blackened 7.3fi6 acres. Lang said the picture can't be expected to improve much until Arkansas gets a heavy general rain. Youth Injured NASHVILLE, April 13 0JPD. A 22-year-old Negro was wounded tonight by a bullet which police said apparently was fired from a car occupied by five white teenagers.

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